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Thursday, February 9, 2012 Stranglehold (1 comments)
Capitalism run amok continues to destroy middle class America. Today's compromise agreement between the US States and some of the nation's biggest, nastiest banks doesn't do much to ease the pain. Lawmakers are hailing this as a landmark win for the little guy. Are they serious?
Wednesday, February 8, 2012 Praise the Lord and Pass the Ammo (1 comments)
Rick Santorum's camp must believe in miracles after the holy trinity he pulled off yesterday. Maybe He is the Chosen One after all? Will Santorum get the chance to lift his presidential gaze to heaven and replace all our biology books with the Bible? Speak in tongues and turn the "blah" people white as lambs?
Tuesday, February 7, 2012 A Dangerous Method
Israel has decided to come down hard on Syria, demanding that they rid themselves of chemical weapons in light of the uprising ... or else. Naturally, the United States is backing Israel -- but why?
Monday, February 6, 2012 Misogynists (3 comments)
Hey, we're Conservatives -- we can't be bothered by stupid scientific facts! Not about abortion, or cancer, or global climate change, or evolution, or anything! If it's not in the Bible, or wasn't uttered by Saint Reagan, it doesn't exist! How to you expect us to advance our anti-woman, anti-worker, anti-civil liberties, anti-minority agenda if you keep pelting us with meaningless facts?
Monday, January 30, 2012 Dead Men Talking (4 comments)
It's getting crazier out there every day -- and we still have roughly 285 days to go...
Wednesday, January 25, 2012 PAC Man (1 comments)
Billionaire husband and wife team Sheldon and Miriam Adelson are so very rich, with almost $22 billion in the bank, the 8th wealthiest persons in America weren't happy with their other fancy toys, so they bought themselves a whole, entire person of their very own!
Monday, January 23, 2012 Lock Out
Values' voters chose ... Newt? The serial ethics-violator? The man who believes a marriage should be between a man and as many women as he can get to sleep with him? The planet-sized plutocrat who would put hungry kids to work as janitors to pay for their subsidized school lunches?
Tuesday, January 17, 2012 Boo Hoo! (1 comments)
Don't count the Occupy Movement out just yet -- they are regrouping and renewing their protest against the corporate takeover of our government. Nearly 1,000 protestors gathered at the Capitol to greet returning lawmakers with signs decrying the influence of money on politicians.
Tuesday, January 10, 2012 If it's Tuesday, it Must Be New Hampshire
Romney or Newt can buy the nomination, with ease. Has America given up completely on even the pretense of free and fair elections? How filthy and corrupt does the system have to get until we finally realize it is broken beyond repair?
Thursday, January 5, 2012 Broke and Broken (3 comments)
"I refuse to take 'no' for an answer," Mr. Obama said, adding, "I am not going to stand by while a minority in the Senate puts party ideology ahead of the people we were elected to serve." For his sake -- and ours -- we hope that, for once, the interest of working Americans will be put ahead of Wall Street.
Wednesday, November 16, 2011 Dearly Beloved (1 comments)
Rather than fighting the civil rights of American citizens, perhaps these servants of God should focus their Holy War on their men of faith in positions of power who continue to rape and molest children.
Monday, November 14, 2011 Meaty Monday (1 comments)
Cain gave an interview to GQ and explained that voters like a lot of "manly" meat on their pizzas, that's why they should vote for him. Because . . . he's got the meat. This must be proof that he has no advisers or campaign staff -- somebody should stop him from invoking images of pepperoni and sausages while he's fighting sexual harassment claims.
Thursday, November 3, 2011 Grumpy Old Terrorists (1 comments)
The Teabaggers and other misguided "Mericans who believe FOX "News" exemplifies Upstanding American values and Patriotism and Exceptionalism and Apple Pie and all that, somehow overlook the fact that the "news" channel fosters and foments terrorism of the homegrown Timothy McVeigh type.
Thursday, October 27, 2011 Agent Provocateur (1 comments)
The rabid right-wingers on the air and the corporate media spread the propaganda and lies and try to manipulate public opinion against these peaceful protestors who -- after all -- are just fighting for our human rights.
Wednesday, October 19, 2011 Where the Wild Things Are
CNN last night had a real dog-n-pony show going on in Vegas. The real winner of the debates last night? Jon Huntsman, who had the foresight to stay home. The GOP should nominate him by default.
