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    Put This in Your Bailout Pipe and Smoke it.

    In the end this peasant will probably get the short end of the stick, but maybe she will get lucky and receive some leniency from the King.  And who knows, maybe this is the beginning of a debtor’s revolt and a new movement.  Reminds me of burning draft cards in the 60’s.  We could have demonstrations where everyone burns their [...]



    New Nationalism Speech – Teddy Roosevelt History Lesson

    Mt. Rushmore, Theodore Roosevelt closeup. Image via Wikipedia

    Since the 1980s (when I worked for Eastern Airlines, which no longer exists due to deregulation fever) we as a people have amnesia when it comes to the lessons that history teaches us.  Regulations did not just magically appear one day.  They were derived from the wisdom that came about from the mistakes of the past.  Reagan [...]



    Chomsky on Geithner (and some Colbert Comedy)

    Noam Chomsky on the economy and democracy Pt2

    Noam Chomsky on the economy and democracy Pt3

    Stephen’s Angry Mob Will Crush AIG (click to show/hide Colbert video)

    The government can’t stop AIG but Stephen’s angry mob will crush these punks. He pulls out his pitchfork and gets the audience on his side. [...]



    another crappy week in crapistan

    Sorry for the lack of posts — L. came down with something like the plague and has been coughing up bits of lung for about 5 days now, and yesterday woke up looking like he’d developed full-blown mumps overnight (either his lymph nodes are having a hard time with the virus or it’s a secondary bacterial infection). So, off to the urgent care and [...]



    heartbreaking

    As the mother of an only child, a son, this was a heart-wrenching piece to read.

    But every American needs to, because more than 4,000 sons, daughters, mothers, fathers, lovers, brothers and sisters have come home dead from these wars. For what? What have we accomplished?

    How cruel is life when your comfort lies in hugging your loved one’s casket?

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    Sign the Public Letter to President Obama

    GAZA, GAZA STRIP – NOVEMBER 25:

    Dear Mr. President,

    Last year, you were swept into office on the hopeful promise of redemptive change.  You inspired the nation by repeating the phrase, “together, we will change the world.”  For many Americans, your words were not merely the final lines of a campaign speech, but a call to action for a new historical moment.

    Nowhere is [...]



    ratcheting up the pressure

    I assume these recent speeches by Obama are intended to publicly call out Blue Dogs and Senate Republicans to get along and go along once the Economic Plan is presented. From today’s speech at George Mason University:

    This crisis did not happen solely by some accident of history or normal turn of the business cycle, and we won’t get out of it by simply waiting [...]



    Pay to Play

    Blagojevich

    That’s how it works in America.  Want a Senate seat?  What are you going to give me in return.  He is just playing the game the way it’s played.  Right?

    In the transcripts, on 3 November Mr Blagojevich said the seat was a “[expletive] valuable thing, you just don’t give it away for nothing”.

    The day after the presidential election, according to the affidavit, Mr Blagojevich [...]

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