Democrats want to take all our money and return to us one dime out of each dollar.
Republicans want to take all our money and give it to corporations and the wealthy.
Neither is acceptable!
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The most effective way to restrict democracy is to transfer decision-making from the public arena to unaccountable institutions: kings and princes, priestly castes, military juntas, party dictatorships, or modern corporations.
Noam Chomsky, M.I.T. emeritus Professor of Linguistics
While Colbert I. King may be accused as being a racist at times, I’ve never known a true racist that will speak out against those he is accused of protecting. And when King sees wrong doing by his own race, he says so. Therefore, he can not be labeled as a true racist. That’s why his observations of the modern-day tea partiers is a truth the tea partiers and their defenders can’t live with.
Back in May of this year I posted New Credit Card Bill Allows for Continued Theft — and the banks haven’t let me down. I’ve been proven right on several occasions. In that post I questioned why our lawmakers wanted to wait nine months to implement a new law that would restrict credit card companies from ripping off consumers. Then I offered an answer: Give the credit card companies time to go into high gear to rip off consumers before the new law took affect. Among many other examples I could offer, this one is the latest.
History has proven that if you “create a climate” for something to happen, it almost always happens. And we’ve already had dozens of people in this country murdered due to an escalation in hated rhetoric; and not just the gays. [...]
Jeremiah Wright, the pastor of Barack Obama’s church and Obama mentor for 20 years, now says that black people should not sing “God Bless American” but should sing “God damn America”. In echoing declared enemies of the United States, he is now saying that America is to be blamed for what happened on 911. He went on to crucify America for doing what we had to do to win World War II and save American lives. Continue Reading » »
Wednesday night Hillary Clinton spent a considerable amount of time apologizing to a group of members of a newspaper association. The members repersented black community newspapers from all around the country. Of those she apologized for was her husband Bill when he drew a comparison with Barack Obama winning South Carolina in 2008 to Jesse Jackson winning the vote in South Carolina in 1984 & 1988. Bill Clinton was responding to a question at the time about why he thought Obama won South Carolina. He was saying that it was not unexpected that Obama, as a black man, had won there. Hillary had won a lot of women votes simply because she, Hillary, is a woman, and there is nothing racist about that. Continue Reading » »
Kelly Tilghman, an anchor for The Golf Channel, was suspended for two weeks for a remark she made during the Mercedes-Benz Championship last week. In response to Nick Faldo’s comment about who could challenge Tiger Wood, Tilghman inadvertently and innocently said that those players who wanted to challenge Woods should “lynch him in a back alley”. She has already come out publically and apologized, and Tiger Woods has already said he did not feel insulted and that it was a non-issue. Continue Reading » »