Archive for the ‘corruption’ Category
Friday, August 15th, 2008
The GOP has, for years, claimed to be the party of family values. Unfortunately, that title is more like a badge worn on one's lapel than an innate commitment to morality. Even worse, this carefully chosen description is primarily tailored to encompass those issues the GOP feels will garner votes. ...
Posted in 2008 elections, BIO, Barack, Campaign News, Democrat, Election News, George W. Bush, John McCain, LGBT, Obama, Politics, Religion, Rhetoric, corruption | 1 Comment »
Friday, August 15th, 2008
It shouldn’t be surprising any more when this kind of shit happens. We found out three years ago that FEMA is just a useless empty shell. And the Environmental Protection Agency now exists for the sole purpose of protecting corporations from those #$%&!# environmentalists.
And now we find out the true ...
Posted in Health, Police State, corruption | 2 Comments »
Saturday, August 9th, 2008
Businessweek's Brian Grow and Keith Epstein did an in depth article on the corporations that prey upon our nations poor, specifically the working poor. The title of their article (listen to the podcast here): The Poverty Business . There is quite a lot of money to be made off ...
Posted in Economics, Housing Market, Politics, Poverty, corruption, greed, ownership society | 2 Comments »
Tuesday, July 29th, 2008
Sitting Alaska Senator Ted Stevens was indicted today. Good. I think Alaskans deserve to know the whole truth, and I think they deserve a break from their ‘good old boy network’ chains.
Stevens was trailing his challenger Mark Begich in the polls by 8-10 points prior to the indictment announcement. What’s ...
Posted in 2008 elections, corruption | 15 Comments »
Tuesday, July 22nd, 2008
"Stop throwing the Constitution in my face. It's just a goddamned piece of paper!" -George W. Bush, November, 2005
The context for the above quote lies in a meeting President Bush had with Congressional Republicans and aides back in 2005 when they were discussing how to renew the Patriot Act. His ...
Posted in BIO, Bush, Police State, Politics, President, corruption | 27 Comments »
Wednesday, July 9th, 2008
So much for the will of the people. So much for the rule of law. So much for a Democratic Congress stepping in to stop the abuses of the Bush Administration.
After passing in the House 293 to 129 last month , today the Senate approved the FISA amendments 69-28, stripping ...
Posted in BIO, Barack, Bush, Democrat, Police State, Politics, Senate, corruption | 27 Comments »
Friday, June 20th, 2008
Scotty McMessage McClellan is no longer delivering messages that the W, Rove and Co like. And, he has a number of good points.
Those of you who followed the Libby case, and the Plame leak know that the W, Rove and Co repeatedly said they would come clean when ...
Posted in BIO, Contributors, George W. Bush, Impeachment, cheney, conservative, corruption | 13 Comments »
Friday, June 20th, 2008
Seems a couple of the executives at Bear Stearns got arrested Thursday. Matthew Tannin and Ralph Cioffi are not happy campers..or happy hedge fund operators. From the Marketwatch link:
They were charged in a nine-count indictment that alleged the two engaged in wire fraud, conspiracy and securities fraud in misleading investors ...
Posted in capitalism, corruption, greed | 5 Comments »
Wednesday, June 18th, 2008
In the "Too Little Too Late But Definitely Better Than Nothing" category, the House passed Representative Dennis Kucinich's HR 1258 and voted 251-166 to refer impeachment charges against George W. Bush to the Judiciary Committee.
It may get bogged down until he stumbles out of office about seven months from now, ...
Posted in Bill Clinton, Bush, Current Affairs, General, George W. Bush, IDIOT, Impeachment, Miscellaneous, President, Religion, Republican, Right Wing Nut, Senate, cheney, corruption | 17 Comments »
Tuesday, June 17th, 2008
Iraqi officials and the Bush Administration are negotiating over America’s future military presence in Iraq. This article is basically telling the Iraqis: Watch Your Back!
As columnist DeWayne Wickham says: “What the United States wants from countries it occupies, it usually gets.” Millions of Native Americans will vouch for that.
Iraqi negotiators ...
Posted in Bush, Iraq, Middle East, corruption | No Comments »
