Bill Moyers Gets All Huffy About Pay-to-Speak

And I wish he, and all the rest of the leftish commentariat would just stop being so fucking polite! The asswholes who are oppressing us--from shit-sticks like Frank Luntz and Karl Rove on up--do NOT deserve your politesse. They are not, and have repeatedly and remorselessly demonstrated that they are not, and never will be, men of men to whom honor is a familiar term. Bill Moyers gets a bit energized in this clip. But he's not talking to anyone to their faces, which is where you HAVE to get all up in their pious, hypocritical, amoral faces and make them show themselves.

Bill Moyers Revisits Justice Brandeis, Comes To Same Conclusion

"One may have great wealth in a few hands, or one my have a democracy." Not both...

Bill Maher, on 14-Yr-Old "Conservatives:"

Is there a charity I can give to, like "Wedgies, without Borders."
Not to Conservatards: If your boilerplate sounds strange and stilted in the mouth of a 14-yr-old boy, imagine what it sounds like when ADULTS say shit like that!

High Court, Including Obama "Liberal" (St. Sonia), Butt Fucks Labor Unions

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Put another way: The SCROTUS today handed down a ruling that shoved yet another hot, rough poker up the already bleeding ass of the Union movement, ruling 7-2 (with Ginsberg and Santa Sonia with the MAJORITY) which:
"....dealt an election-year blow to public-sector unions with a ruling that limits their ability to collect money for use in political campaigns from non-union employees at workplaces where a union is the bargaining agent.
The ruling comes in the wake of a major struggle over the rights of public-sector workers in which unions failed in their effort to recall Wisconsin Republican Gov. Scott Walker who’d signed a law curtailing the power of public sector unions.
The court said Thursday that non-union workers who benefit from union representation must affirmatively choose, or “opt in,” to having their “agency fees” used when a special dues increase or assessment is going to be used for political purposes. Simply giving them the option of opting out is not sufficient to protect their rights, the court held."
Only the Kagan and Breyer dissented...MSNBC tells it almost with relish.

Bill Moyers: Hey Buddy, Do Ya Wanna Buy A Law, Real Cheap?

Start up a Super-PAC. No. Really! It works!

Critical, Satirical SNL Vid, Banned in 1998?

The 1998 Robert Smigel animated short film "Conspiracy Theory Rock", part of a March 1998 "TV Funhouse" segment, has been removed from all subsequent airings of the Saturday Night Live episode where it originally appeared. Michaels claimed the edit was done because it "wasn't funny". The film is a scathing critique of corporate media ownership, including NBC's ownership by General Electric/Westinghouse. 

There Do Seem To Be Some Ambiguities In The Public Record

Richard Wolfe: America's Most Respectable Marxist

These Tuesday evenings will each begin with an update and analysis of major economic events of the last month and their contexts of longer-term economic trends shaping politics and society here and abroad. We will focus on the evolving global capitalist economic crisis and its consequences. We will examine topics such as the social costs effects of the historic long-term US unemployment, national debt crises and "austerity programs" in Greece, Ireland, Spain, and beyond changes in today's Chinese economy and their global effects, tax reform and the entire tax issue in the US today, continuing crisis in the US housing and credit markets the economics of immigration. Actual economic developments will shape the agenda for each monthly Tuesday meeting. Rick Wolff, with occasional guests, will present an economic update and an analysis of some particular economic topics and then open the floor to questions, comments and a general discussion of where the US and world economies are going and the political implications. We aim to develop participants' understanding of and ability to explain to others the key economic developments of our time. Richard D. Wolff is Professor Emeritus of Economics at U. Mass, and Visiting Professor at the New School University. Author of Capitalism Hits the Fan, he's been a guest on NPR, Glenn Beck Show, and Democracy Now!

Daniel Dennett: "How To Tell You're An Atheist."

The TED Talk TED Won't Show You

Nick Hanauer debunks the Capitalist economic mythology from the INSIDE. Special privileges, up close and personal.

The Robin Hood Tax: 50 Cents on a 100-Dollar Trade

If "Reform" Can Happen, It'll Look Like This:

Joshua Foer: On Memorable Memories

I really LIKE these TED productions. In this one, Joshua Foer, a writer/journalist and pretty bright fella (I think he wrote a book about READING the Encyclopedia Britannica) takes us back to a time even before WRITING which, as Plato intuited, was the enemy of Memory.

Mr. Deity and Joseph Smith Do The "Latter Daze"

Lee Camp: Oinky Gets Fatter!

