Archives for January 2012

Top 10 Re-Assigned Quotes For GOP Candidates

January 31, 2012 by Brooklyn Dame 2 Comments

Sometimes we hear statements that end up so appropriate in another context. With that in mind, following are 10 quotes that could either be assigned to or come directly from the remaining GOP Presidential candidates.

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Mitt Romney:

“Art is about making something out of nothing and selling it.”

~ Frank Zappa

*We figure that to have lasted this long, Mitt is clearly quite good at selling something even though we can see that there’s no substance there.*

And…

Mitt Romney’s response to most questions — even when it seems that he has given an answer:

“There ain’t no answer.… [Read more]

Filed Under: The BK Dame Says Tagged With: Campaign, Coretta Scott King, Frank Zappa, Gertrude Stein, Isaak Walton, Jon Hunstman, Malcolm X, Mitt Romney, Newt Gingrich, Quotes, Republican Party, Rick Perry, Rick Santorum, Ron Paul, Sargent Shriver, US Politics

New Republican Debate to Focus on Breadth, Depth of Candidates’ Reagan Trivia

January 31, 2012 by Kyle Jernigan 6 Comments

Sensing an overall lull in interest after approaching the 3652nd Republican Primary Debate of the 2012 election, RNC chairman Reince Prebus has announced that the next GOP debate will be focused exclusively around trivia relating to former President, and GOP man-God, Ronald Reagan.Prebus, in an exclusive interview to Borderless News and Views(BNV), said, “So we were all sitting around, trying to figure out how to try and get people interesting in the shit-slinging again.… [Read more]

Filed Under: WTLF*?!? Tagged With: Atlas Shrugged, Comedy, Humor, Mitt Romney, Nancy Reagan, Newt Gingrich, Reince Prebus, Rick Santorum, RNC Chairman, Ron Paul, Ronald Reagan, US Politics

Why Is Healthcare So Hard?

January 30, 2012 by Panama Red 11 Comments

Last year, I was involved in a car accident in which I’m lucky to have survived. Both me and another car tried to merge into the same lane at the same time; our cars kissed on the side and then after bouncing off his car, I over corrected and went off the road and into an embankment, totaling the Ford Explorer I was driving, breaking two vertebrae and tearing my right rotator cuff.… [Read more]

Filed Under: We Say This Tagged With: Economics, Healthcare, insurance, Japan, Reform, US Healthcare System, US Politics

2012 Republicans May Not Believe in Climate Change, But Your Insurance Company Does

January 30, 2012 by Angelle Petta 12 Comments

“I believe the earth gets warmer and I also believe the earth gets cooler. And I think history points out that it does that and that the idea that man…is somehow responsible for climate change is, I think, just patently absurd when you consider all the other factors.” ~ Rick Santorum,

“I actually don’t know whether global warming is occurring.” ~ Newt Gingrich

“My view is that we don’t know what’s causing climate change on this planet.” ~ Mitt Romney

“There is no consensus in the scientific community that global warming is getting worse or that it is man-made.” ~ Ron Paul

2011 was a record high year for disasters: Hurricane Irene, a blizzard, the floods in Mississippi and the wildfires in Texas.… [Read more]

Filed Under: We Say This Tagged With: Climate Change, Environment, insurance, Mitt Romney, natural disaster, Newt Gingrich, Rick Santorum, Ron Paul, US Politics

Latin America and Its Classist Struggle

January 30, 2012 by Mark Hanley 4 Comments

Latin America is a huge region spanning much of the Americas. Its topography, geography and peoples are among the most diverse in the world. Its people, though, by far are its greatest asset with their wonderful music, literature and arts, their lavish hospitality and their incredibly rich languages.

