Generally speaking, I don’t consider myself a huge Thomas Friedman fan. I caught a minute of him speaking on MSNBC this morning, though, and what he said really blew me away. It was extremely simple, but packed a wallop. As I can’t find the exact quote anywhere online, here’s the essence of what he said… […]
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Thomas Friedman to America: “We can’t learn anything from China”
Posted in History, Media, Politics Also tagged 2010 census, 2012 Presidential election, Bush tax cuts, census data, China, education reform, immigration, infrastructure, Joe Scarborough, Michael Bloomberg, Michele Bachmann, minimum wage, poverty, tax the rich, That Used To Be Us: How America Fell Behind in the World It Invented and How We Can Come Back, the plight of the overtaxed rich, Thomas Friedman, Trudi Renwick 11 Comments
On Republican bloodlust and Obama’s Job Act
If Obama really wanted people to get behind him and this new jobs initiative of his, he would have announced this evening that he was planning to top Rick Perry by taking the lives of 250 American citizens. (Just think of all the executioners and grave diggers we could put to work if he said […]
Posted in Civil Liberties, Politics, Uncategorized Also tagged American Jobs Act, asshole Republicans of Texas, blood thirsty, Cameron Todd Willingham, death penalty, EPA, executions, FEMA, Global Warming, hypocrisy, hypocrisy watch, pollution, putting innocent men to death, Rick Perry, smog, Texas justice, things to lose sleep over 16 Comments
Enjoying a Bernie break
It dawned on me today that it’s been too damned long since we’ve had any Bernie Sanders video on the site. Here, to remedy that, is a little something that I just found on the web. I don’t have time to transcribe the whole thing, but here are a few quotes. …Big money owns and […]
Posted in Economics, Health, Politics, Uncategorized Also tagged Bernie Sanders, campaign finance reform, Citizens United v. Federal Election Commission, corporate personhood, Glass-Steagall Act, health care reform, Jim McDermott, Koch brothers, public option, single-payer system, Super PAC, Vermont 12 Comments