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According to Yahoo news… like Master, like Disciple
So this woman in one of the Carolinas, after a long time in the sun (apparently) campaigning for everybody to bow and worship Trump, went into a Starbucks to get a cup of coffee. The Trumpistas are supposed to boycott … Continue reading
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Tagged AIG, Boycott, Buck, Campaign, campaigning, Coffee, Cult, Extremists, guns, Headlines, Hillary, illiteracy, Machine Guns, President, Starbucks, Temple, Trump, Vote
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So, sometimes a little bit of foolishness…
Well, it could be inspiring. The gossip newspapers, I think the one which said Queen Elizabeth had given the monarchy to Kate as in “will and kate” the ones who were about to be married soon, after his daddy and … Continue reading
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Tagged Army, ARN, Bear, Bears, Bondage, British, CIA, Civil Rights, Crow, Dallas, Dallas Police, Death, Education, Equality, Establishment, Evil, Fun, Gossip, Headlines, Hitler, IAM, illiteracy, JFK, Johnson, Killing, KLA, Klan, liberal, Liberalism, liberty, MAGA, Military, Monarchy, Newspapers, NFL, nothing, Odds, police, POW, power, prayer, President, public education, public schools, Queen Elizabeth, reason, rebellion, Rights, Sabotage, School, Schools, Slavery, soldier, Soldiers, Stupid, Target, Texas, Troy, Trump, Working
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American caesars who want to cross the Rubicon with a Rubicon need a map
I just came across one of these in a parking lot yesterday, apparently the Jeep Rubicon has been out for a few years. This uber-alles thrillcraft sort of defines America’s sorry state of cultural illiteracy, wouldn’t you say? Julius Caesar … Continue reading
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Tagged America, American, Craft, Cult, Cultural Literacy, Democracy, Education, Empire, illiteracy, Imperialism, Jeep, Jeep Rubicon, Julius Caesar, Map, Militarism, Posse Comitatus, Prohibition, Rome, Rubicon, SARS, Thrillcraft, Uber
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The War, on illiteracy. High School Seniors unable to pass ASVAB tests.
So the predicted backlash of BushCoNomics War on Education is coming out. “Throwing money at” education was deemed inefficient and ineffective. Making sure that schools which were struggling to educate the next generation of Coolies and Cannon Fodder for the … Continue reading
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Robert Fisk and the language of power, danger words: Competing Narratives
Celebrated reporter -and verb- Robert Fisk had harsh words, “danger words” he called them, for host Al-Jazeera where he gave an address about the language of power which has infected newsman and reader alike. Beware your unambiguous acceptance of empty … Continue reading
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We’ll all be neo-know-sumpin’ Texans
The conservative majority of the Texas Board of Education thinks school textbooks are “skewed” too much toward education. They want social studies to smile more favorably on Neoclassical Economics, America’s Christian heritage, and the legacy of today’s Neocons. Does it … Continue reading
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Harold Pinter on drama and US banditry
“What has happened to our moral sensibility? Did we ever have any? What do these words mean? Do they refer to a term very rarely employed these days – conscience? A conscience to do not only with our own acts … Continue reading
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Dubya, there’s been a change of plans about attacking Iran
For months it appeared that an expansion of war from Iraq into Iran was getting underway but there has been a change in plans. No, it wasn’t that the US has been flubbing up its occupation and humiliation of Iraq … Continue reading
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Tagged Afghanistan, Al jazeera, Arabic, Arabs, ARN, Art, Bing, Bling, bombs, Britain, CIA, Civil War, Clowns, Corporate, DIA, Gordon Brown, Government, Graphic, Great Britain, Hillary, Homeland, homeland Security, illiteracy, Imperialism, India, IRA, Iran, Iraq, Language, Nuclear, Nuclear weapons, Obama, Occupation, Pakistan, Pashtuns, Pentagon, Pies, POW, power, Rap, reason, Security, Tancredo, Toys, US government, War
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Military fiction, publishing as product takes us further downhill to total cultural illiteracy
When Americans step inside the big chain publishers’ bookstores, Barnes and Noble and Borders, they are almost always under the delusion that they are inside real bookstores containing real books. Nothing could be farther from the truth though. We instead … Continue reading →