Red State Update just gets better and better.
Open thread below...
Hannity: 'Odd That They Didn't Release the Birth Certificate' 
Homer Simpson Does Glenn Beck
Open Thread
Jon Stewart: Can't We Just Admit a Socialist is Someone Who Wants to Spend Government Money on Sh*t You Don't Like?
Rupert Murdoch says Glenn Beck 'was right' that Obama is a racist who hates white people |
Jon Stewart: Can't We Just Admit a Socialist is Someone Who Wants to Spend Government Money on Sh*t You Don't Like? |
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Pastor's Hateful Sermon on Gays and Lesbians Draws Protests in North Carolina |
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Tony Blair Branded 'War Criminal' in Court; Pelted With Eggs While Leaving |
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Alan Simpson Still Pounding His Fist on the Table for a Grand Bargain |
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Conflating Moderates With Corporatists and AstroTurfers With Grass Roots |
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Colin Powell Takes Hannity to Task for His Obsession with Bill Ayers and Rev. Wright |
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Stockman: Romney Can't Say He Learned How to Create Jobs in the Leveraged Buyout Business |
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Bill Maher Takes a Shot at the Birthers With Parody on Romney's 'Wiferism' Scandal |
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Arizona Congressional Candidate 'Pulls a Coffman' |
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Open Thread: Top Ten Things Michele O'Bachmann Said During Her Trip to New York City |
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The Muppets Hit Back at Fox News |
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Colbert Makes a Mockery of Santorum Refusing to Refute Elderly Birther at Campaign Stop |
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Anthem Blue Cross and Blue Shield in Maine, a subsidiary of WellPoint, the nation's largest insurer, wanted the state to approve an average rate hike of 18.5 percent on its policyholders. Maine rejected the increase and now the insurer is fighting for the hike in court.
Robert Greenwald's Brave New Films is taking aim at Anthem's rate reach in the latest installment of his "Sick for Profit" series. The video, posted below, is a slick pitch for pitchfork-style outrage. It notes how much WellPoint pays its CEO ($9.8 million) and how much of its policyholders' premiums it spends on lobbying ($9.5 million). WellPoint's subsidiary in Maine says it needs the rate increase to guarantee a 3 percent profit margin.
"The only justification for this lawsuit is just pure greed," says Ali Vander-Zanden of the Maine People's Alliance in the video.
Read more at: http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2009/10/05/well...
I've just sent your link sailing around the country to lots of activists....
"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
Make these phone calls and spread the word.
Boycott Tyson Foods of Arkansas who gave Mike Ross D-Arkansas
$37,000 for his campaigns. Call lobbyist for Tyson Foods Chuck
Penry 202 393 3921 and tell him politely that you refuse to
buy Tyson chicken until Mike Ross D-Arkansas the leader of the
Blue Dogs on health care gets the entire house and senate
conservative Democrats to help get HR 676 enacted into law.
Tell others to call. Send me email after you call to
info@democratz.org
Boycott American Express who gave Max Baucus $50,000 for his
campaigns. Call Joanna Lambert at 212 640 9668 and politely
tell her you will not use any American Express cards until
Max Baucus gets HR 676 enacted into law. Email me after you call.
Call GOP contributor Rite Aid Pharmacies at 800 325 3737 and
tell the person to get the CEO to get congress to enact HR 676
Single payer health care and enact a new Medicare Prescription
drug benefit in Medicare Part B covering 80% of the cost of
drugs with no extra premiums, no extra deductibles, no means
tests, no coverage gaps, and remove the means test for Medicare
Part B and until that happens, you won't buy ANYTHING from
Rite Aid Pharmacies.
In 2008 Brown-Forman, the maker of Jack Daniels Whiskey and
Southern Comfort gave Mitch McConnell money for his campaigns.
CALL Brown-Forman AT 502-585-1100 and tell the person who
answers to get the CEO to GET Mitch McConnell to execute no
Republican filibusters and enact the Employee free choice act
into law or you don't buy Jack Daniel's whiskey and Southern
Comfort anymore!
Call GOP contributor Wendy's restaurants at 800 443 7266 and
tell the person who answers that you want their CEO to get
congress to enact a $10/HR MIN. WAGE into law and until this
happens you will not go to a Wendy's Restaurant.
Call GOP contributor and war contractor General Electric
Corporation at 800 386 1215 or 203 373 2211 and tell the
person who answers, to tell the GE CEO Jeffrey Immelt that
you want him to get the President to end the war in Iraq
and Afghanistan and until that happens you will not buy
any GE products and that you will tell your friends about this.
