Recognizing that there’s just not enough hilarity these days: But, don’t forget Detroit Republicans for Romney
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The Disaffected Lib: And If You Still Can’t Believe America is Crazy
Consider this bill now working its way through the Wyoming legislature. On Friday, the Wyoming House of Representatives advanced a bill to set up a task force to prepare for the total economic and political collapse of the United States. Per the bill, the panel would investigate things like food
Continue readingThe Disaffected Lib: Europe Remains "A Question of War and Peace"
Former German chancellor Helmut Kohl warns today’s crop of European leaders not to forget the lessons of Europe’s bloody past. “The current discussion in Europe and the crisis in Greece mustn’t lead us to lose sight of or even question or retreat from the goal of a united Europe,” Kohl
Continue readingThe Disaffected Lib: Don’t Buy That New Atlas Just Yet
Somewhere down in the crawlspace is my highschool atlas from the 60’s. I have kept it as I have the four or five ‘updated’ atlases I picked up over the intervening years. It’s a lot of fun to go back and see maps of countries that are no more, empires
Continue readingThe Disaffected Lib: Why Heartland Inc. Needs to Be Taken Down
Our youth, as the radical right wants them to be
Continue readingThe Disaffected Lib: This Just In – Rich People Lie & Cheat
Rich people are more likely to lie and cheat than ordinary stiffs like you. A study published yesterday in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences began when a PhD candidate, Paul Piff, wanted to explore whether higher social class was linked to higher ideals. The answer Piff found
Continue readingThe Disaffected Lib: Wiki-Anon, The New Empire Busters?
The dynamics of this duo promise to be earth-shaking. WikiLeaks joining forces with Anonymous. As Cole Stryker writes over at Salon.com, we may be on the brink in a new era of guerrilla transparency: This is huge; it’s the first time Anonymous has ever cooperated with an aboveground entity, lending
Continue readingThe Disaffected Lib: It’s That Time Again. Care To Place A Bet?
The Oscars are over. Now we turn our attention to the Republican presidential campaign and possible running mates for the frontrunners. There should be a coffee table book of Republican hopefuls and their running mates. It would be a mixed horror/comedy theme. Ike had Nixon who led the pogrom against
Continue readingThe Disaffected Lib: Rupe Murdoch’s Morally Bankrupt News Crews
E-mails are surfacing that show how extensively Rupert Murdoch’s operators in the UK corrupted government and police officials. News International had claimed that the voicemail hacking was a “rogue” operation. Apparently not. The head of the police inquiry into phone hacking, Detective Assistant Commissioner Sue Akers, said police were investigating
Continue readingThe Disaffected Lib: Britain Secures Escape Route Out of Afghanistan
Britain has cut a deal with Kazakhstan to let it extract six billion dollars worth of equipment, including tanks and armoured personnel carriers, safely out of Afghanistan. The Brits were scrambling for an exit after Pakistan closed the supply route via Karachi. The plan is to get British vehicles and
Continue readingThe Disaffected Lib: And The Leaks Just Keep On Coming
Wikileaks rocks – at least if you’re part of the US intelligence community. They’ve just released a dump of e-mails from American security outfit, Stratfor, sometimes described as the “shadow CIA.” Among the zingers is the revelation that Osama bin Laden was in “routine” contact with top officials of Pakistan’s
Continue readingThe Disaffected Lib: No, No, These Are Primaries, Not Primates
I just can’t understand why Republican presidential candidates don’t get evolution. After all, they’ve mastered the ability to reverse it.
Continue readingThe Disaffected Lib: The Dead Wolves of Athabasca
The next victims of Steve Harper’s bitumen fetish are to be thousands of grey or timber wolves. Harper passed a death sentence on them, slaughtering one species supposedly to take himself off the hook for endangering another. Expanding Tar Sands production is contributing to the decline of caribou herds. Harper’s
Continue readingThe Disaffected Lib: Security for Oil
“Nice country ya got here. It’d be a real shame if something happened to it.” Britain is hot to trot for Somalia or, to be specific, Somalia’s oil. And, it’s trying to get a leg up on the competition by offering the country humanitarian aid and security assistance. In particular
Continue readingThe Disaffected Lib: Gas Prices Soaring? Care to Speculate Why?
An eye-opening analysis from McClatchey Newspapers. As in Canada, American pump prices are soaring. Republican candidates are jumping aboard to blame Obama. But the newspaper points out to two facts that point to the real culprit. Fact one – Americans’ demand for gasoline is trending downward. Fact two – so
Continue readingThe Disaffected Lib: Hamas Flips, Turns on Assad, Backs Revolt
The Palestinian Islamic movement, Hamas, has had a long relationship with Syrian president Bashar al Assad. That’s now over. Hamas has switched sides and now supports the Syrian revolt to overthrow Assad. Hamas went public after nearly a year of equivocating as Assad’s army, largely led by fellow members of
Continue readingThe Disaffected Lib: Definition of a Conservative
A Conservative is an old white man sitting on his porch yelling at the Future to get off his lawn. I wish I could remember where I read that. I think I found it on Slate.com. It stuck in my mind ever since and I thought I should share
Continue readingThe Disaffected Lib: The Peril of the Authoritarian Mind
“They would march America into a dictatorship and probably feel that things had improved as a result…. And they are so submissive to their leaders that they will believe and do virtually anything they are told. They are not going to let up and they are not going away.” –
Continue readingThe Disaffected Lib: The Modern Right – Either They Get Toppled or We’re All Going Down
It’s time we stopped treating the chasm between the right and left as a legitimate difference of opinion. It’s not and that’s very dangerous – for them and for us. It seems counter-intuitive that, even as scientific research steadily pours in corroborating the theory of global warming, the gap between
Continue readingThe Disaffected Lib: The Perversion of Canada’s Military
Since he clawed his way into power, Steve Harper has wasted little time turning Canada’s public and armed services into political agencies of the prime minister’s office. He began by gagging the public service and the armed forces. Under Harper’s iron fist communications policy, the public were not allowed direct
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