tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6504598332261057441.post2737448816248896205..comments2024-03-21T19:03:19.133-04:00Comments on Where there had been darkness...: The Fail WhaleJugularjoshhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03768939120752611597noreply@blogger.comBlogger5125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6504598332261057441.post-43158873086163845292014-01-09T18:09:52.436-05:002014-01-09T18:09:52.436-05:00Add Martin O'Malley to the list, please. Maryl...Add Martin O'Malley to the list, please. Maryland's healthcare exchange has more problems with the roll out than the federal. The economy here us pretty bad too, but that's most of the country. And the guys lining up to replace him are even more incompetent. Anonymoushttps://www.blogger.com/profile/17914069273942690108noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6504598332261057441.post-59745252366228245332012-09-03T15:11:23.903-04:002012-09-03T15:11:23.903-04:00Hey if I'd known you'd be posting, I would...Hey if I'd known you'd be posting, I would have mentioned your governor, who's certainly a contender for the worst in the nation.Jugularjoshhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/03768939120752611597noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6504598332261057441.post-56311729868022901902012-09-03T10:32:05.998-04:002012-09-03T10:32:05.998-04:00I wrote a post on Google+ I think you might like.....I wrote a post on Google+ I think you might like...<br /><br />https://plus.google.com/115482880508189302698/posts/VAk86CyGwwEcfchttp://www.accendi.net/noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6504598332261057441.post-53687821061561950472012-08-31T20:58:39.316-04:002012-08-31T20:58:39.316-04:00Jindal versus Christie really is tough to call. I ...Jindal versus Christie really is tough to call. I could probably take one of the paragraphs from the original post, swap out Christie's name for Jindal's, and not feel like anything is out of place. Perhaps the "biggest" difference between the two governors is how they bully and intimidate anyone who disagrees with them. And the difference is very slight. Christie will shout in the person's face, a la his calling former SEAL and law student William Brown an idiot at the top of his lungs. Jindal won't do that. But he still silences his opponents, usually through stripping funding or other strong arm tactics. This past budget cycle, Jindal eliminated 900,000 in state funding for local libraries, which is pretty much all of it. The rationale was that the state is prioritizing education and healthcare, which is absurd on its face, as libraries are obviously an integral part of any education system. The administration glossed that over by saying that local libraries could pick up the tab, but naturally many won't be able to do that, and it's the poor rural parishes that are going to feel the cuts the most. And this is just the tip of the ice berg on the things I know about Jindal.<br /><br />I do have to laugh that Jindal is crying about the amount of disaster funds available after crying like the rest of the GOP for those same funds to be axed from the federal budget. The man has no shame. I'm still not sure if that makes him worse than Christie though.GGMhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/07033500188317909488noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6504598332261057441.post-58348472063130886332012-08-31T07:24:55.993-04:002012-08-31T07:24:55.993-04:00Yes! Hardly anyone in the media challenges politi...Yes! Hardly anyone in the media challenges politicians on their flat out lies. It makes me insane. <br /><br />Jindal vs. Christie for worst governor is a tougher battle than Jedi vs. Dalek. You've summed up Christie perfectly. He is awful, and he has done an incredible amount of damage. My mother can't even say his name at this point. She calls him Fred Flintstone. However, Jindal disgusts me, so I have to disagree with you on this one. We share the same alma mater. I'm horrified by this on a level far beyond what I should be. I don't know if it's because he's such a bad person and a bad governor, and that makes me annoyed that we went to the same college because I don't want to have anything in common with him, or if it's because he's a huge hypocrite about his schooling. He worked hard to get into the best college he could and has benefited from his education. Now he calls everyone else with whom he graduated elitists. But he's not one. Hm. I don't have any great loyalty toward my school, but it annoys me all the same when he bashes it. Jindal also seems particularly ignorant when it comes to science in a way that Christie doesn't, but Christie probably just hasn't exposed that facet of his awfulness yet. <br /><br />Maybe objectively Christie is worse...but then you have things like the ridiculous volcano remarks Jindal made in that State of the Union rebuttal. I guess he didn't benefit from that education after all. Yeah, I'm siding with your friend on this one. <br /><br />I think the thing that most depresses me is that I don't see how political discourse in this country is going to get any better. When politicians can lie and no one calls them out on it, people who don't think for themselves are going to be fooled.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.com