Thursday, August 21, 2008
American politics
That's one of the back porches off the master bedroom in one of the mansions owned by the presidential candidate who's running a campaign highlighting the accusation that his African-American opponent is "elitist".
Labels: 2008 elections, corpocracy, income inequality, McCain, obama, Republicans
// posted by Erik @ 8/21/2008 09:59:00 PM
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Thursday, July 24, 2008
FOX push-polling
I've gotten used to the fact that FOX NEWS is a crypto-Republican public relations firm, but even unscrupulous public relations firms stay away from push-polling. The assimilation of FOX News into the Republican party apparatus is now complete.
Labels: 2008 elections, corpocracy, McCain, media, obama, Republicans, right wingers
// posted by Erik @ 7/24/2008 07:14:00 PM
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Tuesday, July 15, 2008
SC Governor on economic differences between Bush and McSame
Labels: 2008 elections, Bush White House, corpocracy, McCain, Republicans
// posted by Erik @ 7/15/2008 12:13:00 AM
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Thursday, September 20, 2007
Here lies an employee of the month
A good portion of the mercenaries we've hired to do Iraq are veterans. We give them the best training, they do their stint in the military and go to work for lavishly compensated private firms such as Blackwater. Lavish in the sense that the DoD is ostensibly not for profit in and of itself. Would it be fitting that the Department of Veterans Affairs would approve another religious symbol to mark theSE brave souls' broken bodies?
Dollar Sign by Andy Warhol, 1981, print available from ALLPosters.com.
Nobody keeps an official tally of dead mercenaries from this war that I know of. Dead mercinaries made the ultimate sacrifice carrying out their missions - same as our enlisted troops. Will they be seen as deserving the same solemn remembrance alongside the names of (actual) service members on future war memorials? I can think of no logical and compelling reason not to - their choice of employer doesn't change the fact that they died while willingly putting themselves at risk at our government's calling - but at the same it seems somehow obscene. Would they be listed under the headings Arkansas, Minnesota, Texas or DynCorp International, Blackwater Security, Halliburton?
Labels: corpocracy, iraq, war
// posted by Erik @ 9/20/2007 05:41:00 PM
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