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Mo Rage
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A blog about American society: its politics, current events, history, entertainment, music, comedy, movies and society overall and where we're headed, possibly, likely
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Is the Midwest Going Crazy?
Two events took place this past week that I'm sorely surprised and even disappointed in for all of us. It's bad enough things like these even happen, let alone... Read more
Posted on 01 February 2015 SOCIETY -
The Biggest--and Worst---Trade Deal Ever You Need to Know About
The biggest trade deal ever, in the history of the nation, is being considered right now and most people know very little or nothing at all of it. Read more
Posted on 01 February 2015 SOCIETY -
Born This Day
For Langston Hughes, born this day, 1902 in, of all places, Southwest Missouri. Joplin, to be specific, which is now so Right Wing and Republican: Let America B... Read more
Posted on 01 February 2015 SOCIETY -
Two of the Most Important Quotes for America Today
Two of the most prophetic and important quotes of the last 60 years are President Dwight David Eisenhower's at the end of his Presdiency for the first: In the... Read more
Posted on 31 January 2015 SOCIETY -
Entertainment Overnight -- Flashback
Lyin' in my bed I hear the clock tickAnd think of youCaught up in circles confusionIs nothing newFlashback warm nightsAlmost left behindSuitcase of... Read more
Posted on 30 January 2015 SOCIETY -
A Poem: From an Iraq War Veteran
A Poem: From an Iraq War Veteran Maybe a poem for the American people: I Hate: A Poem I hate being a veteran of war I hate the constant triggers I hate the neve... Read more
Posted on 27 January 2015 SOCIETY -
An Open Letter from Republicans to the American Voter
From Facebook, yesterday: Mindy Fischer, Writer Dear Americans.... We would like to ask you to please consider voting for the GOP in 2016. Read more
Posted on 27 January 2015 SOCIETY -
That Republican Keystone XL "Jobs Bill"?
Check out what the Republican Keystone XL "jobs bill" won't have in it (from The Daily Kos and Bloomberg News):. Senate Republicans Block Keystone Export and... Read more
Posted on 24 January 2015 SOCIETY -
President Obama, Kansas and the Likely Brilliant Move
By now, most who follow politics and/or President Obama know he's taking his State of the Union messages on the road. He was in Idaho today and will be in Kansa... Read more
Posted on 21 January 2015 SOCIETY -
The Things from the State of the Union Address I Think We Can All Support
Of all the things said last night in President Obama's annual State of the Union address, it seems these, at least, are things you'd think everyone and anyone,... Read more
Posted on 21 January 2015 SOCIETY -
Republicans' Hypocrisy "honoring Dr. King"
I was just out on Facebook and saw how Missouri's Senator Roy Blunt said he was to "honor the life and legacy of Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. Read more
Posted on 19 January 2015 SOCIETY -
Martin Luther King Day
"...we must find an alternative to war and bloodshed." "It is no longer a choice, my friends, between violence and nonviolence. It is either nonviolence or... Read more
Posted on 19 January 2015 SOCIETY -
America----Where is Your Memory?
Am I the only one in this nation that knows or remembers that the George W Bush administration frew billions of dollars into Iraq, around the time of the... Read more
Posted on 17 January 2015 SOCIETY -
Missourians, You and Your Government Are Being Bought---and Sold
Ladies and gentlemen, voters of Missouri, it's important you know the name Rex Sinquefield and that you know what he's done, what he's doing and what, it seems... Read more
Posted on 17 January 2015 SOCIETY -
Our Obscene Defense Spending, America
Famous and very talented, accomplished author James Fallows writes, this week, in The Atlantic Monthly on the obscene, wasteful Defense budget and our military... Read more
Posted on 16 January 2015 SOCIETY -
The Nightmare That Is US Military Spening
Americans, you think you're a "peace-loving country", don't you? Contact your Congressional Representatives and the President. Tell them to get the Defense... Read more
Posted on 16 January 2015 SOCIETY -
Who and What's Bankrupting America?
The corporations and wealthy are bankrupting America, for one, what with all the tax deductions they buy themselves from their---our----legislators, with... Read more
Posted on 15 January 2015 SOCIETY -
Kansas City Gets Some Mention from the Oval Office
Kansas City, as I said above, gets some mention this week from the Oval Office and President Obama, largely due to Google's internet speeds: Because here's... Read more
Posted on 14 January 2015 SOCIETY -
The More Common but Tragic Racism
"The vast majority of poor people and people of color whose lives have been lost to this inhumane system are never shot or beaten by police. Read more
Posted on 14 January 2015 SOCIETY -
The Current Republican Congressional Session (guest Post)
"Look at the priorities of the new Republican congressional – the Keystone XL Pipeline, the Trans-Pacific Trade agreement, tax cuts for big corporations and... Read more
Posted on 14 January 2015 SOCIETY