Ref. maximus7: "Make these phone calls and spread the word."
Way to go, maximus7! I hope your post goes viral. I hope you're posting this idea to as many sites as possible.
This "little big" phone call campaign is a damn fine idea. Good luck with this.
I hope you spread the word too and everyone else reading this message.
I cannot do this alone, nor can you.
consider:
Not eating ANY junk food, including shite from Wendy's.
Not drinking rot-gut like JD or watered-down pee-iss like Bud or Miller or....any mass-produced beer.
And call their offices and tell them why. Money--or the withholding thereof--does talk.
I burned out on RSUD in '08 (over-exposure) but this one has won me back, these guys are brilliant.
guarantee a 3 percent profit margin.
Health insurance profit are officially on the order of 30%, not 3%. They are don't need any increases in rates, especially not 18%. How does an increase of 18% insure a profit of 3% when they are already profitable? Every one of these crooks deserve to be shut down and every one of their executives and management locked up for life at hard labor, for exploiting and profiteering on the sickness and death of the American people.
they are so good, but so troubling.
one(two) of the best.
Some stuff you can't make up!
I swear, I know these two from my time in the South. They are just perfect at what they do.
Too big to jail…
bank cartoons here
statusquObama, change you can only pretend in
http://www.independent.co.uk/news/business/ne...
This could be the beginning of the end of "capitalism" as we know it....
"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
Robert Fisk is a journalist of the first rank, he knows the middle east.
I run around in circles saying the sky is falling, here it is.
This is another one
Ellen Brown here
The IMF is issuing their own fiat currency. Lots of pressure to get out of the dollar.
When the dollar tanks we will have commodity and import inflation. The FED will need to raise rates but the political heat will be intense for them not to. It will put a double whammy on the economy.
Basically, we're screwed.
statusquObama, change you can only pretend in
I agree. We're totally screwed!!!! Gosh! I just ´'love' CAPITOLISM/VAMPIRISM/neoNAZIcons, so, so, so, so much!!! I just 'love' being forced to shoot myself in the foot each and every 'selection' season. SNARK!!!!
Brad Blog, more on Sibel Edmonds here and here
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UN envoy fired 'was ordered to cover up [Afghanistan] vote fraud' here
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Andy Worthington, CounterPunch here
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JEREMY SCAHILL here
statusquObama, change you can only pretend in
Nice to see democracy in action!
Why are we there again?
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statusquObama, change you can only pretend in
here
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Peter Schiff is running for the Senate in Connecticut. Against the now aforementioned presumably reconstituted Chris Dodd. You can fill in your own blanks on Dodd's previous problems. Schiff it should be remembered, helped with the economic cracks in Ron Paul's pot, loads of cracks there are, to be sure.
If Peter Schiff turns Chris Dodd into Alan Grayson, I am all for his candidacy, right up to where he loses.
Thinkprogress sidebar here
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Robert Fisk the Independent here
Ruh Roh
statusquObama, change you can only pretend in
lots of great info.....as usual.
Here's something interesting that doesn't surprise me.
I mentioned this to Howard Fineman at a gathering here in The Berkshires last night and he said, "I don't know about that."
Here it is...Israel is the biggest threat to peace in the Middle East:
http://news.xinhuanet.com/english/2009-10/04/...
This wasn't the most welcome comment /question among a group of Jews at the Temple up the street.....
"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
Politics is all about who's cart is in the ditch.
Israel has something like 200 devices, a number I have heard from a credible source, but then who knows. Everyone around them must consider that as problem number one.
I lived in Detroit for a long time right on the Dearborn border with 200,000 Arabs in the immediate area. I always got along fine. My old neighborhood now has now gone Iraqi. I also have many Jewish friends, there is a large community now just north of Detroit.
I don't have an answer for the problems of the middle east.
statusquObama, change you can only pretend in
...........is the BIGGEST threat to peace since 1952 because this rogue-non-nation, is the shill for the International Military/Industrial/petroleum/media mafia. They can be nothing less. BLOODYISRAEL is a terrorist non-state who exports terror. Only 100 Zionist families in Honduras and Steve Clemons from Wash. Note, is surprised that there is lots of 'anti-sematism' there. Funny choice of words in my opinion. It's more like Anti-Zionist/anti-VampireEmpire.
wow the piece with Diane Sawyer on Sielbel Edmonds was worthless journalism.
