Posts tagged Politics

A Chance to Speak and Be Heard

Wherein I share the link to the Environmental Protection Agency’s site for sharing comments, ideas, and discussion regarding the direction you want the EPA to go.

Leaving on a Jet Plane?

Wherein I muse upon leaving the country.

Please President Obama

I post excerpts from Michael Moore’s open letter to President Obama and add my voice to those calling for the President to get us out of Afghanistan.

Keith Olbermann on Health Care Reform – A Must See For Everyone

A special, hour-long commentary. Share it with anyone you can. Regardless of your politics, this is an issue beyond partisanship and petty bickering and I hope you will take the time to listen. If you disagree, I’d love to hear actual well constructed and intelligent arguments. Specious arguments about Nazis and Socialism don’t qualify.

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The Fatalism of Never Changing Minds

Recently, while I was at work, I overheard a co-worker’s conversation on the phone about how he never talks politics with friends or acquaintances because “you can never change anybody’s mind about stuff like that.” My first instinct was to agree with him, while my second was the realization that to accept this statement as [...]

Thank You, Rhode Island General Assembly, Thank You So Very Much

Wherein the RI General Assembly stands in the way of Rhode Islander’s bringing in some desperately needed income.

18,000 Deaths Per Year

And all to feed somebody’s voracious greed:

Eighteen thousand mothers, fathers, sisters, and brothers, dying preventable deaths because insurance was too expensive or flat-out unavailable. (Link)

Oh, and please, Mr. Capitalism-And-Profit-Above-All-Else, please reconcile for me your devotion to profit with your so-called Christianity and supposed devotion to Christ.

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Jackson Lewis and the Republicans are Lying

If you have any doubt that Corporations can’t be trusted, look at how they are fighting against the Employee Free Choice Act: pouring millions and millions of money into a campaign of disinformation and outright lies. The fact is that:

the Employee Free Choice Act does not eliminate any method by which workers can [...]

Yoo-Hoo that Yoo Didn’t Get His Way

Can you believe that this guy is teaching law?

In perhaps the most surprising assertion, the Oct. 23, 2001, memo suggested the president could even suspend press freedoms if he concluded it was necessary to wage the war on terror. “First Amendment speech and press rights may also be subordinated to the overriding need [...]

The Republican Party Hates America

I’m serious, they must hate America because they are trying to do everything in their power to destroy America’s economy, Constitution, rule of law, and infrastructure in order to further their own political agenda. I am not talking about the ordinary Americans who vote Republican or who support conservative ideology, I’m talking about the Republican [...]