stupid like a fox
Now Bush has become death, the destroyer of the middle class: President Bush announced $13.4 billion in emergency loans on Friday to prevent the collapse of General Motors and Chrysler, and another $4...
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Senate Democratic leaders conceded yesterday that they do not have the votes to pass the stimulus bill as currently written and said that to gain bipartisan support, they will seek to cut provisions...
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How does a country climb out a recession when it’s sent its entire manufacturing base overseas? Hard to have a functioning consumer economy when the consumers ain’t got no jobs. And Mr. Gates, you...
View Articlei don’t know what’s scarier…
my dress that year (I can’t have picked that out, can I? And white opened-toed shoes with L’eggs Suntan pantyhose? Suck harder, why don’t I?) or the fact that we’re headed straight to 1982...
View Articlemerit pay ain’t the way
There is no question that Barack Obama will be a better president for the state of education in this country than George “is our children learning” Bush could ever hope to be, and almost anything...
View Articletime to name names and put the blame where it belongs
On Hank Paulson’s bald head. When AIG started to become unwound last fall, who better to know just how much Goldman Sach’s own rape & pillage squad was going to depend on its AIG bad bet insurance...
View ArticleAn Example of Why the Employee Free Choice Act Must Pass
WASHINGTON - MARCH 09: A man carries a props money bag during a rally at the Lafayette Square March 9, 2009 in Washington, DC. The rally was held to support the "Employee Free Choice Act" which...
View ArticleNew Nationalism Speech – Teddy Roosevelt History Lesson
Mt. Rushmore, Theodore Roosevelt closeup. Image via Wikipedia Since the 1980s (when I worked for Eastern Airlines, which no longer exists due to deregulation fever) we as a people have amnesia when it...
View Articlei guess i should stop complaining about my pay cut now
At least I’m lucky enough to still have my Oregon job: Oregon’s jobless rate has taken a dramatic jump, to 12.1 percent in March — a rate seen only once before since the years after World War II. The...
View ArticleGM – Too Big to Not Fail?
Michael Moore has penned a letter (below) concerning the ramifications of the bankruptcy and government takeover of GM. He has some lofty goals with regard to the company including building long...
View Articlecongrats to diane schroer
And may ENDA soon make cases like hers a thing of the past: The US Department of Justice has decided not to appeal a federal district court ruling awarding transgender veteran Diane Schroer a total of...
View ArticleWhole Foods = Whole Jerks
It’s easy to give whole foods a miss because they are terribly overpriced and snooty. Their level of annoying rich hypocritical yuppiehood just reached new heights when their CEO, Mackey, wrote this...
View ArticleReturn to the Gilded Age
//www.youtube.com/watch?v=B0cf5If3cNg Bail out the rich. Fail to regulate corporations. Allow unconstrained corporate compensation agreements. Do not facilitate unionization of workers. Allow big...
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