CENK to CNN: "Just Fucking STOP" Imitating FAUX/MSNBC

He's right, of course. "He said/She said" reporting is little better than stenography, which is the style/strategy of Faux Nooz, especially. Watch Cenk on Current TV:

CNN just had their lowest ratings in a decade. They are in disastrous shape. When I was on MSNBC, we would beat them with a stick. Even after "pro-CNN" stories like revolutions in Egypt and Libya, Japanese nuclear meltdowns and the killing of Osama bin Laden (CNN does much better when major news or international stories break out), we still beat them. Now they're doing so poorly I might even catch them on Current. We started at almost nothing on Current, but we have been steadily improving our numbers. Why are we getting traction? Because people want an alternative -- the real news. So, I should just stay quiet and let CNN drive off that cliff. By the way, when I catch Erin Burnett -- which is not that far off because I'm beginning to see her in the distance in the demos -- everyone will know it. Who knows, that might be the event that precipitates CNN re-thinking their entire model. Imagine if a network that started at nearly nothing catches CNN within a year. But I am not going to wait until then to give them some friendly advice. I know they won't perceive it that way, but I am actually trying to help them. So here it is -- for the love of God, stop doing "he said, she said" crap that doesn't actually deliver the news to anyone. Democrats said this and Republicans said that -- who cares? What is the reality?! Your job is supposed to be to bring us facts, not what official spokespeople told you in their press releases and talking points. The problem is that CNN doesn't have the courage to do this. They're afraid it might offend some folks if you tell the American people reality. I want to be clear; I'm not saying they should give us opinion. There's plenty of that in other parts of cable, including my show. They're never going to out-opinion me. But if Mitt Romney says his proposal balances the budget, well, why don't you crunch the numbers and tell us whether that's true or not? Of course the reality is that it creates trillions of dollars in deficits just so that the rich can have more tax cuts. But CNN would consider reporting those facts as being biased. If the Giants play the Cowboys and beat them silly, it is not biased to report that they won. You don't have a pro-Giants bias if you report the score. I'm a progressive but I have no interest in CNN skewing issues in favor of Democrats. By all means, call them out just as aggressively. The Democratic Party takes huge amounts of cash from corporations and unions to vote a certain way. My God, CNN doesn't even cover the role of money in politics. They take politicians at their word. Are you kidding? It seems like the people who work at CNN are the last people in the country who actually trust our politicians. Congressional approval ratings were recently at 11 percent. How well do you think you're going to do on television if you're sucking up to those guys? By the way, following along with artificially created Fox News scandals doesn't give you balance. It makes you sad and pathetic. There are plenty of real Democratic scandals without falling into the rubbish Fox talks about. How much money does Chuck Schumer take from Wall Street? What favors does he give them in return? Why do Democratic leaders keep writing legislation rigged against the Internet -- could it have something to do with the tremendous amount of cash they take from Hollywood companies? Why does President Obama get a free pass on following George Bush's civil liberties abuses like warrantless wiretapping and indefinite detentions? In other words, do your job -- report the news. The real news, not dueling talking points and manufactured controversies. My God, where is your investigative team? What's the last story you broke? Of course, the reality is that you don't want to break stories about Washington because that might offend some people. What kind of a so-called news operation is this afraid of their own shadow? "Oh my God, what if we offended someone in power. They might not come on our shows anymore and they might call us biased." Or they might call you journalists. Sam Donaldson was on our show a long time ago and told us a really cool story about his old boss at ABC News, Roone Arledge. He said when he was covering the Reagan White House (and later the Clinton White House, too), whenever the administration called up to complain about him, Arledge would give him a raise. How far away from that model are we now? When politicians call up to complain now, "news" executives wet themselves in fear. Stand up to them! Do journalism! Challenge government! And you know something amazing might happen -- people might actually watch you again.

Jared Diamond: Why Societies Fail (TED)

From Greenland to Montana! A checklist:

Why do societies fail? With lessons from the Norse of Iron Age Greenland, deforested Easter Island and present-day Montana, Jared Diamond talks about the signs that collapse is near, and how -- if we see it in time -- we can prevent it. Jared Diamond is an award-winning scholar of ecology, biology and history, and best-selling author of Guns, Germs and Steel and Collapse: How Societies Choose to Fail or Succeed.

Das Kapital in Pictures

I'm pretty sure I've posted this before, but it's never nor relevant. David Harvey is the most urbane, cosmopolitan Marxist spokesperson in some time.

In this RSA Animate, renowned academic David Harvey asks if it is time to look beyond capitalism towards a new social order that would allow us to live within a system that really could be responsible, just, and humane?

"Earth Days," A PBS/"American Experience" Production

On Earth Day, it is good to watch this almost 2-hour documentary for the perspective.
PBS's show "Earth Days" (http://video.pbs.org/video/1463378089/), first shown in 2010, ironically appeared just 12 days before the catastrophic blow-out of the BP/Macando deep-water/deep-plate well in the Gulf of Mexico.

Mostly it presents pretty much an iron-clad indictment of the "best minds of corpoRat America" as being, in fact, a pack of venal, self-aggrandizing, clueless/deluded fucktards and predatory capitalist ideologues. In the first 30 seconds of the later "convo" segment, they bring on the CEO of Duke Power who praises this "industry" for 'working with' environmentalists, and host Ray Suarez just grins and glad-hands the fucker and truckles becomingly.

Gaaaah!

Watch Earth Days on PBS. See more from American Experience.

The American Myth Machine And It's Disquiets

"The national "myth" elevates, exaggerates and aggrandizes the people's own self-regard." Bingo! No small addition to which was accomplished with much fanciful fanfare and grateful tears in Jan, 2009, when "we" inaugurated the "First Black American President," thereby reifying yet another mythic, egalitarian trope constituent of the"American dream": Anyone can grow up to be president!

ALEC Smarting? Lee Camp...

Imagine the World Without ALEC.
What would be the appropriate acronym for its replacement?
Cuz there'll BE a replacement...

Who DO "Drama"????