Monday, October 17, 2011 Poor in America (2 comments)
A brave collection of resisters are demonstrating in more than 200 cities around the globe in "Occupy" demonstrations to show Corporate America (or Corporate Italy, etc.) that we will not be sold into indentured servitude without a fight.
Tuesday, October 11, 2011 Too Big to Fail
Why should the rich corporate elites enjoy record profits when the rest of us suffer record unemployment record poverty, record foreclosures, and record hunger? Why are our elected leaders continuing to bow to their corporate masters while ignoring the plight of the people they claim to represent?
Monday, October 3, 2011 Supersize Me (1 comments)
While the middle class dies and the ranks of the poor swell, this country is talking about cutting the government's spending. While one home in four is underwater, this country's worried about the financial health of banks. While we fight two unnecessary wars, war criminals like Dick Cheney are given television platforms as if they were simply representing a different political point of view. That's insane.
Tuesday, September 13, 2011 Let Them Die (5 comments)
Where is the compassion in these conservatives? What happened to the concept of America as a shining beacon on the hill? A nation of caring citizens who recognize the dignity and humanity in every individual, regardless of socio-economic status?
Wednesday, August 31, 2011 Dead Man Talking (4 comments)
Cheney promised that "heads will explode all over Washington" as a result of his book, probably just another in a series of violent, bloody fantasies, but in reality the book seems to contain little new information, facts, or insights. It's just a mundane laundry list of revisionist history from the twisted and tormented psyche of a very sick man.
Thursday, August 25, 2011 Stormy Weather
Moammar Gadaffi is still managing to hold onto a thread in Libya, as rebel forces and NATO troops advance on his position and will likely oust him before the end of the week. Makes you wonder what tricked-out US government-issue bunker and stash of weapons will be uncovered when he's found. We elevate them to power, then we topple them again.
Monday, August 22, 2011 Fox "News" Viewers Attacked By Brain-Sucking Aliens (3 comments)
The self-selected target audience of Teabaggers has been properly conditioned to receive the stream of misinformation directly into their mid-brains and will march like robots to the polls and automatically punch that ballot for the candidate Fox ultimately selects. And -- not that it matters -- they'll think they're doing it of their own free will.
Friday, August 19, 2011 Slip-Sliding Away (1 comments)
Rick Perry needs medication. His campaign is off to a slam-bang start, but not in a good way. First he insults Ben Bernanke in such a baseless and egregious way that even his own supporters backed away slowly from his comments and attack. As a follow-up act, Perry suggested to the Washington Post that scientists are faking research and making up data to show global climate change is occurring when it really isn't.
Tuesday, August 16, 2011 Drill Baby, Drill
It's barely been a year since the BP oil disaster in the Gulf of Mexico, but instead of tightening regulations on drilling and safety, this administration is relaxing them to allow Shell Oil to expand it's drilling into one of the most fragile environments on Earth.
Monday, August 15, 2011 Beam Me Up, Scottie . . . (4 comments)
Bachmann won the Iowa straw poll, but Rick "Goodhair" Perry is the current favorite. This begs the question -- with both of these Bible-thumping spokes-models in the race, can the underlings that stock the backstage green rooms at the GOP debates supply enough Botox and AquaNet for both Bachmann and Perry?
Monday, August 8, 2011 Game Over
We need FDR-style leadership and programs, not FDR-style fireside chats that use lofty words to say nothing. A masterful chess game? Seems more like "Jenga." Pull out one more piece, one more failed policy and our entire system will crash to pieces.
Tuesday, August 2, 2011 Don't Let The Door Hit'cha... (3 comments)
Were there an actual, tangible, verifiable locus of eternal torture, excruciating agony, unspeakable suffering complete with an authentic bottomless lake of fire, then recently deceased Georgia State Representative Bobby Franklin (R/Lunatic) -- who never met a cross he didn't want to ignite -- would now be flailing in a lava pit while tiny clawed demons chewed off the remains of his charred flesh.
Wednesday, April 27, 2011 Birther Madness (2 comments)
Stating that he's finally had enough of the silliness and expressing his desire to return to the business of running the country, President Obama released the long-form version of his birth certificate, ending Birther Madness forever. Or not.
Tuesday, April 26, 2011 Not In Our Name (6 comments)
The truth about GITMO, exposed in leaked documents written by the very people who ran the place, show the inhuman brutality and torture against a group of 779 "enemy combatants" held without formal charges, without civil rights, on the thinnest pretext and interrogated for years without gleaning one iota of useful information that would -- allegedly -- "keep America safe."
