One Year Ago Today

mr. smerconish, i'm sure you remember mr. lindorff

sweet.  dave lindorff does a great job exposing michael smerconish as the fool he is in this piece from counterpunch.  for some reason, i've always found smerconish particularly disgusting, kind of like a glenn beck without the charm, and it's great to see him smacked around by someone with as much talent as lindorff. 

sarah palin sucks worse than you thought

who knew she was a quitter?  she's like michele bachmann without the political talent.

attention: david vitter still in congress

does he wear a soiled diaper on the senate floor? 

in six more months, we will achieve total victory

total victory is only six months away.

anybody who believes that is a moron.

it's always six months away.

who thought obama was interested in ending any wars?

not me.

you don't become president if you're interested in fucking with our wars of choice. 

economic austerity is redistribution of wealth up the ladder

economic austerity so popular with large private banks is a rather obvious tool to redistribute a nation's wealth up the income ladder.  greece really should just tell the banks to go fuck themselves, go off the euro and take care of their own economic and social interests and not those of the banksters.  in the united states, both  major parties like to talk about steep budget cuts and inevitable economic pain, but they really mean to take more control of the control of the economy in their own interests and redistribute more of the tax burden on the lowest income earners, much as they have been doing for 40 years.