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, Republican platform, RNC, sprawl, suburbs, survival seeds, tea party, the collapse of the Republican party, the future of America, The Handmaid's Tale, the threat of Socialism, traffic circles, United Nations, urban sprawl | 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, Republican platform, Sarah Palin, Sharron Angle, tax the rich, tea party, the plight of the overtaxed rich, Tom Donohue, Wall Street | The New York Times and CBS recently commissioned a poll in hopes of better understanding the Tea Party movement, and the findings are pretty interesting. Here’s a clip: Tea Party supporters are wealthier and more well-educated than the general public, and are no more or less afraid of falling into a lower socioeconomic class, according [...]
Posted in Politics | Also tagged angry old white men, Birthers, helping the poor, Jon Voight, middle class anger, Obama, Orly Taitz, polls, stupid Americans, stupid celebrities, tea party, teabaggery | There’s been quite a bit of good analysis in the wake of the Republican implosion on health care, and the pant-shittingly hysterical psychotic meltdown that accompanied it. I particularly liked what Bob Herbert had to say in his New York TImes op-ed today. Here, for those of you who didn’t see it, is a clip: [...]
Posted in Media, Observations, Politics | Also tagged Allison Kilkenny, bigotry, Birthers, Bob Herbert, David Frum, death panels, fear mongering, FOX News, Glenn Beck, ignorance, John Lewis, Kevin Phillips, Negrophobe whites, Nixon, race baiting, racism, Republican lies, Rush Limbaugh, tea party, Tea Partyfication, teabaggery, the collapse of the Republican party, the southern strategy, the White Disenfranchised Male, Voting Rights Act, weapons of mass destruction | 
