Fighting the tea party, fighting other religions or non-religions, fighting anyone who doesn’t agree with our views just keeps us all form pointing to the real causes of our collective global crises. Follow the money, and in every case you’ll end up at the big bankers, who seek global domination. They are succeeding and we [...]
Posts Tagged ‘Politics’
We Need to Band Together
Posted in Personal, tagged Bankers, banks, change, Conflict, Fight, Global domination, Globalization, Occupy, Politics on January 19, 2012 | Leave a Comment »
The US Government Hands OUR Money to the Banks Who Steal From Us
Posted in Personal, tagged Alan Grayson, Bailouts, banks, Federal reserve, GAO Report, Government, Politics, taxes on December 5, 2011 | Leave a Comment »
The US Government hands over OUR tax money to the banks who have driven us to this desperate economic situation that is hurting so many people. This should cause serious concern. Regardless of what you think of the Occupy movement, you should care that the government hands off your money to crooks, money that is [...]
The Shocking Truth About the Crackdown on Occupy
Posted in Finances, life, Media, Personal, Politics, tagged Bankers, banks, Corruption, fascism, Greed, life, Media, Naomi Wolf, obama, Occupy, Police, Police brutality, Politics, Wall Street on November 27, 2011 | Leave a Comment »
The Shocking Truth About the Crackdown on Occupy The violent police assaults across the US are no coincidence. Occupy has touched the third rail of our political class’s venality. – by Naomi Wolf This post is a reprint and can be found here. US citizens of all political persuasions are still reeling from images of [...]
Free Bradley Manning by William Rivers Pitt
Posted in Personal, tagged Bradley Manning, Democracy, Espionage, Facism, Guantanamo, Politics, Right and wrong, Society, Truthout, US, William Rivers Pitt on April 26, 2011 | Leave a Comment »
This article can be seen on Truthout here. Free Bradley Manning Tuesday 26 April 2011 by: William Rivers Pitt, Truthout (Photo: thaths [3]) It is dangerous to be right in matters on which established authorities are wrong. – Voltaire I have a confession to make: I have been on the fence about Bradley Manning as [...]
HuckaBOO
Posted in life, Personal, Politics, tagged Huckabee, life, Personal, Politics on March 23, 2011 | Leave a Comment »
If Huckabee is to be believed, I am causing more damage to the world than bombs because I’m a GASP! single mother!! I’m uneducated (except for that doctorate–oops, don’t tell!), I’m poor (except for my decent income–better keep quiet on that one!), I am stealing money from the state in the form of welfare (okay, [...]
Mexico: The House the US Has Set on Fire
Posted in life, Race, racism, Society, tagged immigration, life, Mexicans, Mexico, NAFTA, Politics, Race, racism, Society, USA on January 23, 2011 | Leave a Comment »
My article Mexico: The House the US Has Set on Fire was published on Huffington Post. You can see it here. If you like it, please pass it on or buzz it up. Thank you.
Mexico: The House the US has Set on Fire
Posted in life, Politics, Race, racism, Society, tagged Americans, Corporations, Corporatism, Exploitation, Free trade, Immigrants, immigration, Jobs, life, Mexicans, Mexico, NAFTA, Politics, Poverty, Race, racism, Society, War on drugs on January 18, 2011 | 6 Comments »
This article has been published on OpEd News. If you like it, rate it and share it. You can see it here. Mexico: The House the US has Set on Fire By Lara Gardner opednews.com Mexico is a house the US has set on fire, then covered its doors and windows with bars, allowing the [...]
Progressives Must Change
Posted in Politics, tagged 2010 election, change, Conservative, Democrats, Election, Politics, Progressives, Republicans, Tea party on November 3, 2010 | 2 Comments »
This was published on Huffington Post. If you like it, repost or buzz it up. Thank you. It can be seen here. Progressives Must Change Ah, elections. Of course the mainstream media presumes that the House takeover is evidence of a sea change. I disagree. Things really haven’t changed as much as everyone would like [...]
Imagine if the Tea Party was Black, by Tim Wise
Posted in life, Personal, Politics, Race, racism, tagged life, Politics, Race, Racial policies, Racial politics, racism, Republican politics, Society, Tea party, Teabaggers, Tim Wise, USA on April 27, 2010 | Leave a Comment »
Dear Mr. Tim Wise, You are a genius. You are so dead-on correct, I had to repost this for anyone who stumbles across what I write here. Readers if you find me, please read this, then pass it on. The link to this story can be found here. “Imagine if the Tea Party Was Black” [...]
