CONTEXT: Former Vice President Dick Cheney, proving definitively that trials are a pointless waste of time and resources, came up from his pit full of freshly-harvested child hearts yesterday to announce on Fox News that he’d found NSA whistleblower Eric Snowden to be guilty of treason. Snowden, to his credit, then took to the internet […]
By Mark | February 13, 2013
This evening, when Marco Rubio franticly lunged for his water bottle during the Republican response to President Obabma’s State of the Union address, was I think only one to immediately think, “polyjuice potion“? I’m not necessarily suggesting that the esteemed representative of the Koch Brothers in the United States Senate, is a Death Eater intent […]
By Mark | September 27, 2012
I’ve heard from a few people who live in Canton that, over the past 24 hours, they’ve been receiving robocalls from the campaign of Daniel Johnson, one of five men running to represent the citizens of Michigan’s 11th congressional district in the House. My friends, knowing that I’m a proud race traitor, thought I’d be […]
Posted in Civil Liberties, Politics, Uncategorized | Also tagged Canton, Congress, Daniel Johnson the racist not the musician, James O. Pace, Kerry Bentivolio, Michigan's 11th congressional district, Natural Law Party, Pace Amendment, race traitor, racism, robocalls, Ron Paul, Southern Poverty Law Center, Syed Taj, tea party, Thaddeus McCotter, white nationalist, white power, white supremacist, William Daniel Johnson, xenophobia |
By Mark | August 15, 2012
A few nights ago, I told you about a family member of mine who had shared a purposefully misleading political graphic on Facebook, and how I responded. The piece, which incorrectly attributed $5 billion of the nation’s debt to the “Democratic majority,” was produced by an organization called Right Change, a fake grassroots entity bankrolled […]
Posted in Media, Observations, Politics | Also tagged 9/11, astroturf, Bin Ladin Determined To Strike in US, Bush, Bush administration, Dishonorable Disclosures, Federal Election Commission, Fred Eshelman, George Bush the Lesser, intelligence, Iraq war, leaks, liberal media, lies in the run-up to the Iraq war, Mission Accomplished, national security, Navy SEALS, Obama, OPSEC, Osama bin Laden, Plamegate, political ads, RightChange.com, Romney, Ryan Zinke, special forces, Special Operations for America, Special Operations Political Committee, state secrets, Super PAC, Swiftboating, Valerie Plame |
By Mark | September 11, 2011
As reluctant as I am to jump on the “Let’s Milk the 10th Anniversary of the 9/11 Attacks for Ratings and Ad Revenue” bandwagon, I just read a very thoughtful piece by U-M history professor Juan Cole, and felt as though it deserved to be passed along. Here’s a clip. I’d encourage you, however, to […]
Posted in Civil Liberties, History, Politics | Also tagged 9/11, Abu Ghraib, al Qaeda, Arab Spring, Bush, Bush administration, CIA, democracy, democracy protests, Donald Rumsfeld, Egypt, Hosni Mubarak, Juan Cole, Osama bin Laden, Pakistan, Pervez Musharraf, Qaddafi, surveillance culture, Tahrir Square, terrorism, threats to Democracy, Tunisia, two state solution, war for oil, Zine El Abidine Ben Ali |
