Mixed Results!

John Edwards voted for the Energy Bill! Here is his track record on the issues.
Look and see that he is not on our side. He talks about the poor, but he is feeding the rich. And he is by far the best option. That is sad. Feingold where are you??????????????????

Dana Rohrabacher is a punk!

In a truthout.org article, Ann Wright tells of this slimy politician's remarks.
This guy needs to be imprisoned with Bush and the rest of the war criminals in Washington. And the day that these guys are locked up should be made a national holiday, celebrated til the end of time. A holiday commemorating the end of tyranny and reminding our posterity what happens to a criminally despotic administration and it's enablers.

"At that point, I had had enough of Rohrabacher. I stood up and said, "I did not serve 29 years in the US military and 16 years in the US diplomatic corps to see demise of the rule of law and violation of our own laws. Rohrabacher's statements are outrageous. No wonder the world hates us!"

Chairman Delahunt gaveled for me to stop speaking, and I was escorted by the police out of the committee room. I was not arrested." Thanks Ann!

Here come the drums!

Matt Taibbi rocks Alternet again with a blistering article on Imus and the bullshit! He cuts a swathe through this massive subject. I don't want to say much except read it, and yo! he mentioned Public Enemy which has had links on this site since day one whose rhymes we used as part of our creed!

"I'm one of those revolting well-off suburban white kids who grew up on PE and NWA and privately mourns the fact that he looks like an idiot in a Starter jersey. I love rap music, always have. But as an adult white male I also know a minstrel show when I see it, and that's what rap has turned into."-Matt Taibbi

And.....

"First of all, let's just get this out of the way: the idea that anyone in the media world gives a shit about the dignity of women, black or white, is a ridiculous joke. America's TV networks have spent the last forty years falling over each other trying to find better and more efficient ways to sell tits to the 18-to-35 demographic. They make hour-long prime-time reality dramas these days about shopping-obsessed sluts hitting each other with pocketbooks, for Christ's sake. Paris Hilton, a dumb, rich slut with a cock in her mouth, gets her own primetime show. MTV, the teenie mags, the pop music industry, they're basically all an endless parade of skinny, half-naked brainless whores selling makeup and jeans to neurotic, self-hating, weight-obsessed little girls." -Matt Taibbi

Couric the Mouthpiece of the Oligarchy!

From her time on the Today Show to her rise to CBS Anchor, Katie Couric has always been someone I have found to be very distasteful. I really didn't pay much attention to her until I heard in the 90's she paid her personal trainer $7000 a week. This link is to a collection of her vids on YouTube. This is the voice and face of the Plutocratic Oligarchy manufacturing opinion and consent in real time.

Here is an Alternet article with vid of to me her most blatant twisting of space and time. The best part of this article tells how these "personal" messages form her "notebook" are about as spontaneous and real as Casper the Friendly Ghost. So you have the gamut of bullshit, contrived earthiness, and indoctrination in one nice little package. Enjoy!!!

It Begins!!

Moqtada al Sadr and crew are making some moves. But not the black clad militiamen on the street, he has ordered his supporters on the Iraqi Cabinet to step down. They have. Also, peaceful demonstrations in Basra calling for the removal of their provincial governor. He is accused of oil related corruption. Hmmm, billions in oil and maybe corruption?

Hillary and Wal Mart!!

I have been against the Clintons since my political awakening years ago. Not for the usual reasons the rightwingers use to smear them, but because of the factual policy choices they have made, that if more widely known, would freak out the co called "liberals" and "progressives" that support them.

Village Voice article about Ms. Clinton serving on Wal Mart's board for several years. And please don't think I'm sexist because I don't like Ms. Clinton. Amy Goodman for President!!!!!! If you want hear the good stuff, listen to the interview she has with Mr. Clinton and how she rakes him over the globalization, Cuba/China, Iraq Sanctions, corporate greed coals!!!

Did I mention Rupert Murdoch, the Telecom Bill of '96, and the millions Rupert is giving to Ms. Clinton?

From the New York Times..."Fox News and The Post need Hillary to run for Senate and president," said James Carville, a political consultant who worked in the Clinton White House. "There is only one politician in America that gets people to watch television for or buy a newspaper, and that's her. No one else comes close." The theatre of deception is now ready for act 2!!!

Found It!!!!

Most of the episodes of Carl Sagan's seminal PBS miniseries Cosmos can be found on Google Video!!!!! My sister Hazel and I watched this when we were so young and our eyes drank in the beautiful imagery, our ears listened to the enlightening voices and music, and our eager minds expanded!