Author Archives: John Wallenfeldt

Alright, after this I’m done (I hope)

STILL more teabagging links. Sorry.

As I imagined, a lot of the asshats protesting for the rich last week were the same racist Palinite ilk we saw advertising their bigotry last year. Check out some of the images here for more proof.

In California, just for fun, racism had to compete with anti-Semitism.

You know, my father-in-law keeps trying to give Gabriel little plush elephants to turn him Republican. I know he’s a member of that party for economic reasons that haven’t made sense for decades. The ideas aren’t all bad, but the party obviously doesn’t push them. That said, at some point this trying to steer my son towards a racist, bigoted, Talibangelical point of view is eventually going to piss me off. Besides, he’s part Mexican, the GOP doesn’t want him.

On a lighter note, check out The Daily Show’s English correspondent John Oliver confronts some of the whack jobs in his own special way.

Wealth-Less Effect: Earning Well, Feeling Otherwise – Yahoo! Finance

This meme was old to begin with, and getting increasingly so. Here is yet another article telling us about how bad people who make a quarter million a year are doing. And now their taxes are being RESTORED to pre-Bush levels. Yes, I can play with words too. Our economy was better before Bush cut their taxes. So it isn’t a raise, or an increase, it is a Restoration.

And yes, everyone can adapt to their income and get into bad spending habits, but I sure as hell aren’t going to pity these folks like I would the millions who lost their jobs in this recession.

And why are people writing these articles? Do they WANT a rash of condo and mansion burnings by outraged regular folks?

By Degrees – Third-World Stove Soot Is Target in Climate Fight – Series – NYTimes.com

This seems pretty interesting to me. While fighting the deniers here at home and in India and China, we could be addressing the climate change issue by getting the poor proper stoves and fuel so that we can reduce a big percentage of our global carbon emissions.

That can’t cost very much to do, but do we have the will to pull it off?

Robert Reich’s Blog: A Short Citizen’s Guide to Kooks, Demagogues, and Right-Wingers On Tax Day

Still some tea left in the cup.

I think this article really addresses the teabagger issue. As usual, Bob Reich makes more sense than the supposedly knowledgeable Krugman.

Here we have someone honestly trying to reach out to the angry mob. Compelling argument for deaf ears I imagine.

Plus, some honesty on the whole bunch of shenanigans from Georgia.

Borger: Republicans Twittering away credibility – CNN.com

Some grudging respect to Gloria Borger for giving an honest assessment of the childish and unhelpful behavior of the GOP since the election.

As a Republican herself, I’m a bit surprised she actually put her thoughts out like this, but it is a welcome surprise.

Look, after the warmongering, the racism, the hijacking of religion and the general philosophical idiocy of the GOP, I can’t envision ever voting for any member of that party. That said, they do speak for a section of our society and I truly wish they get back to a rational platform that doesn’t involve calling for armed revolution whenever they lose at the polls.

Political Irony › Focus on the Family Loses Focus

A quick discourse on how religious conservatives twisted their religion to beg for GOP support and lost anyway.

You almost want to feel bad for them except that they’ve created terrorist acts and soured people like me on organized religion. Plus, look at all the lives they’ve taken by chanting for bombing anyone they didn’t agree with.

And THAT, my friends, is why we have separation of Church and State.