Blogcritics Author: Marlowesbeef

Obama Muslim! Obama Antichrist! The "Christian" Right Needs Your Fear

Marlowesbeef — Sun, 28 Sep 2008 22:02:52 EDT

Lions and tigers and bears, oh my! How the "Christian" right needs your irrational fear to take over America.
We’re all reaching the early stages of fatigue over The Mess. We have politicians running about like roosters on meth and, like most poultry on meth, what the roosters really want is our money. Lost in this, for just a moment, is the Christian Right’s continued attempt to instill as much fear, to elicit as must prejudice and outright...

The Paulson Power Grab: Dangerous For Today, Terrifying For Tomorrow

Marlowesbeef — Wed, 24 Sep 2008 04:18:30 EDT

Marlowe's head almost explodes in outrage at the actions of the greedheads in power.
"Section 8. Review. Decisions by the Secretary pursuant to the authority of this Act are non-reviewable and committed to agency discretion, and may not be reviewed by any court of law or any administrative agency." Breathtaking in its scope, isn’t it? This is what the White House wants us to accept as “necessary” in...

Deregulation: The 800 lb. Incontinent Chick Has Come Home to Roost

Marlowesbeef — Sat, 20 Sep 2008 23:11:34 EDT

Those who helped rape and pillage America now sound the alarm. How long will we let them steal us blind?
For thirty years or thereabouts, those in Washington - no matter the party - have completely rolled over the supposed evils of FDR's New Deal. "DEREGULATE!" Was the war cry of American corporations as they sensed the will of those who had helped form those FDR protections against these economic royalists begin to slacken. To make that cry more...

Obama the Antichrist: How the Christian Right Preys on Your Ignorance and Fears

Marlowesbeef — Wed, 10 Sep 2008 20:46:10 EDT

The right, while trying to hide Governor Palin's affiliation with Dominionist Christianity launches religious "terror" tactics against Obama and America.
The wolves who present themselves as "concerned" Christians prey on the absolute ignorance of their church members - indeed on all Christians. The viral emails going out from the Christian “right” painting Obama as the Antichrist are first and foremost shameful, and second are complete “biblical” fabrications. In...

Satire: Last Night With George Clooney

Marlowesbeef — Tue, 29 Apr 2008 11:44:34 EDT

That's right Portland - the big GC thinks you're tops.
Last night George and I, as we do every year around this time, hung out. We went to a number of places, hung out with friends (mostly his) and managed to duck the paparazzi most the time.They were laying in wait outside of Dan Tana's on Santa Monica boulevard in West Hollywood. We went through the back. George threatened to abandon me if I didn't...

Rove and Cheney, Exit Stage Right: Just There in the Shadows

Marlowesbeef — Sat, 9 Feb 2008 05:03:31 EST

Cheney and Rove aren't leaving; they're right over there in the shadows, biding their time...
In a recent Washington Post op-ed piece Harold Meyerson speaks about the end of days of Rove. “It's also that conservatives have run out of agenda. With his preemptive war and seemingly permanent occupation in Iraq and his attempt to privatize Social Security, George W. Bush pushed American conservatism past the point where the...

The Countrywide "Party" Crashes: But We'll Pretend It Hasn't

Marlowesbeef — Wed, 30 Jan 2008 11:31:15 EST

Countrywide's Mozilo feels real bad about wrecking the company and the economy. He's crying all the way to the bank.
How do you put a spin on a fourth quarter loss of $422 million if you're Angelo Mozilo, soon-to-be former CEO? By being a real stand up guy, that's how. Mr. Mozilo stated yesterday he was going to “forfeit” $37.5 million of his severance package. I guess he's hoping we've forgotten that this still leaves him with $77.5...

The Beginning of an American Theocracy

Marlowesbeef — Tue, 22 Jan 2008 21:16:53 EST

American Theocracy, ever looming these past three decades attempts to rewrite U.S. history, with the aid of Congress.
In the January 28th edition of The Nation, Chris Hedges, former Middle East bureau chief for the New York Times and now senior fellow at The Nation Institute reports on James “Randy” Forbes, (R-VA). Specifically about Mr. Forbes efforts on a bill he's introduced, H.Res 888, entitled: Affirming the rich spiritual and religious...

U.S. Supreme Court: Lying by Omission Okay for Corporations

Marlowesbeef — Fri, 18 Jan 2008 00:35:06 EST

The U.S. Supreme Court has removed the last hurdle for Corporate America to Steal us blind.
On Tuesday of this week the U.S. Supreme Court ruled 5 to 3 against plaintiffs who had sued a couple of cable television equipment companies who had assisted Charter Communications to inflate its earnings and conceal from investors how the company had failed to reach its financial goals.In a follow-up article on Wednesday Linda Greenhouse reported...

The Terror of the Tyrannical "Threat of Terror"

Marlowesbeef — Thu, 17 Jan 2008 01:13:56 EST

Between Mr. Farmer's suggestion to Bush and HR 1955 you better watch what you say...
In an op-ed piece in the Sunday New York Times (January 13, 2008), John Farmer, former Attorney General for New Jersey and senior council to the 9/11 Commission, suggested that because our justice system has struggled with the (few) terror cases it's faced (Jose Padilla, etc.) it is not really capable of handling the issue of 21st century...