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Monday, February 28, 2011

Obama: I don't think it does anybody any good when public employees are denigrated . . .

 Obama said during nation's governors gathered in Washington

I don't think it does anybody any good when public employees are denigrated or vilified or their rights are infringed.
 
We need to attract the best and the brightest to public service. These times demand it. We're not going to attract the best teachers for our kids, for example, if they only make a fraction of what other professionals make. 
 

Gov. Scott Walker issued a a statement suggesting Obama doesn't really understand the situation in Wisconsin.  Apparently his state senators don't either. They are starting to waiver and suggest the governor is using the wrong approach.

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Huff Po: GOP budget will slash 700,000 jobs by 2012

WASHINGTON -- Two weeks after House Speaker John Boehner (R-Ohio) dismissed a question about the possibility of the lower chamber's spending bill killing government jobs with the words "so be it,"

Majority Leader Eric Cantor (R-Va.) offered similar sentiments.

The Republican plan to cut $61 billion from current spending levels could take a heavy toll on employment.

It could destroy 700,000 jobs by 2012, according to an independent economic analysis by Mark Zandi of Moody's Analytics. The study, released on Monday, predicted that the GOP bill would slow economic growth by 0.5 percentage points this year.

This may be the GOP plan: to derail the Obama recovery by  slashing the budget and then try to blame the unemployment on Obama in the next election. 

 Mark Zandi, Chief Economistof Moody's Analytics

The House Republican plan to cut about $61 billion from the federal budget in the next seven months. could cost about 700,000 jobs through 2012, according to a new report from Moody's Analytics chief economist Mark Zandi.

Republicans argue that Zandi -- an advocate of the Democrats' 2009 economic stimulus package -- cannot be trusted as an objective economist.

Zandi has advised both Democrats and Republicans. He was an Republican advisor to Sen. John McCain during his 2008 presidential bid. Zandi was also famous for a chart that showed the multiplier effect of government incentives. His chart suggested that tax cuts are one of the least effective ways to stimulate the economy.


source: http://www.cbsnews.com/8301-503544_162-20037435-503544.html

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Egyptian revolutionaries provide some good advice to their brothers and sisters in Wisconsin

 
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This pamphlet contains good advice for union brothers and sisters. It's matter of time before the fascist governor Scott Walker will starts evicting the protesters from the capital building. The governor has already tired to ban sleeping bags.

Scott Walker's response to planting troublemakers among the protesters is wrong. Walker didn't reject this dirty trick as immoral. 

Walker said the problem was the results might backfire, scare the public and force him to settle with the Democrats and the unions.


See the link for more information on organizing a protest. If the Egyptians can pull this off, the progressives and union folks in Wisconsin can do it, too. 

Don't believe the Republican Borgs that "resistance is futile."

source: http://www.indybay.org/newsitems/2011/01/29/18670645.php

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Fair and Balanced


source: Fair and Balanced

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You Tube Movie Review : The Whites



tribecafilm | May 2, 2009 
 
The Wild & Wonderful Whites of West Virginia on DVD is available in stores, on Amazon, Netflix & iTunes. Click to order on DVD: http://amznto/aYCmTL.

Tucked deeply in the hills of the Appalachian Mountains, the White family lives an existence more like something out of the Wild West than modern-day rural America. 

The legendary family is known as much for their disturbing and excessive ways as they are for their famous mountain tap dancing legacy, which includes living legend Jesco White (star of the PBS documentary Dancing Outlaw). 

From MTV Studios and executive producers Johnny Knoxville and Jeff Tremaine (Jackass), this edgy and often hilarious look into a dying breed of American outcasts exposes the powerful forces of corruption, poverty, and West Virginia's environmentally and culturally devastating coal mining culture.

Julien Nitzberg follows the Whites over the course of one year to document their tangled history, intelligently weaving a jaw-dropping portrait of a family that will live on in infamy. 

From stabbings and attempted murder to drug trafficking and a child custody battle, the Whites run the gamut of 'drama.' 

Nitzberg brings humor and levity to the White's shocking lifestyle, but he is quick to ground us in their cyclical, brutal reality.

Rightard Whitey claims he has kin who are "Whites." We believe him. He is one crazy SOB!

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Hillary Clinton and Sarah Palin death match

Rughtrdia would love to see Hillary run against Bible Spice in a presidential election.

The Freaking News artist got this graphic right. It would be a slaughter. 

