Today’s New York Times editorial isn’t pulling any punches about Obama’s debt ceiling deal, calling it precisely what it is – a capitulation….The deal would avert a catastrophic government default, immediately and probably through the end of 2012. T…
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RedBedHead: Republocrats Agree To Sodomize Americans, Fund Israel
…and I don’t mean sodomy in the fun frolicky sense of the world. What I mean is that they’ve agree that the deficit will not be “fixed” by raising taxes on the wealthy – whose tax breaks (along with multiple unwinnable and expensive wars & a defe…
Continue readingThey Call Me "Mr. Sinister": Dear Mr. Obama
I read this with sad recognition:In other words: it makes no difference to us how much we stomp on liberals’ beliefs or how much they squawk, because we’ll just wave around enough pictures of Michele Bachmann and scare them into unconditional submissi…
Continue readingThe Disaffected Lib: Obama – A Wall Street Democrat in Progressive Clothing
When we listened to his stirring speeches on the campaign trail, Barack Obama sounded genuinely progressive. Then he won the presidency and got down to business – Wall Street business.In a campaign almost as frenzied as the effort to …
Continue readingPushed to the Left and Loving It: Debt Ceiling Crisis? Obama Should Just do What Reagan and Bush Did
Ronald Reagan incurred more debt than all previous presidents combined, and was forced to raise the debt ceiling 17 times. No trumpets blared.George H.W. Bush, inherited this massive debt and was forced to raise the debt ceiling 7 times. No beating of …
Continue readingRedBedHead: Could US Debt Debate Fragment The Republicans?
Tea Party Republicans: ready to go all the way
Republican House Speaker John Boehner must be wondering at this moment what to do with his rather large embarrassment of riches – with the emphasis on embarrassment. The mid-terms swept Republicans into …
RedBedHead: Global Warming Solved: Fire The Scientist
Remember how Obama said all that stuff about the importance of whistleblowers to keep government honest? Yeah, well, you might want to ask Bradley Manning the punchline to that particular joke. But it seems that the persecution of anybody who says anyt…
Continue readingThey Call Me "Mr. Sinister": Obama
Worst. President. Ever? It is a compelling case. I think it is a tie with Bush Jr.
Continue readingRedBedHead: US Debt War Will Lead To Recession
Hate to say it folks but there’s about a snowball’s chance in hell that the world won’t have returned to recession by the end of this year. There are many factors involved that make this likely – the necessary slowing of China’s growth, the defaults an…
Continue readingSlap Upside The Head: United States Inches Toward Real Freedom
Well, I’m back from my vacation abroad, so let’s start up again with some short, but welcome news! New York officially started issuing same-sex marriage licenses yesterday, just days after President Barack Obama certified the end of the military’s silly “don’t ask, don’t tell” policy that banned openly gay citizens from serving in the country. […]
Continue readingCanadian Soapbox: The Tea Party movement – Defending the undertaxed from the overtaxed
Although the debt ceiling crisis playing out in Washington is an American concern, it is an issue with huge ramifications here in Canada and across the world.
American historian Bernard Berenson is credited with this famous quote:
“Governments …
LeDaro: Obama and Debt Ceiling Negotiations
The following cartoon says it all. What more will Repugs ask of him?
Continue readingThe Disaffected Lib: It’s Official – Obama Has No Spine
It’s gone, surgically removed by specialists from the Republican congressional ranks. Now Obama has lost all chance of ever being able not to roll over on command.Elizabeth Warren is out. The best possible candidate for director…
Continue readingRedBedHead: Obama’s Phoney Budget War
There’s a fairly decent chance that the morons who run the American Empire will let the country slip into default at the beginning of August, causing a cascade of penalties and blowback that will kill the barely breathing recovery. Greek politicians ca…
Continue readingPushed to the Left and Loving It: Mushy Middles, Dirty Words and Why we Must Rebuild the Centre
When I posted on why Jack Layton should drop the “brothers and sisters” socialist talk if he hoped to survive the next four years, I received several comments and many emails, telling me that I was wrong.Many of his followers actually fully support the…
Continue readingWise Law Blog: "Mom, I’m in Mr.President’s Car…"
This is kinda cute:- Garry J. Wise, TorontoVisit our Toronto Law Firm website: www.wiselaw.net TORONTO EMPLOYMENT LAW • TORONTO CIVIL LITIGATION & ESTATE LITIGATION • TORONTO FAMILY LAW & DIVORCE ORIGINALLY POSTED AT WISE LAW BLOG • SUBS…
Continue readingDeSmogBlog - Clearing the PR Pollution that Clouds Climate Science: Scientists and Activists Issue A Call To Action To Stop Keystone XL Tar Sands Pipeline
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A group of eleven veteran U.S. and Canadian scientists and environmentalists today jointly issued a call to action for non-violent civil disobedience in front of the Wh…
Continue readingDavid Climenhaga's Alberta Diary: Having a majority means never having to say you’re sorry – even about the ‘Taliban Jack’ slur
Above: Afghan fighters against the British occupation in the late 19th Century. Not much has changed but the rifles. Below: Peter MacKay, Jack Layton.We’re still waiting for that apology to Opposition Leader Jack Layton from the Harper Conservatives….
Continue readingDeSmogBlog - Clearing the PR Pollution that Clouds Climate Science: Al Gore Roasts Obama Over Climate Position
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In a scorching, 7000-word article in the coming issue of Rolling Stone, Al Gore savages mainstream media for its incompetent reporting of climate change and roasts President Barack Obam…
Continue readingLeDaro: Obama Has Magical Touch
A baby will not stop crying, until Obama held the baby who was magically calmed. Does Obama have that magical touch, or is the baby very smart, wanted to be held by the President of the United States? It’s a funny video.UPDATE: I just found out from Jy…
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