Five Reasons #OccupyWallStreet Is More Like The Boston Tea Party Than The Tea Party Is

The Right Wing corporately funded astroturf movement known as the Tea Party likes to pretend that they are simply living out the values of the Boston Tea Party.  Any serious student of history knows that this is simply not the case.  The Boston Tea Party that the Tea Party pretends they emulate simply exists only as a figment of their imagination… similar to their idealized version of Ronald Reagan...

Stay Classy, Andrew Breitbart.

Andrew Breitbart, self appointed media watchdog and champion of all things right-wing, opened up the Tea Party’s TeaCon 2011Convention outside Chicago.  His monologue is everything you’d expect, considering the lack of intellectualism of 99.9% of the Tea Party.  It was offensive, profanity laced, and misogynistic. Typical Brietbart stuff.  Videos below with the requisite warnings for...

Congress Votes To Let Palestinian Children Starve

Oh, but they’ll send them money for guns, just not butter. From Al Arabiya Key U.S. lawmakers are blocking about $200 million in Palestinian aid in response to the territories’ UN statehood bid, congressional aides said Saturday. Members of the House Foreign Affairs Committee and the Senate Foreign Relations Committee have frozen the funding “until the Palestinian statehood issue is sorted out,” one...

Alabama Lawmakers Make Children Cry In Fear

When your laws make kids afraid to go to school, something is wrong. Many of the 223 Hispanic students at Foley Elementary came to school Thursday crying and afraid, said Principal Bill Lawrence. Nineteen of them withdrew, and another 39 were absent, Lawrence said, the day after a federal judge upheld much of Alabama’s strict new immigration law, which authorizes law enforcement to detain people suspected of...

#FantasyFootball Friday | 2011 Week 4

Well,  last weekend was an unmitigated disaster.  My teams went 0-2 in near blowout losses. Yahoo I lost this game 275-224 behind Reggie Wayne and Santonio Holmes‘ combined 12 freakin’ points!  Meanwhile, my opponent had a number of players go off (Megatron, Ryan Matthews, and MJD just to name a few).  At the last minute I benched Romo for Newton because of his injury and, well, the Fantasy...