Daily Archives: August 29, 2011

Sweetened Popcorn

Just ate a whole bag of that stuff. Good Lord that was gross! I eat popcorn a lot, usually buttered or cheesed. I can handle that just fine. There’s salt in it, but an extraordinary amount. There’s not that much … Continue reading

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Russia: Welcome to Capitalist Hell

Say what you will about the USSR, but they never had dirty bums on the streets begging money and sniffing glue. Of all things, street children. Good God, what a mess. Whether it works or not, capitalism is definitely not … Continue reading

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A Look at Some Spanish Dialects

One thing that is interesting once you learn to speak Spanish fairly well is that you can start to pick up the differences in various Spanish dialects. I am told that people who don’t know Spanish well can’t pick up … Continue reading

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Filed under Americas, Argentina, Caribbean, Chile, Colombia, Dialectology, El Salvador, Guatemala, Indo-European, Indo-Hittite, Italic, Italo-Celtic-Tocharian, Language Families, Latin America, Linguistics, Mexico, Peru, Puerto Rico, Regional, Romance, Sociolinguistics, South America, Spanish

Meet Grady Warren, Tea Partier, Wild Racist

Here. This guy is a fairly prominent Tea Partier. His writings and videos are regularly linked on Sarah Palin’s website with no disclaimers. He’s the voice of the Sarah Palin crowd. He’s running for President. His platform: deport all illegal … Continue reading

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Filed under Conservatism, Political Science, Politics, Racism, US Politics, White Racism

Jesse Jackson Says the Tea Party Would Have Opposed Integration Too

Well of course they would have. Any Black person associating themselves with this political movement needs to have their head examined. The article quotes a professor who says that the Right’s obsession with hating the federal government and reducing the … Continue reading

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The US Government Just Printed $15.2 Trillion in New Money

In my previous post on this subject, I noted that the US government just printed $15.2 trillion in new money. It used that money to bail out the insolvent banks and financial firms. Specifically, it used that money to buy … Continue reading

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The Stupid Party

The Republican Party has been anti-science for a long time now, since Reagan in 1980 at least. Part of the problem is due to capitalism. Capitalists simply reject science when it gets in the way their profits. That’s why the … Continue reading

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Filed under Capitalism, Capitalists, Economics, Environmentalism, Global Warming, Politics, Republicans, Science, Scum, US Politics