Latin America, however, has its ‘dark side’. With bloody civil wars, rampant crime and, perhaps worst of all, its ever-pervasive classism.… [Read more]

Filed Under: Social Change Tagged With: America, Civil War, Classism, Cold War, Elite, Immigrants, Labor, Latin America, Mexico City, Uprising, Working Class

It’s A Wrap – Week In Review January 29, 2012

January 29, 2012 by Brooklyn Dame Leave a Comment

Although we have moved forward by one week, events we discussed this week may make us wonder if we’re going backwards. Here we are in 2012 and we’re revisiting things that took place during the McCarthy era: loyalty oaths that threaten our ability to function as a democracy and ramped-up requirements that threaten trample on voter’s rights.… [Read more]

Filed Under: Wrap-Up Tagged With: Ayn Rand, Democrats, Freedom, Guatemala, Mexico, Mitt Romney, Newt Gingrich, nostalgia, President Obama, Pretender, Recession, Religion, Super PAC, US Economy, US Politics, Walter Mondale

Secrecy, Lies and…Campaigning

January 28, 2012 by Flower Child 6 Comments

Though you behave as though you’re forthright, you seem to have so much to hide, Mitt Romney. It’s the secrecy…it’s the double-talk….it’s the evasiveness. We don’t know who you are — and, unfortunately, the things we DO know are things that help us to understand why even your own base doesn’t like or trust you that much. … [Read more]

Filed Under: Say It In Song Tagged With: Campaign, Foo Fighters, Liar, Mitt Romney, Newt Gingrich, phony, Ron Paul, Secrecy, The Pretender, US Politics

Retirement and Recession, Where Do You Stand?

January 28, 2012 by Jem Mosley 6 Comments

Millions of people spend years planning for retirement. Many invested their income into stocks expecting investment returns of at least 8% and others expected their homes to have appreciated in value by 10% each year. Their expectations have been shaken to the core during this recession and long periods of economic uncertainty.

Because a large portion of people nearing retirement are not going to have as much to retire on as they initially thought, many are facing some serious questions that must be answered: How much more will I have to save?… [Read more]

Filed Under: Finance Tagged With: Debt, Money Management, Mortgage, Personal Finance

The Good Old Days of 1984

January 27, 2012 by Tara Meehan 6 Comments

On Election Day of 1984, I was a seven year old girl excited to have a day off from school. My mother, thirty years older, was a mixture of emotions. She was looking very forward to reporting to her polling place, my elementary school, and voting for the all but certain loser – Walter Mondale. She was also nervous.… [Read more]

Filed Under: Social Change Tagged With: Battleground States, Campaign Coney Island, Food Stamp President, Newt Gingrich, poverty, President Obama, Rick Santorum, Social Security, US Politics, Wall Street, Walter Mondale

Careful What You Wish For

January 27, 2012 by James Haitchwai 2 Comments

No discussion about economic inequality would be complete without an uneducated, unemployed outlier’s two cents, would it?

I’m down with the Occupy movement, its message and its method. I’ve stopped by McPherson Square, taken in the sites and smells, chatted with some Occupiers, and had a cool time. The place had a warm, inviting vibe that got me thinking about pitching a tent so that I wouldn’t have to pay rent or attention to personal hygiene ever again.… [Read more]

Filed Under: Social Change Tagged With: Economic Collapse, hippies, Hubris, income inequility, loopholes, Occupy Wall Street, taxes, US Economy

The Degree of Who or What You Know

January 27, 2012 by Niloufar Hormozdi 4 Comments

I attended my friend’s 25th birthday dinner this past Saturday night. Surrounded by a few of her friends and a majority of her family, we indulged in plenty of alcohol. What should have turned into chaos instead evolved into a conversation about education. Included in the group of friends was one whom I had not seen since middle school.… [Read more]

Filed Under: We Say This Tagged With: Debt, Degrees, Education, US Unemployment, What You Know, Who You Know

Super-PACs: Stop It

January 26, 2012 by Christine Meehan 4 Comments

You turn on the television, unlock your Ipod, or open up your Blackberry to check out the latest news. You squeeze in catching up on the daily headlines in the little “free” time you have found while watching your family savings drain into that ‘maybe it’ll be stolen this year’ gas guzzler. You overwhelm yourself, instantaneously, hovering over the toilet, staring at the flat screen in your hand, and hoping to stay current.… [Read more]

Filed Under: We Say This Tagged With: Jon Stewart, National Institute for Marriage, Newt Gingrich, Pack of Wolves, Stephen Colbert, Super PAC, US Politics

Freeing Yourself From Religious Traditions

January 25, 2012 by Kevin Cosgrove 5 Comments

Becoming a new father involves a great philosophical change. No longer are you thinking about how much money you can save for the weekend or the month, but of how much you should save for the next 18 years. My wife and I are welcoming a baby boy into our lives this May and cannot be happier about it.… [Read more]

Filed Under: Lifestyle & Op-Ed Tagged With: Catholic, Christian, newborn, parents, Religion

Turning Back the Clock

January 24, 2012 by Mark Hanley 5 Comments

Guatemala, called, “The Land of Eternal Spring”, is a small, but incredibly beautiful country in Central America. There are lush tropical forests, active volcanoes, and Lake Atitlán, which Aldous Huxley remarked that it was “too much of a good thing”.

