“Our lives and our livelihoods are all bound together,” he said. “We are one country! When greed runs amok on Wall Street it means lost jobs and shut stores on Main Street. We need to go back to basics where good jobs, not bad debts drive our growth, an economy where Wall Street is the [...]
Financial advisor Mike Donahue whines in the WSJ: “I have more than most only because I’ve worked harder than most and because I am a saver.” Personally, I have more than most because (a) I’m a saver and (b) I had the genetic good luck to be born extremely intelligent to upper-middle class parents who [...]
From French President Nicolas Sarkozy, speaking today at Columbia University: Welcome to the club of states who don’t turn their back on the sick and the poor….The very fact that there should have been such a violent debate simply on the fact that the poorest of Americans should not be left out in the streets [...]
“We have shot an amazing number of people, but to my knowledge, none has ever proven to be a threat,” said Gen. Stanley A. McChrystal, who became the senior American and NATO commander in Afghanistan last year. His comments came during a recent videoconference to answer questions from troops in the field about civilian casualties. [...]
Kenneth Gareau wrote: The countries of the world should tell China, since they have full control over their people, that any cyber espionage will be met with cancellation of any national debt held by China for every intrusion traced back to them. March 28, 2010 12:32 AM GMT From a comment via Chinese city is [...]
A very large number of Retirees and Seniors on Medicare and Social security are relieved now! The new benefits of the health care reforms Law will provide a long awaited relief. There is no doubt that after Medicare, this is a land mark bill for Seniors. President Obama and Democrats deserve kudos and congratulations for [...]
I would just like to remind all the screaming, hysterical Republicans out there that if Obamacare really reduces you to living in caves and eating grass as you predict, then Sarah Palin will sweep to victory in 2012 and she can repeal it (assuming she can spell “repeal”)… Oh wait, no, John Boehner already announced [...]
…let’s face historical reality: the GOP has been on the wrong side of EVERY major issue for the past 100 years, at least since TR’s administration. They opposed American participation in the League of Nations; their pro-Wall Street policies in the 20′s produced the Great Depression; they then opposed every effort to reduce the consequences [...]
Eventually he realized it wasnt the Americans he was trying to reach. He said it was something people didn’t always understand about radios, that even if the Americans stopped listening, the heavens always heard. – Eliot Pattison, The Lord of Death via Truthout: Detained I feel the same way about these blog entries. Having readers or [...]
stuartzechman: You know what’s really gutless? Making up some Tinker-Bell commie threat with which to scare your fellow Americans, because you can’t own up to the fact that your stupid, Ayn Rand romance-novel policies nearly ruined our beautiful country not only in one American century, but now in two. Why don’t you try arguing your [...]
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Wednesday, March 10, 2010
[youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=F3_EXqJ8f-0[/youtube] War Is a Racket is the title of two works, a speech and a booklet, by retired U.S. Marine Major General Smedley Darlington Butler, one of only 19 people to be twice awarded the Congressional Medal of Honor, in which Butler frankly discusses from his experience as a career military officer how business interests have [...]
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We the People of the United States, in Order to form a more perfect Union, establish Justice, insure domestic Tranquility, provide for the common defence,[1] promote the general Welfare, and secure the Blessings of Liberty to ourselves and our Posterity, do ordain and establish this Constitution for the United States of America. In the same [...]
Monday, February 15, 2010
Gregory asked the Vice President if the Iraq War was worth it. “No I don’t think the war was worth it,” Biden replied. “We paid a horrible price not only in loss of life, the way the war was mishandled from the outset. But we took our eye off the ball putting us in a [...]
By bailing out the markets, we only subsidized the foolishness that created the disaster in the first place. The incompetents were allowed to keep their jobs. And not only keep their jobs—they reaped huge rewards. Worse, by playing up the “response to crisis” view of the bail out—think about all of the discussion around Bernanke’s [...]
Tuesday, February 2, 2010
Just adding to the post below, at some point it became clear that the consensus of official Washington, including many Democrats, the scribblers at Kaplan Test Prep Daily, the Great Minds at Very Serious Think Tanks, and guests at Sally Quinn’s table dancing parties, is that torture is awesome, the rule of law only applies [...]
You know my friends, there comes a time when people get tired of being trampled by the iron feet of oppression… If we are wrong, the Supreme Court of this nation is wrong. If we are wrong, the Constitution of the United States is wrong. And if we are wrong, God Almighty is wrong. If [...]
15. George Carlin, 1999: “Religion easily has the greatest bullshit story ever told. Think about it. Religion has actually convinced people that there’s an invisible man living in the sky who watches everything you do, every minute of every day. And the invisible man has a special list of ten things he does not want [...]
4. “The investment community feels very put-upon. They feel there is no reason why they shouldn’t earn $1 million to $200 million a year, and they don’t want to be held responsible for the global financial meltdown.” — Daniel Fass, chairman of Obama’s financial-industry fundraising party on Oct. 19, 2009, insisting that despite wrecking the [...]
Wednesday, December 16, 2009
What really is the agenda of the Democratic Party? Is it the agenda of its progressive-minded grassroots, or its corporate-dominated elites? The Democratic Party has always represented itself as “the peoples party” but this has always been a fraud. It has always been beholden to economic elites but also had the task of channeling the [...]
Wednesday, December 16, 2009
10. “You give me a water board, Dick Cheney and one hour, and I’ll have him confess to the Sharon Tate murders.” Jesse Ventura, during a CNN interview May 11. via “You lie!” — and other quotes of the year – Salon.com. That one was my favorite from the list. And if Jesse Ventura gets [...]
Monday, December 14, 2009
“What’s really frustrating me right now is that you’ve got these same banks who benefited from taxpayer assistance who are fighting tooth and nail with their lobbyists up on Capitol Hill, fighting against financial regulatory control,” he said. via BBC News – Barack Obama criticises ‘fat cat’ bankers.
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