Archive for 'Rants' Category

VIDEO: Sen. Robert Byrd on Iraq invasion – Mar. 13, 2003

Senator Robert Byrd passed away this morning at the age of 92. Here is Sen. Byrd’s prescient speech warning against the invasion of Iraq on March 13, 2003… six days before the invasion (40 min):   While I highly encourage you to watch the entire 40 minute speech, here are a few highlights:   “The [...]

The Official “the LOST finale sucked” thread. Seriously.

I just finished watching the series finally of ABC’s “Lost”, and was seriously disappointed… disappointed to the point where I must break from the usual topic of politics to rant about it (and provide a place for all of you to share your own thoughts.) After watching every episode of the entire six-year series, the [...]

The Party of NO claims mantle of bipartisanship

More often than you might think, I’ll start off writing the weeks blog entry, only to end up writing something else entirely. This is one of those weeks. This particular blog entry started off noting the eerie similarities between the dramatic rise in Right Wing extremism and the very people they claim to hate: Muslim [...]

BSC Republicans: A Review of Election Night, Texas 2010.

SPECIAL EDITION It is election night and the Texas Primary returns are still coming in. If you didn’t think the Republican Party was Bat “$#!+” Crazy before, the primary results seem to all but confirm it. How else does one explain away such huge support for a manifestly insane governor and a series of embarrassing [...]

Myth Busting: “In Search Of…” 1970′s “Global Cooling” hype.

While Washington D.C. and the surrounding area attempts to dig itself out from under “The Snow-pocolypse”, Global Warming deniers are back at it again, pointing to it and the unusually blizzardly (pardon the new word) Winter we’ve been having… mixed in with last Falls “leaked Climate-Gate emails” as PROOF that “Global Warming” is actually a [...]

Argh! When even a Super-Majority isn’t enough.

Dear Gawd! Didn’t you think that when a fed-up country flipped control of BOTH houses of Congress in 2006 that we would FINALLY see a change in the disastrous Conservative policies of the past 26 years? And when voters, with their eyes slowly opening like 2-week old puppies, began to realize that Republicans were responsible [...]

Bi-Partisanship is Hurting Democrats

(Special bonus op/ed) After the passing of Senator Ted Kennedy last week, a parade of Republicans lined up to bemoan how his departure could spell the end of bi-partisanship in the Senate with regards to the healthcare bill. Because, as we all know, “bi-partisanship is a one-way street in Republicanland”. Kennedy is gone. Ipso-facto, these [...]

Is this country literally too stupid to live? Will Public Option be defeated by those who need it most?

During Sunday’s political talkshows, the consensus appeared to be that “the Public Option is dead.” If so, I can guarantee you the healthcare lobbyists and special interests are dancing in their offices this morning, smelling victory in the air as a $173 million dollar effort to defeat healthcare reform pays off. Through a well-concerted effort of [...]

Standing up to Town Hall stupidity.

I was all prepared to talk about Rightwing lunacy in general this week following a parade of morons hitting the headlines day after day, but (as is so often the case), I got distracted. This week, we saw the Stock Market close above 9,300… it’s highest point since before Bush left office (Election Day to [...]

A Special Place in Hell for Healthcare Reform Opponents.

I learned just minutes ago that a member of my extended family died of throat cancer (my step-brothers’ father). As bad as it is to lose any family member to cancer, it is made doubly awful by the fact it happened so quickly. Around February or March of this year, he was finally hospitalized after [...]

How to fund healthcare and create jobs by closing foreign tax loopholes.

A story on the BBC caught my attention last week:   China’s economy soars thanks to MASSIVE government spending on infrastructure   In a perfect example of “the tail wagging the dog”, the Republican minority… the very same group whose policies got us into this economic nightmare… are controlling the debate on how to revive [...]

Petition: Censure Senator Inhofe (UPDATED)

I‘m sure you’ve noticed that Republican hate-speech has become more and more strident in recent weeks. Here is a sampling of just the past few weeks:   o Former Vice President Dick Cheney claimed “Obama policies make U.S. less safe“. o Newt Gingrich: “I think people should be afraid” (regarding Obama’s policies and the closure [...]