I’m actually supportive of this idea. I can’t see it taking off at a college, though. Those quarters are for laundry.
We had one of these at my elementary school, so I just got a huge rush of nostalgia.
"It is cruel jest to say to a bootless man that he should lift himself by his own bootstraps. It is even worse to tell a man to lift himself by his own bootstraps when somebody is standing on the boot."
— Martin Luther King Jr.
2012 Movies of the Year: 1-10
#1 Our Idiot Brother - Paul Rudd is 100% lovable and charming, amazing supporting cast, low-stakes enjoyment. 7.5/10
#2 Midnight In Paris - Owen Wilson is mostly a bystander, but the movie wraps you up in the magic of Paris. Great fun. 8.5/10
#3 The Assassination of Jesse James by the Coward Robert Ford - Brad Pitt and Casey Affleck absolutely crush it. Gripping, compelling. 9/10
#4 Tomorrow Never Dies - Pierce Brosnan has a thrilling 2nd outing as Bond. Meets his match in a Chinese spy, raises the stakes. 8/10
#5 Tron: Evolution - Looks great, sounds great, but emotion and stakes for main characters fall flat, similar to Avatar. 7/10
#6 Apollo 18 - Great premise, nearly tolerable execution. Loved the cast and the film’s style, but the plot could have been WAY stronger 5/10
#7 Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix - Still one of my favorites in the series. Umbridge is pitch-perfect, secondary cast steps up. 9/10
#8 Thor - Watched with RachM3, getting psyched for The Avengers this summer. No better Thor than Chris Hemsworth. 9/10
#9 RED - Amazing cast of all-stars, yet the whole thing drags and feels forced. Malcovich is the stand-out. 6/10
#10 I Am Number Four- Painfully typical, riddled with 2010 indie rock staples. Showtime’s free weekend was a bust. 4/10
IOWA PREDICTIONS
The 1st place candidate will declare a major victory, no matter how close the next candidates may be. The 2nd place candidate will say the contest continues and that the primary hasn’t been decided. The 3rd place candidate will say they out-performed expectations and are a competitor in the race, even if they aren’t.
Unemployed protesters stage sit-ins in dozens of lawmaker offices - The Hill
The protests, organized by activist groups including OurDC and Moveon.org, will target 99 lawmakers’ offices by the end of the day, according to event spokesman Mike Uehlein.
“These folks have traveled from across the country,” he told The Hill, noting that many of the protesters were unemployed. “They’re calling on their congressional leaders to take actions on the jobs crisis.”…
When asked if more protesters were willing to be arrested for their cause, Uehlein said, “We just hope it doesn’t come down to that.”
Just under half of House and Senate Republicans are holding town hall meetings this summer, but Democratic jobs activists say it’s not enough. “They’re holding a lot fewer” than in 2009, says Michael Uehlein, spokesman for the American Dream Movement.
Progressives are showing up at the offices of lawmakers to demand that Congress focus more on jobs and less on federal spending. Uehlein said that his group has already held 75 jobs protests at GOP offices.
But liberals protested outside of events if they couldn’t get in and ask questions, demanding that Congress focus its attention on the economy and issue legislation focused on jobs.
“I think its been a good month,” said Michael Uehlein, spokesperson for the American Dream Movement, a liberal coalition hoping to rival the tea party. “There were hundreds of protests across the country, more than one hundred lawmakers hearing directly from their constituents about jobs, which is what needs to be talked about.”
““For the fact is that right now the economy desperately needs a short-run fix. When you’re bleeding profusely from an open wound, you want a doctor who binds that wound up, not a doctor who lectures you on the importance of maintaining a healthy lifestyle as you get older. When millions of willing and able workers are unemployed, and economic potential is going to waste to the tune of almost $1 trillion a year, you want policy makers who work on a fast recovery, not people who lecture you on the need for long-run fiscal sustainability.””—
Krugman, The Hijacked Crisis
This relates to this story. A Tea Party congressman wrote the CBO and asked “What government can we cut to help grow the economy and put more people to work?” The CBO (a non-partisan organization) wrote back and said “new federal spending would help economic growth, and current and future cuts could stymie it.”