I understand little is proven in the case but much has been verified and they did not even hint as to the nature of her allegations. They could have stated them and their attempts to verify them, but all ABC talks about is Seibel's award for standing up.
Still no coverage of this case in mainstream media.
Top 21 countries in the world to live based on data from 2007, according to the UN
1. Norway
2. Australia
3. Iceland
4. Canada
5. Ireland
6. Netherlands
7. Sweden
8. France
9. Switzerland
10. Japan
11. Luxembourg
12. Finland
13. United States
14. Austria
15. Spain
16. Denmark
17. Belgium
18. Italy
19. Liechtenstein
20. New Zealand
21. United Kingom
Read more: http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/worldnews/art...
I'm surprised, i thought the US where somewhere in the region of Zimbabwe. Better than Austria, or Liechtenstein? I call BS.
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#1 - it is from 2007, Iceland went bankrupt and Ireland nearly so…
When you come down to it so have we…
#2 - It is the Daily Mail - something of a conservative rag… A big bag salt is advised.
statusquObama, change you can only pretend in
True, Ireland said yes to Lisabon. Wonder why?
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abortion and other sticking points that caused it to fail the last go around.
"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
Sure thing, abortion was a great concern to the Irish (want a abortion? go to England. Fucking hypocrites) They had a lot of money for years from the EU. Now it's looking grim so now what? That's right.
Pffft!
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My mom- second generation Irish-American (half Irish, actually)- said for years that if Roe v Wade was overturned she was going to exercise her right of return to Ireland.
She shelved that plan when I pointed out the illegality of abortion in Ireland.
Don't try to confuse the issue with half-truths and gorilla dust.
Well let us put things in a proper perspective:
Austria has not sponsored the Olympics since 1976
Less than 10% of American children can find Liechtenstein on a map
As per our divine guidance we could never be rated below any nation that we have deployed combat troops into in the last 20 years........*snark*
'Talk to the hand'
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/europe/2149799.stm
that article is five years older! :D
Don't try to confuse the issue with half-truths and gorilla dust.
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/worldnews/626...
and the BBC. wrong article above.
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/8290550.stm
Bs, Liechtenstein is close to andora, witch is close to Antarctica. That is Robben Island. That is fort orange, where Darwin got imprisoned.
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Andorra is in the Pyrenees...And Mandela was imprisoned on Robben Island, no? Darwin, too, or are you just testing us?
Don't try to confuse the issue with half-truths and gorilla dust.
Who knows, use teh googles ;)
Thanks for correcting me on "Andorra". I spelled i wrong!
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I was correcting you! 8D
Don't try to confuse the issue with half-truths and gorilla dust.
I just noticed it, i'm half arsed dyslectic. Thank god or some other deity for spell checking!
;)
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I just thought you forgot your \snark.
Liechtenstein is hidden in the Alps, with more corporations than people.
Hidden to good Corporate effect, so I understand.
statusquObama, change you can only pretend in
snark, i guess then!? I thought they sell kittens!
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Last remaining vestige of the Holy Roman Empire, iirc.
Don't try to confuse the issue with half-truths and gorilla dust.
No, burgundy!
True fact lie, or something!
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I think.
Don't try to confuse the issue with half-truths and gorilla dust.
the Hapsburgs & the HRE a few years back, but I moved on to the Ottomans.
Don't try to confuse the issue with half-truths and gorilla dust.
That's kewl. I do not know that much about it. But i appreciate it that you do.
Salute m8 8)
(Burgundy is not Luxembourg)
Edit: more close to Swiss IIRC
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It was part of Burgundy in the 14th and 15th Centuries.
Unlike Liechtenstein, however, Luxembourg was absorbed by France before Napoleon dissolved the HRE, then was given to the Netherlands, then Belgium....Liechtenstein just became independent upon the dissolution and has remained so, wholly, with the Princes of Liechtenstein descending from the same line that was given the title and authority by the Emperor.
Don't try to confuse the issue with half-truths and gorilla dust.
Ah alright. most of western Eurp was HRE back then. Good insight tho :)
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...and Hungary. Mostly.
And that which wasn't necessarily part of the HRE was ruled by families with ties to the HRE.
And then there was that period when Charles V was HR Emperor as well as King of Spain, with all of Spain's Transatlantic territory....
Don't try to confuse the issue with half-truths and gorilla dust.
