and … Dr. King’s I have a dream speech.[...]
Posts Tagged ‘radical right’
ROMEYISMS: The 2010 Tax Return Missing Its FBAR!
Now it appears that even the 2010 Tax Return that Mitt Romney leased is incomplete. The files he did release show that Romney had a Swiss Bank Account .. he reported $1700 interest on his $3.000,000 investment! In 2010, however, US holders of Swiss accounts were required to file a ” Repor[...]
Voices from July past.
John Adams condemned democracy as “arbitrary, tyrannical, bloody, cruel, and intolerable a government…. Robespierre [a driving force behind the Reign of Terror during the French Revolution] is a perfect exemplification of the character of the first bellwether in a democracy.” Edmund Randol[...]
Republican Heresy: Jeb Bush is not quite rite!
Having witnessed Republican extremism at this year’s Tacoma convention. I am now mystified. Is the moderate republican extinct or just powerless? Dana Milbank discusses comment by Jeb Bush. The fintelleigent Bush brother and successful former Florida governor, stated in public that even [...]
Washington State Republican Convention, No cheer in Tacoma!
I was a Republican. At least my fellow delegates kept asking me if I was a Republican. This lasted the four days of their state convention. Apparently my credentials had been questioned. I was worried about how many of my fellow delegates were carrying guns, and the chair did tell the audience tha[...]
SUNDAY REVELATIONS: Visiting the Creation Museum
A Trip to the Creation “Science” Museum by Steve Potter, PhD Oh Boy. Oh Joy. I live in Cincinnati, home of the “Creation Museum”. In case you didn’t know, it is a “museum” dedicated to a literal interpretation of the bible. Earth is only a few thousand years old. God created all life o[...]
The Hypocrisy of Racism
There is much talk about “the talk.” “Sean O’Reilly was 16 when his mother gave him the talk that most black parents give their teenage sons,” Denisa R. Superville of the Hackensack (NJ) Record tells us. Meanwhile, down in Atlanta: “Her sons were 12 and 8 when Marlyn Tillman realized it [...]
April 2nd, 2012 - 2:28 am § in Jews
Happy Waralda Day!
In this season of Republican extremism, the day after April Fools seems to me to be a good time to remember the myth that the Nazis were atheists. For more on their god Waralda, click here. “Atheism is the only world, or religious view that is not tolerated within the SS… I have not tole[...]
McKenna’s Education Proposal … Magical Budgeting.
My biggest disappointment is that McKenna has acted more like a promise laden Democrat than like a business promoting Republican. I am disappointed. I had considered voting for McKenna despite the Tea Part albatross he carries. people I trust had told me that McKenna, a UW graduate, had a sincer[...]