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The Eye
by Russell G. Davis (centrist)
About The Author
I work as a Surveillance Operator for Northern Nevada Casinos.
I've been a borderline on the Nolan Chart for quite some time. Just on the edge of Liberalism and Libertarianism.
This last election I voted for Bob Barr. Voted Libertarian for the 1st time last fall.
I've seen throught the 2 party illusion and can not go back to believing it. What's best for this country is what matters most. It's the great Utilitarian Dream-the Greatest Good for the Greatest number of people.
About The Column
The Hand of the Eye I see a lot of things. On TV. On the Net. In Life. In between the lines of what is said by friends of all political persuasions. This is the place where I write about what I've seen. What I've seen happen, what I see going on and where I see it taking us.
Obstructionist Right Wing brown-nosing does NOT create jobs!
Published: January 7, 2012
Someone famous once said, People believe lies easily provided they are big enough. Conventional Wisdom in Washington is currently inflicting two large egregious lies on the people they supposedly represent.
It is not about OWS, it is about Financial Tyranny Part 3
Published: November 7, 2011
A Vampire Squid sucking on the face of humanity is not worth protecting. A justice system that ignores such evil while committing acts of violence upon those engaged in Constitutionally protected Free Assembly makes a joke out of itself!
It is not about OWS, it is about Financial Tyranny! Part 2
Published: November 7, 2011
It breaks my heart when someone I admire goes along with conventional wisdom. Michael Shermers career has been one of knowing the truth and having it set his readers free. When he jumps on the dishonest Bash OWS bandwagon I must call foul
Its not about OWS, its about Financial Tyranny! Part 1
Published: November 7, 2011
The coverage and commentary of the Occupy Wall Street protests has been exactly what could be expected from people who alarmed us with Weapons of Mass Destruction in Iraq and placated us with a housing market that is only going up.
An Apology from the RNC to the American people!(parody)
Published: October 12, 2011
The Republican National Committee would like to take this opportunity to apologize for the poor character and idiotic ideology espoused by each of the Republican Presidential candidates. We are so very ashamed (or at least they should be)
An Apology from the DNC to the American People(parody)
Published: October 12, 2011
The Democratic National Committee would like to take this opportunity to sincerely apologize for President Obama's milquetoast stands on important issues. (or at least someone should issue an apology!)
Why you shouldn't consider a President Perry if you really care about small government!
Published: August 28, 2011
The real reason you can't call yourself a small government conservative and work or vote for a President Perry is his record regarding guilt and innocence under his administration. It is a model of corruption, incompetence, and dangerous abuse!
Well, Mr Santelli..., Are YOU Listening?
Published: August 10, 2011
Rick Santelli, the loud mouthed talking head on CNBC whom is credited as a father of the Tea Party Movement, recently evaded a very relevant question relating directly to the market's drop.
Where are we on the Deficit Financial Football Field?
Published: May 20, 2011
With all the demagoguery surrounding the discussions of the Deficit, people with different agendas bombard us all with information that is often conflicting with the facts. To gain some perspective, I propose putting this on a Football Field
In Defense of Nellie Oleson
Published: April 18, 2011
Bullying has been making headlines in recent months and as loathsome as practice as it is, we should not forget that the worst bully of all is the system itself.
The Real Legacy of Ronald Reagan Part 2
Published: April 18, 2011
The man behind the myth sheds a lot of light on why there is a need for a myth in the first place. If you go into the Capitol Rotunda, you will find a statue of this man who broke the laws of the very body where this statue is housed.
The Real Legacy of Ronald Reagan Part 1
Published: April 18, 2011
We failed to learn from the Savings and Loan Scandal of the Reagan era and so we repeated the error with the Enron, Tyco, and WorldCom scandals.
Yellow Journalism, yellowcake, and yellow-bellied cowards.
Published: March 23, 2011
The coverage of the Japanese Nuclear crisis was a journalistic disgrace for the most part. The most sensationalistic elements ruled the headlines as day after day passed and heroic progress in averting a meltdown was being made. When the Press behaves like this it shoots itself in the foot along with the public it supposedly serves! The Right is unforgiving once the story is settled and then they don’t have to make things up about a liberal bias!
