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LinkedInI'm old enough to remember George Wallace, the segregationist (and frankly, blatantly racist) Democratic governor of Alabama in the early 1960s, who defiantly opposed the admission of blacks to Alabama's university system until President Kennedy forced the issue. Well, Wallace went on eventually to have a change of heart, and, I suspect, it was a sincere one, though his legacy remains tainted by his earlier stances against the civil rights movement. I am old enough, too, to remember Dr. King's "I have a Dream" speech in Washington DC, and they were words that would eventually change … [Read more...]
WHY I AM NOT CELEBRATING TODAY
July 4, 2012 By
Let's be frank, and honest. Our schools do not educate, they indoctrinate. They do not stimulate critical individual thought and analysis, they encourage conformity, and reward incompetence and stupidity. Our courts do not uphold justice, and clearly are co-opted, and are unable and/or unwilling to maintain the clear intention of the constitution. They throw poor people into privately owned prisons for smoking marijuana while the plutocriminals in the banks and corporations which perpetrated clear fraud in the mortgage crisis that led to the current financial mess walk free and get … [Read more...]
FLASH: SUPREME “COURT” UPHOLDS OBAMA “CARE”
June 28, 2012 By
By now you've probably heard that the US Supreme Court has upheld Obama care including the controversial mandate - that's the part where the government can now order you to buy something, a very dangerous precedent. Now I've never been a supporter of Dummycrookery, nor of this President, so, bear that in mind as I comment on my reaction. As I write this, I am listening to a relatively popular "conservative" talk show host rant about the fact that the Court was led by Chief (In)justice John Roberts, a Bush appointee; Roberts will in fact write the majority opinion. The host is acting like … [Read more...]
JON RAPPAPORT ON “CHOOSING” BETWEEN BULLETS OR FLAMETHROWERS
June 14, 2012 By
I recently blogged about sending the vote of no confidence in our oligarchical elitist-controlled sock puppet candidates. Well, here's a piece from John Rappaport that pretty much says the same thing. Enjoy: Arsenic or cyanide? … [Read more...]
HEAR HEAR???
April 27, 2012 By
Those of you who know me know that I'm bi-partisan, namely, that I loathe the Republithug and Dummycrook parties about equally, with perhaps a bit more loathing for the Dummycrooks, believe it or not, even though I have tended to show my disgust at the Republithugs more often than not here. But I have no love lost for the Dummycrooks either, the party that supported slavery, gave us the Federal Reserve, the Income Tax, and, lest we all forget, the doctrine of un-winnable wars(an idea that the Republithugs have made their own), and government intrusion into health care (thank LBJ for that) … [Read more...]
THE AMERIKAN BANANA REPUBLIC
March 7, 2012 By
Mr. V.T. shared this article with me, and I enjoyed it so much I had to share it here, not the least of which becuase I have been blogging the last few days about corruption of one sort or another, from everything including faked bonds in massive amounts, to ridiculous clams that human stem cells are drugs, to agribusiness and court cases. Well, Philip Giraldi has stated the case very well: Corruption and the Citizen, American-Style For me, the central points in Giraldi's insightful article are these: "So the question becomes, why do the American people put up with the venality and … [Read more...]
AGAINST THE FUNDAMENTALISMS OF THE LEFT AND RIGHT
January 24, 2012 By
This last week I've been rather unsparing in my criticism of certain Republithug candidates, and lest you think I do not have equal loathing for the Dummycrooks, I bring this article to your attention: Feds: Religious employers must cover the pill Cardinal-designate Dolan is correct: when the government interferes with the teachings of a religion, when those teachings are not directly threatening to that government in any way, then it has crossed the line. Forcing the Roman Catholic Church to comply with laws in contradiction to its teaching is a slippery slope indeed, and opens the door … [Read more...]