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Week of November 1, 2009 - November 7, 2009

The Fort Hood Massacre





So much of this story defies simple common sense that it is difficult to get to grips with it.

I don't know who was crazier, the shooter, Nidal Malik Hasan, or the people that assigned someone with his profile the task of treating traumatized soldiers returning from fighting Muslims.

It seems to me pure sadism on the US Army's part.


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Another Bush video, just for Dickday


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Dickday, TPM's guiding light, liked my Bush video, "Alfred E. Newman from Hell," a lot so I'm posting this one just for him... I've got another one that is really gross that I'll post later, if he likes this one too.

*To see it full size just press the little square "full screen" thingy.

A reminder for gloating Republicans


                                 Alfred E. Newman from Hell
*If, for some reason, your browser doesn't show this video CLICK HERE to view it

There seem to be a lot of Republicans walking around with familiar smirks on their faces today.

This is entirely premature.

I know that Americans are famous for their short memories and  even shorter attention spans, but only one year has passed since a great affliction  and a daily humiliation was extirpated from our "hearts and minds".

I made this video over three years ago and I am reviving it in case there are any Republicans who think that people are going to soon forget what they have inflicted on the country and mankind.  
                                 Alfred E. Newman from Hell



 

A Republic, if you can keep it


A once and future king
                              Good King Michael the First?

"Well, what have we got--a Republic or a Monarchy?"

"A Republic, if you can keep it." 
Reply attributed to Benjamin Franklin at the close of the Constitutional Convention of 1787

Right off the bat let me assure my readers that this is not a personal attack on the billionaire Mayor of New York, Michael Bloomberg. The word is that Bloomberg is a very fine mayor, one of the best that New York has ever had.

This is more like a riddle,

Question: "When is a republic not a republic?
Answer: "When it's for sale."
I am convinced that the principal problem of the United States  more than its endless wars, more than the devastation of climate change, more than anything else, is the way that its politics are financed.

The foundational idea of government of the people, by the people and for the people is completely short circuited at every turn by way US politics is financed today.

Bloomberg is a product of this system, not its cause. He has simply taken it to its logical conclusion.

Like ABC: Government in the USA is for sale and Bloomberg has bought some.


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