After backing away from the greatly lampooned ObamaGator’s Got Your Granny Euthanasia Meme, Beck asks his bewildered guests: How many people in the Green Movement believe that people are a virus? Doesn’t matter, even if its zero. Simply saying they do provides him with a premise for his whacky argument that “ObamaCare” is all about “crazy people,” “forced abortions,” and …
Okay, last straw. Fuck Chuck Grassley and the slug he rode in on. (That goes for DINO Senator Claire McKaskill too, who just appeared on Hardball excusing his sorry ass.) Whatever reason President Obama might have had for allowing this guy to hold health care reform hostage via his position on the Senate Finance Committee just vanished. Grassley spells “bi-partisan” …
The source of the problem? Lizard Brain is diagnosed by unusually thick cranium and remarkable subcutaneous fat layer; trapped, terrified lizard is always symptomatic. As Jacques Ellul points out in his classic 1964 book, Propaganda: The Formation of Men’s Attitudes, propaganda cannot create something out of nothing. The human mind is not an empty vessel in which ready-made ideas can …
With the success of the Blue Dogs allied with the Rethugs to delay a vote on health care reform before Congress’ summer recess, the ad wars have begun. No surprise there. But now a new escalation is afoot. From Randi Rhodes’ blog today: So right wing organizers are targeting the town halls of Democrats with angry mobs. It’s a good …
Crank up the volume Nice to report a feel good story on the economy for a change. I speak, of course, of the Cash For Clunkers program that was hugely over-subscribed, exhausting its initial $1 billion funding in a mere six days. At an average of $4,000 per carbon spewing, global climate heating clunker, that means 250,000 new cars vanished …
Immolation Of Sarah Palin During A Session Of Unsupervised Self-Reflection WASILLA, ALASKA [C.U. News] Responding to an emergency call at the Palin estate in Wasilla late last night, county firemen forced their way into a locked den and found what they believe are the ashy remains of Sarah Palin, the former Alaska governor. “It was a really weird scene,” said …
The Goldman Borg to Obama: You will be assimilated Two Goldman Sachs related items. The first involves Goldman’s continuing takeover of the financial levers of power of the executive branch of the US government, a subject I’ve covered here and here. This week President Obama appointed Goldman’s Vice-Chairman Robert Hormats to the State Department as its undersecretary for economic, energy and …
