Archive for September, 2009
Health Insurance Reform — Where We Are Now
One of the things that is true about the discussion about this reform effort is that too few people really understand what is currently in the bills drafted. Part of that is because we get distracted by the misinformation about death panels, government taking over medical care and the other litany of lies that fired up the teabaggers over the last month.
Deep Thought
I’m tired of hearing that the Dems need to get in line or that they are fractured. The “Dems” that are fractured aren’t democrats. They are politicians/opportunists that obviously cater to their donors. But, the sad part is that many of the leading “Dems” are the sellouts and are the ones with the seniority and […]
Sign The Petition
I got this email from Jane Hamsher of Firedoglake. Please sign the petition if you haven’t already. The more signatures we can get, the better. We need to let Congress know that paranoid teabaggers are the minority and not the majority. Today at 5pm is the deadline to add your name to our petition asking […]
The latest R hero
[youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=G44NCvNDLfc&feature=player_embedded[/youtube] Get ready to see this guy more and more is my guess. He taps right into the arguement that unpatriotic Americans love to hear. Every man for himself. I guess they forgot that part in the pledge of allegiance that says something about “one nation for all” We are going to punish the 85% […]
JMY’s Media For the Masses: Obama School Daze Edition
First we RISE: [youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VJ95FaapL58[/youtube] Herb Alpert-Rise Perhaps we then LISTEN: [youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fF2vKBjmAkI[/youtube] Doobie Brothers-Listen to the Music (Quote from Robert Christgau: “You can lead a Doobie Brother to the recording studio, but you can’t make him think.”) I mean REALLY LISTEN HARD: [youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LM8GcPWyE2k[/youtube] Check It Out For Yourself If you don’t you may need Adult Education, and that would be […]
Deep Thought.
You know, maybe the President should create Death Panels, and FEMA concentration camps, and maybe we should deny Republicans health coverage and ration their healthcare. Maybe he should indoctrinate their children. Maybe he should take their guns. Maybe he should bring real socialism to this country and nationalize everything. Republicans already think we are doing […]
The First Step Is Admitting You Have A Problem
Seattle is opening the country’s first in-patient center for the treatment of internet addicition. The center, called ReSTART, is somewhat ironically located near Redmond, headquarters of Microsoft and a world center of the computer industry. It opened in July and for $14,000 offers a 45-day program intended to help people wean themselves from pathological computer […]
The Only Reason
Mike Mahaffie nails it. I took the liberty of running it through wordle to see what the top 75 words would be. Apparently, it’s all about “School.” So much for “indoctrination.” There is an argument developing in the comments on Pandora’s post that seeks to change the story about why there was an uproar. But […]
Obama’s Labor Day Speech
President Obama gave a speech in Cincinnati for Labor Day. He gives us a little preview of some of the things he may talk about in his Wednesday speech before Congress. I have to admit that it’s promising. I’ve excerpted part of the speech about health care reform. You can read the whole transcript at […]
How Crazy….
How crazy is the current Republican Party? So crazy that they have now made Newt Freaking Gingrich look sane! Gingrich put up this Twitter post this afternoon, after the White House released the text of the speech: Just read President Obamas speech to students.white House posted it. it is a good speech and will be […]
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