Tag Archives: paranoia

Agenda 21… Are America’s city planners in on the United Nations plot to enslave us, and force us onto bicycles?

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, Arizona, 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, 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 | 26 Comments

I’m sure it’s just a coincidence, but the man thought to be the I-96 shooter appears to identify as a Tea Party activist

By Mark | November 8, 2012

An arrest has been made in the case of the I-96 shootings. A man from Wixom by the name of Raulie Wayne Casteel has been taken into custody. According to the Daily Tribune, “Casteel was charged with six counts of a combination of felonious assault, carrying with unlawful intent, felony firearms, and discharge of a [...]

Posted in Michigan, Politics, Uncategorized | Also tagged angry white men, anti-government, gun violence, guns, I-96, Kerry Bentivolio, Libertarianism, mental illness, Obama is a Socialist, patriot movement, Raulie Wayne Casteel, Ron Paul, shooting, tea party, violence on the extreme right, Wixom | 16 Comments

Non-Democrats in the Ypsilanti Democratic Primary… is there anything wrong with that?

By Mark | July 2, 2012

As the deadline for registering to vote in the August 7 primary is one week from today, I thought that now might be a good time to publicly commend a certain local landlord for defecting from the ultra right wing America First Party and professing his allegiance to the party of Ted Kennedy, Barney Frank [...]

Posted in Civil Liberties, Politics, Ypsilanti | Also tagged AIDS, America First Party, anti-immigrant, Chinese, Civil Rights Act, conspiracy theories, date rape, David Duke, Environmental Protection Agency, EPA, fear of Communism, foreign aid, Great Lakes, homophobia, John Birch Society, KKK, local income tax, Mike Eller, seat belts, separation of church and state, Stop City Income Tax, Ypsilanti City Council, Ypsilanti Ward 3 | 51 Comments

America is Doomed… and not for the reason these people think

By Mark | March 19, 2012

I had occasion to watch television for extended periods of time this weekend, and it certainly didn’t do much to dissuade me from my belief that ours is a paranoid and fearful culture in decline. Here are two examples. The first is a promo for a show called Doomsday Preppers on the National Geographic Channel. [...]

Posted in Ideas, Pop Culture, Rants, Uncategorized | Also tagged alcohol as currency, alternative currency, America is Doomed, Barbara Walters, Clementine, Discovery Channel, doomsday, Doomsday Bunkers, Doomsday Preppers, end times, fear, Guy McPherson, Joan Rivers, Mad Max, magic beans, National Geographic, National Geographic Channel, reality television, Survival Seed Bank, survivalist, vaginal rejuvenation, vaginas | 21 Comments

Reading the Iliad with my daughter

By Mark | October 12, 2010

I had wanted to write about the Glenn Beck fan they call the Progressive Hunter, and his recently foiled plan to start a revolution in the United States by killing liberals in San Francisco, but I ended up staying up too late, reading The Iliad with Clementine. I know it might be a little out [...]