Archive for July, 2011
by problembear our one chance to actually make great strides in health care reform in this country when obama came into office was squandered when it was handed over to the insurance weasels who wrote the bill that passed. and tonight obama caved on everything the tea party demanded regarding raising the debt ceiling. it [...]
by jhwygirl The Sunlight Foundation, always an excellent source for information much like the Pew Research Center, has an ongoing collaborative effort out there to monitor and document political campaign ads for the purposes of understanding how money moves in elections. I’ve added the Sunlight Campaign Ad Monitor over there on the left under “Citizen’s [...]
By CFS A favorite theory of mine about the fall of the Roman Empire states that centrifugal force (outward) eventually became too much for the centripetal forces (inward) to counteract in the whirling machine that was Roman society. The costs of holding the Empire together became too much for the benefits of Empire to overcome [...]
by lizard (Getty Images) We will never know what would have happened in Libya had NATO not intervened. Those who think the intervention was justified will state a slaughter was stopped from happening, while some of those obnoxious skeptics may still be wondering who these rebels are, and if handing them the keys to Tripoli [...]
by lizard I was tinkering around with a poem a few days ago, changing line breaks and trimming off some unnecessary words. I was doing this on the computer, and when I was done, hit save. Instantly all evidence of my revision disappeared. As a writer, I’m interested in the process of writing, the craft. [...]
by problembear this article ran accross my twitter timeline a little while ago and i am curious. excerpt from above article: “The Air Force, in response to a report published by Truthout earlier this week, has pulled a Christian-themed training session that used a quote from an ex-Nazi SS officer and numerous passages from the New and [...]
by problembear i have a deep affinity for the bonner area. it is the place i first lived when i moved to missoula. i lived there when champion was running 4 shifts. then they sold it to stimson. stimson closed it for good several years ago and laid off the last few dozen workers last [...]
“Recession” Economy lost $400 billion more than first thought in 2007-2009 By JC Here’s the takeaway, it’s quiet simple: Revised figures from the Bureau of Economic Analysis were released today, showing that the amount of economic contraction (recession) as reflected by a lowering Gross Domestic Product (GDP) was far greater than had been known at [...]
By CFS …just admit we’re assholes and move on? Let me start if off… I, CFS, am an insensitive asshole. I’m not apologizing for being an asshole, just admitting it. The wild west of blogging is great because it allows you to be an asshole if you want. I get out all my asshole tendencies [...]
by jhwygirl Republicans got no one running the show up there and Democrats are just sitting around waiting for anyone to take the lead. Harry? Put what you got onto the Senate floor. Lead the debate. Lead a debate. Debate. Something. Anything. At least make us think you all are actually earning that free pizza [...]
by jhwygil Call it crisis profiteering, call it disaster capitalism – but airlines companies are doing what private corporations do: They maximize profits. I’ve long made the argument many times in many scenarios that raising taxes or fees does not mean that those costs will be passed on to consumers. I’ve said that in regards [...]
by problembear The Second Coming TURNING and turning in the widening gyre The falcon cannot hear the falconer; Things fall apart; the centre cannot hold; Mere anarchy is loosed upon the world, The blood-dimmed tide is loosed, and everywhere The ceremony of innocence is drowned; The best lack all conviction, while the worst Are full [...]
by lizard Terrorists are not suppose to look like Norwegian Ken dolls with bright blond hair and cold blue eyes. Maybe that’s why corporate news coverage has been so minimal. If this terrorist looked more like a dark bearded, dark skinned Muslim, I guarantee we would be treated to hourly updates by CNN, MSNBC, and [...]
by lizard I’d like to congratulate Missoula Independent’s Skylar Browning for being included in Ina May Gaskin’s new book, Birth Matters. So for this weekend’s poetry series, I decided to grab the anthology No More Masks: An Anthology Of Twentieth-Century American Women Poets (edited by Florence Howe) from the shelf, and found these two poems [...]
by jhwygirl Got a press release from Northern Plains Resource Council yesterday announcing Forest Mars, Jr.’s buy-in to the Tongue River railroad, which is needed to transport the dirty filthy coal of Otter Creek from Montana to China. Later, I went and read my favorite supermontanareporter John S. Adams’ blog MT Lowdown and found a [...]
by problembear while it is pretty obvious that president obama loves america so much he is willing to grovel for any kind of deal he can get to save this country from the crushing debacle of bankruptcy……….(note to self: invite the president to my next garage sale-what a pigeon!)…….. , it is equally obvious the teaparty does [...]
by lizard You read the title right. This post is sort of a defense of Rupert Murdoch. How can some cantankerous lefty blogger dream up a way to defend a media mogul who appears to be getting what he deserves, you ask? Good question. Let me see if I can formulate a decent answer. First [...]
by Duganz I posted a piece on Monday about the Missoula Independent that contained an error which put the piece in question. As such, I removed it. I apologize for the mistake.
by lizard Rachel Maddow’s piece on the debt ceiling showdown tonight was very interesting, because it again hinted at the last ditch effort of a constitutional end-around theoretically possible for Obama to pull off if the Tea Party persists in holding the house hostage. If Obama wants some advice from the guy he’s doing a [...]
By JC If you’ve been paying attention to all the hoopla, you’ve heard by now that the House passed a draconian bill to address the looming crisis over the debt ceiling. I’m not going to go into details. Pogie put up a nice summation of what is going on over at ID, and I’ve got [...]
by lizard (original art by Michael McCurdy) Of the dozen books I brought home from my trip to Kansas City, the one I’ve been picking up the most is Edward Abbey’s Earth Apples (edited by David Petersen). The reason, of course, is because the continuing noise/flash-point of the little EF protest (rife with littering, strong [...]
by problembear i remember watching in disbelieving horror as ronald reagan- a right wing reactionary governor and two bit has been actor from california was sworn in as our 40th president in 1981. but given the perspective of the entropy of this nation today, he towers above the tea party lemmings on the right side [...]
By JC “Woof, Woof, Woof… nothin’ but trash and you know… I might like ‘em more after my lobotomy.” With apologies to Weird Al. Update: Seems I forgot a few lines: “…Judge Wopner, oh my You gotta be Rainman to like this guy Thirtysomething is alright If you like hearing yuppies whining all night…”
by jhwygirl Mike O’Herron, candidate for Ward 5′s city council seat is holding a meet & greet this Wednesday. This is an excellent opportunity to meet a candidate who is an independent, committed to bringing balanced leadership and representation to Ward 5. I really like Mike. Off the top of my head, O’Herron was the [...]
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