In an ironic twist of events, US citizens have discovered that it is their tax money that indirectly funds Taliban - the very people their troops are fighting in Afghanistan.
Special Commentary by Big Dan: "If we're going to let the Reckless Drillers proceed drilling for natural gas in the Marcellus Shale in Pennsylvania, Pa. should benefit economically from it. There should be a HUGE tax on the Reckless Drillers to benefit the state. I heard somewhere that 10% would be high. I think it should be as high as possible. The Reckless Drillers are going to drill no matter how high the tax is, so it should be as high as possible. A few people shouldn't benefit from it, the entire state should benefit from it. Casinos are taxed to benefit taxpayers, landfills are taxed to benefit taxpayers, so Reckless Drilling should be taxed to alleviate the debt of Pennsylvania. Right now, to alleviate Pa. debt, I'm hearing things proposed such as making our Interstate Highways into toll roads. If Pennsylvania is the "new Saudi Arabia" like we're hearing, Pennsylvania should have ZERO taxes after we tax the Reckless Drillers, ZERO education costs, and ZERO health care costs. In the coal mining heyday of Northeastern Pennsylvania, there wasn't mass instant communication to convey the knowledge to the people that the Reckless Diggers would strip the land of its riches and leave the people to deal with the barren land. Now we live in the age of the internet and we instantly know what the Reckless Drillers are doing. So what are we going to do about it???"
Beyond Petroleum (Chief Oren speaks)
This is off the charts audacity: while the oil spill is going on, the head of BP goes Yacht Racing! And the GOP and rightwing media line up on the side of BP and against the American people:
Note: the hypocrites are out - we have the GOP and rightwing media saying that BP had "no due process". When ACORN was setup with an edited hoax video, the GOP, rightwing media, mainstream media, AND the Democrats tried and convicted ACORN with "no due process". When ACORN actually GOT due process, the courts found the video was "highly edited to meet an agenda" and all charges against ACORN were thrown out. In the meantime, due to all the heat from the hoax video and "no due process", ACORN disbanded.
Joe Barton apologizes for his apology: Joe Barton's misconstrued misconstruction: the BP Shakedown - BP didn't get "due process":
Well, GasLand the movie premiered on HBO, so you knew a bunch of websites would sprout up "debunking" the movie. How much ya wanna bet they're financed by the Reckless Drillers??? Here's one of them:
..."Austerity" is one of those Orwellian terms that has been injected into our political discourse precisely because it is a nice-sounding word for a very painful reality. "Austerity" implies discipline, self-restraint, even nobility. "Austerity" is prudent. "Austerity" is modest. "Austerity" is a virtue. It is an end in itself.
If the IMF or the European Central Bank come to the people of a collapsing European nation and tell them to sacrifice their pensions and their savings and their very standard of living all for a debt that their government has fraudulently racked up in their name, no one would go for it, and rightly so.
But tell those same people that they need to implement "austerity measures" in order to "get back on their feet" economically, and many will be willing to live in the harshest of conditions, content to put up with the dismantling of their nation itself in the vain hope that by giving more power to the international financial institutions they can somehow avoid economic collapse...
Our local talk radio station WILK, which I call FOX "news" Jr because it fields no voices from the left in their entire lineup and has news characters such as Rush Limbaugh and Mike Savage, recently fired their only host who was a notch left of center, but not a liberal. They replaced him with a classic rock DJ from another channel named "Webster". The former co-host of the morning show had just won an award right before he was fired. Northeast Pa. is a heavily Democratic area, and I cannot see how WILK can exist with their right-wing lineup. If WILK's mission was to field a complete 24x7 lineup of right-wingers and alienate listeners left of center, then Mission: Accomplished! So, this week, WILK's morning political show has gone down to this level: their hosts are a classic rock DJ "Webster" and a sports announcer Joe Thomas, both whom lean unabashedly to the right...and are, like I said, a classic rock DJ and a sports announcer. That is a screw-up of the highest order. The ONLY problem I have with WILK, and it's the same with FOX "news", is that they don't admit they are a GOP operation. This is an insult to everyone's intelligence. When you field a 24x7 lineup of rightwing hosts, that's a "PLAN" by their owner Entercom, it's not an accident. It's not an accident to have ZERO voices from the left on a talk radio channel. I wish they'd publicly admit this, but don't hold your breath. Let me put it to you straight: "Webster" STINKS ON ICE as a political radio show host. WILK screwed up. They have to live with it now to save face. They now talk about beer and sports from 6am to 9am, which they are experts at, and briefly delve into politics at an amateurish and embarrassing level. If you are a Republican who likes beer and sports, WILK FOX "news" Jr is your channel for continual bashing of Democrats, total ignorance of liberals, and ZERO accountability and a lot of apologies for Republicans. Maybe "Webster" should start spinning some old Led Zeppelin and Who songs, push the beer and sports even more, and do less talking...it might go over better. Better yet, they could get some good use out of using his forehead for advertising space. (I put "Webster" in quotes, because that's not his real name)
"Webster" needs a permanent rest.......
Give it to me straight...OK, you STINK!!!!!!!!!! "Webster" is Johnny O'Connor:
Texan Republican Joe Barton says it's a "shame" and a "tragedy"...not the oil spill, but getting $20 Billion for Americans affected by the oil spill:
Max Keiser on Oil Spill: Rewarding Eco-Terror
More Republicans (Michele Bachmann) siding with BP against the American people, even friggin' Bill O'Reilly is on our side, for Christ's sake!!! This is the first time I've even put Bill O'Reilly on my blog!!! HOLY CRAP!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Unsecure, hackable, and unrecountable democracy: electronic voting machines:
