As U.S. GDP declines during GOP regimes, it does so because 'wealth' is literally transferred upward to a 'ruling elite' class, a laundered pay-off to the 'base'. At present, just one percent of the nation's total population owns, by some estimates, more wealth than is owned by about 95 percent of the rest of the population. *
All Americans have a right to a college education...at a state school...or a county school...if you can even afford that...
Many progressives are angry at President Barack Obama’s concessions to corporate interests -- and even to Republicans -- on healthcare reform, essentially embracing Mitt Romney’s industry-friendly plan for Massachusetts and throwing away the sliver of a public option that the House had approved.
But, as Jeff Cohen notes in this guest essay, progressives won an important consolation prize when Congress tacked on to the healthcare "reconciliation" bill a direct student loan program, which cut bank subsidies out of the process:
Mission: Accomplished! Rightwing Republican operatives take down ACORN with false edited hoax videos that the media ate up and didn't retract. ACORN is a community activist group of mostly poor minorities that was the target of conservative smears because they don't vote Republican and they registered a million voters last election. Republican Jesus would be proud!
Now that the community organizing group ACORN has declared that it is disbanding, many observers say the media should bear the blame for publicizing the phony tapes that started the group's downfall. Blogger Brad Friedman says that while the New York TImes has admitted some errors in its reporting, that doesn't go far enough.
Laura Flanders on GritTV: NYT's Belated ACORN 'Pimp' Hoax Correction 'Way, Way, WAY Too Late'. Delay suggests 'prejudice, bias' by 'paper of record' in favor of Rightwingers...
Health Care Slime Machine - John Oliver, Wyatt Cenac and Aasif Mandvi report on the violence following the passage of the health care bill. The "TWO-STATE SOLUTION":
Another gun-reference "coincidence"! This is exactly why I cancelled the Times Leader and subscribe to the Citizen's Voice.
Since Connor started running the Wilkes-Barre Times Leader, they've syndicated columns by rightwing nutcakes Ann Coulter, Mona Charen, and George Will. TL broke the story of Republican Don Sherwood choking his mistress, then endorsed Don Sherwood over Chris Carney after Conor took over...as well as endorsing nutcake Rick "Man on Dog" Santorum. Then when the TL staff voted to endorse Obama over McCain/Palin, Connor was nice enough to force them to re-vote after giving them a "Gipper" speech. The staff still voted for Obama. THAT is what rightwingers call "democracy": when the owner of the paper calls a re-vote on Obama and tries to persuade the staff to change their minds!
Fake liberal Steve Corbett of local talk radio station WILK ignores the Sarah Palin crosshairs of Chris Carney AND Richard Conor's gun reference in his editorial "Ah, for the days when pistols settled politics Richard L. Connor Opinion". He never met a Republican he didn't like, and uses his show to attack only Democrats. And he voted for Sarah "Crosshairs" Palin, and is supposedly anti-gun...but ignores these two current stories. NOW...if Joe Biden says "FUCK", that's a different story! Corbett will devote an entire week to that...or if Obama says "SWEETIE" to someone. That's important, not Sarah Palin thinly veiling an incitement to violence by putting Chris Carney in crosshairs of a gun! Corbett is anti-violence, too...under certain circumstances. It's going to ring pretty hollow the next time he says he's a big anti-gun liberal, isn't it? Just more FAKERY. Corbett: I think Biden said "FUCK" again, better get right on it. Corbett seems to be more interested in a candidate having a vagina or not, rather than a candidate being liberal or not. When Hillary was beaten, he switched to Sarah Palin. Palin is the farthest thing from liberal to come along in a while, being an evangelical, a secessionist, and wildly pro-gun among other things like...you know...putting Democrats in gun crosshairs. And get rid of the outdated Hillary promo, it's over with and annoying. And little kids saying "you better listen", I'm sure there's little kids listening to a talk show on the radio. Liberals don't keep reminding you they're liberal, they let their actions speak for themselves and let others call them liberal based on those actions. The same goes for people who go around always broadcasting that they are "patriots" and wearing red, white, and blue and waving flags all the time and having their screeners tell you to say "you're a great American" before you say something to them and putting the word "freedom" in the name of your shill organization. If Steve Corbett is a liberal, I have a bridge to sell you...it'll be available soon, it's on 8th Street in Wyoming. They're almost finished knocking it down. The only show worth listening to on WILK's strictly rightwing lineup including Rush Limbaugh, is the Nancy & Kevin Show. Turn the channel off after that, or turn the radio off.
The RNC was revealed by The Daily Caller to have incurred thousands of dollars in expenses at a bondage-themed nightclub that features topless lesbian dancers, as well as other lavish escapades in its trip southern California last month.
Special Commentary by Big Dan: "I have a 2nd house my father gave me that my daughter's living in. She and her boyfriend had nothing but problems from the neighbors there, they think they run the entire block. They called the cops twice on my daughter for having music too loud (it wasn't) and parking in front of their house, and they park in front of our house way more. I've had the house on the market now for a few months, we're selling it. Well guess what???????? 10 Mexicans who came in ONE old car and didn't speak good English were looking at it yesterday! I said to the realtor: 'GET 'EM IN THERE! TELL THEM 5 TO A BEDROOM OR I'LL BUY A TRAILER FOR 'EM AND PUT IT IN THE BACK!!! TELL THEM TO MAKE ME AN OFFER, IF THEY THINK THE PRICE IS TOO HIGH!!! JUST GET 'EM IN THERE, BECAUSE THIS WOULD BE A DREAM COME TRUE FOR ME!!!!!!!!!!!' Boy, would that be sweeeeeeeeeet revenge, because I think the neighbors are racist, too! 'Did you ever notice that once in a while you come across someone you shouldn't have fucked with? Well, that's me' (Clint Eastwood in Gran Torino)'"
Christopher Hitchens discusses the sex abuse scandals in the Catholic Church and U.S foreign policy with Bill Maher.
Stealth Vouchers (charter schools):
When President Obama’s Education Secretary, Arne Duncan, was the head of Chicago’s Public Schools, his office kept a list of powerful, well-connected people who asked for help getting certain children into the city’s best public schools. The list—long kept confidential—was disclosed this week by the Chicago Tribune. We speak with the Chicago Tribune reporter who broke the story and with two Chicago organizers about Duncan and his aggressive plan to expand charter schools.
Why are health insurance companies IMMEDIATELY looking for ways NOT to cover sick children???
NYTimes: Just days after President Obama signed the new health care law, insurance companies are already arguing that, at least for now, they do not have to provide one of the benefits that the president calls a centerpiece of the law: coverage for certain children with pre-existing conditions.
You won't EVER see real liberal Noam Chomsky in the corporate owned media they want us to think is liberal, or any real liberals for that matter. Then they'll falsely define who is liberal for you, like the Democrats. The Democrats are the new Republicans, and the Republicans are batshit crazy, and the real liberals are ignored in the corporate owned media..watch this:
Special Commentary by Big Dan: "Here's my 'hat tip' policy: if I steal something from you, I'm not going to 'hat tip' you unless you point out that you think I stole it from you and I did in fact steal it from you. Then I'll 'hat tip' you. If you point it out the next day, or if I don't acknowledge within one day, YOU LOSE!!! LOL!!!!!!!!!! But here's a hat tip to everyone I've stolen things off of: thank you, one and all!!!"
Q: Why would U.S. and allied forces in Afghanistan go out of their way to smear a journalist?
A: Because he told the truth about a night raid that killed Afghan civilians, including pregnant women.
We spoke with Afghanistan-based journalist Jerome Starkey about his reporting on special forces raids that killed civilians and NATOs surprising--and disappointing--response. This video contains disturbing images, and an even more disturbing story of violence, and an attempt to silence a truth-teller. It shows why its absolutely essential that we keep pushing back against the Pentagons message machine.
