Sorry, Whoopi,

Just because Mel Gibson has been to your house, with your kids, doesn't mean he's not a racist.  It just means he's granted you the, oh so coveted, "good negro exemption."  Also known by our southern friends as the, "good n----r slack."   Unfortunately, we (and you) are not beyond, "race."  Your fame effectively mitigates the issue, to  a degree.  But, as a dissident caucasian and fierce civil rights activist, I must tell you this, "good" designation, is an incredibly common racist rationalization.- rainj

Reflections on a wounded Samaritan.

"I would rather die in the street, while coming to the aid of someone in trouble, than in my comfortable bed, after a lifetime of moral cowardice." -RainJustice

BP Indebted Congressman, Joe Barton, morphs from, "Smokey" to "Stinky."

The ballad of "Stinky Joe."

Here's the story of a politician named Barton,
Whose smell was from much more than fartin'.
As the well pours black tides and creatures and cultures die,
To poor BP, Joe apologized, stinking up Congress with lies.

BP + Republicans = You Pay, We Pay, Everybody Pays... Except BP, Of Course. Yep, The Market Really Does Take Care Of Itself!

Our Republican'ts in Congress, with their pockets and grubby little hands stuffed with, "donations" from BP lobbyists, are attempting to make BP financially RESPONSIBLE FOR ONLY THE  FIRST FIVE DAYS OF THE DISASTER THEY CREATED!
They want the American taxpayers to foot the bill for the rest of this decades-long environmental clean up, and for the local economies they're wiping out.  Yep, the Republican'ts have gotten at least one thing right, "The Market" certainly, "will take care of itself."  How American is that!

Texas Textbooks Change "Slave Trade" To "Atlantic Triangle Trade ." Now, doesn't that just sound much better?

As Our Beloved Texas Goes Deep Fried Dumbass, So Goes The Nation?

How cume my feller Texuns on th bord of educashon, who jus love ta call a, "spade a spade," caint call a slave a slave?  

Indeed.  Texas Is The Second Largest School Textbook Buyer In The Country, Behind California. AND since California's Budget Problems Are Delaying All New Textbook Purchases, As Texas Goes Deep Dumbass, So Goes The Nation :(- rainj

Goldman & Friends Broke The Social Contract That Makes Democracy Possible. Was That Their Ultimate Intention?

Goldman Sachs, along with other huge banks and brokers, by creating toxic mortgage-backed-securities, they knew were unsupportable and betting they would fail, as planned, broke the social contract that makes Democracy possible.

That's the "poison" served by these companies that roiled financial markets and brought the American economy to within a breath of total collapse. And they're STILL selling this same poison.

This unchecked greed must be stopped. The next collapse is already in progress and it may be worse than the last.  RainJustice!

RainJustice rides again!

After too long an absence, RainJustice is fired up, locked and loaded and rarin' to go. Uh, do I hear my mother calling me?
 later-rainj

Rush, etc, calling Obama a Nazi? How hilarious. Just another, in the LONG series of Republic-Can'ts accusing the Democrats of doing what they are doing. Like, lets see: Sotomayor: racist, Obama: racist, Democrats: fascists, Democrats: anti-senior health programs, anti-workers, anti-business and anti-American. Puh-lease! OK, I said it before, but must need to again: They meant to recreate the WEHRMACHT...In AMERICA. They still do. Make no mistake about it...these are the same fascists (Cheney, Bush, and their mega-wealthy allies), who’ve sabotaged our economy. The economy was not supposed to collapse until after the election, when they had their perfect (perfecter than W) presidential puppet securely in place. But, in their greed and glee, they did their looting too well. The economy tanked before the election, not after, and the American people finally got a look at the men behind the curtain. Guess who? Goering, Speer, Himmler and Hitler, himself. Cheney and these so-called “vulcans” in our corridors of power have been hard at work, as never before. Their goals: To intentionally re-create the economic, military and social unrest of post-world war I Germany, mirroring the vacuum that allowed the Republica… er, Nazi Party to assume absolute control of the country. These fascist-americans, as in Germany, intend use the military to inculcate and control the populace. They do not care about the average american, at all, only those in their "orbit. Unfettered profit-taking, greed and power are their drugs and always, their ultimate goals. That's ALL they care about. They are absolutely, positively following the nazi case study. Now, they've even got their "brownshirts," in Blackwater (now Xe). They've been turning our military into a "religious" SS, for years. (Or, have I got that backwards?) Fifty-plus years of planning and scheming, is all coming together for these; eliteist, imperialistic, anti-democracy, anti-bill of rights, anti-worker, totalitarian-regime-building, American-Freedoms-hating, liars, thieves, and large-scale murderers. Losing the last elections was just a hiccup to them. They've got grand plans for their, "american reich," with the "reich" being salient. And, the "american?" Not so much.

