The Republican candidates are out on the Old Washington Trail. It leads from Iowa to New Hampshire to the Carolinas, with stops in Nevada and other similarly insignificant places along the way. The costumes are atrocious, the tricks are many and the treats are, well, few and far between. But the missatements of fact…well…they are [...]
Entries Tagged as 'Culture'
Lies My Republican Candidates Told Me.
October 28th, 2011 · Comments Off · Culture, Politics, Populism, The Budget, Wall Street
Tags: Economics·Health Care·health care lobby·Herman Cain·lobbyists·Michele Bachmann·Mit Romney·Neoconservative obstruction·Neoconservative propaganda·Neoconservatives·Newt Gingrich·Politics·Republican campaign lies·Republican obstruction·Republican Party lies·Republican Presidential Campaign 2011 and 2012·Rick Perry·Right Wing Propaganda
OCCUPY AMERICA!
October 26th, 2011 · Comments Off · Capitalism, Culture, jobs, Labor, Politics, Populism, taxes, Wall Street
The last big show of Populist sentiment in this country was when the people of Wisconsin stood up against an oppressive Governor and a neo-Fascist Republican legislature who wanted to dismantle the state government, give away tens of millions of dollars in tax breaks to wealthy business owners, and pit one average middle class family [...]
Tags: Corporatism·health insurance industry·Neoconservative obstruction·Neoconservative propaganda·President's jobs bill·Right Wing·tax cuts for the rich·unemployment
The Post Office and Republican Treachery
September 30th, 2011 · Comments Off · Capitalism, Culture, Economics, Human Rights, Lobbying, Politics, Populism
Do you have a utility bill or a credit card bill that’s going to cost you extra if you don’t get it there on time? It costs you that because businesses like utilities and financial institutions make part of their income by doing things on time. You are asked, even warned, to make your payment [...]
Tags: Darryl Issa wants to close the Post Office·Neocons privatizing the post office·Republicans fighting unions·Republicans want to bring down the post office
The Parable of the Thieves
September 24th, 2011 · Comments Off · Culture, Politics, Populism
——————————————– 1-60-220 President, Senate, House of Representatives. Democratic in 2012 Nothing is more important, no matter who you are. Save America. ——————————————– When reason fails, people fall back on superstition. The American society has long worked under the rationale that hard work creates abundance and abundance may solve all our earthly ills. When that logic, [...]
Tags: Bush Plan to ruin America·Democracy·Neocon Anti-government actions·Neocons·Neoconservative obstruction·Republican obstruction·tea party
Why Bachmann Is More Dangerous than Al Qaeda or the Taliban
August 17th, 2011 · Comments Off · Culture, Politics, Populism
What is it about current Republican Presidential candidates? Can’t they find another Reagan? Maybe something simple like an actor is not a bad idea. What about Bruce Willis? How about Jon Voight? Why do we need kooks whom no one but the craziest of the crazies will vote for? An actor would be a suitable, [...]
Tags: evangelical fundamentalism·evangelical Lutherans·Marcus Bachmann's clinical practice·Michele Bachmann·Republican candidates·Right Wing ideology·Right Wing religion and politics·Tea Party Presidential candidate
Imported Americans — Part Two
February 17th, 2011 · Comments Off · Culture, Health Care, Human Rights, Politics, Populism
The turn of the century saw the African American as largely uneducated, not owning the place he lived, without education, working as a sharecropper or on a tenant farm or in some menial job. While the second half of the 20th Century would see major improvements in voting rights, job opportunities, social services and particularly [...]
Tags: Neocons·Neoconservatives·Right Wing·slavery·tea party·union-busting·wage slaves
Imported Americans — Part I
February 15th, 2011 · Comments Off · Culture, Health Care, Human Rights, Politics
We don’t talk much about our Imported Americans. Yes, they have been here almost as long as our Native Americans. They hold an equally sainted place in our memory, the long suffering, the noble, the faithful, the underpaid, abused and isolated. The genuine smile, the graceful politeness, the relaxed demeanor, tipping their hats to women…all [...]
Tags: Billionaire Tax Cuts·Neocons·slavery·the Old South·wage slaves·White Supremacy
Fair and Unbalanced
February 3rd, 2011 · Comments Off · Capitalism, Culture, Politics
People want us to be fair and impartial. Not seeing conspiracies behind every voting booth. So perhaps we can attempt to be fair and yet firm. That’s what we’ll be from now on. We’ll let the videos show you how preposterous are some of the statements by the talking heads. If you are perceptive, as [...]