Priorities
Posted in Children, life, Personal, Politics, tagged Birthers, life, People, Politics, Society, Starvation, USA on January 24, 2010 | Leave a Comment »
This is happening and there are people who want to scream that Obama has a foreign birth certificate or bitch because they might have to pay some amount of taxes? Bankers take home millions? Good God almighty this country is FUCKED UP.
I Just Can’t Stand It
Posted in Children, Family, life, Love, Personal, Politics, Ranting, Society, tagged Earth, Family, life, Love, Personal, Politics, Ranting, Society, USA on January 19, 2010 | 2 Comments »
I’m so frustrated with this country. I wish I had never heard the results of the Massachusetts election. I can’t stand the stupid, short-sightedness in this country. If anyone thinks Republicans are going to do anything to fix anything, they are fucking crazy. This country would not be in this mess if it weren’t for [...]
Let’s Put an End to Pat Robertson
Posted in life, Personal, Society, tagged Haiti, life, Media, Pat Robertson, Politics, Tragedy on January 16, 2010 | 1 Comment »
This article can be seen here on Huffington Post. If you like it, Digg It or Buzz it Up. Pat Robertson has been getting a lot of attention for his hateful, insensitive remarks about the victims of the earthquake in Haiti (and the victims of 9/11, and the Christmas Day tsunami, and Hurricane Katrina). This [...]
I’m the Poster Child for Public Healthcare
Posted in Cancer, Health, life, Society, tagged Cancer, Health, Healthcare, Insurance companies, life, Personal, Politics, Public Option, Society on November 3, 2009 | 2 Comments »
I was published on Huffington Post last week. To see the original story, click here. If you like it, please share on Facebook or twitter, and feel free to buzz me up. I’m the Poster Child for Public Healthcare by Lara M. Gardner I am a poster child for public health. Why do I say [...]
Reality Check
Posted in Politics, Society, tagged 9/11, Healthcare, Iraq, Iraq war, Politics, Society, Terrorism, USA on September 12, 2009 | 1 Comment »
This article has been published on Huffington Post and can be seen here. I saw several articles on 9/11 debating whether the US is safer, particularly since we went to Iraq. That 9/11 is even connected to Iraq as somehow making us safer as laughable, especially considering the only relation between the two is that [...]
Mini Healthcare Rant
Posted in Politics, Ranting, tagged Fools, Healthcare, Liars, Politics, Ranting, Republicans, Society, Stupidity, USA on August 1, 2009 | 1 Comment »
Any republican, talk show idiot, or anyone else for that matter, who suggests that public health care will result in euthanasia should be ashamed. Abominable, sickening, horrible fools. People DIE DAILY in this country because we do not have health care and they have the nerve to try and scare people off with this shit? [...]
Racism is Alive and Well in America
Posted in life, Politics, Race, racism, Society, tagged Birthers, Duke, Gates, Harvard, life, New York Times, obama, Politics, Race, Racial profiling, racism, Society, USA on July 25, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
The following article is taken from The New York Times and can be located here. Think Again by Stanley Fish Henry Louis Gates: Déjà Vu All Over Again I’m Skip Gates’s friend, too. That’s probably the only thing I share with President Obama, so when he ended his press conference last Wednesday by answering a [...]
Who are the Real “Activists”?
Posted in Politics, Society, tagged activism, Activist judges, Congress, Democracy, Judges, life, Politics, President, Society, Supreme Court, USA on July 16, 2009 | 1 Comment »
I absolutely agree with the premise of this article, that if we are going to define a judge’s decisions as activist, it should be based on the numbers of times the judge went against the laws designed by congress and signed into law by the president. It certainly should not be based on the holdings [...]
Bombing the Moon
Posted in life, Media, Politics, Science, Society, tagged Astronomy, Bombing moon, Conservation, Environment, Government, life, Moon, NASA, Politics, Science, Society, USA, Water on July 2, 2009 | 8 Comments »
Ever since I heard about NASA’s intention to bomb the moon (see the story here), thoughts and reactions to the news have been flittering in and out of my head. There are so many, I have had difficulty articulating what one definitive thing bothers me the most about it. Yet conclusively, my overall sense is [...]
