THE MOST SEVERE FAMINE EVER? F*ck American conservatives! Just f*ck the rotten murdering bastards. My wife is Filipino. A main food staple for the Philippines is rice. What we pay to buy food for her family back home has tripled in the last six months. People are now starving to death in the Philippines. Mainly homeless people now, but people nonetheless. Sure beggars are still allowed to beg, but doing it no longer keeps them alive. They used to...
Economy
Dizzy’s Ten Post Round-Up
(Programming note: I’m going to keep the round-up, short and sweet. But, I will continue to post a video for the day and make my usual commentary on my own crazy blog.) Have cuppa? Prepare to traverse today’s Ten Post Round-Up: 1: Many Americans are avoiding movies and documentaries based on the Iraq War, regardless of their personal stand on the war, itself… Why Americans Are Tuning out the Disaster in Iraq–AlterNet 2: This just in: Presidential candidates are...
I am Bitter
I have to admit something here… I am bitter. I am bitter about the economy. And, I am bitter about the war. Barack Obama is right that people in this country are bitter. Where Barack Obama got it wrong however, was in drawing the condescending correlations that he did about small town and rual Americans, while talking to a group of wealthy donors in San Francisco. The thing is, people don’t “cling to guns or religion” because they are...
Saturday Round Up
I’m playing catch up this weekend and getting ready for another busy week. There’s a host of news I’d love to find the time to write about but instead I’m opting for a round up of links… Feel free to add more links worth sharing and reading in the comments below. What a mess… MSNBC reports that “an estimated quarter million travelers have been affected by American Airlines’ flight cancellations — about 3,100 of them since Tuesday, to be exact — across the country.”...
Iraq War Leading Cause of Economic Skid
In the Democratic Radio Address today, Rep. John Yarmuth of Kentucky linked the “costly” and “unpopular” Iraq war “with the growing economic troubles — some say recession — in this country.” Yarmuth noted that “the testimony this week of Gen. David Petraeus and Ambassador Ryan Crocker about the Iraq war served as reminder of the billions of dollars being poured into Iraq as the U.S. economy struggles.” “General Petraeus and Ambassador Crocker failed to offer a plan to change...
Retailers Post Weakest March Sales in 13 Years
A couple of days ago I noted here that most Americans are “glum” on economic progress in America. As a small business owner I keep my eye on the economic news and I have contended here long before the media began to speak more frankly about the economic state of our nation, that the economy sucks. Today, AP News reports: Sphere: Related Content
Dizzy’s Ten Post Round-Up
I’m on fire, right now, as I have a lot on my mind. I’m sure many of you are getting worked up about the same things that are sticking in my craw. Yet, when I try to express myself in a coherent fashion, it comes out on the page looking something like ”akjf;laghoehtoieWTFgj;akjoijfoidjAHHHH!” Of course, I “know” what it says, but it’s impossible to translate. I have plenty of time to think of these things, as I go about...
Glum
In the WaPo today, “Most Americans Glum on Financial Progress”:
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