“Nazi Medicine.”

I received the following the other day in an email sent to me from one of the finest educational organizations I know, the New Jersey Commission on Holocaust Education. It was originally an essay published on The Huffington Post. It’s a powerful piece of writing, and I wanted to share it with you. Feel free [...]

Happy birthday, sir.

Happy birthday to President Barack Obama.
My president.  Yours, too.  So get over it.

Yet another reason why I am no longer a Democrat.

Democrats Drop Key Part of Bill to Assist Unions
(NY Times) July 16 – A half-dozen senators friendly to labor have decided to drop a central provision of a bill that would have made it easier to organize workers.
The so-called card-check provision — which senators decided to scrap to help secure a filibuster-proof 60 votes — [...]

“Is the United States a Christian nation? Let’s look at the Bible…”

by Richard T. Hughes
(Philadelphia Inquirer) July 12 – Newt Gingrich has news for Jim Wallis, editor of Sojourners magazine, whose recent book, The Great Awakening, proclaimed the demise of the Christian Right:
“Christian America” is alive and well.
Gingrich has created an organization called Renewing American Leadership, dedicated to the work that Jerry Falwell [...]

“What do Starbucks and Wal-Mart have in common?”

Actually, they have more in common that just this.
Wal-Mart sells cheap plastic crap made in overseas sweatshops.
Starbucks sells (burnt-tasting) coffee that tastes like crap.
Visit Stop Starbucks here.

It’s sort of a big deal.

Sorta.
So President Obama has been in office 100 days.
So?  And?
This arbitrary “landmark” is as phony as the media hype surrounding it.  No matter which President we’re talking about.
One hundred days is barely enough time to get your Cabinet in place, especially with the Partyof NO! placing holds on nominees and bottle-necking the process because of the [...]

Just sayin’…

Ummm… this image seems to have upset some of our more conservative friends and neighbors…

But these?  Not so much, apparently…

Wonder why that is…

Party down, v. 2.0.

Scenes from today’s tea whine and cheesiness party in Washington, DC.:

Maybe we should spend more money on edukashun…

“No, man, it’s NOT about Obama.  Really!”

“No, man, REALLY!  It’s NOT about Obama!!!”

Nope, nobody here’s a racist…

Nope.  Nobody here advocating violence…
UPDATE:  And this little jem from Chicago:

Maybe we shouldn’t laugh at these folks too much.
(Photo credits: The Washington Independent and [...]

Party down.

This morning, I had to endure the every-other-year torture ritual known here in The Garden State as “motor vehicle inspection.”  Mrs. Agitator’s motor vehicle’s time had come due and off I went down the highway, so I could have the honor of waiting in line for more than an hour as I watched some nice [...]

Thank you, Vermont.

MONTPELIER, Vt. (AP) April 7 – Vermont on Tuesday became the fourth state to legalize gay marriage — and the first to do so with a legislature’s vote.
[And all of Western civilization collapsed around your ears.  Did you hear it?]
The House recorded a dramatic 100-49 vote, the minimum needed, to override Gov. Jim Douglas’ veto. [...]

IOWA!

DES MOINES, Iowa (AP) April 3 – Iowa’s Supreme Court legalized gay marriage Friday in a unanimous and emphatic decision that makes Iowa the third state — and first in the nation’s heartland — to allow same-sex couples to wed.
Iowa joins only Massachusetts and Connecticut in permitting same-sex marriage. For six months last year, California’s [...]

News flash…

President Barack Obama LAUGHED on 60 Minutes  last night!
Can you freakin’ believe it?!?
The nerve of our sorta new President.  In the midst of this terrible economic crisis, while we’re fighting two wars and all that, he gets asked an inane question during a softball interview and he has the audacity of humor moment: he chuckled! 
He [...]

CEOs: Flunking out.

Teachers for CEO Merit Pay!
by Jesse Hagopian
(CommonDreams) March 19 – Pop quiz:
Chief Executive Officers, take out your #2 pencils and mark the letter that corresponds to the single best answer choice (remember, unlike on Wall St. your scores will be invalidated if you are caught cheating).
1) What have CEOs achieved in recent years that would [...]

Dear Mr. President:

You’re wrong on this one.
Obama, taking on unions, backs teacher merit pay

WASHINGTON (AP) March 10 – President Barack Obama embraced merit pay for teachers Tuesday in spelling out a vision of education that will almost certainly alienate union backers. A strategy that ties teacher pay to student performance has for years been anathema to teachers’ [...]

What he said.

Why On Earth Are Democrats Legitimizing and Empowering Rush Limbaugh?
by Peter Daou
(Huffington Post) March 3 – I don’t buy into this ‘brilliant’ strategy of elevating Rush Limbaugh in the hopes that it will tarnish Republicans.
Focus relentlessly on the disastrous Bush presidency to tarnish Republicans, yes.
Overturn every single illegal and unconstitutional Bush-era policy and [...]

The Agitator writes a letter.

 (This space formerly occupied by a picture of a mushroom cloud.)
To the Editor of the Philadelphia Inquirer:
In his fawning puff piece espousing the virtues of former U.S. Ambassador to the United Nations John Bolton (“A Dangerous Naivete on Foreign Policy,” March 1), columnist Kevin Ferris leaves out mention of one other key quote from Mr. [...]

Good news.

Mayor who sent watermelon e-mail says he’ll resign
LOS ALAMITOS, Calif. (AP) February 27 - The mayor of a small Southern California city says he will resign after being criticized for sharing an e-mail picture depicting the White House lawn planted with watermelons under the title, “No Easter egg hunt this year.”
Los Alamitos Mayor Dean Grose issued [...]

“Schools Take the Back Seat Again.”

Again.  As per usual.
by Derrick Z. Jackson

(Boston Globe) February 14 – Eight years ago, President Bush entered office with some bipartisan credibility on education, rightfully proclaiming that schoolchildren suffer from the soft bigotry of low expectations. He and the Republicans quickly discredited themselves with low federal funding for reform. So long was Washington anesthetized that [...]

Snark.

Yeah, I know it’s not very nice to gloat.  But.
Bill O’Reilly is apparently going to rant about this on his cable show tonight, so you know it must be good.

Yeah.

Uh-huh.