The Audacity of a New Hope

The Audacity of a New Hope

The Audacity of a New Hope
This post is more just a general clearinghouse of some of the more interesting articles I’ve come across lately, and a bit of a call for a ray of hope, somewhere along down the line.
First up is this diatribe by Camille Paglia [bio].  She takes [...]

Fox News Goes Full Retard

Corrected Fox News Logo
I’ve been watching a lot of the townhall debates lately on C-Span regarding the current attempt in Congress to overhaul the health insurance industry in this country.   One of the better ones I watched recently was Representative Jim Moran’s (D-VI) trying to communicate to his constituents what is in the bill, what [...]

Morality and the Health Care Debate

Last week, after it became apparent that the GOP campaign of disinformation regarding the health care legislation was working wonderfully [1] President Obama shifted gears a bit to talk about *why* this change is necessary.
WASHINGTON — President Obama sought Wednesday to reframe the health care debate as “a core ethical and moral obligation,” imploring a [...]

Ending the Heath Care debate

It’s been more than a few days since I shared my wondrous insights with my legions of fans here at RPN (does two people count as a legion?), and there’s been a bunch of back and forth on the health care debate so far, so instead of doing some massive fact-laden post, we’ll pick up this thing [...]

Karl Rove shows how it’s done because he is a Genius

This is a wonderful object lesson we have for us today. This is how you fling shit, and fling it well.
The Genius that is Bush’s Brain has spoken.

By KARL ROVE
On the campaign trail last year, Barack Obama promised to end the “politics of fear and cynicism.” Yet he is now trying to sell his [...]

Paging Palin, Petroleum Pundit (Cap’n Trade Dissection)

To catch you up *real* quick, I’ve been away and Sarah Palin quit as Governor of Alaska.
A number of other big things have happened since I last wrote, and we’ll be addressing a number of those in short order, but as I like to talk a bit about policy and big things from time to [...]

Let’s Clear the Desktop First.

I’ve been a bit lax (ha!) in keeping up the blog lately.  My apologies for withholding from you.
As mentioned previously, the saving the world bit is on the tiring side, and the writing stuff is on the high energy side, and seldom did the ‘twain meet.
When one is pouring all of one’s emotional energy into [...]

The World This Week, March 22, 2009

[videos forthcoming]
US NEWS
People thieving the electrons.
Obama: Economy hurts.  Duh.
Obama Budget Strategy raises questions.
New home construction gets a lift (month-to-month).
Small business help on the way.
Fed prints money like mad.
A couple economists agree that printing money is a good idea…today.
China wants a new global currency standard.
Palin to preach to choir.
McCain Twitterview a joke, a stilted lagging joke.
Feel [...]

World This Week, Obama, Stewart, China, Russia, Cheney, Rush, Summers

Part 1:

Part 2:

Here’s the links for the video…
Obama talkin’ to the CEO’s.
Jon Stewart slamming Jim Cramer and CNBC.
China on the offensive in the  Impeccable.
China on that $1,000,000,000,000 note of ours.
Russian bombers and new bases.
World Bank on global economy shrinkage.
Cheney being Cheney, which is to say, a dick.
Loudmouth [...]

International and Interstellar, News Update

Here’s the “remainder” for the week.  Just a short blurb and be done with it.

No fence yet for W from Big D.
Former President George W. Bush is officially living in Dallas, as our own Lori Stahl reports.
But a security gate scheduled to be erected on Daria Drive near in Bush’s Preston Hollow home on cul-de-sac [...]

It’s Time to Turn, Turn, Turn and Look at Rick Perry’s Hair

So I heard from the Byrds (via the Bible) that things turn, turn, turn.
Here’s the Byrds…

And here’s the Bible…

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¶ And moreover I saw under the sun the place of judgment, that wickedness was there; and the place of righteousness, that iniquity was there.

17
I said in mine heart, God shall judge the [...]

The Economic Apocalypse (retro-look)

This line of thought began with this MetaFilter post linking to this FRONTLINE piece on what happened with the banking/ibanking sector last Fall. [BTW, the best animation explanation of the problems is here.]
The FRONTLINE documentary does a great job at pointing out some of the players in the mix and the personal relationships that helped [...]