This is pretty close to genius marketing.

Mr. Deity Gets Counseling

JUST in time for Easter!
This is deeply, darkly funny stuff--mah FAVOR8 KINE!

Branching Out: The Mr. Deity Gang Does "Hetero-Repair"

The Way of the Mister!

WWH Citizens' Dispatch, March 31, 2012: God Damm 'Em

The Constitution forbids any "religious" test for aspirants for public office.

I always thought that it forbade requiring any particular "religious" affiliation as a qualification for office...

But now I wonder: Why couldn't we PROHIBIT those 'religious' folks with leadership roles in their "churches" from BEING ELECTED to public office, since their FIRST loyalty will NEVER be the State, but ALWAYS to their fucking "gods?" They CANNOT serve botrh "god" and "mammon"; it's the plainest KIND of conflict of interest.

"Reason" ~~ Adam Savage at the Reason Rally

Testable, replicable predictions...

Lee Camp: Alibi Fragrances

Los Alamos, NM, circa 1943

Props to my old pal Mike Lord for discovering this. IIrc, kids born in Los Alamos during the Project all have the same Santa Fe post office box as their "residence."

As late as the mid-'50s, there were still manned machine-gun posts around the perimeter, and a gate manned by armed MPs.

n 1943, the top scientists from the United States and other nations gathered in Los Alamos, NM for the Manhattan Project. Among them was physicist Hugh Bradner. With informal permission from the U.S. Army, he shot a collection of home movies of life in a place that officially didn't exist, and of people working on a project that ultimately changed history. His footage represents the only look at life in the Los Alamos area during that time. LA-UR 11-4449.

Lee CAMP, MOC # 122...

Science IS for EVERYONE!

Life, The Universe, and Everything: HIppies Get It Right

I don't know who the person doing the explanation is, but he's right ON!

OWS/OCCUPY: This Week in Insurgency

Press TV's new program; 'OWS Week' highlights 7 days of the protest movement's happenings as viewed from American protesters' eyes.

The program also examines the wide range of social issues addressed by the 'occupy' movement in the US.

This episode of the show returns to the Bradley Manning trial to expand on the charges brought against the incarcerated US serviceman, reports on 99ers camp evictions and the remaining outposts and gives an overview of the week that has passed.

Michelle Alexander: The Drug War & The New Jim Crow

Ms. Alexander argues that it is NOT an exaggeration to say that the "drug war" was a conscious, sonspicuous policy designed to destabilize the Black community in the aftermath of their achievement of Civil Rights, and to disempower Blacks, and to undermine their social and political structures by imprisoning Black men, thereby forming the basis for excluding them from the USer mainstream...

Lee Camp: "God had NO idea what was going on."

What You See Is "O.W.S."

"Moleeds": The Theory of Everything

Sir Barry, AFBP: ALWAYS Much LESS Than Meets the Eye

As with EVERYTHING "Barack," the mortgage abuse settlement announced last week, touted to help "underwater homeowners" escape the toils of Bankstah-induced foreclosures, is far less helpful to citizens than either the announced remedies or the extended consequences would lead one to believe.

America's First Black President ("AFBP") appears to be pulling a new version of the old "shuck-'n'-jive," with the lives and futures of citizens inveigled into home-loans they had NO CHANCE of ever repaying, and against whose ability to repay the loans the bankstahs were betting, short... Cenk/TYT has the story:

Ed Shultz: A Really STOOPIT Liberal...

Ed Schultz' rise to prominence on the "Left" is one of the great con-jobs of the last 5 years.
He was originally a LIMBOT-wannabe, an aspiring fascist mouthpiece. He wanted to be the fat, flapping fuckturd to whom the drooling drones of the Right flocked for instructions on how and what to think.
Then he allegedly underwent an epiphany, via his wife whom he calls a liberal.
But what really happened was that there ALREADY WAS a rightwing Nazi gass-bag on the air, and they didn't NEED another one, so he changed his stripes and started aiming ro become the "limbot of the Left."
But of course, one of the GOOD things about the left (pre-Barry, anyway) was that WE don't (didn't) need or especially WANT some pompous, spouting blubberbutt telling us what and/or how to think.
But he soldiered on, and got on 'liberal' radio (The Jones Bros Network, first), and thence (unaccountably) MSNBC.
He's dumber than a fucking post, and NOT any KIND of progressive. But: He drools Dim Blue.

Thomas Franks on the Pitiful and Painful Plight of the Pathetic Billionaires

This appears to me to be the "money" graf in a recent interview by Truthout with author Thomas Franks about his new book, "Pity the Billionaire: The Hard-Times Swindle and the Unlikely Comeback of the Right." I've inserted breaks to facilitate reading & to emphasize the points:

I don't know about crossing the Rubicon, but it's clear to me that we have missed what will probably prove to be our generation's greatest opportunity to reverse the direction of history. In 2008 and 09, Wall Street was in such high odor - so hated by the American public - that we could easily have chosen a New Deal type of direction. The conservative economic policies of the last forty years were in ruins around us.

But Obama wasn't willing to point this out. The opportunity was squandered, but "squandered" isn't a strong enough word.

Barack Obama had a once-in-a-lifetime chance to take the financial oligarchy apart - not just for electoral reasons, but because that was what democracy requires - and despite the right's perception of him as Robespierre reincarnated, he didn't do it.