Thursday, April 21, 2011 Atlas Threw Up (3 comments)
Despite President Obama's extreme efforts to make nice with the Neocons, they're still aiming for the jugular, with state Governors leading the assault. And they will not stop until the middle class is destroyed.
Tuesday, April 19, 2011 Don't Go Near the Water (1 comments)
Pro-corporate forces from Washington to Wall Street want you to believe that the chemical stew has magically disappeared without adverse impact, leaving healthy coastal communities, pristine beaches, unharmed ecosystems, undisturbed wildlife, and perfectly safe seafood.
Wednesday, April 13, 2011 Show Me the Money
Obama folds like a paper napkin anytime Bohener raises his tear-streaked face with a hint that the President's policies aren't acceptable. If he crumples this time, we really could be facing the end of America as we knew it.
Tuesday, April 12, 2011 Drink Me . . .
The final blow is in the latest budget compromise, in which Obama accepted all of the Neocon's demands and gave away the long-promised representation of our nation's capitol city in Congress. Proving there is still some fight left in our ravaged political system, Vincent Gray, mayor of Washington, D.C., was arrested Monday for protesting the disastrous budget and Obama's selling out DC to Bohener.
Wednesday, March 30, 2011 Hunger in America (8 comments)
Each night, 45-million Americans go to bed hungry in this country, but that's not enough for the Neocons in Congress. There were 225,000 foreclosure filings in February, but the Obama administration is abandoning its foreclosure prevention program promised during the campaign before it even got off the ground.
Monday, March 28, 2011 Off the Reservation
It is rather refreshing -- especially following Rumsferatu -- to hear a Secretary of Defense actually admit -- in plain language -- that we're rushing in with our Big (taxpayer funded) Guns blazing, even though we have no dog in the fight.
Thursday, March 17, 2011 Eight Years Too Many (3 comments)
Thousands of dead Iraqis and Americans later (with tens of thousands maimed and crippled, physically and psychologically) that brutalized nation still is mired in chaos. What was the point? Was all this sacrifice from the common folk of two countries simply and insanely about profit, war profiteering and power for the elite few in this country who are slowly killing us all?
Monday, March 14, 2011 Meltdown
What's the main difference between a NeoCon "sting" operation, as James "Teabag Me" O'Keefe orchestrated against NPR with his fake Muslims -- and the telephone impersonation of David Koch by gonzo journalist Ian Murphy that showed Wisconsin Gov. Scott Walker was in bed with the Koch Brothers? The lying, of course!
Thursday, March 10, 2011 Sleeping With the Enemy (1 comments)
If you think it's bad in Wisconsin, wait until you hear what the Neocons want to do in Ohio and Michigan. The Koch brothers and their ilk won't stop until those of us struggling to survive the "new normal" in the "new" middle class is stomped out like the insignificant bugs they believe we are.
Monday, January 3, 2011 Reality Bites
Looks like politics are off to a particularly ugly start for 2011, with the Neocons in Congress promising to attack President Obama from all directions, with total destruction their ultimate goal. Their first plan of action, led by Sen. Mitch "the lizard" McConnell, is to pummel Obama's flank by dismantling health-care reform piece by piece, ensuring that no sick child will have any kind of coverage, ever.
Monday, December 13, 2010 Gone With The Republic (3 comments)
Neocons don't assume (official) Congressional control until January, but it feels they've been pulling the President's strings on issue after issue since near the beginning of his term. We need strong leadership now, not next week, next month, or next year.
Monday, November 15, 2010 Semantics (1 comments)
Back in the real world of non-reality TV, Obama is poised to negotiate -- yet again -- with the bloodsuckers who have vowed to defeat him at any cost and now demand that average working-class taxpayers continue to bear the burdon of tax cuts for billionaires.
Monday, November 8, 2010 2 Fast 2 Furious (2 comments)
Why was the suspension so short-lived? Did they bow to fan pressure (doubtful) or perhaps they decided to wait until the merger was officially approved, then shut down the whole dammed network (more likely).
Tuesday, November 2, 2010 Don't Worry, Be Happy! (4 comments)
Don't worry -- be happy! The Midterms still represent a big problem for the Democrats -- they're going to be voted down as a direct consequence of their dithering and leaderlessness -- but the political reality is that the world is not going to end."
