Posts Tagged ‘Al Green’

Prejudice in the name of human rights

June 7th, 2011 | No Comments

Every week opensecrets.org highlights some group.  This week, in honor of President Obama declaring this month “Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual and Transgender Pride Month”, opensecrets targeted the Human Rights Campaign: Among them. the Human Rights Campaign, which was founded in 1980 and boasts more than 1 million grassroots supporters, has some of the deepest pockets. During [...]

Obama administration and regional diversity

April 13th, 2011 | No Comments

Upon retiring the last of the Shuttles, they will be sent to various locations as museum pieces.  They are expected to be big draws.  Last year Obama allocated $14 for one to be located in Dayton, Ohio.  The money and the shuttle were intended to offset the loss of jobs in Ohio caused by mothballing [...]

Take Clyburn to the river, drop him in the water

June 11th, 2010 | No Comments

First of all, start this video and turn the volume up kinda loud.  James Brown loud. Now start reading this out loud: “There were some real shenanigans going on in the South Carolina primary,” “I don’t know if he was a Republican plant. He was someone’s plant.” “I’ve been trying to figure out how somebody [...]

South Carolina is exactly what The Founding Fathers had in mind

June 10th, 2010 | No Comments

Remember Al Green? Man, I sure do: Right after Barry White and George Clinton, the dude could sing.  When he set the mood, the clothes fell off.  Didn’t even need a whole lot of tequila.  I’m sure every 40 to 50 something has a good memory or two of Al Green.  So, given the chance [...]

Congress goes where no Congress has gone before

September 15th, 2009 | 2 Comments

It’s reached an all-time low. The House of Representatives, on the heels of an impassioned and lively debate, voted Tuesday to formally admonish Rep. Joe Wilson, R-S.C., for accusing the president of lying during a joint session of Congress a week ago. The vote was 240-179. Five lawmakers voted “present.” Here’s what they voted on: [...]

Fannie Mae is now an entitlement program

May 11th, 2009 | No Comments

A lot has been made over the collapse of Fannie Mae.  For a while, peeps kept insisting it was apparently a short term blip and that a huge infusion of cash would apparently make everything good.    Other peeps, like me and a few others, have argued that unless they change the rules and allow [...]