Waving Minnows

Wisconsin Workers Get Support from Poland's Solidarity Trade Union

2011-02-27T12:00:00.012-05:00

Massachusetts Supports Wisconsin Workers!

The image above is one of many from rallies across the nation this past week supporting Wisconsin workers' right to bargain. To see many more images, click here!

On Wisconsin!

"Your victory is our victory as well"
Piotr Duda, head of the 700,000-member "Solidarnosc"

"The Polish trade union Solidarity, whose protests in the early 1980s helped precipitate the downfall of Soviet communism, has embraced the cause of Wisconsin's protesting public workers."
David Gibson, Politics Daily, Feb 26, 2011

On Wisconsin!

Tea for Carly, Crumbs for YOU!

2010-07-25T23:15:00.003-04:00

Remember, the original Tea Party hearties dressed up as Indians to cover their misdeeds. Indians at that time were treated worse than slaves. Some protest.

What disguise will Carly wear to cloak her dismal deeds as a CEO?

If you've grown tired of Obama

2010-07-18T21:47:00.002-04:00

… just remember this …

Capitalism Explained

2010-07-08T18:54:00.000-04:00

I think David Harvey nailed it.

Join the discussion, whether you agree or disagree.

Corruption Road - Get "Owned" by the Media, the American way!

2010-07-07T12:58:00.001-04:00

Corruption Road, your free guide to how you will be completely "owned" by Big Media. Follow the road to see how media lobbyists influence Congress and pollute media policy. Join in with shill consumer interest orgs to completely flummox the already prostrate American Public. Do you part for the Recovery! Support media consolidation and profit!

Wet T-Shirts and the Gulf Oil Geyser

2010-06-14T00:38:00.002-04:00

"There's been a lot of finger pointing and a lot of confusion about how we came to face the greatest oil spill in US history. This video lays it out. This problem started in Washington and can end in Washington, but only if President Obama and other elected leaders get real about closing the revolving door between corporate lobbyists and our government.

"Lobbyists make up 2% of Washington DC, yet they've been able to run roughshod over our democracy, rigging the rules and fixing the system so that 98% of the country gets little or no say.

"If you think it's time to take our democracy back, we think this is a video you and your friends will want to see."

Fight corporate power

Not an environmental disaster? Doh!

2010-06-05T16:32:00.006-04:00

"This is not an environmental disaster, and I will say that again and again."
- Congressman Don Young (R-Alaska ) speaking about the Gulf of Mexico oil spill.

Yet, here is just one of many views you aren't supposed to see.

Why not send Don Young a message in your very own words?

BP - Profit over Safety?

2010-05-25T14:52:00.005-04:00

In an exclusive and shocking report, The Daily Beast published an internal BP memo calculating cost versus risk with regard to worker safety. Do you think this could have been their modus operandi with the Gulf oil spill?

Excerpts from BP's Shocking Memo, by Rick Outzen

The refinery explosion resulted in more than 3,000 lawsuits, including Coon’s, and out-of-court settlements totaling $1.6 billion. BP was also convicted of a felony violation of the Clean Air Act, fined $50 million and sentenced to three years probation. Last year, the Occupational Safety and Health Administration levied the largest monetary penalty in its history, $87 million, for "failing to correct safety problems identified after a 2005 explosion that killed 15 workers at its Texas City, Texas refinery."

and

We know that the Deepwater well lacked the remote-control, acoustical valve that experts believe would have shut off the well when the blowout protector failed. The acoustic trigger costs about $500,000. How would that stand up to a similar “Maximum Justifiable Spend” analysis (especially when BP’s liability is officially capped at $75 million by federal law)?

Image from the RNC webite

Tell Sarah Palin to help!

2010-05-10T18:23:00.000-04:00

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Plane Carrying New York Times Square Bomb Suspect Recalled to Gate at JF...

2010-05-05T14:15:00.001-04:00

Our modern world.

Take the DeFox Challenge!

