In pace requiescat!

"I forget your arms."

"A huge human foot d'or, in a field azure; the foot crushes a serpent rampant whose fangs are imbedded in the heel."

"And the motto?"

"Nemo me impune lacessit."

"Good!" he said.

~Edgar Allan Poe, "The Cask of Amontillado"

"You don't know hardship!" ~ my mom

It's funny, when we look back, what was easy and what we perceived to be hard. My mom is sure she grew up in a time that was the worst. She was born during a world war, she had parents that went through the depression. She had the radical 60's and the inner city fighting of the Watts riots.

I certainly wouldn't call it easy. But she is quick to point out our 'soft lives'. How easy we have it and how simple things are. With a touch of a button or poke on Facebook. (I think it's more that we are as far liberal as she is conservative)

But with jobs in the crapper and the housing market, where my folks made their money, on a respirator, there are kids who will graduate this year that have known nothing but war and terrorist threats. More than likely there are no jobs for them when the do emerge.

I watch as the world rises up against dictators and oppression. In the streets, their life in their hands, as their own military counter acts against them.

I watch Wisconsin, Ohio, New Jersey, pour into the streets. Their already delicate jobs, striped of rights and re-named 'budget cuts'.

All the wealth is held in only 2% of our population. Click

If things weren't bad enough, let's toss a lil McCarthy-ism in the mix. Hearing on how all Muslims are terrorists. Really? In a time when we need to fix so much, this is what we are spending our time doing? Click

Through all this, how much are folks actually seeing? Do people know that the Republicans of WI had an illegal meeting to break the unions last night? That folks stormed the capital there - again? Click

Do people know what the Republican budget would actually cut? Click
Or how bout a more clear chart. Click

Do people even know that the Democrats from WI have to give their staffers "power or attorney" so they can get their paychecks? Click Cuz if they show up. the bounty hunters the Gov. hired to catch them, just might! (who's paying for the bounty hunters anyway? Is that out of pocket or do the taxpayers get to pay that too?)

With all of this going on....what is it that people do know?

WINNING!


Arm yourself....or before you know it, there will be two classes: the rich, and whatever that other one is the 98% of us are in.

Randi Rhodes - She's rough...but so very right on everything!

Rachel Maddow - This woman knows her stuff and is one of only a couple folks the let tell the truth.

Ed Schultz - The first one on the scene in WI. Wanna cut the crap, he's the guy that does it.