Courtesy of CREW, Citizens for Responsibilty and Ethics in Washington has released their year end report. They note at the top of the page that despite the Democrat’s election vow to institute more checks and balances on Congressional ethics, not a damn thing has changed in that regard. No new enforcement regulations were put [...]

Wall Street engaged in a little premature celebration over some kind of “bailout” plan coming out of the offices of the moronic monkey.
I, of course, wasn’t doing any celebrating. Nobody should have. I knew what was going to happen, because I’ve seen it all before.
Who wrote the Medicare Prescription Drug law?
Who wrote the bankruptcy law?
Yes [...]

This post is reprinted with permission from MovementVisionLab.org. It’s a vitally important topic for the coming election year. You can watch the Heartland Presidential Forum in it’s entirety here. They also have portions of this forum on their YouTube channel here. The Forum was held in Iowa on December 1st and five of the Democratic [...]

This disgusting fact is brought to you by a new report which will be released tomorrow. From the AP writeup:
Veterans make up one in four homeless people in the United States, though they are only 11 percent of the general adult population, according to a report to be released Thursday.

And homelessness is not just a [...]

The price of food is up. It’s always up. Rarely does the price go down unless there has been some record breaking problem that an industry has had to endure, like a hard frost in Florida and California and all the oranges froze. The price goes way up for orange juice, but then comes back [...]

Why am I a liberal?

That, my friends, is a short question but it requires a somewhat complicated answer. In a nutshell I suppose that I could say that I have seen just how destructive the new brand of “compassionate conservatism” can be, but that’s too easy. In fact it’s a bit [...]

My family is in San Diego. My sister and her family, whom I was just visiting last week, has been evacuated from her home. Another sister is on standby to evacuate. My dad, who isn’t in the best of health, is hemmed in by freeway closures in the north part of San Diego county due [...]

From this online writeup, we get the news that a bank..although just an online bank, but a bank none the less has collapsed due to their subprime lending practices:
FAILING sub-prime mortgages have claimed their first US bank — online lender NetBank was shut down by US Government regulators at the weekend.
Soaring defaults of home loans [...]

We all know that people are losing their homes faster than you can say “Rove has left the building”. If you thought for one minute that the folks running those friggin hedge funds were going to take it in the shorts, think again…according to this writeup at Alternet..no such thing will happen. From the Alternet [...]

Here are the thoughts of the Angry Black Bitch regarding Katrina, two years after the levee’s Failed.
Two years ago today was like any other day until it wasn’t. I’m sure I went to work, laughed with some people and bitched about something…and then came Katrina.
I am unable to recall Katrina without selfishly thinking about my [...]

The people in Iraq can’t even get electricity 24/7 or running clean water. Yet Petraeus and our elected representatives are dining on lobster tortellini in Baghdad. This isn’t the worst of it however. That Petraeus would sit in a comfortable environment and lobby for the surge whilst eating this elitist food is wrong on many [...]

Over at OpenLeft, there is a fine article that lays out who the BushDogs/BlueDogs are. It identifies them for those of us not familiar with the term or the people it represents. I have a BushDog in my district as a matter of fact, his name is Jim Costa. But what bothers me about the [...]

I am pleased to announce that the Angry Black Bitch has allowed us to post one of her fine musings. Please take a moment to check out her blog..she is a creative genius that uses her words very wisely.
A certain Marva, who is a self proclaimed black Republican, wrote this bitch an e-mail.
Blink.
After reading several [...]