My father and I did not always have the best of relationships. I was fathered when my dad was in his mid teens and I lived with my mother who slept around, went homeless twice, and dated a man who molested me on a regular basis.

I have to admit.Hillary surprised me on Saturday. I had expected a whiny, self-absorbent diatribe against the press coupled with a demand that Obama select her as his running mate. Instead we received an impassioned plea for unity, freedom, and progress coupled with a heartfelt endorsement of Obama.

by PraetorOne
When the far right goes looking for a scapegoat it doesn’t go halfway. The same people who talk about personal responsibility are the same people who blame evolution and the teaching of evolution in our class rooms for America’s social problems. That’s right friends and neighbors. The far right claims that [...]

By PraetorOne
If there’s any doubt as to what John McCain stands for–or should I say DOESN’T stand for?– one only has to take a look at his opposition to the Webb Bill for veterans. For those of you who missed this–and you’re God awful lucky if you did, John McCain has come out against [...]

Americans are among the most uninformed people on the face of the earth. We are surrounded by media of all sorts. We have access to newspapers,magazines, television, and the internet,and yet we are among the least educated people in the entire world. By the same token we also watch a disproportionate amount [...]

Our Biased Media and the Election Process
By PraetorOne
“We can do The Innuendo
We can dance and sing
When it’s said and done we haven’t told you a thing
We all know that Crap is King
Give us dirty laundry!”
From Don Henley’s “Dirty Laundry.”
Did anyone catch the last debate between Hilary Clinton and Barack Obama? I did [...]

CAL=HERBERT=BUSH
Part IV
They Really DON’T Give A Damn!
One of the primary symbols of this compassionate conservatism was the Hooverville. With two million homeless people, families had to live somewhere, and all too often the only source of shelter was a flimsy, hastily improvised structure made out of readily available components: empty packing cases, old car bodies, [...]

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COSPEAK IS NOTHING LESS THAN DOUBLESPEAK
The Convoluted Language of Crocker and Petreus
By PraetorOne and ReasonOne
I don’t know about you, but I am constantly amazed by our corporate, right wing media as they continue to misrepresent the relationship between Army General David Petreus and George W. Bush. It seems as if you can’t turn on [...]

Editor’s note. The folks at Fox News have been falsely claiming that the stock market predicts events in the future economy, that the stock market leads. But this clearly is not true. The Great Depression and the Stock Market Crash of October 1929 was preceded by a softness in the overall [...]

CAL = HERBERT = BUSH
MORE REMINISCING ABOUT THE 1920s AND 1930s
PART I
Dirty Tricks and Corruption During the 1920s
by Donatra, Praetor One, Bible-Belted, Uncle Abe, and Thomas Paine.

As a direct result of my recent conversation with Abe regarding the differences between George W. Bush and Franklin Roosevelt, I realized that we had enough material to compare [...]

NO CHANGE IS NOT AN IMPROVEMENT
By PraetorOne and Rachel
A recent test revealed that only 33 percent of 8th grade students could write at or above a proficient level. That same test revealed that approximately one in four 12th grade students could write at or above a proficient level. Girls tended to out perform [...]

It is now official.
Insurance companies really suck.
A few months ago we made a decision to get cheaper house insurance. We took a look at American Family, rejected them, and went with a smaller rural based company. Much to our horror they won’t even cover us because we have, according to the agent, “A big [...]

BRING BACK RANDI RHODES
By PraetorOne
This is my professional advice to Air America: BRING BACK RANDI RHODES
I never thought the day would come when Air America would suspend one of its most poplar talk show hosts, the one and only Randi Rhodes. For those of you who missed this debacle, Rhodes appeared at a comedy [...]

I LEARNED A LOT
By PraetorOne
I learned a lot this morning.Under normal circumstances any morning on which I don’t have to listen to Megyn Kelli spew her usual right wing drivel while she goes unchallenged by her typically Reich wing guests is usually a bod morning, but today I learned a lot about our glowing economy [...]