...which is how he obtained Holland, iirc.
Don't try to confuse the issue with half-truths and gorilla dust.
And then there where a bunch of morons who could build ships. They used those ships to fuck England on the Thames! Burn! A small country, big balls!
Hell, major victory! For years to come!
1666 or was it 1667?
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Made a great empire out of one that should have been a nation half under water. Smart folks. Great shipbuilders. Great artists. Great traders.
And I've asked you this a few times in the past, but would you please, please, PLEASE take back your Calvinist cousins who live in my neck of the woods? The Amway and Xe people? Pete Hoekstra? Please.....
Don't try to confuse the issue with half-truths and gorilla dust.
Just because they have Dutch sounding names! Lies! They are from Belgium!
:p
Calvin and hobbes is cool tho
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They're Catholic, and in Wisconsin. They're actually fun to be around.
We've got people from Friesland and Zeeland. Your people. But Republicans.
:P
Don't try to confuse the issue with half-truths and gorilla dust.
We have a ship load of them. Can we dump them on your shore?
Back in the days we shipped them and give them a salute.
Edit: i'm from Drenthe and Groningen, also German blood ;)
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Not my fault, i'm a 100% lefty from a 100% lefty family. My grandmother got a yad vashem medal and tree. And even before that a relative got fired for sticking up for a "retard" , and he said "fuck you" . prolly not in that wording. But he did. Sometimes resistance is just saying fuck you!
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Probably fewer than 10% of American children can find the USA on a map (especially in S. Carolina: bad map readers. What's a map?), so point #2 is moot.
far left loon >.<
WHAT! Wait... Liechtenstein is REAL?!?! (who knew?)
From the mountaintop one can scream about being the greatest country in the history of the world....and have bumper stickers of special blessings from God....
but that's like saying you are the best looking to the mirror...
The truth is what others think and say about you.
How many of the countries between 1 and 12 have some form of socialized healthcare? I don't know offhand but just on a quick glance I'm guessing its way more than 50 pecent?
They are all universal systems though Switzerland is a private system. Off the top of my head.
statusquObama, change you can only pretend in
there has been some( minimal) chatter that we could copy the swiss system. it's basically private system up to a certain % of income. after that i believe if i remember correctly there's a subsidy program to cover the outstanding cost. not sure though.
Look at the countries after 13 with socialized health care. They are doing better so much now!
Trufax!
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Hi Harry, hate to say it but all of us have single payer medicare.No it's not evil either, w2orks pretty good actually.But don't ask your politicians,the biggest bunch of hypocrites on this earth
But their policies regarding residency are pretty strict, especially w.r.t. age of applicant (and spouse, if app.). Also, their government went pretty reactionary crazy the same time as ours. New Zealand is considerably more liberal in regard to old people (over 30, not kidding). Of course, just about any country will waive its restrictions for someone brining in a multi-million dollar business (or bank account).
"I know that there are people who do not love their fellow
man, and I hate people like that! " ~ Tom Lehrer (1928 - )
BushCo and the neocons did more to damage America's image than anyone (friend or enemy) before, or since. You were pretty much universally disliked (by anyone following the news).
far left loon >.<
My family watches the news from the BBC and from the Latin American and Spanish channels, and the impression I got during the Bush years was that people around the world wanted to like America but just couldn't bring themselves to do it anymore. The Disaster Administration trashed us so completely that even those people who had always admired us turned their backs, thinking that any population that could so passively put up with the mendacious bullshit going on couldn't be worth supporting. Our voting in Obama had the effect of proving to them that we really could do something about the slime that covered our country during those eight years, so now they're willing to forgive us for our collective insanity. This is something for which I'm very grateful, as the plummeting of our reputation was one of the worst effects of that time; the gods only know what would have happened to us if Grandpa Grumpy haad won.
There's always free cheddar in the mousetrap, baby. - Tom Waits
As reported on Kos and
BeliefNet (Digg link).. our friends at Conservapedia, having apparently expunged the liberal bias from reality, are now doing the same for theology!
Seriously, you can't make this stuff up. It's beyond parody.
These people are out of their fucking minds.
when I came across this earlier my impression was that they were referring to liberally applied biases.
Nope, they want to liberally apply their personal biases into yet another translation of a bible.
See for yourselves, these people are insane:
http://conservapedia.com/Conservative_Bible_P...
'Talk to the hand'
...............has been changed so much over all the 2000 yrs. that this is just more of the same. That's why, if I read the Bible at all, it's with a very jaded, and critical eye.
