August 2010
9 posts
Why Glenn Beck makes me want to take a hot...
For legal reasons (copyright), I do not reproduce Bob Herbert’s entire column (“America is better than this”) from this morning’s New York Times. However, here’s enough of it to, hopefully, induce you to read the entire article. See http://www.nytimes.com/2010/08/28/opinion/28herbert.html?_r=1&ref=opinion
[Excerpts]
America is better than Glenn Beck. For all of his celebrity, Mr. Beck is an...
Victory in Iraq?? – Analysis by Prof. Lawrence...
John McCain says we won
Back in July 2010 Senator John McCain told Geoff Millard, board chairman of Iraq Veterans Against the War, that his organization was irrelevant. “You’re too late. We already won that one,” was McCain’s comment. Senator McCain has never defined exactly what he meant by winning. Nor, for that matter, have the various media outlets that follow his line....
President Obama and the curse of the Muslim...
I just love the way John Grant summarizes what’s going on in another political “silly season” here in the ol’ USA. I have tried to find a way to express my own dismay and ire on this issue - but John says it all here, with such great historical allusions. Enjoy! - Karen Porter
“Taft is a fathead.” - Theodore Roosevelt, 1912
The anti-gay blog QueerHunt has just launched an...
MUST reading this morning....
There are some days when you read something you want to share with the world, that ALL Americans should be required to read; and this morning’s (Aug. 22) New York Times has three items you MUST read to understand how crazy this country has gone because of the right-wing leadership’s sheer ignorance, stupidity, and crass manipulation of a populace that is too distracted, apathetic,...
Maintaining the empire by John Grant
From This Can’t Be Happening - http://www.thiscantbehappening.net/node/175
First it was Press Secretary Robert Gibbs attacking the “professional left” (whatever that means) for wanting to “eliminate the Pentagon.” Then the liberal New York Times columnist Maureen Dowd kicked the left for “constantly sniping at Obama” and for considering “pragmatism a moral...
Iraq War over? Not feeling it...
Last night the news channels were celebrating the “end of the Iraq War.”
So why don’t I feel elated?
It has been almost eight very long years since we started The Chester County Peace Movement (2002) in an effort to prevent the war in Iraq as we listened in horror to the lies this country was swallowing that led us to that war in the spring of 2003. And, come November, we...
How the "left" is turning me off....
The article below illustrates what’s been eating at me for about a year - or ever since Barack Obama took office - the left has been doing everything in its power to put the Republican Party and their crazy henchmen, the teabagger neanderthal nitwits, into power.
Now, I don’t know who these lefty “antiwar” nitwits were - maybe they were even teabagger plants (which makes...
High-speed rail and other thoughts…
I have just spent some time in Europe this summer; and my head is still buzzing with what I saw and learned there. No, I could not afford to travel in Europe – but it’s now or never at my age (63). I doubt I’ll get back to the places I saw – but, hey, once you’ve been there, you’ve been there! As time goes on, I plan to write a lot about my new experiences as I am “reinventing” myself...
John Grant: American stupidity
Having just returned from Europe, I must say that what John Grant writes here is exactly what the rest of the world is seeing - a ridiculous teabagger-crazed, increasingly ignorant American public out of control, becoming more stupid by the minute - our reputation is eroding exponentially as the rest of the world rises in intelligence, with this country falling precipitously on every...
