Insert as Trite Metaphor for a Corral #91

Posted on April 3, 2011 in Roundup

Guard against the impostures of pretended patriotism. ~George Washington

Therapists love to tell their patients who suffer from mood disorders not to follow the news or engage in politics. I find that this perspective leads me to a place that I don’t want to go. Stay out of politics at a time when the lives of my friends with mood disorders are at stake? This Tea Party Congress has no clue about anything other than the making of money — they look to the Right Wing Dictatorships of Latin America for their inspiration. I just read a fascinating article in the New Yorker about their possible efforts to unseat the first left wing president of Guatemala since the CIA manipulated Arbeniz out of power. The American people cannot afford the dictatorship of the plutocracy and they can’t afford the dismantling of those parts of the government that protect the people. It is time to get the Tea Party and the Republicans off our backs. But first, let me be sure to take some time to rest my soul.

• Losing our way — We can afford a war, but we can’t afford to keep schools open, national parks funded, etc.? Also see what Senator Sanders has to say. Then express your ire here.
• The Original Tea Party was not Anti-Government but Anti-Corporation
• The 20 year sellout of the American Worker — The multinationals have betrayed us.
• How A Minor Story About Obama Turned Into a Controversial Internet Meme — And Who’s To Blame — Once again, the media shows its incompetence
• Lawsuit Reveals How a Middleman Is Blocking Mortgage Modifications for Homeowners — You vote the Republicans in, this is the kind of pathetic power play that is allowed to happen.
• Fred Koch’s Communist Connections — Is the Tea Party nothing more than an attempt to bring about a Marxist revolution? Or is this just a matter of the capitalists selling the rope that is used to hang them?
• The White House Blog: The Facts on Domestic Oil and Gas Production — As usual, you can’t trust Big Media
• The Lies of Sarah Palin — an interview with author Geoffrey Dunn — Now let us start on Mike Huckabee and some of the others in the Republican gaggle of crooks
• Human rights: everyone, everywhere, everyday — Or how you could be infecting millions with hate and not realize it
• World Statistics in Real Time — See how many days left until all the oil runs out and other fun, sobering numbers
• The Dissident’s Wife — While we watch the Middle East and the United States, things are getting tough elsewhere
• Report: Child ID theft on the rise — Arizona seems especially bad for this as does Texas. Red state values allow con-artists to thrive!
• Religion diet may make you obese — Ice cream social anyone? Also see here.
• Is Alligator Meat Good for You? — The parts I ate tasted like pork. Other parts taste like chicken.
• Psychotherapies — A description of legitimate psychotherapeutic techniques from the National Institute of Mental Health
• Which is more dangerous: crab fishing or filming crab fishing? — A thought to bear in mind when you are watching them haul in the arthropods
• Ten Cultural-Historical Parks That Don’t Get Enough Love — I’ve been to one of these (Manzanar NHS). Missed going to Roger Williams National Memorial last fall. Your national parks are under attack by the Tea Party. Fight to save them all.

Chaparral Yucca 3/25/2011 (platinum finish)

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