Required Reading

Go here to read the transcript of the speech that Mr Richard Trumka, President of the AFL-CIO, gave at the National Press Club on January 19, 2011. There are far too many “good” parts to cut & paste.  Read it all.  It’ll make you feel good.

Loathsome John

This is from “The 50 Most Loathsome People of 2010″ (posted by Murphy)

Why Are We So Dumb

From Scott Horton’s “No Comment”: With Gillard’s announcement, Australia now joins Britain, Germany, Poland, Spain, and Italy among the nations now conducting formal investigations into CIA renditions operations on their soil or involving their government personnel. Torture allegations figure prominently in each case. The ‘dumb’ in the title isn’t the citizens of the Republic believing [...]

Dems Are Supposed To Stand

for the people, for the citizens of the country.  The banks and the Chamber of Commerce already have enough help by supporting the Republicans. So, when I see a piece like this from RawStory, with quotes like these from elected Democrats Senator Jay Rockefeller, a West Virginia lawmaker with strong ties to the mining industry, [...]

Off-Hiatus – Temporarily

I see this at RawStory about the junior Senator, Rand Paul, from KY: “I looked at some of the writings of this young man,” Paul told Fox News’ Bret Baier Sunday. “From a medical point of view, there is a lot to suggest paranoid schizophrenia, that this man was a really sick individual,” he said [...]

Hiatus

I do not know which is worse.  The spineless, cowardly Democrats  OR the lying, make-anything-up Republicans OR the so-called main-stream-media (especially Sunday Morning Talking Heads) that uncritically parrots their masters every talking point. I just cannot sort that out. But it is the cause of the Ol’ Chief to need to take a break.  Analyze [...]

House Cleaning

Today is the day that, when I bookmarked a new site, I realized my bookmarks were out of control. Espresso is the name of the folder where I put my “hottest, must read every day” links.  Actually it has accumulated so many links (I wonder how) that I read maybe 20% virtually every day and [...]

Finally

I see someone else, in print, calling for an increase in taxes for the wealthy.  I don’t know how much brains it takes to figure out that if taxes are cut and defense spending is allowed to go up, then funding for infrastructure and pensions will be cut or eliminated or worse. State budgets are [...]

Only In The U. S. of A.

This falls under the  ”You Can’t Make This Stuff Up” category.  Found in an email from AlterNet.org is an enlightening story  by Ray Moynihan and Barbara Mintzes titled Pharma’s New Sales Pitch to Women: If You Aren’t Horny, It’s ‘Sexual Dysfunction’ — Try These Pills The story goes on to say Before the drug testing could [...]

Extravagence

Extravagance.  Excess would be another word.  Mrs. Chief and I watched part of the Rose Parade this morning and early afternoon.  I counted at least six high school marching bands, most of which had over 300 members, plus an uncountable (be me) number of floats. How can that extravagance go on in the middle of [...]