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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.

Monday, August 3, 2009
Baby, You Can Drive My Car . . .
(5 comments) Republican Senators are vowing to turn off the gas pump on the wildly popular “Cash for Clunkers” program, saying it’s just another bailout that heaps debt on future generations. If the Senate fails to extend the program, it dies tomorrow. If that happens, I hope working-class families take note of those who voted against this important stimulus package. And sends them to the junk heap in the next election.

Thursday, July 30, 2009
Born Identity
(2 comments) While the blithering, batty Birthers are an interesting study, more fascinating is the recent cultural paradigm shift that has spawned this crop of dolts. In a couple of generations we seemed to have morphed from a nation of doers and free-thinkers who prized intelligence and sought knowledge and higher learning to a herd of ditto-heads who scorn anything and anyone who smacks of intelligence.

Monday, July 27, 2009
Farewell, Alaska!
(3 comments) Poor Sarah, she needs a new image. Maybe she should revert to the "Sarah Barracuda" mode from her glory days as a basketball point guard and focus her energy on advancing her political career in some political party. If the GOP doesn't want her, there's always the Alaska Independence Party.

Monday, July 20, 2009
Not Ready to Make Nice
(3 comments) We cannot, with our continuing silence, give tacit approval for torture and abuse of our Constitution and the ignoring of human rights laws. The Bush Administration's illegal actions must have consequences or we haven't moved forward at all.

Wednesday, July 15, 2009
Smearing Sonia
(3 comments) A Conservative group -- weirdly reminiscent of the "Swiftboat Veterans for Truth" -- calling itself "the Committee for Justice" (CFJ) has spewed out a TV ad that resurrects William Ayers from the vaults of the anti-Obama campaign and furiously attempts to establish some absurd linkage between that former Weatherman, a Puerto Rican "terrorist" organization, and Sotomayor.

Monday, July 13, 2009
Gods and Monsters
(2 comments) How much of sleaze and corruption does it take to have enough evidence to charge Dick Cheney with a crime? Does organizing private death squads to remove unwanted foreign opponents mean nothing? Do we need to find a document signed by the Dark Lord himself admitting his many murderous crimes?

Tuesday, June 30, 2009
Get Ready for a New Hallmark Holiday Card
(5 comments) This is the legacy of the Bush/Cheney invasion and occupation: Complete and total devastation of Iraq. But the real objective has been accomplished: The oil fields are open again and foreign energy companies are lining up to get a piece of the action.

Tuesday, June 16, 2009
Pardon, your pointy white hood is showing . . .
I feel sorry for normal Republicans who truly desire to rise above this infantile level of attack and engage in honest policy disagreements that transcend such petty issues as skin color. Almost 45 years since the Voting Rights Act of 1965 and there's been so little measurable difference in attitude.

Monday, June 15, 2009
Going to the Dogs
(2 comments) The public option is the enemy to NeoCons and their friends in the insurance and pharmaceutical industries who like the system of have and have-nots, just so long as they're lucky enough to be at the top of the heap.

Monday, June 8, 2009
Dweetering on the Edge
(1 comments) I love Twitter. Tweets are fun, especially when NeoCon politicans who are still trying to grasp "The Google on the Internets" try their hand at social networking. The results are hilarious and revealing. And -- best of all -- hard to retract.

Friday, June 5, 2009
Batter Up!
(4 comments) Nasty, hate-filled reactionary screeds are expected from media whores, but generally not from elected officials. In a stunning offense, Republican Senator James Inhofe ravaged Obama's speech yesterday, making the outlandish claim that Obama is "un-American" and siding with the terrorists. According to Inhofe, Obama's speech in Cairo was "un-American" because he referred to the war in Iraq as "a war of choice."

Tuesday, June 2, 2009
Grow Up, Already
(1 comments) Dick Morris is unhinged. The alleged Democrat and former Clinton advisor appeared on Sean "The Baby Jesus" Hannity's show on Fox "News" and suggested that, because President Obama is visiting the Holocaust Memorial without also visiting Israel, that action will somehow give the green light to Iran to fire up the nuclear weapons.

