(THE BLAZE – Jonathon M. Seidl) –Southwest Airlines has increasingly been finding graffiti on the bellies of its planes and has now asked employees to keep an eye out for the culprits. What type of graffiti? According to ABC15 in Phoenix, sources say the markings are Arabic words, and another outlet reports the markings have [...]
Posts from ‘September, 2011’
Man wins dumpling eating contest, then dies
KIEV (Reuters) – A 77-year-old Ukrainian man won a jar full of sour cream for coming first in a dumpling eating contest and then promptly died, local media reported on Wednesday. (entire article here)
Debate Crowd Cheers Letting Uninsured Die
How would you like these cretins to be a jury of your “peers”? Some members of the debate audience cheered the idea of letting people without health insurance die. Tampa Tea Party Master Debaters
Arizona Republic letter to the editor on Social Security makes sense: tax the rich equally
CEO’s tax break shorts Social Security Social Security should not be placed on the cutting board by either of our political parties. Presently, Social Security is in the black with $2.6 trillion. Even with the demands that Baby Boomers will place on Social Security is extremely simple. It should not matter how much is earned [...]
The Manufacturing of Crisis: a new examination of September 11, 2001– ten years later
The Manufacturing of Crisis: by Peter Joseph Denney George Frederic Wilhelm Hegel (1770-1831) was a renowned German philosopher and first noted the evolution of consciousness in humans and how it transpires. Transformation, he determined, was through the process of “Thesis/Antithesis/Synthesis” or, more simply put, “Problem, Reaction, Solution.” The “Hegelian Dialectic” remains an effective method to [...]
John McCain calls JFK assassination an “intervention”
McCain offers this strange characterization during a presidential debate. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DBAsHTSbkXs Art by Jason Seiler
Eddie Izzard: Ich bin ein Berliner
From “Dressed to Kill” click here: Ich bin ein Berliner Video of Kennedy saying, “I am a doughnut.” Click here: More Eddie Izzard: Stonehenge Cake or Death?
Progressives Should Treat Ron Paul with Extreme Caution — ‘Cuddly’ Libertarian Has Some Very Dark Politics
He’s anti-woman, anti-gay, anti-black, anti-senior-citizen, anti-equality and anti-education, and that’s just the start, the author says. AlterNet / By Adele M. Stan “There are few things as maddening in a maddening political season as the warm and fuzzy feelings some progressives evince for Rep. Ron Paul of Texas, the Republican presidential candidate. “The anti-war Republican,” people [...]