Good Ideas
Posted in Politics, Race, Society, tagged economy, Jesse Jackson, Jobs, Outsourcing, Politics, Society on June 1, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
I don’t always agree with Jesse Jackson, but on some things, I absolutely do. The article he wrote for Huffington Post May 30th makes some pretty salient points. To read it, go here.
And Then
Posted in Environmental, life, Personal, Politics, Random Thoughts, Religion, tagged Cheney, Corporations, Facism, life, Personal, Politics, Random Thoughts, Religion on May 13, 2009 | 1 Comment »
Liz Cheney is as big a fucking hate-mongering idiot as her devil father. Spawn of the devil keeps his evil going… I may have been followed this morning. A woman I had seen on the train got onto the elevator with me and did not choose a floor while I was on the elevator. I [...]
Torture is Treason
Posted in Personal, tagged 9/11, Daniel Pearl, Democracy, Freedom, Politics, Society, Terrorism, Terrorists, Torture, Treason, United States, World Trade Center on April 21, 2009 | 2 Comments »
This piece was published on Huffington Post. To see it there, go here. If you like it Buzz me up. The human rights abuse in torture is inherent and obvious, but its implications to our society are ultimately worse. In the context of terror, when our country tortures those accused of terrorist crimes, we create [...]
I Gave a Man an Apple
Posted in Family, Friends, Health, Humor, Loneliness, Personal, Society, tagged economy, Families, food, Health, Homelessness, Hunger, life, Loneliness, Personal, Politics, Society, Starvation, Thoughts, USA on March 11, 2009 | 2 Comments »
I gave a hungry man an apple yesterday and I keep thinking about it. I don’t want to trivialize it, but I wanted to write about him. I keep seeing him at the other end of the subway car gnawing the apple as if his life depended on it. And maybe it did. I thought [...]
Tell it Like it Is: Torture
Posted in life, Media, Politics, Society, tagged Binyam Mohamed, Great Britain, Humanity, life, Media, MI5, obama, Politics, Society, Torture, UK, USA on March 8, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
I read a story on the BBC website today. The story is repeated in its entirety below. What struck me after reading the story was the BBC’s willingness to relate the torture described by Mr. Binyam Mohamed, a man held by the US for just under 7 years and released last February, all charges against [...]
My Response to a Comment
Posted in life, Politics, Religion, Society, tagged Bigotry, Blogging, Homosexuality, Politics, Prop 8, Religion, Society, Writing on February 21, 2009 | 7 Comments »
I received a comment from a reader of my post yesterday. I have posted the writer’s comment here and responded individually to specifics. “You might think that the fact that you use words as “vilify” makes you an authority on something which you obviously know nothing about.” By phrasing your opening line with the words [...]
Have We Overcome?
Posted in life, Politics, Race, Religion, Society, tagged Bigotry, gender, God, Homosexuality, Intolerance, life, obama, Policy, Politics, racism, Religion, Society on February 20, 2009 | 2 Comments »
This piece can be seen here on Huffington Post. If you like it, buzz me up. Isn’t it ironic that as we’re congratulating ourselves on our ability to elect a black president we are simultaneously lamenting the passage of Proposition 8? We Americans have been quite pleased with ourselves because we were able to elect [...]
Let’s Just Change History
Posted in life, Personal, Politics, Society, tagged Democracy, Education, History, life, Politics, President, Presidential, Society, US on February 12, 2009 | 3 Comments »
Senate minority leader Mitch McConnell stood on the senate floor and basically just made up a new history. The New Deal didn’t work, he said. Unemployment was at 15% in 1940. The programs couldn’t have worked. Um. Considering unemployment was at 25% in 1933, a 15% unemployment rate seven years later is a significant reduction. [...]
Please Pass Conyers’ Bill
Posted in Politics, Society, tagged Conyers, Democrats, Healthcare, insurance, Legislation, Politics, Society, USA on January 28, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
Michigan Democrat and chairman of the Judiciary committee, John Conyers, is planning to introduce a bill called HR 676. This simple plan would create a version of Medicare where every US citizen is eligible for healthcare. The plan, if passed, would effectively put private insurers out of business. Considering I believe private insurance companies are [...]
FREE THE SHOE THROWING JOURNALIST!
