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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, paranoia, rationing, regulation, Republican National Committee, 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

MoveOn joins the fight to protect domestic partner benefits at Michigan universities

By Mark | May 16, 2011

Remember how I was telling you a little while ago that an amendment was added to an education spending bill by Republicans in the Michigan House that would penalize universities that offer benefits to the domestic partners of their employees? Well, the folks at MoveOn have taken notice, and they’ve begun organizing, in hopes of [...]

Posted in Civil Liberties, Michigan, Politics, Uncategorized | Also tagged David Agema, domestic partner benefits, gay demonization, higher education, homophobic, MoveOn, petitions, Rick Snyder, Stella Sunstein | 65 Comments

New business idea #137: the communications enabled pregnancy test

By Mark | February 13, 2011

I know the Republicans claim to be all about slashing the budget right now, but I suspect they could find a few million dollars to fund this initiative of mine.

Posted in Mark's Life, Other | Also tagged abortion, business ideas, fundamentalist religion, Gilead, Margaret Atwood, pregnancy test, The Handmaid's Tale, theocracy, women's health, women's rights | 17 Comments

Republican Blowout, But No Conservative Mandate

By Mark | November 3, 2010

The best take on yesterday’s election that I’ve found thus far came from the folks at Think Progress. Here’s what they had to say: Riding a wave of discontent, Republicans overtook the House of Representatives by great numbers, but foundered in the U.S. Senate, where the media spotlight on Tea Party candidates like Sharron Angle [...]

Posted in Environment, Politics | Also tagged angry Republicans and their ideas, Bush, Bush tax cuts, Carly Fiorina, Center for American Progress, Christine O'Donnell, deregulation, election results, Eric Cantor, FreedomWorks, fucking Democrats, global climate change, inept Democrats, Jeb Bush, John Boehner, John Podesta, Ken Buck, mandates, Matt Kibbe, Meg Whitman, Michael Steele, middle class, Mitch McConnell, Mitt Romney, Rand Paul, recession, Sarah Palin, Sharron Angle, tax the rich, tea party, the hijacking of the Republican party, the plight of the overtaxed rich, Tom Donohue, Wall Street | 9 Comments

BP illustrates the need for a corporate death penalty

By Mark | May 30, 2010

It’s now coming out that, when Obama was visiting the Louisiana coast a few days ago, surveying the extent of the damage wrought by the BP oil leak, many of the individuals that he, and the rest of us watching at home, thought were BP workers, were in fact temps hired by Tony Haward and [...]

Posted in Alternative Energy, Corporate Crime, energy | Also tagged America Speaking Out, angry Republicans and their ideas, Any Rand, BP, chemical dispersants, child labor, corporate death penalty, Deepwater Horizon, deregulation, dolphins, fish, Lake Michigan, Louisiana, mammals, reptilian humanoids, tea party, Tea Partyfication, Tony Hayward, top kill, toxic waste, Wall Street, whales | 25 Comments

Tag Archives: Republican platform

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

MoveOn joins the fight to protect domestic partner benefits at Michigan universities

New business idea #137: the communications enabled pregnancy test

Republican Blowout, But No Conservative Mandate

BP illustrates the need for a corporate death penalty

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