Embassy attack
Update 11 AM Central: Mitt’s cynical ploy is starting to blow up in his smirking over-privileged face. Romney was already a touch behind in most polls, in retrospect this may turn out to be the day...
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Anyday now they’ll start calling us angry
When the pampered Wall Street CEO class nuked the economy, shown by the red-colored needle shaped drop in corporate profits just before 2010, it was US wage earners who rode to their rescue, securing...
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Boehner takes the bait
The annual bleg Speaker John Boehner is not a stupid man. Which is why political junkies are wondering aloud what he was up to with a highly unpopular, rather crazy counter proposal to avoid the fiscal...
View ArticleThe People’s Insurance Company & the Great Bailout Caper
We the People have sold our last shares in the American Insurance Group or AIG. While there were many firms that contributed to the Great Recession, AIG was arguably the number one culprit in sinking...
View ArticleThe Village on the Beltway
Unlike most of my progressive digital riff-raff buddies, I generally give the Beltway media a pass. Yes the news celebrity centered part of it can be annoying or worse, but the bulk of “the beltway...
View ArticleAnother conservative switches teams on marriage equality
It’s funny how knowing someone affected by your laws and traditions, and your bigoted prejudicial medieval mindset, makes all the difference eh? Sen. Rob Portmam (R-OH) found out recently he had a son...
View ArticlePope washes ‘controversial’ feet: Geller & usual suspects will get right on...
A few headlines across the nut-o-sphere read variations on Catholics angered over Pope’s choice of his foot washing … person. Here’s the nut of the angst: Artesia News – Pope Francis has won over many...
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Muscle car 2013
We all have our weaknesses, one of mine happens to be muscle cars. Which over my fifty year lifetime has always meant oil-powered carbon-spewing road monsters. But it doesn’t have to be that way, and...
View ArticleMarx’s revenge
I’ve always thought the communists made a big mistake, especially the Soviets. Well, they made a bunch of mistakes in retrospect, not the least of which included the transfer of power. That was never...
View ArticleNice diary on capitalism
I enjoyed this diary because it had two important info age features: it was short and informative. This part was well written especially and it brings up something — a way corporations are exploiting...
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Mission accomplished and then some, no further help needed!
DONE, FINISHED, NO MONEY NEEDED! Should take you to my paypal page, if not my paypal email is darksydothemoon [break-remove]-’at’-aol-dot-com name Steve Andrew. Physical address available on request...
View ArticleGod’s grace and wingnut stupidity puts Sanford back in power
There’s a certain segment of people who are allowed to succeed no matter how badly they fail. Wall Street CEOs come to mind. But one such sector is found among the leadership of the evangelical right,...
View ArticleMoney doesn’t kill people, Austerity kills people
In most any civilized space-time that headline would be unassailable. Remove or reduce food, shelter, and medical care, and more people die. Some get so depressed by facing all of that, they choose the...
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Another reason to love Twitter
Wasn’t there an episode of Seinfeld where the sleazy ambulance chasing lawyer paradied the OJ trial and berated Kramer for allowing the defense to get ahold of a key piece of evidence? Something...
View ArticleYour good ole day guide to marital bliss
Update: Bruce notes in comments that Snopes says it’s likely fabricated but still expresses many such sentiments common at that time. Via the Stephanie Miller show I heard this 1955 guide to marriage,...
View ArticleLet’s put scandals & austerity in crystal clear context
A trillion dollars blown on a non-existent threat, by the party that now whines non-stop about big government waste, a huge chunk of which went to the firm where VP Cheney was the most recent CEO. And...
View ArticleWho could have possibly predicted one party lies more than the other?
The media will no doubt shocked, shocked I tell ya, that a scientific analysis comparing apples to apples has definitively determined one party lies far more than the other. Take a wild guess who won...
View ArticleWoops, Dallas Teaparty let’s it rip
Via the Houston Chronicle, Battlefield Texas is making the GOP nervous, so they had a big wig come up and speak in the conservative enclave of Dallas-Plano. Here’s what one person said afterwards about...
View ArticleHouse Republicans: Restore defense spending or the sick kids get it!
House Conservatives love those missiles and mangled bodies so much they’re willing to sacrifice US children and life saving technology to get some more. Here’s the latest shenanigan: TPM – House...
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Here’s what “fair and balanced” looks like in graphic form
There’s a lot of lessons that can be learned from this. The most obvious being that if only sexual assaults in the military were blamed on Obama, Fox would be all over them. I’m actually surprised...
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