Saturday, August 29, 2009

Freepers, Birthers, Morons of all stripes, You didn't get mad...

You didn't get mad when the Supreme Court stopped a legal recount and appointed a President.

You didn't get mad when Cheney allowed Energy company officials to dictate energy policy.

You didn't get mad when a covert CIA operative got outed.

You didn't get mad when the Patriot Act got passed.

You didn't get mad when we illegally invaded a country that posed no threat to us.

You didn't get mad when we spent over 600 billion(and counting) on said illegal war.

You didn't get mad when over 12 billion dollars just disappeared in Iraq.

You didn't get mad when you saw the Abu Graib photos.

You didn't get mad when you found out we were torturing people.

You didn't get mad when the government was illegally wiretapping Americans.

You didn't get mad when we didn't catch Bin Laden.

You didn't get mad when you saw the horrible conditions at Walter Reed.

You didn't get mad when we let a major US city drown.

You didn't get mad when the deficit hit the trillion dollar mark.

You finally got mad when.. when... wait for it... when the government decided that people in America deserved the right to see a doctor if they are sick. Yes, illegal wars, lies, corruption, torture, stealing your tax dollars to make the rich richer, are all ok with you but helping other Americans... well *** that. That about right? You know it is.

Closing In on the Torturers | CommonDreams.org

Video Shows Confession Of Post-Katrina Vigilante - New Orleans News Story - WDSU New Orleans

The Secret History of Hurricane Katrina | Mother Jones

US Wants 20,000 More Troops to Fight Taliban | CommonDreams.org

US military deaths in Iraq war at 4,337 - Las Vegas Sun

Thursday, August 27, 2009

Informed Comment: Al-Hakim's Death Unsettles Iraqi Politics

Informed Comment: Al-Hakim's Death Unsettles Iraqi Politics: "Thursday, August 27, 2009
Al-Hakim's Death Unsettles Iraqi Politics

The big news in Iraq was the death from cancer in Tehran of Abdul Aziz al-Hakim, the clerical leader of the Islamic Supreme Council of Iraq."

Wednesday, August 26, 2009

Boston Review — Julius Purcell: The Memory That Will Not Die

Last Chance for the Public Option? | The American Prospect

The De-Facto Segregation of Health Care | The American Prospect

Ted Kennedy: Keeper of the Liberal Flame | The American Prospect

Thanks to EPA You May Be Unknowingly Drinking Water Contaminated With Weed Killer | Water | AlterNet

BBC NEWS | Americas | Obama leads tributes to Kennedy

BBC NEWS | Asia-Pacific | China admits death row organ use

Tuesday, August 25, 2009

Cheney Spin On CIA Memos Befuddles Politico | TPMMuckraker

Greg Palast » Expert FiredWho Warned Levees Would BurstHurricane George, Four Years Later

BBC NEWS | South Asia | Taliban confirm commander's death

Massachusetts Sen. Ted Kennedy dead at 77 - CNN.com

Monday, August 24, 2009

Roubini Sees Increasing Risk of Double-Dip Recession (Update1) - Bloomberg.com

Roubini Sees Increasing Risk of Double-Dip Recession (Update1) - Bloomberg.com: "“Last year, oil at $145 a barrel was a tipping point for the global economy as it created negative terms of trade and a disposable income shock for oil-importing economies,” he said. “The global economy could not withstand another contractionary shock if similar speculation drives oil rapidly toward $100 a barrel.”"

Saturday, August 22, 2009

American Chronicle | Bush's "A" List of High Crimes and Misdemeanors

American Chronicle | Bush's "A" List of High Crimes and Misdemeanors: "I will list the major crimes and misdemeanors in brief, bullet fashion. This will by no means be a complete list as I'm sure that after this administration leaves office, many lesser or other betrayals of the public trust will float to the surface."

BuzzFlash Review: George W. Bush, War Criminal? The Bush Administration's Liability for 269 War Crimes. (Hardcover)

Could Bush Be Prosecuted for War Crimes? | World | AlterNet

Could Bush Be Prosecuted for War Crimes? | World | AlterNet: "A Nuremberg chief prosecutor says there is a case for trying Bush for the 'supreme crime against humanity, an illegal war of aggression against a sovereign nation.'"

Bush's Crimes Against Humanity and the Planet

Friday, August 21, 2009

Getting Real About the High Price of Cheap Food - TIME

Informed Comment: Afghanistan: 50 Dead on Election Day, with Low turnout in Some Districts

Bush Official, in Book, Tells of Pressure on ’04 Vote - NYTimes.com

Bush Official, in Book, Tells of Pressure on ’04 Vote - NYTimes.com Nothing new here. Everyone and their grandmother knew these alerts were unadulterated bullshit.

Informed Comment: Bush Admin. worse than our Nightmares

Informed Comment: Bush Admin. worse than our Nightmares Republican Corruption - Situation Normal - A Morally Bankrupt Party.

Thursday, August 20, 2009

Breaking News and Opinion on The Huffington Post

Breaking News and Opinion on The Huffington Post 77% Support Public Choice Option in Health Care. Only those who were bribed or who are stupid do not support it.

