Dr. Carlos Gonzales, Yaqui Mexican medicine man “family doctor”, invoking the Creator at the Tuscon memorial service While many positive comments from both sides of the political spectrum have been proffered concerning President Obama‘s speech yesterday at the memorial service for the six innocents that were murdered last Saturday in Tuscon, AZ, little attention has been given to the Yaqui …
From Wikipedia: The Dunning–Kruger effect is a cognitive bias in which unskilled people make poor decisions and reach erroneous conclusions, but their incompetence denies them the metacognitive ability to realize their mistakes.[1] The unskilled therefore suffer from illusory superiority, rating their own ability as above average, much higher than it actually is, while the highly skilled underrate their abilities, suffering from illusory inferiority. This …
As Commander in Chief wanna be Sarah Palin might put it: How’s that surge thingy workin out for ya, Mr. President? Not so good, as The Wall Street Journal reports this week: Internal United Nations maps show a marked deterioration of the security situation in Afghanistan during this year’s fighting season, countering the Obama administration’s optimistic assessments of military progress …
Rethug dogs wag the Administration’s tail Larry Beinhart, author of the one of the most revealing and prescient political movies evah, Wag the Dog, compares the renewal of the Bush tax cuts with: …driving your car off the cliff, paying a tow truck twice the price of the car to haul it back up, then driving it back over because …
The Daily Show With Jon Stewart Mon – Thurs 11p / 10c National Displeasure www.thedailyshow.com Daily Show Full Episodes Political Humor & Satire Blog</a> The Daily Show on Facebook It’s almost like negotiating with terrorists Addressing the tax deal negotiated in secret between President Obama and the Rethugs, Senators Schumer, Sanders, and Boxer, along with Rep. Van Hollen adopted the …
The Colbert Report Mon – Thurs 11:30pm / 10:30c The Word – Unrequited Gov www.colbertnation.com Colbert Report Full Episodes 2010 Election March to Keep Fear Alive A prez with benefits smothered in a fuck you sauce… Watching President Obama try to explain his capitulation to the Rethugs over taxes and unemployment insurance reminded me of a book I read about …
At a time of national desperation– the economy teetering on the brink of another Great Depression, two runious foreign wars and occupations, a demoralized citizenry who knew in their guts that they were being ripped off by a greedy, shadowy ruling class– we were more than ready for radical change. We needed a courageous general to confront the individuals and …