This should get 24x7 LIVE coverage on all the networks: Sarah Palin will lead the Tea Party Express into Harry Reid's hometown. 10,000 are expected, and if THREE networks covered Sarah Palin LIVE in February when 600 people were there, imagine the network coverage for 10,000!!! NOW...if there's a liberal protest of OVER 200,000 like this past Sunday, THAT will receive ZERO coverage from the networks. BUT IMAGINE THE COVERAGE OF 10,000 WITH SARAH PALIN!!! Christ! 10,000 Tea Partiers would be like 10 MILLION anti-war protesters!!! But they wouldn't be covered, either. The Tea Partiers and Sarah Palin even get ADVANCE NOTICE in the media of UPCOMING protests, let alone ZERO COVERAGE!!! Did you have any advance notice in the media before March 21: "IMMIGRATION REFORM PROTEST COMING UP SUNDAY MARCH 21"? Of course not!
ABOVE: Sarah Palin, the much larger anti-war protest, and the much larger immigration protest - BOTH of which were IGNORED by the media in favor of SARAH AND THE TINY TEA PARTIERS, who never met a WAR they didn't like!!!
And the day before that, March 20 Saturday, there was an even BIGGER protest that was not only in Washington DC, but was in major cities across the U.S. and worldwide including Germany that received virtually ZERO media coverage. Here's some clips from the NATIONWIDE/WORLDWIDE anti-war protest last Saturday March 20, that the corporate owned media they want us to think is "liberal" IGNORED:
As bad as Saddam Hussein was (and he was a megalomanic monster), what followed him was a staggering catastrophe for Iraq, even if Americans no longer care to give it much thought.
White House Press Corps longest-serving member says Obama lost credibility when he dodged her question on Israeli nukes. Helen Thomas says Obama dodged her question about Israel nukes and is one-sided in favoring Israel. She says the Palestinians have no voice.
This guy makes more sense than any politician I've seen:
Punk-rock meets politics: American system is powerless
What happenned to America, the land of the free? Well some think it's been bought by mega corporations. The frontman of the left-leaning band 'Strike Anywhere', who describes himself as a "left-leaning Libertarian", believes the system is in total charge with even Presidents owned by corporate money before they ever step into the Oval office.
Two cases of "blame the victim":
The deaf boys who were molested by the priest: it's their parents' fault.
The violence against Democrats: it's the Democrats' fault.
Crazy religious guy Bill Donahue blames parents for Catholic Church sex scandals - Donahue blame the church for nothing:
My question, as always, is "how do these guys get on TV???".
Do you see a pattern here? The Democrats are to blame, if there's violence against them (2nd video - rightwing voters getting angry with Obama voters: man and 10 year old daughter rammed by another guy because he had an Obama bumper sticker!!!):
Convicted criminal and now rightwing talk show host G. Gordon Liddy threatens Islam:
We just finished our fantasy baseball draft, here's my team, King Kranko:
King Kranko
Active Batters
McCann, Brian C ATL
Howard, Ryan 1B PHI
Weeks, Rickie 2B MIL
Ramirez, Aramis 3B CHC
Rollins, Jimmy SS PHI
Reyes, Jose B. SS NYM
Butler, Billy 1B KC
Damon, Johnny LF DET
Hunter, Torii CF ANA
Quentin, Carlos LF CHW
Snider, Travis LF TOR
Werth, Jayson RF PHI A
Coghlan, Chris LF FLA A
Prado, Martin 2B ATL A
Active Pitchers
Buchholz, Clay SP BOS
Burnett, A.J. SP NYY A
Garza, Matt SP TB
Harden, Rich SP TEX
Hughes, Phil SP NYY
Lincecum, Tim SP SF
Marcum, Shaun SP TOR
Sheets, Ben SP OAK
Valverde, Jose RP DET
Young, Chris R. SP SD
Reserve Batters
Posey, Buster C SF
Baker, Jeff 2B CHC
Wallace, Brett 3B TOR
Jennings, Desmond CF TB
Did you ever wonder how someone got elected, and no one you know voted for them? Faith-based, non-provable voting system for the greatest country?
Electronic voting machines found in court of law to be manipulated...that means ALL electronic voting machines across the nation can and are being manipulated, and it's not the #1 nationwide story in the "news"! Corporations OWN the news media and MAKE the electronic voting machines with secret proprietary software that citizens can't look at. Votes are counted in secret and electronic voting machines can't be recounted. Faith-based voting that can't be proven in a black electronic box! Your votes are meaningless, if they can't be proven or recounted. There is no paper ballot to recount. You touch a screen and then can't see the vote in the machine. The SCREEN isn't your vote, you know! It's inside the machine and you can't see it, and it can't be recounted. For those of you who don't trust government, why aren't you screaming about this? TeaBaggers? Liberals? Everyone???
