Common Ground

The people of the Pacific Northwest, including our party, gives a big thank you to the F.B.I. for capturing a suspected terrorist in Oregon a few days ago. The suspect is from abroad as, reportedly, others were in similar incidents. [revised 1/2/11] The F.B.I. website page can be seen by clicking on the title link, above. Copyright 2009 - 2011, Party of Commons TM

On March 1, when we last wrote about the corporate polluting of the waterways (on another blog), little did we know that the corporate nemesis would turn real bad policy on their part into an outright catastrophe. The BP oil company, virtually unregulated by Uncle Sam, and acting as the practical government of the Gulf of Mexico, ignored problems and took huge environmental risks in order to save a relative small amount of money, and have now ruined the entire Gulf through a massive and ongoing offshore oil runoff. The Environmental Protection Agency (E.P.A.) made matters worst by allowing BP to use some of the most toxic chemical dispersant available in huge quantums. Instead of allowing the runoff oil to naturally coagulate so it stays on the water surface, thereby making it easier to skim off and clean up, the dispersant makes the oil sink to the bottom where it is more likely to harm the Gulf aquatic species, along with the dispersant itself. Moreover, the dangerous dispersant may ...

Somewhat astonishingly, for one of the 50 state educational governing institutions or boards, a cadre of fascist sympathizers on the Texas School Board have taken control of the board, and are trying to put their stamp of indocrination on the schools and text books, apparently before the majority of Texans will likely come to the conclusion that these changes are going overboard. Besides trying to make the corporatist appeaser and antagonist of the poor, Ronald Reagan, into a great paragon, they are also trying to re-write history more to their fascist leanings (even taking Thomas Jefferson out of the history texts in discussions about "The Enlightenment"), breaking down the historical constitutional understanding of the separation of church and state in texts, trying to stamp their decidedly unchristlike version of their religion on Texas schools, and even trying to make the seditionist, pro-slavery politician's, Jefferson Davis', viewpoints seem reasonable. Texas ma...