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Saturday, May 17, 2008
Only by "Squandering Opportunity" can it be said "We're Winning."
And John McCain claims "We're winning." And I scream at the top of my lungs in my empty room: "How is that Sir? Our butt is being kicked on every front that counts, we're staring into the black abyss that we're throwing the younger generation into, and "We are winning"? Exactly what sort of prize is it that we are winning? By what god-awful, stench-laden, buried deep in the septic tank standard are you defining "winning" sir?

Tuesday, May 13, 2008
We're DOOMED!
(3 comments) There are a number of pretty heavy steps that all earth's habitants need to take RIGHT NOW, since yesterday, which would have been more advantageous to our chances of survival, is a few decades too late.

Saturday, May 10, 2008
So just what the hell are you so damned afraid of?
(1 comments) The only answer I can concoct is, it's tragic ignorance and an absence of skills needed in today's world. The only answer I can summon is, they looked in the mirror and found that, vis-à-vis today's economic requirements, they do not have what it takes; they're inferior to the task at hand, and putting down others based on race, ethnicity or whatever is the only means available to them, to not feel inferior.

Friday, May 9, 2008
You missed the point.
(2 comments) The first and foremost prerequisite to hatred is fear. Psychologically, it is utterly impossible to hate what one does not first fear. Thus, the first task, it seems to me, for the one who finds the merest mote of hatred infesting his or her heart is to take a good, long look in the mirror, and ask what it is about the object of their hate that frightens them so.

Thursday, May 8, 2008
The low-down on McCain's low-down voting record
(3 comments) "You don't have to steal votes if you can prevent them from ever being cast. And so far, the Republicans have eliminated six million registered Democrats from the lists of those eligible and previously registered to vote in November's election."

Monday, May 5, 2008
I rage at all the Barbara Cornetts of the Earth
(5 comments) Ms. Barbara Barnett's extraordinarily bigoted reply to my post was to me as terrifying as terrifying can get. It was terrifying because it reflects an attitude that - however most of us would prefer to pretend it is limited to a small fringe - is pervasive throughout America; it is not particularly uncommon. And I say: We are better than that.

Saturday, May 3, 2008
Look, I've no reason to care about a kid who hid in a bathtub
(2 comments) This morning (May 3), Good Morning America featured a lengthy interview with a mother who hid with her child in a bath tub during one of the Arkansas tornadoes. GMA asked the youngster how she felt, "Were you frightened?" C'mon . . . can you spell "stupid interview"?

Friday, May 2, 2008
Scalia was right, 60 Minutes Stahl wasn't, re 4th Amendment & torture
(6 comments) Justice Scalia was 100% correct: the Fourth Amendment to the Constitution prohibits "cruel and unusual PUNISHMENT," and torture, unless employed as "punishment," by definition is not covered by that amendment. Here's how Stahl should have raised the issue.

Friday, May 2, 2008
Father forgive me, for I have sinned
That I have not the excuse of neither sleep depreivation nor dodging bullits in Bosnia, while jumping down the throat of others for their failure to own and understand the Constitution only adds to my sin.

Thursday, May 1, 2008
The Ft. Bragg YouTube video: How the administration Supports the Troops
(2 comments) Just do not ever, ever, ever contemplate asking me to pay a dime more in taxes, or detour from my SUV trip to the mall, and you bet: SUPPORT THE TROOPS! All the way!

Tuesday, April 29, 2008
How close are we to the streets? The Supreme Court just made that day closer.
(1 comments) There's only one reason anyone or any people adhere to fair elections within a democratic umbrella for determining who will govern: The alternative risks bloody upheaval, and as John Bradford observed while observing a condemned prisoner being carted to the scaffold, "There but for the grace of God goes John Bradford."

Saturday, April 26, 2008
If you are a woman, or know one, you need to know what the GOP did to you yesterday.
(5 comments) If you are an employment age female, or will become one, or know one, and give the first damn about her, this story may be more important to you than any other you will learn of this year. Its facts may certainly have greater impact on your personal life than just about anything else.

