Category Archives: politics

Silkwood

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My apologies, I meant to blog on this last week, at the anniversary of Karen Silkwood’s death, November 13th, 1976~

So now it’s been thirty-six years since her mysterious death after she had raised too many questions about the safety of the plutonium processing plant that employed her.  The TV movie “Silkwood” raised a stir when it was aired.  I remember watching it.  For some reason, my memory had Cher as the lead role…apologies to Meryl Streep.

The only complaint I have about the movie is the emphasis on Karen’s personal life…perhaps they didn’t want to leave stuff out to make an accurate portrayal, but it seems that whenever a woman makes noise about something, her morals are always questioned and if she is not a freaking saint, then she is not to be believed.

And I wonder if anything has changed…whether plutonium is still going missing–and where it’s going to…

Pay us enough…

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…so we can raise our own families….

It’s now too common that workers in stores are paid so little that they can’t even afford to shop in the store they work for…

I’ve had a friend who shopped at Walmart and when I raised concerns about how they treated their employees, she was upset because she couldn’t afford to shop anywhere else.  I avoid it like the plague–only going there if no other option is available (i.e., I’m in another town or the item I want is not in what few independent stores are left).

Another person remarked about how a national chain grocery store that paid its employees a decent wage was “gouging them with high prices” when Walmart had so much lower prices…the national chain store eventually went out of business, naturally, so now they’re stuck with only Walmart to shop for groceries in their small town.  Wanna take bets on how long that lasts–either they’ll raise prices with no  competition or the folks in town will find yet another mega-store in a nearby town that has even lower prices so they’ll shop there, driving miles out of the way…buying more crap made out of China in sweatshops…God, this depresses me even writing it…

When is Congress going to raise the minimum wage to a living wage of $11.00 an hour?  Oh, wait, we can’t do that…because that will…what are the excuses again…?

Indiana is exploding…

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…You may have heard about the house exploding in Indy: http://www.local12.com/news/local/story/Faulty-Furnace-May-Be-To-Blame-For-Indy-Home/eDtvjY93zUyMEdrbWulCdw.cspx?rss=30

After they announced yet another house exploding somewhere in the area (didn’t catch the city)…I did a search on exploding houses to see what was out there.  I couldn’t find another house exploding listed in the news sites, but did find other troubling stuff.
Gees-o-pete.  Look what I’ve found: http://www.wthr.com/Global/story.asp?S=3813192  explosions propelling manhole covers…

 

 

(As a side note not related to this, they have been spraying the hell out of the skies the last two days.  I counted thirty chemtrails yesterday and twenty-five this morning just between 6:30 a.m. to 8:30 a.m. There were probably more, but I took a shower during this time period, and they likely were putting as much barium and aluminum as they could….)

CEO Trojan Horse

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…as is the way these days, the CEO’s of powerful corporate tax dodgers are twisting the meaning of words to mean something other than the public perception. Note that one of the founders was Erskine Bowles, former Chief of Staff for Bill Clinton, and Senator Alan Simpson, who was supposed to be non-biased in handing a decision on Social Security/Medicare–chosen by President Obama.

What a freaking dog and pony show…

Well that was fast…

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…apparently, the honeymoon is over–just a week after being elected….

…stand by while the 1% still pay nothing in taxes while the working poor continue to pay more than their fair share.  If someone makes $15,000, they are at the 10% tax rate.  Now, according to the tax table, they’re being taxed after the standard deduction of 7,000–so they’re rate is $803.  Now, those that can afford that money think nothing of it–but $15,000 is not enough to house and feed one person, so $800 is a big chunk out of what little they have left.  That’s the ability to keep heat on in the winter.  It’s food on the table.  It’s fixing the stupid car that keeps breaking down…and on.

…but apparently that doesn’ t matter even though if ever there were a strong support for President Obama, it was with this election–clearly voters are sick of the privileged ones like Mitt Romney who despise the poor.  And the republicans who despise women.

I just wish President Obama really heard what the voters were trying to say.

Getting money out of elections

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Center for Media and Democracy has joined with others in “Money Out, Voters In” effort.  I was a little more heartened after this election, because it would appear that the billionaires spent a lot of  $$$ for nothing...

Speaking of Karl Rove…

…more here on dark money–up 400%.

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In related news, protests against Romney and the vulture capitalists sending jobs overseas. The story was written pre-election, but still needs to be told.  People just want to be able to work–to earn their own pay and take care of themselves and their families.

It’s utter cruelty to send jobs overseas and then complain when those that lost their jobs go on food stamps.