I find it a tome of Male Domination and justification for that, which is total crap! There were many female 'apostles' that Paul, the misoginist cut out of the picture even while Jesús lived. Actually, I think Jesús message was completely stolen, twisted, manipulated to fit male agendas, thus is hardly recognizable.
if you could go back far enough, the old testament and islam stories originated at the same place. Separated tribes of people telling stories passed down generation to generation before they were set in stone with written language.
There is a preponderance of evidence that "THE Bible" does not exist.....perhaps has never existed(?). There are certainly many assemblies of stories that collectively are referred to as "The Bible", and the King James version was assembled from previous text by an appointed committee. So if a loose collection of wingnut stooges want to create yet another politically biased version of "THE Bible" we should not be surprised, although their reasoning falls within the spectrum of bat-shit insane.
BTW I am not an atheist, I merely wish to point out the obvious.
'Talk to the hand'
A federal agency tasked with expanding the American dream of home ownership and affordable housing free from discrimination to people of modest means has been quietly moving a chunk of that role to Wall Street since 2002. In a stealth partial privatization, the U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development (HUD) farmed out its mandate of working with single family homeowners in trouble on their mortgages to the industry most responsible for separating people from their savings and creating an unprecedented wealth gap that renders millions unable to pay those mortgages. This industry also ranks as one of the most storied industries in terms of race discrimination. Rounding out its dubious housing credentials, Wall Street is now on life support courtesy of the public purse known as TARP as a result of issuing trillions of dollars in miss-rated housing bonds and housing-related derivatives, many of which were nothing more than algorithmic concepts wrapped in a high priced legal opinion. It’s difficult to imagine a more problematic resume for the new housing czars.
To what degree this surreptitious program has contributed to putting children and families out on the street during one of the worst economic slumps since the ’30s should be on a Congressional short list for investigation. HUD’s demand for confidentiality from all bidders and announcement of winning bids to parties known only as “the winning bidder” deserves its own investigation in terms of obfuscating the public’s right to know and the ability of the press to properly fulfill its function in a free society.
Despite three days of emails and phone calls to HUD officials, they have refused to provide the names of the winning bidders or the firms that teamed as co-bidders with the winning party. Obtaining this information independently has been akin to extracting a painful splinter wearing a blindfold and oven mitts.
That a taxpayer-supported Federal agency conducts a competitive bid program of over $2 billion and then refuses to announce the names of the winning bidders is beyond contempt for the American people. If the Obama administration does not quickly purge this Bush mindset from these Federal agencies, he is inviting a massive backlash in the midterm elections.
http://www.counterpunch.org/
In my opion, no. I do think the public opinion is turning but here is a must read article.
http://www.consortiumnews.com/2009/100409.html
The edict, issued on Sept 12, follows a recommendation by the trustees of the country's foreign reserves, Iran's English-language daily The Tehran Times said on Monday, citing Iran's semi-official Mehr News Agency.
The move was taken because the government wishes to protect itself from the fragility of the US economy and the weak dollar.
The OSF, which forms part of Iran’s foreign exchange reserves, is a contingency fund set aside to cushion the economy against fluctuating international oil prices.
It is also used to help both the public and private sectors with their hard currency needs by extending loans.
Press TV meanwhile reported that following the switch the interest rate for facilities provided from the foreign exchange reserves is to be cut to 5 percent from 12 percent.
Since its introduction in 1999 by the EU the euro has gained popularity internationally and there are now more euros in circulation than the dollar.
http://www.arabianbusiness.com/568241-tehran-...
Tear down the emissions. Despite being screwed by unemployment, the AP claims 20-somethings have it great in this economy. Obama also has a problem with pulling out. Things could be worse. Axing corporate welfare doesn't seem to be included in the ideas for keeping our budget solvent. The middle-class could still get screwed under health "reform". States aren't getting any better with the end of the recession. Make way for cuts to nursing homes. Pakistan won't show us the aid money. I love rewarding incompetence. Meanwhile, the good jobs available can't seem to find any matches. Looks like Paulson lied about the stability of our banks. Do ask, do tell. Honduras borrows our Patriot Act. Another university gun nut. Air pollution might give ya appendicitis. First they out-sourced our jobs, now they're out-sourcing our consumers. SCOTUS is now considering what excuse it can make to undermine your right to a law-talking guy. Oh, and more stuff to look out for this year. Gates indirectly acknowledges that Bush fucked up Afghanistan.