All conservatives could do is gnash their teeth!

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RT's Doug Weed: The Best Presidents for Small Business?

Published: 21 February, 2011, 22:34
No modern president has really been good for small business. Or even fair for small business. Because all the provisions they made, with headline-grabbing legislation, were taken over by the increased tide of regulation and big-business subsidies.
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The whole process became corrupted by the 1964 landslide victory of Lyndon Johnson. At that point, big business, seeing the coming election victory for liberal Democrats, began to donate to both parties in earnest.

They have done so ever since.  It is no longer accurate to refer to GOP as the party of big business.

With Johnson’s victory and a spate of new federal regulations, many giant corporations stumbled onto a new way to achieve a monopoly – namely, by supporting regulations that small businesses could not afford.

Economic regulations, social engineering that included regulations for hiring, special tariffs, even environmental regulations could all be used to squeeze out small business competitors.

Right on its heels came the resurrected power of lobbies, stronger than ever before in American history, allowing big business to secure billions in government subsidies for various contrived purposes.

Thus for years McDonalds got millions from taxpayers, claiming that it needed the money to compete with French hamburger chains who – you guessed it – had French government subsidies, while the small American business hamburger joint down the street paid taxes to support McDonalds, their big business competitor.

All of this came home to me in its full fury during my time as special assistant to the president in the George HW Bush White House.

The American Disability Act was upon us and it struck me as odd that the reps of major corporations were in the Roosevelt Room of the West Wing, using their power and influence to urge a lower threshold for compliance.

At one point they wanted businesses with only five employees to be forced to meet all the requirements, ramps for wheel chairs, special phones and all the rest.
Why?  Were these big businesses concerned for the disabled?

No.  They wanted to drive up costs of small business competitors by saddling them with burdens that only big companies could afford.

In the Robber Baron days, the monopolies would lower the price to drive off competitors and then raise the price when they had the market all to themselves.

Today, they seek to drive up the price through government regulation and thus keep competitors out of their market.

Finally, to complete the triad and the corruption, big businesses began to hire large public relations firms who in turn hired former prosecutors, FBI agents and other government operators to use new laws and government agencies and editorial favors from media to destroy small businesses who posed a competitive threat.

This process accelerated as the world went global and corporations found themselves operating in countries where the media and the government were for sale. But with enough money and advertising revenue, the process works even here.

Small businesses are tolerated as long as they remain small, very small.  And even then, if they get in the way, they will be crushed.

Weed claims that the victory  of Lyndon Johnson corrupted the political-corporate process but doesn't really explain how. Yes, big corporations make donations to the Democratic party as aa hedge, but the bulk of political donations go the the GOP.


The Citizens-United ruling had a great deal to due with the recovery of the GOP in the 2010 election cycle. 

The Huffington Post reported: 

Seven of the top 10 political donors are wealthy Republican­s. The other three are unions. Which is why Republican­s want to bust the unions. That and the fact that their seven donors hate unions.

source: http://www.huffingtonpost.com/social/BlueOnBlue/scott-walker-buffalo-beast-phone-prank_n_827058_78492903.html


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Politics Daily: New foreign policy on Libya

The Obama administration is welcoming the formation of a national opposition government in Libya.


Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton said "we've been reaching out" to forces working to oust Gadhafi and are prepared "to offer any kind of assistance that anyone wishes to have from the United States."

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WSJ: Huawei, What Is Washington Afraid Of?



2/27/2011 5:27:33 PM

Why has Washington repeatedly said no to Huawei as the China telecom giant tries to tap into the lucrative U.S. market?

The Journal's John Bussey and Simon Constable discuss.

Rightrdia suspects NSA has a lot to do with the decision of the US  to stiff arm Huawei.

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Steve Kangas Short FAQ on Liberalism: What do liberals believe about income inequality?

Steve Kangas wrote this many years ago. He was prophetic. One in six Americans lives in poverty today and it is getting worse.

