Morning Hour - C-SPAN Video Library, Hoodie's Aren't Allowed On The House Floor

Representative Bobby Rush, (D-IL) dons a hood as he delivers his remarks regarding the Trayvon Martin affair on the House floor and is asked to suspend and removed from the chamber. 

My Morning Laugh

I don't think it is funny that Mitt's dog rode on the roof of the family car, but Ms Collins' take has caused a chuckle.  She makes a salient point about the treatment the citizen's can expect if this is the way Romney would treat the family dog.  For a President, is  …

BBC News - Sun newspaper 'will continue' says Rupert Murdoch

Speakers at CPAC condemn the Lame Stream media for bias reporting and not telling the conservative side of the story. Yet the Owner of the only "fair and balanced" media organization they believe in is defending his employees from criminal arrests for public corruption.

The Lame Stream Media is About to go Nuts, Let's Savor the Moment Shall We?

Here for your viewing pleasure, the barbie doll of GOP political theater takes the stage yet again. Standing O's, kitchy phrases and highlights to boot.  Got to love/hate her in the Lame Stream. 

This Election is Important, Are the Liberals as Prepared to Fight for Their Rights to Self-Determination?

I had the TV tuned to C-Span this morning, its was 7:06 am on the Pacific coast and CPAC was already well under way.

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The Muppets Attack Fox News - YouTube

"If they take what I say seriously they've got a real big problem," Ms Piggy tells it like it is in response to Fox News attack on the "liberal left" that has co-opted their new Muppet movie. 

The Broke Nation - Super-Pacs tell the story

Americans for a Better Tomorrow, Tomorrow releases information about 1 million in total donations to date.

Stephen Colbert, Herman Cain turn spotlight on super PACs in South Carolina - The Washington Post

“But this is South Carolina, so I’m not 100 percent sure people know it’s satire.” This quote from a women at the gathering, about says it all.  Stephen has got game: 

South Carolina Democrats unamused by Colbert's ploy| Reuters

Mocking the primary process by asking democratic voters (who are allowed to vote in the Republican primary) to use Herman Cain as a proxy for a Colbert candidacy on the S. Carolina ballot is the latest brilliance coming from the comedian.

Who's afraid of "The Tempest" ?

In order to receive state funding for education, the school must remove books that teach about ethnicity. WTF?  In addition to Shakespeare's "The Tempest", and

When Did 'Kumbaya' Become Such A Bad Thing? : NPR

The fuzzily translated word has become crystal clear code in the world of politics. As Vanderbilt University political scientist John G. Geer said to Freedman in The New York Times, invoking kumbaya "lets you ridicule the whole idea of compromise."

Five dead (miles) in O HI O - another Man-Made Disaster.

Fracking for natural gas trapped in shale rock formations produces waste water that is toxic and needs to be disposed of properly.

End Corporate Personhood, Vermont Introduces Resolution to Amend U S Constitution

Progressive legislators in Vermont are getting the ball rolling.

Elizabeth Warren is the New Hilary Clinton

If all goes well in 2012, she's poised to be one of the most powerful Democrats—and the most formidable female one since Hillary Clinton. Like Clinton, Warren realized she wanted to be a politician after observing them up close. Check out a more complete profile for  …

Ben and Jerry Newsmakers Press Conference - Support for OWS is good business practice.

Not easy to dismiss the business founders who built a 300 million dollar ice cream empire on social responsibility and did not give up those rights when they sold out to corporate giant Unilever.

Jesus and the 99%

Much like the political arena,  the Christian church is equally at odds and hopelessly divided.  Is the inability to reconcile the debate a part of the eternal plan?

Foto-Friday Occupy Wall Street October 5, Day 19

These are not mine I wish they were because they are well done. And because the photo's are of the crowd and events on the day the Labor Unions came to support the 99% on the march on Wall Street. and I wish I could have been there..... I am the 99%. 

Obama Machine Prepares To Hijack Occupy Wall Street

The leftist juggernaut MoveOn.org, a Democratic Party front which vehemently backed Obama’s 2008 election campaign, is set to hijack the ‘Occupy Wall Street’ protests this week, which is pretty ironic given the fact that the Obama administration is a creature of …

Did the President just insinuate that those in Congress are children?

I just finished watching the President's news conference. He was asked about the debt and deficit measures being debated in Congress.

Politifact takes the heat: Readers say we were uninformed about Jon Stewart's claim

Disagreement and division prompt readers to respond to the claim Jon Stewart got his facts wrong. 

Cicconi Cupcakes Effective

Lobby influence buying in the merger of AT&T and T-Mobile. Cupcakes are sweet.

Encryption turned off.

Microsoft turns off Https encryption for Hotmail in countries that need to have secure communications. What's up with that?

Men Can Stop Rape, Something Representative Passidomo Needs to Know.

I was disturbed by the gang rape of an 11 year old first reported by the NYT on March 8th. I signed a petition at Change.org calling out Representative Passidomo of Naples Florida for blaming the rape victim after reading a blog post on March 15th.

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