The Gallup poll released today showed conservatives were the bigggest group with 40% describing themselves as conservative.  The Gallup poll always shows this.  It has more to do with how "liberal" has been stigmatized than anything else.  For example, 70% of the voting population want… Read full post »

We're fortunate to live in America

The Republican Party believes that the United States has been blessed with a unique set of individual rights and freedoms available to all.

Unless you happen to be gay, need an abortion, don't think creationism should be taught in biology class, or are "liberal" in… Read full post »

Gregg Harper made a vague threat to the majority of Americans in a recent interview when he said he, and other members of  Congressional Sportsmen's Caucus, "... hunt liberal, tree-hugging Democrats, although it does seem like a waste of good ammunition."  I suppose if he hadn't made the cr… Read full post »

Reuters and Seekingalpha .com blogger, Rolfe Winkler  reflects a worrisome trend in financial negativism.  Winker dances around the edge of the volcano in his latest piece.  He argues "....growth in spending... is no longer possible without incremental borrowing. We&rsqu… Read full post »

A lot of supplyside pundits are declaring "cash for clunkers" a failure.   Despite the fact that the  program boosted sales of cars, removed clunkers from our roads and provided a much needed shot of money into the auto industry, especially the dealerships where sales had fallen o… Read full post »

Once again the corporate schills in American media,  have chosen to ignore multi-billion dollar crimes and try to focus our rage on ACORN. As I have mentioned in previous posts, ACORN is the soft target for the corporate press.  As a large, decentralized organization, it is susesptible to p… Read full post »

Remember January 2009? Even vaguely?  It was only a few short months ago, that supplysiders like Lawrence Kudlow were blaming a 2000 point slide in the Dow Jones average on President elect Barack Obama.  The markets, the common wisdom went, were going down because of a lack of confidence in… Read full post »

Am I missing something here?  Right now we have a system where if an illegal uninsured immigrant gets injured, he goes to the emergecny room and gets treated, where if he can't pay the bills, the hospital incurs a loss.

 We want to replace this with a system where illegal immigrants… Read full post »

God forbid, the right wingers of this country should have the slightest clue what our history actually is.  To hear people like Glenn Beck tell it, our country was founded on some kind of  every man for himself anarchy,  where the constitution was written to protect us from the politic… Read full post »

It was hot, burning hot, when they shoved her in the cage. She was confused.  Her thoughts were disorganized.  She found it hard to speak,  and when she did, a wilted word salad tossed itself between the words  she wanted to say.  She caught a glimpse of  the s… Read full post »

 Mother Jones reported today, "Marcia Powell, a 48-year old inmate at Arizona’s Perryville Prison, was baked to death."  Ms. Powell was locked in a  roofless box in the prison yard for four hours with no water while the sun beat down on her and the air temperature soared to 108 s… Read full post »

Harvard Business School students recently wrote an ethics oath, which   asks the oath taker to commit to acting at all times with integrity and honesty.   Surprisingly, few MBA students nationwide have been willing to sign the oath.

The Daily Show lampooned this  by having Jo… Read full post »

Healthcare rationing is a difficult subject.  Ann Coulter and other right wing propagandists have accused Dr. Ezekiel Emmanuel of advocating allotting medical care based on "social usefulness".  This is, of course, a complete lie, so much else she makes up, and Dr. Emmanuel has completely r… Read full post »

I have been reading through all 1018 pages of HR 3200.  I have been searching for the section on death panels.  I have been looking for the language which shreds the constitution. I ain't found it yet and I'm  starting to think some o' them good ol' boys sent me on… Read full post »

Newt Gingrich added  another  pound of absurdity to Sarah Palin's death panel nonsense on TV today.  Gingrich warned Americans  "not to trust the government".   Where was he when the Bush administration was cooking intelligence and lying to the Americ… Read full post »

On the weekend of July 4th, I got shingles while sailing to the Channel Islands.  Shingles is a painful conditon, if you have it in your optic nerve like I did, it also causes vision problems.  I was essentially blind in one eye for over three weeks.  Thankfully,  there was no… Read full post »

The NY Times report cites an affadavit by Beth Jacobson who says the loan department target blacks for subprime loans and called the loans "ghetto loans".  Disgusting practices. Blacks were who qualified for prime loans were also pushed into subprime loans.  This demonstrates the power of s… Read full post »

At the best of times Glenn Beck comes off as an overly hormonal, weepy, sissie boy, of the worst kind, giving to flights of paranoid fanatasy that make his show a 21st century comedy of madness. But yesterday wasn't one of his best times.

 Glenn Beck had Harry Binswanger of the… Read full post »

I've lived in London and San Francisco and been in fogs so thick you couldn't see your hand in front of your face -pea soupers they're called--but nothing compares to the fog around truth that rises every time "national security" is invoked.

 President Obama opposes the release of  44 … Read full post »

I've lived in London and San Francisco and been in fogs so thick you couldn't see your hand in front of your face -pea soupers they're called--but nothing compares to the fog around truth that rises every time "national security" is invoked.

 President Obama opposes the release of  44 … Read full post »

PT Barnum's museum had signs that read "this way to the egress". Unaware that egress meant "exit" thousands of  patrons would run outside, only to find they had to pay to get in again.

Dick Cheney  and the Bush administration took advantage of the igorance and trust of American people,… Read full post »

Carrie Johnson at the Washington Post broke a story that former Bush Administration officials have been trying to water down an ethics report.  Talk about unclear on the concept.  Gaming a report doesn't make you ethical.  It's akin to cheating on your ethics final exam.  The… Read full post »

Have you noticed anything odd in the news recently?  Like a nearly constant stream of   nonsense about teaparties and teabagging?  This all started with a Fox News network, rightwing lobbyists and rightwing bloggers talking about it nonstop.

It's amazing President Obama and Congre… Read full post »

Conventional wisdom has it that John Stewart handed Jim Cramer his head on a platter, albeit somewhat reluctantly, since, as Stewart pointed out, he was really attacking the Wall Street BS machine that is CNBC.  One of the reasons I dumped my cable package in favor of downloading was that I… Read full post »

With the recent apology of Michael (rusted) Steele to Rush Limbaugh, it should be clear that Mr. Limbaugh enjoys an exalted position in the Republican party. It is obvious the reason is because the base listens to him like mesmerized sheep being serenaded by a wolf.

Mr. Limbaugh is a propagandist… Read full post »