Yes, he may win re-election this fall, but at best he will be remembered as another Clinton: a guy who triangulated and got the best deals he could while facing down a right-wing nation.

That the nation isn't right wing, and that it would have followed him had he led with boldness, is something that people like you and I will get to meditate on sourly for the rest of our lives.

Any list of so-and-so-many of brave Sir barry's "accomplishments" ONLY exists to distract from and/or try to paper over the massiveness of his failure to act aggressively to reform the system. He COULD have done it--if he'd been ANYBODY but Barack Hussein Obama...So he didn't.

Mr. Deity & The Occupation

The latest episode of the very BEST Blasphemy on the Tubez...
"You can't have heaven and free-will at the same time."

What WE (USers) call "Libertarians" are NOT!

Punk Patriot ~~ Vote Like You Know What You're Doing

Lee Camp's Moment of Clarity: For Sale, Democracy, Mostly Unused

More ofTthat Good, Old Hopery-Changery, Alrightee

Via Bloomberg:‎

"President Barack Obama today nominated a JPMorgan Chase & Co. (JPM) executive to the five-member board of the Federal Deposit Insurance Corp.
Jeremiah O. Norton, 34, who is an executive director in the bank’s JPMorgan Securities unit, previously served as a policy adviser in the U.S. Treasury Department during the administration of President George W. Bush. Before that, he was an aide to a Republican congressman, Edward Royce of California."

Got-DANG!!!

A JP Morgan-Chase stooge, this time? I guess he'd already got everybody Goldman-Sachs could spare...

That ol' Hopey-Changer fella jis keeps CHANGIN things, donne?

O'bots: EXPLAIN, please, why...

Space Flights: Toooooo Kewl 4 Skewllll!

They're gonna launch these puppies from down around Truth Or Consequences=, New Mexico...

Lee Camp: What about the FUCKING STOOPITS?

On the futility of arguing with GOPhux:

Cenk Uygur (TYT): The Obama Memos

An in-depth New Yorker piece on hundreds of pages of internal white House memos and President Obama is broken down by Cenk Uygur on The Young Turks. Is Obama scared of Fox News? Did he really want to raise taxes on the rich?

This is about as thorough-going a condemnation of the inner workings of the Shamwow regime as I have heard, especially the influence of his 'economic' advisors.

By the way: Hang Larry Summers!!!

Tom Franks: "The Wrecking Crew"

From 2008:

We Are NOT Making Shit Up Just To "Diss" Obombster

Woody thinks Maher is occasionally amusing (though his "panels" often suck shit, such as the one the other night with that running-sore Kennedy and Dana Rohrbacher, who appears to have a herpes lesion on his lip), but this rant, and the associated commentary by Politico seriously demonstrates how full of shit he (and Politico) actually ARE when it comes to their "fair-skinned" boy.

Maher chides the RIGHT for their paranoia about what they think Shabama MIGHT do.

Then Politico chimes in with an extra lick at the "paranoid" Lefties. Watch, then read: "There are some members of the far left who have embraced the right’s politics of fear and use it for their own profit and gain to attack Obama. (Why should conservatives be the only ones who cash in on fear?)"

Somebody needs to give Politico a FUCKING clue! We critics of Obombster on the Left aren't criticizing a chimera.

We do not simply FEAR that he will unleash drones on American citizens to kill them overseas, or sign legislation which permits the indefinite detention of "enemies" because that's what he ALREADY done.

We do not merely FEAR tht he will hand the tatters of thhe social safety net over to those who want to destroy it, because he has ALREADY done that.

We do not FEAR that he will hand the economy BACK to the very rat-bastards who sank it in the first place, because he has ALREADY done that.

We do not only FEAR that he will expand the scope and scale of USer military adverntures in the world because he's ALREADY done that.

Which is to say, contrary to Politicor/Maher's assertions, we are NOT criticizing an "IMAGINARY" Obombster.

Oh, YEAH, baby! Barry's the "Real" thing.

Con-Games, Smoke & Mirrors: How Many Corpses Can Dance On The Head of a Drone?

Glen Ford, Black Agenda Report, on the 2012 SoTU...Truthin'!

Fucked: The story of the OTHER "99ers"

"Salon's" first episode of the documentary video series about long term unemployment, 99ers, and organizing the unemployed.

In “F**ked: The United States of Unemployment” — a new Salon series that will chronicle this important yet largely untold story — Academy Award-nominated director Immy Humes traces the birth and evolution of the 99ers movement. Over the course of the series, Humes will explore her personal struggle with long-term unemployment, the struggles of her fellow 99ers, and confront the stigma of what it’s like to be jobless in America today.

Bill Moyers (w/ David Stockman) On "The Bankstas"

The thing I detest about self-serving, 'coming-clean' tale-tellers and lesson-learners like Stockman is how they retrospectively polish their own apples. In this case, Stockman conveniently overlooks the notorious, infamous, criminal, fraudulent manipulations of real estate and building loans by the Savings & Loan industry, famously led by one of the Sons of Bush, which began in the early '80s while Stockman was himself still preaching the gospel of supply-side, trickle-down enrich the rich economics which in a "purer" form he still seems to advocate for even today. Though he does at least endorse the re-introduction of the limitations removed when Glass-Steagall was repealed by the "bank-stahz" back in the day.

