"...Private Pyle has dishonored himself, and dishonored the platoon. I have tried to help him, but I have failed. I have failed because you have not helped me. You people have not given Private Pyle the proper motivation." --R. Lee Ermey, … [Read more...]
National Corporate Greed Going Local for the Holidays
The plant in question is an Express Scripts processing facility in Bensalem, Pennsylvania, employing 365 workers represented by SEIU Healthcare PA. In 2009, Express Scripts thanked those workers for setting a nationwide one-day … [Read more...]
Social Security: If The Rich Paid Taxes Like You And Me…Problem Solved
The possibility of victory can be a heavy millstone around the neck of any political candidate who might prefer, in his heart, to spend his main energies on a series of terrifying, whiplash assaults on everything the voters hold dear. There … [Read more...]
Another Veterans Day
Well it's another in a long line of Veterans day's. A time to look back in 20/20 hindsight, and think of those people who didn't make it. This one's a lot different than the others because those guy's are lucky they didn't get to see … [Read more...]
The communication thing
It starts with the definition of President Obama. As a candidate, he was able to withstand the right wing message machine's attempts to define him, at least to the majority of the electorate that put him into the White House. No similar … [Read more...]
Let the “Bush Tax Cuts” expire!
We knew when we passed the "Bush Tax Cuts" that they would blow a huge hole in the budget. That's why they were never meant to be permanent - the numbers just didn't work out. Republicans say all the tax cuts must be preserved. … [Read more...]
Social Security: The War Begins Tuesday, And You Better Say Oh, No!
BIG MISTAKE MANY MAKE RELY ON HORN INSTEAD OF BRAKE BURMA SHAVE --Actual "Burma Shave" Message, 1945, from "Verse By The Side of the Road", Frank Rowsome, Jr. So here's the dish: a limited partnership corporation called The Blackstone … [Read more...]
On Social Security Investment, Or, What About Chile?
"Of what avail are any laws, where money rules alone, Where Poverty can never win its cases? Detractors of the times, who bear the Cynic's scrip, are known To often sell the truth, … [Read more...]
On Asking Experts, Part Two, Or, What’s An LBGT Voter To Do?
A monk asked Ma-tsu [Baso]: What is Buddha? Ma-tsu replied: "The mind is Buddha" A monk asked Ma-tsu: What is Buddha? Ma-tsu replied: "The mind is not Buddha" --From the book "Zen Flesh, Zen Bones: A Collection of Zen and Pre-Zen Writings", … [Read more...]
On “Military Endorsements”, Or, Another Weird Christine O’Donnell Story
So here's the deal: as I mentioned, Christine O'Donnell, perennial Senate candidate from Delaware, has a "Christine O'Donnell for Senate" MySpace page associated with her 2008 Senate campaign, and she has a "Friend Space" on that page. As … [Read more...]
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