The Ugly Republican Triumverate

Cheney, Rove and Rumsfeld. With not an iota of either good sense OR empathy shared between them.

In my life I have never hear such personal attacks as McCain's attacks on Barak Obama. And we owe it all to the Ugly Three, and their "baa baa sheep followers."

For a supposedly civilized human being, John McCain's campaign has involved more vile tactics than I have seen since Lee Atwater plastered America with his "Fear Willie Horton" Campaign against Michael Dukakis. Once he had pancreatic cancer, Atwater help a small press conference in which he admitted he had been a real sh*t, but it was too little, too late. His apology to Willie Horton didn't remove the brand from the man's name.

Unfortunately, the Republican insiders, the powers behind the throne, if you will, are still using Lee Atwater's playbook. These include Dick Cheney, Karl Rove, and Donald Rumsfeld. Announce that "God, the American way of life, Patriotism and Goodness are all on your side" Paint the opposition as the exact opposite: Anti-God, Anti-Patriotism, Anti-American, Socialist, and Bad, and repeat the lies often enough, and the poor stupid voters will believe you. Why not? It worked for Hitler. It worked for Stalin.

It IS NOT Anti-American to hold our elected officials accountable for their actions. Tt is the responsibility of every citizen to do just that! That is what makes it a Democracy. We are a Democratic Republic.


I've had a belly-full of those kinds of tactics. I'm surprised more Americans aren't repelled by it.

Readers Digest is written for a vast number of the American Population. It is worth noting that, in their careful editing of whatever they publish, it is written for an audience that reads at the fifth grade level. There is nothing wrong with that, if you consider that the vast majority of Americans only read at that level. We graduate them from Grammar School, Jr. High School, and High School, and they still can't read. And I don't blame teachers, I blame parents who are so busy trying to make ends meet so the rich can have tax rebates that they haven't time to read to their children.

I blame this economic mess we are in on the Republican Party's Deregulation of the Banking and Credit Industries, as well as stupid economic policies. We will leave the cost of bailing out Wall Street and Banks to our Children's Children's Children. What a legacy.

A Book Recomendation:

My_Stroke_of_Insight_A_Brain_Scientist_s_Personal_Journey
byJill Bolte Taylor


Everyone who has ever had a stroke must have this book read to them, slowly. Everyone who ever knew anyone who had a stroke must read this book. The author was a brain scientist with a Ph.D. in neuroanatomy. She described her experience of having a stroke, the loss of her faculties, her surgery, and recovery over a period of almost a decade, to someone like the woman she was before the stroke.

Her descriptions of how to help a stroke victim on their return from a hospital are remarkable. The relationship between herself and her mother, who taught her how to see and think and read and move again, is remarkable and touching.

Most important, it offers proof and hope to stroke victims and their families for as complete a recovery as is possible. The Appendices contain suggestions for evaluation of stroke patients, as well as a list of 40 suggestions of how to interact with Stroke Victims to best help them. Fascinating. Decidedly 5 stars.