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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.
(10 comments) SHARE Thursday, April 16, 2009 Obama's One Term Presidency
Obama has seriously disappointed his supporters and his campaign contributers are calling in their marks as Obama sends trillions ot the bankers, insurers and investment firms.
(51 comments) SHARE Friday, September 18, 2009 Stick A Fork In It: It's Done The Fascists Won
Anyone with two eyes knows the U.S. is a cooked goose. There aren't going to be any marches on Washington, or any grand, eloquent words that will wake the nation up. Creeping fascism has finished creeping, and is now here.
(10 comments) SHARE Saturday, May 16, 2009 Paying To Subjugate Yourself
Republicans have realized their goal of breaking the government. The nation's wealth has been transferred successfully to the corporations and the wealthy, and Americans are not far away from suffering the ultimate indignity. Paying to have their freedom and independence taken from them.
(6 comments) SHARE Monday, April 20, 2009 The Founders Tried To Warn Us
Americans stood by while their freedoms were compromised, and never suspected a thing.
(8 comments) SHARE Tuesday, May 26, 2009 1886 - When The American Experiment Died
The American experiment began its fall into corporate dominance when Chief Justice Waite's Supreme Court ruled, in 1886, that corporations would enjoy the same Constitutional protections as all Americans. That court's decision signaled the beginning of the end of representative democracy.
(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.
(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.
(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.
(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.
(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)
(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
(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.
(4 comments) SHARE Tuesday, July 28, 2009 Americans Richly Deserve Their Fate
A large number of Americans have fully supported the decline of what was once a socially just, and economically powerful nation. They have responded to every political promise of tax cuts as if the many government services, and infrastructural systems, were free.
(2 comments) SHARE Friday, September 29, 2006 taxing the red, welfare client states
Blue states support red states through tax distribution. Red states are essentially welfare, client states of blue states.
(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.
(7 comments) SHARE Tuesday, November 11, 2008 Frightened For 8 Years Dems Get Tough?
Frightened Democrats are going to want to look tough after eight years of kowtowing to Bush.
(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 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
(7 comments) SHARE Tuesday, May 19, 2009 Reinforcing The Two Party Myth
The corporate king makers choose the next president. A well defined science is employed to carry on the myth that Americans have a choice in their futures.
(2 comments) SHARE Wednesday, August 26, 2009 Blind American And The Exploitation Of Entrenched Ignorance
Right Wing Media's contribution to the firm entrenchment of ignorance, and this point stupidity is not too strong a word, among Americans has paid of handsomely. It has also turned Obama, and presumable any future Democratic President, into a kind of token, republican fetch and carry.
(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.
(9 comments) SHARE Friday, January 16, 2009 Financial Wizards? No. Only Thieves
Bush and Co. have destroyed the U.S. economy. What will be done to insure that people like George and Dick never get another chance at destroying the U.S. ecocnomy and its reputation abroad
(13 comments) SHARE Monday, March 30, 2009 The Republicans Win
Conservatism's goal of privatizing the nation's services, industries, utilities, health care and education is almost complete.
(6 comments) SHARE Tuesday, April 7, 2009 Snake Bit - Bring Down a Nation
The right's long term goal of replaceing government with the corporate entity.
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
(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.
(5 comments) SHARE Saturday, May 30, 2009 A Free Republic Morphs Into Feudalism
The happy marriage of politics with corporate interests are clanging the wake up bell if only someone was there to hear. If a man in the forest speaks and a politician isn't there to hear him - is he still wrong?
(2 comments) SHARE Tuesday, May 15, 2007 The Right Wing Dives Under Its Rock
Doing away with the Fairness Doctrine has allowed Rush, O'Reilly, Coulter et al to slander the left.
(3 comments) SHARE Friday, June 12, 2009 Melted Wings - Icarus And The Democrats
Obama has been permitted his brief moment at the pinnacle of power which, unbelievably, he has chosen to squander. He has, after an amazingly short time, digressed to comic relief. Why would a man devote his entire adult life to politics, then rise to the highest level of his profession, only to cower before the advance of a weakened and outnumbered enemy?
(1 comments) SHARE Wednesday, May 23, 2007 Democracy An Idealistic Fairy Tale
Democracy isn't working out well. It only takes a look at the current membership of Congress, and the executive to know this.
(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.
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.
SHARE Wednesday, June 3, 2009 And It's 1,2,3 ... What Did We Get Elected For?
It's popularly believed there is no difference between the republicans and democrats. This is not true. The republicans, right, wrong or indifferent at least believe in themselves, and have the will and determination to fight for their beliefs, while the democrats are lumps, and not aware of what or who they're supposed to represent. No one respects people who won't stand up for themselves
SHARE Sunday, January 14, 2007 Science & Ponce DeLeon
Will science give humanity the key to immortality .........
SHARE Friday, April 3, 2009 Regarding Humanity
The inevitable eradication of life on earth is a foregone conclusion if humanity continues in its failure to recognize the diminishment of one life diminishes all.
(3 comments) SHARE Thursday, October 25, 2007 "Unfit for Office
Bush threats against Iran and the repercussions Americans can expect if he attacks.
(1 comments) SHARE Monday, February 9, 2009 The Republic Stops Here
After the republican onslaught against the Republic, there's little left to hope for.
SHARE Tuesday, November 21, 2006 Moral Turpitude and the Pursuit of More Stuff
Balancing virtue and devotion to material gain is impossible. Materialism always wins as virtue defined becomes hopelessly blurred.
SHARE Thursday, June 25, 2009 Diabolical Liberals Meet Loony Conservatives
The Conservative Right has managed to convince taxpayers that investing in services and infrastructure is prohibitively expensive, and that only by delivering tax dollars to private sector enterprise can the nation be saved.
(2 comments) SHARE Monday, July 3, 2006 The Resignations of Alito and Roberts
The right wing must learn that stealing elections comes with a cost. Nullifying their appointments is one such cost.
SHARE Monday, March 24, 2008 Leaving Iran the Gift of Iraq
Iran, after the U.S. leaves, will restore Iraq and welcome it Shia majority as long lost brothers.
SHARE Friday, June 30, 2006 "The Founders Never Heard of Dumbing Down"
Americans must devote themselves to learning more about their government. It's the only weapon they have in controlling it.
(3 comments) SHARE Sunday, December 17, 2006 Democrats Must Impeach Or Risk War
Democrats were elected as a referendum to war. The new majority has an obligation to keep Bush from any more adventures, particularly in Iran.