This would at least be interesting.
(Salon.com)
“Being a Humanist means trying to behave decently without expectation of rewards or punishment after you are dead.” ― Kurt Vonnegut
Thursday, June 2, 2016
Thursday, June 4, 2015
SCHEER AND HEDGES:
THEY KNOW EVERYTHING ABOUT YOU
The seven-part Real News interview of Bob Scheer by Chris Hedges is insightful. If only such debates were commonplace.
P.S. Fund Hedges!
Friday, September 19, 2014
Video of Chris Hedges speaking on September 15, 2014: "I've got fifteen minutes to start a revolution."
Tuesday, April 8, 2014
SPECIAL REPORT - WTF
The news like feces stinks and there's a lot of it being thrown around. Talking Bag is on a news vacation, getting away from it all. Like going to Kansas and calling it a beach vacation. But an escaped lab monkey calling himself simply, "Grandpa," has filed this Special Report:
*******
The foreign and domestic abuses perpetrated by the U.S. Government as an alleged response to 9/11 have been reported on and complained about for years...many years. Issues that include the rounding up, or rendition, and indefinite detention of prisoners without charge, their torture and sometimes death during interrogation, illegal spying, targeted killings, murder, rape, baseless and brutal warfare have all been highly visible in the news, and have resulted in public protests around the country. Several law suits have been brought before U.S. courts seeking justice for some of these abuses. Even someone who spent the last decade in a coma would be expected to be aware of what's going on.
But we are supposed to believe that the Chairman of the Senate Intelligence Committee only recently became aware that our military and intelligence forces have been torturing and killing people. Makes me want to fling poo.
Senate Intelligence Committee Chairman Sen. Dianne Feinstein:
"...The resulting staff report was chilling. The interrogations and the conditions of confinement at the CIA detentions sites were far different and far more harsh than the way the CIA had described them to us..."
I stopped laughing at the bad joke that is Sen. Feinstein when I smelled the steaming pile that is Chief Justice Roberts. JOHN is the HEAD of this scatological SCOTUS.
Chief Justice John Roberts wrote:
"...Spending large sums of money in connection with elections, but not in connection with an effort to control the exercise of an officeholder's official duties, does not give rise to such quid pro quo corruption. Nor does the possibility that an individual who spends large sums may garner 'influence over or access to' elected officials..."
It seems the Chief Justice would have us believe that money doesn't corrupt politics. Yea, right. It seems to me that since accepting a bribe is just cause to remove a government official, according to The U.S. Constitution, it is important to define bribe so narrowly that the crime ceases to exist. The semantics defense is our government's get out of jail free card, like when someone dies while being interrogated it isn't torture, it is simply enhanced Q&A.
What a load of crap.
-Grandpa
Wednesday, March 19, 2014
Thursday, February 27, 2014
LOOKS LIKE A GROWTH OF SOME KIND
In a finite system exponential growth cannot be sustained. Unless we realize that less is the only more that makes sense, we are doomed. Killing seems to be the human solution to our resource management problems. I fear a humane solution is beyond us.
Check out the video links below. Even if you want to argue the details, the point is we are consuming a finite resource, the Earth, at an alarming rate.
Wednesday, February 19, 2014
CLOWN
by Juan Cole
"Satire
David Gregory’s Meet the Press today hosted a debate between Bill Nye the Science Guy and Texas Rep. Louie Gohmert (R-TX) on whether gravity is just a theory."
Juan Cole's post was very funny. And sad. And scary. Just like clowns! Perhaps the funniest and saddest and scariest part of it was that he had to clearly label it as "satire." It is becoming more and more impossible to tell what is a joke these days.
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