Wall of text! Make it more readable. FFS!
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http://www.bloggingstocks.com/2009/10/03/ten-...
I'm a liberal...and this isn't very funny. Stick to the Daily Show, this was painful.
i have a librul friend! and i think this is shite! I'm lying, i do not have friends!
Lal!
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I'm a liberal and I think these guys are hysterical. To each his own.
There's always free cheddar in the mousetrap, baby. - Tom Waits
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Not really sure what they call themselves, but I met one yesterday while working near Orlando, in a middle-class neighborhood. I pointed out that a young tree was planted too close to her water meter and that roots would start to cause problems within 5-10 years, so she'd be better off removing or transplanting it before it became problematic. She very matter-of-factly told me that she wasn't worried, since "we wouldn't be around after 2012 anyway."
Rather stunned, but not wanting to be rude, I sort of nervously chuckled, "So you're one of them." She just gave me this blank, smile-free stare, like I hadn't gotten the memo.
Houston,America, we've got a problem..."Parachutes are allowed in checked or carry-on baggage, but may not be worn in flight."
---Southwest Airlines
I might've said, "So you're not concerned that the next tenant will have to clean up your mess here? How very Christian of you."
There's always free cheddar in the mousetrap, baby. - Tom Waits
I can certainly see being opposed to Obama's policy, but hate?
That would seem to require some kind of prejudice, if not race, religion or national origin (even though he's a Natural Born American).
Y'all remember how during the primaries Obama supporters said Hillary was too much of a lightening rod?
And when I pointed out that Obama would be too, since republicans would make up "controversy" out of nothing but will o'wisps, I'd be accused of fearing the republican boogey-man?
Diabolus est Deus Inversus
Obama postpones meeting with Dalai Lama
By FOSTER KLUG, Associated Press
WASHINGTON – A decision by Barack Obama to postpone his first meeting as president with the Dalai Lama is overshadowing a visit to Washington this week by the exiled spiritual leader of Tibet's Buddhists.
The Dalai Lama arrived Monday in Washington and will be received by prominent lawmakers and the U.S. coordinator for Tibet. But the focus for many in China, Tibet and the United States is the president's decision not to meet with the Dalai Lama until after Obama visits Chinese President Hu Jintao in Beijing in November.
The Dalai Lama has met with the past three sitting U.S. presidents during his visits to Washington. But this week's trip comes at a delicate time for a new U.S. administration looking to improve relations with Beijing and win Chinese support for crucial foreign policy, economic and environmental goals. ...
http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20091006/ap_on_go_...
But no one can deny that the unprecedented acts against the President(the volume of death threats, protests, sudden buyer's remorse, disrespect of the office, desire for the President to fail, etc.) coming predominately from angry whites, doesn't deserve a somewhat just suspicion...if history is taken into account.
bogus minority group, say, Transgendered Mormon Samoan Children Survivors of Idi Amin's regime with Purple Hearts who served in the Clinton White House that were pallbearers at Irving Kristol's funeral--to come on KKKlannity and discuss "socialized medicine"...
"Parachutes are allowed in checked or carry-on baggage, but may not be worn in flight."
---Southwest Airlines
I never watch the major networks anymore and I just happened to flip the channel to ABC to see if there was Monday night football on and there was Tom Delay dancing like a little girl, he had a shirt on with a big GOP elephant on its back, needless to say I switched out of there fast before I puked.
Here, this'll ruin your day
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2009/10/05/tom-...
Obviously I don't know everything about the Letterman story, but I have to say that I'm impressed with the guy and how he's tried to deal with it. Not sure how sincere he is, but he at least sounds like he is. I guess only those intimately involved truly know.
"Parachutes are allowed in checked or carry-on baggage, but may not be worn in flight."
---Southwest Airlines
Isn't those he's intimate with the whole problem?
Diabolus est Deus Inversus
No its the producer from CBS that has a hair up his ass about other people's affairs.
What is it like 50% of marriages have affairs. Why the shock and surprise, fake outrage?
The only time that is called for is when they are a family values bible thumping hypocrite. Otherwise affairs are to be expected.
Especially in the entertainment business. There's a hell of a lot of this kind of thing going on there, so anybody on the inside who professes outrage is either blind or a hypocrite.
There's always free cheddar in the mousetrap, baby. - Tom Waits
I am proud of Dave and how he has handled the extortion attempt and put it out there rather than hide, or lie about it like a polititian.
