BARBARA'S TCHATZKAHS

My blogger sista Layla, wrote such a good post in July 2007 about a subject which I have discussed with many bloggers during the last 7 years which I have been fiddling around with blogs. Blogging was a great way to keep my mind active, now that I am unable and diagnosed unfit to work. I am teaching myself CSS and other coding little by little. Old horses do learn new tricks! When I started blogging I refused to talk politics.  According to my therapists I still lack a lot of self-esteem. Over the years I was told by far too many people I was stupid, ugly, worthless, too intense, had a big mouth and ended up saying 'yes' to things any rational person would have said "NO WAY" too.   Undiagnosed PTSD had me doing irrational things that no one would accept an apology for.  I went out of my way to make people happy, to my own detriment. So my blog was a mishmash of this and that. Stuff I had written on a good day and so on. I helped out 2 websites for a ...

By Ian O'Doherty So, it's genocide now, is it? Or is it actually another holocaust, something which one typically restrained Palestinian analyst described as "worse than Hitler's war against the Jews"? Are we watching the ethnic cleansing of an entire people? Are we witnessing the deliberate eradication of a race? Well, no actually, we're not. Yet the conventional dinner party wisdom which we've had to put up with in the media, both here in Ireland and generally across Britain, is that somehow Israel is the aggressor in the rapidly worsening situation in Gaza. Footage of air strikes with the ensuing photogenic explosions and dramatic plumes of smoke, quickly followed by clips of collapsed buildings and enraged mourners, makes far better copy than actually looking at the reasons why Israel has done what it's done. Anyone who devotes only a cursory glance at the news, both print and television, would be forgiven for thinking that, out of spite, might and...

From NoQuarter: Remember Uppity Woman’s great piece a couple days ago? “Say The Wrong Obama Thing in Missouri, Get Arrested! Not So Fast, Says Governor“ ? This morning, Fox News aired a great report on the outrageous behavior of Obama’s goon squad: I can’t begin to imagine what this country may become if he is elected. It’s so disturbing that I try not to let my imagination go there. As Uppity Woman wrote in her story: This is happening right here in the United States of America, compliments of Obama and his goon squad. Be afraid. Be very afraid. THE TRUTH SQUAD COMETH FOR YOU! CLICK HERE FOR THE VIDEO IF YOU ARE ON AN AGGREGATOR

Why am I not surprised? I am not sure about whether Wal-Mart being unionized would be a good thing (it would make them a lot less price-competitive); except that maybe they would clean up their act about how they treat their employees and forcing them to go on Food Stamps and SSI instead of providing health care and a living wage. But outright manipulation of people's voting & employee intimidation? No! Wal-Mart Employees Speak Out About Mandatory Anti-Union Meetings, Political Intimidation Today, the Wall Street Journal reported that Wal-Mart has been warning its managers that a Democratic victory in the fall would lead to unionization at Wal-Mart stores. “ In recent weeks, thousands of Wal-Mart store managers and department heads have been summoned to mandatory meetings” discussing the downsides of unionization and not-so-subtly telling employees NOT to vote for a Democrat. Wal-Mart Watch notes that the article “would not have been possible without the several brave Wal-Mar...