The Tea Party Express rolled its malevolent way through Michigan today. Noon: Jackson!3:30: Brighton!6:00: Troy! I was invited by Organizing for America to join a few of my closest Livingston County Democratic, pro-health reform friends to attend the Great D-Bag Tea Bag Extravaganza in Brighton. Why can’t they ever have these things when I don’t have to take fucking vacation […]

A year ago, a family member returned from Iraq. She was a Major there, involved in moving detainees around, usually at night with no lights on the vehicles. During her time there we believe she was raped by a superior officer though no charges were ever brought. Conversations with her about the “War in Iraq” were difficult at best. Time […]

Today, at an Organizing for America (OFA)-sponsored event, U.S. Representative John Dingell was presented with over 4,000 health care declarations supporting President Obama’s three principles of health care reform. It was a great event with over 250 supporters in attendance and only one anti-reform protester who walked up and down the road in front of the building with a sign […]

Cross-posted at the Daily Kos and the Huffington Post. Yesterday was the BIG DAY for Michigan’s “Energy Citizens”! Yes, the giant groundswell of corporately-funded astroturf outrage at climate change legislation that would put a serious hurt on the profit statements of Big Oil concerns found its way into Livonia, Michigan. It was going to be big. At least that’s what […]

Cross-posted at the Daily Kos. Last week I penned a Letter to the Editor to the Dexter Leader, my local newspaper and part of Heritage Newspapers. Heritage Newspapers is, from their webpage: ..an award winning publishing group that consists of 11-suburban publications (9 weekly, 1 twice-weekly and 1 tri-weekly publication) in southeastern Michigan with a circulation of over 316,850. […] […]

Cross-posted at the Daily Kos. The USA Today is reporting that “thousands” of Americans are moving to Mexico to receive inexpensive health care: As the United States debates an overhaul of its health care system, thousands of American retirees in Mexico have quietly found a solution of their own, signing up for the health care plan run by the Mexican […]

Well, it’s been a cool, wet summer which is great for some things and not-so-great for others. We’re up to about 35 quarts of canned maters which is behind where we were last year but the cool weather has really slowed the ripening process (maters like HOT weather, for sure.) However, peppers (hot and sweet varieties) seem to be doing […]

Over at the Daily Kos, I have a semi-regular feature I do called Forays Into Freeperville where I highlight some of the brilliant inanity of a website called the Free Republic. The Free Republic is an ultra-conservative message board and the denizens of the site are some of the most vile and repugnant right wingers you’re likely to encounter anywhere. […]

Cross-posted at the Daily Kos and the Huffington Post. This is a follow-up to my diary on Tuesday regarding defeated former U.S. Representative Tim Walberg holding town halls in Michigan in an apparent crass use of the health care debate to launch his 2010 bid to regain his House seat. Walberg listens to a supporter condemn health care reform Last […]

Cross-posted at the Daily Kos. I have three major updates to my two Daily Kos Rec List diaries regarding last week’s Rep. John Dingell health care town hall meeting and about Kenneth Gladney, the protestor in St. Louis who claimed not to have health insurance. Executive summary: Kenneth Gladney DOES have health insurance and he’s still collecting money anyway. Mike […]

Cross-posted at the Daily Kos. (Updated twice below.) There are already a couple other diaries up (at the Daily Kos) that talk about Kenneth Gladney, the African American man who claims he was attacked by SEIU “thugs” (HERE and HERE), so I won’t go into any detail on that. Those diarist have done a much better job than I could […]