2010-04-08T15:23:00.002-04:00

DeFoxify your system!!

Bring Sanity Back Into Your Life!

* Side effects of the 30 Day DeFox may include: breakout of clarity, spreading of rationality, fits of rationalization, tolerance of others, lowered blood pressure, suppressed bloodlust, breakout of truth, analytical seepage, extra energy, faith in your fellow man, more enjoyment of things around you, reduced mockery, and/or loss of irritability.

Easter news, candidly speaking

2010-04-04T20:35:00.005-04:00

Gen. McChrystal: We've Shot 'An Amazing Number Of People' Who Were Not Threats

"We really ask a lot of our young service people out on the checkpoints because there's danger, they're asked to make very rapid decisions in often very unclear situations. However, to my knowledge, in the nine-plus months I've been here, not single case where we have engaged in an escalation of force incident and hurt someone has it turned out that the vehicle had a suicide bomb or weapons in it and, in many cases, had families in it."

Oh, and its been a tough Easter for the Pope

"…the pope's personal preacher, Father Raniero Cantalamessa, said in a Good Friday sermon that attacks on the Catholic Church and the pope over the sexual abuse scandal were comparable to "collective violence" against Jews."

Infallibility has built-in problems including… no rest for the weary:

Happy Easter!

Corporate Ties to Network Political "Journalism"

2010-02-25T05:26:00.001-05:00

“The Media-Lobbying Complex”: Investigation Exposes Undisclosed Corporate Ties of Network Political Pundits

…read more at Democracy Now!

One wonders if this was considered in the Supreme Court's decision regarding "free" corporate speech?

:>)

Beware the Communists Among Us

2010-02-23T22:51:00.001-05:00

The Daily Show With Jon Stewart

Mon - Thurs 11p / 10c

Rage Within the Machine - Progressivism

www.thedailyshow.com

Daily Show
Full Episodes

Political Humor

Health Care Crisis

What more can one say? :>)

Let's Begin the Torture Trials

2010-02-20T21:51:00.001-05:00

Yoo Said Bush Could Order Civilians 'Massacred'
By Michael Isikoff, News-week
20 February 2010

The chief author of the Bush administration's "torture memo" told Justice Department investigators that the president's war-making authority was so broad that he had the constitutional power to order a village to be "massacred," according to a report by released Friday night by the Office of Professional Responsibility.

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Tell Attorney General Holder:
You must prosecute Dick Cheney for torture!

Waterboarding is torture and a war crime. The UN Convention on Torture, the Geneva Conventions, the Red Cross, and constitutional governments around the globe agree on this point of law. More to the point, Attorney General Eric Holder has stated publicly that waterboarding is torture. Cheney's confession legally obligates Holder to prosecute him.

So tell me you don’t want Cheney prosecuted for torture?

Bumper Stickers Mean Trouble

2010-02-14T23:02:00.000-05:00

Be careful what you wear to political rallies - no t-shirts with inflammatory messages like "Peace Now". You're not in America, after all.

Below, you can listen to an interesting "On the Media" audio story about what not to do when going to an official government event whose sponsors may not agree with your point of view.

Fender Bender
February 12, 2010
In March of 2005, Leslie Weise was ejected from a Town Hall meeting with the president because she arrived in a car with a bumper sticker that read, “No More Blood For Oil.” Were her First Amendment rights violated? ACLU senior counsel Chris Hansen argued just that in court. He explains.

On the minds of many in the UK

2010-02-01T23:19:00.001-05:00

I sympathize with the many UK photographers penalized for plying their highly skilled trade amid such unusual rules as those implemented to "prevent terrorism". What about the blow-back from patriotic citizens who become falsely accused of crimes against the state for utilizing the tools of their lawful trade?

Now I see that it is a "crime" in Boston to photograph police in the performance of their duties.

One wonders where it is all heading.

