We Serve It, Even When It's Hard To Swallow
How can Nukes be funny? Only political animator Mark Fiore can take the latest Middle East nuke scare and frenzy by the right-wing and turn it into a gigglefest. Find out all about those irrational theocrats who are trying to control a nuclear arsenal. Hint: we’re not talking about the Iranians.
Leaders in the Republican Party covet a war with Iran the way Gollum covets the Precious. Romney and Gingrich are saber rattling at every opportunity and then there’s Santorum- who literally trembles with adrenaline when fantasizing about another crusade.
It seems that the gullible American public is only more than willing to drink the Kool Aid that’s being poured down its throats about yet another Muslim nation. Indeed, the chatter on Iran sounds eerily familiar to the propaganda we heard prior to the invasion of Iraq….
‘Iran is a theocracy that has deeply embedded beliefs that the afterlife is better than this life’…this from a man whose singular goal is to see the laws of the United States circumvented in favor of his Biblical worldview, which holds to the belief that you will be granted everlasting life in the hereafter.
This would be a impressive list of foreign policy victories for any president, but especially one who has been in office for only three years and one whose every move the Republicans have demeaned, if not attempted to obstruct. More to McCain’s criticism: Obama’s record is one that shows he’s strong enough to use diplomacy, and use it effectively, but also strong enough to use force when he must, also with great effect. And the world knows it.
In spite of the ruling military’s official denial, one particular video of a woman being beaten and stripped of her religious garment has gone viral and prompted political, civic and religious leaders around the world to condemn the abuse and tactics by Egyptian security forces.
Several hundred demonstrators used a ladder to scale a fence surrounding a vacant lot owned by the Episcopal church near the 9/11 memorial site. But if these protesting American citizens, most out of work and hungry, thought they would find understanding and sanctuary from the church, they were sadly mistaken.
It really is kind of disturbing to think that Newt Gingrich is sitting atop the polls in the race for the GOP presidential nomination, because he’s just…bad. He’s ill-tempered, mean-spirited, self-serving, self-aggrandizing, and every word that comes crawling out of his mouth just oozes with contempt and dickishness.
I happen to think that, as Progressives, we have a greater responsibility to question the President on his policies, because we’re the ones who put him into office, and if we refuse to be honest about our own guy, then all of those derisive spitballs lobbed at the other side are nothing more than a grand exercise in hypocrisy of the worst kind.
Anonymous message to Wall Street: “We have changed the rules of the game. Growth of the magnitude required to maintain your capital in its present form is no longer possible for you. Your ability to seduce the public has been destroyed. Your survival has long depended on your capacity to suppress the truth of your abuses, and that ability is now gone. We have removed it.”
Norwegians have depleted their butter reserves due to a high-fat, low-carb diet craze that sent butter sales skyrocketing by 30% in November alone. Now, they have no butter. Nothing to bake with, nothing to spread on their warm toast in the morning, nothing to yummy-up their veggies with…So sad!
Secretary of State Hillary Clinton delivered a speech this week in Geneva, Switzerland, where she spoke on the recognition of human rights, particularly human rights for LGBT citizens around the world. One particular portion of Ms. Clinton’s speech has resonated with the public and is being shared at a feverish pace in the past few days…
Billionaire businessman Richard Branson, founder and chairman of the Virgin Group, calls the Occupy Wall Street movement a “good start,” and says the powers that be (financial and business community) need to take the next step and do the right thing by showing “the way”…
Add Miley Cyrus to the growing list of public figures and celebrities openly supporting the Occupy Wall Street movement. Really! Hannah Montana supports the grassroots efforts of the 99% and proves it in this new video remix from the Miley Cyrus Rock Mafia “dedicated to the thousands of people who are standing up for what they believe in…”
The system isn’t working for the 1% either. You know if you were a CEO, you would be making the same choices they do. The institutions have their own logic. Life is pretty bleak at the top too – and all the baubles of the rich are this phoney compensation for the loss of what’s really important. The loss of community, the loss of connection, the loss of intimacy. The loss of meaning.
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