'Talk to the hand'
Top 10 Reasons Not to Cheat On Your Wife
10. If you get them any younger you'd no longer be a cradle robber but a womb robber.
9. You'd be in competition with your son for dates.
8. You might piss off their Campfire girl leader.
7. Your wife’s personal trainer/lover might whomp your ass.
6. sarah palin might publically cite you as setting a bad example for her faimly.
5. Congress might hold a special session denouncing your behavior between diddling pages.
4. You might be denied the flesh and blood of Jeeezusss; ritualistic cannibalism is fine but watch where you stick your wicket.
3. You find someone’s been muckin’ about with the nitroglycerin you need for your heart condition.
2. Your stalker files a restraining order against you
1. Your dentist claims you’ve been molesting her while under anesthetic.
Diabolus est Deus Inversus
No, no, not really but...
I was driving back from dropping my daughter off at BART this AM along a four lane road. I was in the left lane. I saw a white bundle in front of me that at first I thought was a cloth or something but I slowed down and realized it was an animal. I pulled over to the right lane and stopped and started to put on my blinkers. By now I realized it was a very beautiful all white cat. Kind of like the ones you see in fancy cat food commercials. It was too clean and well groomed to be a stray and had a collar on it. I'm sure it was already dead but, well I'm 99% sure it was because it was laying totally still in the road. But I wanted to be sure because there was no blood on it or obvious scars (yet). Then in the lane I was in now on my left along comes another car and just runs right over the poor thing without even slowing down.
It made me so f*ing mad. Thing is the driver was probably so clueless she didn't even realize it was an animal, as I said it looked very much like a white bundle of cloth or something. And I can't believe how upset it made me. I'm usually not emotional but, and I felt so stupid, I couldn't stop crying over the damn thing. And I don't even like cats. It also just made me feel such a loathing for the casual way humans destroy this planet without even thinking. Anyway, I'm fine now but had to write this down somewhere.
kind of stuff, that is sad.
Goodnight, Frau Blücher
A friend of mine tried to save a pelican that had been hit by a car, and someone almost ran them both over.
My friend( who is a woman btw) was so angry she followed the driver, and beat the crap out of her...the idiot driver was texting while driving...on a bridge...people are really stupid sometimes...
About 10 years ago I was driving to work on the 105 Freeway in L.A. on a cold, rainy winter Saturday morning very early. I saw a dog in the middle of the freeway shaking in fear in front of a stopped semi-truck that was blasting his horn for her to get out of the road.
I opened my door and another guy (with cars flying by on both sides) stopped and helped me get her into my car.
I had to tie her to a tree outside my clients house for a 12 hour shift...in the rain. Of course I gave her water and fed her and noted that she was a recent mother who had a litter of puppies somewhere.
I took her home, had her groomed, got her fixed and she received all her shots with the intention of finding her a good home.
Well I did. With me. Ha!
She's traveled from the west coast to the Hamptons and now she's in the Berkshires with me. I recently discovered she has mouth cancer and has maybe 8 weeks to live.
She's been a fantastic guard dog and pal for me. We've served each other very well as buddies.
It will be horrible when I have to euthanize her...but the day is coming as she can hardly eat.
And BTW, there's a big white male cat across the street here. His owner leaves him out all the time. I went to see him last night and he was wet from the rain. He's super affectionate and friendly. So, I'm making him a spot in my foyer and leaving the door ajar for him for the nights. Because pretty soon there will be about 4 months of a very hard winter happening here in the Berkshires.
You are a very good person Mike D. Be proud of who you are. Your instincts are just the way they should be.
Abbybwood
"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
Abbybwood, VegasRage, and LiberalNModeration, thanks a lot.
I'd be in a heap too. Be glad that you have the kind of soul that feels for a poor animal like that. Getting out to try and help is a lot more than most people would have done.
There's always free cheddar in the mousetrap, baby. - Tom Waits
No one will probably read this but by chance someone at C&L should... I must admit I am disappointed with how C&L has covered and not covered topics since Obama took office. When Bush was in office this site seemed to be dead on accurate. Since Obama won I've noticed it doesn't cover serious topics nearly as much as it should especially where Obama has not delivered.
The economy, which some of us posters here pointed out from the beginning he cannot fix (because of what others did before him), is still the largest issue we are facing. Even worse he is moving in the wrong direction on altogether. The underlying problem has gotten worse and are now setting the US up with dire consequences in the long term and C&L has not covered this topic properly at all. Instead it covers it less frequently, hearts people who did not see it coming and clearly wrong as what to do about it as this thing unravels with each passing day.
