Monthly Archives: January 2012

What if ‘Citizens United’ Actually United the Citizens? | The Nation

Unfortunately, probably just wishful thinking that people power will overturn corporate money and influence any time soon.

Conservatives will soon listen to their corporate masters and ignore that individual freedoms are being bought and sold by their party’s agenda. Progressive voices, including my Senator Al Franken, will worry more about Hollywood’s bleating about being ripped off (at $8.50 a movie ticket I would argue it goes both ways, pals) than about freedom of expression and freedom from censorship.

Face it folks, the internet was created with “evil” government money, propagated by “socialist” high education systems, and is now being co-opted as yet another way to make a buck.

Shameful.

Know The Font Of This Headline? You’re ‘Just My Type’ : NPR

Obama the candidate really had a smart operation four years ago. One of those effective things was his branding, including great font usage. Let us hope the fonts still works, as does the messaging.

He really has to get across what he is willing to do once the possibility of re-election is off the table. By that I mean, he’s spend three years compromising with folks who have done nothing but demean his patriotism, his faith, his convictions, the color of his skin, and his family members.

Screw them. It hasn’t even resulted in much meaningful legislation. I want to see a president who not only points out how childish, cruel, and reactionary his opponents are, but how he plans to do his job despite them. Honestly, he’s got nothing to lose so he had best start making the argument that way.

Iowa Republicans To The GOP: Please Don’t Ask Us Who Won : It’s All Politics : NPR

Want to know why Republicans are worried so much about voter fraud? I mean, sure, yes, they definitely want to disenfranchise minorities, old people, college kids, overseas military personnel, and anyone else who might potentially vote for a Democrat.

But, also this. In Iowa, the GOP has shown that it is utterly incapable of handling a fair election on their own.

In a caucus process run SOLELY by Republicans, composed SOLELY by Republicans, they don’t know who won. They even – two weeks after the case – have had to throw out the results of eight caucus sites because they have no clue how those votes went. Hell, one site they left in had an adjusted total of 50 votes!

No wonder they don’t trust anyone else. They can’t even do it right by themselves.

An open letter to the people who hate Obama more than they love America

I like this.

It needs said. More often, by more people.

Up until this morning, a guy, (Traitor Rick Perry), who was considered less effective than George W. Bush and who is a fan of Texas secession wanted to be considered a viable candidate for presidency of the United States.

Currently, a man who couldn’t keep a sacred vow to two women (Gingrich) wants to swear on the bible that he will “preserve, protect and defend the Constitution of the United States”. And this, even as he vows to ignore the Supreme Court of the United States.

Each is part of a party whose platform is not to improve our economy, mend fences with a world that has reason to hate and fear us, nor find ways to fix our immigration, labor, environment, infrastructure, or a host of other issues. No, their stated goal is to make Barack Obama a one term president. For some, many I’m sure, that has everything to do with the color of his skin.

And you wonder why I am down on them.

Why Do So Many Have Trouble Believing In Evolution? : 13.7: Cosmos And Culture : NPR

Truth is, this nation thrives on stupidity.

There isn’t a conservative politician alive that doesn’t harp on “elites”. By that, they mean “people who went to college and actually learned something”.

I’m working a temp job, been unemployed for most of the past year and a half, and I’m an “elite” to the GOP.

Why? Because I think. I don’t let child rapist drug addicts tell me what to think on the radio like anyone ingesting hours of Lush Rimjob does every day.

I don’t think a failed quitter of a angry, racist governor of less people than live in my city of Rochester is a hero. Actually, given all the baggage, meth-addled children, illiterate comments, and moronic marketing, I’d almost feel sorry for her.

That’s just literally the tippy top of the pond scum you have to adulate to be a Republican these days. You have to believe that life begins the very moment a drug teenager ejaculates anywhere in the zip code of a ripe ovum. You have to believe the world began somewhere in the book of Genesis and no earlier. The seas are not rising, pizza is a vegetable (not to mention ketchup). Traitors from Jefferson Davis to Oliver North are heroes.

And so on.

But worst of all is the disdain of education. Kids are not supposed to learn how their bodies work. And they certainly should not learn that there are more than two genders. History only matters when written from the perspective of wealthy, mostly white, landowners. Slavery had no bearing on the Civil War breaking out. Etc.

And now this bit – again – with evolution and “Creative Writing”, err, “Intelligent Design”. Look, believe whatever makes you make sense of the world. That said, science exists. Don’t like science? Try this test.

You know what else started off as a theory? You know, like evolution? Gravity. You refuse to believe in theories, go climb up a tall mountain, or a building I suppose. That said, if a building, don’t use the elevator. Evil science made that.

Step out at the top and jump.

That simple.

God might save you, I’ll definitely allow for that, but that theory that Galileo and Newton and others worked on proving is probably going to turn you into mush on impact.

And that, at least, would solve a problem, if not make you change your mind.