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Sober minded and serious observers have long known that there are no such thing as flying saucers, as the debunkers like to scornfully characterize the UFO phenomena, but that UFOs are far more real than Obama's "liberalism".

While many of us have good-naturedly put up with our unimaginative and easily misled friends, the time has come to put this ( Read more... )

"Obama's legacy doesn't live up to the terms of his Nobel Prize"

You think?

A graphic illustration of the fact that six corporations -- that's SIX -- control 90 percent of what we read, watch or listen to. Read all about it here.

But they show us everything we should know, of course -- celebrity sex scandals, for example -- without all that boring stuff like wars and budgets and global warming and what the 99 percent are

"We spend more on the military than all other nations on earth combined, and the only thing it's gotten us has been some pretty consequential blowback and a mountain of unsustainable debt. So what's the upside?

"Well, there isn't any - unless you're a military contractor, or a politician on the take from the military-industrial complex. If you're an ( Read more... )

The Republican Party is dead, taken over by fundy lunatics.

The Democratic Party is dead, taken over by conservative and reactionary Republicans.

Democracy is dead, its corpse propped up by corporations, the corporate media and the rest of the 1% in a desperate attempt to fool the 99%.

The illusion is working.

So far.

A friend is appalled that I'll once again vote for a third party candidate. "Don't waste your vote," he exclaims. "Vote Obama 2012 ( Read more... )

A friend sent me an email essay on why Obama will win a second term by someone who fears and loathes it. It contained the standard right-wing lie about "the nearly one-half of all adults who do not pay any taxes."

That, of course, is pure bullshit..

It is not true that nearly half of all adults pay no taxes. The author was playing games with the ( Read more... )

"Perhaps President Obama should be forced to watch sonograms of the beating hearts of those he targets for extrajudicial assassination?" - Caroline Arnold

http://www.commondreams.org/view/2012/03/18