Ryan and Debi

Category: politics

  • Palin visits Clearwater (across the bay)

    I know I’ve only posted about Sarah Palin of late and not talked about what’s going on in our lives. But I figure talking about Palin is far more interesting than telling everyone we are working long hours and not doing anything exciting.  I do have a couple of papers that should be coming out…

  • Sarah Palin’s policy position on economic reform

    So, we were watching the debate and paused it to discuss something Sarah Palin was saying.  When I paused our Tivo, this was the frame it stopped on.  I liked it so much I decided I needed a screenshot and would use it to illustrate how she was talking out of both sides of her…

  • SHOCKING, TRAGIC DEATH!

    (Regardless of political persuasion, you’ll probably find this funny!  Poor Rocky….)

  • a better post on the current financial shenanigans in D.C.

    This post comes from fellow Sociologist, Dave Purcell, at Kent State.  I liked it so much I asked him if I could repost it here.  So, with his permission: I don’t claim to be an expert on government spending, so please correct me if I am interpreting the budget numbers below in the wrong way.…

  • The Fed… a.k.a. The Corporate Piggy Bank

    I don’t know that this is a Democratic or Republican problem (probably just a politics problem), but this story from the New York Times illustrates how our government has become a piggy bank to corporations.  Big corporations make bad decisions and now Americans are footing the bill.  They rob the people once by giving them…

  • more politics…

    So, I posted a video recently with Obama and Biden being grilled by a reporter on 60 Minutes.  In the interest of balancing the debate, here are two videos from an interview of Sarah Palin by Charlie Gibson.: Part 1 Part 2 Watch them and then watch the Obama/Biden video and think about who you…

  • politics and meat

    I’ve spent the last couple of weeks buried in my research (some of which is getting published, but I’ll post about that when it actually comes out, which will be in a few months), so I haven’t had much to blog about on here.  But two news stories caught my eye today. First is this…

  • anyone up for a “little” waterboarding?

    In case you missed it, Christopher Hitchens, the well-known author and Vanity Fair writer, was called out by the editor of Vanity Fair on his position on waterboarding.  Hitchens had described waterboarding as “extreme interrogation.” When asked by the editor of Vanity Fair if he would be willing to be waterboarded, he agreed.  Check out…

  • why John McCain will probably win…

    I have an aunt and uncle who are super nice and really great people.  But they also happen to forward to me (or Debi) every political email they receive.  They are pretty conservative, so the emails tend to be on things that I disagree with (as a liberal independent).  I’ve probably received close to 10…

  • Obama visits Tampa

    I caught the announcement that Barack Obama was visiting Tampa for a rally a few days ago via the local paper. So, Debi and I signed up for tickets and went today. We had already been to two rallies for candidates we’re not going to vote for (Mitt Romney and John McCain), so we figured…