The American two-party system is fracturing, as both sides are struggling with immense war debt, a crippled manufacturing base, and a Federal Reserve that is devaluating the currency in order to prop up financial institutions that gambled trillions and lost; their bets became our losses as they were “covered by the house”. Progressives have been decrying the centrist wishy-washiness of so many Democrats for years, and there was an outspoken expectation that once the Democrats were in power, new, more liberal parties could emerge to challenge the old-guard Democrats to veer left or be shown the door. The surprise is that the right beat them to it (and here's why that's fine...)

An ad idea for Health Care Reform.

EXT. HOME -NIGHT

Flames and smokerise up from a suburban home. A family, father, mother and two young girls,rush out the front door onto the lawn. The father holds a cell phone to hisear.

DISPATCHER (O.S.)

This is 911. What is your emergency?

FATHER

Regulating And Monitoring Financial Businesses: An Essential Key To Your Life

Wednesday, September 9th, 2009, 7:00 – 9:00 PM.  Daybreak:  Undoing the Imperial Presidency and Forming a More Perfect Union.  David Swanson in person will be in Columbus to discuss his new book to be published soon by Seven  Stories Press.   David is a co-founder of AfterDowningStreet.org – see www.afterdowningstreet.org.  A real champion of democracy in our times!  More information on David Swanson, see www.davidswanson.org.  David Swanson is also the author of the introduction to “The 35 Articles of Impe

I cant stop the tears in my eyes..........

My fellow Democrats, I thought the article below might be of particular interest to this group.  In a nutshell, it highlights my experiences thus far in uncovering and promoting a new publishing paradigm that challenges the monopolies of book distribution.  I look forward to your comments.

Deborah

The article was run by OpEdNews this week.  Please click on the link below.  Thanks.

http://www.opednews.com/articles/Itinerant-Book-Show-A-new-by-Deborah-Emin-090719-955.html

Tortureby Design and Other Stuff

For those who boast or whine

About intelligent design

And draw lessons from scripture

To create a picture

Of what we humans have done

For security or fun

Need to re-check and squint

The Anchorage Daily News 

Our view: Palin calls it quits

http://www.adn.com/opinion/view/story/852900.html

lilsuzq32 wrote on 07/05/2009 08:35:22 AM:

Top 10 Real Reasons Sarah Palin Is Resigning As Governor:

10. She's pregnant again and is having John Edwards' baby.

9. She's "hiking the Appalachian Trail" with Mark Sanford.

8. She wants to spend more time teaching abstinence to her family.

7. She's joining the cast of "I'm a Celebrity, Get Me Out of Here!"

6. She wants to spend more time watching Russia from her house.

5. She wants to devote herself full-time to making comedians apologize for all the new jokes they're going to tell about her.

4. Her daughter Bristol actually IS having Alex Rodriguez's baby.

First watch this short video.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hm6KRyXBakE

You now know the answer to an international crime!

Follow the link below.

https://tips.fbi.gov/

Report Dick Cheney's confession. Really!

Then forward this mail to all your friends.

Crossposted from Hillbilly Report.

A couple of the things corporate America and the Republican Party are always using to exuse their greedy actions is "The Free Market" and "Capitalism". Both groups are eternally determined to make us believe that having a middle-class in America would destroy both. However, it is nice every now and then to see some truly delicious irony. Now it seems as if working folks might actually use that Capitalist system we always here about against the very people who preach it.

You see, it appears as if the labor unions have one thing that Wall St. constantly covets. Their pension funds. Now it appears as if union workers are tired of making Wall St. investors who fight against their interests rich. They are beginning to question the practices of companies who invest their money, yet fight against the Employee Free Choice Act: