By OcJim The talking head for plutocrats, Pretty Boy Paul Ryan, likes to borrow his ideas from others. He doesn’t believe in divisive class rhetoric, he says, except in his statement, “We’re coming close to a tipping point in America where we might have a net majority of takers…
Seems that there are some women in Zimbabwe that got arrested for sexually assaulting males for their sperm. Supposedly, it wards off evil spirits or possesses some kind of other supernatural powers other than preserving the human species, if that isn’t enough, right?. Now, this really piqued my interest…
By Jim Hoover Have you ever considered the toll imposed by the so-called “job creators”? And don’t forget our role in this agenda-inspired phrase, “job creator”. This plaint is part of rote learning conservatives want to impose on the rest of us. The meaning is clear. Corporate executives are…
By Jim Hoover Commercial banks normally provide important services as financial intermediaries, collecting funds for safe, liquid and secure investment opportunities. Since the great depression, gambling and speculative activities were always kept separate, that is until greed was successfully infused into the process beginning in the 1980s. Since then…
By: Midnite Writer Recently, there has been quite a flurry in the media about who they are. In case you haven’t run across it on one of the major news sites and without mentioning any names to keep their identity private (snicker), you know who they are. You can find…
What if you were set-up for a blind date and found out in the middle of your evening out that your date is on the “sex offenders registry?" Would you finish the date or ditch them as soon as possible? This just happened to me. Don’t get me wrong,…
by Jim Hoover Conservative America would like to keep the bulk of Americans fat, dumb and happy. That is the outgrowth of the conservative building of a proto-fascist country, dominated by large corporations. Activity in Republican-controlled states and the House of Representatives, show the ideas of right-wing corporations like…
http://www.examiner.com/this-day-history-in-national/cuyahoga-river-on-fire By Jim Hoover As if the Republicans haven’t done enough already to trash the American people, indeed our country, considering attacks on women and Planned Parenthood, attacks on regulating Wall Street, cuts to spending for the vulnerable, voting to end Medicare, starving education, trying to kill voting in…
By Jim Hoover Most Americans are totally unaware that 60 Republican members of the House of Representatives control our economic destiny, our livelihood, perhaps for years to come, after August 2nd, 2011. In essence, the Tea Party Caucus seems to control whether our country defaults on its debt or…
By Jim Hoover I watched the pilot to Falling Skies and the only thing that fell was my high regard for Steven Spielberg. Spielberg’s films have covered many themes and many genres, but we have grown to expect quality from his film-making endeavors. His Schindler’s List, Saving Private…