Bush Wacked

The Daily Show With Jon Stewart Mon – Thurs 11p / 10c The Decider Returns www.thedailyshow.com Daily Show Full Episodes Political Humor Rally to Restore Sanity Jon Stewart on Bush’s No Apology Tour When Jon Stewart mentions half way through this segment that he hadn’t thrown up once, yet, he was referring to a nasty case of the stomach flu …

RAND PAUL: UNPLUGGED & UNHINGED

Why do I get the feeling that this guy is juggling hatchets inside his head?

Exposing The U.S. Chamber Of Foreign Commerce

The new appropriately named DNC ad: “Stealing Democracy” Over a year ago in a post titled Soylent Green And Corporations Are People Too, I warned about the implications for our democracy if the corporatist dominated US Supreme Court ruled the way I expected them too in the Citizens United case. And when they ruling came down last January, in A …

Colbert Storms The Hill

Political satire has a long and effective history of highlighting important social and political issues, going back at least as far as the ancient Egyptians, Greeks, and Romans. Contemporary satire has taken many forms, from political cartoonists like the late Paul Conrad; the sixties Yippies throwing burning cash from the balcony of the New York Stock Exchange, performance art that …

The Summers Of Our Discontent

Three down, two to go. Obama’s daily economic briefing team: Peter Orszag, Christina Romer, Larry Summers, Timothy Geithner, and Jared Bernstein A month after President Obama took office, in a post titled Geithner’s Rescue Plan, I called on him to dump both Geithner and his chief economic architect, Larry Summers: Obama likes to brag that he can walk and chew …

Crimes Against The Planet

The World of the Cross   •   Terry Kruger Urantia is the sentimental shrine of all Nebadon, the chief of ten million inhabited worlds… So why is BP allowed to continue to despoil our beautiful planet?  A convicted corporate felon, for decades it has demonstrated a reckless disregard for all life, from the top of the food chain to the …

Nuke It Closed? (III)

Discussion of nuking the well shut begins at the 2:00 minute mark. The additional development that Matt Simmons uses to bolster his argument was the discovery by the US Navy of a second pipe inside the Blowout Preventer that shouldn’t be there. He speculates that it’s a piece of the well casing that was  thrust upwards from the tremendous force …