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Wolf Blitzer says Michael Moore is Alone out there. Oh Boy!

By Ramona on Sat, 03/20/2010 - 9:31pm |
Wolf Blitzer just told Michael Moore he's pretty much alone out there when it comes to universal health care.  Moore said something like, "I don't think so, there are millions of people out there who are fighting for the same...
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Integrity, you out there? Is Honesty with you? Gonna be Gone Long?

By Ramona on Wed, 03/17/2010 - 9:41pm |
Today I watched a video clip showing some of Dick Armey's fine, upstanding Tea Partiers harassing a man sitting on the ground. The man has Parkinson's Disease, but is out there working hard for health care for everybody. They had to bend down to get in his face. One of the white-shirts threw dollar bills at him. Someone in the background shouted "Communist!" He sat quietly throughout it all, not because he knows his place, but because he knows he's right.
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Job fairs, census jobs, and--wouldn't you know? Nut jobs

By Ramona on Fri, 03/12/2010 - 2:19pm |
How many jobless people took in what those baboons were saying? What does it take to get those jobless, demoralized folks mad as hell? I know it's a struggle just to get through the day for millions of people these days, but, damn! Enough is enough. They're thumbing their noses at us, spitting in our faces, and, in the case of Tom Delay, grinning like Jack Nicholson in "The shining" while he's thumbing and spitting.
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No, really - The Sky is Falling!

By Ramona on Mon, 03/01/2010 - 12:54pm |
Even as the American economy shows tentative signs of a rebound, the human toll of the recession continues to mount, with millions of Americans remaining out of work, out of savings and nearing the end of their unemployment benefits. Economists...
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Breaking News! A People Person Discovered in Congress!

By Ramona on Thu, 02/25/2010 - 12:07pm |
It's the morning of the Day After Weiner Socks it to Congress, calling the Republicans a "wholly-owned subsidiary of the insurance industry", and the video is going viral--I can only hope.  I'm going to do my part today to pester...
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Square Deal, New Deal, Fair Deal, Raw Deal: What's it gonna be?

By Ramona on Thu, 02/18/2010 - 10:25pm |
Their strategy is to overwhelm us when we're looking the other way. They scatter divisive issues among us, like religion and communism and abortion and taxes and elusive presidential birth certificates and death sentences for our grandmothers, and while we're preoccupied with the stuff that makes us really, really mad, they rob us blind and revel in the spoils.
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False Labor: After Elaine Chao, You Owe Us

By Ramona on Fri, 02/12/2010 - 1:00pm |
Name me one Republican congressperson who backs the unions.  Name me one who has EVER backed the unions.  Now give me one good reason why any of us who support unions and equity in the work force should be hopeful...
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Maddow on the Repub Hypocrites and the Dem Chickenhearts: Priceless

By Ramona on Wed, 02/10/2010 - 1:58pm |
Just wanted to pass along the most incredible piece of responsible journalism I've seen in a long, long, LONG time.  Rachel Maddow is the Edward R. Murrow of our age.  The Republicans can have their Sarah Palin.  We have Rachel...
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Sarah Palin Tea Party Speech SIMULCAST: Surrender NOW

By Ramona on Sun, 02/07/2010 - 1:12pm |
Remember how much fun we had with those people? Are you thinking what I'm thinking? That it was all a clever ruse designed to put us off-guard until the actual Saturday-night Tea Party massacre?
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Help Needed: Heroes. Must relate well to Huddled Masses

By Ramona on Fri, 02/05/2010 - 11:05am |
Toward the end of my last blog, American Dreamer posted a Help Wanted ad:<blockquote>Help Wanted: inspiring, credible national spokesperson(s) to lead a nonviolent social movement that reflects widespread popular grievances in a vocabulary consonant with popular perceptions of what is...

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"Leave safety behind. Put your body on the line. Stand before the people you fear and speak your mind - even if your voice shakes. When you least expect it, someone may actually listen to what you have to say. Well-aimed slingshots can topple giants. And do your homework." . Maggie Kuhn

 

The cure for boredom is curiosity. There is no cure for curiosity.  Dorothy Parker

"Corporations have been enthroned and an era of corruption in high places will follow ... money power of the country will endeavor to prolong its reign by working upon the prejudices of the people until all wealth is aggregated in a few hands" - Abraham Lincoln

 

It has always seemed strange to me... the things we admire in men, kindness and generosity, openness, honesty, understanding and feeling, are the concomitants of failure in our system. And those traits we detest, sharpness, greed, acquisitiveness, meanness, egotism and self-interest, are the traits of success. And while men admire the quality of the first they love the produce of the second.-John Steinbeck

 

The moment you limit free speech it's not free speech. -Salman Rushdie

Biography

Ramona used to write nice feature pieces for newspapers and magazines, along with columns that, yes, got testy once in a while (Ronald Reagan was president. What could she do?) but were basically and overall nice.

But then. . .

. . .then came the hanky-panky and subsequent impeachment of Bill Clinton!  Then Bush v. Gore!  Hanging Chads!  Katherine Harris!  Supreme Court busy bodies! 9/11!  War with Iraq! (Iraq??)  The right wing!  The religious right!  The TEA PARTY, for God's sake!

Whatever she is today is the fault of all of the above.  She is not to blame.

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