Scott Adams' Noprivacyville, Anarcho Capitalism's Utopian Dream or Blueprint for Hell on Earth?
Published: March 20, 2011
Scott Adams, the creator of Dilbert recently put forth a thought experiment regarding a society where no one enjoys privacy. He puts forward a number of anti-individual ideas and it can be argued that we are trending towards them already. But it is an utopist notion doomed to failure because it fails to take into account human nature.
What if they threw an Election Year smear campaign and nobody watched?
Published: March 6, 2011
The campaigns for the 2012 contest to see which part of the Republican/Democrat Uniparty will pocket the most bribes as they sell out their fellow citizens had begun. The thing that will be different this time is the effect of the horrid Citizen’s United decision on a General Election. But how does the public fight back against that much Manufactured Consent?
Until Boehner and Cantor will cut the F-35, everything they utter is manipulative drivel!
Published: February 15, 2011
As long as it is a US taxpayer/citizen that has been victimized by a big insurance company, Boehner and Cantor are nonstop in their deficit hawk Red-Baiting rhetoric. When it comes to Social Security and Medicare they are sadistic with glee at worsening the lot of their impoverished fellow citizens. But, when it comes to a $382 Billion airplane that the Defense Department does not want, but is made by big employers in their districts, they are not only just as “tax and spend” as any Democrat, but they do so at the expense of our National Security.
Orwellian Doublethink Part 1: Sarah Palin
Published: January 7, 2011
George Orwell used the term Doublethink in his novel 1984 to describe the act of simultaneously accepting as correct two mutually contradictory beliefs, often in distinct social contexts. In the 1st part of this 3 part series in which I observe this prevalent political phenomenon, I’d like to look at America’s most popular hypocrite- Sarah Palin.
Orwellian Doublethink Part 3-@$$&#%#! Economics
Published: January 7, 2011
In this final installment on modern Orwellian Doublethink, we examine the acceleration of the Price Gouging, Low Wage paying @$$&#%#! Economics . This new school has benefited by the actions of Obama, Summers, Gietner, and Rubin. One has to have Orwellian Doublethink blinders on to believe the Conventional Wisdom that this new stage of @$$&#%#! Economics is indeed Free Market Capitalism.
Orwellian Doublethink Part 2-Our Bloodthirsty Leadership’s Response to Wikileaks
Published: January 7, 2011
In Part 2 of my Orwellian Doublethink series, let's examine how you can be in a leadership position of a free democratic republic and still make remarks that are not only anti-democratic and anti-constitutional, but which are bloodthirsty and tyrannical regarding Wikileaks. AND let's give credit where credit is due to Ron Paul for speaking common sense to power on the House floor.
The Great Economist Quote Quiz
Published: November 22, 2010
Can you differentiate between a quote from Adam Smith and a quote from Karl Marx? Would you know a Keynes quote from a Friedman quote? Let’s find out.
Sorry, Mr. Paul. It's not the Death of Keynesism, it's the old Bait and Switch!
Published: October 13, 2010
There is a double standard regarding deficits, which is unique in the amount of blood and tyranny on its hands, and it’s about to manipulate good citizens for the benefit of the Corporate-Military Industrial complex yet again.
South Park, the Nevada Senate Race, and the Political Cycle of Death!!
Published: August 10, 2010
Trey Parker and Matt Stone brilliantly summed up the horrible choices (or rather lack of choices) the American public faces when going to the voting booth in their episode Douche vs. Turd. As a Nevada voter forced to choose between Harry Reid and Sharon Angle, I think the political parody is still timely and we must rescue ourselves from this vicious two party cycle if we are to stand even a chance against coming crises.
IS THERE ANY WAY OF SPREADING BONEITUS TO OTHERS ON WALL STREET?
