HOLDING COMPANY.....ANOTHER TERM FOR ECONOMIC TERRORISTS

Gotta love those Wall Street assholes.....if you're a greedy fuck or a Rethuglican!

Everybody else...not so much.


From Center for American Progress:

THE "NEW MATH" FOR OUR KIDS.......

.....personally, I liked the old "new math" better. But that's just me.


From Slate:

Does this mean the kids are gonna have to go to the Unemployment Office to get an education?

FORTY YEARS......

......that's a long time.....

.....and it seems like such a long time ago......

.....but I can see it and remember it like it was yesterday.....

......four dead in O-hi-o.

I was still in High School, and it was a school day.

I was at school, one of the days I didn't skip.

Shocked, saddened, angered....all at once.

Where were you that fateful day at Kent State University, Ohio.

Never forget......never, ever forget.

Update:

The following is from the mother of Jeff Miller, one of the four students who lost their lives that 4th of May 1970.

I lost my son 40 years ago at Kent State

By Elaine Holstein, May 4, 2010

Today, May 4, marks 40 years since my son, Jeff, was shot and killed on the campus of his college. He and three of his classmates were murdered by the National Guard at an anti-war protest at Kent State.

During a 13-second fusillade of rifle fire not only were Jeff, Allison Krause, Sandy Scheuer and Bill Schroeder killed but nine more of their Kent State fellow students were also wounded.

The students who had gathered there that day — all unarmed — held a large range of opinions about the seemingly endless war in Vietnam.

Some of them, including Jeff, objected intensely to the increasing escalation of a war that had begun when they were barely in their teens. In fact, Jeff had written a poem about the war entitled, “Where Does It End?” in February of 1966, shortly before he turned 16.

Others in the crowd had mixed feelings.

Some were just onlookers, such as you would find at any gathering. Some, like Sandy, were on their way to their next class.

And so, May 4, 1970, became one of the blackest days in the history of our country.

It was the day I not only lost my child but also lost my innocence.

I could no longer take on faith what I had been taught all my life about my “constitutional rights,” the rights that supposedly made our country different from so many others.

The decade that followed was filled for me with grief, anger, disillusionment and lawsuits. At the end of our legal battles, we were pressured by the judge and by our lawyers into accepting a settlement in which the parents of the dead students discovered that their sons and daughters’ lives were worth a mere $15,000 each.

It was never about the money for me. I wanted an admission of culpability, and more than that, I wanted an assurance that no mother would ever again have to bury a child for simply exercising the freedom of speech. But all we got was a watered down statement that better ways must be found, etc., etc.

I also discovered what I perhaps should have known already: that so many of my compatriots did not feel as I did. They believed that the students who were killed or wounded got what they deserved and, as I heard far too often, the National Guard “should have killed more of them.”

And now it’s 2010 — 40 years later — and those wounded students are well into middle age, almost senior citizens.

But Jeff remains in my memory forever as that bright, funny, passionate 20 year old.

I have spent these 40 years watching my son, Russ, Jeff’s big brother, grow older. I’ve valued (perhaps more than I would have if Jeff had not died) the close, satisfying relationship we share.

I’ve had the great joy of seeing my grandchildren, Jeff (yes, another Jeff Miller) and Jamie evolve from cute little children into a couple of the most admirable adults I know.

I’ve danced at both their weddings and have been made happy by their happiness.

But, once in a while, I wonder about my son Jeff’s future that had so needlessly been cut short.

What would he have been like now at age 60? What sort of career would he have had? Would he have married? And what about those other grandchildren that my husband and I might have enjoyed?

Now, as I watch the news on TV each night, I deplore the increasing ugliness of politics, and I’m afraid. I know too well what can happen when hatred takes over.

Please, let us lower the volume and be civil toward each other.

For Jeff’s sake. And for all of ours.

Elaine Holstein, a retired school secretary and social worker, lives in New York City with her husband, Arthur, and has, on occasion, written articles and spoken to students on the subject of the Kent State shootings. She can be reached at pmproj@progressive.org.

STICKER SHOCK....(AND AWE).....

From the Wisconsin State Journal:



This sticker was spotted on the back of a car in the parking lot of the Lake Edge Shopping Center along Monona Drive on Madison's East Side.

IDIOT QUOTE OF THE DAY

From Taegan Goddards Political Wire:



"The ocean will take care of this on its own if it was left alone and left out there. It's natural. It's as natural as the ocean water is."

-- Rush Limbaugh, quoted by the St. Petersburg Times, arguing that a cleanup of the oil spill off the Lousiana coast is unnecessary.