Monday, June 1, 2009
We Report, You Commit Homicide (Redux)
(1 comments) Could Tiller's killer have been an O'Reilly fan? Seems plausible. There's been a serious up-tick in gun-violence and assault from right-wingers against those they perceive as "the enemy." The combination of liberal-hating, gun-toting, Fox-News' watching, Limbaugh-listening maniacs soaked with O'Reilly-induced images of a "murderer on the loose" is too much for the Kool-Aid drinkers to take.

Thursday, May 28, 2009
What is that -- Tobasco Sauce? Pointy-headed Liberal . . . .
(2 comments) Supreme Court Justice nominee Sonia Sotomayor's food preferences have prompted some Republicans to muse privately about whether Sotomayor is suggesting that distinctive Puerto Rican cuisine such as patitas de cerdo con garbanzo -- pigs' tongue and beans -- would somehow, in some small way influence her verdicts from the bench. No, it's not a joke.

Wednesday, May 27, 2009
Git-R-Dun...
Georgia has a very large, mostly Hispanic, immigrant population. I guess Deal worries that all these less-than-lily-white kiddies will start showing up at his kid's elementary school or at the puppet show at the local library. I hope Deal's proposal to change the Constitution makes it all the way to the Supreme Court, so that soon-to-be Justice Sotomayor can personally write the opinion. That would be poetic justice.

Tuesday, May 19, 2009
Onward, Christian Soldiers!
(3 comments) The GQ article also stated that some "unnamed" Pentagon officials worried that if the evidence of these proselytizing report covers were discovered (they were marked "Top Secret") that "they could be interpreted as a suggestion that the war was religiously driven, a battle against Islam." No kidding . . . really? Y'think?

Thursday, May 14, 2009
Who, Me?
After all, if Obama would just stop objecting to the previous administration's torture and stuff, Cheney would never have to crack the creaky lock on his crypt and could hibernate for the next millenia.

Wednesday, May 13, 2009
Doubleplus Ungood Doublethink
Naturally the neocons are up in arms over the potential publicity of photographic proof of their totally legal, safe, necessary, and productive interrogations. Gee, why is that? If there's no wrongdoing --as Cheney, et al, assert -- then why not release the photos?

Friday, May 8, 2009
Dear God, Why Are My Parents Homophobic?
(11 comments) Who did Jesus hate, exactly? Was it just homosexuals? Try as I might I just can never find that part of the New Testament where Jesus talks about all the different groups you're supposed to hate. Happy Mother's Day to ALL the Mommies out there, whether married to "Robert" or "Roberta!"

Tuesday, May 5, 2009
Cinco de Meglomaniac
(2 comments) there is one entity that is immune to the effects of the economic devastation at this once great media conglomerate -- Clear Channel's most Famous and Anointed Employee Rush Limbaugh! Jabba the Host peers down from his Golden EIB Everything and his belly shakes with mighty waves of laughter at the pink-slipped peons who scatter beneath his wealthy weight.

Friday, May 1, 2009
Viral Racism
(4 comments) Will Boortz be suspended? Doubtful. Neither will Rush or Beck or Savage or Hannity or any of the other major leage hate mongerers who dominate the dial. The Severin suspension is just a single-market drop in the bucket, while the big fish forever swim free

Thursday, March 26, 2009
Fox and "These Friends of Ours"
(3 comments) Wait a sec . . . all this sounds strangely familiar. A group of politicians being compared to a mafia crime syndicate. Hmmmmmm . . . where have I heard that analogy before? Do the producers of the creatively named "Fox and Friends" morning show secretly listen to the Mike Malloy Show?

Thursday, February 5, 2009
Framing The Economy Debate
(6 comments) The US economy has been hit with the double-whammy of eight yers of Bush Crime Family trickle-to-the-CEO's economics and perpetual war for perpetual war-profiteering. Why is anyone missing the recovery message?

Thursday, July 17, 2008
What's in a Name?
To call Ol' Jesse an ardent homophobe would be a gross understatement as he devoted such a vast amount of sweat equity in the pursuit of promoting as much anti-gay legislation as humanly possible.

Wednesday, July 2, 2008
Hard Work
(1 comments) It's easy to forget that first foray in the never ending terror wars, given the horror, torture, trauma, and carnage the giggling killer brought to Iraq, but US forces have been in Afghanistan now for nearly eight years. Almost twice as long as our involvement in World War Two. And what has been accomplished?