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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.
(6 comments) SHARE Wednesday, April 30, 2008 Textbook descriptions of George Bush reveal psychopathy, and much worse.
The research of Dr. Hervey Cleckley and Dr. Robert Hare exploring the personality and character traits of psychopaths, when applied to George Bush, shows that Bush fits exactly the profile they developed for the psychopath. Demographics show that Republicanism is much worse than psychopathy.
(1 comments) SHARE Wednesday, April 30, 2008 This is outrageous! A Supreme Court judge actively advocating violating the law.
We've come to a sorry state of affairs when a Supreme Court judge knows less about the law than us plain, ordinary folks. Scalia's approval of torture, for any reason, is in violation of the Geneva Convention, which the United States is a signatory to and is the law of the land.
(3 comments) SHARE Sunday, April 27, 2008 A three in three chance for another Bush
At the very heart of the matter and the cause of our country's failure with George Bush and his Iraq war is the fact that he illegally assumed the position of commander in chief and his power to declare war. Both assumptions are unconstitutional. All three candidates are doing exactly the same thing George Bush did, and they're not even president, yet.
(2 comments) SHARE Thursday, April 10, 2008 Enough is enough
Two articles in the Fort Worth Star-Telegram bring home the point that enough is enough. I agree with Jane Stillwater, I don't want impeachment, I want revenge.
SHARE Tuesday, March 25, 2008 Cheney, at last, asks for advice
In a rare departure from his presumption of omniscience about how to conduct military operations in Iraq, Cheney asks for advice.
(5 comments) SHARE Saturday, March 22, 2008 What it takes to be president
Leonard Pitts wrote an article in the Miami Herald with the same title I've used for this article. It turns out that all it takes to be president is the ability to read at the 11th grad vocabulary level.
SHARE Saturday, March 22, 2008 Using jargon to deceive, for fun and profit
Two excellent articles in the New York Times about the responsibiity of the guys in the financial markets who ruined their companies bring to light the jargon they used to deceive and to obscure their greed. They used jargon to try to turn a cow patty into a bold brick.
SHARE Tuesday, March 11, 2008 More Constitutional Contortions.
Three items in the news point out more Constitutional contortions by the courts and the Bush administration for the benefit of ideological interpretations. These contortions and misenterpretations were not mentioned in the articles.
(4 comments) SHARE Wednesday, March 5, 2008 A Dyslogy for Buckley
William F. Buckley had even the liberals fooled with his wit, charm and erudition. But, not all of us. Some of us saw through the facade.
SHARE Wednesday, February 27, 2008 Just one day of mind-boggling headlines
Here are some headlines from articles in the news that make you think, "Hey, wait a minute, you've got this thing up-side-down."
SHARE Wednesday, February 13, 2008 Writ of Mandamus
This is the text of a petition for a writ of mandamus directed to George Bush, requiring him to end his war on Iraq. It will be in the mail on 14 Feb 08. It is a legal petition to the court with jurisdiction for a legal writ requiring George Bush to perform his duty as a public servant.
SHARE Monday, January 28, 2008 It can't happen here? Its happening here right now.
The question raised and the points made in William Cormier's article will not get the attention it deserves. It should be read by everyone in the United States. He asks, If Bush is leaving office in less than a year, why are they still intent on destroying our privacy? The question needs an answer.
(3 comments) SHARE Saturday, January 26, 2008 Five years too late, Congress remembers the Constitution.
Do you remember this headline from March of 2003? Bush Plan for Iraq Would Be a First. No OK From Congress Seen; Constitutional Issues Raised. No? Don't remember that? That's because its dated Friday, January 25, 2008, from the Boston Globe.
(8 comments) SHARE Monday, January 21, 2008 The origin of the phenomenon of Conservatism/libertarianism.
Rob Kall's article, Bio-Politics; Nature vs Globalism, Conservatism and Libertarianism, makes the point that biological organisms live in an interconnected, interdependent world, and, asks if there are any laws of nature or biology we can think of, presumably to account for the inhuman phenomenon of Conservatism/libertarism. There is a law of nature that accounts for this. Its a genetic throwback called deviancy.
(1 comments) SHARE Friday, January 18, 2008 Beware of sheep which come to you in false prophets clothing.
An article from the Associated Press shows that those who profess to be Democrats in Congress are actually Republican sheep wearing the false clothing of Democrats, being shepherded by George Bush to where he wants them to go.
SHARE Sunday, December 16, 2007 Gonzales redux
George Bush plucked Alberto Gonzales and Michael Mukasey from the Republican cesspool and flung them, splattering the noxious and noisome effluent of the Republican ideological toilet, into the faces of the people and the Congress of the United States.
SHARE Wednesday, December 5, 2007 The high cost of Chinese junk.
We're paying more for cheap Chinese made junk than we would be paying for more expensive USA made products, if those products were available.
(1 comments) SHARE Tuesday, December 4, 2007 Ben Bernanke's solution for the financial crisis.
An article from the Associated Press about Federal Reserve Chairman Ben Bernanke's latest antics gives us some insight into the home-mortgage financial crisis, even though his solution is counter-intuitive.
(3 comments) SHARE Sunday, November 25, 2007 The New York Times doesn't learn from it's own editorial.
The High Cost of Health Care, an editorial in the New York Times, spells out the solution to the health care problem and then fails to recognize the solution.