I need to give you the thesis that I’m going to be carrying around the USA this summer: We are at a crucial crossroads of history. We are about to lose home rule (via anonymous and onymous outside “contributions”); we are about to lose self-governance (ditto) and we are about to lose a free press in favor of a corporate P.R. press (ditto) that serve unseen plutocratic masters who care not a damn about us.
Republican presidential candidate, former Utah Governor Jon Huntsman took a swipe at at Texas Governor Rick Perry’s “criticisms of Federal Reserve Chairman Ben Bernanke saying that Perry risks being dismissed by voters as someone not “serious on the issues.”" Huntsman’s not the only one who thinks Rick Perry doesn’t have a chance… Via a Facebook friend: Contrary to Perry’s claims, God is apparently not endorsing Rick Perry for president. Sphere: Related Content
Via Think Progress: CAUGHT ON TAPE: Bank Of America’s Director Of Public Policy Tells Rick Perry ‘We’ll Help You Out’: Unbelievable (but not) hubris… Politico has the defense. It just sounds like so much more than the defense in my opinion. Sphere: Related Content
The Tea Party, mutant spawn of the Republicans, held their spineless parents and the nation hostage during the debt ceiling crisis, and is now demanding an even greater ransom. Flushed with what they mistakenly believe is success, they have launched an all-out assault upon the presidency. Their generals, fattened by Iowa corn and midway schmaltz, are Michele Bachmann, Rick Perry, Rick Santorum, and Herman Cain. Sarah Palin, hovering near the battlefields to soak up the media sunlight, much like...
Although President Obama plans to lay out a new jobs-creation strategy after the Labor Day holiday, one prominent House Democrat isn’t waiting. Rep. Dennis Kucinich of Ohio has begun urging his colleagues to support his National Emergency Employment Defense Act, which a statement from his office says is a “dramatic, new, concrete plan to get Americans working again, rebuild our crumbling infrastructure and to take control of our monetary policy from private banks to promote the public interest.” “It...
This is a great photo of our president having fun with school kids who stood on the side of the road holding “We (heart) Obama” and “Honk if you’re the president” signs… Via AP News: In this Aug. 15, 2011, photo, after posing for a photo kids from day camp help President Barack Obama to his feet in Chatfield, Minn. The surprise stop came about after Obama trip director Marvin Nicholson, traveling at the front of the motorcade, radioed...
The Wisconsin legislative recalls are now history, and although Democrats fell short in their quest to retake control of the state senate, they can boast of having won a majority of the special races. Two state Democrats successfully defended their seats Tuesday night in the final recall elections in the Badger State. “These two wins mean Democrats have officially won a majority of the Wisconsin recall campaigns. Democrats won five out of the nine recall races, including several in...
We are more the slaves of our language and symbols than their master, and this constant conditioning creates loyalties, fears, attractions and a thousand other effects that we are generally unaware of, but which are real nonetheless. Why else would they spend so much money seeing what "turns on" the amygdala if it didn't work? And there is a symbolic portion of our brains that refuses to vanish. We are powerfully affected by symbols and metaphor. Why else would so...
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