This comedy skit was broadcast on The South Bank Show on October 14, 2007. It is uncanny how brilliantly and accurately it predicted the subprime financial meltdown, right down to the details of using the threat of devalued pension funds…
Category: Reality Check
Are Fears of Socialism and Fascism a Distraction?
A friend forwarded a link to a William Astore article on Alternet.org that argues the point that fears of socialism and fascism are just distractions from what is really happening…which is the theft of trillions of dollars by corporations and…
Have We Been Drinking Nuclear-Weapon Cool-aide?
Recently I received one of those interesting emails that get circulated widely. This one had pictures of Hiroshima right after the detonation of Little Boy in 1945 when the city was destroyed and in ruins, and again in 2009, sixty-four…
Collateral Murder – Reality Check
The following video has been the rage the last few days: The US Military is being thoroughly demonized for the death of two reporters, and the injuring of two children…But how about a little reality check here? If there is…
Understanding Derivatives
From and email that was circulated widely. It is very good: Understanding Derivatives An Easily Understandable Explanation of Derivative Markets Heidi is the proprietor of a bar in Detroit. She realizes that virtually all of her customers are unemployed alcoholics…
1906 Video of Market Street in San Francisco, Set to the Music of “Air”
Neat video of San Francisco’s Market Street before the 1906 earthquake. The video was shot from the front of a cable car, and is set to some pretty cool music by Air’s “Moon Safari” Alblum. The video has been slowed…
Did You Know That Paying Your Taxes Is Voluntary? So says Harry Reid!
Listen to Harry Reid’s rationalization that paying taxes is voluntary. The level of intellectual dishonesty and out-of-control ideology required to be able to say with a straight face that taxes are voluntary is mind-blowing. This is the classic kind of…
Notice how “Global Warming” has changed to “Climate Change”?
I noticed a while back how “Global Warming” had quietly morphed into “Climate Change”. With ten plus years of no significant warming, it was getting increasingly harder to maintain the charade of continual warming. So how does the Global Warming…
Facebook Group Opposses Cuts in Education
I stumbled across a Facebook Group, Say “NO”to Sen. Don Balfour’s Plan to INCREASE College Tuition in Georgia! There is a link to it HERE. I tried to submit a comment on Facebook, but for some reason it wouldn’t post. …
The Tax Poem
This has circulated in emails a couple of times. Lois forwarded it to me this last time: Tax his land, Tax his bed, Tax the table At which he’s fed. Tax his tractor, Tax his mule, Teach him taxes Are…