The current battle in Washington over the debt ceiling is ridiculous. It is not about if we should raise the debt ceiling, it’s about how, with what sort of attending deals. Hello? You are spending money you don’t have already, and in actuality pissing most of it away on things that do little to benefit [...]
Archive for July, 2011
Look Beneath the Surface
Posted in Uncategorized on July 26, 2011 | Leave a Comment »
A Medal for Bradley Manning?
Posted in Uncategorized on July 8, 2011 | Leave a Comment »
From Tomdispatch Tomgram: Chase Madar, A Medal for Bradley Manning? Posted by Chase Madar at 9:50am, July 7, 2011. Dick Cheney got one (as secretary of defense), so did Donald Rumsfeld (back in 1977), not to speak of Henry Kissinger, Robert McNamara, Walt Rostow, and General H. Norman Schwartzkopf (for Gulf War I). Of course, so did Burma’s [...]
The End is Upon Us
Posted in Uncategorized on July 6, 2011 | Leave a Comment »
It is not a dystopian dream anymore. The nightmare is reality. Driving around in Anywhere, USA is like navigating shark-infested waters. Radar-toting cops are everywhere; gun-toting cops are everywhere; grandma-groping cops have infested the airports; SWAT teams are knocking down the doors of , and shooting innocent people–every day. I think the biggest part of [...]
Jack Hunter on the Real Debt Problem
Posted in Uncategorized on July 6, 2011 | Leave a Comment »
Jack Hunter is someone with whom I can agree on many, many things; in particular, the pitiful state of the Republican Party and so-called conservatism in America. As I have noted for some time, military spending is our greatest threat. It’s not that other spending is not problematic. It’s that we are going broke trying [...]
