Monthly Archives: September 2009

To mandate health insurance premiums is to privatize tax collection & spending

Compulsory insurance premiums represent the privatization of taxes. Talk about taxation without representation. How would a personal expense mandated by the government be any different than a tax? The burden is contributed toward the common good, but administrated privately. While … Continue reading

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World’s Highest Yogic Spiral for Peace

MANITOU SPRINGS- Sept 30, the Pikes Peak Cog Railway delivered 78 to the summit, at 14,110 ft, for the world’s highest yogic spiral.

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Will Tea Party play “Perpetual Victims of Tyranny” again?

Since a member of the House of Representatives made a very simple and direct chart outlining the Republican “plan” (charitably so-called, because they don’t have one) which is: Don’t get sick, or if you do get get sick, Die Quickly. … Continue reading

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US Senate represents Insurance, Israel

Are you represented by a US senator? I doubt it. Today the Senate Finance Committee rejected Public Option amendments to the health care reform legislation; continued to vilify ACORN based on fraudulent accusations hyped the MSM; and thirty two senators … Continue reading

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Why hippies call them pigs

Here are a few troubling images of the G-20 protests in Pittsburgh, where police brutality insulated the globalist ministers from the anti-capitalist demonstrations.   Look at this smile. Next time they’re eulogizing a policeman killed on the job, or the … Continue reading

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Don’t you just have the cutest puppy? Oh yes you do, oh yes you do

When it comes to pets, the grass is always cuter on your own side of the fence. But if you think others might share your myopic affections, All American Pet Brands want to hear from you. Do you imagine the … Continue reading

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Yes we can, host the 2016 Olympics

President Obama came into office with quite a checklist: Stop war-making, Close Guantanamo, End renditions/torture, Rescind the Patriot Act, Restore the rule of law, Address global warming, Reform US health care, Re-regulate bankers, Talk to Iran, and doubtless many other … Continue reading

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David Barsamian and a Vet For Peace

Activist scholar David Barsamian visited Colorado Springs yesterday to speak on Afghanistan and raise money for the Pikes Peak Justice and Peace Commission. Barsamian was his usual gracious and erudite self but the PPJPC can’t even embarrass themselves. At one … Continue reading

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Vlad Dracula was a White European Christian.

So were most of the people he murdered. Just, you know, sayin’ is all. Same way with the Crusades and the Reformation. I know that wouldn’t get me invited to speak at any church in Colorado Springs. Neither would anything … Continue reading

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Support Anti-American Domestic Terrorism – Buy a teastained Flag!

From Fake Warrior ChickenHawk Norris! Yes, for about $80 bucks you can buy a Made in China WalMart Flag with tea spilled on it. This from a Martial Arts Professional Athlete who got out of the Draft on a Rich … Continue reading

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Beck, Rush, Malkin, Y’all proud now?

The Right Wing Extremist Tea Party terrorists have lynched an AMERICAN in Clay County Kentucky, showing their Koward Konservative Klan ties proudly, doing the sick bidding of the Hate Mongers at Fox and Clear Channel and KVOR. Anti American Terrorism. … Continue reading

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Big Week

Today is the International Day of Peace, or as it has become known outside our borders, Anti-American Day. By coincidence, the Pentagon announced today the US must increase its troop levels in Afghanistan or peace will win. On Wednesday pro-Israeli-expansion … Continue reading

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Iraq slipper thrower killed outright

Poor Ahmed Latif, killed in Fallujah this week for throwing his slipper at a US patrol. News reports are calling Latif a copycat of Muntadhar al-Zaidi, on the occasion of the Iraqi shoe thrower’s release from custody. Reporters are also … Continue reading

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Is NPR blocking health care reform?

If the corporation from which you get your news is NOT TELLING YOU that the US could give its citizens Universal Health Care for less than the cost of today’s system, and could do so tomorrow by expanding Medicare offering … Continue reading

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Ahmadinejad denial downgraded to jibe

Before Mahmoud Ahmadinejad’s Al-Quds remarks could be translated, Zionist mouthpieces were fomenting outrage about a new “Holocaust Denial.” By the time DC, London, Paris and Berlin were pushed to repudiate the Iranian president’s statement, and real transcripts hit the stands, … Continue reading

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Najibullah Zazi sets bad example

Terrorism person of interest Najibullah Zazi has a lesson to teach fellow Coloradans. Don’t talk to the FBI. Zazi has declined a fourth consecutive day of interviews with FBI investigators. Now the Denver resident is being arrested, not to face … Continue reading

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“Safe Cigarettes” (from an ad on my email sidebar)

So, I don’t click the ad. It starts with “medical research develops a cigarette that doesn’t Kill you” Nice of the Tobacco companies to admit their product is a Death Machine. That is, assuming it’s not bait to bring the … Continue reading

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Greg Mortenson US occupation pitchman

Greg Mortenson, stealth poster boy for the GWOT Pax Americana, nominated for the same Nobel suggested for Henry Kissinger, will be in Denver this Sunday at Red Rocks, to emcee JOURNEY OF HOPE, to collect “Pennies For Peace” to build … Continue reading

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Where were the Minuteman/Tea-Party “free speech patriots”…

On St Paddy’s Day? When their Fellow Traveller Fascist Comrades the Colorado Springs Gestapo attacked us for marching in a parade In Which We Were Licensed To March? OOOH! OOOH! I KNOW! PICK ME! I KNOW! OOOH OOOH! They were … Continue reading

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OOOOOH! Bad news for the Right Wing Racist Mercenaries!

Pakistan pretty forcibly canceled a contract of the Blackwater Style Organized Thugs who are supposed to guard the Embassy and consulates in Pakistan. GOOD ON YE, Pakistan! The murdering Thugs need to be slapped down and then slapped into prison … Continue reading

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Speaking of Halls…

Remember this? The whackadoodledoo Corporate Sucks who laughed so hard about this, protesting that it was only “harmless and funny” for Wally World to force their Company Slaves to work even while sick with symptoms of FLU… you remember the … Continue reading

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How to Rig a Town Hall…

This from a couple of weeks ago…three weeks ago… The Representative from Our Noble District, the not-very-noble Doug Lamborn, had a third town hall here in the Springs, at 7:30 pm… on the far east side… at a Country Club… … Continue reading

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CIGNA strikes again…

and again and again and again… This time, we might not have to wait until the Victim DIES from lack of health care. Dear MoveOn member, Dawn is a few years younger than me. She lives in Atlanta. She’s an … Continue reading

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Plucky ACORN staff show compassion for demonstrably stupid crackers

Congress has sadly overreacted to the Fox News video sting operation to discredit ACORN. Over the summer, most of the community activism offices did run the Giles/O’Keefe whore/pimp act straight out the door, but invariably some staff member was going … Continue reading

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Don’t buy Israeli Apartheid

Interesting counterpoint in Ha’aretz this morning about the Goldstone Report on the recent war crimes committed in Gaza, where the UN commission found grounds to investigate both Hamas and Israel for violations.   Hamas rejects the charges based on population’s … Continue reading

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