June 19, 2009 08:00 AM
Mike's Blog Round Up
Attytood: What's 100,000 or so deaths "to retain political and professional credibility"?
We are Respectable Negroes: A new low for Glenn Beck (for now), and the discreet charm of Ayn Rand.
Beggars Can Be Choosers: GOP Politicians are okay with tax-funded health care - but only for themselves.
Group News Blog: Reviewing my presidential wish list.
Majikthise: Wilkins Coffee ads as a metaphor for U.S. foreign policy.
SteveAudio: R.I.P. Bob Bogle.
Guest post by Batocchio. Temporarily e-mail tips to batocchio9 AT yahoo DOT com. Thanks!
always end up in the Conspiracy Theory category.
http://snardfarker.ning.com/video/kissinger-t...
don't go galt
just go
How can you have an honest debate about any philosophy when the true believers don't believe in the merit of any opinion but their own.
Vote GOP and move forward to the 18th Century.
The truth makes the posturing demagogue look foolish. That should be obvious.
This is one of the straws that breaks the camels political back:
http://www.nytimes.com/2009/06/19/us/19scotus...
Justice Stevens had it right in his dissenting opinion. Over 200 death row inmates have been exonerated due to DNA testing. And NATURALLY this case revolves around the fact that ALASKA!!! does not allow death row inmates to use DNA testing to prove their innocence.
Gov. Sarah Palin and the Alaska legislature are sick, stupid, un-American idiots!
(Which naturally begs the question, "Then what does that make the Supreme Court?")
"The US has an army of 90,000 soldiers in Afghanistan and is spending $100bn a year, but has still been unable to defeat 20,000-25,000 Taliban who receive no pay at all." - Patrick Cockburn
Bloomberg on healthcare plan in the Senate here
Article on draft document at WaPo here
Senate pdf link here
It omits the 'Public Option' - who needs it - it was a sham anyway.
It limits subsidies for poor people - we can't have THEM, now can we?
All in the supposed interest of containing cost. If they went with a single payer the greedy bastards could be FORCED to take payment of REASONABLE amounts. THAT would contain cost.
Government of the corporations, by the corporations, for the corporations… and their buddies.
Same ol' same ol'.
statusquObama, change you can only pretend in
It's closer to 1.3 million deaths thus far, not 100,000.
"A single death is a tragedy, a million deaths is a statistic" - J. Stalin
[And here's something that GOP politicians would rather you not know: the government (i.e. you, the U.S. taxpayer) pays up to 75 percent of Congress members' health-care premiums, according to the Office of Personnel Managemen]
Despite the article giving a pass for Democrats for "trying", I see no difference if both parties continue to deny single payer is a viable option in the healthcare debate. If only the public could start directing the kind of outrage towards Congress that the public expressed at AIG!
Actually, single payer is the only option that actually offers meaningful reform.
Your guess is as good as mine.
Those coffee ads are something!
Anyone else see the sad images out of Anchorage, Alaska for the LGBT community?
The way news USED to be:
http://www.mediachannel.org/wordpress/2009/06...
"The US has an army of 90,000 soldiers in Afghanistan and is spending $100bn a year, but has still been unable to defeat 20,000-25,000 Taliban who receive no pay at all." - Patrick Cockburn
Overall response: If journalists earn job security and advancement of their careers by going along with the crowd rather than challenging it, then they are being encouraged by their employers NOT to honor their social responsibility as a 4th estate. And by going along they are AGREEING not to honor their responsibility.
Don't want to blather here. I'll cross-post and expatiate on my own blog (which no one reads!):
http://www.agrippinaminor.com/wp/
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