C.I.A. Sought Blackwater’s Help in Plan to Kill Jihadists - NYTimes.com

FT.com / Companies / Banks - US hails victory in UBS tax battle

FT.com / Companies / Banks - US hails victory in UBS tax battle: "Switzerland’s famed bank secrecy on Wednesday as Bern agreed to reveal the names of 4,450 wealthy Americans holding offshore accounts"

Ailing Kennedy wants seat to be filled quickly - Capitol Hill- msnbc.com

Health Care Uproar Swallows Whole Foods : NPR

Health Care Uproar Swallows Whole Foods : NPR: "'If this is their corporate philosophy, I cannot support that,' Sparks says. 'There are other places to get the products that I want to buy.'"

Informed Comment: Whodunnit in Baghdad

Informed Comment: Whodunnit in Baghdad: ". . . if this is a political struggle, a short-term US military would not be the right solution. The solution is for the Obama administration to play hard ball with al-Maliki in getting him to pursue national reconciliation."

Informed Comment: 6 US Troops Killed in Afghanistan;
War Loses Majority Support

Wednesday, August 19, 2009

Advertisers deserting Fox News' Glenn Beck - MarketWatch

Advertisers deserting Fox News' Glenn Beck - MarketWatch Like rats jumping from a sinking ship! Buh-bye, Glen.

Tuesday, August 18, 2009

kucinich.us - Health Care Wanted: Dead or Alive

kucinich.us - Health Care Wanted: Dead or Alive
Health care reform is now a private option: WHICH FOR PROFIT INSURANCE COMPANY DO YOU WANT? You have to choose. And you have to pay. If you have a low income, under HR3200 government will subsidize the private insurance companies and you will still have to pay premiums, co-pays and deductibles.

The Administration plan requires that everyone must have health insurance, so it is delivering tens of millions of new "customers" to the insurance companies. Health care? Not really. Insurance care! Absolutely. Cost controls? No chance.

Paul Abrams: Beyond Clawback: Using the Tax Code More Expansively to Address AIG Bonuses

Paul Abrams: Beyond Clawback: Using the Tax Code More Expansively to Address AIG Bonuses "Clawback from those who caused those institutions to go 'broke back' requiring taxpayer bailout and from those who never would have received any money had their institutions died natural deaths are both legitimate recovery."

Basics - Brain Is a Co-Conspirator in a Vicious Stress Loop - NYTimes.com

Basics - Brain Is a Co-Conspirator in a Vicious Stress Loop - NYTimes.com ". . . Researchers have discovered that the sensation of being highly stressed can rewire the brain in ways that promote its sinister persistence."

DNA Evidence Can Be Fabricated, Scientists Show - NYTimes.com

BillionairesForWealthcare

Monday, August 17, 2009

Daily Kos: Glenn Beck Boycott has right wing bloggers frightened! (UPDATE X3: Beck Speaks!)

Daily Kos: Glenn Beck Boycott has right wing bloggers frightened!: "Glenn Beck Boycott has right wing bloggers frightened!"

www.madashelldoctors.com

www.madashelldoctors.com Their Byline: "Health Care For People Not Profit."

blogs | Mathew Gross

blogs | Mathew Gross: "Robert F. Kennedy Jr. has a powerful op-ed in today's Washington Post, taking on the Obama administration's disappointing inaction on mountaintop removal coal mining so far:"

Syria, Israel, and the Obama Administration : The New Yorker

Syria, Israel, and the Obama Administration : The New Yorker: "Syria Calling
The Obama Administration’s chance to engage in a Middle East peace. By Seymour M. Hersh"

Republican Death Trip | CommonDreams.org

Republican Death Trip | CommonDreams.org: ". . . Any Democrat who made it to the White House would face “an unending procession of wild charges and fake scandals, dutifully given credence by major media organizations that somehow can’t bring themselves to declare the accusations unequivocally false."

Dear President Obama: A Modest Medicare Proposal | CommonDreams.org

Thom Hartmann to President Obama: A Modest Medicare Proposal | CommonDreams.org: "Let's make it simple. Please let us buy into Medicare"

Congressional Progressive Caucus

Congressional Progressive Caucus: "I will not support any bill that does not include a public option."

The Seminal » Wal-Mart, CVS, Best Buy ditch Glenn Beck (plus 5 more companies)

"Sensitive" Oil Industry Memo Lays Out Plan For Astroturf Rallies Against Climate Change Bill | TPMMuckraker

Protesters Arrested for Anti-Bush T-Shirts Win Settlement | The Progressive

Tampabay: 7 protesters arrested; ticketholders kept out

Tampabay: 7 protesters arrested; ticketholders kept out: "outside the Sun Dome with a video camera and signs reading, 'Why do you let these crooks fool you?' and 'War is good business. Invest your sons.'" Arrested outside a Bush gathering in Florida simply for standing there with a video camera and signs that said, "Why do you let these crooks fool you?" and "War is good business. Invest your sons." Hypocrites.