Sunday, April 20, 2008
Senator McCain, I have a few questions I'd like answered.
(1 comments) Today, as the country and the entire world wait anxiously - like a woman in a long labor - for the Bush-Cheney cabal to finally, finally at lonnnng last, come to an end, Senator John McCain has grabbed their "victory" and "honor" in Iraq baton and Charlton Heston-like repeatedly announced how that victory and honor will not be removed "from his cold, dead hands."

Saturday, April 19, 2008
Being a skeptic is essential to a democracy
(3 comments) Peruse the email, then catch my critique. But you don't have to wait for the critique. All of us received gratis the most incredible gift: an intellect that facilitates critical thinking. All we have to do is use it. Unfortunately, as was the case with the email I received this morning, far too few of us do.

Friday, April 18, 2008
A VISIT TO THE ELITE SIDE OF THE ROOM
(2 comments) You've been seeing Dr. Hubs for several years, and, if there has been any noticeable change in your condition, it has gotten worse. You can almost hear Death knocking on the door. In fact, Death is knocking on the door. Knock, knock, knock.

Monday, April 14, 2008
Senator Obama, lie to me. I can't handle the truth.
I'm discouraged that when an aspirant to the presidency of my country speaks with me honestly, when he speaks to me out of respect for what I may be feeling, and when he's mocked, ridiculed, chided for that honesty, more and more and more I'm convinced that Colonel Jessep was exactly right: we can't handle the truth! Bring on the clowns. They're what we seem to want.

Saturday, April 12, 2008
From John McCain's pen to your burning eyes!
(1 comments) I have had the honor to share my five decades of service to America with many great men and women. Most inspiring of all was Ronald Reagan. Today, I am as sure as I was when I first entered public life as a foot soldier in the Reagan Revolution that the principles of the Republican Party are always in the best interests of the American people.

Thursday, April 10, 2008
Reverend Jim Jones, Senator John McCain: same song, different choir.
"We're winning in Iraq." Seems I recall Reverend Jim Jones sang somewhat the same sort of song, and thousands believed. They didn't open their eyes and ears. They didn't ask any hard questions, of either Reverend Jim, or of themselves. They didn't have to. They believed, and their belief was sufficient.

Saturday, April 5, 2008
Questions I want to put to John McCain.
I can see I've gotten you all upset again. I didn't mean to. Hey! Wait a minute. With all due respect, please leave my mother and my sexual proclivities out of this. Please. Calm down a little. This is the last question. There you go. Easy. That's a good senator. How do you plan to pay for your expedition in Iraq, until we can come home victorious, with honor?

Saturday, April 5, 2008
On Rob Kall's Raking Rage
(1 comments) Thing is: Rob was 100% right. Perhaps he was beseeching, begging, pleading, cajoling you to do one of three things: lead, follow, or get the hell out of the way. But standing still in these times that demand we march is the very antithesis of patriotic. If you're too timid or too lazy . . .

Thursday, April 3, 2008
The saddest song I ever heard
(3 comments) More than 4,000 good, decent, brave, very patriotic American military dead way before their time. Perhaps at least 100,000 American military scarred physically and emotionally and psychologically, and more than $2 trillion, maybe as much, when all is said and done, as $5 trillion poured into the sand so that what Iraq becomes after all of this is a country run by a 2-star dictator.

Tuesday, April 1, 2008
April 1 in America; not a day for suffering fools.
This is about Senator John McCain, who we are, what we need, and whether he has what it takes to help us get there.

Monday, March 31, 2008
"Badges? I don't got to show you no stinkin' badges!"
Yesterday morning I opened an email from Human Events; more than one hits my inbox every day. As a reminder, HE is the GOP's far-Right rag. Here's what I found: "Speaker of the House Nancy Pelosi and a handful of her far-left cronies in Congress are plotting to put amnesty for 12-20 million illegal aliens back on the table!"

Saturday, March 29, 2008
And the Democratic ticket is . . .
(3 comments) However this is "political science," it's not nerdy stuff, it's common sense calculations: 10 + 9 + 5 + 5 is more than 27, or 20, or 21.

Friday, March 28, 2008
The hard-Right's latest push-poll survey.
(1 comments) On the Godfather's advice to keep my friends close, but my enemies closer, I subscribe to the GOP's far right Internet rag, Human Events (HumanEventsOnline.com). For elucidation purposes only, I cannot recommend too highly the free subscription. You've really got to see what they're saying, and what they're up to. The news would shock few, however it is extraordinarily informative.