Thursday, October 28, 2010 Never Forget
The Wikileaks revelations about the atrocities committed in Bush's never-ending illegal terror wars have been overshadowed by non-stop coverage of the coming mid-term elections.
Tuesday, October 5, 2010 Monopoly Money
If the Republicans win in November, the truly frightening aspect about the freshman crop of Teabaggers is that they are uniformly nuttier than a Snickers bar. They make wrist-slitter Michele Bachmann seem sane by comparison. Scarier still, there are people who will vote for them.
Monday, October 4, 2010 First Monday in October (2 comments)
if the Supremes find in favor of Snyder, then Beck will whip out his white-board and make with the maniacal scribblings connecting Kagan and the "activists" on the Court to some ancient Islamic secret society that will strip Americans of all civil rights and will mandate death by stoning for minor traffic offenses.
Monday, September 13, 2010 Rhymes With Orange (3 comments)
Boehner's agenda of favoring millionaires and billionaires over the middle- and working-class is an attempt to lock us into the same leaky boat that Bush used to float the economy over the dam and into the rocks below, doubling the deficit and unemployment. Us "Mericans may be stupid, but we're not suicidally stupid. We know on an elemental level that a vote for Republicans this year will pull the proverbial plug on us all.
Monday, August 30, 2010 Don't Mess With the Missionary Man
So...is this The End? Are we there yet? Have we reclaimed the Civil Rights movement and turned the U.S. back to God? Isn't it time for Glenn Beck to rapture on outta here?
Monday, August 23, 2010 The Incredible, Edible Salmonella (7 comments)
The hard-boiled truth is that our Big Corporate Farms treat breeding hens worse than Cheney treats Muslim detainees. The recent salmonella outbreak in eggs has the industry scrambling to explain the mass contamination. But the question shouldn't be how did this outbreak occur, but instead how is it that it didn't happen sooner?
Tuesday, August 17, 2010 Mosque Madness (9 comments)
Instead of piddling arguments over the exact location of a Mosque in the general vicinity of "ground zero," perhaps we should instead focus our limited energies on the reconstruction of our relationship with the Muslim world in the aftermath of the Bush wars.
Monday, August 9, 2010 The New Normal
Regardless of your opinion of the current Chief Executive, there was no way for him to undo the decades of damage from previous administrations that thrust us into this sullen funk in the first place. We're living the "New Normal," all right. And it would be wise to remember how we got here. And to decide what to do about it all.
Monday, August 2, 2010 Water, Water Everywhere, And . . . (2 comments)
Over the course of a few weeks earlier this year, BP dumped what Rep. Ed Markey called a "carpet bombing" of chemical dispersants into the Gulf, far more than the already astonishing 1.8-million gallons BP grudgingly acknowledges.
Monday, July 12, 2010 The Cleaners (1 comments)
Let's hope the Democrats can out-drone the Teabaggers and point out that it takes a village, or an army, to undo all the economic, foreign policy, environmental, security, social services, deregulation, war-making, constitution-destroying policies the Bush Crime Family, under Cheney's masterful direction, hammered into place during its eight-year reign of terror.
Monday, June 14, 2010 Afghanistan By The Numbers (1 comments)
Nine. That's the number of painful, costly years we've attempted to occupy and control Afghanistan, and we're still reading headlines about increasing violence against our troops? Why are we still there? Can someone remind me?
Monday, June 7, 2010 Stupor Tuesday
It is the race to win the Democratic nomination in California's 36th district that is the nearest and dearest to our hearts, as dedicated liberal Democrat Marcy Winograd tries to upset entrenched corporate favorite and Blue Dog Jane Harman to bring a more progressive representation of the district to Washington, DC.
Wednesday, June 2, 2010 Cut it Out (2 comments)
BP cares only for protecting its image, making a profit, and limiting its liability, not about the people (or marine life) it kills. Can there be a more perfect example of capitalism extended to its ultimate conclusion?
Monday, May 24, 2010 Don't Mess With Texas (8 comments)
Welcome to Texasland! Soon country music studies will be added to the curriculum next to history classes in which the syllabus will include lessons on the wise writings of unsung national heroes such as Sen. Joe McCarthy and slave-owning Confederate President Jefferson Davis, while removing Thomas Jefferson's name from the list of "great Americans."
Monday, May 17, 2010 Primary Concerns
If you're an incumbent office holder, be afraid. Be very afraid. A poll out this weekend finds that just 35 percent of Americans surveyed say the country is heading in the right direction and a mere 36 percent say they want their own member of Congress re-elected.
