Category Archives: Not So Compassionate Conservatism

Mas dinero, Jorge, por favor!

Posted on June 15, 2006 by Sabina Becker

Wow. Talk about a sweet scam. Funny how Alvaro Uribe waited until AFTER he was safely re-elected (cough) by abstention! (cough) before springing this widdle surprise on his numero uno consumer of the legendary Colombian marching powder: US President George … Continue reading →

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Wolfowitz Bank: yet another BushCo fuck-up

Posted on April 25, 2006 by Sabina Becker

Oh, the ignominy of seeing yet another imperial money machine get trashed! The World Bank has been accused of publishing false accounts and wasting money on ineffective medicines in its malaria treatment programme. A Lancet paper claims the bank faked … Continue reading →

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And they say they’re not racist?

Posted on April 7, 2006 by Sabina Becker

I say BULLSHIT. A fine Mississippi fella named Herb, who posts as GoldenEagle53 on Mike Malloy’s board, shared this with us last night: As you can see, this is nothing but a thinly veiled bit of right-wing racism.

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Another unsexy post on de-privatized Argentinian water…

Posted on April 3, 2006 by Sabina Becker

…which, if you’re smart, you’ll read anyway, because one day it could concern YOU. (I’ll tell you why shortly…) Bob Chapman, of the International Forecaster, writes: Water is contaminated in some suburbs of Buenos Aires and has been since 1993, … Continue reading →

Posted in Don't Cry For Argentina, If You REALLY Care, Not So Compassionate Conservatism, She Blinded Me With Science, Socialism is Good for Capitalism! | Comments Off

Hell’s maw is a-gapin’…

Posted on April 1, 2006 by Sabina Becker

Mike Malloy has a wonderful turn of phrase that I sometimes hear him use on his radio show (which, by the way, you shouldn’t miss–it’s on Air America Radio, weeknights, 10 pm-1 am Eastern. Webcast available here.) Whenever someone particularly … Continue reading →

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Is your husband on the down-low? Then screw him!

Posted on April 1, 2006 by Sabina Becker

Seriously. This is the best answer the Religious Reich has for black women in Brokeback marriages. You’re not having sex with him regularly enough, so he’s turning to other men in frustration (as if other women willing to do the … Continue reading →

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Sean Hannity can shut the fuck up now

Posted on March 26, 2006 by Sabina Becker

The weeniest of all the wingnuts (with the possible exception of Tucker Carlson, about whom more later) can now stop asking his annoying “gotcha” question: Is the world better off with or without Saddam? Because at last there is a … Continue reading →

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Another 9-11 first responder has died

Posted on March 22, 2006 by Sabina Becker

And if you guess correctly what she died of, you win a hunk of asbestos-ridden rubble from Ground Zero: A 41-year-old paramedic who worked at a morgue for months after the Sept. 11, 2001, attack on the World Trade Center … Continue reading →

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…and equal mediocrity for all

Posted on March 16, 2006 by Sabina Becker

What a surprise. Seems the much-vaunted US healthcare system (or rather, LACK thereof) just ain’t all that ‘n’ a bag of chips, after all… Startling research from the biggest study ever of U.S. health-care quality suggests that Americans — rich, … Continue reading →

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They are losing in the Marketplace of Ideas

Posted on March 15, 2006 by Sabina Becker

That’s the only conclusion I can draw about right-wingers after reading this, from RawStory.com: The San Diego affiliate of Air America Radio has offered a job to Linda Laroca, a Vista, California woman who is suing her former employer after … Continue reading →