Young Republicans Becoming the Forecasters of Doom
Unlike their old Republican counterparts, who forecast doom after every breath Obama takes, the young Republicans, as reported by an interesting NYT article, forecast the doom of the Republican party...
View ArticleWhat Nerd Jargon Teaches Us About Obama, Ducks and How to Pass Laws
You may not know it, but among other things I am a computer programmer, and as it so happens, a few days ago I wanted to check for another way of saying “code refactoring” in nerd jargon and I found...
View ArticleHarlem Shake in Egypt – A Little Protest Dance For Democracy
Everybody has heard about the Harlem Shake video phenomenon which started sometime early February by this bunch of Australian dudes and is now taking over the world. Even the Miami HEAT has one, and a...
View ArticleJim Carrey: Fux News is a a media colostomy bag that has begun to burst at...
Jim Carrey came out in support of gun control and mocking the NRA in a recent video he posted on Funny or Die. The kinda-sorta-almost-journalists at Fox News, like Carrey calls them, did not like it a...
View ArticleThe 45 senators who chose to forget
An opinion piece in the Tampa Bay Times shows the faces of the 45 senators who forgot the faces of the slain children and teachers of Newtown, ignored the voices of their grieving families and...
View ArticleBusiness is booming in Texas
We know that Texas, being your typical Republican state with a low intellect Republican governor, is proud to have low taxes and low regulations. Those two things sound like music in the ears of the...
View ArticleIRS Scandal will backfire for Tea Party and Republicans
… in the court of public opinion. Everyone has heard of the Tea Party. But did everybody know that not only were these people fighting against government and taxation, but that they applied for tax...
View ArticleIf your prejudices made people sick…
…would you free yourself of these prejudices? NPR reminded its listeners today that the ban on gay marriage has negatively affected the mental health of gays and lesbians in the states that passed...
View ArticleWho says Republicans Hate Welfare?
They don’t! They only hate it when it is for the poor! How about helping your buddies with some $50 million of tax payer Dollars? Sure, says Rick Scott. No problem. At least not in Florida. Oh, but...
View ArticleNSA poll shows partisan shift: If my Prez does it, it’s okay!
How come I am not surprised? As reported by the Pew Research center, back when Bush was doing the “illegal” surveillance of citizens, a lot more Democrats and Independents were worried about it, but...
View ArticleDon’t be black in Florida. Don’t be a woman in Texas. Don’t be poor in America.
Chris Rock retweeted this tweet by #nojustice about a month ago. Today we learn that George Zimmermnan was spotted gun shopping in Florida. If we believe TMZ’s picture, he seemed very happy, smiled and...
View ArticleWhen it comes to poisoning people, right and left agree: US should focus on...
A week ago I saw an image circulating in Facebook by my conservative friends. Yes, I have some of those. In it Obama tells a school girl: “We are going to war in Syria because they poison children” and...
View ArticleObamacare Awareness & Halloween Pimps
A recent Poll shows that bad press is increasing awareness of Obamacare which may be a good thing for the ACA law. The poll was conducted between Oct. 17 and 20, immediately after the government...
View ArticleSarah Palin: sheFunny :(
I have usually zero interest in hearing anything that lady has to say. I cringe when I hear her speak. But it has been quite a while since I’ve heard or tried to read anything about her and today I...
View ArticleKoch Brothers’ Obsession with Punishing the Poor
If the Koch brothers, David Koch and Charles Koch, were one person, they would be the second richest guy on earth. You would think wealthy guys like those two would have better things to do than...
View ArticleNBC: Wealth of 85 richest people equal to wealth of half of the world’s...
NBC announced in an article today that the World's 85 richest have the same wealth as 3.5 billion of the poorest people. When you bring up the issue of poverty in the US to ardent supporters of...
View ArticleMeet The Fox News Welfare Surfer
Even if old news, it’s always news on Faux News: Fox News love their Joe the Plumber and now they love their anti-hero “Surfer Dude Jason”. Tell me if you think he is representative of those people who...
View ArticleFather/Daughter Conversation about Obamacare
My friend Anna, an occasional contributor in my blog, posted a comment about Obamacare in Facebook and one of her friends and her father answered with some excellent comments. She gave me permission to...
View ArticleObamacare. Aplica Hoy!
I had to post this picture that I took myself today in Miami Beach and will post it in other places because for some odd reason it gives me joy to imagine the disgust in the faces of tea partiers...
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