Posted in Personal, tagged Bush, free speech, Politics, Shoe thrower, speech on December 15, 2008 | 2 Comments »
I support the Iraqi shoe thrower. I know shoe throwing isn’t protected speech, but I still support his action as an expression of distaste, disgust, and despair, and whatever else he was expressing. It was perfect. FREE THE SHOE THROWING JOURNALIST!
Who Would Jesus Bomb?
Posted in life, Personal, Politics, Religion, Society, tagged Armageddon, Christianity, Faith, Fundamentalism, Fundamentalists, jesus, Politics, Religion, Society, war, Weapons on November 24, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
I have seen this bumper sticker quite a lot. I saw it again tonight and kept ruminating on it, wondering about it, asking the same question, “Who would Jesus bomb?” Over and over, the answer that came to mind was everyone, if certain fundamentalist Christians have their way. Those asking this question are under the [...]
Thanksgiving Sonnet
Posted in Animals, Personal, Politics, Writing, tagged Animal rights, Animals, food, holidays, life, Meat, Personal, poetry, Politics, Thanksgiving, Writing on November 24, 2008 | 1 Comment »
Turgid turkeys, strained into rickety wooden coffins, exit four-by-four from a ten-ton hearse. Into the turkey mill: mutilation, holocaust. Perspiring hormones, Tom Turkey stares with one cold eye at a crumbling chimney tower belching death in putrid smoke, blackening holiday skies. Annihilating light. Bodies, bones. None remain unfrozen. With elaborate precision he’s taken apart; neck, [...]
Thanks, Keith
Posted in life, Politics, Race, Relationships, Religion, Sexuality, Society, tagged Bigotry, Homosexuality, life, Politics, Prop 8, racism, Religion, Society, USA on November 17, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
Random Tidbits
Posted in life, Personal, Politics, Random Thoughts, tagged change, Children, Family, life, Personal, Politics on November 7, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
I have been in Portland now for a week. I head to Boulder on Monday. I will be there for five weeks. Then I return to Portland where Boyfriend and I will be packing for our trip to New York. We get our truck on January 5. We plan to pack up that day and [...]
I’m a Giant Dork
Posted in Funny, Gardening, life, Loneliness, Love, Personal, Pointless Rambling, Politics, Random Thoughts, Relationships, Society, Writing, tagged Children, Family, Funny, Humor, Love, men, Personal, Politics, Relationships, Society, Women, Writing on October 25, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
Or so I have been informed by my boyfriend. I can’t really disagree. He’s right. I am a dork. We were chatting about a friend working in the garden. I said He’s probably hoeing, digging up potatoes. Boyfriend said He’s off being a pimp? I said Huh? Then got it and laughed and laughed. In [...]
Andy Martin is a Beetle-Headed Idiot
Posted in Politics, Society, tagged Andy Martin, Birth, Birth Certificate, Election, Hawaii, life, Newspapers, obama, Opinion, Politics, Society on October 22, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
This is the hebetudinous guy who thinks there is some vast conspiracty theory regarding Obama’s birth certificate. If Mr. Martin is to be believed, the newspapers in Hawaii predicted Obama would run for president in 2008, and therefore printed birth announcements of a baby born in another country in order to ensure he could run [...]
Wishing for Change
Posted in life, Personal, Politics, Society, tagged life, Personal, Politics, Society, USA on October 22, 2008 | 1 Comment »
I went and saw the movie W tonight and had the same feeling I have every time I see a movie like this. I wish to hell I could do something big and profound to help change things and then I end up feeling more pathetic and helpless than ever before. All I’m good at [...]
We Don’t Need That
Posted in life, Personal, Politics, Society, tagged Biden, Conservative, Democrat, Election, Liberal, life, mccain, obama, Palin, Personal, Politics, Republican, Society, United States, USA on October 13, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
This piece can be seen on Huffington Post. If you like it, buzz me up. Thanks. A couple of days ago I received several emails forwarding the video of Sarah Palin being booed at the hockey game. I watched as she stepped onto the ice with her children, boos resounding from the highest bleachers, fans [...]
Mad Dog Palin
Posted in Politics, Ranting, Society, tagged Biden, Democracy, Election, life, mccain, obama, Palin, Politics, President, Society, USA, Vice President on October 6, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
The brilliance in the article I’m going to share below is its truth. I have been screaming for years now that democracy requires a level of personal responsibility that certain individuals are not willing to accept. The Bush administration has upped the ante over and over and over, becoming more audacious and arrogant at every [...]
