MGx – Musings, Essays & Ballads

Feature Article #1

Maddow — Fox News’ impact on race relations

Fox News is try­ing to art­fully slither out of the rep­u­ta­tion they have worked hard to earn — that they are a shill for the right wing — and this lat­est dust up with Shirley Sher­rod is bring­ing it home even to faith­ful view­ers of ‘Faux News’. O’Reilly tries to ignore Rachel’s charges and redi­rect the argu­ment to rat­ings. Adver­tis­ing rev­enue may be why report­ing news fac­tu­ally is less impor­tant to them than ratings.

magix | July 22nd, 2010 | Continued

Feature Article #2

Olbermann — The witch hunt vs Sherrod and those who enabled it

I have sat behind this desk for seven years and pushed back at these coun­ter­feit jour­nal­ists, as a man might stand at the shore and try to push back the tide. I have been branded an ide­o­logue and a prof­i­teer and a mir­ror of image of that which I assail. I have said it in every way I could think of, and been told I have been over-the-top because I have mocked and shouted and repeated.

magix | July 21st, 2010 | Continued

Feature Article #3

Maddow — Voodoo economics back — Jeff Merkley D-OR talks about it

Tax cuts for the rich grew the national debt dur­ing Ronald Reagan’s terms in office, George HW Bush, pre­dicted it would. Sen­a­tor Jeff Merkley, D-OR talks about it with Rachel

magix | July 20th, 2010 | Continued

Feature Article #4

No Trespassing! Lakeside City Hall, this means you! Part 3

In short, accord­ing to Ore­gon law, this ordi­nance should have been prop­erly posted so the pub­lic knew it was com­ing; openly placed on the agenda, so inter­ested indi­vid­u­als could attend that meet­ing; and the deci­sion to adopt it should have been arrived at openly…

Jessica | July 16th, 2010 | Continued

Feature Article #5

No Trespassing! Lakeside City Hall, this means you! Part 2

It is impor­tant to note that there is no require­ment in this new ordi­nance for a prior com­plaint, writ­ten or oth­er­wise. There
is no def­i­n­i­tion of “rea­son­able man­ner” or “rea­son­able steps.” In con­trast, Ore­gon Revised Statute (ORS) 90.322(f) Res­i­den­tial Land­lord and Ten­ant Law requires a min­i­mum of a 24 hour notice before the land­lord can enter the premises. In this new ordi­nance, deter­mi­na­tion of noti­fi­ca­tion is left strictly up to the enforce­ment offi­cial, who alone can decide whether noti­fi­ca­tion is “prac­ti­cal.” On the face of it, this ordi­nance appears designed to give City offi­cials free and full rein to tar­get any res­i­dent of their choos­ing in vio­la­tion of the U.S. Constitution.

Jessica | July 16th, 2010 | Continued

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When my old­est son, a Marine, left for war and crossed the bor­der from Kuwait into Iraq in March 2003 I started writ­ing my con­science. After two tours that young com­bat vet­eran, my first born son, is now per­ma­nently dis­abled suf­fer­ing from post trau­matic stress dis­or­der and his mother is now an ardent peace activist. […]