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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 [...]

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    Chomsky on Geithner (and some Colbert Comedy)

    Article by John on March 28th, 2009 at 7:08 am

    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. [...]

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    We’re Stupid and We’re Fools

    Article by John on March 27th, 2009 at 5:32 am

    Cenk Uygur over at Huffpo sent me this story link this morning. 

    If you want to understand what is really going on re: the banking/wall street fiasco, read this article.  Here is an excerpt:

    The latest bailout came as AIG admitted to having just posted the largest quarterly loss in American corporate history — some $61.7 billion. In the final three months of last year, the [...]

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    what do politicians hate more than anything else?

    Article by missy on March 19th, 2009 at 11:01 am

    Doubt. Doubt = weakness, and weakness = electoral failure.

    So it’s a minor miracle when a politician reaches the right conclusion and, despite his doubts, acts on it:

    SANTA FE — The Bill Richardson who announced a repeal of the death penalty in New Mexico on Wednesday was not the same Bill Richardson who usually shows up for face time with the news media.

    The Richardson who [...]

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    time to name names and put the blame where it belongs

    Article by missy on March 18th, 2009 at 9:20 am

    On Hank Paulson’s bald head.

    When AIG started to become unwound last fall, who better to know just how much Goldman Sach’s own rape & pillage squad was going to depend on its AIG bad bet insurance than the former CEO, Paulson himself – and who else but the Treasury Secretary would be better positioned to make sure that at least his alma mater – if [...]

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    art alexakis saved my life

    Article by missy on March 17th, 2009 at 9:12 am

    Well, at least my craptastic week. Loud music with a strong dose of sardonic wit and a liberal sprinkling of profanity is often the only thing that will blow out the waxy plug of incipient depression that gets lodged between my ears about this time every year. (Missing last year’s X concert on March 28th as we flew to FL for L’s spring [...]

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    another crappy week in crapistan

    Article by missy on March 16th, 2009 at 8:21 am

    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 [...]

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    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 [...]

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