A Lynching By Degrees

Reflections on a prize for peace.

Since when is it not okay to be proud of our duly elected president? How can we not feel grateful and hopeful that our president is a man who is bringing hope back, not only to us, but to the larger world?

Hope that our country is returning to its place in the moral leadership of the peace-seeking nations of man.

The fact that other nations recognize this transformative moment and americans don’t, is beyond sad, and highlights how truly misguided and uninformed americans have become.

The "Caucasian Discount." Getting It Is Not All It's Cracke(r')d Up To Be.

The "Republican't" Party sat looking *like whores in church.

When President Obama confronted their lies, manipulation and terrorizing of the elderly, the former, "grand old party" sat *looking like "whores in church."
Gotta love that! 
*apologies for the misogynistic cliché, it was too apropos.
-RainJ

"Party of 50s Bigotry, Your Table is Not Ready."

"Birthers ta-day, birthers ta-marra and birthers fo-evah!"
People, this is racism. Don't you recognize the hate? Think back to the 1950s and 60s: The firehoses, the attack dogs, the screaming ugliness and violence: "Segregation ta-day, segregation ta-marra, and segregation fo-evah!" Can you hear it now? Look, I'm even older than Barack and I can't get my original "hospital" birth certificate. Believe me, I've tried. Just a few days ago, I received my niece's "official certified" birth certificate, from Austin...same situation and certificate type as mine, from 50+ years ago. And I assure you, it's the "official" record of her birth, as mine is. The corrupted, "Republican't Party" has been oh, so busy, trying to turn their, so-called,"culture war," into a race war. They have no shame and no REAL patriotism, or they wouldn't be so willing to fan the flames of racism, and risk our Union on race warfare. They are inheritors, if you will, of the old southern legacy of hate. And those who deliberately whip racists into a frenzy, which will soon turn violent, are traitors, no less than spies and domestic terrorists. Oh, wait, they ARE domestic terrorists. And cowards, particularly, those "birthers" in Congress.

Right Again, RainJustice... People, Wake-up! Again. Wonder why Cheney and Limbaugh are still railing? They're auditioning for Hitler's old job.

Unfortunately, having lost the last election, Dr. Strangelove (Cheney) and Hermann Goering (Limbaugh) are forced to compete for the same position, that of American Reich-Chancellor (Der Fuhrer). However, one of them will have to settle for being Reich-Marshall (Goering). The tubby Mr. Limbaugh is the obvious "fit" for the latter. Since he has no sons, the soulless Mr. Cheney intends to secure the position of "America's Fuhrer" for himself, his ethically-challenged son-in-law or his daughter. Then, to continue his Empire, to his grandchildren. Seriously. - rainj

Tom "Tinkerbell" Delay

Tom Delay on "Dancing With the Stars"?

Delay's a star only in his own mind.

Once the little bully WAS the federal "gubmint"!

'Member? Now, he's just a corrupt ex-official and

unrepentant criminal. I always thought that the,

bug man from Sugerland, was a bit light in his loafers.

But... I didn't realize he was a real Tinkerbell.

Tom "Tinkerbell" Delay. What a musical ring.

Right, "Tink"? Flit away Delay.

I am Rain Justice.  RainJustice I am.  Accept no imitators.

"Jim Crow called, and he wants his 'nigras' back in their place!" "Nazi" isn't the "n-word" these screechers REALLY want to call Obama. Get real.

To those in OUR Congress who are fighting against healthcare reform:

Shame, shame, shame on you! The American people have made it clear that they want healthcare insurance reform. Our economy cannot truly recover without REAL healthcare reform. Home foreclosures are, most often, caused by medical bills and untreated illnesses, due to the lack of affordable and effective health insurance coverage. Businesses can no longer afford the lost productivity caused by uncovered and "under"covered employees who can't get the health care they and their families need. A "public-option" must be available to compete with the big insurance carriers, and FORCE them to lower consumer costs. That's the ONLY way they will ever REALLY lower costs and increase coverage. Remember: With the insurance industry, "The Large Print Giveth and the Small Print Taketh Away." Always. ALWAYS. Congress created this stranglehold on ill, injured and hard-working Americans, by selling out to Big Pharma and the medical/insurance lobbyists. Why don't you "public" servants try proving that the insurance lobby doesn't buy your votes with their contributions to your coffers, by voting AGAINST the insurance companies and Big Pharma for a change, a change we can really believe in. Competition, per the "public option”, is the only viable mechanism to lower consumer costs and force fair and just profits in the medical and insurance markets.

