Jim Rittenhouse's semidaily journal of news, commentary and reports
The local Sioux Falls paper notes that the voting percentage in the most recent school board election was 3.55% in an editorial asking for voting to be made easier by eliminating precinct voting in favor of at-large polling places scattered around the city. Personally, I think that’s more likely to confuse the heck out of [...]
My favorite conservative columnist, Daniel Larison, is hitting it on the head and out of the ballpark this morning about the mindless OMG’ing in the Beltway press and elsewhere about political dishonesty on national security issues. He brings up two main directions on this: if Group A is out of office, then Group B (who [...]
(taken from the teabagger protest in DC this weekend) Lesson #1: Anyone who is not a Republican is not a Marxist. Really. Lesson #2: The last Czar in Russia gave up the throne in 1917, and the Russian Communists took over Russia in 1918; I don’t think you understand that there were no Czars in [...]
I have been listening to enough rants, hate and nonsense in the last year and a half to last me a lifetime or more, and I’ve been more than fed up with it all. But I started realizing that this sort of crud is endemic; uninformed people who choke off their sources of information to [...]
…which is the Organization of American States’ irregular meeting of the leadership of the OAS states (34) countries). Interesting news coming out of it, of course. Discussions between Obama and the US delegation on the one side, and some people Bush would never deal with on the other…discussions with the Cubans and Venezuelans and so [...]
Speaking of the seriously rich are still pretty much the seriously rich unless they put their money in the seriously stupid, the Chinese Prime Minister is getting nervous about the safety of US Treasury securities with all of the talk about spending lots of newly printed dollars. Dude. There’s no real place to go with [...]
Now that the Republicans don’t seem be be getting any leverage out of calling Democrats a buncha liberals (‘socialists‘ seems to be the term in use, and I’m waiting for ‘pinko Commie’ any day now), they are now starting to go after each other; Rush Limbaugh and Michael Steele are going at each other for [...]
The new African American head of the Republican party making racist comments about Indian-American Governor Bobby Jindal, going on about ‘slum love’. Same guy who was talking about his hip-hopization of the face of the GOP (I want to watch Boehner and Cantor do hip-hop in the well of the House, yes I do) and [...]
Anyone here got a good explanation as to why the heck the Liberal Democrats (who are niether) ended up in charge in Japan for the last 54 years? My understanding is a combination of gerrymandering and fear of the opposition party as a buncha Commies. There’s also the whole business over the drunk Finance minister, [...]
Limbaugh et al: The Democrats invented / created the recession and so on so as to gain control over the business world. As in nationalize it all, the dirty Marxists. *background music: The Red Flag*
Zimbabwe is a complex subject, and the complexities have gotten a whole lot rougher on the inhabitants as time passes by. Europeans under Cecil Rhodes marched in in the ned of the 1800s and took control of the land from the local chiefs, and passed out all sorts of claims to white settlers, who set [...]
“I don’t know what’s next,” Obama, the presidential candidate, said at an outdoor rally in North Carolina. “By the end of the week, he’ll be accusing me of being a secret communist because I shared my toys in kindergarten. I shared my peanut butter and jelly sandwich.”
The principle of competition which the Socialists flog has already been discarded; they are whipping a dead horse. No trust promoter believes in free competition. Moreover, most of the Rooseveltian policies – the arid land reclamation schemes, the National forests, the leasing of coal and mineral rights, the renting of grazing lands, the construction of [...]
Being a student of American History and Political Science, I’ve noticed something since – oh, 1930. When some Republicans, the more wingnut sorts, are behind the eight-ball and trying to stir things up, they call the Democrats commies, socialists or commie sympathizers. And traitors to the realm. Go back and check out the commentary about [...]