I have no sympathy for him at all. Rot in hell. Judge sentences former U.S. House speaker Dennis Hastert to 15 months in federal prison By Matt Zapotosky, Washington Post April 27 at 3:55 PM A federal judge on Wednesday sentenced former House speaker J. Dennis Hastert to one year and three months in federal …
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Apr 25 2016
Why I Don’t Like Cleveland
Because my Mom and Dad are being difficult about getting a passport I may be forced to spend 2 nights in the Cleveland area which is something I’d rather avoid. Dad says “It’s not so bad.” I consider it a flat spot near Lake Erie and no amount of “western Reserveism” makes it any more …
Apr 23 2016
Flint
The troll side of my family comes from the Flint area so I’m passingly familiar with it. I’m going to be making a trip out there this summer to plant another relative I barely know because, thank goodness, my immediate family moved east. Otherwise I might be as Republican as they are. How Republican is …
Apr 22 2016
Bloody Hands
Proponents of torture frequently argue that the very concept of accountability has a “chilling effect” on the noble patriots who are merely trying to keep the Homeland safe. Well, it should. Torture is a crime. Those who practice it are criminals. If they do so with Government sanction they are War Criminals and they, and …
Apr 22 2016
Blood Money
Let’s be clear about what happened. A United States Gunship Aircraft shelled and strafed a clearly designated Hospital for over half an hour. They did so deliberately and were under direct U.S. command. The Pentagon Insults Its Afghan Victims By The New York Times Editorial Board APRIL 21, 2016 After more than six months, the …
Apr 21 2016
This Is What You Get For Torture
Whaaa…? Could it be that a CIA Operative is actually going to Prison for “Extraordinary Rendition”? Sabrina De Sousa is one of 26 CIA employees convicted in absensia of kidnapping Hassan Mustafa Osama Nasr, aka Abu Omar off the streets of Milan, “The cleric was flown to Egypt, where he was beaten and subjected to …
Apr 20 2016
The True Irony of Replacing Jackson
Andrew Jackson was one of our most reprehensible Presidents in many respects. He was most definitively a slave owner, at one time holding over 150 on his cotton plantation, the Hermitage, near Nashville. His hatred for Native Americans was deep and abiding ranging from the Battle of Horseshoe Bend to the Indian Removal Act (commonly …
Apr 18 2016
Policies of FAIL!
What is amazing (or maybe not) is the amount of denial among the elite class that has profited from our current dysfunctional system of their level of personal incompetence and how much people (of all political persuasions) hate them for their positions of privilege despite demonstrated non-performance. You think The Donald is scary? Wait until …
Apr 17 2016
The God That Failed.
What is NeoLiberalism? Neoliberalism – the ideology at the root of all our problems by George Monbiot, The Guardian Friday 15 April 2016 07.00 EDT So pervasive has neoliberalism become that we seldom even recognise it as an ideology. We appear to accept the proposition that this utopian, millenarian faith describes a neutral force; a …
Apr 16 2016
Sanders’ Banking Breakup Plan
Recently Bernie Sanders has been accused of not having a plan for breaking up “Too Big To Fail” financial institutions. You keep using that word. I do not think it means what you think it means. Bernie has a plan. A complete plan. Part of it requires action under the existing Dodd-Frank legislation, the other …
Apr 15 2016
So Simple Even The Washington Post Gets It
Time Magazine Front Covers this ignorant screed from James Grant, noted Inflation Hawk and Gold Bug, that contends that at $42,998.12 per person the United States National Debt is insupportable and a grave threat to our economy. As everyone should know, the only problem with a National Debt of any amount is not it’s sheer …