Though we lost this genuine American hero in January 2010, his words on Obama are right on the money even now. This video is short, but certainly worthwhile.
Here's what our fake Democratic President had to say when pressed to disassociate himself from comments Leon Panetta made about cutting Social Security and Medicare in order to fund the fucking Pentagon:
There is much to be said of the deceptive and dishonest speech the President delivered to the country tonight regarding the withdrawal of a small portion of the massive American army permanently stationed in Afghanistan. But one point is pivotal and it is this: in order to assuage soft minds, in order to mollify those who fervently wish to believe in their leader and that he intends to end the war in Afghanistan he knowingly and deliberately decieved the public and he did so with the full and enthusiastic assistance of the corporate media. The President tonight led people to believe that
The media paroxysms began last night just before the late local news programs were to begin. Since that time we have gotten very little substantive information that one could say really sheds any light on how the US finally was able to locate and kill Osama Bin Laden.
The pathological power grab that Governor Mussolini in Wisconsin and his fellow travelers have so desired has been carried out. They could not wait any longer to strike at the unions. They saw that their original strategy was working inexorably against them and they had little time. The Wisonsin Duce didn't want to take the heat for all the layoffs he promised if his union busting provisions weren't approved so, like any bully who is about to lose the game he kicked the board across the room and demanded a do over. They rammed the unions busting provisions through the Senate and hope to
I watch in amazement as the Republican right seizes more power by the day which is what neo fascists do in preparation for the full blown fascist abuses of power they inevitably will attempt. With each passing day we watch as our brother and sister workers in Wisconsin fight valiantly to preserve the right to collective bargaining as though this was their fight alone when that clearly is not the case.
I find it really interesting watching the range of reaction both by officials in America and by various voices in the media. It's as though history has no lessons and there are no reasons why the kinds of uprising we see in Egypt might happen and if there are such reasons they certainly don't involve the United States.
I've Been watching State of the Union Speeches since LBJ was President. Never have any of them been so inadequate to the moment.
Our President and the rest of the leaders of our country have failed us all and miserably so. Worse than everything else is how badly our elites are failing our children.
Hats off America to Senator Bernie Sanders of Vermont who is trying his damndest to save the country and stop the rotten deal the Republicans and Obama are trying to foist upon the nation!
I urge one and all to call his office in Washington or in Vermont and literally voice your support for his effort to save the New Deal from it's longtime enemies and from the corporate/centrist Democrats.
Now I hate to think sometimes how long I've been around and paying attention to national politics but it has been one helluva long time. I've seen a lot of water go under the bridge. I've seen politicians pull just about every trick in the book and as a result I've developed a pretty damn good nose for when I'm being hornswaggled, bamboozled and otherwise lied to by the braying asses we send to Washington DC to look out for the nation's interests. Now is one of those times. But this is a time that will stand out because it is a pivotal moment for the natio
Sometimes I wonder how gullible most Democrats really are and since we elected President Obama I've wondered that a whole helluva lot more than usual. Time after time in recent years the Democrats manage, no matter what, to snatch defeat from the jaws of victory, to come back with half a loaf of rotten bread when they had set out with plenty of money to get a whole loaf and each time they do most of the media, average citizens, typical active Democrats, and even bloggers are left scratching their heads as to how it could be that when the task seemed so clear
I attended graduate school at Rutgers. Just a few minutes ago, to my great shock and horror, I ran across this news article running at philly.com. It is difficult for me to grasp the kind of cruelty it would take to do this to someone. I am just so horrified by this news it is difficult to express fully the range of emotions I feel for this young man and his family.
May God forbid that such a monsterous, sick act of sadistic humiliation ever happen again to anyone.
Godspeed to Tyler Clementi, to his family and to his friends.
I think I first saw George Carlin when I was about 10 on the Ed Sullivan show. It was before he grew the long hair and showed the audience who he was and what he believed in. I can't think of many people in our celebrity culture who had the staying power he had. Nor can I think of many who had such a loyal and grateful following.
I watched Stephen Colbert's opening statement today on Capitol Hill and it was, as usual, very funny. In my opinion the man is a genius at satire. He skewered all the hypocrites in both parties and in the media without fear or favor (as usual) while standing beside and standing up for the lowly migrant farmworkers. Farmworkers are people who are nearly powerless in our country because they have no legal rights. They and those who came before them have been exploited mercilessly, brutally treated, grossly underpaid and ultimately physically broken by the extreme working conditions that a
The right wing authoritarian Republican Nominee for US Senate in Delaware shown above. Over the past 40-50 years we have seen American right wing extremism and authoritarianism grow from a tiny, isolated, and reviled but committed faction to a...
The right wing authoritarian Republican Nominee for US Senate in Delaware shown above.
Teabaggers of 2010 above. Teabaggers of the past below. And no, this is not exaggerating the case at all. Make no mistake, today's Teabaggers are the direct descendants of the right wing, racist whites of the past. The only...