Twelve Carry Guns -- Including Assault Rifle -- Outside Obama Event | LiveWire

Twelve Carry Guns -- Including Assault Rifle -- Outside Obama Event | LiveWire What would have happened had this occurred at a Bush/Cheney/McCain/Palin event? See for yourself. They were arrested for simply kneeling on the sidewalk:http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/20980625/.

Pelosi To White House: We’re Standing Firm Behind Public Option | The Plum Line

Pelosi To White House: We’re Standing Firm Behind Public Option | The Plum Line: "“A public option is the best option to lower costs, improve the quality of health care, ensure choice and expand coverage. “The public option brings real reform to lower costs over the 10 year period of the bill.”"“ A public option is the best option to lower costs, improve the quality of health care, ensure choice and expand coverage.”

YouTube - Walmart and the State

YouTube - Walmart and the State: "Walmart is not an example of free market success. The Walmart corporation relies heavily on the state to remove competition and to fund its growth. Clips from the movie 'WalMart: The High Cost of Low Price.'"

The Secret Life of Tom Daschle, Moonlighting For The Insurance Industry - Swampland - TIME.com

The Secret Life of Tom Daschle, Moonlighting For The Insurance Industry - Swampland - TIME.com: "Left unmentioned was the fact that Daschle, in his capacity as a high-paid consultant at the law firm Alston and Bird, is once again working closely with lobbyists for UnitedHealth, the largest U.S. industry player, aiding the company's effort to convince moderate Senate and House Democrats to, among other things, kill the public option and keep company profits high."

Mixing It Up With the Three Per Centers in Phoenix

August 17, 2009

Today President Obama appeared in Phoenix in support of health reform. As expected, the red-necked losers were out with their protest signs. I couldn't help but direct derrogatory remarks their way. I did this to two different groups of people, which brought out their fetal alcohol syndromes big time. The "F" word was flying, but I was seriously outnumbered, so I moved on to the next group, where it was game on again. We carried this one moving down the street and I was saluted many times with a Seig Heil salute. I expressed my desire that they learn to read. Phoenix is OBAMA COUNTRY!

Pattie Maes demos the Sixth Sense | Video on TED.com

Pattie Maes demos the Sixth Sense | Video on TED.com This demo -- from Pattie Maes' lab at MIT, spearheaded by Pranav Mistry -- was the buzz of TED. It's a wearable device with a projector that paves the way for profound interaction with our environment. Imagine "Minority Report" and then some.

Sunday, August 16, 2009

Kucinich Asks 'Is the Fed Paying Banks NOT to Loan Money?' (New Probe of TARP) - Democratic Underground

How you can self-destruct your messages - Times Online

How you can self-destruct your messages - Times Online: "How you can self-destruct your messages
Vanish program developed by Roxana Geambasu and Professor Hank Levy of Washington University puts expiry date on emails"

Audit the Federal Reserve: HR 1207 and S 604 | Ron Paul .com

Facebook's Purchase Is Bid to Own Social Media - washingtonpost.com

Women at Arms - G.I. Jane Breaks the Combat Barrier as War Evolves - Series - NYTimes.com

McAllen, Texas and the high cost of health care : The New Yorker

Center for International Policy

Howard Dean: The Media's Treatment of Palin's Outrageous "Death Panel" Claims

Iran expands mass trial of opposition supporters - Yahoo! News

Informed Comment: Hamas Crushes Islamist Group in Gaza

YouTube - George Galloway vs. U.S Senate (5/17/05)

Afghanistan passes 'barbaric' law diminishing women's rights | World news | guardian.co.uk

Could Dan Brown's new novel spell the end for the printed word? | Books | The Observer

Saturday, August 15, 2009

FAIR Blog » Blog Archive » Kidnapped Reporters Still Can't Get Story Covered

The Case for Busting the Filibuster

Blackwater Still Armed in Iraq

TheHill.com - Get ready for your own personal C-SPAN

Sheriff's Office defies judge on password order

FT.com / UK / Politics & policy - UK defends its healthcare

BBC NEWS | Health | Moderate drinking 'boosts bones'

Andy Worthington: Bagram Isn't The New Guantanamo, It's The Old Guantanamo

Watch the Tortured Logic Video -- Torture Memos -- Oliver Stone, Philip Glass, Rosie Perez, Elena Brower, Reg Cathey, John Doman, Noah Emmerich, Paola Mendoza, Patricia Perry, Quincy Tyler Bernstine

Op-Ed Contributor - Why We Need Health Care Reform - NYTimes.com

450.000 Doctors Cannot Be Wrong

Listen to what 450,000 American doctors say about the need for health reform. They want it, too.

Rachel Maddow Destroys "Deathers's" Lies BIG TIME!

It just doesn't get any better than this. Rachel Maddow tears the "deathers" - Sarah Palin, Newt Gingrich, Rush Turdblossom, and others - new assholes with their own words. Their own words prove how completely asinine and desperate the Republican Party is today. These hypocrits once PRAISED the same end of life planning. Pathetic.

President Obama Call Deathers Liars

The President is finally getting tired of trying to play nice with the morons on the Republican side who are the same politicians who previously proposed and pass the SAME provisions! How stupid are the sheep who follow these retards?