A 36-year long civil war systematically and deliberately exterminated the noble Mayan people of Guatemala. 200,000 were killed, in which about 83% were Mayan, according to a U.N.… [Read more]

Filed Under: We Say This Tagged With: Democracy Now, Felipe Calderon, Guatemala, Mayan, Otto Perez Molina, United Nations

The Virginia Loyalty Oath: More Than A Step Backwards

January 23, 2012 by Angelle Petta 6 Comments

The Loyalty Oath enacted by Virginia Republicans in December of 2011 is already receiving severe criticism from Republicans and Democrats alike. The oath, voted in by the GOP State Central Committee, requires any person voting in the Republican primary on March 6^th to sign a statement. Voters are expected to sign this oath prior to casting their ballots requiring the voter to support the nominated Republican candidate for president.… [Read more]

Filed Under: We Say This Tagged With: ACLU, Cold War, Gay Rights, Loyalty Oath, McCarthy Era, Pro-Choice, Puritans, Right to Vote, State Central Committee, US Politics, Virginia

It’s a Wrap – Week In Review, January 22, 2012

January 22, 2012 by Brooklyn Dame 2 Comments

What a week! We started the week with a national holiday, the annual celebration of the life and work of Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. I Have A Dream reminds us that we have come so far as a nation but we still have a long way to go. When we take time to look at how far we have to push forward in order to make that “more perfect Union”, we have to take a step back to see where we went wrong.… [Read more]

Filed Under: Wrap-Up Tagged With: Corporations are People, Cuckoo's Nest, Democrats, Gentrification, Globalization, Humor, Jon Hunstman, Land Grad, Martin Luther King Jr., Political Debates, Primaries, Religious Freedom, Republican Party, Rick Perry, Urban Renewal, US Politics, White House

Thanks, Booker T., For Red Tails

January 21, 2012 by Monique A. Gamble 6 Comments

I purchased my ticket to see Red Tails yesterday! It’s the story of the first Black pilots to fly under the banner of the U.S. armed forces. They were the 332nd Fighter Group and the 477 Bombardment Group of the U.S. Army Air Corps, and they served in a segregated U.S. Army during World War II.… [Read more]

Filed Under: Social Change Tagged With: African American, Booker T. Washington, Education, History, Red Tails, Tuskegee Institute, Tuskegee University, World War II

People Are Crazy

January 21, 2012 by Flower Child Leave a Comment

“God is great, beer is good and people are crazy.”

~ Billy Currington

Though I’m not at all a religious person, hearing a statement like that is somewhat reassuring in that it’s a simply put way of saying that things will be fine. Despite all of the craziness we experience on a daily basis, we’ll be OK; today we are taking a break from primaries, debates, caucuses and campaigning to remember just that.… [Read more]

Filed Under: Say It In Song Tagged With: Beer Is Good, Billy Currington, God Is Great, Humor, Music, People Are Crazy, Religious, US Politics

Avoiding The Cuckoo’s Nest

January 20, 2012 by Brooklyn Dame 6 Comments

The GOP’s South Carolina primaries take place on Saturday, January 21st. It’s the third primary but first in the south — a fact that is not lost on the candidates. *Fanning myself* Mmmmm…. I can smell it in the air. All of that evangelical Christian bible belt social conservatism tradition steeped in hospitable mendacity and intolerance….*breathing deeply* Aaaahhh…Dixie.… [Read more]

Filed Under: The BK Dame Says Tagged With: Campaign, Conservative, Dixie, Evangelical, Herman Cain, Intolerance, Jon Hunstman, Mitt Romney, PAC, Primary, Religious, Republican Party, Rick Perry, Rick Santorum, South Carolina, Speaker of the House, Super PAC, US Politics, Voice of Reason