The truth is that there’s an enormous amount of anger and frustration around the country. And it’s not right versus left. You know, the anger under the Tea Party movement is the same anger that Michael Moore is feeling. It’s the anger about the fact that what is happening is not fair, that the fix is in, that the system is rigged, and that people who are working hard are not really getting rewarded. And the people at the top who brought us to the financial brink were actually bailed out by the taxpayers.
Arianna Huffington on “Real Time with Bill Maher” Friday, March 5 2010
They were bailed out by the taxpayers on the orders of government officials who come from those very same financial worlds and who personally profit massively by the bailouts. As do their friends. The system itself is corrupt and gamed with the Obama Administration a willing participant.
However, Michael Moore suffers from the current liberal delusion that Obama is somehow a clueless player in all of this and just needs encouragement so he’ll do the right thing.
I don’t know what your team has been up to, but they haven’t served you well. And Rahm, poor Rahm, has turned into a fighter — not of Republicans, but of the left. He called those of us who want universal health care “f***ing retarded.” Look, I don’t know if Rahm is the problem or if it’s Gibbs or Axelrod or any of the other great people we owe a debt of thanks to for getting you elected. All I know is that whatever is fueling your White House it’s now running on fumes. Time to shake things up! Time to bring me in to get you pumped up every morning! Go Barack! Yay Obama! Fight, Team, Fight!
The truth is, Obama appointed that team. He’s not some bystander dupe being tricked by devious aides. They are carrying out his wishes and orders. Liberals need to understand that. Then act accordingly.
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After Gutenberg explores this and more in an article focusing on Texas and its huge and expanding amount of wind power. We have technology now that uses heat produced in creating electricity to create more even electricity. Why waste it?
“Amidst Iowa’s massive expansion of wind power, our average electricity prices have remained below the national average and in fact have not increased as quickly as the national average price in the last four years,” the study said.
Iowans pay an average of 7 cents per kilowatt vs. a national average of almost 10 cents. The state is second only to Texas in wind power.
Because habeus corpus and human rights are just silly little trifles apparently deemed not worthy of consideration by the White House. Of course they argued strenuously the other way at first but then reversed policy. This has been happening so often that perhaps lofty pronouncements to fight for the good followed by craven capitulation should be dubbed “Doing an Obama.”
As an example, Armed Lesbian Pinko has an informative post on concealed carry vs. open carry of handguns while Godless Liberal Homo has a serious think piece on Why Responses of the European Left to Geert Wilders Are Failing.
NarcoGuerra Times reports on the “three-way death match” between two narco gangs and special forces in a northeast border area of Mexico. At one point the US Consulate in Nuevo Laredo advised US citizens to seek shelter until the raging gun battles stopped.
As any web head knows, the world is changing fast in profound ways, every day, all around us.
Not everybody likes the new regime. Sadly for them, there’s diddly-squat they can do about it.
They might as well try outlawing the moon.
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This Tuesday, Shooter Jennings released the epic, conspiracy theory fueled concept album Black Ribbons! Now have your first look at the official video for Summer Of Rage, directed by Shooter and his wife, Drea de Matteo.
The NY Times review was predictably snide and mocking, always an important indicator that an artist is doing something new and dangerous. Do I believe all the conspiracy theories that Jennings portrays in the video? It doesn’t matter, that’s not the point. We live in increasingly tumultuous times and Black Ribbons accurately echoes, reinforces, and comments upon that political and social tumult. Plus it’s great music and makes you think.
We need change in the country. It won’t come from being polite or voting or liberals thinking maybe if they try a different approach that Obama will get a clue. Nor will it come from the far left, who despite their mighty promises to lead the proletariat through a capitalist crisis when it comes, is sitting this one out, confused and demoralized. Nope, instead the change will come through the mostly spontaneous uprising of regular folks. In part, that’s what the Tea Party and conspiracy theories are about, Black Ribbons too. It’s the sense that things are going very wrong in the country and now is the time to take action.