Monday, May 10, 2010 Greed is Good?
Now that the attempts to contain the oil volcano with a dome have failed, BP plans to clog the geyser with trash. Garbage in, garbage out. Couldn't have been more poetic if they planned it.
Monday, May 3, 2010 Accidental Tourist
The deeper story in this wreck that is being missed is the story of an industrial energy production system -" offshore oil drilling -" that is in general emphasized by a big industry and normally co-opted or coerced government officials and agencies -" and that continues to produce major disasters despite decades of technological focus and advance."
Monday, April 26, 2010 Raising Arizona (2 comments)
If Arizona has its way, both the President and random innocent-yet-dark-skinned people on the street would have to prove their legal citizenship status, but it's perfectly fine for a 21-year old to carry a loaded, concealed semiautomatic assault weapon into Joe's Pool Hall.
Monday, April 5, 2010 Spring Fever (1 comments)
The aftermath of the brutal health-care reform battles, rendered so ugly by the NeoCon screamers and their rabid tea-bagging minions have left our Congressional representatives nervous, exhausted, and risk-averse. Fear of losing their seats in November has seemingly paralyzed them.
Monday, March 29, 2010 April (gun) Showers (4 comments)
Because of my misunderstanding of these organizations, it never fails to amaze me how they can read the Bible and receive the divine message that their Savior, their Lord Jesus Christ . . . wants them to stockpile automatic weapons and shoot up a church.
Monday, March 22, 2010 Not Ready to Make Nice
The battle scars from the long debate are going to be slow to heal -- if they ever do. But, if the result is a baby-step toward the kind of rational, reasonable health care/health insurance system enjoyed by so many in the rest of the world, then it is a small price to pay.
Thursday, March 18, 2010 By the numbers (1 comments)
Unlike war funding, TARP bailouts, the cost of the MASSIVE Department of Homeland Security, and other Bush/GOP programs, the Democrats didn't deceive the public about the true costs, and this is a program that will actually help people, not corporations, and not fund death and destruction.
Monday, March 15, 2010 Another Brick in the Wall
Scapegoating teachers is not the answer to improving the quality of our children's education. Rather, it is making a personal investment in their education in the first place.
Monday, February 15, 2010 Joe vs. The Volcano
Nothing was said on either side about creating jobs in this country, or solving the health care crisis, or the erosion of civil liberties, or the rights of all citizens to marry or serve in the military regardless of their sexual orientation, or the sorry state of educational funding and infrastructure repair. Just two old white guys trash talkin' while our troops are dying. Haven't we had enough of that?
Tuesday, January 12, 2010 Fox and Facts (3 comments)
Sarah Palin, with her murky understanding of the world outside Wasilla, will fit right in with the other factually-challenged misfits at Fox "News." And they won't even have to fix her face like they did before dragging Greta over from CNN.
Tuesday, January 5, 2010 How They Win (5 comments)
The real cost of Homeland Security hits us harder in our psyches than our bank accounts. It institutionalizes fear, plays on our anxiety about vaguely-defined "others," and allows the Glenn Becks of the world to run rampant with white boards and maniacal ravings about syphilis and the Rockefeller Center in NYC without being immediately sedated and carted to a well-padded room in a secure location.
Wednesday, December 23, 2009 Happy Mollidays! (1 comments)
Why is Rudolph's nose red? Because somebody painted it and a light fairy came and put the magic dust in there to make it glow. It lights up the night so he can guide Santa's sleigh and make sure Santa can see through the foggy misty night.
Monday, December 21, 2009 Winter's Night
Between Joe "I've always wanted single-payer, except when I haven't" Lieberman, Bart "pass the coat hanger" Stupak, and Ben "back to the burka" Nelson, it's a wonder anything will come at all of the health care reform we so desperately need in this country. It does appear the bill will pass the Senate when introduced this Thursday, although it then must be reconciled with the much more liberal House version passed earlier.
Wednesday, December 16, 2009 Gimme That Prime Time Religion . . . (1 comments)
During his 51-year television career, he never cured cancer, but he built a private empire of wealth and personal glorification on the promise of healing the sick and poor by selling them one-dollar miracle pillows, blessed anointing oil, and personal prayer cloths, which were some kind of supernatural ShamWow that Oral claimed to have held while he prayed.