Yeah Rushole, the ocean will take care of anything we do to it......NOT!

Fucking moron!

THE REAL ILLEGAL ALIENS.......

......they've been here for 400 years.


From the Capital Times:

THE TEABAGGER'S LATEST RECRUIT

From the Capital Times:

SCREW US IN ONE JOB.....THEN SCREW US EVEN MORE IN THE NEXT....

Congress critters, ya just gotta love 'em....cough..cough..gag.



From Slate:

THE REAL TEABAGGERS.....

....RWR...(rich, white, and republican)


From the Capital Times:

DANGER,DANGER....WARNING WILL ROBINSON!

From the Center for American Progress:

Beware of Side Effects in Arizona

WE'RE GOIN' TO MARS.....WELL SOMEBODY IS.....

From the Capital Times:

THERE'S A NEW SHOW IN TOWN....

From Slate:

DIFFERENT PEOPLE, DIFFERENT PARTIES.....

.....I'll take the originals please.

From the Capital Times:

If you should check out the Capital Times, be prepared for the right wing conservatard wackos and tea baggers who post most of the comments there.

YIPPIE-KI-YEA MOTHER FUCKER.....IT'S TAX DAY

From Center for American Progress:

IF ONLY IT WAS THIS EASY.......

From Slate.

BROUGHT TO YOU BY THE BIG BANK WHO OWNS YOUR ASS.....

From Center for American Progress.

TELL ME SOMETHING I DIDN'T KNOW.......

Surprise, surprise....the Teabaggers invited a bunch of racists to the party.....

University of Washington survey shows Tea Partiers motivated by race

A University of Washington survey shows Tea Partiers are motivated by racial concerns. Researchers found that the Tea Party is not only about politics and the size of government, but also about race.

The survey found that among whites, southerners are 12 percent more likely to support the tea party than whites in other parts of the U.S., and that conservatives are 28 percent more likely than liberals to support the group.

It found that those who are racially resentful, who believe the U.S. government has done too much to support blacks, are 36 percent more likely to support the tea party than those who are not.

According to Christopher Parker, a UW assistant professor of political science who directed the survey:

"While it's clear that the tea party in one sense is about limited government, it's also clear from the data that people who want limited government don't want certain services for certain kinds of people. Those services include health care."

The survey found that people who approve of the Tea Party, more than those who don't approve, have more racist attitudes. Not only do they have more racist attitudes, but they also have more homophobic and xenophobic attitudes.

These results should surprise no one. From its inception the Tea Party has been stained with a racist veneer. It also comes as no surprise that the Tea Party is filled with xenophobia and homophobia. The three - racism, xenophobia and homophobia - often travel together.

GOTTA KEEP 'EM SCARED....

....so the generals and the CIA can keep doing what they want.

Congressional hearing reveals US intelligence agencies shielded Flight 253 bomber

A January 27 hearing of the House Committee on Homeland Security established that US intelligence agencies stopped the State Department from revoking the US visa of Umar Farouk Abdulmutallab. The Nigerian student, whom US officials suspected of being affiliated with the Yemeni terrorist group Al Qaeda in the Arabian Peninsula, attempted to set off a bomb on Northwest Flight 253 into Detroit on Christmas Day. Revocation of Abdulmutallab’s visa would have prevented him from boarding the airplane.

The hearing was reported in a brief article posted January 27 on the web site of the Detroit News, headlined, “Terror Suspect Kept Visa to Avoid Tipping Off Larger Investigation.”

The revelation that US intelligence agencies made a deliberate decision to allow Abdulmutallab to board the commercial flight, without any special airport screening, has been buried in the media. As of this writing, nearly a week after the hearing, the New York Times, Wall Street Journal, Washington Post and Los Angeles Times have published no articles on the subject. Nor have the broadcast or cable media reported on it.

This is despite—or perhaps more accurately, because of—the fact that this information exposes the official government story of the near-disaster to be a lie. President Obama, who has joined with top US intelligence, FBI and Homeland Security officials to insist that Abdulmutallab was inadvertently allowed to board the plane carrying explosives because of a failure to “connect the dots,” has from the start been deceiving the American people.

The official line strained credulity from the outset, given reports of multiple advance warnings that the Nigerian student was linked to terrorists in Yemen who were planning attacks on the US.

This is some much fucking bullshit! The government, Obama included, the military and the CIA want to keep all of us wrapped up in fear so they all can do whatever they want to do.

Click on the title link or go here for the rest of the article.