Sunday, May 22, 2011

A note to our readers

Hey --
Another Sunday. And we're late as usual.


First, we thank all who participated this week which includes Dallas and the following:

The Third Estate Sunday Review's Jim, Dona, Ty, Jess and Ava,
Rebecca of Sex and Politics and Screeds and Attitude,
Betty of Thomas Friedman Is a Great Man,
C.I. of The Common Ills and The Third Estate Sunday Review,
Kat of Kat's Korner (of The Common Ills),
Cedric of Cedric's Big Mix,
Mike of Mikey Likes It!,
Elaine of Like Maria Said Paz),
Ruth of Ruth's Report,
Wally of The Daily Jot,
Trina of Trina's Kitchen,
Marcia of SICKOFITRDLZ,
Stan of Oh Boy It Never Ends,
Isaiah of The World Today Just Nuts,
and Ann of Ann's Mega Dub.

And what did we come up with?


  • C.I. actually got calls about the Peter Fonda statemement. Two asking -- in shock, "You're not planning on noting it, are you?" Of course we are. Peter stood up for the ecology at a time when the bulk of America is supine. We applaud Peter for his stance and his statement. Well done.


  • Ted Rall also stood up last week and, in doing so, confirmed the whispers most of us had heard for sometime, the censorship, the witch hunts, the Black List. We'll probably develop this into something more in a future edition.

  • Cornel West is under attack for telling truths as well. But that's three well known figures who told the truth last week. Let's hope it only encourages more to exclaim, "The emperor has no clothes on!"

  • Wally. In the roundtable, he made this statement and Mike and C.I. both said, in the roundtable, this was a truest. They are correct.


  • And the faux left begins their blacklist. The McCarthyite techniques of Panhandle Media.

  • Ava and C.I.'s masterpiece. They take Mad Love, Jon Stewart, Barack's speech and Bill Moyers. It's an illuiminating and frequently funny piece.



  • Attacking Captain America
Sorry, this one posted on the wrong day. We've now fixed it. Peter Fonda told the truth and the response was to mock and ridicule him or make up outright lies. In a democracy, calling out an elected official is not supposed to be a crime.
And that's what we came up with. Next week we hope to tackle what Elaine mentions at the end of the roundtable. If we do, we should have at least one original illustration Isaiah will do for us -- we'd like to have more than one.


Peace.

-- Jim, Dona, Ty, Jess, Ava and C.I.