Politically Minded

Teabaggers need to sit down and relax over a nice cup of Boo-Frickin'-Hoo tea. They're upset over a recent Captain America comicbook showing protesting baggers with signs like, Stop the Socialists! and Tea Bag the Libs Before They Tea Bag You. Oh, the irony.

Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell has suggested there's no time to debate the end of the military's discrimination against gays against a backdrop of economic crisis, duo-war, and unemployment. That's bunk, yet he's right in one respect - we could save a lot of time by repealing DADT now.

When she was only five years old, Song Kosal, was a little girl growing up in Cambodia. 300 grams of TNT exploded. A GYATA 64 anti-personnel mine produced by Hungary changed her life. She survived and in her mid twenties, her poster-size picture was carried down a run-way by girls and women from a Cambodian community in Norway at the South Norway Museum of Modern Arts at the Miss Landmine Cambodia finale-in-exile on November 14th. Song Kosal heard the news that her government had banned the Miss Landmine Contest only days before the event was supposed to take place.

Justice Samuel Alito silently mouthed off after Barack Obama called the Supremes out on their decision that corporations are allowed to spend freely on campaigns. As slights go it was a tepid thing. However, what he mouthed is nowhere near as important as the actions he took.

Most people don't go to the corporate world to find model for ethical behavior - not unless they're marketing a new product made of lead and margarine called, "I Can't Believe It's Not Ethical". Still, a company has to really suck to stand out amongst their fellow gougers, cheats, and soulless greedheads.

The American right has a problem with the concept that Nazism is an extreme right-wing position and communism is an extreme left one. However, this confusion isn't surprising. Republicans have craftily gone so far right it's policies are simpatico with well-known leftist countries.

We have relied on the United Nations and the IAEA to be our muscle, which is the equivalent sending a girl scout to battle a cage fighter.

There are many solutions various governments have written into policies in counter-terrorism efforts as terrorists continue to dig their heals into a moral high ground that has consumed lives in many parts of the world. Many who study religious terrorism understand that the battleground was not drawn by religions, but by the interpretation of those whose fever for fanaticism prevails. In response, this ferocity has called upon itself moderates and centrists who want to write an epitaph to such self-righteousness, who want to see the end of the bloodshed.

Generally, there are two types of election campaigns, the primary and the general election campaign. The primary ballot lists all the canddiates who are looking to run for that office...

Through long and ignominious tradition, the US has selected people for cabinet positions based on a combination of nepotism and party loyalty. Products of this system include luminaries like former FEMA director, Michael Brown. But sometimes there are qualified cabinet nominees installed for all the wrong reasons. Treasury Secretary Tim Geithner is a useful example.

Food, Inc. is a 2008 American documentary film directed by Emmy Award-winning filmmaker Robert Kenner.[2] The film examines large-scale agricultural food production in the United States, concluding that the meat and vegetables produced by this type of economic enterprise have many hidden costs and are unhealthy and environmentally-harmful. The film is narrated by Michael Pollan and Eric Schlosser, two long-time critics of the industrial production of food.[3][4] The documentary generated extensive controversy in that it was heavily criticized by large American corporations engaged in industrial food production.[2]

If you see something, say something!

The Obama Deadline Has Been Reached; Time For Truth or Consequences The Obama administration set a December 31, 2009 deadline for the Iranian government to come clean on its nuclear ambitions, and to agree to the plan of shipping uranium out of country for enrichment. Failing that, the United States has declared it stands ready to impose tough new sanctions...

The accountability Mr. President, begins and ends with you. Not with government appointed scapegoats!

I recently read a commenter who accused the Obamoids of ineptitude by asking why Amazon can track millions of books while Obama can't track a batshite crazy Jihadist who got caught in-flammable delicto. Fair enough question, though the book metaphor sucks.

It seems conspiracy theories have become a cottage industry for the new millennium. People like Glenn Beck, Michele Bachmann, and Orly Taitz are making entire careers of trying to out-loon one another.

Vote NO on any spending bill that would send more troops to Afghanistan.