Not long ago I spoke with an old friend who lives in Canada with her American husband. They recently traveled to China. In conservative jargon that would be “Communist China†or “Red China†said with an appropriate sneer. She said that getting into China was easier than traveling the United States. When a communist dictatorship [...]
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President Theodore Roosevelt made a recorded speech in 1912–a time in which Capitalism had been going strong for over a hundred years and the Industrial Revolution was in full swing: ♦ Confession of Faith He was the leader of the Republican Party and of the Progressive Movement both. Imagine that! Republican and progressive. But that’s [...]
READ MORE »Speaking of the Bush administration’s lack of interest in it’s own country, a recent independent report came out revealing how much lack of care there is: ♦ Post-Katrina education problems linger “Not since the Great Depression of the 1930s has the United States witnessed so many of its own students thrown out of school,†the [...]
READ MORE »The Elephants are pretty clearly showing their colors this week with the Sen. Larry Craig issue. Let’s forget for a second that tax money is going toward having police stake-outs for consensual gay sex encounters, and that what Craig was arrested for was basically playing footsie with someone he thought was a willing participant. In [...]
READ MORE »King Bush is demanding another $50 billion to add to his already $450 billion spent on his hostile corporate takeover war in Iraq. But he doesn’t want to spend the $35 billion estimated to complete the reconstruction of New Orleans. Instead, he’d rather make his annual visit to the city and give people platitudes: “Today [...]
READ MORE »I came across another The Nation article today (I don’t go there as often as I should), this one by Barbara Ehrenreich, discussing the issue of the capitalists cutting off their own feet by creating the poor and then selling products the poor can’t afford: ♦ Smashing Capitalism The sad truth is that people earning [...]
READ MORE »I was going to start writing an article regarding the hypocrisy of the right-wing, conservative, family values politicians that have been embroiled in sex scandal: ♦ Republican Congressman Mark Foley who was a crusader against child exploitation and child pornography (an admirable cause!) who was caught soliciting sex with underage Congressional pages, ♦ huge Republican [...]
READ MORE »800 times per week in this country, a SWAT team breaks open an American’s door, and invades his home. Few turn up any weapons at all, much less high-power weapons. Less than half end with felony charges for the suspects. And only a small percentage end up doing significant time in prison. From Reason.com‘s contributing [...]
READ MORE »Viet Nam was “the first war fought on T.V.”, Iraq is the first war sold on T.V. ♦ Ari Fleischer’s Propaganda Iraq War Ad Former White House Press Secretary Ari Fleischer is on the board of a group called Freedom’s Watch, a thinly veiled propaganda machine for the Bush Administration. And he put together a [...]
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CNN: ♦ Attorney General Gonzales resigns YEA! Only months after he said he wouldn’t resign because “there’s still so much to do,” he’s gone! “Bush will likely nominate Homeland Security Secretary Michael Chertoff to the position, senior administration officials said.” Ah krahp. From one incompetent criminal to another. But, Chertoff’s got some work ahead of [...]
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Here’s a great clip from the Daily Show that will really make you rethink the concept of isolationism. ♦ Daily Show: Three Generations of “America to the Rescue†(You have to click the links on the page to view or download the video clip.) Oh by the way, America also helped support Iran by helping [...]
READ MORE »I never talk about sex on here. And this topic is somewhat about sex, but it’s more about rights of privacy, personal liberty, and an out of control government legislating morality. Which I do talk about way too much. After a 10 year fight with appellate courts, a woman who has been fighting an Alabama [...]
READ MORE »On a program on Air America today, the host played a couple of clips of Bush from 1994 as he was running for Governor, during debates, where he had no notes or prompter. And he sounded highly articulate! No stuttering, no misusing words, no hesitating, and able to use facts and numbers. He sounded quite [...]
READ MORE »“The Monsters Are Due on Maple Street” – Twilight Zone episode in which a normal, calm, all-American suburban street (and we eventually see the entire city) descends into chaos and violence as fear and suspicion cause the residents to start blaming and killing each other for odd events (that were instigated by aliens remaining in [...]
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I just can’t get over this, what he did yesterday. This disgusting human being I’m ashamed to share DNA with comparing Iraq to Viet Nam, that we should never have pulled out of Viet Nam when for the last four years he’s done everything possible to deny any comparison to Viet Nam. But there he [...]
READ MORE »The current financial scandal affecting tens of thousands (maybe more) I haven’t been too up to date with because it’s complicated, and I don’t have a home loan. But here’s what I gather: The Bush administration deregulated the home loan industry allowing private companies to offer home loans at unregulated interest rates. This lead to [...]
READ MORE »I’d been meaning to blog on this for a few weeks, and haven’t gotten around to it: The British has recently, after more than 30 years, withdrawn military forces from police duties in Northern Ireland. ♦ No fanfare for Operation Banner This a huge deal–well, for the Northern Irish. Since “The Troubles” began and the [...]
READ MORE »WAR IS PEACE -Party Slogan “In my line of work you gotta keep repeating things over and over and over again for the truth to sink in, to kinda catapult the propaganda.” – George W. Bush: May 24, 2005 “If you tell a lie big enough and keep repeating it, people will eventually come to [...]
READ MORE »Today’s CNN article: U.S. officials rethink hopes for Iraq democracy Here’s a nice quote: Nightmarish political realities in Baghdad are prompting American officials to curb their vision for democracy in Iraq. Instead, the officials now say they are willing to settle for a government that functions and can bring security. I’m so glad we invaded [...]
READ MORE »John Nichols, author of The Genius of Impeachment: The Founders’ Cure for Royalism, was just on the Lionel Show on Air America. He ended his guest appearance with a little story about Thomas Jefferson. The night before he was to be sworn in as President he checked into a grooming house (roadside inn, basically.) The [...]
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