America Seeks Restraining Order Against GOP

America is trying to call it quits with the GOP. She thought there was chemistry when they first met - he had that frat boy swagger and a cocksure attitude. The Democrats had seemed kind of dull, and America was ready for a change.
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[Thanks kazmat for pointing this out.]

Red Robin has the absolutely best tasting hamburger I've ever eaten. And it is evil.

Last night quietchris and I ate at Red Robin. We both had the exact same thing. A Bleu Ribbon Burger.

OMG it was good.

I've never had a burger with spicy BBQ sauce on it, let alone a bleu cheese burger with spicy BBQ sauce. OMG it was a favor explosion in my mouth. I couldn't get enough of it.

(Spoiler alert... now some diet-related thoughts)

Sadly, when I got home and did the calcuations it was 26 points plus 8 points for the fries. I'm on a 31-point-per-day diet. OMG that's more than I typically eat in a day!! Luckily I had eaten only 10 point earlier in the day and WW lets me eat 35 extra points over the course of the week (I'm trying not to, however). Either way, I won't be eating at Red Robin again... or at least if I do I will stick to the lighter side of the menu.

And the entire next day I was hungry like before I started dieting. It's as if my body had grease and fat and said, "OMG! We killed the wolly momoth and are feeding! I want to eat as much as I can before I have to wait for the next big kill!"

Poor Texas

Matthew Yglesias notes that Tom DeLay is under the strange misapprehension that Texas is rich thanks to its low taxes and lack of regulation.
Just one minor issue: you really shouldn’t use median income, which can be distorted to the extent that inequality differs across states. You should instead use income per capita. As it happens, the comparison is even more striking. Texas, with its glorious free market regime and deeply incentive-creating 25 percent rate of health uninsurance, has a per capita income of $37,187; nanny-state New Jersey, with its oppressive taxes and regulation of everything (what it takes to get permission to cut down a dying tree … ), has a per capita income of $49,194.

http://krugman.blogs.nytimes.com/2009/04/19/poor-texas/

I repeat my question from before: If Democrats were saying, "If Bush wins I'm going to move to [insert any of a list of 10 successful liberal countries]" what were Republicans saying recently? A place where religion rules and abortion is illegal like Iran? A place where free markets rule and there are few minorities like China?

A lot of Texas make fun of my New Jersey roots but, gosh, when income per capita is used (and Krugman is right: IPC is *much* better metric than median income) it looks like Paul and I are living in a place that's doing a better job.

Oh, and before someone complains that this is more "libertarian bait", start all posts by naming the country is an example of libertarian perfection and my reply will be based on the income per capita metric that I can find. (you can save me time by looking it up yourself, and linking to your source)

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