Wednesday, March 26, 2008
On having reached a terrible benchmark
March 23d, was the day the Department of Defense acknowledged the death of the 4,000th American military to have perished in a war that was promulgated on the boldest and most absurd fictions, and that was facilitated by a Congress and an American populace that permitted themselves to be so easily duped by repetitions of the most outrageous of nonsense.

Sunday, March 23, 2008
Why Detroit is sinking: Peddlin' papers and everything else that's unimportant.
(2 comments) What I found completely answers why the Great Lake State is in the condition it's in. I kid you not, in 100% copied fidelity (Even the horrible grammar is included "as is") and in descending order, the following 10 stories composed what Michiganders were most worked up about this morning.

Sunday, March 23, 2008
Barack Obama's speech and context. It's ALL context.
(8 comments) It did not matter that Dearborn was the home of Ford Motor Company, or that the world's largest assembly plant, the Ford Rouge, was within the city's limits. Orville L Hubbard, its mayor from 1942 to 1978, successfully ran on the promise to "Keep Dearborn white." If you were from one of Detroit's all-white communities, just pay the fare at the gate. If on the other hand you were black, "Sorry, residents only."

Saturday, March 22, 2008
Iraq vets testify in 10-minute video; an absolute MUST SEE
(1 comments) But as this video clearly demonstrates, what we are doing to both the Iraqis and our soldiers is without redemption. Reading about it, or suspecting it are not enough. You must see and hear what these veterans have to say!

Thursday, March 20, 2008
See the shining city crumble. And there's not a cent to fix it.
Present this to those you know who just cannot see either the cost of what McCain is insisting on, or what the hell we're - as in you and me - going to do when all the costs hit us so in the face we can no longer ignore them, yet may not be able to cover the margin when the margin call is made. And you know that margin call will be made.

Tuesday, March 18, 2008
It's been a bad seven years for accounting.
(1 comments) I can count the plagues that assaulted the pharaoh: water to blood, frogs, gnats, flies, stricken livestock, pestilence, hail, locusts, darkness, and the deaths of all first-born. The plagues of the Bush/GOP years are beyond counting. And other than to sham pretense and show, none have been for a good purpose.

Sunday, March 16, 2008
Five little words that say all that needs to be said.
(8 comments) With just five words, James Melcher, one of the New York based hedge fund CEOs, ripped the toga from the deregulate everything/monitor nothing/free market capitalistic Reaganomics rules emperor yesterday, March 14th. "If the Fed hadn't acted, that could have triggered a very widespread panic and potentially a collapse of the financial system."

Thursday, March 13, 2008
Root Rot and the American Electorate
Think of it this way: A don has this enforcing Gumba, who he knows full well is an out-of-control Gumba. George Bush and his underling henchmen is the Gumba, and all the Republicans in the House and Senate and all who voted for them compose the aggregated Don. Absence of their don, the Gumbas would never have been able to wrought all the rotting they did, or are yet set to.

Wednesday, March 5, 2008
An important read for everyone who feels a conscience counts
Please read the following editorial on the urgent need to live up to the promises this country made to the men and women when it decided to send them into harms' way. Relative to "supporting the troops," the piece outlines the sorry path of intentional deceit and cynical disregard for basic morality that has been part and parcel of the Bushmaster administration.

Saturday, March 1, 2008
An inappropriate sidstep, at least for me.
(1 comments) It's the right to be unabashedly eclectic that the United States ought to be 100% about.

Sunday, February 24, 2008
I want to know: Do we still have the fight in us?
(4 comments) What the expenditure of billions and billions of educational dollars bought for The Greatest Generation was an escape from poverty and a successful leap into the middle-class they never would have been able to make otherwise. So what's different now?

Thursday, February 21, 2008
Why are so willing to join a parade headed over a cliff?
(6 comments) Preliminary Warning: The following is open inquiry into a subject that only those with the adequate courage to be open minded and intellectually honest should consider reading. If you lack what it takes, do not go there.

Sunday, February 17, 2008
Econ 202, and why understanding it is critical to your health
Ignorance and stupidity do more to promote and enable governmental abuse of power than perhaps anything else. Over history, more governments have failed from within than have perished because of external assault.