Income inequality is substantially correlated to most of society's problems. Two studies -- one by Harvard, the other by Berkeley -- measured income inequality in all 50 states. They found that states with greater income inequality suffered from all of the following problems:

o Higher death rates for all age groups.
o Higher rates of homicide.a
o Higher rates of violent crime.
o Higher costs per person for police protection.
o Higher rates of incarceration.
o Higher rates of unemployment.
o A higher percentage of people receiving income assistance and food stamps.
o More high-school dropouts.
o Less state funds spent per person on education.
o Fewer books per person in the schools.
o Poorer educational performance, including worse reading skills, worse math skills.
o Higher infant mortality rates.
o Higher heart disease.
o Higher cancer rates.
o A greater percentage of people without medical insurance.
o A greater proportion of babies born with low birth weight.
o A greater proportion of the population unable to work because of disabilities.
o A higher proportion of the population using tobacco.a
o A higher proportion of the population being sedentary (inactive).
o Higher costs per-person for medical care.

States with more inequality did not suffer more of these problems simply because they had more poor people; rather, these states witnessed more of these problems in the middle class as well.

This shows that inequality, and not just absolute poverty levels, are linked to social problems. Statistics from Europe -- which enjoys much less inequality, and much fewer health and social problems -- confirm this correlation quite nicely.

Conservatives argue that correlation is not causation, that all these social problems may be causing income inequality.

But the problem with this claim is that fluctuations in income inequality are too rapid, too drastic and too localized to be attributed to sudden changes of character, morals and work ethic in people, especially when they are the same people.

It is much simpler to point to sudden changes in social policy, such as massive tax cuts for the rich and slashing welfare benefits for the poor.

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Media Matters: "There Is No Correlation" Between Collective Bargaining Rights And State Deficits



Jake Tapper said this is union busting 'pure and simple."

Rightardia thinks the union busting and public layoffs can torpedo the recovery.  

First, the public layoffs will create more unemployment and secondly the local economy will lose the part of the government payroll that was being infused into the local economy. 

Middle Class Warrior talked to his daughter who lives in Wisconsin. She pointed out that all of the state teachers are paid on the same scale and many of the senior teachers who live in small rural communities make twice of what the the locals make. 

In addition, the senior teachers have a very light class load: many only have two classes per day while a new hire will have six classes.


This workload creates tremendous stress on new hires because they need time to plan classes and to grade papers. 

Phys ed. teachers also have any easier time than most teachers because planning for their classes is simple and they rarely grade papers. This is why many principals have phys. ed backgrounds in Florida. 

Phys. ed teachers have the extra time to work on advanced degrees and also often called to work in the front office during "dead periods" between classes. 


In Florida, art and music programs were eliminated due to the budget crises, but high school football was untouched. It's a Southern thing!


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DCCC: Republicans 's bad budget choices

Feb 27, 2011
Campaign 2010
The 212th Congress is a real horror story

Republicans across the country have been taking heat for their bad budget choices but they’re now the outrage is boiling over for making the middle class sacrifice for spending reductions while protecting taxpayer funding for special interests like Big Oil.

Everyone knows we need to cut spending and reduce the deficit, but the closer American families look at the priorities in the Republican Continuing Resolution, the more they find the wrong choices.

GOP budget cuts put NREL jobs in jeopardy [KWGN]
The news of the appropriations bill with $61 billion in budget cuts, passed before dawn Saturday morning on the strength of the new GOP majority in the U.S. House of Representatives, has been trickling through the laboratories and work rooms at the National Renewable Energy Laboratory this week, as employers here realize their jobs, never mind their mission, are on the chopping block. […] At stake here are far more than the 600 new jobs at NREL, but those created in the private sector as a result of NREL's research and a burgeoning industry of new energy manufacturers, providers and installers.[KWGN, 2/23/11]

Barletta’s votes on clean air draw fire [Pocono Record]
“Tom Jensen, director of Public Policy Polling, said the votes threaten Barletta's future in the predominantly Democratic district he won last November. ‘For Rep. Barletta this was definitely a risky vote,’ Jensen said during a telephone news conference. ‘This is definitely one of the votes that could make Rep. Barletta a one-term congressman.’” [Pocono Record, 2/24/11]

NH-Maine bridge funding could be budget casualty [AP]
“WMUR-TV says New Hampshire's two members of the U.S. House of representatives, Frank Guinta and Charlie Bass, voted over the weekend in favor of eliminating several economic recovery gr114Shareants, including the one for the bridge.” [AP, 2/24/11]

Looming Federal Cuts Could Impact Brookhaven National Laboratory [The Southampton Press]
“Threatened cuts to the federal budget could gut Brookhaven National Laboratory, a research facility run by the U.S. Department of Energy in Upton, by potentially forcing officials to slam the doors on large-scale research facilities and axe 930 employees—a third of the lab’s staffing.” [Southampton Press, 2/23/11]

