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The Tattlesnake – Frank Luntz is a Scum-Sucking Pig Edition

RS Janes — Sat, 21 Nov 2009 10:59:24 +0000

(With apologies to our porcine friends who also happen to suck scum, but don’t have much influence on the electorate.} While some readers may chastise me for gross understatement in the title, and I take their point, I decided to keep this clean, or as clean as you can when describing the contents of the sole [...]

Bill to audit Federal Reserve passed in Committee

Greg in cheeseland — Sat, 21 Nov 2009 07:22:52 +0000

Excerpt: For the first time in history, the Federal Reserve Bank may be facing an audit. Yesterday, the House Finance Committee passed a bill (HR 1207) that authorizes the Government Accountability Office (GAO) to conduct a wide-ranging audit of the Fed’s secretive deals with foreign central banks and major U.S. financial institutions. HR 1207 faced fierce last-minute [...]

Students Protest at UC Berkeley

Bob Patterson — Fri, 20 Nov 2009 22:53:45 +0000

A demonstrator at University of California Berkeley shows support for the activists in Wheeler Hall, who occupied the school building as part of the strike protesting fee hikes. The building was occupied early Friday, November 20, 2009.

Chickenhawks (Not) at War

RS Janes — Fri, 20 Nov 2009 10:56:42 +0000

GOP blocks bill to freeze credit card interest rate hikes

Greg in cheeseland — Fri, 20 Nov 2009 07:22:28 +0000

Excerpt: Republican senators on Wednesday blocked an effort to debate a bill that would prevent credit card companies from raising interest rates, fees and finance charges before new regulations come into effect in February. Earlier this year, Sen. Chris Dodd (D-CT), who heads the Senate Banking Committee, wrote and passed through the Senate the Credit Card Accountability, [...]

Palin-Beck: Yeah, That’s the Ticket!

RS Janes — Thu, 19 Nov 2009 11:54:55 +0000

Gen. Wesley Clark’s advice: Get out of Afghanistan

Greg in cheeseland — Thu, 19 Nov 2009 08:24:07 +0000

Excerpt: Retired Gen. Wesley Clark has some advice for Congress: Start planning an exit strategy from Afghanistan. It is no surprise that Clark’s comments have been ignored by the mainstream media. It seems that anyone who speaks out against the occupation of Afghanistan and Iraq is marginalized by the corporate media. But if they have credibility, like [...]

Ambush Alert!

Bob Patterson — Wed, 18 Nov 2009 23:40:22 +0000

On Sunday, November 15, 2009, this columnist listened to the Mario Solis-Marich show on KTLK AM radio and was a bit alarmed to hear the host urging his listeners to help Tom Tancredo become the Republican candidate for the Governor of Colorado next year. Isn’t that a sophomoric exorcise in political strategy? His rational for [...]

Hitler and Christmas

Peregrin — Wed, 18 Nov 2009 09:34:42 +0000

The newest article making the rounds this holiday season is entitled ”How Hitler’s propaganda machine tried to take Christ out of Christmas.” Look for mention of it on the O’Reilly Factor soon. Replete with pictures of tree ornaments with swastikas, the article is about one woman’s obsessive search for such knick-knacks, along with her version of WWII [...]

Sarah isn’t worth a word

Greg in cheeseland — Wed, 18 Nov 2009 04:25:08 +0000

Excerpt: Reading her book of lies, Going Rogue isn’t worth the time either. “Authors” should be able to read a book before they can get one published, but that is obviously not the case with the GOP’s favorite MILF. Thank God for ghostwriters, huh, Sarah? Once again the “barracuda” is getting attention from the corporate media and [...]

Obama to focus on deficit reduction and job creation in 2010

Greg in cheeseland — Wed, 18 Nov 2009 00:13:57 +0000

Excerpt: President Obama plans to announce in next year’s State of the Union address that the administration will focus on deficit reduction and job creation in 2010. According to POLITICO, which is often used to convey administration messages to Congress, top aides involved in planning the address said Obama “wants to focus extensively on cutting the federal [...]

The Tattlesnake – Palin: the GOPs Political Poison Pill Edition

RS Janes — Tue, 17 Nov 2009 15:23:29 +0000

“Her agenda was not necessarily to show me in the best light.” – Sarah Palin to Oprah Winfrey, complaining about Katie Couric’s 2008 interview that revealed her to be an uninformed pageant sash, as quoted at NBC’s Today Show website, Nov. 16, 2009. As this quote shows, Sarah Palin still has no idea what the role of [...]

The GOP: Blinded By the Wrong

RS Janes — Mon, 16 Nov 2009 12:11:08 +0000