"Birthers": Just Code For "Bigots." What's next, cross burnings at the Whitehouse?

"BIRTHERS" backwards, spells: R-A-C-I-S-M!

Senator, your white sheet is showing. Re: Sotomayor challenge blows up in Sessions' face.

Oo-whee, that was some puh-roud southern-fried-racism, Senator Sessions. That's the republican party now, isn't it? The changing ethnic makeup of America from lily white to everything but, has got the bigoted, powers that "were," losing their little minds. Right, Mr. Secession? Most caucasian-americans have no idea what the term, "white privilege" means, let alone that they have benefited inestimably from it for their entire lives. We "enlightened" white folk; i.e. culturally sensitives, sometimes seem as rare as republicans at a Michael Moore film. Mr. Secession was just speaking in his "traditional," southern-racist style. I mean, how can there possibly be a race war without whipping up the poor whites in the south? That's the time "honored," racist tradition. Of course, racists and Dick Cheney and his whole, "world domination" clique are desirous of any war. A race war would be the most expedient. That, so they can then use their private military, Blackwater, and the religious zealots and white racists in our military and intelligence apparatus, (who are now practically a scary separate branch!) to seize complete control of our country. As their German role models did. (Abu Ghraib was just practice!) A race war would work SO perfectly for them. Just one more page from their "national socialist"(NAZI) playbook. Pay Attention. They are following it to a T. And, once again, the poor, the working class whites and the southern racists are just another, "pawn in their game." Right, Senator? That's the damn trick that never fails. -rainj

A living wage, if not now when?

“A self-supporting and self-respecting democracy can plead no...economic reason for chiseling workers' wages... Enlightened business is learning that competition ought not to cause bad social consequences, which inevitably react upon the profits of business itself.” -- Franklin Roosevelt, “A Fair Day's Pay for a Fair Day's Work,” 1937.

OK, here is the REAL reason the "neo-cons" wanted the American auto makers to fail.

The bottom line: They want to eliminate the thousands of United Auto Worker jobs. Why, I hope you ask? Union jobs set the level of wages and benefits for ALL jobs, locally and nationally. Including compensation for lower, or line management positions. The "neo-cons"(heavy on the "con") and the other elitist denizens of "Cheneyland" have been "laboring" (ironic, right?) for DECADES to break the backs of the unions. Executives, of course, set their own exorbitant salaries and perks, regardless of the performance of their companies. Their only imperative: Completely Unfettered Profit-Taking. And Greed. NOT having to provide fair wages, health care benefits, paid vacations and worker protections, thereby, making OBSCENE profits, is and will always be, the driving force behind these uber elitist, "cons" and their minions efforts to strip all worker protections and benefits. C'mon, think about it...It makes sense doesn't it? Do you think corporations just give these benefits to employees out of the goodness of their hearts? Hmm? Well, if unions go, so will that, "goodness." Workers and retired workers who support these neo-fascists, you have been had. Sadly, the time when a man's word was his bond, has passed. Your leaders will lie to you, just like the fascists of, "old Europe." The results of these lies have the gravest repercussions. And the young, the brave, the men and women of honor, will suffer and die on foreign soil, with no loved ones for comfort. People, please.

Man in the Mirror, a Molester. No Wonder He Couldn't Sleep.

Yes, MJ was a musical and entertainment genius. His impact on music and pop culture cannot be overstated. He was also a HUGE role model for black children. He let them down, as so many of their other role models have. It's unfortunate that he didn't take his responsibility to black children to heart, instead of taking them to bed. His early death may mean that some child(ren) will not be molested. I'm thankful for that. -rainj

Healthcare reform and the insurance industry: As Usual, "The Large Print Giveth and the Small Print Taketh Away."

Without the competition of a "public option," N0 real change. Single-payer now!

"Necro-Second": a unit of time wasted by thinking of Ann Coulter.