Parents march to Buchanan’s office to protest Head Start cuts [Herald-Tribune]
“A group of two dozen parents loaded their babies into strollers Wednesday and pushed them a mile down Orange Avenue to Congressman Vern Buchanan's office to protest cuts to Head Start.  In Sarasota County, cuts recommended by the House of Representatives would likely mean 140 fewer children receiving federally-funded day care and 32 workers losing their jobs… Later, staffers from Buchanan's office issued a statement defending the cuts as necessary to curb deficit spending and create jobs.” [Herald-Tribune, 2/23/11]

Schilling on Quad Cities Amtrak route: "I don't believe it's dead".
In his first interview since voting to eliminate a $230 million federal grant to build an Amtrak line from Chicago to Iowa City, U.S. Rep. Bobby Schilling sat down with News 8 to discuss his decision, and how he thinks that rail service through the Quad Cities could still eventually happen. […]Schilling said he's certain when the budget comes back to the U.S. House from the Senate, a lot of the items eliminated from the budget will return. “I don't believe it’s dead,” he said. […] Durbin and [Sen.] Mark Kirk aren't going to let a lot of this stuff flow through, and then it's going to come back and then we break it down on an individual basis," he said. "You know, that's just how the process works."  [WQAD, 2/23/11]

Head Start Program In Jeopardy [WTOV]
“200,000 children's futures hang in the balance as the largest budget cuts in Head Start's history are being debated by members of Congress. Head Start is a program for low-income families who are trying to prepare their child for the challenges of the educational system. There are more than 426 children who will be affected and 161 Head Start staff who stand to lose their jobs within the 1st Congressional District of West Virginia.” [WTOV, 2/23/11]

Gibson’s votes drawing protests in Kinderhook [WGXC]
“Congressman Chris Gibson’s getting his first taste of home turf protests against his Republican majority lockstep votes to date in two separate incidents planned for Thursday, February 24 at his offices in Kinderhook and Saratoga, starting at 12 noon.” [WGXC, 2/23/11]

Parents protest Congressman Farenthold’s office over budget cuts [Valley Central]
“’My kids have learned a lot and if they don't go to Head Start, I'm going to lose my job I'll have to stay at home and who knows what's going to happen.’  Isabel Curiel and several other mothers of kids in head start programs across the valley are taking their concerns to the office of US Congressman Blake Farenthold after learning the House of Representatives, including the Republican congressman, approved a bill which would cut discretionary funds including head start programs.” [Valley Central, 2/23/11]

Former mayor votes to slash city funding [New Hampshire Union Leader]
“Despite requests from Mayor Ted Gatsas and city officials to maintain funding for programs for some of the city's poorest residents, New Hampshire's congressional delegation has given little indication it intends to do so. Recently approved House cuts would reduce the city's $2 million Community Development Block Grant funding by more than half this year. President Obama proposed a 7.5 percent cut to CDBG funds in his recently released 2012 U.S. budget that would result in about $155,000 less for city programs next year. On Saturday, Rep. Frank Guinta, R-Manchester, voted in favor of more than $100 billion in cuts for fiscal year 2011, including a 63 percent cut in the CDBG program. This will slash more than $2.5 billion in requests for state and local aid, and Manchester could lose up to $1 million in remaining CDBG funding.  During Guinta's two terms as mayor of Manchester, the city received more than $7.5 million in federal CDBG funds.” [Union Leader, 2/23/11]


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Think Progress: Main Street movement

The  Main Street Movement , a coalition of students, the retired, union workers, public employees, and other middle class Americans, are demonstrating against brutal cuts to public services and crackdowns on organized labor.

Conservative lawmakers that are attacking collective bargaining and cutting necessary services like college tuition aid and health benefits for public workers claim that they have no choice. . .

But it wasn’t teachers, fire fighters, policemen, and college students that caused the economic recession that has devastated government budgets , it was Wall Street.

Carl Gibson, the founder of US Uncut, who has organized some of today’s UK-inspired massive demonstrations against tax dodgers, explains that while ordinary Americans are being asked to sacrifice, major corporations continue to use the rigged tax code to avoid paying federal taxes.

