Monthly Archives: November 2009
Ayn Rand Is Running The TEA Party
(Boston Globe) There have been many valid questions raised as to just exactly who is running the much talked-about “TEA Party.” Is it Rush Limbaugh? Sara Palin? Glenn Beck? Joe Wilson? Rupert Murdoch? Nope. It’s a dead author. An egomaniac … Continue reading
Filed under Books, Business, Government, Internet, Life, National Issues, News & Politics, Opinion
The White House Blog: “On This Thanksgiving”
Posted by Macon Phillips on November 26, 2009 at 12:00 AM EST: Happy Thanksgiving! Given the holiday, we are releasing the President’s weekly address today. In this video, President Obama calls to our attention the men and women in uniform … Continue reading
Filed under Blogging, Government, Internet, Life, National Issues, News & Politics, Obama, Television
“ClimateGate” and the Biased Conservative Media
Have you heard the latest right-wing, anti-environmentalist talking point? “ClimateGate“ Tony Hake of The San Francisco Examiner was one of the first to break the real story on the web: Britain’s Climate Research Unit, University of East Anglia, suffered a … Continue reading
Filed under Blogging, Environment, International Issues, Internet, National Issues, News & Politics, Opinion
Ayn Rand is Running the TEA Party
(Boston Globe) Coldhearted novelist-philosopher Ayn Rand is Running the both the TEA Party and the GOP, her self-serving ideology the real backdrop of the modern political right-wing. – – Alan Greenspan was one of many Randites who have come to … Continue reading
Filed under Books, Internet, National Issues, News & Politics, Opinion
Open Letter to Harry Reid (Public Option)
Firedoglake has a section entitled “FDL Action” in which I found an easy way to send Senator Harry Reid a little bit of my mind on the health care debate & the matter of the need for a government-run public option … Continue reading
Filed under Government, Internet, Life, National Issues, News & Politics, Opinion
All Hail the Corporate Empire
All hail the Corporate Empire. Poison-pushers and war-mongers rejoice; your neckties have absolved your sins. The rusted wheelchair left to rust by the riverside finds a new owner. A lonely overpass serves its intended purpose: a home for American … Continue reading
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“Perhaps You Will Believe” (Mark Twain)
“Perhaps you will believe with me that civilizations are not realities, but only dreams.” - Mark Twain
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Filed under Government, Internet, Life
The Fearmonger-in-Chief is Glenn Beck of Fox News
The Anti-Defamation League has joined with me in trying to raise awareness over a violent propagandist spreading anti-Americanism on a low credibility network. Here is an excerpt from the ADL report: Glenn Beck’s linkage of Hitler’s plan to round up … Continue reading
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Filed under Internet, News & Politics, Radio, Television
A Leggy Sara Palin Newsweek Cover
Politically-speaking I could not disagree with Sara Palin any more. However, I would like to say that this woman has taken an amazing amount of hard-blows from the left. It would be more impressive in her own personal character if … Continue reading
Filed under Internet, News & Politics, Opinion
R.I.P. Tyler Tenorio
The Santa Cruz Community has suffered a great loss. A young man taken from us in his prime. Whatever the circumstances, this horrible violence has touched me and I don’t feel I conveyed the depth of my thoughts on the … Continue reading
Emailing Alan Colmes of Fox News
I doubt anyone cares but I spent a bit of time on this email and perhaps there are some interested in hear about all this: “You’ve Lost a Customer, Not Like One Customer Ever Mattered” Alan Colmes, You’ve lost a … Continue reading
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Why Does Thou Bloggist So?
I’m The Mad Hatter, as I explained in a previous post, and this is free-flowing cognitive-internet instant-publishing a.k.a. “blogging-for-nothing.” For those of you who are highly against internet / blogger-net advertising let me tell you a little story: I once … Continue reading
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Eric Lightborn
