Palin lying through her teeth about oil company campaign contributions I just love the smell of hypocrisy in the morning. Bob Cesca nails it: […] A major corporation, not unlike General Motors or Bank of America or WellPoint, failed to properly outfit one of its deep-water oil drilling platforms with the proper failsafe mechanisms and a chain reaction of death …
…IS NOT ENOUGH. How much longer before we finally realize that Corporations— individual citizens— will never be responsible stewards of the earth’s natural resources. The people of this nation OWN it’s resources; only a moral people will care enough to protect our country, our oceans, our air, our water— our world— from the ravages of the greed, arrogance, and stupidity …
Since the Reagan presidency, the GOP has rightly earned the reputation as The Party of No: as a rabid opposition party opposed to anything that President Obama and the Democrats propose that might conceivably benefit the middle class and the poor, The Party of No Way Jose; and as The Party of No Ideas, whose answer for everything is simply …
: Oops. Looks like someone lost their copy of the RNC’s 2010 fund raising strategy. Politico obtained a copy and reports: The presentation was delivered by RNC Finance Director Rob Bickhart to top donors and fundraisers at a party retreat in Boca Grande, Florida on February 18, a source at the gathering said. In neat PowerPoint pages, it lifts the …
According to the Daily Telegraph A 16-year-old girl who was raped in Bangladesh has been given 101 lashes for conceiving during the assault… The girl’s father was also fined and warned the family would be branded outcasts from their village if he did not pay. According to human rights activists, the girl, who was quickly married after the attack, was …
Reading the following description from Wikipedia of The Three Witches, I just couldn’t help but be reminded of the three crones depicted above.* The Three Witches represent darkness, chaos, and conflict, while their role is as agents and witnesses. Their presence communicates treason and impending doom. During Shakespeare’s day, witches were seen as worse than rebels, “the most notorious …
On her show Thursday night, Rachel Madow interviewed Mother Jones correspondent David Corn (two of my favorite people). The tag line describing the clip above, “Lack of an honest opposition lamentable”, while accurately describing the content, doesn’t come close to capturing the depth of the problem they address. Lamentable means “bad, unfortunate.” As I read the numerous socio-political-economic crises facing …
