Reading the story below is enough to make you cry -- when oh WHEN will this kind of thing die out on our planet? The ignorance that fuels it is still rampant across all levels of income. White supremacists exist in every income and educational level throughout our nation. Although years ago you would find these people voting as Democrats, there was...
Saturday, February 28, 2009
Friday, February 27, 2009
Obama's Speech to Marines at Camp Lejeune
For those who are interested:http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2009/02/27/obamas-iraq-speech-video_n_170565.h...
Diseases and deaths of composers site
Interesting site -- telling of the diseases that caused the deaths of major composers -- and some of the medical treatments they endured in their time. http://www.ahsl.arizona.edu/about/exhibits/diseasesofcomposers/wagner....
PLEASE HELP SENATOR LEAHY TO FIND THE TRUTH
I personally think we need more than a Truth and Reconciliation Commission -- my preference would definitely be a true investigation and prosecution of Bush, Cheney, and everyone in their administration who abused their office to lie to the American people and to damage our Constitution and the U.S. image all over the world. But Senator Leahy's proposal...
Wednesday, February 25, 2009
Wow! AMAZING PERFORMANCE!
Terry Fator, best ventriloquist EVER! And a marvelous singer as well!http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qNJ02rxaNrs&feature=rela...
Bobby Jindal's speech panned by everyone, including Republican pundits
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2009/02/25/bobby-jindal-response-pan_n_169710.htmlObama and his forceful, dynamic speech would have been hard for anyone to follow -- but Jindal seemed pathetically ill prepared. Nothing he said resonates any longer with the American people--with the exception of those who hold fast and hard to the neocon spin. These folks...
Tuesday, February 24, 2009
Written in 2004 -- but still applies today
Article written in 2004 about Bush supporters in Florida and how they think:http://www.rollingstone.com/politics/story/6539082/bush_like_me/4Here is another article about what is happening right now with Republicans who are pouring out vitriolic hatred at Obama, 30 days into Obama's presidency. Imagine what they'll be like a few more months down the...
Monday, February 23, 2009
Another example of Republican idiocy (as if we needed it)
REMOVING ALL DOUBTBy Steve Benenhttp://www.washingtonmonthly.com/archives/individual/2009_02/017003.phpEXCERPT: Five years ago, Sen. Jim Bunning (R-Ken.) won re-election despite odd and erratic personal behavior. Now, in advance of another re-election fight, Bunning is acting strangely again. Last month, Bunning decided not to show up for work for...
Krugman's Argument for Nationalizing Banks
I think his argument is a good one, and I hope Obama listens to it:http://www.nytimes.com/2009/02/23/opinion/23krugman.html?_...
Obama's Seven Days in May Moment
by Robert ParryThis article should be read in its entirety -- and also the Readers' Comments that follow it: http://www.smirkingchimp.com/thread/20400EXCERPT: Only one month into his presidency, Barack Obama is finding himself confronting not only George W. Bush’s left-behind crises but an array of influential enemies in the military, financial circles,...
Sunday, February 22, 2009
Three of John Wheeler's songs are now on youtube
Andre Pais, a young man from Portugal, is here in California for 3 months, talking with John Wheeler and attending John's meetings. He has put 3 of John's songs on youtube--and added their words to the screen.
You can hear John sing these songs at:
Song of the Sixth Patriarch
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_7OTA_75xwY
In This Moment (John's...
Important to know about charitable donations
DONATIONS INCREASINGLY GO TO CHARITIES' TELEMARKETERS IN CALIFORNIAhttp://www.sacbee.com/topstories/story/1643082.htmlEXCERPT:If you give to a charity over the phone, there's a growing likelihood that most of your donation will go to the telemarketer instead, according to an analysis of California state recor...
Saturday, February 21, 2009
WHAT WOULD JESUS DO? A GOOD QUESTION.
