Sarah Palin 2 Star in New Fox Series, "Touched by an A$$hole"

Is there any truth to the rumors that Sarah Palin is to star in a new show for Fox, "Touched by an A$$hole"?

Check it out here, at BIG HOLLYWOOD DYNAMITE.

U.S. Creeps Closer to Bankruptcy

U.S. posts 19th straight monthly budget deficit

Patsy Mink: Ahead of the Majority

Let's remember: President Obama supports nuclear power (despite the leak and cover-up at Vermont Yankee which has a decades-long record of cover-ups) and off-shore drilling (despite...well, you know: The President is down in Louisiana for one of his photo-op opportunities -- does this guy ever stop campaigning?)

PBS ran a fine documentary about U.S. Rep. Patsy Mink, who co-authored Title IX banning gender discrimination in education.

Patsy Mink: Ahead of the Majority

However, it was disingenuous, as when it showed her attempt to introduce an amendment ameliorating Newt Gingrich's CONTRACT ON AMERICA hit on welfare recipients, it was portrayed it as a Sissyphian battle of liberals against "mean" and heartless Republicans, FAILING TO SHOW THAT IT WAS BILL CLINTON, A DEMOCRAT, WHO SIGNED THE REPUBLICAN'S WELFARE REFORM BILL INTO LAW. Clinton was determined to run up a big win in 1996 (he failed to get a majority), so he signed off on welfare reform.

(Can anyone believe that -- unlike Harry Truman -- Clinton and now Obama have their eye on a huge, multi-million, nine-figure payoff in their post-Presidency years when they go about policy-making? Jimmy Carter might have been wrong -- he was a conservative, after all, despite his post-Presidency stands -- and a political incompetent, but he wasn't a whore.)

We have one party, the Republicrat Party, with two wings: hard-right (GOP) and center-right (Democrats). We should be spending out time in an effort, akin to the Progressives at the end of the 19th/beginning of the 20th centuries, to bring about real democracy in America. It can't be done in an 18th Century "Republic" created specifically to curb democracy and keep an oligarchy in power. Otherwise, we're just joining in the fugue that made Reagan and Bush 43 possible.

What a sorry list of Presidents this country has had!

The Tea Baggers & Thei Allies Who Denounce "World Government"

The Tea Party movement is chock-a-block with weirdos, including the venerable "I'm Against World Government" ringht-wingnuts that made the John Birch Society, which denounced President Dwight David Eisenhower as a communist, so amusing.

My question to those who are not interested in world government: Are you interested in the fact that Big Corporations have no nationality, that under Bush 43, the Clinton Administration's crackdown on offshore money laundering in the Caribbean was abandoned and American corporations were able to offshore there and avoid paying taxes?

Are you interested in the fact that a GOP-controlled Congress gave US corporations tax breaks to send jobs overseas?

I say, instead of going into a fugue and worrying about black helicopters and some nonexistent Global Government, why not check into reality and realize that Big Corporations are more powerful than any government, even that of the U.S., because of the politicians they have bought.

Putting Reagan on the $50 Bill: Replacing One Lousy President With Another

Why is it with the Reaganauts? Are they mentally ill? They have never snapped out of the fugue they were in during the 1980s. 

Reagan on $50 bill not for Grant-ed; Southern Ohioans battle Congress to save face for native son

A better choice for the $50 bill would be Franklin D. Roosevelt, the man whom -- as Gore Vidal said -- "For better or worse," saved capitalism. After all, he was Reagan's hero, and when the right wingnuts tried to get FDR booted of the ten cent piece, Nancy Reagan stepped in and made sure Dutch's hero remained on the humble dime. 

P.S. You never saw Theodore Roosevelt on anything as he was opposed to having people commemorated on coinage (which he took an interest in). It wasn't until the Taft Presidency that the first person, Abraham Lincoln, debuted on the penny.

European Social Democracies Bitten in Arse by "Anglo-Saxon" Economics

I lived in Germany (the Bundsrepublik Deutschland, then West Germany), when I was in the military. They northern European social democracies have social safety net policies well beyond what Tea Partyers denounced as "socialism." Yet Sweden, which more than others qualifies as "socialist," even has billionaires. So much for the right-wing candard that socialism discourages initiative.

In the northern European social democracies, even the conservative parties support the safety net. In Imperial Germany, it was the Iron Chancellor Bismark, no liberal, who inaugurated social security in the interest of promoting social cohesion. Unlike the U.S., the rich get taxed, and there is not the huge spread between the haves and have nots that there is in the U.S.

Of course, the right-wingnuts' first hero Rush Limbaugh claimed in the early '90s that the American poor were better off than the German middle class, an out and out lie. But out and out lies are part of the fun of being a Fox Newsie type, isn't it?

I don't think it's just that these people are in a dissociative fugue, but they know they are lying and revel in it. It's a pathology. How could anyone take that hypocritical drug addict I call "Rash Limboo" seriously otherwise? As we see in the new books churned out by Cheney & Co., our former Vice President and his kind & kin they are just out and out liars (just like they were when they were in office). This isn't Henry Kissinger giving his reasons for a repulsive policy you might disagree with in a reasoned manner. This is out and out lying by pseudo-intellectual thugs.

anada, which has a much better social safety that the U.S. (which economists correctly predicted during the recession of the 1st Bush 43 Administration would better position it for economic recovery), didn't have as severe a recession then or now. And it currently is run by a minority, Conservative government.

(The social safety net Tea Partyers would denounced as socialism was put in by the coalition government headed by Trudeau consisting of the centrist Liberal Party and centre-left New Democrats.)

The Wild Wild West laissez-faire economics of the U.S. that we returned to with the repeal of the Franklin Roosevelt-New Deal laws that had been put into place so what we're going through now we wouldn't go through again is dysfunctional. The Chicago School economics that Reagan & Co. bought into, the "Voodoo Economics denounced by Bush 43's father and propagated by the son, have been a disaster.

One shudders to think of what the Republicans, who gave us the Great Depression of the Thirties and this, the worst economic downturn since World War II, would do to this country if they ever got back in power.

Many of those northern European democracies also are going through hell as during this decade, they adopted looser, laissez-faire "anglo-Saxon" economic policies so their financial industry could compete with America's in the global financial services market. It was a disastrous policy move.

Are the Tea Baggers The Minutemen Redux?

The Tea Party: an Insider's Perspective:


The Minutemen (the right wing extremist group of the 1960s) and the militia movement ride again!