This blog will focus on political images I have found all around the Internet, though I will intersperse some commentary and quotes that I find interesting.
Saturday, February 09, 2013
Friday, February 08, 2013
Republicnas out to hurt the common man
Don't ever, ever, be deluded into thinking that the Republican party gives one good God-damn about the average American. Every position they take is based on helping the rich and suppressing the little guy. Make no mistake.
From Daily Kos...
From Daily Kos...
Abbreviated pundit round-up: Guns, immigration and women in combat
from Daily Kos by rss@dailykos.com (Meteor Blades)
Paul Krugman at The New York Times explains that Republican leaders are Friends of Fraud:
So the consumer protection bureau serves a vital function. But as I said, Senate Republicans are trying to kill it. [...]
What Republicans are demanding, basically, is that the protection bureau lose its independence. They want its actions subjected to a veto by other, bank-centered financial regulators, ensuring that consumers will once again be neglected, and they also want to take away its guaranteed funding, opening it to interest-group pressure. These changes would make the agency more or less worthless - but that, of course, is the point.
Making fun of the religious
I wish, in light of current events, that P.J. O'Rourke had used a different analogy, but he's got the right idea...
We're still shooting each other.
Please, keep up the pressure on Congress to increase gun control laws...
The Republican Agenda
During Obama's first term the Republican agenda was to limit Obama to one term. Now, for the second term agenda...
Good advice
I keep a copy of this posted on my office wall - I don't want to waste a lot of my time...
Thursday, February 07, 2013
Gun crazy nation....
I begin today by pointing to a posting I made a few days ago from Truthdig...
"Those who retreat into fantasy cannot be engaged in rational discussion for fantasy is all that is left of their tattered self-esteem. When their myths are attacked as untrue it triggers not a discussion of facts and evidence but a ferocious emotional backlash."
---Chris Hedges
From Daily Kos...
[The following from Neal Boortz]
[Atlanta] harbors an urban culture of violence. And I want you to look around. You drive into the city. The railroad overpass is on the downtown connector covered with graffiti. And that-- That is just an advertisement for everybody coming into this town that we really don't give a damn about those who would screw up our quality of life around here. We really just don't care. We don't care enough to paint over graffiti on the overpasses that come into our city, advertising welcome to Atlanta, here's some of our finest graffiti, from some of our finest urban thugs and their little gang signs. And pick up the paper tomorrow morning. Read about all the carjackings. Read about the innocent people shot for the pure de-hell of it.
This town is starting to look like a garbage heap. And we got too damn many urban thugs, yo, ruining the quality of life for everybody. And I'll tell you what it's gonna take. You people, you are - you need to have a gun. You need to have training. You need to know how to use that gun. You need to get a permit to carry that gun. And you do in fact need to carry that gun and we need to see some dead thugs littering the landscape in Atlanta. We need to see the next guy that tries to carjack you shot dead right where he stands. We need more dead thugs in this city. And let their -- let their mommas -- let their mommas say, "He was a good boy. He just fell in with the good crowd." And then lock her ass up.[And this from Daily Kos in response]
--Neal Boortz, June 14, 2011
On the evening of Jan. 28, a group of four young Latinos, three of them local high school students in the Atlanta suburb of Lilburn, drove into the driveway of who they thought was a friend they were going to pick up to go ice skating. Unfortunately, their navigation system took them to the wrong house, and they paid a horrible price for their mistake when the homeowner came out of his house with a pistol, killed the driver, and held the three terrified passengers at gunpoint until police arrived to sort out the situation.
The assailant, 69-year-old war veteran and former pastor Phillip Sailors, claims to be horrified at the loss of life: He claims that he simply assumed that the young men were there to invade his house, and maintains his innocence on that basis. Unfortunately for Sailors, self-defense cannot possibly justify his actions, at least according to the narrative of the incident produced by the three passengers who were lucky to escape with their own lives:
Religion and feminism
How can any society rise above a primitive state when half of the population is subjugated to near slave status? It just makes no damn sense.
Wednesday, February 06, 2013
Austerity will cause us a BIG headache.
Source: Alternet.
AlterNet / By Pat Garofalo
Austerity Is Dead: Can Someone Please Tell Paul Ryan and His Deluded GOP Cohorts?
Republicans cling to a policy that pretty much everyone agrees is a total disaster.
January 30, 2013 |
Most of the recent economic data out of Europe has been exceedingly grim. A record high number of workers across the Eurozone are unemployed. Economies are shrinking. Debts are rising.
The anecdotes, though, are even worse. Hospitals are asking patients to supply their own syringes due to lack of funds. Trees on public land are being cut down by workers desperate for firewood to warm their homes. An entire generation of young workers is going to experience lower wages for the rest of their lives, due to years of being unemployed while in their 20s.
At this point, it's safe to say that Europe's response to the financial crisis of 2008 and its ensuing recession has failed. Austerity packages that were meant to jump start business investment and reduce what were viewed as unsustainable debt loads have instead crippled growth and caused untold amounts of human misery.
America, meanwhile, eschewed austerity for stimulus in the wake of the '08 crisis. The result has been a return to slow, steady, if not overwhelming growth. But for Republicans in Congress, who constantly warn about the menace of the European social safety net, European austerity is a model to be emulated. And their insistence on cutting government spending no matter its effect on growth is bad news for the fragile economic recovery.
That didn't take long.
Either God likes to watch us all killing, torturing and butchering each other, or he doesn't give a shit. That is, if you still believe.
Tuesday, February 05, 2013
Re-making the Republican Party
There is a lot of chatter on the news programs about Republican attempts to change their message or to change their positions in order to draw a larger number of voters. But the problem is, they are still out of the mainstream...
From The Political Carnival...
-----------The GOP has learned nothing.
They still have no foresight or grasp of the health of our planet and want to do away with the Environmental Protection Agency.
They still want to do away with unions.
They still want to do away with the middle class.
They still want to do away with the Democratic party.
They still want to do away with free speech and expression.
They still want to do away with human dignity.
They still want to do away with civility toward anyone who is not like them, meaning white and/or Christian.
They still want to do away with health care for anyone but the wealthiest Americans… Especially women's health care.
They still want to do away with allowing two people who love each other to marry each other.
They still want to do away with privacy and freedom of choice.
They still want to do away with taxes for the very wealthy, not to mention productive spending and job growth at the expense of the health and welfare of this country.
From The Political Carnival...
-----------The GOP has learned nothing.
They still have no foresight or grasp of the health of our planet and want to do away with the Environmental Protection Agency.
They still want to do away with unions.
They still want to do away with the middle class.
They still want to do away with the Democratic party.
They still want to do away with free speech and expression.
They still want to do away with human dignity.
They still want to do away with civility toward anyone who is not like them, meaning white and/or Christian.
They still want to do away with health care for anyone but the wealthiest Americans… Especially women's health care.
They still want to do away with allowing two people who love each other to marry each other.
They still want to do away with privacy and freedom of choice.
They still want to do away with taxes for the very wealthy, not to mention productive spending and job growth at the expense of the health and welfare of this country.
Abortion restrictions
In all honesty, 50 miles is not far to travel for ANY medical procedure. However, the restrictions on abortions are becoming burdensome for many people...
Monday, February 04, 2013
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