As Gibson notes if you have “one dollar” in your wallet, you’re paying more than the “combined income tax liability of many of the largest corporations in the US:
I have one dollar in my wallet. That’s more than the
combined income tax liability of GE, ExxonMobil, Citibank, and the Bank of America. That means somebody is gaming the system.”
GE's ecoimagination is a GOP tribute

Rightardia is irritated by the GE ecoimagination commercials. GE has been using a frolicking elephant in its commercials for more than a year which is obvious homage to the GOP.

Apparently their accountants use a lot of ecoimagination when they filed 7,000 tax returns. America's largest corporation has paid no corporate income tax to the US government.

General Electric is so good at avoiding taxes that some people consider its tax department to be the best in the world, even better than any law firm's.

Conservatives like to note the US corporate income tax is 35 per cent, one of the highest of the OECD countries. The US also has one of the worst tax codes in the OECD because there are so many exemptions.
 
According the NY Times, two out of every three United States corporations paid no federal income taxes from 1998 through 2005. This is according to a report released Tuesday by the Government Accountability Office. 

sources: 

http://www.tampabay.com/news/business/corporate/study-shows-many-big-us-companies-dont-pay-fair-share-of-corporate-taxes/1149038


http://dealbook.nytimes.com/2008/08/13/study-tallies-corporations-not-paying-income-tax/

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Bloomberg: US GDP growth is disappointing



Feb. 25 (Bloomberg) -- Scott Brown, chief economist at Raymond James & Associates Inc., discusses U.S. fourth-quarter gross domestic product (GDP) and the outlook for the economy.

The U.S. economy grew at a 2.8 percent annual rate in the fourth quarter, slower than previously calculated and less than forecast as state and local governments made deeper cuts in spending.

Brown speaks with Lisa Murphy on Bloomberg Television's "Fast Forward."

Brown pointed out that public sector jobs are disappearing at about a 20,000 per month rate which is unhelpful.

Many conservatives in their zeal to shrink government don't realize that these jobs pump in millions and billions into the local economy.

The Chinese GDP grew at a 10 per cent rate last year and the Chinese have set a 7 per cent goal for 2011.

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Sunday, February 27, 2011

Labor Cartoons: Black History Month



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FactCheck.org: Democrats Deny Social Security’s Red Ink


This a long article so we only included the summary and the references.
There is a link to the complete article. 


February 25, 2011

Democrats Deny Social Security’s Red Ink
Some claim it doesn't contribute to the federal deficit, but it does.

Summary

Some senior Democrats are claiming that Social Security does not contribute "one penny" to the federal deficit. That’s not true. The fact is, the federal government had to borrow $37 billion last year to finance Social Security, and will need to borrow more this year. The red ink is projected to total well over half a trillion dollars in the coming decade.

President Barack Obama was closer to the mark than some of his Democratic allies when he said that Social Security is "not the huge contributor to the deficit that [Medicare and Medicaid] are."

That’s correct: Medicare and Medicaid consume more borrowed funds than Social Security, and their costs are growing more rapidly.

But Obama’s own budget director, Jacob Lew, was misleading when he wrote recently that "Social Security benefits are entirely self-financing." That’s not true, except in a very narrow, legalistic sense, and doesn’t change the fact that Social Security is now a small but growing drain on the government’s finances.

Payroll taxes exceeded benefit payments regularly until 2010. But the fact is that Social Security has now passed a tipping point, beyond which the Congressional Budget Office projects that it will permanently pay out more in benefits than it gathers from Social Security taxes.

The imbalance is made even larger this year by a one-year "payroll tax holiday" that was enacted as part of last year’s compromise on extending the Bush tax cuts.

The lost Social Security tax revenues are being made up with billions from general revenues that must all be borrowed. The combined effect is to add $130 billion to the deficit in the current fiscal year.

It’s important to note that benefit payments are not in immediate danger. Under current law, scheduled benefits can be paid until about 2037, according to the most recent projections.

But keeping those benefits flowing is already requiring the use of funds borrowed from the public. So we judge the claim that Social Security is not currently contributing to the deficit to be false.
Analysis

As always, we take no position on whether Social Security should be changed, either to reduce the deficit or to shore up its troubled finances for future generations. Our job here is simply to establish facts and hold politicians accountable for any misinformation.

We’ll start with the basic numbers. The nonpartisan Congressional Budget Office issued its most recent projections for Social Security’s income and outgo Jan. 26, along with its twice-yearly "Budget and Economic Outlook."

What those numbers show is that Social Security ran a $37 billion deficit last year, is projected to run a $45 billion deficit this year, and more red ink every year thereafter.

