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    Among the rich you will never find a really generous man even by accident. They may give their money away, but they will never give themselves away; they are egotistic, secretive, dry as old bones. To be smart enough to get all that money you must be dull enough to want it.
    G.K. Chesterton

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    paging julie brown

    Article by missy on April 14th, 2009 at 3:54 pm

    I spent the first 20 years of my life in FL, and being blonde and fair-skinned, it shows. I am freckled from head to toe (at least those parts that have ever seen the sun), and have what is charmingly called “trucker’s arm” — my left arm, in particular, is criss-crossed with little superficial hard spots called actinic keratosis.

    So, like every other [...]

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    New Nationalism Speech – Teddy Roosevelt History Lesson

    Article by John on April 2nd, 2009 at 7:32 am

    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 [...]

    Category: Corporate control, Dept. of just Sayin', Economic justice, Human rights, Labor | Click HERE to chime in! | | Share/Save |


    merit pay ain’t the way

    Article by missy on March 11th, 2009 at 11:04 am

    There is no question that Barack Obama will be a better president for the state of education in this country than George “is our children learning” Bush could ever hope to be, and almost anything would be better than Bush’s odious, expensive, top-heavy and radically stupid No Child Left Behind.

    That being said, merit pay is just another Republican red herring and should be round-filed along [...]

    Category: Bush crime family, Culture, Economic justice, Education, Fiscal policy, Labor, Money Party, Obama, President Barack H, Republicans | Click HERE to chime in! | | Share/Save |


    Why Isn’t Simon Johnson the Treasury Secretary?

    Article by John on February 15th, 2009 at 8:37 pm

    This is the most succinct explanation I have come across of where we are at and of what to do with regard to the financial crisis affecting our country.  I hope Obama and Congress are listening.  From Bill Moyers Journal (you can watch the video here):

    February 13, 2009

    BILL MOYERS: Welcome to the Journal.

    The battle is joined as they say — and here’s the [...]

    Category: Congress, Economic justice, Ethics, Fiscal policy, Obama, President Barack H | 3 comments - Click HERE to chime in! | Show Discussion | Share/Save |


    Moeller Speech Accepting Deputy Speaker Pro Tempore

    Article by John on January 16th, 2009 at 5:55 pm

    From Rep. Jim Moeller:

    The House of Representatives nominates and elects a Speaker, a Speaker Pro Tempore, and a Deputy Speaker Pro Tempore. I was proud this week to be re-elected Deputy Speaker Pro Tempore. If you have the time, I would like to invite you to listen to my acceptance speech. I believe that my words convey my approach to being a legislator, [...]

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    ratcheting up the pressure

    Article by missy on January 8th, 2009 at 10:03 am

    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 [...]

    Category: Congress, Corporate control, Economic justice, Fiscal policy, Obama, President Barack H | 1 comment, Click HERE to chime in! | Show Discussion | Share/Save |


    my obama-topia

    Article by missy on November 5th, 2008 at 11:26 am

    I just heard on the radio that that DLC quisling Rahm Emanuel is Obama’s likely choice for Chief of Staff. Crap.

    While my opinion doesn’t mean squat, here’s my dream cabinet, which includes promoting FEMA back to cabinet level (and taking it out of Dept. of Homeland Security):

    Department of Agriculture: Senator Tom Harkin
    Department of Commerce: Rep. Peter DeFazio, D-Oregon
    Department of Defense: General Wesley Clark
    Department of [...]

    Category: Fiscal policy, Foreign policy, Gov Acctability, Healthcare, Human rights, Labor, Military, Obama, President Barack H, Reproductive Rights, Tax Policy, Torture | 1 comment, Click HERE to chime in! | Show Discussion | Share/Save |


    hulk bad

    Article by missy on October 27th, 2008 at 3:33 pm

    Hulk convicted:

    Sen. Ted Stevens, R-Alaska, was convicted on all seven charges of making false statements on Senate financial documents about gifts he received from contractor Bill Allen, oil services company VECO Corp., and others.

    Guilty, Guilty, Guilty, Guilty, Guilty, Guilty, Guilty.

    I like the sound of that.

    How about you, Don Young?

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