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Rantings of a frustrated Generation Xer

• Added on: Mar 1st, 2009
• Country: United Kingdom
• Language: English

• Author: Sam Hayden Jr
• Listed in: Democratic Politics
• Tags: politics Democrat obama political

Recent Posts

• The Irresistible Spread of Democracy – Berlin 20th anniversary edition

  Posted on Sunday November 8th, 2009 at 22:02 in politics, Current Events, cold war, history, freedom, political, democracy, iran, dictatorship, berlin wall, iran election, iranian presidential election

  20 years ago tomorrow, the world changed. It still moves me today to think back to the momentous events across Eastern Europe that brought about an end to the totalitarian Soviet communist regime. I was a 13 year-old boy living in Ireland at the time...

• Lewis Black does Keynesian economics

  Posted on Saturday November 7th, 2009 at 18:11 in politics, entertainment, Republicans, Democrats, humour, comedy, Barack Obama, Current Events, Wall Street, George Bush, economics, current affairs

  A year after Barack Obama’s historic election, one of his most contentious programs has been the $700 billion stimulus package. Here’s a clip of Lewis Black explaining John Maynard Keynes’ theory of how public works projects can st...

• The Irresistible Spread Of Democracy II (Iran NOW)/Election Fever Iran II

  Posted on Tuesday June 16th, 2009 at 16:53 in politics, thoughts, Democrats, Current Events, lies, current affairs, political, democracy, iran, mahmoud ahmadinejad, dictatorship, iran election

  `My two dogs tied to a tree by a ten foot leash kept howling and whining for an hour till I let them off. Now they are lying quietly on the grass a few feet further from the tree and haven’t moved since I let them off. Freedom may be only an id...

• ELECTION FEVER!! (Well, in Iran…come on…it matters)

  Posted on Thursday June 11th, 2009 at 18:24 in politics, Barack Obama, Middle East, political, musings, iran, mahmoud ahmadinejad, iranian presidential election, mir-hossein mousavi, spread of democracy

  Seven months ago, we had the historic and exciting American Presidential Election; last week the slightly less exciting and historic European Parliamentary (yawn) Elections were held…I did vote, incidentally. And tomorrow another pivotal vote t...

• The Susan Boyle Perspective (or lack thereof)

  Posted on Saturday May 30th, 2009 at 13:15 in entertainment, reality television, british media, britain's got talent, susan boyle, british tabloid media

  I’m about to sit down with M to watch the final of Britain’s Got Talent and just wanted to write my thoughts on “THE SUSAN BOYLE PHENOMENON”. I haven’t actually followed the series and so have only seen clips of the lady...

• The Irresistible Spread of Democracy (next stop, Iran)

  Posted on Monday May 25th, 2009 at 18:31 in politics, thoughts, Barack Obama, Middle East, Current Events, iraq, current affairs, political, democracy, iran, theocracy, mahmoud ahmadinejad

  Democracy is sometimes described as an inherently European and American ideal, that can’t work in places like the Middle East. This view is peddled mainly two groups – firstly by those who believe in inherent Western superiority over a su...

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