My intention was to tuck the kids into bed and immediately get to work on a post about Dave Bing’s announcement that he wouldn’t seek a second term as Mayor of Detroit. Unfortunately, though, that’s not what happened. Instead of getting right to work, I decided to dip my toe into the sea of crazy [...]
By Mark | November 26, 2012 There’s only one thing people on the far right hate more than the United Nations, and that’s the United Nations setting international guidelines for sustainable development. I learned this a few days ago, while listening to a special episode of Glenn Beck’s radio program about a secret UN initiative to deal with the looming threats [...]
Posted in Environment, History, Observations, Other, Politics, Predictions, Rants, Uncategorized | Also tagged 1984, 1992, Agenda 21, Alabama, ALEC, American Legislative Exchange Council, anti-environment, bike lanes, Chip Rogers, city planning, competing visions for the future of America, concentration camps, Conference on Environment and Development, conspiracy theories, corporatocracy, Delphi, deregulation, dyptopia, Earth Summit, Emmeline, fear mongering, Field Searcy, Georgia, Georgia State Senate, Glenn Beck, global climate change, Global Warming, Harriet Parke, mass transit, mind control, paranoia, rationing, regulation, Republican National Committee, Republican platform, RNC, sprawl, suburbs, survival seeds, tea party, the collapse of the Republican party, the future of America, The Handmaid's Tale, the hijacking of the Republican party, the threat of Socialism, traffic circles, United Nations, urban sprawl | Arizona Senator John Kyl, while making the case on the floor of the Senate for the elimination of Planned Parenthood’s federal funding, said that abortions account for “well over 90%” of what the well-respected women’s health organization does. Then, when it was pointed out to the Senator that abortion services actually only account for 3% [...]
Posted in Politics | Also tagged "not intended to be a factual statement", abortion, asshole Republicans, Fox and Friends, John Kyl, lies, men making health decisions for women, pap smear, Planned Parenthood, reality deficient, Stephen Colbert, vestigial tail, Walgreens, women's health, women's rights | Our friends at ThinkProgress had a great piece yesterday on how different states are setting out to address their budget shortfalls. It would seem that not all states are seeking to balance their budgets on the backs of the middle class while at the same time handing away billions in tax breaks to the corporate [...]
Posted in Michigan, Politics, Uncategorized | Also tagged ALEC, American Legislative Exchange Council, Brian Schweitzer, Chris Christie, Dan Malloy, Florida, Georgia, Iowa, Jan Brewer, John Kasich, Kansas, Larry O'Neal, Maine, Mark Dayton, Michigan, New Jersey, Nikki Haley, Ohio, Paul LePag, Pennsylvania, Republican governors, Rick Scot, Rick Snyder, Sam Brownback, South Carolina, ThinkProgress, Tom Branstad, Tom Corbett | By Mark | January 13, 2011 I’d already watched Sarah Palin’s recorded statement on the Arizona shootings when I’d decided to track down video of President Obama’s speech at the Tucson memorial service for those men and women who were killed or wounded on Saturday. I know that, in the past, I’ve expressed a great deal of dissatisfaction with the President, [...]
Posted in Observations, Politics | Also tagged blood libel, Bush tax cuts, Christina Taylor Green, cynicism, Gabrielle Giffords, gun violence, irresponsible rhetoric, John Roll, Obama, potential for violence, Sarah Palin, the public option, threat of assassination, Tucson, violence on the extreme right, vitriol | 
