Monthly Archives: December 2009

Progressives have to be nuts

12/31/2009 – 12:22 pm

Jerome a Paris makes an excellent point which I’ve long felt to be true. But where is the “fucking nuts” left that scares the right to death and makes them want to compromise with Pelosi at all costs? Where are the people arguing for 90% marginal tax rates on the rich, and cancelling the banking [...]

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Say goodbye to Suzanne Kosmas D-FL

12/29/2009 – 9:11 pm

I look forward to her losing her seat to a Republican in 2010. From HuffPo on why the banksters own us all, The Cash Committee: How Wall Street Wins On The Hill: Then Waters chastised Kosmas for skipping out: “Even yesterday when we were engaged with consumer advocates, one member got up and left and [...]

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Some ExtJS patterns I enjoy

12/27/2009 – 4:02 pm

It’s always nice to stumble upon patterns that make code both functional and beautiful at the same time. Among those, of late I have been abusing these patterns when developing ExtJS components. For example, a pattern from ExtJS itself uses Ext.applyIf to both ensure an object literal exists and then to apply default values unless [...]

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Failing fast, Ruby style

12/14/2009 – 5:12 pm

While building up the server side RPC methods for client side calls from ExtJS’s new Direct RPC framework, I thought it would be useful to fail fast whenever the client caller violated the interface contract. Enter fail fast. def submit(params) action = params.delete(:action) id = params.delete(:id) assert(action) {|v| [’update’, ‘create’].include?(v)} … Further up the stack, [...]

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Still no cramdown — Yeah, DCCC still wants your money!

12/12/2009 – 5:02 pm

I get spam: Jason – This afternoon, the House passed a bill 223-to-202 tightening financial regulations and ensuring we put Main Street first. For eight long years, President Bush and his Republican allies ignored growing risks in the financial markets. The Republicans failed to regulate financial markets leaving the big banks to take huge risks [...]

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New Democrats delay, weaken reform, DCCC wants your money!

12/10/2009 – 1:10 pm

I get spam: On Tuesday, Barney Frank helped us to launch our Main Street Democratic Fund to help Democrats who vote in favor of tough financial regulation. Now, we’re ready to launch our next phase. Our ad team wants to produce hard-hitting new spots taking on Republicans who are voting with the lobbyists trying to [...]

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No reform? No money for the DNC!

12/9/2009 – 4:05 pm

As usual, I agree with kos on this. The DNC can seriously bite me. I’m certainly not funding obstructionist, corporatist hacks. Really? All we have to do is send the DNC $5 and we get ponies? The same DNC that is enabling corporatist Democrats to water down and destroy any hope for health care reform? [...]

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