Thursday, February 14, 2008
Time for the Democratic House & Senate to show some relevance.
Other than perhaps the veneer of civility, what's the difference between the Bush admin and MS13, the Bloods, the Crips, the Hells Angels and Sonny Barger, and . . . Is it all really BS? Is it all just a charade? Doing the right thing and law are irrelevant if you carry a Bible under your arm and talk the talk. Power is all that really matters. Is that it? Yeah, acording to Nancy Pelosi and Harry Reid. No difference.

Thursday, February 14, 2008
A calls to arms, a call for help.
On the floor of the Senate today will be debate over Indian health care, what this nation promised, and sealed those promises with ratified treaties, to the many Native American nations whose land we took. Whether by dint of a legal obligation, or to live to Christian standrads, we must heed the call. Folks are dying for our answer.

Wednesday, February 13, 2008
About Ronald Reagan, I'm not ready to make nice.
(10 comments) Some say I owe a contributor an aopolgy for suggesting that the comment that "Ronald Reagan was our most beloved president" was evidence of a miserable level of ignorance. But how can I apologize, when I feel that whomever paints Ronald Reagan as anything other than a calamity has a moral obligation to seek forgiveness from the world for overlooking his "high crimes and misdemeanors"?

Wednesday, February 13, 2008
I tried, and I tried, and I tried, but the site wouldn't let me.
Throwing out an opinion sans confirmable backup information is stupid, and being stupid is a personal choice no one is obligated to make. That's what I'd tell my sons, and a position I heartily endorse for everyone. The world and this country have paid a tragically dear price in blood and treasure because folks were either too timid to crack eggs or too lazy to think for themselves.

Tuesday, February 12, 2008
A Senate Hearing exchange that says it all, and that needs to be shared.
(4 comments) "Let me ask you another question, a moral question: you propose over 700 billion dollars in tax breaks for the wealthiest three-tenths of one-percent at the same time as you want to eliminate the low-income weatherization assistance program. What's the moral justification for that?"

Tuesday, February 12, 2008
Hopefully, the last word for all who suffer under the delusion Ronald Reagan was not a disaster!
(1 comments) Mike Williams (BulldogMW), in a 2-10-2008 response to my "Debra Craig . . . Get a grip on reality, Reagan was a disaster!" blog issued two remarks, one, a silly suggestion, and the other an extraordinarily important question, that I'm going to answer. The first will be terse, the latter rather extended, and everything is documented via web sites, et al.

Sunday, February 10, 2008
Karl's story. Yours. Mine. Everyone pays when we send a man to do our killing.
(1 comments) For whatever reason, my parents were out of the house and both my sisters were in their upstairs bedroom. How it happened that I nudged Sandra aside, or how I coaxed her into our finished basement . . . Nearly five decades later, it's all a blur. I wanted to . . . what? I had a vague notion. But I was young; thirteen, maybe fourteen. I had no experience.

Thursday, February 7, 2008
Healthcare reform . . . An important distinction.
The current healthcare scheme in America - reliance on private insurance - is a dysfunctional failure at best, if, and only if, the business model wherein cost/benefits are the guiding arbiters that define its efficacy. For both gross and per capita, the United States spends not just a little more than any other country's system, we spend twice as much; again, even on a per capita basis.

Monday, February 4, 2008
A plea for sanity and for conscience
The far-right wing of the GOP - not a small, nor quiet, nor cautious, nor ineffectual element of the Republican Party - has for some time been feverishly stoking the embers of xenophobia, and the radiating heat and hatred are palpable. If we don't extinguish it, we'll all get burned badly.

Friday, February 1, 2008
What I failed to tell you that you had a right to know
Defendant Goodyear did not argue that Ms. Ledbetter had been paid less than other employees doing the same or similar work, or that she was paid less solely because of her gender. Rather, their argument, upheld by the Court, was that the statutory 180-day filing period in which Plaintiff should have filed for redress had expired.

Wednesday, January 30, 2008
America's Future: the Greatest Iraq Causalty
(2 comments) Ponder the fact that the War in Iraq, with its price tag nearing or surpassing $2 trillion is so sapping the common weal that the Dodd-Hagel scheme may be naught but a pipedream, and our inability to actually do what we must do to retain competitiveness in the global economy could very well send our sons and daughters and grandkids down the economic drainpipe.

