The Moody Blues: Don’t Need a Reindeer I like the sentiment. This one is appropriate to the Occupy Protests. I dedicate it to all those people who say the US is a Christian nation, yet are the most unchristian people I know. Unfortunately, they don’t know who they are. As the song says: Once in [...]

This photo has been reblogged from Liberals Are Cool and Look At This Fucking Teabagger If we listen to the USMSM (which includes US Public broadcasting), the “Tea Party movement” is truly a viable, grassroots movement rather than astroturfed horseshit. 2,000 people were expected at a Tea Party rally in South Carolina, just 30 showed [...]

I have always thought that Libertarianism was right wing anarchism from when I first encountered it as a teen.  This came from my research on Anarchy and Libertarianism. It’s funny, but makes some fairly serious points.   GREETINGS, I {we} have been criticized on these grounds: Why are aliens interested in American politics? Again for [...]

From MikeB, who got it from Norwegianity who got it from Crooks and Liars Nothing I haven’t written about here before. This post is the best: Comparing the Modern Tea Party to the Original By Barbara Smith

It seems that Romania has decided to tax its witches, something that has caused a furore in the Romanian Witch Comunity. Not so much because they have to pay taxes, but they don’t believe they are going to receive anything in the way of benefits from the state. The Queen witch, Bratara Buzea, has cursed [...]

From: http://www.hnn.us/articles/134859.html Barbara Smith is the author of “The Freedoms We Lost: Consent and Resistance in Revolutionary America,” just issued by The New Press. In light of the recent anniversary of the original Tea Party, shouldn’t we consult history to clarify what the Boston brouhaha of 1773 was really about? Here are some things we [...]

The social services are necessary. As is family planning, including the ability for a woman to have abortion. And don’t give me the shit about “right to life” since a right to life implies that a person’s life is sacred: a “pro-life” society, certain basic needs would be assured, including a nutritious diet, sanitary water, [...]

I have to admit that I find the blog American Creation to be really interesting and informative. Which leads to their credit for having a post about William Hogeland (Hysteriography), which is a name I’ve encountered before since we share interests: in particular, early American insurrections and populism. Although, I have to admit his pieces [...]

I have to admit that with the talk of austerity measures and people feeling taxed out that the news that there were tax protests in England caught my attention. Has the TEA (Taxed Enough Already) Party mentality hit the UK as George Monbiot has predicted? The US mind has been perverted by the idea that [...]

Thanks to microdot for this story at alternet although it’s nothing I haven’t been saying for a while now that the Koch Bros. and Rupert Murdoch were behind the Tea Party movement. It seems there is now a new mystery source for the megabucks behind this movement as well. It never fails to amaze me [...]

William Shakespeare’s Macbeth, from Act 5, Scene 5: I have been wanting to mention my US political insider neighbour for a while, but haven’t until now. The reason for this is that I asked him about the coming mid-term elections. His response was this quote from Macbeth: it is a tale Told by an idiot, [...]

Increase the tax base. What is the tax base? That is the group of people who pay taxes, which is part of the reason that this solution isn’t mentioned by the US political parties. This solution would be considered “socialist” since what it proposes is getting more people working. Although, if you consider the actual [...]

Julia Bovey of the Natural Resources Defense Council made a comment that “There is 200 times more mercury in each filling in Congresswoman Bachmann’s teeth than there is in a compact fluorescent light bulb.” This was in response to Bachmann introducing the Light Bulb Freedom of Choice Act (somebody say something about government waste?), to [...]

I’ve got to admit that I am amazed that people in the US can be suckered by televangelists and people such as Glenn Beck given that the film “A Face in the Crowd” came out in 1957. The basic story is that a tramp is turned into a media sensation, but turns out to be [...]