What the…?

By on January 22, 2011 in Uncategorized

Vegetarians save money on their car insurance? What the…?

Seriously. This was one of the ads I saw on my Facebook page:

I clicked through and it was even more ridiculous:

Entering my zip code and clicking through took me to an insurance company’s webpage which, of course, had nothing to do with me being a vegetarian. So it’s a clear example of companies using the information about me that they have purchased from Facebook to steer ads in my direction.

Makes you wonder if I had put “masturbation” as one of the interests in my profile I would have gotten this ad:

I’m just sayin’…

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Ding, dong, Keith is gone

By on January 22, 2011 in Uncategorized

So, without warning or even leaked hints that it was coming, Keith Olbermann announced on his show last night that he’s parting ways with MSNBC. The new line-up features Cenk Uygur at 6, Chris Matthews at 7, Lawrence O’Donnell at 8, Rachel Maddow at 9 and Ed Schultz at 10.

Frankly, I won’t shed any tears over this. I think Keith Olbermann was far too full of himself, his show is about 80% bombastic blah-blah and 20% very awesome content. Contrasting that is The Rachel Maddow Show which is at least 80% awesome content. Lawrence O’Donnell, now that he has quit reminding everybody once every other sentence that he once was a staffer for Daniel Patrick Moynihan, has been pretty spectacular, too, and certainly has scored some phenomenal guests.…


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No, seriously. Where ARE the jobs bills? – UPDATED

By on January 21, 2011 in GOPocrisy, Republicans

So far in the 112th Congress, the Republicans haven’t introduced a single jobs bill.

However, from the Republicans, as of today we have at least:

  • 16 bills to repeal all or parts of the Affordable Care Act
  • 7 bills/resolutions to require a balanced federal budget
  • 5 bills to repeal the estate tax (which benefits only the über-wealthy)
  • A bill to repeal Wall Street Reform
  • 6 bills to restrict women’s access to abortions
  • A bill to take polar bears off the Endangered Species list
  • A bill to pull federal funding of public radio
  • Six bills and a resolution to increase oil drilling in the US and to prevent federal regulation of greenhouse gases
  • A bill to remove certain Federal restrictions on interstate firearms transactions
  • A bill to prohibit paying salaries of “czars” and a resolution that they should be required to get Congressional approval
  • A bill to prevent US-born children of undocumented immigrants from being designated as U.S.

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Who said THAT???!

By on January 21, 2011 in Michigan, Rick Snyder

Who do you suppose said this?:

We will establish an exciting new initiative to encourage immigrants with advanced college degrees to come to Michigan to live and work. I’ve asked the Department of Civil Rights to work with the MEDC in this effort. We need to be a place that openly encourages innovators and entrepreneurs to come to our state. The evidence is clear that advance college degree immigrants make a tremendous difference in creating a positive economic activity environment that benefits us all…Immigration made us a great state and country. It is time we embrace this concept as a way to speed our reinvention.…

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The OFA = “the brown shirts” meme never dies

By on January 21, 2011 in Conservatives, Organizing For America

After my Twitter exchange with some fierce anti-gun control zealots earlier this week, in addition to being called a “freedom-hating communist”, I was also accused yet again of being a Nazi:

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@Dagny_Galt, I see that @Eclectablog is a brown-shirt…openly states he’s an #OFA community organizer…Sad, just sad. #NRA #guncontrol

This is not the first time an OFA volunteer has been called a brown shirt, nor will it be the last. I wrote extensively about this last year in a blog called MI House candidate: “OFA is the equiv. of the brown shirts”.

I also posted the Wikipedia description of the brown shirts (aka, “Sturmabteilung” or SA.):

The SA carried out numerous acts of violence against socialist groups throughout the 1920s, typically in minor street-fights called Zusammenstöße (‘collisions’).…

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The Michigan US House members love them some Affordable Care Act repeal

By on January 20, 2011 in Michigan

Yesterday I posted the results of an analysis I did of all 242 Republicans in the US House of Representatives. I looked at the bills & resolutions each of these men and women had sponsored and cosponsored. What I found was that, on average, 46% of the bills any individual sponsored or co-sponsored was related to the partial or complete repeal of the Affordable Care Act.

There are 13 bills related to the repeal of the ACA and 3 resolutions. They are listed, with links, on my blog.

I thought I’d take a look at how the Michigan GOP delegation measured up (since I’m from Michigan and all.…


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HALF the bills the average GOPer supports are for repealing Affordable Care Act

By on January 20, 2011 in GOP, GOPocrisy, Republican-Fail

The Republicans have now been in office two weeks so I thought it was worth taking stock of what they’ve accomplished. I’ve just completed a rather in-depth analysis of the bills and resolutions that all 242 GOP members of Congress (not the Senate) have either sponsored or co-sponsored.

What I found was that, on the average, 46% of the bills/resolutions an average GOP member of Congress has sponsored or co-sponsored are directly related to either repealing all or some of the Affordable Care Act or to defunding it so that it will fail.

Nearly half. 13 (maybe 14) bills are involved.…


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The inauguration of Barack Obama in pictures and music

By on January 20, 2011 in Barack Obama, Eclectalife, President Obama

My wife and I were fortunate enough to attend President Obama’s inauguration two years ago today. Her photomosaic poster of Barack Obama, “Out of Many, We Are One” that appeared in TIME magazine had sold well and was being given out as a gift at the Michigan Ball held at the Museum of American Heritage. We also miraculously got tickets to the inauguration itself. Not only that, we scored tickets to the MoveOn.org party.

The enhanced slideshow below, “Two in Two Million”, is composed of hundreds of photos my wife, Anne C. Savage, took during our trip. It includes amazing music (Red Hot Chili Peppers, John Mayer, Thievery Corporation and the Dixie Chicks), pictures from the Michigan Ball and the MoveOn party, the D.C.…


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