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Jon Faulkner is a licensed Master Mariner. He has long considered the conservative republican mindset a form of mental illness. He lives in northern Maine.
(5 comments) SHARE Friday, October 1, 2010 Sophistry and the Right
As deceitful as any Sophist the right never hesitates to employ any subterfuge, exaggeration, anecdotal license or bold faced lie to achieve its ends
(5 comments) SHARE Sunday, September 26, 2010 Riding The Disintegrating Empire To Oblivion
The Bush Administration was the first Right Wing Junta ever installed by a renegade Supreme Court. Democratic leaders bent like straw in a high wind, and have never recovered
(5 comments) SHARE Tuesday, September 21, 2010 Stupidity R.A.T.S. and Sociopaths
The nation has reached the tipping point and, after Obama's term, can't afford 8 years of rule by sociopath.
(5 comments) SHARE Tuesday, June 8, 2010 American's Reflection Is BP's Disaster
Americans must inform themselves. They can't depend on Fox News and Beck for their information. They have to grow up, and understand their government is lost to them.
(14 comments) SHARE Friday, May 21, 2010 Americans Must Share The Blame For Enabling B.P.
Until Americans are willing to take a hard look at themselves, and take seriously their responsibilities to send honest men and women to Congress Corporate vultures will continue destroying what still remains of Democracy
(2 comments) SHARE Monday, May 17, 2010 Brain Dead Taxpayers Subsidize B.P's Recklessness
Right Wing Troglodytes are not smart enough to be in positions of power. Their corporate masters will remain perfectly willing to sacrifice enormous quantities of marine life, and the livelihoods of tens of thousands who depend on that life, in the interests of profit.
(5 comments) SHARE Monday, May 17, 2010 Give it a break
No one's listening. And all sincere intentions won't change a damn thing.
(11 comments) SHARE Tuesday, May 11, 2010 Why Do Americans Pretend They Have Government?
The Office of the Presidency, the Congress and the Supreme Court are practically useless. If government were functionally effective the U.S. wouldn't be decaying like an overripe grape in November.
(1 comments) SHARE Friday, February 26, 2010 Enough Cowardice. The Supreme Traitors Must Go
The Supreme Court's five little asses gotta go. The so called "Supreme Court" has revealed itself as a Right Wing alternative to Constitutional law.
(8 comments) SHARE Monday, January 25, 2010 Time To Abandon The Sinking Ship
Democracy is now afictional system that give Americans an imagined sense of freedom. Critizing the government is exactly what Americans are supposed to be doing. It takes the heat off the corporate plutocracy that the U.S. has become.
SHARE Friday, December 11, 2009 Obama's Squandered Presidency
As cautious and hesitant as a tortoise, Obama has squandered the opportunity that fortune so generously gave him. Such opportunity is rare, and will not present again in the foreseeable future
(4 comments) SHARE Thursday, November 12, 2009 Obama's Short And Unremarkable Presidency
Obama, if he doesn't start satisfying his base, will not be re-elected. He is steadily squandering whatever goodwill he had earned by his promises on the campaign trail. Many of his supporters feel justifiably betrayed, as he devotes himself to repaying his corporate campaign contributors.
(4 comments) SHARE Monday, November 2, 2009 The Liars Reign Supreme As The Nation Withers
Without an inspired motive that attempts a renewal of purpose, the incomprehensible static of lies and distortions are killing the soul of a nation that can't seem to rise above its self prescribed hubris. Entropy becomes the norm, and the end is met.
SHARE Wednesday, October 14, 2009 Banks, Lawn Darts, And Human Folly
The U.S. has the most expensive and one of the least effective systems of health care in the world, and the insurers would not have it any other way. If they can stop meaningful health care legislation from becoming law, and reform tort law at the same time, their fondest dreams will be realized.
 
 
(4 comments) SHARE Thursday, October 8, 2009 A Conversation With A Rabid Right Winger
Trying to carry on a conversation with a right winger is like ... A true American patriot said it best. “To argue with a person who has renounced the use of reason is like administering medicine to the dead.†-- Thomas Paine, US patriot & political philosopher (1737 - 1809)
(14 comments) SHARE Friday, October 2, 2009 Revolution? Or The Realization Of Orwell's Vision?
At this point, only revolution will re-establish the democratic state. But revolution is extremely unlikely. Many Americans are so ignorant, uninformed and timid, they can't bring themselves to vote their criminal representatives out of office.
(3 comments) SHARE Monday, September 21, 2009 Misguided Revolution: Anti-Government Extremists Mistake Their Enemy
Fox News owner Rupert Murdoch, gleefully celebrated his victory when a Florida Court ruled, “there is no rule against distorting or falsifying the news in the United States.â€