Category Archives: Filthy Stinking Rich

Another thing FUX won’t show…

Posted on June 9, 2007 by Sabina Becker

“Peaceful” anti-Chavez students in Venezuela, vandalizing the city of Maracaibo. They burned flags and the giant soccer ball announcing the Copa America tourney. This in “protest” of the RCTV non-renewal. (Don’t ask me what a burned giant soccer ball is … Continue reading →

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Who’s the deepest in the hole?

Posted on May 16, 2007 by Sabina Becker

From the CIA World Factbook, some startling news on national account balances in 2006.Top of the list is China, at $179,100,000,000 (US).Evil, wicked Venezuela is #11 at $31,820,000,000.Canada, my home and native land, is #16 at $20,560,000,000.Even Ecuador and Bolivia … Continue reading →

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Welcome to capitalism! Sorry you got beat up!

Posted on May 13, 2007 by Sabina Becker

From the UK Guardian, a little news item from not-so-red-anymore China: China unveiled plans yesterday to deploy police in hospital wards and outpatient clinics to protect medical staff from the public, amid growing instances of physical violence meted out by … Continue reading →

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Quotable: John Kenneth Galbraith on conservatism

Posted on May 12, 2007 by Sabina Becker

“The modern conservative is engaged in one of man’s oldest exercises in moral philosophy; that is, the search for a superior moral justification for selfishness.”–John Kenneth Galbraith

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Oh yeah, that’s inspiring all right…

Posted on May 9, 2007 by Sabina Becker

NOT. Celebrity heiress Paris Hilton is backing an online petition seeking a pardon of her 45-day prison sentence because she enlivens “mundane” lives. The petition to California Governor Arnold Schwarzenegger also claims she was being used as a scapegoat to … Continue reading →

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While the Miami Mafia kvetches about RCTV’s lost licence…

Posted on May 9, 2007 by Sabina Becker

…look what is flying totally under the radar down yonder: Cable television subscribers who have been able to rely on their local governments to regulate service, may soon be calling Tallahassee for help. A bill that was passed by the … Continue reading →

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The Future of Food

Posted on May 6, 2007 by Sabina Becker

A scary but utterly important film on the dangers of genetically modified foods and what we can do to stop their deadly encroachment on our tables, our fields and our lives. More information can be found at the filmmaker’s website.

Posted in Environmentally Ill, Filthy Stinking Rich, Free Trade, My Ass!, Good to Know, If You REALLY Care, Isn't That Illegal?, Law-Law Land, Not So Compassionate Conservatism, She Blinded Me With Science | 1 Comment

Stop me before I laugh again!

Posted on May 3, 2007 by Sabina Becker

I can’t help it. I really, REALLY can’t. President George W Bush has urged the US Congress to ratify a free trade deal with Colombia, as part of a wider plan to back democracies in Latin America. Bwa-ha-ha-ha-ha, oh, ha-ha-ha-ha-ha-ha…. … Continue reading →

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You can’t bank on Wolfie anymore

Posted on April 29, 2007 by Sabina Becker

Not that you ever could. But now the World Bank can add Paul “Comb Goober” Wolfowitz to its ever-growing list of credibility woes… Staff at the World Bank have voiced concern that the crisis surrounding its embattled President Paul Wolfowitz … Continue reading →

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And now, a few words about school shootings

Posted on April 19, 2007 by Sabina Becker

As the Boomtown Rats once sang, the lesson today is how to die. Call it Death by Second Amendment. Or Death by Insanity. Either way, it works out to about the same thing. Isn’t the practical definition of insanity a … Continue reading →