Published: June 24, 2010
As the third and final installment in my Futurama series, I call attention to That Guy from the episode Future Stock, a resurrected 80’s style financial whiz and his untimely death from the unfortunately fictional disease Boneitus. I’m looking at the behavior of Wall Street lately and sincerely wishing someone would spread boneitus to people like That Guy.
JACK JOHNSON OR JOHN JACKSON-THE CHOICE IS OURS!
Published: June 22, 2010
The 2nd in a three part series celebrating the return of Futurama by using its imagery to point out some of the flaws in our political economic idiocracy, we look at the candidates for election in the Futurama episode A Head in the Polls and the lack of choice we have when we go to the ballot box.
MILDLY INCONVENIENCING ZAPP BRANNIGAN
Published: June 19, 2010
As the First in a 3 Part series bemoaning the state of affairs in our country and celebrating the return of Futurama, I’ve found the perfect embodiment of our corporate military industrial complex- Captain Zapp Brannigan.
All Revolutions are Doomed…Especially the one currently in fashion!
Published: April 10, 2010
The Tea Partiers and the Russian Bolsheviks have more in common than they would be comfortable with, namely working to hurl their country towards disaster.
We should implement Asimov's 3 laws to protect us from our inhuman creations-not robots but corporations.
Published: March 11, 2010
The Citizen's United Supreme Court decision may unleash the legal equivalent of Brainiac and Ultron upon our country. We can thwart this by implementing the protections Issac Asimov recommended and applying them to these newly legal persons, the 3 laws of Robotics.
If Obama is a Socialist then the Pope is a Muslim!
Published: March 3, 2010
There are similarities between what is going on now in the White House and what went on in past administrations that resemble what went on in Tolkien and Herbert’s novels. The dynamic of those elites close to a leader betraying the followers and creating a disaster is relevant to all of us right now, regardless of where we find ourselves on the Nolan Chart!
Wrapped Up Just In Time for Xmas,...The '09 Health Care Train Wreck!
Published: December 24, 2009
The "Pre-existing Condition" Con Job from Health Insurance companies is coming to an end. It's important to remember that we could have gotten so much more. And it's even more important to remember who thwarted it and to keep fighting after the ink is dry!
What the Twilight Zone and the Evolution of Rock reveal about our stagnant society
Published: December 5, 2009
I love Rock n Roll. However, I feel like that anthem of rebellion and coolness from a generation ago has mutated into something a lot like an episode of the Twilight Zone “No. 12 Looks Just Like You”. When everyone is cool, no one will be!
Elections do nothing to fumigate D.C. and rid us of our unelected pests.
Published: November 19, 2009
The problem with our system is not who was voted in, but those whom are never subject to the forces of democracy! Those whom we do not vote for but affect our lives negatively anyway are the real domestic enemies of the Constitution.
An Open Response to Congressman Dean Heller's letter...for what it's worth
Published: November 6, 2009
I contacted my Congressman, Dean Heller, regarding the Health Care Reform Legislation I remember explaining that the point of view he was advocating was Pro-infant mortality, Pro-obscene Health Executive Compensation, and Pro-Emergency Room chaos. I received a response that I would love to share with the good reader, along with my rebuttal-
An Ideology Responsible for the Katrina Debacle Deserves No Second Chances!
Published: September 7, 2009
The response to Hurricane Katrina still matters and it is an act of moral cowardice to rationalize recent history for ideological reasons.
Alas, my favorite Anti-Theist supported a U.S. Holy War and potential descent into a Fascist Theocracy
Published: August 28, 2009
One of my favorite writers is Christopher Hitchens. He is at the pinnacle of his career right now. Unfortunately, he's only still a fallible human and a glaring contradiction haunts his recent work.
We’re feeling the effect of treating mass Libel and Slander as protected Free Speech right at this moment.
Published: August 11, 2009
My opinion on how the prospective return or permanent abolition of the Fairness Doctrine is being felt right now as birthers and paranoids are created by Right Wing Media
Of The Coachman and Democratic Donkeys
Published: July 27, 2009
Took another look at Pinocchio... Adults lecturing children on self indulgence should look at their own political behavior.
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