Crude Ted

March 21, 2013

in Politics

Ted CruzWhat have we done to merit this abomination?

That raucous noise coming out of the District of late is from what appears to be the latest Joe McCarthy wannabe. Calling those with whom you disagree communist and such will earn you that distinctive reputation.

Teddy Cruz is the new senator from Texas. That explains a lot. He comes with the swagger common among those referred to as “all hat and no cattle.”

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Surrender

March 5, 2013

in Economics,Politics

White Flag

It’s over. Most people didn’t realize there was a war. Is it really a war when only one side fights? They won while we sat around congratulating ourselves on being a part of the “Greatest Country in the World.”

Just how is it the “Greatest?”

One of every four prisoners in the world are in our prisons. Please, temper your pride. Thirty-seventh in the world in health. Outside of the top-ten in satisfaction with ones life. Richest population? Not even close. Need I go on?

We used to be number one, What happened?

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Enemies of the People When will the voters of this country wake up and commit these people to mental institutions, prisons or kindergartens?

Some of our “leadership” are simply tools of their plutocratic owners. Others have not the intelligence to understand how ridiculous is the economic twattle that impresses them so much. They even gift us with a self-satisfied smile while exhibiting their ignorance – though some of those smiles might more accurately be described as smirks. To them we are cockroaches.

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Behind The Romney Plan

October 27, 2012

in Economics

You may already know that Romney has 24 advisers on foreign policy, all neo-cons. Seventeen came from the Bush Administration.

Now we are turning to Romney’s chief adviser on the economy, Glenn Hubbard, formerly Bush’s Council of Economic Advisers Chairman.

In other words, if you miss W’s administration, policies and accomplished missions, you can relive them simply by electing Mitt. Of course, adding another economic catastrophe at this time might delay recovery a few generations.

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What States Rights?

October 21, 2012

in Politics

Do you see anything wrong in the graphic? It’s right there in your face; perhaps too obvious.

It’s a political statement by someone who considers himself a super patriot.

Some untutored person quite inappropriately has attached the words “States Rights” to a picture of the Constitution. Untutored? Inappropriate? Sadly.

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An Act of Error

October 18, 2012

in Politics

Everyone knows what terrorism is, right? Obviously not.

I watched a couple of news shows. One has an interview with Senator John McCain. The following show had an interview with another Republican.

Both are criticizing the president, subsequent to the second debate. Both are referring to the killings in Libya as acts of terrorism. Both are ignorant.

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Cut Everything

October 13, 2012

in Economics,Politics

Snake oil salesmen are no longer tarred, feathered and run out of town on a rail. Now they become Republican congressmen or presidential candidates. Their present-day scam is tax cuts, a miracle cure-all.

Tax cuts. Oh, it sounds so good. But, is it? The seductive, siren call was injected into the recent vice presidential debate. If you are in the top 2% of earners, they seem god-given rewards for being good Christians, greedy and ignorant. For the rest of us, it’s a lump of coal in our Christmas stocking.

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How To Win

October 4, 2012

in Politics

Mitt won the first debate. Truth lost. America lost.

People lie for various reasons. Sometimes it’s to spare someone’s feelings. Sometimes it’s for reasons far less noble.

Everyone does it occasionally. Some do it so much that others know not to put trust in anything they say. Then you have people who get away with it. Myth Romney falls into that last group.

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Hubris

September 18, 2012

in Politics

It’s not often that “you people” get to eavesdrop on one of the elite expressing the contempt the elite has for Mr. John Q. Public.

Mitt Romney and his audience of millionaire donors consider 47% of your fellow Americans to be worthless bums. It is a pitiful state of affairs when these plutocrats have so little understanding of those over whom they rule. Truly a pitiable group that does not know what they do not know.

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It Was A . . .

August 15, 2012

in Whatever

This is a chance for me to think more highly of myself as a writer.

Every year the English department of San Jose State University holds the Bulwer-Lytton competition. It is named after Victorian novelist Edward George Bulwer-Lytton.

Why honor a person with whom you are likely unfamiliar? He is the author infamous for the cliché opening line, “It was a dark and stormy night.” Prepare yourself. It’s literature but it ain’t Shakespeare.

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