Happy Monday -- "My name is Peggy"

Just go read "Some Assembly Required" -- follow link, then follow his links to originals.

Here are a few of the better little mind blowing things posted.

Once again, I do not think most folks realize how much trouble we are in -- and it's not the "tea party" crap either. We really do need a "party of the people".


It's the Unions! Surveys show that the long term unemployed have no health insurance, nor any money with which to buy it. Now the former middle class is joining the rest of the poor in the nation's emergency rooms and free clinics, cursing the teachers unions for ruining the economy.

Damned Math! Wisconsin Governor Walker wants unionized state workers to “contribute more” to their pension and health plans – but they already pay 100% of every dollar that funds their pension and health insurance. In negotiating their contracts the public employees forewent pay raises in lieu of putting the money into insurance and retirement. It's called deferred compensation – just like the CEOs on Wall Street get. And it is the result of collective bargaining. The last time I checked, there were employees only on one side of the negotiating table.

It's Nearly Quitting Time: Economists admit they were wrong; austerity is not going to save the Greeks, nor their creditors. Their current solution is for Greece to give up the euro, go back to the drachma and suffer in squalor and silence, while their bondholders write off 30% or more and just go away.

(by the way, just as an aside -- this is what Prof. Krugman has said all along)

Box Score: The economy has added a million jobs in the past year, almost all of them low paying service-sector jobs. During the Current Unpleasantness 40% of the jobs lost were high-paying, but so far only 14% of the new jobs are; and while only 23% of the jobs lost were low-paying, 49% of those added were.

Tough It Out: The Obama administration early on sent an envoy to Spain to warn them of the consequences if they indicted George W. Bush and his advisers for crimes against humanity, specifically authorizing and encouraging torture. The Americans were aghast to learn that, unlike in the US, the Spanish executive branch could not tell the Spanish courts what they may or may not do. The case is still open and pending.

now, go there and read the rest. By the way --- please try to follow the events in Wisconsin. Our supposed "liberal media" has ignored all the rallies supporting workers. They have also ignored rallies FOR Planned Parenthood.

Our corporate overlords just don't bother to report news that supports the actual RIGHTS of CITIZENS.

Keep the internet open and as free as it is!