Dr. Carlos Gonzales, Yaqui Mexican medicine man “family doctor”, invoking the Creator at the Tuscon memorial service While many positive comments from both sides of the political spectrum have been proffered concerning President Obama‘s speech yesterday at the memorial service for the six innocents that were murdered last Saturday in Tuscon, AZ, little attention has been given to the Yaqui …
Mugshot of Jared Loughner after massacring six and wounding fourteen When asked if his daughter, Rep. Gabrielle Giffords (D-AZ), currently in a medically induced coma after taking a bullet to the brain, had any political enemies, Spencer Giffords replied: “Yeah, the whole Tea Party.” While at present there is no direct line of evidence linking Jared Loughner to the Tea …
So how far do Americans let these sociopaths go? You know the answer to that as well as I do: somebody must die a senseless death at the hands of one of these intraspecies predators.
From Wikipedia: The Dunning–Kruger effect is a cognitive bias in which unskilled people make poor decisions and reach erroneous conclusions, but their incompetence denies them the metacognitive ability to realize their mistakes.[1] The unskilled therefore suffer from illusory superiority, rating their own ability as above average, much higher than it actually is, while the highly skilled underrate their abilities, suffering from illusory inferiority. This …
The Weeper of the House Watching the newly installed Speaker of the House Rep. John Boehner (Crybaby-OH) read the Preamble to the US Constitution today had me on the edge of my seat, half expecting him to burst into flames as he spoke the words “to promote the general welfare.” Fortunately, ours is a merciful God and the day of reckoning …
Gays and Muslims and Compromisers, oh my! Well, February is rapidly approaching and with it the next edition of the Conference of Conservative Political Action Committee, aka CPAC. We’ve enjoyed covering the Wingnut Woodstock conferences here at US.; see here, here, and here. But a dark undercurrent is roiling ‘neath the Winger Sea, a rip-tide that could rip this year’s …
This is just too funny. Salon published an article titled: Mosque foes launch Bieber boycott The unlikely story of how the teen pop sensation became ensnared in the “ground zero mosque” fight Andy Sullivan, a construction worker and Brooklyn native, has been one of the loudest opponents of Park51, the planned mosque and community center near …
