Worst Congress ever

The Super Congress has utterly failed. Both parties are to blame, if perhaps not equally. But really, what a craven, useless, compromised entity our Congress is. Their utter disregard for the well-being of the nation is now completely obvious to all.

When trust and repsect for governing institutions reaches the abysmal levels they are are [...]

Banksters worried Republicans may abandon Wall Street

The memo also suggests that Democratic victories in 2012 should not be the ABA’s biggest concern. “… (T)he bigger concern,” the memo says, “should be that Republicans will no longer defend Wall Street companies.”

The Wall Street parasite class has gotten so criminal that even Republicans can no longer defend them. Wall Street is [...]

Ray Wylie Hubbard. Down Home Country Blues

I’m partial to old Hooker’s singing ‘Crawling King Snake’ And I can say that Muddy Waters is as deep as William Blake

Artist who supported Obama backs Occupy Wall Street

Shepard Fairey at ObeyGiant

Makes me so danged proud to be American

Satire?

What we have here of course is a sadistic thug with a badge. If there’s still a functioning justice system in this country, he should lose his badge, then go to prison. Or get a job working for the government of Syria. I’m sure they’d appreciate a chap who likes to torture [...]

The IRS is four times more popular than Congress

Washington Post

Our current Congress is quite possibly the most incompetent, do-nothing, and corrupt in history. Their dismal polling numbers reflect this, their worst rating in history.

Best duct tape story ever

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Russell Pearce recall. How it happened

(crossposted from AZIVN, but the article vanished when they converted to the new site! Of special interest here is The Utah Compact, a moderate, thoughtful platform on immigration endorsed by LDS which played at least a supporting role in the recall of the rabidly anti-immigration Pearce in Arizona.)

Make no mistake; this was an earthquake [...]

Fred Eaglesmith. Thirty Years of Farming

There’s a little white note on the gate by the road that a man put up yesterday And when we saw it, we all ran out just to see what it had to say. And when we read it, our eyes filled with tears, and they fell to the cold, hard clay Something about [...]

Bridging the clean energy valleys of death

“Helping American entrepreneurs meet the nation’s energy innovation imperative,” in a new report from the Breakthrough Institute.

This is all good, but more and more it’s clear to me that this country will never have a sane and comprehensive energy plan until the corruption in our political and financial processes ends first.

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