Rally to Restore . . .

There is a lot of negative bits and bytes about the Jon Stewart/Stephan Colbert get-together on the Mall for three plus hours on Saturday 30 Oct here, here and here. Now, the folks that are critizing the event are people I respect.  I read their blogs everyday.  Yet, I feel that they have this all [...]

They May Not

be wearing Brown Shirts, but do these events bring back an eighty year old nightmare. First we have pictures of a reporter, in handcuffs, being detained by private security guards employed by the Republican senatorial candidate Joe Miller.  When the real police arrived they let the reporter go. Then a few days after that we [...]

Corporations v Human Beings

I know why I disagree with the part of Citizens United decision that allows anyone to give unlimited funds is the secrecy.  They, individuals and corporations, can remain anonymous.  And some people with billions of dollars can just buy an election by funding ads that do not have one shred of truth in them. Let [...]

Citizens United

There have been a whole host of SCOTUS decisions that have been unfathomable, which over time have been either overturned by a later SCOTUS or the legislature has passed laws to overcome them. Examples: From Wiki -

It’ll Never Happen

but I can dream.  From the HuffPo is this piece.  Technically, DeFazio may call it perjury.  In reality, Roberts is out of step with 95% of the country.  He is not applying the law evenly.  He ignores the wording of the Constitution to get to the conservative opinion he wants.  The decisions we are now [...]

Advance Warning

WARNING !!    WARNING !! If you ever go to the Night Sky Coffee House & Eatery bring a big appetite and a very empty tummy, because you will not be disappointed by the portion size.  The Chef’s Salad last night was humongous and Mrs. Chief’s ‘Chicken Manhattan’ was more than she could eat.

Could It Happen? Maybe . . .

Last evening, Thursday, I attended a “Meet the Candidate” event in the cafeteria of the Jr. high school.  There was a total of  eighteen issues/candidates in attendance. The audience was in the range of 200 – 250 people.  The first two speakers were ‘pro’ for a health district levy  followed by a cultural center levy.  [...]

Is There An Alternative?

This morning I was watching a recorded version of last nights “Countdown With Keith Olberman.” Watching the guest host interview David Axelrod, it occurred to me that I was as tired of hearing Obama apologists as I was of hearing Bush apologists. I don’t know how much worse it would have been had McCain won. [...]

I Like This Idea

As a matter of fact, this is one of those ideas that I never could understand.  How can a corporation have the same rights as a person? This decision is not nearly as well known as Plessy v. Ferguson but it is just as bad. Now the Green Party is calling for an end to [...]

Sounds Like

Yeah, it sure does. It sounds like Nazi Brown Shirts at work here.