Thursday, January 24, 2008
The shame of it, and of all of us who let the story lie fallow.
(7 comments) Yesterday, Vice-president Cheney said, "It's a fact..." He was speaking on behalf of an expansion of the FISA laws concerning warrantless eavesdropping on our communications. Except by dint of intentional ignroance or evil, who can now believe anything a Bush official says.

Tuesday, January 22, 2008
It's a bad scene no matter how you look at it.
Retraining, as the pundits and politicians like to propound, simply may be an illusionary fantasy for the chronically unemployed 50-plus worker. So where does that leave us as a country, as a society?

Tuesday, January 22, 2008
Sorry, it's NOT just Bush & Cheney. Not by a long vote.
Saying now everything was the fault of Bush and Cheney is at once wholly inaccurate, and extraordinarily dangerous. It lets all those who went along for the ride off the hook, to wax once again a W mixed metaphor. NO! NO! NO! Don't do it. At least never forget a Bush 41 aphorism: "Wouldn't be prudent."

Friday, January 18, 2008
Rebutting those who oppose Bastille storming
(2 comments) A few readers responded to my rant on the present state of our GOP corporations first, last and always federal judiciary. Recall I opined on the absolute necessity to elect a Democrat to the Oval Office this November. Some of the respondents matched my decibel level with their own vociferous rebuttal. Now it's my turn again . . .

Wednesday, January 16, 2008
Life & Health INsurance Companies are just soooo DIRTY!
K-Street is gonna fight like hell, and they've got the Milky Way galaxy big-bucks to kick up a ton of obscuring dust. The questions I propose all of us consider are which candidates and which political party seem most on record for their readiness to engage the enemy?

Wednesday, January 16, 2008
This ain't MBA material.
Then there are the tax cuts; needed you'll hear, to spur economic development. Look, this ain't MBA material. No CEO has ever authorized plant expansion or new construction based on what's in the tax code.

Tuesday, January 15, 2008
The time to charge the Bastille is drawing near.
(7 comments) C'mon, dammit . . . Now this is really pissing me off! Yesterday, the Republican Supreme Court of non-activist judges ruled along straight party lines in Stoneridge v. Scientific-Atlanta, 06-43 that corporations can rob you and all investors blind, they can engage securities fraud, and there's not a damn thing you can do about it.

Monday, January 14, 2008
"What does it all mean, Daddy?" "That we're not very smart son."
(1 comments) I recommend America repeat Ronal Reagan's assignment; "Better today than in 2000?" To help, with attribution, I've included a few pieces of 2000 - 2007 price comparison data

Monday, January 14, 2008
I'm not ready to play nice"
(2 comments) As was Howard Beale, "I'm mad as hell and I'm not going to take it anymore!" Nor am I going to hide behind the skirts of "progressive" because a number of folks have gotten the better part of a population to perceive "liberal" in ways that would sicken George Orwell.

Thursday, January 10, 2008
And example of the same old same old we need to cauterize
(1 comments) The unfettered free market works miraculously, and when it doesn't, don't blame its most ideologically passionate adherents, those most enjoying life at the most rarified reaches of the food chain, find a scapegoat, preferably among those least able to defend themselves! And when you do blame someone, don't let facts and the application of objective analysis prove an obstacle to the end result that's being sought.

Thursday, January 10, 2008
Steve the Palm Springs mail carrier and the price paid
1st Lt. Elizabeth Whiteside listened last week as an Army prosecutor outlined the criminal case against her in a preliminary hearing. The charges: attempting suicide and endangering the life of another soldier while serving in Iraq.

Thursday, January 10, 2008
A Cloud of Smoke and a mighty "Hi-Yo Vote 'Delete'"
With pain, even today, I recall the struggle to get through the billowing black clouds of smoke that curled ubiquitously heavenwards, staining gray the sky above. But I fought on, coughing, tears cascading down my cheeks; just a few blocks more and I'll have made it to the CVS pharmacy and the eye drops . . . oh those precious eye drops.