The dollar is on the way out and I see very little on C&L covering it, some of us posters warned of just these things, and we got impugned for it. At the end of the day this will be the only story that counts when the hammer falls down.
I could go on and on, the FDIC is out of money, the World Bank will be out of money in 12 months, etc. Instead of covering these topics C&L spends much of it's time on health care without regard for where the money is going to come from. People we the US are broke, and for some reason that hasn't set in with posters on C&L. George Soros knows this, today stating our banking system is "basically bankrupt".
Richard Fisher, President and CEO of the Federal Reserve Bank of Dallas, is on record stating that unfunded liabilities from Medicare and Social Security totaled $99.2 trillion as of May 2008.
Effectively he says there is little hope of paying for their unfunded liabilities through current tax revenues, the Social Security and Medicare promises will undoubtedly require new bond issues. You probably don’t need a calculator to realize that the US can never cover the debt costs on $118 trillion… What is glaringly obvious is that the United States’ penchant for increasing its ‘promises to spend’ is directly threatening the future viability of the USD. While US politicians brazenly approve future spending promises they forget the real costs those promises imply – and there is no feasible way we can see those promises being paid for under foreseeable economic conditions.
As Michael Maloney put it recently...
If there isn’t enough new capital in the current environment to fund new Treasury bill issues, then there certainly isn’t enough capital to pay for the US’s unfunded future obligations.
None of these options are feasible for the US Government. So they realistically only have one option left – to print their way out of their debt crisis.
I really hope C&L starts to see the issue and is bold enough to take those responsible to task even if it means going after those within the Democratic party because the truth is both Democrats and Republican's are to blame for this predicament.
Goodnight, Frau Blücher
Gold is up! (No need to default on the debt when it can be inflated away!) Unemployment greater than 25% (always double the government propaganda statistics). The continuing housing crisis and CDO/derivative situation is still rolling along ready to extract another 50%. Global warming? a totally useless concept under these circumstances. Even socialized health care is frittering around. I think those that can see IT coming realize they can do nothing to significantly stop IT, just prop IT up, pretend IT isn't happening, until IT falls over. About the worst time for a half black president (that's why we have one), subverted by the rich, talk of a military dictatorship, religio-freaks screaming everywhere, ultra poverty in the streets, elderly fascist wingnuts parading around! Where's my America?---You frittered it away a--ho! So, here come the four horseman, like they always do. Chaos and a new global order in the making. Maybe even real war, not these trivial expeditions into Afganistan and Iraq. The oriental curse "May you live in interesting times" is upon us!
Alice, myself and a few others try to post things regarding the economy here.
I agree that Crooksandliars should spend more time trying to enlighten folks who frequent this site with the hard truth on lots of issues.
There are a few that come to mind that are timely today.
One, El Baredei has stated that because of Israel's 200 nuclear weapons and its refusal to have any inspections and it's refusal to sign on to the Nuclear Non-Proliferation Treaty, it is THE MOST DANGEROUS COUNTRY IN THE MIDDLE EAST.
Here's another one: The coup in Honduras. I think this story has pretty much been ignored here. Not to mention that Obama was basically told "F-You" by the Republican Leadership when Sen. McConnell went over Sen. Kerry's head after Kerry said a delegation of Senate Republicans and House members should NOT travel to meet with the coup leader, Micheletti.
They went anyhow. And now we have Lanny Davis heading up a P.R. stunt to make the coup leaders look better to the world. Ha! And Obama's Justice Dept. is allowing a big publicity firm in D.C. to work for Micheletti.
The whole thing stinks. And all this while the REAL president of Honduras, Zelaya, is being holed up in the Brazilian Embassy in Honduras. Oh, and Micheletti has declared martial law and a curtailment of fundamental freedoms of the press and freedom of assembly. This whole thing is rotten to the core.
And what does Hillary say, "That Zelaya going back into the country he is LEGITIMATELY PRESIDENT OF WAS RECKLESS!!!!" I thought the United States was supposed to be on the side of "democracy"?
I'd like to see more hard nosed coverage and discussion of important current events here and less nonsense about the far-right MSM wackos. We all know they're nuts.
Now, let's move on!
(Although I'll admit I did send the Beck/Vicks video to John....)
"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
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