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Ed Martin is an ordinary person who is recovering from being badly over-educated. Born in the middle of the Great Depression, he is not affiliated with nor a member of any political, social or religious organization. He is especially interested in the phenomenon of those who view the glaringly obvious with total incomprehension, in other words, out political, social and religious leaders.
SHARE Friday, July 11, 2008 Who will save us from the economists?
Simon Jenkins at the Huffington Post points out that economists like to think of their profession as a science when it actually falls into the field of psychology. An article by the economist Ismael Hossein-Zadeh at Counterpunch shows that economists also fail to understand the psychology of economics.
(11 comments) SHARE Saturday, July 5, 2008 Rush Limbaugh confesses he has no confidence in his beliefs
Rush Limbaugh says that he will not give up until every American agrees with him. He's known all along that his hard-right, conservative ideology is not founded on the truth, the facts, logic, reason or evidence. His fear is that of all ideologues, that just one dissent containing truth, reason and evidence will expose him and destroy his whole foundationless empire of unreason.
(1 comments) SHARE Friday, July 4, 2008 The interests of justice require that we postpone the 2008 election
The interests of justice require that we impeach, remove from office, indict, charge, try, convict and hang George Bush and Dick Cheney for their crimes while they are in office. They must be made to suffer the humiliation of being removed from office and hung, according to law. Six months ain't gonna do it.
SHARE Tuesday, July 1, 2008 Appeals court introduces the word feared by George Bush
The word we've all been waiting for and expecting to be applied to the Bush administration as the bare minimum to use as the basis for making decisions to kill a whole bunch of innocent people has been introduced by a court of justice, the word dreaded, feared and ignored by George Bush: EVIDENCE.
SHARE Friday, June 27, 2008 Looking, Hoping, Wishing for an Advantage
The Republican McCain campaign, using a deniable stalking horse, has let it be known that another terrorist attack before the election would be to McCain's advantage. Since we're always grateful to those who give us an advantage, who will McCain be grateful to should he realize his delusion that another terrorist attack is to his advantage?
SHARE Thursday, June 12, 2008 Selling only to the super rich
How General Motors can lower overhead and make the same amount of profit by building one car a year.
(1 comments) SHARE Wednesday, June 11, 2008 Reciprocating SOFAs, or the logic of Iraqi troops in the US
George Bush says that Iraq is a sovereign, free and democratic country, just like the United States. Yet, he will only deal with the newest and one of the smallest countries in the world, The country of The Green Zone, located, of all places, in the middle of Baghdad, Iraq.
(29 comments) SHARE Thursday, June 5, 2008 Are you tired of being called "liberal" by Republicans when they mean "sonofabitch"?
Rob Kall published a GOP diatribe here on June 4, where the Republicans say that liberals elected Obama. As Dick Cheney so eloquently put it, "So?" Rob presciently predicts that, "The GOP will be calling him liberal and vilifying his supporters." How come it is that Republicans equate the word "liberal" with the most vile obscenities, but liberals refrain from attaching that connotation to the word, "conservative"?
(4 comments) SHARE Wednesday, June 4, 2008 Drafting as a way to avoid getting psychopaths like Bush
The June 2 article by Dr. Kevin Barrett and Silvia Cattori, Is George Bush A Psychopath? explains a lot more than just the answer to that question. It explains how we have allowed psychopaths to take over our government. The prevention of that will require some very drastic changes.
SHARE Monday, June 2, 2008 Is Scotty's book another false flag operation?
The White House had a month to look over Scotty's book about Bush's transgressions and let it go forward. They saw no threat there, and, saw an opportunity. Scotty's book has created a quite different effect than presumed. An effect so obvious no one has noticed it. It's an effect expressed by Oscar Wilde: "There is only one thing in the world worse than being talked about, and that is not being talked about."
(15 comments) SHARE Friday, May 30, 2008 How do you like having your intelligence insulted by Scott McClellan?
I'm so goddam mad I could bite a nail in two. Scott McClellan's belated epiphany about the manipulation and distortion of the truth and the outright lies about the reasons for Bush's Iraq war is an insult to the intelligence of those who read and write for OEN. Scotty, in his ignorance of the fact that we knew all the while everything that he has just now figured out, presumes to preach to us about what we alrady knew.
(2 comments) SHARE Tuesday, May 27, 2008 When the talk of assassination becomes acceptable, can the act of assassination be far behind?
Hillary Clinton's remarks about the assassination of Bobby Kennedy in June as a reason to stay in the race until then is a passive reference to the possibility of an assassination eliminating her competition. Liz Trotta's remarks aabout Obama is an active statement that she, literally, would if she could, assassinate Obama. Clinton's remarks are in extremely bad taste. Trotta's are criminally actionable.
(5 comments) SHARE Friday, May 23, 2008 Democrat, don't let the sun set on you in Fort Worth
An article in the Fort Worth Star-Telegram exposes the unbelievable smugness, bigotry, racism and arrogance of the Republican stranglehold on Tarrant County, Texas.
(4 comments) SHARE Tuesday, May 20, 2008 Obama's perceived inexperience is his best qualification.
Obama isn't any more inexperienced at being president than anyone who has ever been president. Since no one who has been president had ever been president before, Obama's experience at being president is exactly the same as theirs. He's never been president, either.
(5 comments) SHARE Thursday, May 15, 2008 Was the God of the ancients a computer?
If you look at the way the people of a few thousand years ago interacted with their God, the similarity to interacting with a computer is inescabable.
(1 comments) SHARE Thursday, May 15, 2008 A call for reform where prosecution, not reform, is needed
A group of candidates for office have proposed A Responsible Plan to End the War in Iraq. The plan proposes, unnecessarily, Restoring our Constitution instead of prosecuting the criminals who have violated it.
SHARE Monday, May 12, 2008 May this house be safe from tigers
I have an engraved sign on my mantle I had made that says, "May this house be safe from tigers." Its message is the operating principle of the political and religious leaders of the world. Three examples of that principle in operation are George Bush and the preachers Hagee and Wright. It works as well for me as it does for them. I've never been bothered by tigers and they've never been bothered by ethics, morals or doubt.
(8 comments) SHARE Tuesday, May 6, 2008 If you're reading this, George Bush has reserved a bunk for you in one of his detention camps.
George Bush is building detention camps. Their purpose is "to support the rapid development of new programs," without specifying just what those "new programs" might be. But, read on to see if programs Bush already has in place are the ones he's planning on using to put you in one of those camps.
(9 comments) SHARE Friday, May 2, 2008 The way to hit back even harder
Rob Kall, in his article, Time to Hit Back Harder, makes the point that we must do everything possible to refute the right-wing, Republican propaganda, by making the counter argument of the truth. There's a way to hit them even harder, by pointing out the truth about the right-wing Republicans, themselves, instead of the falsehood of their propaganda.