David Stockman on Crony Capitalism from BillMoyers.com on Vimeo.

Will Shamwow Name Larry Summers To The World Bank?

Summers and Robert Rubin were the Dim "point-men" in the deregulation fiascoes of the late '90s under Clenis; they collaborated with Phil Gramm and Greenspan and Armey to make it happen. And they all did VERY WELL by it.

I would not willingly occupy the same room with Larry Summers.

Obombster is NOT making a "mistake." He MUST know what he is doing: his Massas' bidding. Cenk gets it.

January 18, 2012: Stop PIPA/SOPA Day

It is probably unrealistic in the EXTREME to imagine that a functioning oligarchy in full cry might permit the continued, unmodified, uninterfered operation of so fundamentally liberating a technology as the Intertubez has become, and still remains. We need only regard how television was co-opted, and its liberatory poitential was turned aside, to become--along with the rest of its flickering-screened scions--the most POTENT agent of propaganda promulgation ever invented.

I regard the present structure of the Intertubez as I regard the Constitution: It works pretty well as it stands, and fucking around with it pretty much invites the bullies in, so leave it the fuck alone.

--Woody, Jan 18, 2012

PROTECT IP / SOPA Breaks The Internet from Fight for the Future on Vimeo.

Robert Reich Gently Chastises Shabama For The Banksters GOOJF Card

GOOJF = "Get Out Of Jail Free"
Reich is entirely too polite to the skeevy, gutless coward...

Experience the Power of "Foto Shop" by A-Do-Be`

Washington Generals (Dims) v. The Globetrotters (GOPhux)

A "Nightmare" On Wall Street

It's called the "Robin Hood" tax.

It's "Financial Transactions" tax on EVERY stock, bond, or currency transaction smaller than $1000...

Well, It's VIRAL Now, By Gawd!

Lee Camp & a Cast of Several (including a cat and a baby) opposing corporate personhood.

Diane Ravitch: Making Amends (Sorta)

In the '80s, she was a full-fledged Raygunner, working enthusiastically with bilious Bill Bennett, Chucker Finn, and others to torpedo "liberal,' child-centered pedagogy. She's one of the intellectual progenitors of the whole educational philosophy which underlies NCLB, as well as O'bombster's shameful Race To The Top.
I doubt she can perform sufficient penance to assuage my dislike for her...



And all that "high-stakes" testing? Ummmm, mebbe NOT so good an idea, eh, Diane?
Some of us were telling you this at the time. Remember, Diane? Do ya?



Here's her address to the 2011 AASA Convention, in which she addresses 'reform' head-on, though without reference to here own participation:

Part II

and Part III

Neil DeGrasse Tyson Makes Bill O'Reilly Look Like an Imbecile

NOT that that is all that difficult to do...

Lest We Forget! "Obama-Goggles" for the Peanut Gallery

This vid is from 2009. It's gone pretty much as Punk Pat predicted. And NONE of brave Sir Barry's "Dis-Appointments" has yet resigned, either.

"Why I'm Voting Republican!"

VINTAGE Agit-Prop!

Bank Fraudsters Don't Go To Jail!

The Space Within: Standing Waves and the Charged Electron

No, No, Not News!

!(WWH) by Dr. Woody

"Truth" someone said, most often has a decidedly "liberal" cast.

There persists a serious canard about the nature of USer "media," which is universally accused by the Fucktard Right of some kind of "liberal bias" when the radicals on the right want to demonize anyone who is willing to suggest that 'truth' doesn't always--or even usually) conform to the delusions springing from the painfully misshapen skulls of the Rightwing Fucktard militias, etc....

The "real truth" is that majority of the media (TV, radio, internet, print, movies, books, billboards, even ISPs) is owned by big corporations which strive endlessly, and loudly, to protect the radical conservative agenda of which they are the primary sponsors. The CorpoRat/SCUM "press" are the wholly-owned subsidiaries of the Rightard Oligarchs, Aristos, and Elites. Their reach is enormous, and their ties bind ever so tightly.

This article was produced simply as a counter-weight to the claim by the radical right wing that all media is liberal. From big news outlets to small time blogs, there are many dozens--probably HUNDREDS--of sites that you want to avoid when trying to get good news and information. This is a list--admittedly incomplete and in no particular order--of 50, or so of the worst--that is, the least reliably truthful, most evidently bullshit-filled--places you could go to get your news. These are sites at which you should exercise EXTREME caution and careful judgment before passing along ANY information they purvey.

1. Fox News 2. Rush Limbaugh 3. Glenn Beck 4. Michael Savage (nee. Michael Weiner) 5. Alex Jones (the most credulous skeptic ever) 6. The Heritage Foundation (Koch money) 7. The Wall Street Journal (Murdockian Editorial page) 8. Neal Boortz (his first piece of ass was) 9. Sean Hannity 10. Bill O'Reily

Also: 11. Rightwingnews.com 12. National Review (including NRO) 13. Mark Levin (Wadda butt-hole!) 14. The Weekly Standard (the OTHER "Billy Crystol") 15. Washington Times (Moonies) 16. The American Conservative (Rod Dreher,* for fux sake?) 17. The Drudge Report (the name says it all) 18. The Cato Institute (more Koch money) 19. Media Research Center (Brent "Bozo" Bozell'd gag an orc) 20. Townhall.com (Freeper "News" Central)

Ughlier: 21. Red State (Erick Erickson, now inexplicably employed by CNN) 22. Andew Breitbart's Big Government ("Did" ACORN, e.g.) 23. The American Cause (Pat ("in the original German") Buchanan) 24. Christian Coalition 25. The John Birch Society (OLD Koch money) 26. Citizens United (eponymously renowned) 27. Freedom Works (Dick's Armey) 28. Tea Party Express 29. Tea Party Patriots 30. No Left Turns (John Ashbrook at Ashland U)...

