Archive for Debt Ceiling

Democracy For Sale: U.S. Banks Received $7.77 Trillion In Federal Reserve Secret Payments

Nov 28, 2011 4 Comments by

I really wish the education of  inner city kids, or American workers weren’t too big to fail, unlike the banks that make up our financial industry. While the budget deficit and subsequent budget cuts continue in wake of the recent super-committee failure, said industry continues to prosper. In a newly released report by Bloomberg News, we now know [...]

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Super Committee, Super Suckers, & Super Fail

Nov 22, 2011 1 Comment by

As if we didn’t see it coming, the Super Committee has failed to reach an agreement. Government legislative dysfunction aside, faced with the humongous task of cutting $1.2 trillion off the deficit over the next ten years without a cape, did we really expect them to pull it off? No, in all seriousness, like most of you, I never [...]

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So Tavis Smiley & Cornel West are "Uncle Toms" for Their "Poverty Tour", According to Steve Harvey?

Aug 10, 2011 17 Comments by

Tavis Smiley and Dr. Cornel West – two of Black America’s least favorite Negroes right now – have embarked on what they call a “Poverty Tour”. My guess is they plan to criss cross America highlighting  the millions of Americans negatively impacted by the Great Recession. You know, judging by policy choices and enactments on Capitol [...]

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John Boehner: It's Not My Fault That Not Enough People Are Hedge Fund Managers!

Jul 07, 2011 No Comments by

God Bless The “Hedge Fund Loophole” & The Republicans Who Protect It So while there’s an ongoing debt ceiling debate over cuts in spending and the need for and increase in revenue by removing gov’t subsidies to huge corporations. Did you know that just by eliminating the tax loophole for hedge fund managers itself, would raise more [...]

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Pat Buchanan:"Obama Will Cave" [VIDEO]

Jul 07, 2011 No Comments by

You know what? Given recent history, and the fact that not raising the debt ceiling will signal a cataclysmic end of the world as we know it, Pat Buchanan is probably right. As shitty as it is for Republicans to be holding America hostage once again. What else can you expect ? President Obama has [...]

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Wait, is Barack Obama Gay? Uhm, is He Still Black?!!

Last week after Pres. Obama’s made his “evolution” on gay marriage public, my initial thought was: great, now they’re going to say that Obama is gay, and all gay people are now going to vote for him because of it. You know, pretty much in the same way all black people voted for him in [...]

Tennessee Cop “Robs” Out-Of-State Driver Of $22,000 After Traffic Stop

Apparently, in the state of Tennessee it’s perfectly legal to commit what’s known as highway robbery. However, if you expect such acts to the the undertaking of the obvious shady criminal element riding a horse and dressed in black as were the bad guys of the wild west, you’re sorely mistaken. Unlike the days of [...]

Does Anti-Profiling Legislation Really Work?

There is not a person in this country who does not know that the police engages in racial profiling. If a Black person says they are not aware of this practice, they are either not yet beyond the toddler stage of life, or being intentionally deceptive in hopes of receiving special considerations from the white [...]

Post-Racial Update: Republican KKK Leader Running for Sheriff Invites Media to Cross Burning

As if Maricopa County, Arizona, Sheriff Joe Arpaio wasn’t bad enough, in steps Shaun Winkler, a white supremacist running for sheriff. As a Republican, Winkler hopes to become Bonner County, Idaho’s next sheriff. As anybody running for office will tell you, media attention is something welcomed and often sought by candidates. That said, not one [...]

Amendment One: Wasn’t North Carolina The “Good” Carolina?

I think that one of my proudest moments in life happened at the beginning of this year: my younger brother – a heterosexual Black adult male – joined me in the fight against Amendment One by taking a photo with me, donning “Vote Against” t-shirts. For about a year, I’ve worked tirelessly against the passing [...]