The American Myth is that everyone has freedom of speech, but money is speech; the corporations have all the money, so just shut the fuck up and your betters will tell you what you need to know, and you'd better listen ( Read more... )

What are the things any human needs to thrive? Food, water, shelter, sanitation, medicine, education, and security are the bare minimum. Most of what we do in our lives revolves aroung getting these things. We measure our own success and others' by the quality and abundance of these things that are accessible or accumulated ( Read more... )

The real issue birthers have is that there's a Black man out there somewhere whom White cops don't have license to shoot on sight. They want him back in the ghetto where he belongs ( Read more... )

1+1x1+1x1+1 is always a multiple of 1. The infinite is one.

Just came back down off the roof ( Read more... )

So, we all know you can't send in an itemized list with your tax return saying on what the government can and can't spend your tax money, right? Right?

The Republican platform has this to say:
Today's Democratic Party views the tax code as a tool for social engineering. They use it to control our behavior, steer our choices, and change the way we ( Read more... )

A CEO, a union rep, and a Tea Partier sit down at a table with a platter of 12 cookies.

The CEO takes 11 cookies and says to the Tea Partier, "Watch out! That union rep wants some of your cookie!"

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(And I hope that you are smart enough that I don't have to peel back all the many layers in those two simple lines for you)

This is what breakfast looks like when you wake up next to me...
( Yummies )

And furthermore, I have conquered the world and you are all now my faithful subjects.

OK, that hasn't happened yet, but Hope springs eternal, right?

But seriously... death panels? Are we still on that red herring?

Rationed health care? Seriously? What the fuck do you think actuarial science is all about? Did you know there even was such a thing ( Read more... )

Been a while since I've posted here ( Read more... )