Ted Haggard's "Massage Chair" For Sale on eBay
Yes, now you can own a piece of Evangelical Right Wing Hypocrisy History. The story comes from Colorado Confidential:
View ArticleDenationalizing the Military...
is what we need to do to destroy the Military-Industry Complex, and how it all goes together with Oil, Middle East, I-P, Global Warming, Iraq, Iran Osama, everything thing. What if we just got rid of...
View ArticleWas Jeff Gannon Brought in For Ted Haggard? (now w/ pics)
Warning: Complete Speculation Lots of seemingly unrelated things coming together.... Started with Milbank on Olbermann just now, pointed me to this: Here's what Dana wrote today, in regards to...
View ArticleWanted: Guaranteed Paid Vacation
This is just another installment of "what is wrong with the United States". Most U.S. firms do in fact give employees vacations, but the lack of government guarantees means one in four private-sector...
View ArticleStop Buying Things
You don't need an iPhone. You don't need a new outfit. You don't need an XBox. You don't need a bigger house. You don't need any Starbucks. You don't need a manicure. You don't need anything from...
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The Iraq War Memorial
I was born after Vietnam, and though the Vietnam Memorial is very powerful (watching uniformed men and women getting ready for Iraq walk by it when I was in DC last really made me stop and shake my...
View ArticleCorporations Are People Too
As 300spartansgym noted today, Colorado Governor (and Democrat) Bill Ritter signed HB 1355. The law will now prevent "insurance companies from penalizing small businesses if employees or their...
View ArticlePaul Polls 2nd, Tops Guiliani, McCain in UT Straw Poll
Could the wave of Ron Paul enthusiasm actually be transforming in to political support? From the Utah Republican Party website (with a big ol' hat-tip to marshall over at Wasatch Watcher). The results:...
View ArticleDems Start Some Class War!
Can I take my vote back from yesterday’s "do you approve of Congress" vote? If the Democrats can get Bush to veto this piece of legislation (via Yahoo), they'll have my confidence once again:...
View ArticleCar Bomber of Women's Health Clinic Charged With "Arson"
Yup, the "terrorist" got sentenced the other day to 5 years in prison! From the 6/30/07 DesMoines Register (h/t to Fark): DAVENPORT -- A Detroit man was sentenced to five years in prison Friday for...
View ArticleSay "NO!" to Hedge Fund, Subprime Mortgage Bail Out
My new favorite blog is Calculated Risk. They quote the Wall Street Journal: Investors received a letter earlier this week from Braddock Financial Corp. of Denver. It said it was closing its Galena...
View ArticleMortgage Meltdown? Moody's Slashes Bond Ratings
Calculated Risk is my new favorite blog. They informed me that: July 10 (Bloomberg) -- Moody's Investors Service lowered the credit ratings on $5.2 billion of bonds backed by subprime mortgages and...
View ArticleMortgage Meltdown: Bear Stearns Funds Worth 'Nearly Nothing'
I guess this would be third installment in my series of the coming subprime mortgage meltdown occurring in the U.S. economy. Part I is here, Part II is here. As my new favorite blog Calculated Risk is...
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DOW Ready to Tumble More? Tomorrow Might Be The Day
I've been following the Mortgage Meltdown quite closely, and have posted things here on days when I wanted to hear from the Kossack Community. Today is another one of those days. While I'm no Warren...
View ArticleSCHIP Must See: GOP Really Does Think Poor Kids Are Funny
x-posted from SquareState Finally! After all the tap dancing they've been doing for, well, forever, the GOP let the booze flow early this Friday, and gave the kiddies the keys to the House Energy and...
View ArticleThe Rich Pay Less Taxes
Or, as the GOP loves it, Work = Bad, Wealth = Good. In America, if you are a hedge fund manager making $100,000,000 then you pay a 15% tax rate, since your "income" is labeled as "carried interest",...
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It's Time To Imprison Pregnant Women
(Inspired by Fundies in Colorado trying to give fertilized eggs the same rights as people.) If every blastocyst is a person... then there's one thing we must do. We must require every woman capable of...
View ArticleLiberal Thoughts (w/ poll)
The average cow produces 8 gallons of milk in a day. A hen will lay an egg a day. A hen will continue to lay an egg a day until it amasses a "clutch" of between 3 and 4 eggs in its nest. It takes 20...
View ArticleBeyond American Capitalism
I'm sorry to break it to you, but American Capitalism is unsustainable. Deep down, I know you already know this. How do I know you know? Because what Utopia does American Capitalism offer?
View ArticleYou Don’t Know How to Best Spend Your $$$
Everyone is finally realizing our economy is in the crapper. Write-downs already are are reaching the $100 Billion on the subprime mess. Since it’s an election year, fiscal sanity is again thrown out...
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