Howard Zinn, 1922-2010

2010-01-28T20:01:00.006-05:00

Watch Democracy Now!'s tribute

“If democracy were to be given any meaning, if it were to go beyond the limits of capitalism and nationalism, this would not come, if history were any guide, from the top. It would come through citizen’s movements, educating, organizing, agitating, striking, boycotting, demonstrating, threatening those in power with disruption of the stability they needed.” --Howard Zinn

More tributes here.

Merry Christmas, from Ronald Reagan!

2009-12-21T23:20:00.007-05:00

"I'm sending coffin nails to all my friends, and the tobacco companies are glad to finance my campaigns to boot. What a laugh!"

Smoke all the Chesterfields you want, but will Mr. Reagan's party take care of you when you're old and dying of cancer? I don't think so. Dear Ron was one of the first to attack the original Medicare program as "socialized medicine".

The refrain still works today, apparently. Corporate welfare is fine; taking care of your citizens' deteriorating health when they use your products, like tobacco, well . . . that's positively un-American.

Remember how hard it was to fight the Big Tobacco lobby in the previous century, then think about how effective Big Insurance has been in defeating decent, affordable health care.

In case you had any doubts about who runs the show, see "Class War Is Over, Working People Lost".

Smoke Chesterfields, for a taste that's mild and soothing to your throat with no unpleasant after-taste. Doctor recommended!

22 Million Missing Emails from the Bush Admin "found"!

2009-12-16T02:37:00.009-05:00

Hmm. Didn't Rosemary Woods, Dick Nixon's secretary "accidentally" erase 22 minutes of crucial White House tapes? What is it with "22"? It must be one of the mystical Republican numbers.

22 Million Bush Emails Recovered

The 22 million e-mails "would never have been found but for our lawsuits and pressure from Capitol Hill," said Anne Weismann, chief counsel for CREW. "It was only then that they did this reanalysis and found as a result that there were 22 million e-mails that they were unable to account for before."

…and said in response to a former White House spokesman whining about "a continued anti-Bush agenda, nearly a year after a new president was sworn in."

Let the crocodile tears begin for the former Bush administration apologists.

Yet,

"We may never discover the full story of what happened here," said Melanie Sloan, CREW's executive director. "It seems like they just didn't want the e-mails preserved."

Sloan said the latest count of misplaced e-mails "gives us confirmation that the Bush administration lied when they said no e-mails were missing."

Was it incompetence or lying? Was the WMD intelligence inaccurate or deceitful? What's the real M.O. of the GWB years?

I think you know the answer.

Don't salivate yet, though. Any information gleaned from the emails won't be available until 2014 at the earliest, which may be too soon for the former leaders of the Bush cabal.

First Global Map of Mercury

2009-12-16T01:58:00.009-05:00

Image: USGS. Large, Extra Large, and Ridiculously Huge version of this image available at the USGS Astrogeology Center.

Story Link: First Global Map of Mercury
from Wired.com

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"Sarah Palin is Boring…Confused"

2009-11-21T23:19:00.006-05:00

Martha Stewart sums up the Palin experience in the following clip. She wouldn't watch her "if you paid me."

Read the full story at Gawker and be sure to view the clip of Palin fans booing her with the same passion and hatred she inspired in them with her attack speeches.

Sarah Palin Now Pissing Off Everyone: Fans Boo Her, Martha Stewart Calls Her "Dangerous"

Join the Million Fax March NOW!

2009-11-16T00:52:00.001-05:00

Who learned manners in school?

2009-10-20T01:53:00.006-04:00

Grade school kids in 1959 were treated to this film, "Lunchroom Manners".

I ask you, did it make a difference?

Now take a look at what Conservatives for Patients’ Rights and the health care lobby have in store for us and you'll see that bullies never paid attention to anything in school.

Are you a conservative? Do you want to find conservatives who support healthcare reform? Join the AMA's Patient Action Group.

Healthcare in the U.S.A.

2009-09-25T15:24:00.001-04:00

Call your Congressperson and insist they support the Public Option, please!