Rabid Liberal Rants

Pat’s hit the mark with this one. I’ve been saying this for a while now. Let’s bring everyone home, help people defend themselves, and get our house in order:

U.S. policy should be to tell Europe, Asia, Africa and the Mideast: Your defense is first and foremost your responsibility. You police your own neighborhood. And if there is something you can’t handle, give us a call. We may be able to help. Then again, we may not.

Read more on Yahoo News…Robert Gates, Neo-Isolationist? – Yahoo! News.

If the police are involved (and I would assume they wouldn’t go along with it to support the unions, but who knows) and force is used, this may not end well.

The Wisconsin state Senate approved a resolution Thursday that would hold absentee Democratic lawmakers “in contempt of the Senate” should they not return to the Capitol by late afternoon.

The measure would allow state law enforcement to issue a warrant in an effort to detain them and return the lawmakers to Wisconsin, according to Senate Majority Leader spokesman Andrew Welhouse.

Read more on CNN.com Wisconsin Senate votes to detain absentee Democrats

Tucker Carlson should meet the SiBoT [Self Imposed Ban On Twitter]:

The journalist tweeted on Monday:

“Palin’s popularity falling in Iowa, but maintains lead to become supreme commander of Milfistan”

Read more from the NY Daily News …Tucker Carlson ripped for tweeting Sarah Palin could ‘become supreme commander of Milfistan’.

If the Republican gov of SD signs this bill, women would have to wait 72 hours after seeing a doctor, to have an abortion. Soooo….the right doesn’t want the government meddling  with healthcare, mandating that people get health insurance, but their Ok telling women what their healthcare rights are?

This will only force women to go underground when seeking an abortion.

Read more at Huff Post…South Dakota Senate Passes Bill Requiring 72 Hour Wait Before Abortion.

We’re living in crazy times, important times, rapidly changing times. With the ousting of longtime President Ben Ali in Tunisia, Hosni Mubarak in Egypt, the chaos in Libya [ Qaddafi using militias and bomb dropping airplanes to fight demonstrators ], and the dangerous situation in Pakistan, the world may be a significantly different place one year from now.

I like Keith Olbermann despite sometimes being over-the-top on Countdown. He criticized both sides of the aisle (more so the Right then the Left). When he was let go by MSNBC last month, it didn’t faze me too much. I got rid of my cable back in 2009, woo hoo! But I was hoping to see him back on something more visible than Current Media. Honestly, I didn’t even know what Current Media was until his announcement.

From Bloomberg:

Keith Olbermann, the former MSNBC host, is starting a news and commentary show on Current TV, a cable channel co-founded by Al Gore.

Olbermann, who left MSNBC last month after serving a two- day suspension over political donations in November, is receiving equity in the company and will serve as chief news officer, New York-based Current Media said today in a statement.

With the harsh weather in Australia, the drought in China, wheat prices are expected to go waaay up. Seems like our basic breads and cereals will see some price increases as well. This is no good.

From the Christian Science Monitor:

Everything now depends on this year’s harvest. Lowering food prices to a more comfortable level will require a bumper grain harvest, one much larger than the record harvest of 2008 that combined with the economic recession to end the 2007-08 grain price climb.

If the world has a poor harvest this year, food prices will rise to previously unimaginable levels. Food riots will multiply, political unrest will spread, and governments will fall. The world is now one poor harvest away from chaos in world grain markets.

From BusinessWeek:

Demand for wheat from Australia, the fourth-biggest shipper, is strong, said exporter AWB, as buyers from Europe to the Philippines battle for supplies amid prices near their highest level in more than two years.

From Wall Street Journal:

Prices surged to their highest intraday level since late August 2008 after the U.N.’s Food and Agriculture Organization, or FAO, said severe drought in China’s main winter wheat region could pose a serious threat to the Asian giant’s output. The reduced production comes as world markets already face supply strains, particularly for high-quality wheat used for flour.

Not too crazy about this guy but this proposal makes some sense to me. I’m totally in favor of isolationism, for now. Bring everyone home, let other countries take care of themselves, let’s get our house in order, then we can go and help out where help is needed. At least at that point, we’ll get respect, people will listen to us, and not just take our money and do whatever they feel like it, giving us the run-around.

The tea party-backed Paul unveiled a budget proposal this week that would slash overall government spending by $500 billion, saying the growing debt requires nothing less. It makes significant cuts in education, energy and defense while eliminating some agencies.

The Kentucky senator also is calling for cutting billions from foreign aid, and told CNN he would end the $3 billion in foreign military assistance to Israel.

From the Atlantic:

On Thursday, Agriculture Secretary Tom Vilsack announced that the United State Department of Agriculture (USDA) had approved the unrestricted planting of genetically modified alfalfa sold by Monsanto Co. and Forge Genetics, despite protests from organic groups and public health advocates and comments from nearly 250,000 citizens asking the department to keep this GMO genie in its bottle.

Monsanto and big business wins again! There’s no way to prevent cross-contamination, to restrict the GMO crops to a given area. It will be on our dinner plate one way or another.

Thank you Big Business, Big Government!

Enjoy!

A pesticide made in Germany but banned in Germany, France, Italy and Slovenia, was approved for use by the EPA, in the USA, despite the EPA’s own scientists  concerns about it’s safety. It was banned because it was dangerous to pollen- and nectar-eating bees.

read more…Leaked Memo Shows EPA Doubts About Bee-Killing Pesticide | Wired Science | Wired.com.

Big Business  wins again! Screw the honeybees! Who cares if the honeybee colonies collapse? We don’t need bees to “fertilize $15 billion worth of U.S. crops”! Right Mr. EPA?

(damn stupid government agencies)…