Archive for January, 2010

Paying for what you want to hear or read

Friday, January 29th, 2010
You don't have to hear the truth or in this case read the truth - it's a free country and you can actually pay not to hear or read anything you disagree with - The many privileges of freedom include the freedom to be close-minded, biased, selfish, greedy, self-righteous,hypocritical, prejudiced,dishonest,immoral - the list of freedoms [...]

male first names

Friday, January 29th, 2010
Once again the Jims and Bobs and Johns and joes and charlies and roys and dons etc etc etc etc - dominate the landscape on wsj's site - all talking white right male trash - What they say is code for what a SC politician said recently - don't feed them and they can't breed [...]

Does God lie?

Friday, January 29th, 2010
It's always sobering to visit the wsj echo chamber and read the the comments of parrots with a limited vocabulary and forgive the pun "bird brains". It's always easy to lie - something the Republican party has mastered. You don't have to prove a lie and you can't anyway - and it doesn't matter what you [...]

Cable TV

Thursday, January 28th, 2010
The majority of Americans now pay for TV? Do they have too? No. Anything worth watching on the Planet is available from the iTunes store. News minus the commercials and punditry is available on radio and on the internet Anything signficant is broadcast on public networks.

Economics 101

Thursday, January 28th, 2010
Truth - defines what exists and what exists defines truth. Thought is myth. Nature sustains life and is composed of life. All that sustains life is derived from nature. Therefore life sustains life. The destruction of nature is the destruction of life. Religion is myth. Myths are not the truth. What is not true is myth. Capitalism is myth. supply [...]

Truth to power.

Wednesday, January 27th, 2010
This raises a question I have for ALL Americans right - left. Does freedom of speech include embedding and allowing media that lives in our homes 7/24/365 with the ability to lie to influence human thought??? That is the inverse of freedom of speech - a one way street leading to a society controlled by those who [...]

The path to nowhere.

Sunday, January 24th, 2010
headline: South Carolina Lt. Gov. compares welfare to 'feeding stray animals' This is where republicans AND Democrats want to lead Americans - less Government - more power for wealthy individuals and Corporations - tax breaks for the wealthy - so they can give us jobs to make them more wealthy - This is democracy??? Capitalism that [...]

Supreme court or SUPREME RULER!!!?

Friday, January 22nd, 2010
Most people have it ingrained by conventional wisdom that socialism is a bad thing - and it certainly can be - but we know first hand that capitalism can be far worse than anything we can imagine - we've destructed nature - ignored humanity on our planet not to mention within our own country. There are [...]

Republicans & democrats vs Obama & Brown

Thursday, January 21st, 2010
Republicans & democrats vs Obama & Brown January 21st, 2010 Brown won on a platform that downplayed the republican party - knocked big government - and appealed to the anger of Americans who want a fair shake. Not surprisingly our President wants what most Americans want - and has avoided being dragged into the same old political battles [...]