It’s in vogue to hate the deficit. We all want to slash it, and nobody wants anything to do with programs that add to it. Yet no one wants to be honest about what we REALLY need to do to decrease it. Check out the chart below: The biggest offenders of deficit busting are Defense, [...]
Entries from March 31st, 2010
Do Americans Really Want To Cut The Deficit? Not Really.
March 31st, 2010 · No Comments · america, Democracy, News, Politics
Tags: deficit·Economy·Government·taxes
Fox News And Sarah Palin Are A Perfect Match
March 31st, 2010 · No Comments · Comedy, News, Politics, Republicans
They’re both hypocritical frauds. I guess this type of thing really lends credibility to Sarah Palin’s news show doesn’t it? Maybe it’s an April Fool’s joke.
Tags: Fox News·sarah palin
Thank You Common Sense…
March 30th, 2010 · No Comments · america, Democracy, News, Political Fringe, Racism, Republicans
There you have it: I hear GOP folks and Tea Partiers bemoaning the fact that media and Democrats are using the extremes of their movement for ratings and to score points. This is like Drew Brees complaining that Dwight Freeney keeps trying to sack him. If that were Martin Luther King’s response to media coverage, [...]
Love And The Tree Of Life
March 30th, 2010 · 1 Comment · Off Topic
(Editor’s note: This is the third part in a three part arc on the tenets of happiness) Love is life. Love is a brilliant sheen, glossily shining in the eyes of lovers– of families yearning to see their loved ones– and dreamers hoping to find and claim its shine for their own. Like hope and [...]
Tags: family·grandmother·love·tree of life
Caller Complains About Too Many Black Callers
March 29th, 2010 · No Comments · Politics, Racism, Republicans
Maybe C-SPAN should change it’s name to BLACK-SPAN. Discuss amongst yourselves. I’m too busy tying up the C-SPAN phone lines.
Tags: Conservatives·Politics·Racism
Inside The Health Debate: In Georgia, Politics May Prevail Over Policy
March 29th, 2010 · 1 Comment · america, Democracy, Democrats, Elections, Health Care, News, Politics, Republicans
Sonny Perdue is the republican governor of the state of Georgia. Perdue is at the tail end of his second and final term in the statehouse. His administration is presiding over a fiscal crisis–one with steep prolonged budget cuts– that are destined to cripple the state’s services and economy for the foreseeable future. But Perdue [...]
Tags: attoney general·federal government·Governor·Health Care·health care reform·lawsuit·Politics·Sonny Perdue·Supreme Court·Thurbert Baker
Hate Speech In Action: Threats, Lies, And Audio Tape
March 26th, 2010 · 1 Comment · america, Democracy, Democrats, News, Political Fringe, Republicans
Here are some of America’s finest thinkers, protesting the only way they know how: Congressman Bart Stupak, (D-MI) Watch CBS News Videos Online –Congressman Harry Mitchell (D-AZ) received a rambling, threatening email from a woman who said she was “so filled with rage that she warned the congressman to ‘watch his back’ and called for [...]
Tags: Congress·Health Care·threats·violence
UPDATE: Man Who Mocked And Tossed Money At Parkinsons Victim Identified
March 25th, 2010 · No Comments · america, Democracy, Health Care, News, Political Fringe
Remember this despicable display? The piece of trash who tossed dollar bills has been identified as Chris Reichert of Victorian Village, Ohio. Per Wonkette: The now-adult turd, “Chris Reichert of Victorian Village,” bravely wasted many days after the videotaped display of insane rage denying that he had, in fact, heckled and then tossed a few [...]
The Power Of Conservative Thinking
March 25th, 2010 · No Comments · america, Democracy, Politics, Republicans, Uncategorized
Conservatism, if it means anything, is a resistance to ideology and the world of ideas ideology represents, whether that ideology is a function of the left or the right. It seems as if modern conservative thinking is rooted in fighting an unending war based upon ideological grounds. Every thought, impulse, and action is coated in [...]
Tags: cilvil rights·Conservatives·histriy·liberals·republican
