While Glenn Beck and the folks over at FOX News were busy promoting their Tea Parties, giving their more rabid viewers an opportunity to scream, red-faced about Socialism and wave around the Hitler posters that they’d been hiding all these years, Keith Olbermann’s crew at MSNBC decided to go another route. Under the guidance of […]
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Free healthcare clinic draws thousands
Posted in Health, Media Also tagged Add new tag, Countdown, FOX News, free clinic, Glenn Beck, healthcare reform, Keith Olbermann, MSNBC, Richard Stockwell, tea party 30 Comments
“Calling all John Galts in Georgia”
I don’t want to make light of the tragedy taking place in Georgia right now, but I couldn’t help but chuckle at this Daily Kos post asking for principled teabaggers to stand up for what they believe in and demand that the federal government not intrude into their personal lives by providing emergency aid. I […]
Posted in Environment, Politics Also tagged Atlanta, Ayn Rand, emergency aid, federal aid, flooding, Georgia, government is never the answer, hypocrisy, John Galt, Katrina, natural disaster, Neal Boortz, radio, rugged individualism, Sonny Perdue, the great troll war, trolls 6 Comments
Let’s stop the murder, Detroit
The sprawling city of Detroit, for all of its charm, is a city in steep decline. Starting with the riots in 1967, people have been fleeing the city in quantities only rivaled by post-Katrina New Orleans. With a population of over 2 million at one time, the city now, by some estimates, has closer to […]
Posted in Detroit, Economics, Media, Observations, Other, Politics Also tagged Clarence "Sonny" Jones, Detroit '67 riots, Detroit Free Press, gun violence, Jennifer Granholm, Jeremy Waggoner, Katrina, kids and violence, Little Murder, Michigan film incentives, murder, population decline, Rochelle Riley, urban homestead act, urban pioneers 45 Comments