Monthly Archives: March 2010
TDS: ((( Jon Stewart )))
What a terrific spoof of Glenn Beck’s convoluted, conspiratorial ranting… Note: Video link deleted as it was pulled by YouTube ages ago.
Filed under Kooks & Crackpots, Wingnuts
Smart Remarks: Twisted Teabaggers
Pennsylvania blogger Gil Smart nails the callous behaviour and rotten morality of the “Tea Bag Nation” recently captured at a dueling demonstration in Ohio over the contentious issue of healthcare reform… The video footage featured in his clip really is … Continue reading
Filed under Health Care & Medicine, Right-Wing Haters
Foxstastic Fear-Mongering
Comical desperation of the fairly unbalanced wingnuts… I wonder if there will be any reporting on Fox “News” tonight of the CBO’s modestly favourable bottom-line cost reduction estimates released this afternoon.
Filed under Health Care & Medicine, Media Bias
Time to End Foreign Welfare
The question on this afternoon’s edition of “The Cafferty File” segment of CNN’s The Situation Room program was an especially provocative one; asking if, in light of the blatantly insulting snub by the reactionary government of Benjamin Netanyahu when Vice-President … Continue reading
Filed under US Foreign Policy
RMR Rant: CPC Double-Standard
It’s not what you know; it’s who you know in the PMO. As always, a sense of entitlement, arrogance and hypocrisy inevitably accretes like so much greasy plaque to the arteries of whatever party happens to be in power — … Continue reading
Carry On Cowboy
Surely, there’s something completely demented about casually strolling through a grocery store while openly slinging a loaded Glock semi-automatic pistol. I don’t know about you, but I’d feel extremely creeped out being in a public space with a bunch of … Continue reading
Filed under Libertarianism
Revenge of the Conservative Sith?
Thomas Frank, author of What’s the Matter with Kansas? and The Wrecking Crew, interviewed on Bill Moyers Journal a little while back, spoke to Bill about President Obama’s calamitous inheritance and the wave of collective amnesia that seems to have … Continue reading
Filed under Conservatism, STEVEN HARPER Government of Canada
Team Canada at the White House!
Well, sort of… if only in the form of a hockey jersey worn briefly as the result of a lost bet by Obama’s press secretary Robert Gibbs. I haven’t had any time whatsoever for blogging lately, but couldn’t resist posting … Continue reading
Filed under Humour
OMG! We’re All Al Queda Now…
Based on the intrepid investigative efforts of Fox News and Liz Cheney’s tax-exempt “Keep America Scared Shitless Safe” political action committee, extreme radical liberal MSNBC TV host “Rachel Bin Maddow” exposes the pervasive activities of a nefarious terrorist sleeper cell … Continue reading
Explaining Islamophobia
An excellent piece from The Real News exploring the complex ideological roots of Islamophobia as a mainstream version of so-called Dispensationalist theology positing a “pretribulation rapture” and eschatological “end times” perspective that’s been subsumed by neo-Conservatives and Christian Fascists over … Continue reading
