Hope and Trust? No way, Barack!
Monday, May 25th, 2009It’s a good and honorable thing to respect those who have given their lives for the war-prone decisions of American governmental and corporate leaders. Those who serve in the military don’t make war, they simply perform—kill and die—because America’s leaders demand it of them. Leaders make war; citizen soldiers simply follow orders, often blindly because [...]
Would the last person who knows why we’re fighting please…?
Monday, October 27th, 2008Bill Moyers on his Oct. 24, 2008, PBS Journal, said, “The last person who knew why we are fighting died a long time ago.” Moyers didn’t know the author of the statement and a quick Google by Steve, my right and left hand man, didn’t yield an answer, which doesn’t really matter, because the wisdom [...]
BEWARE!: 32 alarming words from King Henry Paulson
Tuesday, September 23rd, 2008“Decisions by the Secretary pursuant to the authority of this Act are non-reviewable and committed to agency discretion, and may not be reviewed by any court of law or any administrative agency.”
This demand is from “Section 8″ of Henry Paulson’s “plan” to somehow save America and rectify the Wall Street financial collapse by giving $700 [...]
How ’bout that financial “industry?”
Monday, September 22nd, 2008A few words about the current financial “industry” situation: “Aaaaghh!” “Eeeeaahhh!” “Fuuuuuuck meeeee!” “Oyyyy vaaaaaaisssmeeeeer!” And the always available: “IknewitIknewitIknewitwhydidn’tIsellwhenIhadagoodprofitIamsuchadumbhead!”
Look at your credit cards. Chances are that more than half of them are with MBNA. Here’s what MBNA founder Charles Cawley says: “Today is not as good a time to be in banking as five [...]
Abe Lincoln vs. Reagan/Bush/McCain Republicans
Friday, September 19th, 2008“You may fool all the people some of the time, you can even fool some of the people all of the time, but you cannot fool all of the people all the time.”
Abe Lincoln supposedly said that, although it’s also been attributed to P.T. Barnum, an odder pairing there never was. Except if you compare [...]
Republican Lies: or, Coffee and Crullers with My Corporate Pals
Friday, September 12th, 2008Yester-morn, I was having coffee and crullers (just one) at Lillie’s wonderful place of coffee and crullers when one of my table-mates said, “That Krugman, the New York Times guy, he’s gone off the deep end again. I don’t know why they keep him around.”
“What did he say this time?” I asked in all innocence.
“Oh, [...]
Loss of truth in news: Should we just “get over it”?
Sunday, June 1st, 2008Read the following from the New York Times in an article by Ford Fessenden and John M. Broder, dated Nov. 12, 2001:
“If all the ballots had been reviewed under any of seven single standards, and combined with the results of an examination of overvotes, Mr. Gore would have won, by a very narrow margin.”
This statement, [...]
Hillary and Careers that require lying (not that the two go together)
Thursday, May 29th, 2008I, Rrrandy Wurst, do hereby go on record that I want and look forward to the day that America has a female president. Just not Hillary. I support feminism. But it’s a struggle to support a feminist whose claim to 35 years of experience in politics and leadership [...]
So, what do we DO about the Rovian Right Wing?
Tuesday, April 29th, 2008This about our Republican-run economy, from blogger “Angel of Mercy“:
Historical fact: Prior to the rise of the radical right some 30 years ago, America was the most innovative, most prosperous, most vital nation on the face of the Earth. And it wasn’t just an obscenely rich fraction of one percent skewing the numbers, [...]
Fear and Loathing in the New Gilded Age
Thursday, April 24th, 2008Steve Fraser has written a terrific article called The Great Silence about the two “Gilded Ages”, the first occurring at the turn of the last century, while the second currently plays at gas pumps, grocery stores, mortgage companies, etc. around our great nation.
Fraser points out several similarities, notably the tremendous disparity in income between [...]
