I’m utterly sickened by this. President Obama has decided to issue a waiver allowing continued U.S. military aid to four countries that use child soldiers for the second consecutive year. The Obama administration says it will waive penalties under the Child Soldiers Prevention Act to prevent a cutoff of military assistance to Chad, the Democratic [...]
Politics
The Occupy Wall Street protests have been going on for 18 days now. During the last 18 days, I’ve had people tell me the protesters are nothing but a bunch of marxist, communist, socialist, anarchists bent on destroying capitalism. To them I say “Your corporate masters thank you for your support”. These protests aren’t about [...]
By now everyone’s heard about the rambling, drunken idiocy that came from the mouth of admitted redneck Hank Williams, Jr., comparing Obama to Hitler and calling Obama and Biden “the enemy”. The video is even more entertaining as it appears that he was pretty blitzed at the time. Now, with all their whining about the [...]
The Reagan talked about by the Tea Party and the current crop of GOP candidates is a storybook version that has no basis in reality. Back in 1985, Reagan gave a speech about closing tax loopholes, about how it was unfair that millionares paid less in taxes than bus drivers, and the need to restore [...]
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 [...]