Plus: 31. News Busters ("Exposing & Combatting Liberal Media Bias"), 32. News Max (Ben Stein, George Will, etc; fucking dreadful) 33. The New York Post (Murdock's "racy" Tab) 34. Conservative HQ 35. Sirius radio "Patriot" (the only people who boast of being "patiots" are dicks) 36. Conservative American News 37. Conservative Daily News (their names say it all) 38. Judicial Watch (Larry Klayman; nuff said.) 39. The Source Daily ( "I think therefore I am Conservative") 40. Republican National Committee

Follwoed by: 41. American Spectator (R. Emmetic Tyrell) 42, Reason Magazine (Liberturdian codswallop) 43. Where Freedom Rings (batty in the bell-tower) 44. Conservapedia (bwahahahahahaha) 45. The Right Side of the Web 46. CNS News ("Christian" News) 47. Michael Reagan (the BAD seed) 48. Family Research Council (Dominionism Central, in Colo Spr.) 49. Conservative Underground 50. Hugh Hewitt (He's a Huge Twit!)

I'd add a couple more: 51: EUTimes (a skinhead/supremacist outfit) 52. WorldNewsDaily (G.Gordon Liddy's drivel? Really?) 53: The Washington Post (barely less status quo-partisan than the Moonie rag) 54: Human Events (mAnn Coulter's their "legal" expert) 55: Prison Planet (an Alex Jones off-shoot) 56: RT (American arm of the Russian State Propaganda agency; the folks who once brought you Pravda, Trud and Isvestia)

I'm sure there are more, but these will do. If you do happen to post anything from ANY of these sources, be aware that the reliability (i.e., "truth") of the matters will ALWAYS be in doubt. The original list I pulled off "The Examiner." I alone am responsible for the (italicized annotations. Please, feel free to augment or add to the list in COMMENTS below.

* I could have spared the world the insult to intelligence that is Rod Dreher: he was a student in TWO classes I taught at LSU J-School, back in the day, and I could have flunked the drooling tool but to my continuing regret, I didn't.)

Journalism? What "Future?"

Jesus on the Sidelines: "Tebow" On SNL

To "Hitch": Gone too soon...

Though his oeuvre remains, and we may take solace from that!

Here's a link to his Obit on Richard Dawkins' site...

And here's the Obit from Vanity Fair:

Ray McGovern, re: Panorama, on Bradley Manning

Try Running the DNA on THAT Shit!

And remember: A Christian lady never does anything that leaves lipstick on any body part NOT seen in church...

Greg Pallast (sans fedora) on 'The Vultures' Picnic."

The Price, and the Cost, of "Fictitious Capital": Dr. David Harvey

Local democracy, but national feudalism:

Three years after the near collapse of global financial markets, America is still struggling with unemployment, debt, and foreclosure, European governments are teetering on the brink of bankruptcy—and the world's billionaires are getting richer faster than ever before. The current situation is not sustainable. But what changes need to be made to overcome this mounting crisis of our world economic system? How radical an adaptation will be required? David Harvey, the brilliant theorist and scathing critic of postmodern society, looks at what the future holds for global capitalism.
http://davidharvey.org/

The Dr. S.T. Lee Distinguished Lecture Series in the Humanities brings to the Penn Humanities Forum scholars and artists whose work has advanced our understanding of issues central to the humanities.
http://www.phf.upenn.edu/11-12/harvey.shtml

If I were still teaching, I would be teaching this.

The "NEXT 10 Years" Won't BE ANYTHING Like The Last 10

Ask Mr. Deity! "No hard feelings..."

"I had no idea she was 13..."

Trump: "A gin-soaked raisin that fell into a nuclear reactor."

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Oh, The Hermanity: "I Could Use Some Pants!"

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ALEC: Corporate Subversion of What's LEFT of State Democracy

Corporate dollars are funding changes in state laws that disenfranchise voters, and weaken regulations designed to protect the environment. Those dollars are flowing through the Arizona desert this week as the American Legislative Exchange Council (ALEC) convenes to draw up more legislation it wants passed in state legislatures.

To highlight what ALEC is doing, groups including Common Cause, People for the American Way, the Center for Media and Democracy, the Arizona AFL-CIO, AFSCME, the American Federation of Teachers, the Arizona Education Association, and Progress Now held a press conference Wednesday in front of the Arizona state capitol.

?ALEC?s leaders, firms like Wal-Mart, Pfizer and Koch Industries, have poured close to $400 million into state elections over the past decade, financing campaigns and spoon-feeding our elected officials bills that put profits over the public interest,? said Bob Edgar, president of Common Cause, citing a recent Common Cause report. ?The Arizona desert is a perfect place for the public to call them out.?

