Hat tips

• To Yikes for the cartoons above.
  
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  To Woody for the picture above, who has been dead on in his evaluation of Obama for the past year.

• For Russ who made it onto C&L's blog roundup.

• From Tom Degan's Rant: "Fascism should more properly be called 'corporatism' because it is the total merging of corporate and state power." Benito Mussolini the Founding Father of the Fascist state
• This article from the Tom Paine blog is insightful on how to counter corporate greed.

Captain's Log 012510.0820

Last week was a really bad week for the average middle class worker in this country. A demographic soon to be placed on the endangered species list. The problem is that our elected corportate mouthpieces are about to kill the list.

I'm going to claim that phrase: Elected Corporate Mouthpieces or ECM's. They stopped being public servants a long time ago. Now the Supremes have brought them out of the closet.

The only consequence of this last blatant destruction of our Constitutional core values is that this decision might prove to be the one galvanizing over reach for the CorpoRepublicans that Roe v Wade was for the Democrats.