Wednesday, January 9, 2008
John McCain, the Lie of Voter Fraud & the GOP's Voter Suppression Push
Indiana does not allege that a single case of voter fraud has been found, only that one might be found at some future - say, this November - date.

Tuesday, January 8, 2008
Why Steve the mail carrier frightens me
(1 comments) And the melodious refrain from Big Yellow Taxi keeps coming back, "you don't know what you got 'til it's gone. They paved paradise and put up a parking lot.

Saturday, January 5, 2008
A Message of Love, and a Challenge, to My Sons
(2 comments) A torch has been passed to a new generation: yours. To grasp it, however you must stretch your arms and seize it. Please, please, please . . . do not let the chance pass you by.

Saturday, January 5, 2008
Who we're up against: Steve, my mail carrier.
(8 comments) I affirm the following is as true a transcript of a conversation I had this morning with Steve, my local Palm Springs, California USPS mail carrier.

Saturday, December 29, 2007
This Time Can We Think About the Next Time?
"When you see a little girl in pretty clothes that someone dressed her in, and she's smushed on the road with her legs cut off, you don't think, 'Well, you know, there were Fedayeen nearby and this is collateral damage. They're just civilians."

Saturday, December 29, 2007
The Down and Dirty on the Down and Dirty
(2 comments) Show me a beer that will make me irresistible to an icon of my sexual target. Or do the same with an oven cleaner, or how your political agenda eliminates the toxins of anxiety, and I'll buy it.

Thursday, December 27, 2007
Who I'm for and why!
(4 comments) Casting a ballot is not about making some statement, it's about which philosophy is going to run the government and thereby affect the lives of us all. Voting for a candidate who has no real chance of winning is naively foolhardy.

Monday, December 24, 2007
So Hoover would have jailed me, huh?
A dictator and a tyrant are dictators and tyrants, regardless of the country in which they dwell; exactly as are all in the Bush administration who would suspend for a second any provision that keeps us from their clawing talons reach.

Sunday, December 23, 2007
Merry Christmas -- Whatever
(2 comments) Merry Christmas, except the one I enjoyed in 1968 was so much merrier, not just for me, but for almost everyone in America.

Thursday, December 20, 2007
If a tree falls in a forest and no one reports its crash to earth, did it?
(1 comments) Yesterday, the FCC's decision was solidly on behalf of Goliath. David would be left to tend the sheep.

Tuesday, December 18, 2007
Essential Questions & Points to Ponder
(2 comments) Rather a mess, no? Yes it is, and it's absolutely, unequivocally a Republican/GOP deregulate everything/monitor nothing (What, you thought the sub-prime fiasco would be consequence free?), dive-head-first into the shallow pool of "Reagan proved deficits don't matter" policies of trillion-dollar preemptive wars.

Monday, December 17, 2007
Which is better: happy yet ignorant, or aware and angry?
(3 comments) What has been going on in the Christian movement and in the Republican Party all the way back to Nixon, and what has been their gathering intensity pisses the hell out of me. Neither have anything to do with American democracy or what Jesus taught, and everything to do with hypocritical dissembling and power grabbing. And god I'm pissed! You becha: I am so pissed!

Friday, December 14, 2007
THE DANGER OF GOP PUSH FOR MEDIA CONSOLIDATION
(3 comments) KBR - Kellogg Brown Root, a subsidiary of Halliburton - had over-billed the defense department $100 million. No one was in disagreement over that plain and simple fact. But what Michigan's Senator Carl Levin wanted to know from the Pentagon witness was why no one in the administration had asked for a return of the money?

Thursday, October 11, 2007
GOP Presidential debaters & The Wizard of OZ
(2 comments) Why the younger generation doesn't hold their parents and grandparents in utter contempt escapes me. We have borrowed heavily, as in HEAVILY!!!, from China, Japan, South Korea, Canada, Great Britain, and Mexico, and it's the kids who will come behind us who will be forced to somehow pay the horribly obscene tab for their parents' and grandparents' irresponsible profligacy.

Sunday, October 7, 2007
The US was NEVER intended to be Christian. Herein is the Documented Truth.
(5 comments) The United States of Ameica was NEVER intended to be a christian country. Here's the documented truth proving it wasn't.

