A big welcome to the first independent user logged on to NunnaYerBizness Today, Annie Gonzalez! Your comments will be welcome, and, quite likely, will raise the intelligence quotient of the entire web log.
—Stan

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Stimulus package. How about a justice package? Someplace back in the Reagan years, the fascist overlords kicked the idea of economic justice right out of our head. Tax the fucking rich. It’s what Willy Sutton said: that’s where the money is. And a good many of them are rich because they are draining [...]

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A poem by Stan Raines
In Brownsville
In Brownsville did the Chertoff a mighty wall decree
Its ramparts tall and gleaming with turrets jeweled green and blue
Built of sturdy stone quarried from la Cerro de la Silla
And set in place by los manos de los albiñiles;
Many hands, many days and nights stretched to weeks and months,
They labored and [...]

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Dallas in two days. And I seem to be getting used to the rough, undignified handling at the airport. The Greatest Generation did a good job of raising us (and we, our children) to be inhabitants of the modern fascist state. Why, we hardly notice as the fog lifts, revealing the walls of the modern [...]

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