One thing we need to get straight… the media is not “failing us”.    Failure indicates an honest effort to do something that was somehow prevented from happening by circumstances beyond our control.  In the case of the mainstream media in this country and what used to be it’s mandate to inform the people of the [...]

Fox News Swindles The Tea Party Next time some RW friend or Fox News viewer hits you with that totally discredited ” Half of American households pay no taxes ” routine, just give him the url to this Article by Derek Thompson @ The Atlantic: 47% of Tea Partiers Pay No Federal Income Taxes! and ask him if he [...]

Reductio ad absurdum is a form of argument in which a proposition is disproven by following its implications logically to an absurd consequence and there is nobody in America today who can do this better than Jon Stewart and Stephen Colbert. It was no accident… nor was it just backlash against the mewling and pandering [...]

I’ve never made a secret of my absolute hate and loathing for this pitiful shell of a human being. The man is totally devoid of any quality or trait that makes a human being a human being. He has many times been called “Evil Incarnate” which doesn’t do justice to his utter depravity and disdain [...]

I’m going to step out of my usual little rant zone to address what I consider the absolute duplicity of the US Government in finding a way to break yet another promise to the American people… a promise made by an administration that displays considerably more talent for making promises than it does for keeping [...]

One thing the Republicans have certainly succeeded in… they’ve managed to split the Democrats to the point that even when they win, they’ve lost. All the left wing pundits keep tittering and teeheeing about the “split between “traditional” or “mainstream” Republicans and their radical fringes, but the point is that when push comes to shove [...]

Rick Perry starts walking it back. Nine months ago This Neanderthal goober published a book.  Nothing new… all Republican politicians and pundits publish books.  Note that I did not say anything about WRITING books.  I seriously doubt that the ability of most of these people’s ability to string words together in some kind of coherent [...]

Perry has decided to glom onto  what I consider to be the lamest GOP talking point… lie…of the bunch. He’s quoted in this  Ruth Marcus Op Ed piece from a few days ago as saying, ” We’re dismayed at the injustice that nearly half of all Americans don’t even pay any income tax .” Now, let’s assume for [...]

Wikipedia:  The Presidential Medal of Freedom is an award bestowed by the President of the United States and is—along with the comparable Congressional Gold Medal bestowed by an act of U.S. Congress —the highest civilian award in the United States . It recognizes those individuals who have made ” an especially meritorious contribution to the security or national interests of the United States, world peace, [...]

There’s a message in this somewhere but you know what?  The people who need most to get that message… won’t. Cue outraged screams of denial in 3-2-1…

In an op-ed article in the New York Times, Robert D. Putnam, a professor of public policy at Harvard, and David E. Campbell, a political scientist at Notre Dame, [...]

Here is what the Obama campaign, via New Mexico state campaign director, Ray Sandoval, decided to share with its supporters earlier this month , from Amanda Terkel at Huffington Post:

Paul Krugman is a political rookie. At least he is when compared to President Obama. That’s why he unleashed a screed as soon as word came about the [...]

Pic stolen from Bart.  Don’t know where he stole it.

Might be info worth saving as we watch this bunch do their “work”. It’s the second donor category I find most interesting. I also wonder why contributions from “Democratic/Liberals are shown in Category 1 and nothing from “Republican/Conservatives but at least you can get an idea of who owes who what. From Today’s maplight.org email [...]

Of the many wounds being inflicted on the country by our ultra right wingers, I think their propensity for spending our sons and daughters, husbands and wives like chump change in wars to make themselves and their corporate masters richer and refusing to do anything to help them afterward certainly ranks high on any list [...]

You do know that’s what you are, right?  When it comes to things financial or economic, you have been programmed to do one thing above all others, no matter if the world is falling into ruin around you… and that’s spend.  It’s been instilled into you almost from birth and if America’s advertising industry… a [...]