Our Governor, Rick Snyder, has largely been flying under the radar these past few weeks, as what’s left of our nation’s journalists focus on the events taking place in Wisconsin, but that might be changing. Starting a few days ago with an exhaustive piece on the Daily Kos site about Snyder’s ties to The American […]
Posted in Michigan, Politics, Uncategorized | Also tagged Emergency Financial Manager, Emergency Financial Manager’s Act, emergency rule, martial law, Naomi Klein, privatization, Rachel Maddow, Rick Snyder, Shock Doctrine, The American Legislative Exchange Council, union busting |
Rachel Maddow, and a lot of other folks, were pronouncing last night that the Democrats in Wisconsin, after almost two weeks of protesting, had essentially won. Despite Governor Scott Walker’s insistence that he would not negotiate with Democrats on collective bargaining rights, it looked as though he was showing signs of breaking under the pressure […]
Say what you will about Michael Moore, he made a hell of a lot of sense in Madison yesterday. Here’s a quote: “America is not broke. Not by a long shot. The country is awash in wealth and cash. It’s just that it’s not in your hands. It has been transferred, in the greatest heist […]
Posted in Corporate Crime, Politics, Uncategorized | Also tagged America is not broke, class warfare, Madison, Michael Moore, palm trees, speaking truth to power, the growing gap between rich and poor, union busting, Wall Street bailouts, Wisconsin, workers rights |
As someone mentioned yesterday in the comments section, Jon Stewart had a great piece the other night on the hypocrisy of the right wing pundits who, just a month ago were talking about how families making over $250,000 a year were just barely scraping by, and now claim that teachers, who make a fraction of […]
Posted in Media, Politics | Also tagged Chris Christie, class warfare, cost of living, Daily Show, hypocrisy, hypocrisy watch, Jon Stewart, public employee unions, scapegoats, teachers and their evil agendas, teachers union, the growing gap between rich and poor, Wall Street, Wisconsin |
Remember how I mentioned last night that Fox News, during a segment on Bill O’Reilly’s show about the protests in Wisconsin, had aired footage of violent protests shot elsewhere, giving the impression that the scene in Madison had devolved into violent anarchy? Well, today, the good, creative people of Madison – who, I might add, […]
