I got your three percent right here

Greg Sargent: The latest from Public Policy Polling illustrates this as dramatically as you could want: Dennis Kucinich’s flip on the health care vote this morning is symbolic of a broader shift among liberals. Last month 73% said they supported the plan with 19% opposed. Now 89% say they support the plan with only 3% [...]

The Conflucian ‘wordle’ – OPEN THREAD

At the website Wordle, you can create your own custom-designed word cloud from any text or even an entire blog.  The function of the program is described as: Wordle is a toy for generating “word clouds” from text that you provide. The clouds give greater prominence to words that appear more frequently in the source [...]

Obama: Premiums Will Decrease 3000%

Wishing can’t make it so.  Especially if it’s impossible. This is an open thread.

Ides of March open thread

Today is March 15th, sometimes known as the Ides of March. On this day in 44 B.C. Julius Caesar was assassinated in the Roman Senate by Marcus Junius Brutus, Gaius Cassius Longinus and 60 other co-conspirators. It was the original filibuster. What are you doing today?

Speaking of tea parties . . .

SFGate: “Alice in Wonderland,” Tim Burton’s reimagining of the Lewis Carroll tale, is doing more than setting box-office records for a 3-D movie. It’s serving as a showdown between two rival projector technologies. On one side is the dominant format from RealD, a company in Beverly Hills. On the other: San Francisco’s Dolby Laboratories Inc., [...]

The GOP beats Obama and Emanuel at 11 dimensional chess

The New York Times Magazine has a lengthy piece about poor put upon Rahm Emanuel.  He is so tired of all of the nasty things said about him.  He is so tired of the Republicans playing hardball.  He is so tired of Democratic activists acting retarded.  He is so tired.  Period. He gets blamed for [...]

Sunday News Roundup

Good Morning Conflucians!!! Don’t forget to set your clocks forward an hour for daylight savings time if you didn’t do it last night. Here’s to more daylight. Big news of the week has been the healthcare fiasco, aka, insurance company bailout, and will likely be big news this week. Nancy Pelosi is playing the typical speaker [...]

Coffee Summits, not Coffee Parties

By now you’ve probably heard about the Coffee Party. The Coffee Party bills itself as a spontaneous grassroots alternative to the tea party, one not tied to any hyper-partisan or corporate agenda. In actuality, it behaves more like an unofficial extension of the Obama permanent campaign. The only call to actual “action” seems to be [...]

Lazy Saturday Morning News and Views

Good Morning Conflucians! I noticed that we had an early morning visit from the latest “expert” on what PUMA was. Apparently Oliver had a little temper tantrum when he saw Dakinikat’s link to his obscure blog last night. Oliver, on March 13, 2010 at 4:56 am Said: If you actually read what I wrote you [...]

Friday Morning: My Dad

Good morning Conflucians. It’s a sad day for me today. My father died suddenly yesterday afternoon. He would have been 88 in May. We aren’t sure what happened, just that he went outside by himself to putter around–something he wasn’t supposed to do, but he could never stop himself. He was the kind of person [...]