Ken Salazar flips off drowning polar bears. Pelosi plays defense on knowledge of torture. Footloose is a reality at an Ohio Christian school. The Senate weighs our health care "options". The U.S. puts most of the blame for Afghani war dead on the Taliban. Obama wants consumers to have better corporate credit abuse protections. An ex-soldier was convicted of raping a Iraqi woman. Rhode Island Catholics are an impediment to gay marriage. I wonder if this topic will end up making it into a Family Guy episode. Blackwater slithers out of Iraq. It only took another train accident for another state to ban texting and using a cellphone while driving. Employers lie about openings and the qualifications of their candidates. Our troops are insufficiently equipped for fighting in Afghanistan. Millions of children under five are hungry in America. Some baby food is worse than junk food. Civil rights leaders want Obama to address their issues, too.

former DJ, self confessed party animal, tried it all drug fiend and Recovering alcoholic, Glenn is truly a product of our time.

I spent the evening drunkenly perusing Youtube house music videos from 20 years ago, the sort of thing a sad 40 something does occasionally ;)

Glenn Beck comes from that scene, he is Generation X in the mainstream, a closet anarchist pretending to be a Libertarian/Gooper for the lulz and the dosh, gotta laugh.

From reading some comments at non-left sites I think I have figured out the racist purpose of ‘Dijongate’.

If one assumes negros are inferior then they could not be sophisticated enough to appreciate any thing more than the most basic of condiments. Obama probably would have been happier to have been eating watermellon.

So Obama’s mustard preference is just an example of him acting uppity and ‘apeing’ a sophistication that it is impossible for him to have. And what could be more pretentious than pretending French pretentiousness?

Arise, then, women of this day! Arise all women who have hearts, whether our baptism be that of water or of fears!

Say firmly: "We will not have great questions decided by irrelevant agencies. Our husbands shall not come to us, reeking with carnage, for caresses and applause. Our sons shall not be taken from us to unlearn all that we have been able to teach them of charity, mercy and patience.

We women of one country will be too tender of those of another country to allow our sons to be trained to injure theirs. From the bosom of the devastated earth a voice goes up with our own. It says "Disarm, Disarm! The sword of murder is not the balance of justice."

Blood does not wipe our dishonor nor violence indicate possession. As men have often forsaken the plow and the anvil at the summons of war, let women now leave all that may be left of home for a great and earnest day of counsel. Let them meet first, as women, to bewail and commemorate the dead.

Let them then solemnly take counsel with each other as to the means whereby the great human family can live in peace, each bearing after their own time the sacred impress, not of Caesar, but of God.

In the name of womanhood and of humanity, I earnestly ask that a general congress of women without limit of nationality may be appointed and held at some place deemed most convenient and at the earliest period consistent with its objects, to promote the alliance of the different nationalities, the amicable settlement of international questions, the great and general interests of peace.

Julia Ward Howe
Boston, 1870

From Guardian UK:

G20 police 'used undercover men to incite crowds'

Good going, man.

...is the GOP itself... not!

Happy Mother's Day to all you Moms out there.

its a new day and no new way,the corporations of the united states have made america irevellent , we no longer have a viable manufactureing base, china and india own it all, and its not comeing back here! america is now a warmongers dream, where the major product we have now is war and war products, even if obama ever does produce shovel ready jobs they will not last long and will be little better then a short time unemeployment solution , without real long term jobs with benifts that previous workers had were only dog paddeling to keep our heads above water till we finally go under, now besides iraq , and afganistan we are expected to expend our military and tax dollars to defend packistan , obama is an empty suit who has no answers to where america should go , the corporations put him in office and the corporations determin how long the working man survives and how long we still have a middle class in america, the rich get richer and the poor get poorer ,in the mean time ,in between times ,aint we got fun, clean coal, high speed trains , solar pannels , shovel ready jobs , bhawhhhha ha ha , bank bailouts , credit card handouts , where has all the money gone , long time passing , gone to rich folks everyone , when will they ever learn,

Remembering the great words of Julia Ward Howe, it occurs to me that the only way that we can have our country restored to its rightful owners is with the power of public referendum. At present there is no process for "the people" to propose or change law other than to lobby their representatives. We see pretty clearly what kind of lobbying our representatives listen to. Congress (House and Senate) will NEVER enact legislation that makes the bribery system illegal. This push would have to come from the people. The only way for the people to be heard is through referendum, that is voted on by all voters of every state in a general election. This process is in place at most state levels, can it be so hard to establish it at the federal level? If the pushback is so strong that it silences us, then we just need more money than the special interests, and I dont see that happening.
I want honest fair elections not determined by corporate contributions.I want honest legislative action, not determined by corporate contributions. WE ne a referendum process.