Tag: Thom Hartmann

GOP v Workers — and Women

International Womens Day 2011: Hanging By a Thread in America?by Jude CowellWith their assaults on Workers Rights coming soon to a state near you, notice that the GOP has shown the gall to attack Women’s Rights, too. Isn’t misogyny passe? Now if you, dear reader, voted GOP or TP in November 2010, it’s difficult for me to believe of you that rolling back women’s hard-won rights was any part of

Will Apr 3, 2011’s Mars/Uranus conjunction heat up Politics?

You betcha! And House Speaker John Boehner has already used graphic Mars/Uranus-style gun rhetoric concerning labor unions. One assumes it’s okay with Mr. Boehner if the powers that be are holding the "machine gun" of Mars/Uranus to our heads but unacceptable when we-the-people stand together to protect ourselves from political and social abuse.Yet rhetoric isn’t all that sizzles with a Mars/

Egypt’s progressed chart Jan 2011: YOD pattern of Crisis

Week-Long Riots Worsen in Egypt; YOD of Crisis shown in Progressionsby Jude CowellWell, VP Joe Biden wouldn’t call Egypt’s President Mubarek "a dictator" but many people would. Especially those who’ve been forced to live under the Mubarek regime for 30 years.Free Speech TV’s Thom Hartmann is reporting that today has brought more violence to the country than before as the "US hedges."Yes, it’s

Egypt’s progressed chart Jan 2011: YOD pattern of Crisis

Week-Long Riots Worsen in Egypt; YOD of Crisis shown in Progressionsby Jude CowellWell, VP Joe Biden wouldn’t call Egypt’s President Mubarak "a dictator" but many people would. Especially those who’ve been forced to live under the Mubarak regime for 30 years.Free Speech TV’s Thom Hartmann is reporting that today has brought more violence to the country than before as the "US hedges." But Hillary

Thom Hartmann on the ‘Party of No’ (video)

For nine minutes progressive broadcaster Thom Hartmann sums up the dynamics of the recent tragedy in Tucson and gives an historic overview of the conservative ‘Party of No’ beginning with President Obama’s uplifting message about our nation and that of Sarah Palin and her ilk.The Party of No has quite a laundry list of obstructionism to its credit (debit) and I shudder to think what this nation

Capricorn season 2011? Pass the Twinkies! And explain the dead birds

Today I’ve pretty much been hibernating and reading, partly due to the snow and ice still on the lawn and bitter cold in the forecast, partly from recent shocking events which my natal Moon in Pisces often absorbs a little too deeply. Regular breaks from Politics are needed to maintain (or attain?) emotional health and sanity, as most people agree.Yet I’ve not been wholly inactive and have spent