Archive for the 'corporate deadbeats' Category
Progress
Booman Tribune is a self-described “progressive community”, but for me it’s that blog I love to hate. I think the guy who runs it is, personally, a nice guy, but our views on the country and the Administration have gone in utterly different directions, to the point that I’ve tried to stop reading it [...]
Read More..>>Deep Thought
I don’t care what kind of bullshit semantic games they play: if the Democrats vote to cut Social Security, Medicare, and Medicaid not only will I not vote for them, I will actively support their opponents. I would rather deal with a hater who tells me to my face that he’s going to fuck with [...]
Read More..>>Open Letter to Coca-Cola and Pepsi: You Lost a Customer for Life. Go Fuck Yourselves.
Yesterday, Philadelphia’s City Council voted overwhelmingly to save our failing schools, led by an incompetent and probably corrupt superintendent, by raising property taxes by nearly 4%, the third such hike in three years. The competing proposal, to tax soda pop by 2 cents a bottle, was defeated. I wonder why?
Meanwhile, anti-soda-tax forces were [...]
Well, I Guess I’m Not Gonna Shut Up After All.
As many predicted, Obama’s going to use the awful Ryan Plan as leverage to pass the recommendations of his cat food commission..
Look, if both parties are insisting you eat Friskies in your old age before dying on the street, maybe it’s time to start looking into other parties, many of which believe you should grow [...]
Nobama
Obama’s negotiations with the Republicans, caught on film.
The details of Oh,bummer’s “deal” are trickling out: if, as some have said, he’s the only thing standing in the way of right wing disaster, we are totally, thoroughly fucked in the dick with a pickle fork a backhoe:
Compared to 2010 levels, there are big cuts to cherished [...]
They’ll Never Keep Us Down
Every day, I go bearish on M&I Bank
Every single day, I log into Marketwatch and go bearish on M&I Bank, a huge supporter of fascist Wisconsin governor Scott Walker. The unions are boycotting them, and they are losing money hand over fist as more and more people learn what a shitty, toxic, criminal enterprise Wisconsin’s largest bank really is:
M&I is also the [...]
Dead Baby Dolphins and Missing Sea Turtles: It’s a “Mystery”
Looks like the local newspapers in Misssissippi have that strange amnesia that comes when it comes to polluting corporations.
For example, why are so many baby dolphins washing up dead? Really, it’s SUCH a mystery:
he investigation into the many infant dolphin deaths along the coasts of Mississippi and Alabama will be multi-faceted in the months to [...]
Wisconsin
If you need ME to tell you to pay attention to the protests in Wisconsin, you are truly benighted. However, I highly recommend these two articles linked by Susie.
Meanwhile, a recall effort is underway targeting 8 Wisonsin Republicans: they can’t recall Walker til January, but you can bet that’s in the planning stages.
Go get ‘em, [...]
War on Working People
That’s what this is,and it comes from Republicans AND Democrats.
Faced with growing budget deficits and restive taxpayers, elected officials from Maine to Alabama, Ohio to Arizona, are pushing new legislation to limit the power of labor unions, particularly those representing government workers, in collective bargaining and politics. [...]
But in some cases — mostly in states [...]
