Monthly Archives: December 2011

Cartoons: ‘Not Romney’ On the Rails?

And the suicidal demise of the Republican Party into a swirling frenzy of far-right madness, even if their presidential candidate is the execrable hypocrite Mittster. H/T to Bartcop.com.

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Today’s Quote: GOP Willing to Ruin the Economy to Defeat Obama

Imagine if some Democrat, say Sen. Harry Reid, had made a statement like this in 2003 — “The single most important thing we want to achieve is to make President Bush a one-term president”? Rush Limbaugh would still be screaming … Continue reading

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The Death of the Newt World Order

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Today’s Quotes: Wall Street

“The richest one percent of this country owns half our country’s wealth, five trillion dollars. [It’s more now.} One third of that comes from hard work, two thirds comes from inheritance, interest on interest accumulating to widows and idiot sons … Continue reading

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Today’s Music: Big Walter Horton Two-Fer

I met Big Walter Horton years ago at a North Side Chicago blues bar. Although his playing was loose, almost to the point of kidding, with his band, he told them to stop playing at one point and then, just … Continue reading

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Today’s Quote: Ex-Republican Knows How to Beat the Greedy Old Plutocrats

It’s true, many good progressives don’t know how to frame an idea simply in plain language (some of the sign-makers of OWS could teach them a thing or two), and tend to bury their point in the third paragraph, long … Continue reading

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Look Who’s Endorsing Mitt!

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Today’s Quotes: Computer Errors

“So we went to Atari and said, ‘We’ve got this amazing thing, even built with some of your parts and what do you think about funding us? Or we’ll give it to you. We just want to do it. Pay … Continue reading

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Cartoons: Crapitalism Illustrated

As anyone who has been paying attention knows (like the fine cartoonists below), we no longer live in a capitalist system, if we ever did. Instead we live in a Bizarro World economy where the failures of the rich are … Continue reading

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The Romney $10K Betting Bill

Heard tell the DNC is putting these things out. Can that be true — the Dems are fighting back with humor instead of hrumphing like Queen Victoria’s elderly maid or wetting themselves in fear? If so, the GOP is in … Continue reading

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