Maybe you would benefit from these words from our President. Or maybe you think he’s secretly Muslim too.
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I thought the Tea Party were racists …
13 MayThen I read this article about neo-Nazi parents in the U.S.
Nazi nightmare: The U.S. parents who teach their children to idolise Hitler | Mail Online.
Smiling proudly as she wraps her arms around her two children, Cynthia Keene’s family paint a happy picture.But as they roll up their sleeves to reveal dozens of swastika tattoos it’s clear there is nothing average about their lifestyle.
Because the Keenes are just one of a growing number of Nazi families who have joined the racist group, the NSM (National Socialist Movement).
The group in question is sadly misnamed. There is nothing at all socialist about Nazi beliefs. The NSM is actually neo-Fascist in nature. Continue reading
Remember when I suggested you send a video to TPC?
11 MayWell, they posted the final result while I was busy with the ICU. Anyway, if you go here (YouTube) or here (TPC site) or here (@ZenShadow‘s blog) you can see that result. If you watch long enough, you might see a familiar face or two.
Socialized risk, privatized profit
29 AprAll too often these days, big corporations have taken the profit when things go well, and counted on the government to bail them out when things go wrong. Recently we have seen huge bailouts of big banks and U.S. automakers. The automakers got huge loans, and at least GM has paid theirs back. I’m OK with using the resources of the Federal government to help out when there is an appropriate social need to meet, such as saving the jobs of all those auto workers. But I cannot accept bailing out corporations without expecting repayment.
Which brings me back to what prompted me to post on this topic today. The headline reads:
So BP wants DOD to help solve their problem. Continue reading
Are we on the brink of another Civil War?
28 AprDriving in this morning, looking at the scary bumper stickers on the monster pickup trucks and SUVs, this Progressive Texan (yes, we exist) was contemplating the dangerous seditious rhetoric originating from the Far Right. I have to admit I was seriously considering whether I need to move my family out of the “Southern States” before the Confederacy rises again. Continue reading
Talk about an understatement… PBS admits ignoring single payer was a mistake
26 AprHealthcare-NOW! – PBS ombudsman: Ignoring single payer was a mistake
Yes, PBS Frontline erred by not covering single payer in their program Obama’s Deal. More importantly, in my mind, they erred significantly in the manner of editing the interview with Dr. Flowers of PHNP. Continue reading
OK, this is change, but I can’t say I believe in it
8 JulThe Obama justice system – Glenn Greenwald
Highlighting not mine.
[…] Spencer Ackerman yesterday attended a Senate hearing at which the DOD’s General Counsel, Jeh Johnson, testified. As Ackerman highlighted, Johnson actually said that even for those detainees to whom the Obama administration deigns to give a real trial in a real court, the President has the power to continue to imprison them indefinitely even if they are acquitted at their trial. About this assertion of “presidential post-acquittal detention power” — an Orwellian term (and a Kafka-esque concept) that should send shivers down the spine of anyone who cares at all about the most basic liberties — Ackerman wrote, with some understatement, that it “moved the Obama administration into new territory from a civil liberties perspective.”
Law professor Jonathan Turley was more blunt: “The Obama Administration continues its retention and expansion of abusive Bush policies — now clearly Obama policies on indefinite detention.” […]
I cannot express how disgusted I am. Read the entire thing, if you have the stomach for it.
Right Wing nonsense, and this time it’s not coming from Texas
1 JulMorality and Economics « Texas Freedom Network
Texas clearly doesn’t have a monopoly on right-wing nonsense. At least we aren't alone…
Sirota says exactly what I have been thinking
6 JunObama’s trail of broken promises
The prophet of hope now doesn’t even bother with explanations when he reneges on his campaign pledges.
[…] We once respected democracy by at least demanding explanations — however weak — for unfulfilled promises. Then we became a country whose scorched-earth campaigns against flip-flopping desensitized us to reversals. Now, we don’t flinch when our president appears tickled that a few poor souls still expect politicians to fulfill promises and justify broken ones. […]
I am so disappointed in this man that I can’t even express it. I’m glad David Sirota is there to do it for me.
Finally, we are hearing some truth from politicians…
5 AprDrug-fueled madness! | Salon
Our nation’s narcotics policy, that is. But there’s good news as Hillary Clinton and Sen. Jim Webb take baby steps toward sanity.
[…] Though President Barack Obama childishly laughed at a question about legalization during his recent town hall meeting, his government implicitly admits that marijuana is safer than light beer. Indeed, as federal agencies acknowledge alcohol’s key role in deadly illnesses and domestic violence, their latest anti-pot fear mongering is an ad campaign insisting — I kid you not — that marijuana is dangerous because it makes people zone out on their couches and diminishes video-gaming skills.
(This is your government on drugs: Cirrhosis and angry tank-topped lushes beating their wives are more acceptable risks than stoners sitting in their basements ineptly playing “Halo.” … Any questions?) […]
The truth? Prohibition fails. Always. It creates a violent black market for that which is prohibited. Telling someone they can’t have something, no matter what, simply makes that thing more desirable.
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