Monday, December 14, 2009 The Grinch Who Stole Health Reform (3 comments)
While the jury is still out on the benefits of the Senate Democrats' compromise health insurance reform plan, in which the public option is forfeited for an extension of Medicare benefits, “Holy Joe” Lieberman proved this weekend that his heart was, indeed, two sizes too small.
Monday, December 7, 2009 A Day That Will Live in Infamy (1 comments)
No wonder mindless television shows are so popular today, they provide at least a momentary distraction from the ongoing tedium of news stories that reinforce the growing reality we all dread -- that there will be no meaningful change to any toxic government policy, no true reform, no miraculous recovery or restoration of our Republic, at least not in the foreseeable future.
Monday, November 30, 2009 Just Another Cyber Monday
One thing's for certain, if you were anywhere in the vicinity of a shopping mall this weekend, it was difficult if not impossible to avoid the sucking vortex of traffic funneling shoppers into the stacked parking decks like so many farm animals being led to the guy with the pneumatic bolt gun.
Wednesday, November 25, 2009 Sing Along: “Thank Heaven, for Little Girls . . .”
Before you and your family zone out on tryptophan and ESPN and slap on the running shoes for the midnight Black Friday sales, take a moment to be thankful for the little things that make you happy.
Monday, November 23, 2009 Bah, Humbug! (2 comments)
Where are we, Truthseekers, when our lawmakers are so terrified of Big Insurance and Big Pharma that such obscene political contortions are necessary even to consider the possibility that a reform bill can be discussed?
Wednesday, November 18, 2009 Criminal Injustice (3 comments)
Why are Republicans afraid of the law? Did they collectively buy into Dubya's belief that the U.S. Constitution, and therefore our entire system of government, was nothing more than a “goddam piece of paper,” and, furthermore, should be abandoned if it might possibly be used to protect a swarthy Muslim?
Monday, November 16, 2009 A Rogue with Lipstick (1 comments)
Will the book be a success? You bet'cha. Will it help whatever future political career she and her scary rapture-ready followers in the extreme Religious Right have envisioned for her? That's not as certain. But, I am willing to do whatever it takes to make sure she's on the top of the ticket for 2012.
Monday, November 9, 2009 Let the Games Begin! (3 comments)
A public option will no more bankrupt private insurance companies than Medicare has, or than public/state colleges have bankrupted private universities. But you cannot argue with the Glenn Beck/Michelle Bachmann bozo brigade who insist that any reform of the current (hideously corrupt) system is tantamount to rebuilding the Berlin wall and marching your momma into a death camp.
Wednesday, November 4, 2009 Will a Landslide Bring You Down? (5 comments)
There you go, Virginia. Break out your burquas, chastity belts, and wooden spanking paddles! McDonnell is in the house! Or, rather, the Governor's Mansion! Maybe you'll get lucky and he'll rapture out of there real quick.
Monday, November 2, 2009 Meet the New Boss?? (12 comments)
The precedent is set that Executive Branch officers can break the law without fear of prosecution if such crimes fall within the very loose interpretation of “national security.” This is the antithesis of the policy of transparency President Obama promised in his administration.
Wednesday, October 28, 2009 To Act or Not to Act
How much longer before we realize that simply throwing our troops into that slaughterhouse is accomplishing nothing, except creating more innocent dead Americans and Afghans, increased Taliban control, and a growing hatred and mistrust of the American occupiers?
Monday, October 26, 2009 Rush Hour (3 comments)
Truth is, Rush and Beck and Hannity and O'Reilly are merely the front men for the real gangsters who have thus far escaped justice; the true Teflon Dons: Bush, Cheney, Rummy and their corporate owners. The right-wing media thugs poke baseball bats into the air and spin lies into the microphones, but the reality is they're now running security for a Family that's officially out of office.
Monday, October 19, 2009 Film at 11 . . . and 5, 6, and 7, too!
“We did this for a show . . .” How refreshingly honest and brave. (Something we would've loved to have heard from any member of the Bush Crime Family about nonexistent WMDs in Iraq. But I digress.) The child is obviously upset and justifiably so. It's a wonder his parents didn't actually duct tape him up and dangle him out of that thing.
Tuesday, October 13, 2009 Enough! (4 comments)
The monstrous insurance industry has reaped billions upon billions of our dollars keeping us in this fear state, forcing us to accept a system based on illness rather than health, where the worth of every human life is measured by the crooked red-line on their profit-and-loss flow charts.