ALEC?s agenda includes weakening clean air and clean water laws, undercutting public education, and disenfranchising hundreds of thousands of legally-qualified voters. At closed-to-the-public meetings like this week?s confab at the posh Westin Kierland Resort Spa, ALEC?s business executives, lobbyists, and elected lawmakers sit side by side and vote as equals on the group?s ?model? bills, then carry that legislation back to state capitols across the nation.

ALEC puts its stamp of approval on hundreds of pieces of legislation each year and claims an annual success rate of about 20 percent. Almost all of the group?s $7 million annual budget, including the cost of conferences like this week?s gathering, is underwritten by its corporate affiliates.

Why Are Atheists Angy? You REALLY Wanna Know?

To answer the question, I'd say, mostly, cuz them pushy, righteous, pious, hypocritical fucking Cristo-theocrats wanna keep shoving THEIR version of some mystical, long-dead, zombie-'god' creature into the fabric of law and gummint with which EVERYBODY would be compelled to comply.

Knock that shit off, and we'll settle the fuck right down. Promise!



"The demand from the Oligarchs for civility amounts to a feces-soaked ball-gag shoved in the mouths of the powerless to rob them of the force of their anger." ~~ Dr. Woody, 2011.

"Spray It Forward"

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You Can't Argue With "Stupid," Cuz Stupid ALWAYS Wins

So just ignore the imbecilic fuckers. Most FauxNooz viewers are men hoping to get their next and possibly last sexual charge from a flash of white up the skirts of one of the Nooz-Reader Hareem of vacuous, bosomy, leggy blondes with peach pits for brains.

GOP Foreign Policy: Go To War!

Re: The GOP "foreign policy" debate, which focused on foreign posturing and national "security." What was UNSAID!

The GOP Candidate Clown Car debauched its contents onto yet another stage an "debated" topics from the Patriot Act to the roll of the TSA, while some critical topics were avoided such as the Eurozone and Iran.

Paul Craig Roberts, former Reagan administration official and columnist, gives us his thoughts on the GOP debate. "Syria's first; then Iran." FORGET those cretinous, credulous morons like Alex Jones. Here's a guy with the "inside skinny.

You KNEW It Was Coming: Mr Deity & The Big Bang

OCCUPY the Machine!

The Face of Bovine Bellicosity; "You Can't MAKE Me Think!"

You KNOW how we do, Bugs!!!. Thanks, Win-STONE!...Hola, Hippies,

Regardez-vous the "Face of Bovine Bellicosity, Murkin Style!" (Joe: start image, full frame, here)

His posture, his rhetoric, his look: All of it screams "I WON'T THINK!!! YOU CAN'T MAKE ME! G'WAN, TRY IT, MOFO!"



His name is Max. And at least he's NOT claiming he's NOT one of the 99%, which sop for many of the self-satisfied, self proclaimed 53 percenters do.

But WOULD YOU JUST LOOK at that face!

Jayzus! I've seen cattle that exhibited ex-actly the same ignorant, perverse, cud-chewing, pugnacious stubbornness when it was time to move'em

This is the face of a person who has never once been troubled with nuance, who is a complete and utter stranger to complexity, which has NEVER, ever, once, in all his years, been troubled by an idea of ANY sort of abstraction. And how old IS he?

Does this face look like a 30+ year-old-man? I did the arithmetic. One tour in the Corps = 4 years. Then 8 years to "work his way through school" (with the GI Bill?) Anyway, that's 12 years. He HAD to be 18 to enlist. So that means he's AT LEAST 30.

(PS: I did it in three, on the Bill, working two-three jobs, and carried 18 hours/semester, too...what's his problem??? OH, yeah...)

There's not even a flickering gleam of intelligence to be seen in the whole of the vast expanse of bellicose jaw, belligerent forehead, flushed and ruddy cheeks, or the distinctly barn-yard-like, ever-so-slightly crossed eyes.

I bet he was a good soldier. "STRACK," they call 'em, latterly. He'll work his ass off, for the mission and his illusion of his superiority. He'll take ORDERS, sir, yes SIR! Seventy hours? May I have SOME MORE, SIR, please SIR?!
(JOE: END IMAGE HERE)

You want your whole army made up of exactly this kind of specimen. Big, brawny, inchoately or misdirectedly angry, and not very bright. Eager, though. And willing. Just tell 'em what to do.

Who equate 'success' with virtue.

And "doesn't blame Wall Street." (Is Max even DUMBER than he looks? Who knows?)


There is a very good reply to both the tone and substance of the resentful fellow's complaint at this site. Here's one "money-quote," from the reply--from the link, to the obnoxious prick:

...I’m a liberal, so I probably dream bigger than you. For instance, I want everybody to have healthcare. I want lazy people to have healthcare. I want stupid people to have healthcare. I want drug addicts to have healthcare. I want bums who refuse to work even when given the opportunity to have healthcare. I’m willing to pay for that with my taxes, because I want to live in a society where it doesn’t matter how much of a loser you are, if you need medical care you can get it. And not just by crowding up an emergency room that should be dedicated exclusively to helping people in emergencies...