Drive Your Car, McCain
Posted in life, Politics, Random Thoughts, Society, tagged Debate, economy, Election, mccain, obama, Politics, Presidential, Senate, Society on September 25, 2008 | 1 Comment »
This piece can be seen on Huffington Post: http://www.huffingtonpost.com/lara-m-gardner/a-leader-should-be-able-t_b_129341.html Out of curiosity, I made a small survey of job postings just to see what kinds of skills employers are requiring of potential employees. Among other things, one of the primary requirements of job seekers is that they possess the ability to multitask. Multitasking is a [...]
There Oughta be a Law…
Posted in Family, life, Politics, Society, tagged deregulation, economy, Family, Greed, Laws, life, Markets, money, Politics, Society, USA on September 23, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
How many times has something really catastrophic happened followed by people scratching their heads and saying, “There ought to be a law.” I wonder how many of these same people would call such laws “regulation” because that’s exactly what they are. Deregulation? Deregulation is the removal of laws, including laws that protect us from harm. [...]
Published!
Posted in life, Politics, Society, Writing, tagged Biden, Blogging, Election 2008, mccain, obama, Palin, Politics, Society, Writing on September 22, 2008 | 3 Comments »
So how cool is this? I submitted an article to Huffington Post and they accepted it! It is a piece I wrote here on this blog about Sarah Palin. If you’re interested in viewing it, go to the link here: http://www.huffingtonpost.com/lara-m-gardner/lowering-the-glass-ceilin_b_128346.html If you like what I wrote, feel free to hit the buzz up button. [...]
Enough Already
Posted in life, Personal, Politics, Society, tagged America, Biden, life, mccain, Media, news, obama, Palin, Personal, Politics, Society, USA on September 21, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
Every time I open up my blog or look at my web-based email or go anywhere I like to go on the web there is another article another analysis another something looking at Sarah Palin and John McCain and on and on and on. I’m so tired of it. She’s a disaster. He’s a disaster. [...]
My Response to a Comment
Posted in Environmental, gender, life, Personal, Politics, Society, tagged America, Democrat, gender, Kilston, Latimer, mccain, men, obama, Palin, Personal, Policy, Politics, Republican, United States, USA, Women on September 16, 2008 | 1 Comment »
Some person commented on the letter I posted written by Lyra Kilston and Quinn Latimer. In the letter, Kilston and Latimer make several statements about Sarah Palin. They then ask that those who agree Palin is the wrong choice for VP and that she is not representative of women send them a statement to this [...]
We Need to Help Haiti
Posted in Environmental, life, Politics, Society, tagged Clothing, Deforestation, Environment, food, Globalization, Gustav, Haiti, Hannah, Hispaniola, Hurricanes, Ike, Katrina, life, Louisiana, New Orleans, Politics, Port au Prince, Shelter, Society, Storms, Tropical Storms, Unfair Trade, weather on September 16, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
Imagine Katrina hitting New Orleans not once, not twice, or even three times. Imagine just as one storm flits away, people are dying and starving, levies are bursting, the city is in utter chaos. Then it gets hit again, and again, and again. This is the situation facing Haiti today, and Haiti has even fewer [...]
Cute Fuzzy Thing
Posted in Humor, life, Politics, tagged Foreign policy, Funny, Fuzzy things, Humor, life, mccain, Michael Palin, Monty Python, Politics, Sarah Palin on September 13, 2008 | 1 Comment »
I signed up to elect Michael Palin for President. You can do it too. Simply click here to show your support. Anyway, as part of my support, I got a free cute fuzzy thing! It is so adorable. I love it. After I got the cute fuzzy thing, I received a thank you message from [...]
Are YOU Ready to Be President?
Posted in Family, Friends, life, Personal, Politics, Religion, Society, tagged Biden, Democrats, Education, Friends, life, mccain, obama, Palin, philosophy, Politics, Religion, Republicans, Society, Super heroes, Thought, Training, United States on September 12, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
Do you think you can be president of the United States of America? Should you be president of the United States of America? Do you have the qualifications necessary to run this country? Regardless whether you want to be the president, would you like to have a president you see as a person with whom [...]
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