With The Blessings Of Roger Waters

Via The Other McCain and Blackfive.

At last, a protest song against a truly oppressive regime. Iran.



Hopefully this will make up for missing it yesterday.

Foreclosures Hit Close To Home

Via The Other McCain.

Stogie at Saberpoint is going through a tough patch.

Our savings kept us afloat for a year. When it was gone, I borrowed the equity out of my life insurance. That's gone too. We were hoping to ride out this recession, to survive until it was over. However, it is the longest lasting and deepest recession I have ever seen. And I remember when Eisenhower was president, to give you some perspective. (Okay, okay, I actually remember when Truman was president, but I was VERY young. Practically a fetus, mind you.)

It's just a matter of weeks before I lose my home. I never, ever thought I'd be in such a predicament. This happened to other people, sure, but not to me. I am a college graduate and a CPA. Accountants were supposed to be immune from unemployment. Not any more. The fact that I am well past 50 doesn't help. Seniors and new grads are the hardest hit.

Be sure to read the entire thing.

Yeah, This Movie Might Be A Little Controversial

Equating modern day welfare to slavery? You betcha. It rewards welfare recipients who stay in the system in exchange for votes. It's a form of willful slavery. Voluntary servitude, if you will.

It's needing to be said.

Go to Runaway Slave for more.



Thanks to Mickey.

A Couple Of Notes About The Journolist

Of the known Journolist members, it's a pretty pasty white crowd. I would have to go to a tea party to see a greater percentage of ethnic diversity than the first 100 members of the Journolist.

Also, it's members have more interrelations between political and advocacy groups than the cast of characters in your average daytime soap opera. It's downright incestuous.

So for an exit question, besides being like minded thinkers-- for lack of a better term-- and pretty much all if not most of them knew most of the Journolist inner circle-- at the very least, had access to it-- what was the real reason behind the Journolist if it wasn't for message coordination?

Besides the need to congratulate themselves while sipping on a juicebox?

When Jane Austin Met Chuck Palahniuk

I would watch this movie.

Talk About Setting The Bar Low

They weren't so much as heroes as it was their job to do in the first place.

In that case, I'm Spartacus a Hero.

Why No One Should Be Reelected

At least in Massachusetts.

1. John Kerry is a cheap bastard, trying to skirt his own state's laws.

2. I think Barney Frank can afford to pay the extra dollar.

If This Is What Oliver Stone Says While Sober. . .

. . . Imagine the rant if he was drunk.

More:

What Oliver Stone did at the link is, in many ways, worse that what Mel Gibson ever said. Gibson laid out the Granddaddy of all 'Drunken Dials'. I'm not excusing what he did but trying to place it in it's proper context.

Oliver was, in theory*, sober. He wrote, planned out, sought financing, filmed and edited his 'Documentary' to put Hitler in the proper context.

It's not a drunken outburst.

*Oliver has been Stoned** for sometime now.

**Yeah, the 'Stoned' gag was cheap, easy and fast. But enough about Jane Hamsher.