I'l bet you dollahs to quatloos that, if the boy could read it --by no means a given--he'd still be unpersuaded; he wouldn't get it, gay-ron-teed, chers...The whole thing is worthy of your attention.

Indeed, copy it for further use, because there are more of them, still, than there are of us. Mebbe we can hold 'em off at the beach?

Scott Horton Debunks The Iranian Nuclear "Threat."

Dissent --- Olbermann on Bloomberg

Congresscritters "Beat" the market 12% of the time

But it's legal for 'em to take un-publicized, 'congressional" information, and then to buy/sell stocks on that basis.
I already called my light-weight Congresscritter and DEMANDED the fujcker sign on to The STOCK Act as a co-sponsor, or loose my vote, entirely...

The Boner flat out lies, and Pelosi, that suppurating slag, gets all huffy and avoids the issue.

EVERYBODY fucking cheats. You're a fucking fool to play it straight when EVERYBODY ELSE is on the pad...

Line up the tumbrels and sharpen the fucking blade, and bring these skeevy motherfuckers out, one at a time, and cut off their fuuking heads.

Sam Seder ("Majority Report") On What To Ask Rick Perry

Beyond "What fucking planet were you REALLY born on?"

America: "We Eat Each Other"

A nation of grifters, shills, scammers, and thieves.

"I Smell Toast!" -- Rick Perry: DQ/DNF

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The Best Fucking Newsteam On Earth: Joy Boners!

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Whadda We Have? The Money! Whadda We Want? Te Rest of It!

The Best Way To gain Power Is To BUY IT!

Dover, Pa: Where Reason Won

In this award winning documentary, NOVA captures the turmoil that tore apart the community of Dover, Pennsylvania in one of the latest battles over teaching evolution in public schools. Featuring trial reenactments based on court transcripts and interviews with key participants, including expert scientists and Dover parents, teachers, and town officials, "Judgment Day: Intelligent Design on Trial" follows the celebrated federal case of Kitzmiller v. Dover School District.

The UNIONS are to Blame!

A fresh offering from one of the very few authentic claimants to the mantle of Tom Lehrer (another being my pal, Jim Terr, Santa Fe & Las Vegas, NM's premier satirist and filker...)

"I'm Dying...But So Are You": Religion in Its "Smiley Face"

Cain-temptible!

Herman Cain, the Right-wing Oreo-millionaire businessman who's 'running for the presidency' on the GOPhux side, was revealed recently to have paid hush-money to at LEAST three women for assaulting and insulting and sexually harassing them while he was the chief lobbyist for the Restaurant Association in DC. The first three complainants decided to forego the p[ublic scrutiny and potential humilition of mking their complaints public.

But now a fourth woman has come forward, represented by the bane of male turpitude of ALL kinds and descriptions, Gloria Allred, with GRAPHIC details of Cain's behavior, which included uninvited, unwanted physical contact, and a blatant quid-pro-quo come-on, promising a job lobbying with the RA in exchange for having sex with him...

The video beneath is Cain's reply to these allegations, as well as to the nearly unanimous condemnations he's received from the Black political community leaders, including Cornell West, Ishmael Reed, Glen Ford, and Harry Bellafonte.

Do NOT feel compelled to watch this.***

***But if you do, make sure YOU have the handy, brand NEW! Popeil pocket vomitoreum by your side, to capture the undigested remains of your lunch. This Cain fucker could gag an Orc.

Scrap the Cap -- Equal Liability for All

About one sixth of the people in the whole fucking country DEPEND on Social Security to make an even semi-dignified life in the "richest country on earth." That's the same number who are in poverty. Coincidence? WADDA YOU THINK?

The video may be funny, but the subject is serious—now more than ever, Social Security benefits are critical to the more than 50 million Americans who rely on them. Instead of cutting benefits or raising the retirement age, we're relying on you to protect working class families by scrapping the cap on payroll taxes.

Currently, workers are taxed only on their first $106,800 of income. People earning over that amount don't pay (FICA) taxes on that income. By simply requiring upper-income taxpayers to contribute at the same rate as many middle class families, Social Security's benefits could be improved, and its funding would remain in balance beyond the longest projections.

Working Americans are in trouble. 401(k)s were decimated by Wall Street, home values have plummeted, and nest eggs are gone - yet some in Congress continue to defend a lower Social Security payroll tax rate for millionaires than for middle class families.

Social Security has a surplus of more than $2 trillion - enough to cover benefits for 25 years or more. It is fully funded by the payroll contributions of American workers; it doesn't contribute a dime to the nation's deficit.

Now more than ever, Social Security benefits are critical to the more than 50 million Americans who rely on them. Instead of cutting benefits or raising the retirement age, we're relying on you to protect working class families by scrapping the cap on payroll taxes.

Currently, workers are taxed only on their first $106,800 of income. People earning over that amount don't pay taxes on that income. By simply requiring upper-income taxpayers to contribute at the same rate as many middle class families, Social Security's benefits could be improved, and its funding would remain in balance beyond the longest projections.

Please support the 50+ million working people and families who rely on Social Security benefits, and Just Scrap the Cap.

DEMANDS? 1) Jobs 2) Jail the bankers 3) Stop foreclosures

1956

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It's ALMOST "Unfunny" Watching this Posturing Pimp Unravelling Before Our Very Eyes--ALMOST

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