Category Archives: Kathys Diary

Hunger in America

In New York Wall Street financial institutions paid themselves $20.8 billion in cash bonuses last year while almost 120,000 men, women and children spent at least one night in a city shelter, an all-time record. That’s just one city. Forty-five million Americans go to bed hungry in this country, but that’s not enough for the…

Off the Reservation

Seems Sec. of Defense Robert Gates is breaking ranks with the administration over Libya.  Gates and Sec. of State Hillary Clinton visited David Gregory on Meet the Press on Sunday and shared decidedly different views on our latest excursion into the Mideast. Here’s a sample exchange from the program: MR. GREGORY: Secretary Gates, Is Libya…

Harrowing Headlines

Radio Host Mike Malloy Arrested in Washington, DC Hundreds Protest the Treatment of Alleged Wikileaks Whistle Blower Private Bradley Manning Status report: Reactor-by-reactor at the Fukushima Daiichi plant Snapshot: Japan’s nuclear crisis Workers exposed to radiation in water 10000 times normal level Breach suspected at troubled Japanese power plant Japan’s Nuclear Nightmare Is Our’s Too…

Eight Years Too Many

Come you masters of war/ You that build the big guns. You that build the death planes/ You that build all the bombs. You that hide behind walls/ You that hide behind desks. I just want you to know/ I can see through your masks. ~~Bob Dylan Saturday the 19th marks the 8th anniversary of…

Sleeping With the Enemy

“Tonight, 18 Senate Republicans conspired to take government away from the people.  In 30 minutes, 18 state senators undid 50 years of civil rights in Wisconsin. Their disrespect for the people of Wisconsin and their rights is an outrage that will never be forgotten,” said Democratic Senate Minority Leader Mark Miller following the shocking and…

We Shall Not Be Moved

Walker won’t budge.  Not after the taped call incident with “David Koch” that proved he was just a water-boy for the ultra-right corporate fascists who rule America; not after poll after poll reveals the overwhelming majority of Wisconsin residents – and plain ‘ol Americans – are opposed to his actions; not after the public unions…

The People – United – Will Never Be Defeated

The Atlanta “Stop the War on Workers” rally at the Capitol was attended by about 300 pro-union supporters and about 35 Teabaggers across the street.  Their signs displayed the typical grammatical errors and Glenn-Beck-inspired messages warning against “The Kenyan’s” attempt to kill our grandparents and install a Soviet/socialist hybrid-style government. The irony is, these working-class…

Common Sense

The American Teabaggers have co-opted everything in this country, including what should be a true Boston Tea Party-style revolt against the Big Corporations who are dismantling the middle class one family at a time. There’s a lesson to be learned, Truthseekers, from our former countrymen in Great Brittan.   The media here isn’t covering this,…

Good News Week

Welcome, Truthseekers, to the Friday headline edition of the Malloy Program.  Join us tonight for our weekly recap of all the weird, wild, wonderful, and wacky news stories that captured our attention this week.  For example . . . . New CPAC head apparently plans to ban Dick Cheney next year Dick Cheney and Donald…

For Lovers Everywhere

It’s Valentine’s Week, Truthseekers.  Time to celebrate all things love-related.  And there’s no better time to remember that an entire segment of this population is denied the basic right to marry whom they choose.  So please read this article from The Advocate, and remember that none of us can claim freedom when some of us…