Tags: Glenn Beck·Koch Industries·Neocon politics·neocon propaganda·Neoconservative politics·the Right Wing rich
Glenn Beck: Clown Prince of Propaganda
October 2nd, 2010 · 3 Comments · Corporations and Industry, Culture, Media, Politics
There is always a question whether or not to give any kind of attention to the show-off–the kid who acts out in class because he doesn’t get enough attention at home. The kid whom everyone shuns either withdraws into his shell or becomes the one who disrupts things for others. Not necessarily the funny kid, [...]
Tags: Fox News Channel·Glenn Beck·Glenn Beck and Right Wing Radio·Glenn Beck biography·Glenn Beck politics·Glenn Beck's Restoring America rally·Neoconservative Glenn Beck
One Nation Rally. October 2, 2010, the National Mall, Washington D.C.
September 30th, 2010 · 9 Comments · Capitalism, Culture, Human Rights, jobs, Media, Politics, Populism
If you can attend, it is this weekend. It will be the biggest event on the Mall in many years, a very large number of organizations, including the many various state chapters of the Democratic Party will be busing in people to the Mall for this assembly. It is both significant and also important that as [...]
Tags: Democratic Rally in Washington on Oct 2·One Nation March on Washington on Oct 2nd·One Nation Rally. October 2·Progressive Rally in Washington on Oct 2·Union rally in Washington on October 2
Tinker, Tailor, Soldier….Muslim?
September 28th, 2010 · 1 Comment · Culture, International affairs, Politics, Populism, wars and militarism
Are American Muslims here only to spy on us? Are they inherently evil? Are they keeping deep dark secrets hidden in the bowels of the Mosques? The answer is….. Wait. Are we talking about the Muslims or the Catholics? A few years ago it was the secret papal rituals of the Catholics and their Agnus [...]
Tags: Islam·Mohammed·Mosque in New York City·Mosques in America·Muhammed·Muslim religion·Muslim terrorists·Muslims·religious tolerance·terrorists
Politics: Winning in Class Warfare — Part I
September 15th, 2010 · Comments Off · Capitalism, Culture, Human Rights, jobs, Media, Politics, Populism, taxes, Wall Street
In the early evening of a summer night in New York City, or Dallas or Los Angeles, or Miami, there is a slow, quiet movement of long, dark-windowed vehicles. They move quietly to centers of activity where bright lights outline the architecture and gowned women and men in expensive suits emerge, smiling and laughing. The [...]
Tags: austerity·billiionaires·Class warfare·Medicare·Neoconservatism·obstructionism·Social Security·tax breaks for the wealthy·taxes·the rich
The Grand Illusion
August 30th, 2010 · Comments Off · Corporations and Industry, Culture, Lobbying, Media, Politics
Part I – Looming disaster and how we got here The Tea Party Movement is neither a movement nor has it anything to do with the traditions of freedom represented by the American Revolution. It is in fact, ironically, about the impulse of an uneducated and badly led society to permit the restriction of its [...]
Tags: Americans for Prosperity·Dick Armey·FreedomWorks·Glenn Beck·Koch Industries·neocon·Neocons·tea party·tea party rallies·tea party rally
Restoring Honor? How About Restoring Sanity?
August 28th, 2010 · Comments Off · Corporations and Industry, Culture, Media, Politics, Wall Street
It is probably not a good idea to give any publicity to this inane plan of Glenn Beck’s to hold a “Restoring Honor” meeting at the Washington Mall but it is an appropriate starting point. Glenn Beck is probably the most vocal and radical–some, many, say crazy–commentator on the Obama Administration’s policies. He literally has [...]
Tags: Glenn Beck·Neocon Republican rally·Restoring Honor·Tea Party Washington rally·Washington rally
Ric Scott Strikes Again.
August 26th, 2010 · 2 Comments · Culture, Health Care, Politics
Ric Scott is the Republican nominee for Governor of the state of Florida. We have had times in this country when governors of states were some of the most reprehensible people one could imagine. We have had people like Orville Faubus of Arkansas who said that black children would go to school with white children [...]
Tags: candidates·Columbia-HCA scandal·health care lobbyist·Medicare fraud·medicare insurance fraud·Neocon candidates·Neocon scum·Neocons·Politics·Republican candidates·Ric Scott