JESUS WOULD BE A LIBERAL DEMOCRAT, RIGHT?By Brent Budowsky You gotta love the far right. Now they are running an ad invoking Jesus in support of Herbert Hoover/George W. Bush economic policies. If they imply Jesus would support George Bush's tax cuts for the rich, do they believe Jesus would support Dick Cheney's policies of torture? Would Jesus support...
The mother of all Denials!!!
More Damned Lies from the neocons. Now it's Richard Perle, a major architect of the Iraq War, asking, "Who? Me? I didn't do anything! Who do you believe? Me or your lyin' eyes?" Oh, you really have got to read this one from the Washington Post! It's a wonder they didn't tar and feather him and ride him out of the room on a rail. Lying is so much...
Thursday, February 19, 2009
Short video -- well worth watching: Jared Diamond
Short video of Jared Diamond, author of Guns, Germs, and Steel -- giving a sensible analysis of where we are today in our world. Our choices will make the difference on how it all turns out...http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bnZgbyiG8wc&a...
Monday, February 16, 2009
Paul Krugman: Ten Years of Illusory Wealth
http://www.nytimes.com/2009/02/16/opinion/16krugman.html?_r=2&ref=opinionHOW VERY TR...
Failure to supply earplugs costs thousands of GIs their hearing
And on and on it goes...http://www.smirkingchimp.com/thread/20294 EXCERPT:Thousands of GIs have suffered preventable hearing loss because they were not supplied with earplugs to reduce the din of battle. Many have a permanent ringing in their ears they will suffer throughout their lives. The condition is widespread. In 2006, the Veterans Administration...
Republican Death March
Republican Death March: Betting the Recession Continues and America Failsby Brent Budowsky The passage of the jobs bill represents a great victory for President Obama, a huge triumph for Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid (D-Nev.) and a tremendous moment for the smart Republican senators, Arlen Specter of Pennsylvania and Olympia Snowe and Susan Collins...
Sunday, February 15, 2009
VIDEO: SNL skit on Congressional Republicans these days
Hilarious! Shows Congressional Republicans in their best idiotic form, with Dan Ackroyd taking the part of John Boehner. See it at: http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2009/02/15/snl-republican-meeting-mo_n_167036.h...
Saturday, February 14, 2009
SPEAKING ONE TO ONE: A Personal Sharing
Since I first established this blog, most of the entries have been political, because my concerns for the country and its citizens were astronomically great during the Cheney/Bush tenure of EIGHT LONG YEARS. I felt that I had to be constantly vigilant during those terrible years for our country while incompetence was rampant in our government in the...
From Brasscheck TV re: YouTube bullies
Ah yes, there will always be the Rush Limbaugh/Glenn Beck/Ann Coulter dittoheads, doing the dirty work for their cult leaders. No surprises here -- it is just part of their normal way of "communicating" their idiotology. We get a lot of our videos from YouTube. It's easier that way and since time is limited, we go with what's easiest.One thing that...
Thursday, February 12, 2009
Garrison Keiller on Obama's election
Wow! America is cool We are being admired by Swedes! We don't have to pretend we're Canadians. We elected Barack Obama! By Garrison Keillor Be happy, dear hearts, and allow yourselves a few more weeks of quiet exultation. It isn't gloating, it's satisfaction at a job well done. He was a superb candidate, serious, professorial but with a flashing grin...
Wednesday, February 11, 2009
President Obama is literally driving the Republicans insane
The Rightwingnuts are flailing their arms and screaming epithets -- Rush and his dittoheads are out in the desert, plotting revenge but knowing they have no clout with anyone intelligent. The right wing has increased their insanity to a degree unheard of in modern times. Isn't it WONDERFUL?!!! After Eight Long Years of suffering under their choices...
Fast food? We never heard of it!
I confess I am older than dirt! (~.~) .ExternalClass DIV { } It's been said before but let's hear it one more time.. 'Someone asked the other day, 'What was your favorite fast food when you were growing up?'...
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