This falls under my theme that the corporate owned media serves: the elite wealthiest few, the military industrial complex, and corporations. These Kentucky Fried Creeps HACKED ELECTRONIC VOTING MACHINES AND THE MAINSTREAM MEDIA ISN'T COVERING THIS!!! Another theme of this blog is that our democracy is a SHAM because of electronic voting machines. I provide proof after proof after proof of this, and it is ignored by the government and the media. THIS AFFECTS EVERYONE! It affects Republicans, Democrats, and all other Americans - IT AFFECTS ALL AMERICANS! OUR VOTES DO NOT COUNT WITH ELECTRONIC VOTING MACHINES!!!
LOOK: They are GUILTY in a court of law for manipulating electronic voting machines!!! And it's not in the news!!! WHAT...THE...FUUUUUUCK???????
(Irony of ironies: this is the EXACT SAME COUNTY that census worker was found hanging with "FED" written on his chest!!! What's going on in Clay County??? Kentucky: home of Jim Bunning, the Republican who holds up unemployment checks all the time...)
I understand that you have been invited by University of Ottawa Campus Conservatives to speak at the University of Ottawa this coming Tuesday. We are, of course, always delighted to welcome speakers on our campus and hope that they will contribute positively to the meaningful exchange of ideas that is the hallmark of a great university campus. We have a great respect for freedom of expression in Canada, as well as on our campus, and view it as a fundamental freedom, as recognized by our Canadian Charter of Rights and Freedoms.
I would, however, like to inform you, or perhaps remind you, that our domestic laws, both provincial and federal, delineate freedom of expression (or "free speech") in a manner that is somewhat different than the approach taken in the United States. I therefore encourage you to educate yourself, if need be, as to what is acceptable in Canada and to do so before your planned visit here.
You will realize that Canadian law puts reasonable limits on the freedom of expression. For example, promoting hatred against any identifiable group would not only be considered inappropriate, but could in fact lead to criminal charges. Outside of the criminal realm, Canadian defamation laws also limit freedom of expression and may differ somewhat from those to which you are accustomed. I therefore ask you, while you are a guest on our campus, to weigh your words with respect and civility in mind.
There is a strong tradition in Canada, including at this university, of restraint, respect and consideration in expressing even provocative and controversial opinions and urge you to respect that Canadian tradition while on our campus. Hopefully, you will understand and agree that what may, at first glance, seem like unnecessary restrictions to freedom of expression do, in fact, lead not only to a more civilized discussion, but to a more meaningful, reasoned and intelligent one as well.
I hope you will enjoy your stay in our beautiful country, city and campus.
Sincerely,
Francois Houle,
Vice-President Academic and Provost, University of Ottawa
Bush wipes hands on Clinton's back, after shaking the hands of darkie quake victims...GET OUT THE HAND SANITIZER, DUBYA!!! God, what a jerk!
At the beginning of every fiscal year, the U.S. makes a lump sum payment of cold hard cash to Israel, a procedure not duplicated for any other nation receiving U.S. 'aid'. It looks like a payoff in response to a shakedown because that's what it is! What leverage, we wonder, is used by Israel on the U.S? The Carvellian quick response: terrorism! Terrorism is a racket! Israel exploits 'terrorism' to shake down the U.S. tax payer. Now we know why Israelis danced on 911. (bd: sorry folks, but Israel had something to do with 9/11, look into it...)
Who in their right mind thinks that WTC-7, a 47-story building a block from the twin towers that was NOT hit by a plane, fell controlled demolition style in seconds due to...what, fire??? So skyscrapers fall demolition style if they have some small isolated fires. YOU CAN'T BE SERIOUS IF YOU BELIEVE THIS!!!
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Wow, I thought this was a 2024 article at first. His show was on the radio yesterday (and the day before). He went full shill for Israel on both day. Insane! I had to turn him off it was so bad....
