In Europe for their tax dollars, they get universal health coverage. We here in America get a bunch of weapons and give tax cuts to millionaires and billionaires who don’t need ‘em. Why? Because Fox News said we should. Let’s face the cold and clammy facts: we’re a country of idiots, run by a class of amoral scoundrels and criminals.
Why there isn’t rioting in the streets over the turn for the (much) worse the quality of life has taken in America is a mystery. How is it possible that it’s gotten this badwithout major social unrest? Beats me.
I think Bob Dylan may have said it best. ”There’s a hard rain’s gonna fall.” When Americans finally decide to retake their own destiny, it will undoubtedly be ugly. The longer the masses wait, the worse it is likely to get.
Is it just the only slur they can pronounce correctly or do they have some particular reason for slandering liberals by associating this centrist with us? Obama does not follow liberal principles and his government consistently ignores and derides the left. He has called us sanctimonious and mocked us any time we have stood in the way of his repeated surrender to conservatives. His chief of staff called us “fucking retarded”. The only flack Rahm Emanuel got for that was for using the word “retarded”, and that was from Sarah Palin! The administration did not come down on Emanuel for his remarks that could alienate the base of the Democratic party. Of course not. The only base the administration feels the need to pander to is the Republican base. The administration is not afraid of losing liberal votes, so they feel safe in abusing us while going after the far right and so-called independents.
Yes, if liberals abandoned the Democratic Party in the next election, the Democrats would lose. Plain and simple. But why does this country need a reminder of what happens under a far-right government? We already suffered through the Bush Regime and have still not shaken off the ill effects of that repeated assault on liberty. But maybe the country is not the institution in need of the lesson. Maybe it is our deeply flawed “two” party system that is in need of the shock.
Ultimately, we liberals have to realize that the Democrats are not interested in our interests. What do we do about that?
YOUR CAR IS JAPANESE. YOUR PIZZA IS ITALIAN. YOUR POTATO IS GERMAN. YOUR DEMOCRACY IS GREEK. YOUR COFFEE IS BRAZILIAN.YOUR TEA IS TAMIL. YOUR WATCH IS SWISS. YOUR FASHION IS FRENCH. YOUR SHIRT IS INDIAN. YOUR SHOES ARE THAI. YOUR ELECTRONICS ARE CHINESE. AND YOU COMPLAIN THAT YOUR NEIGHBOR IS AN IMMIGRANT? PULL YOURSELF TOGETHER.
Glenn Beck uses audio from Citizen Radio to try to make some damn point. He is so filled with conspiracy theories and nonsense that I can’t even follow what he’s trying to say most of the time. He really does strike me as mentally ill. It’s kind of sad to see somebody being paraded out on TV for the sake of ratings like this. I sincerely hope it is all just an act on Beck’s part, because otherwise this guy is being exploited by Fox News.
I guess he wouldn’t be the first, though.
Anyway, if you would like to listen to the complete interview, devoid of Beck’s twisting and in full context, you can check it out here.
After three weeks of fruitless haggling with the Israeli government, the Obama administration has given up its effort to persuade Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu to renew an expired freeze on the construction of Jewish settlements for 90 days, two senior officials said on Tuesday.
Why should that be any different than anything else the Dems have handed over to the forces of Slightly-More-Evil-Than-Themselves? Seriously, what haven’t they given up on? Medicare for all? Public option? Guantanamo? Warrantless wiretapping? Cap-and-trade? Bush tax cuts? Gave them all up WITHOUT A FUCKING FIGHT! They’re still pretending that they’re going to repeal Don’t Ask Don’t Tell. But one of three things will happen: they’ll either give it up in hopes of getting Republican support for something else (which will not materialize), they will make a little show of it and then let it get buried in procedure until the Republicans take over the House and it will never be heard of again, or they will just plain give up.
Christiana Figueres, executive secretary of the U.N. Framework Convention on Climate Change, invoked the ancient jaguar goddessIxchel in her opening statement to delegates gathered in Cancun, Mexico, noting that Ixchel was not only goddess of the moon, but also “the goddess of reason, creativity and weaving. May she inspire you — because today, you are gathered in Cancun to weave together the elements of a solid response to climate change, using both reason and creativity as your tools.”
If we are doing things that we wouldn’t put up with other countries doing to us, perhaps we should stop doing those things. Would we put up with Egypt starting a war with Mexico and then sending troops and conducting drone strikes in Texas? Okay, bad example…
