People For the American Way: Palin-Beck 2012: Vote on the Best Campaign Slogan!

People For the American Way: Palin-Beck 2012: Vote on the Best Campaign Slogan!

Vote for the best Palin-Beck 2012 slogans! These are awesome! Which one do YOU like best?

Click the link and vote for your favorite, and you'll get a bumper sticker of the winner!

Stephen Colbert's Testimony Before Congress

After spending a day as a migrant farmworker, through the Take Our Jobs campaign by United Farmworkers, as part of his series "Stephen Colbert's Fallback Position," Colbert testifies before congress. He does this in character, manages to be really funny, and yet make a powerful point at the same time. Watch it:

I found it on this blog post: Shit that Bugs Smart People: C-Span Entertainment (oh boy, a new blog to check out!)

Gross National Product

This is wonderful:

Our gross national product counts air pollution and cigarette advertising, and ambulances to clear our highways of carnage. It counts special locks for our doors, and the jails for the people who break them. It counts the destruction of the redwoods, and the loss of our natural wonder in chaotic sprawl. It counts napalm, nuclear warheads, and armored cars for the police to fight the riots in our cities. Yet the gross national product does not allow for the health of our children, the quality of their education, or the joy of their play. It does not include the beauty of our poetry or the strength of our marriages, the intelligence of our public debate or the integrity of our public officials. It measures neither our wit nor our courage, neither our wisdom nor our learning, neither our compassion nor our devotion to our country. It measures everything, in short, except that which makes life worthwhile.

~ Robert F. Kennedy

(from this article: http://www.yesmagazine.org/new-economy/what-is-real-wealth)

Food for thought.

Nation Once Again Comes Under Sway Of Pink-Faced Half-Wit | The Onion - America's Finest News Source

This is awesome: Nation Once Again Comes Under Sway Of Pink-Faced Half-Wit

HAHAHA - Frothing, Shouting Dim-Bulbs: An American Tradition

I can't tell you how much I love The Onion. How much I need to laugh about the complete circus politics has become in this country. I am so grateful for Jon Stewart, Steven Colbert, Bill Maher, Lewis Black... sometimes it seems like the comedians are the only ones who see the situation clearly!

Oh, as another example of this, CRACKED published an article about the "Ground Zero Mosque" that was the most reasoned, rational thing I've seen on it. Cracked. It's like Mad Magazine for the Internet. WTF? Can I go live in a comediocracy? Seriously! The comedians are the only ones that get it these days.

The media is out of control. Just the way we like it in a free country, of course, but where is their sense of responsibility? It's all about creating controversy, sensationalism, self-righteous anger, and utter bullshit. I had a conversation at a party this weekend about the "Ground Zero Mosque" with a woman who, quite naturally based on how it's being reported, thought the mosque was being proposed literally ON TOP OF ground zero. I told her it was 3 blocks away, which in lower Manhattan, may as well be three miles. There are porn shops closer. She immediately switched to, "oh, well that's different" and saw that the MEDIA was the problem here, not the mosque. Ugh. So nice when people, shown some simple facts, can be so reasonable. Most people are, in person, one on one. But when you get a Pink-Faced Half-Wit that just makes shit up to get them riled up and indignant, using words they are supposed to fear or revere, like communism, socialism, fascism, god, country, freedom, etc, to manipulate them into believing just about anything, people become stupid sheep.

It makes me start to wonder... what was so bad about voter apathy? Stupid people shouldn't vote. Or breed. But that's another rant! Enough for now - enjoy the article!

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