Take a break from the Presidential Election and come out for a night of laughs: You Say Election, We Say Vagina*: A Night of Legitimate Comedy (Benefiting Planned Parenthood SW Ohio)
Tickets are $20 in advance or $25 at the door. Entertain includes:
Dirty Girl Cabaret
Lovely Ladies of Improv
OTRimprov
Show starts at 8PM (7:30 doors open)
Location: Below Zero Lounge
1120 Walnut Street in Over-the-Rhine
Tuesday, October 23, 2012
Monday, October 22, 2012
Saturday, October 20, 2012
Obama Yard Signs Burned in Green Township
The Cincinnati Herald is reporting multiple incidents where Obama yard signs were burned while they sat in the front yards of Obama supporters.
The undertones of racism to these incidents can not be denied. Burning anything in someone's front yard is obviously based on the KKK, assuming otherwise is ignorant. It is sad that this likely will not get the coverage it should. WCPO has as story as well.
The undertones of racism to these incidents can not be denied. Burning anything in someone's front yard is obviously based on the KKK, assuming otherwise is ignorant. It is sad that this likely will not get the coverage it should. WCPO has as story as well.
Friday, October 19, 2012
Thursday, October 18, 2012
Quimbob's Endorsements
For what it's worth, here are Blogging Isn't Cool's endorsements in the General Election made by Quimbob.
Tuesday, October 09, 2012
The Nuclear Option Is the Choice Du Jour
I presume this is a game of Chicken, but Hamilton County Commissioners still are acting insane. Weight Loss by starvation is just has harmful as being overweight, if not more harmful. The two Republicans continue to push a radical national Republican effort to use the economic downturn as cover to gut government services wholesale. It is a blind effort that is not about actually determining how government should be run, is just a insane need to reduce government with no forethought. Instead of enacting a fair and open debate on what government should be doing they are play a cruel game that forces department heads to cut off their own limbs to avoid death.
It is like Monzel and Hartmann live in a 1861 post Bull-Run hospital and they are a Copperhead Doctor bent on trimming Lincoln's soldiers down to push their cause.
What is so disgraceful is that no one on the Commission will step up with a plan. They won't do the their job and come up with a detailed budget that will balance. They are playing chicken with various department heads they want cuts from and don't care what the loss of services will be. All the while they seek to appease Property owners by refusing the end the tax rollback to fund the Bengals Stadium shortfall. Votes from the more wealth matter more than the helping the entire County.
Gutless.
Hartmann and Monzel remind me of a Cold War U. S. General who thought we could win a full scale nuclear war. I guess they never saw The Day After.
Hartmann already is planning to place the blame for this on the City, so I think he thinks his bomb shelter will save him if everything around him implodes.
It is like Monzel and Hartmann live in a 1861 post Bull-Run hospital and they are a Copperhead Doctor bent on trimming Lincoln's soldiers down to push their cause.
What is so disgraceful is that no one on the Commission will step up with a plan. They won't do the their job and come up with a detailed budget that will balance. They are playing chicken with various department heads they want cuts from and don't care what the loss of services will be. All the while they seek to appease Property owners by refusing the end the tax rollback to fund the Bengals Stadium shortfall. Votes from the more wealth matter more than the helping the entire County.
Gutless.
Hartmann and Monzel remind me of a Cold War U. S. General who thought we could win a full scale nuclear war. I guess they never saw The Day After.
Hartmann already is planning to place the blame for this on the City, so I think he thinks his bomb shelter will save him if everything around him implodes.
Monday, October 08, 2012
County Looking to Screw the Poor and Renters, No Matter What
The Enquirer is reporting that Hamilton County Commissioners will be given three options by county Administrators to cover the 20 Million dollar budget deficit.
The article tries to point out the differences between the choices, but it fails to put forth the main common action: the poor and people who rent will be screwed no matter which plan is picked. The plans are being cooked to make them semi-palatable to Republicans who are Hell bent on shifting the burden of the Bengals Stadium to the poor people of Hamilton County.
The first option is the nuclear option, where nearly every service is cut, so everyone is screwed, well, everyone who can't afford to pay for their own healthcare, police protection, or have enough money to buy justice and don't have to rely on the courts to enforce the law.
The second two options are just shell games to see who will cut the most from what. What both of the plans do is increase the sales tax rate and offset it with cuts to property taxes. So if you own property, you don't get as much of a tax increase as people who do not own property, maybe even none. This is how the poor and renters get screwed.
Sure, Republicans will say Renters will get the same benefit because landlords will pass on tax savings to their renters. BWWAHAHAHAH! That's the biggest laugh in the world, or my attempt to make it appear in this blog post. No, landlords will pocket the tax savings and increase rents the same way the would have without the increase. Therefore Renters are screwed even if they are part of the middle class.
So, the County is again looking to screw the poor and people who rent. Where would you find a majority of those types? If you said the City of Cincinnati, you would be right. Bottom line then, the three plans seek to place more burden on City Residents and less burden (or a least no additional burden) on non-city Residents as long as they own property. I'm gonna guess that Monzel doesn't plan on getting any votes from the poor or renters who don't live in the city, so he can just pretend they don't exist or he hopes they move. Either way, they become poorer to help subsidize the Cincinnati Bengals and Mike Brown.
Welcome to the neo-feudalist movement.
The article tries to point out the differences between the choices, but it fails to put forth the main common action: the poor and people who rent will be screwed no matter which plan is picked. The plans are being cooked to make them semi-palatable to Republicans who are Hell bent on shifting the burden of the Bengals Stadium to the poor people of Hamilton County.
The first option is the nuclear option, where nearly every service is cut, so everyone is screwed, well, everyone who can't afford to pay for their own healthcare, police protection, or have enough money to buy justice and don't have to rely on the courts to enforce the law.
The second two options are just shell games to see who will cut the most from what. What both of the plans do is increase the sales tax rate and offset it with cuts to property taxes. So if you own property, you don't get as much of a tax increase as people who do not own property, maybe even none. This is how the poor and renters get screwed.
Sure, Republicans will say Renters will get the same benefit because landlords will pass on tax savings to their renters. BWWAHAHAHAH! That's the biggest laugh in the world, or my attempt to make it appear in this blog post. No, landlords will pocket the tax savings and increase rents the same way the would have without the increase. Therefore Renters are screwed even if they are part of the middle class.
So, the County is again looking to screw the poor and people who rent. Where would you find a majority of those types? If you said the City of Cincinnati, you would be right. Bottom line then, the three plans seek to place more burden on City Residents and less burden (or a least no additional burden) on non-city Residents as long as they own property. I'm gonna guess that Monzel doesn't plan on getting any votes from the poor or renters who don't live in the city, so he can just pretend they don't exist or he hopes they move. Either way, they become poorer to help subsidize the Cincinnati Bengals and Mike Brown.
Welcome to the neo-feudalist movement.
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