Monday, October 12, 2009 Goodbye, Columbus (1 comments)
Columbus Day. I wonder if someday there'll be a “Bush Day” celebrating the illegal invasion, occupation, and slaughter of so many Muslims in the Mid East? Bobbing for carpet bombs? Munch on color-coded cotton candy-o-terror? Pin the electrode on the innocent detainee? Scavenger hunts for nonexistent WMD's? Visit Cheney's Tilt-a-Whirla-Waterboard?
Monday, October 5, 2009 The Bravery of Being Out of Range (3 comments)
For a top military leader, McChrystal seems woefully ignorant about the history of Afghanistan. Have he and the chichenhawks in Congress decided to completely ignore the fact that no army in the entire pantheon of recorded history has ever defeated the Afghans?
Monday, September 28, 2009 Victory! (4 comments)
Realizing they could not defeat him in court (or the court of public opinion), the Army allowed him to leave. Hopefully, this signals a change in attitude in the military now that the Bush/Cheney/Rumsfeld cabal has slithered out of Washington; a change that means we do not punish those soldiers who refuse to engage in illegal wars or wars entered into under wholly false pretenses.
Wednesday, September 23, 2009 Can You Hear Me Now . . . ? (4 comments)
Congress is poised to temporarily divert its partisan bickering over healthcare reform to partisan bickering over provisions of the ironically named “USA Patriot Act” set to expire at the end of the year. Why are Congressional Republicans so eager to ensure these abuses continue? Is it just so they can score a perceived “win” against the Democrats?
Monday, September 21, 2009 If It's Sunday, It Must Be Obama
And so it goes. How can you snub a “news” outlet that doesn't report the news, and instead throws carefully selected stories into the mix-master and spins them out to their inevitable, uber-right conclusions? Or that just invents stories and scandals altogether straight out of thin air?
Tuesday, September 15, 2009 Tea For Two... (10 comments)
It's good that these narrow-minded freaks clump up together whenever possible -- even if they're basically clueless as to the reason they're gathering in the first place; at least it makes them easier to track.
Wednesday, September 2, 2009 Wacky Wednesday (1 comments)
Until Congress returns from recess and we finally get some movement on health care reform, the topic of Republican madness is the unavoidable headline. As a group they're about as stable as a bowl of jello on a bicycle.
Monday, August 31, 2009 Monday Madness (2 comments)
Glenn Beck ... Dick Cheney ... Mike Huckabee -- what a cadre of kooks! It's hard to believe it's just Monday...
Wednesday, August 26, 2009 They're Coming to Take Me Away, hee-hee, ho-ho . . . (3 comments)
Is the thought of universal health care for all Americans so terrifying that the mere possibility has brought Bachmann to her knees, praying to her Savior that we be denied affordable health insurance?
Monday, August 24, 2009 Bang Bang... (15 comments)
William Kosteric, the Obama protester whose holstered 9mm Smith & Wesson pistol strapped to his leg sparked this recent flurry of debates, claims there is nothing threatening, menacing, or offensive about his visible firearm (next to his gun, he also brandished a sign that made reference to the Jefferson quote about watering the tree of liberty with the blood of tyrants and patriots...nothing threatening there -- nope!)
Wednesday, August 19, 2009 Dancing with the White House
It is confounding. Take the pulse of America and the vast majority want health care reform. It's one of the central reasons Obama was elected. So why the rapid-fire contradictions? Is the administration backing down due to a perceived lack of public support--or worse--falling poll numbers? Or are they even backing down at all?Did they throw the fight, or just throw the fight back to the people?
Monday, August 17, 2009 D.O.A.
The White House is holding out a tiny glimmer of hope for some compromise with Congressional Republicans and Blue Dog Democrats that would create a type of government co-op, but it's a far cry from the promise of real, meaningful health care reform. That glimmer of light is being sucked into the black hole of politics as usual, and will soon disappear forever.
Wednesday, August 12, 2009 She's Not There (2 comments)
The programs were in place to rescue people in desperate need of help. Palin chose her own career plans over the needs of Alaskans. As in most other aspects of her political career, she failed. This time, people died. She didn't leave office in time to save them.
Monday, August 10, 2009 Do You Really Want to Hurt Me? (11 comments)
The Teabaggers, Town Hall protestors, and Birthers, combined, have formed the perfect trifecta of terminal stupidity. Their hate-filled moronic screeds are increasingly racist and threatening to President Obama and to, well, just about everyone who does not subscribe to their insane theories and agendas.