Saturday, October 6, 2007
The SCHIP Veto The TRUTH Revealed -- At Last
(3 comments) I don't have any: associates, friends or relatives who are Republicans, who voted for George Bush or for any Republican. When my Tampa Bay partner's step-daughter got married 18 months ago in Atlanta I refused to attend. The family was staunchly GOP. Consider my position extreme. (I don't even own any red-colored apparel!) I'm damned angry!

Tuesday, October 2, 2007
Another Soldier's View of Peter Pace
(2 comments) Once a person dons the apparel of the United States, and once that person has been awarded authority over others, whatever positions he or she may have been raised with, whatever positions they believe, become 100% irrelevant. Choose. Change your heart. Keep your damned mouth shut. Or quit. That's it. No other options available.

Sunday, September 30, 2007
The Assault on You by the Private Equity Firms
We are the fish in the barrel. The states have levied fines and have attempted criminal prosecutions, and families have tried to sue, but the entities have been so labyrinth-like structured that there's no one accountable and no way to pinpoint financial responsibility.

Saturday, September 29, 2007
Three truths and a fib.
George W Bush and the right-wing (Why not 'wrong' instead of 'right'?), neocon, fascistically leaning, US Constitution-crapping-all-over Republicans. Delusion: they're wrapped in it like moth pupae that fed on garment fabric before so encasing themselves against the bitterness of life and truth outside.

Friday, September 28, 2007
Defense of America Begins with an Urgent Call to Arms
(1 comments) Neither truth nor legitimacy has ever been the GOP's objective; seizing and holding onto power, by any means necessary, is all that has ever mattered.

Tuesday, September 25, 2007
The Most Important Film of OUr Day: In the Valley of Elah
(1 comments) The irreconcilable moral is extended as, as individual servicemen and women and as a country we are truly in peril of losing our soul. We therefore very much need to decide whether that is something we want to - or can - endure.

Monday, September 24, 2007
THE HORRIBLE SMELL OF PUTRESCENCE
"Are we gonna continue to invest American blood & treasure at the same rate we're doing now? FOR WHAT? The president said 'let's buy time.' BUY TIME? FOR WHAT? "That's the core issue in Iraq." -- Sen Chuck Hagel

Sunday, September 23, 2007
Pack of Dogs
(1 comments) PLEASE . . . somehow, somewhere retain the record of this vote against America's best. Several are up for reelection in 2008, and they're going to try to squirrel out from under this vote. Let's not permit them to evade the proof of where their hypocritical heart was when it counted most.

Saturday, September 22, 2007
Roll Call of the Cowed and the Sameful-Shameful
For President Bushmaster - a bushmaster is a highly venomous snake, extraordinarily dangerous to humans, that inhabits the Southern tropics (See, I can match 'em bam-for-BAM!) - to suggest it was "disgusting" is so like a hog calling a wallowing pig filthy.

Wednesday, September 19, 2007
It's not just oil! Not by a long shot, and it's Worse!
(1 comments) Whatever you do, do not think on the logic, do not argue, even if it's you or your daughter that's gonna get tossed; the greater good demands it. The High Priest has said so. So what's so different today?

Wednesday, September 12, 2007
The Crandall Canyon Mine and Iraq
The authorities at the Crandall mine held that enough had been lost and enough had been spent. But my question concerning an Iraq that has neither a prospect nor a plan in the offing, how much more blood and how much more of our treasure will it take to sate your gluttonous, fragile pride?

Monday, September 10, 2007
A Page from German History
(3 comments) The Korean War Marine and I, a 1964 to June '67 Army vet, were the only ex-military among the 75 or so standing on the northwest corner of the Reno-Tahoe Convention Center's parking lot. We were there to offer some counter to the message being delivered by President Bush to the American Legion's 10,000 members within the convention center.

Sunday, September 9, 2007
In Vino (and hasty words spoken) Veritas
Mr. Romney's incautious betrayal of his deepest held regards for what our men and women are enduring was so beyond deprecating blasphemy to the point there exist no words to describe them!

Saturday, September 8, 2007
In the Guise of Fred Thompson, Ronald Reagan Rides Again
Word is out that Fred Thompson, late of NBC's "Law & Order" television series, has entered the GOP race for the presidential nomination on the premise of donning the Reagan mantle.