Why am I finding it difficult to be thankful today? Could it be: A republican House of Representatives that wants to increase the national debt by reducing taxes on the rich. Right-wing demagogues who promote stupid with confusing, contradictory, nonfactual arguments. The people who buy the crap those demagogues peddle. Corporate owned media who puts […]

Just finished watching J.D. Hayworth on Rachel Maddow’s program. J.D. got off to a bombastic start on her opening salvo to his Jack Abramoff connection. On and on went J.D., his thrust was to discredit RM. He busted her researchers and he busted her producers. He was quite proud of himself in that smiling, slimey […]

Sarah Palin plays “so’s your mother!” with McCain campaign staff who accused her of being a simpleton and, worse yet, a discerning shopper. Ever the classy Palin stuck back, “those guys are jerks.” Some in the republican party are blaming Palin for the loss.  While the choice of Palin as running mate should be high […]

It was an interesting weekend. Colin Powell endorsed Barack Obama, thugism played it’s hand at McCain and Palin rallies (if these are real Americans then we are indeed in deep trouble), McCain is reduced to name calling and I found pretzel logic useful. The political speaks for itself, yet I’m pretty sure the pretzel logic […]

Moments from the debate. The moderator, Bob Schieffer, asks what needs to be done to deal with the deficit: Both of you have said you want to reduce the deficit, but the nonpartisan Committee for a Responsible Federal Budget ran the numbers on both of your proposals and they say the cost of your proposals, […]