Monthly Archives: September 2012

Not fraud BY, but AGAINST voters! #163 –R. M. Shelby, 8-24-12. [373 txt wds]

The following link will bring you to Steven Rosenfeld’s trenchant article titled: “Going Undercover at the GOP’s Voter Vigilante Project to Disrupt the Nov. Election.” (Shades of Florida in 2000!!) <http://www.alternet.org/news-amp-politics/going-undercover-gops-voter-vigilante-project-disrupt-nov election?akid=9262.315724.0xla4g&rd=1&src=newsletter698422&t=2&paging=off I employ “the Principle of Fair Use” widespread among poets and others, to quote Rosenfeld’s closing paragraph, entirely: “What we know is that […]

Vacuous laws & symbols. #162 –Robert M. Shelby, 8-24-12. [1111 txt wds]

Hi, folks! We’re all just folksy folks together, right? 1-percenters and 99-percenters? Just all of us, folks together in one happy country, right? Hell no we’re not together at all, and the majority are plenty mad, and we’re not going to take it any more. It’s too bad that the mad-hatter Tea Party went screwball, […]

Follow-up on Falsehood Factory #161-A –R. M. Shelby, 8-23-12. [299 txt wds]

An American friend of mine now residing  in Taiwan responded to my referenced piece in which I answered a local, rightwing challenger by providing many names of partisan manipulators of discourse that work to promote downfall of Obama and the U.S. public under defeat by corporate power and wealth. My friend referred to my listing […]

Exposing the falsehood factory #161 –Robert M. Shelby, 8-23-12. [982 txt wds]

“Cite a few examples of Conservatives [sic] writings where they are specifically coached on how to frame arguements [sic], using specific language and phrases so as to achieve their goals, as does your idol; Lakoff.” Sick! A younger, local contributor to the Benicia Herald Forum took his usual umbrage at my factual, well-supported statement that […]