Source: CBO "Combined OASDI Trust Funds; January 2011 Baseline" 26 Jan 2011.
Note: See "Primary Surplus" line (which is negative, indicating a deficit)

Matters are even worse than this chart shows. In December, Congress passed a Social Security tax reduction. Workers are temporarily paying 2 percentage points less, from 6.2 percent to 4.2 percent, in Social Security payroll taxes this calendar year.

The Car Guy: 2011 VW Touareg Supercharged Hybrid



This isn't a car that all of our readers could afford, but it is an interesting concept. 

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Constructive Anarchy.com: Cheese Head Obama

 We all know where the president should be, don't we?

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LTSaloon.org: Walker Fires all of the Wisconsin public teachers

Between Glenn Beck U. and Rush Limbaugh, the Wisconsin GOP Jugend will change education in Wisconsin forever.

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Bloomberg: Columbia's Phelps on Unions, Collective Bargaining



Feb. 25 (Bloomberg) -- Edmund Phelps, who won the Nobel Prize for economics in 2006 and directs the Center on Capitalism and Society at Columbia University, talks about the role of unions in U.S. society . . .

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Rightardia links, blog list and recent comments


We made some changes to our blog so that we can add links to articles.

Keep in mind these are links to articles and not permanent links to the blog's home page.

We can also feature other blogs in out blog list. We have also added the "recent comments" gadget some of our reader's comments will be more visible.

When people ask us to exchange links  or feature their blog, we check the requesting blogs Netcraft and Alexa ratings. If your blog has similar Internet ratings to our blog, we will likely be interested.

We don't mind running gratis advertising for businesses that are friendly to the Democratic Party in the Tampa Bay area.

Send us your ad copy and we will run a one time ad without any consideration.

We are Democrats so everything we do is not about profit. 

A word of warning. We will check out your business and if we find out it is "fly by night" we will advise our viewers.

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Jeopardy: Are you good with James Bond trivia?



As you can tell our raunchiest writer was in today who gave you the Alaskan Glory Hole story. Now this!

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Saturday, February 26, 2011

Sports Illustrated for Conservatives: Swim Suit Edition

Mario Piperni did a fine illustration of El Rushbo after Rush Limbaugh said:

The problem is, and dare I say this, it doesn’t look like Michelle Obama follows her own nutritionary (sic), dietary advice…I’m trying to say that our First Lady does not project the image of women that you might see on the cover of the Sports Illustrated Swimsuit Issue or of a woman Alex Rodriguez might date every six months or what have you.


"Buddha" Limbaugh casts the first stone

source: http://mariopiperni.com/dicks/rush-limbaugh-makes-cover-of-dicks-illustrated.php

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Sarah Palin is a big advocate of Alaskan glory holes

Republican glory hole

Rightardia is not being factitious because a glory hole in Alaska has a completely different meaning than it does in the lower 49. 

Rightardia was watching a series on cable about Alaskan gold miners. In the teaser an old coot with a crazy voice tells his workers that they  are all millionaires and all they have to do is get the gold out of the ground. 

He then says,"It's your glory." More about that shortly.

There is a cut away for this scene and we see a miner asking where the gold is. 

The man who operates the shovel digs a large hole in the ground near a river bank until he hits bedrock. The gold dust lies on top of the bedrock. 

Conveyor belts and water pumps are used to remove the gold. 

In Alaska, this hole in the ground is called a 'glory hole." This term has a totally different meaning in other parts of the US.

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St. Petersburg Times: Facts don't faze Scott's world





























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Vice President Henry Wallace on fascism


Henry Wallace also said this about American fascism:

If we define an American fascist as one who in case of conflict puts money and power ahead of human beings, then there are undoubtedly several million fascists in the United States.

There are probably several hundred thousand if we narrow the definition to include only those who in their search for money and power are ruthless and deceitful.

Most American fascists are enthusiastically supporting the war effort. They are doing this even in those cases where they hope to have profitable connections with German chemical firms after the war ends.

They are patriotic in time of war because it is to their interest to be so, but in time of peace they follow power and the dollar wherever they may lead.

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Teatard weapon of choice: Glock 350


Teatard seniors love the Glock 350 that was featured on Rightardia once before.

With this weapon a Teatard senior can take out an entire street gang when they go to their mailboxes to get their Social Security checks. 

Street gangs are always fooled when seniors use the Glock 350 as a cane as they hobble to their mailbox.

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