October 07, 2009 07:30 PM
Open Thread
So I'm watching Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets with Junior Dude and at the end the good wizard/headmaster Dumbledore is suggesting to the evil Lucius Malfoy that while he can't prove all the evil shenanigans Lucius allegedly committed during the past two hours of movie, any future shenanigans would have grave consequences.
Did Lucius scoff? Laugh? Call Dumbledore a liar and demand proof?
No.
He said, in a tone that would melt an anvil:
How. Dare. You!
And I thought, how very Republican of him.
Open Thread below...
Olbermann: Health care as basic as life itself
Oct. 7: In a Special Comment Hour, Countdown’s Keith Olbermann points out that there is no higher human priority than health and therefore no more basic government responsibility than ensuring the care of its citizens.
http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/3036677/vp/332172...
Olbermann on America’s widening health gap
Oct. 7: Countdown’s Keith Olbermann warns that America is actually getting worse at addressing the health concerns of its citizens and is on track to surpass even the tragic conditions of Dickensian England.
http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/3036677/vp/332172...
Olbermann: Companies betting on employees’ lives
Oct. 7: Countdown’s Keith Olbermann outlines how the current American health insurance system is so much more focused on making money than making Americans healthy that in some cases companies actually benefit when their employees die.
http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/3036677/vp/332173...
Olbermann: Respecting pain and patient
Oct. 7: Countdown’s Keith Olbermann presents a personal perspective on the pain of illness and the difficulties of end-of-life decision making - physical and emotional pain worlds away from the insulting "death panels" debate.
http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/3036677/vp/332174...
Olbermann: A wake-up call to Washington
Oct. 7: Countdown’s Keith Olbermann outlines his intention to show his support for American health reform by donating to the National Associations of Free Clinics to offer a free clinic every week in the capitol cities of the states of the six senators standing in the way of health reform in the Senate. Details for viewer participation to come.
http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/3036677/vp/332175...
Some stuff you can't make up!
"The insurance companies are at war with America, and ...the health insurance cartel..."
Indeed! Time to stock up on ammo while we still can, before all the teabaggers and RW NRA wackos buy it all up...
Thanks Keith, and best of luck to your dad.
"Parachutes are allowed in checked or carry-on baggage, but may not be worn in flight."
---Southwest Airlines
too bad many of the people who should hear what he had to say would never tune in to MSNBC - let alone to Keith's show.
But, it should make the MSM tomorrow - so there's still hope that more USa'ers will wake up and get a clue that health care is a moral issue and that a single-payer, universal program is what we need.
"Egotism is the anesthetic that dulls the pain of Stupidity" - Frank Leahy
to "debate" the significance on CNN, ABC, blah, blah, blah.
And rushkkklannitybeckslaggage will argue that Keith's father is only alive because a "rich liberal" could buy his dad the best care available and that's proof the system works just fine (for them), blah, blah, blah...
I haven't heard Mike Malloy for a couple of months now (due to a f'ed up sound card), but as he's fond of saying, "Have I said tonight how much I hate these
insurance companiespeople."Parachutes are allowed in checked or carry-on baggage, but may not be worn in flight."
---Southwest Airlines
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.
Thanks for all the numbers - and info. I plan on calling today!
Guess again!! It's a hell of a lot more then that!
And that is the crux of the issue.
Not that health care is the right of the individual (thoug I would argue that it is this also) but the responsibility of government to protect the health of the nation, which means the health of all the individuals in the nation.
(And it is "ensuring" .. NOT "insuring" .. Keith's got it right.)
Democracy is too important to be entrusted to politicians.
Rise Up!
Protest!
Are still just carrying water for the Obama Administration and it's rotten health "insurance" reform legislation MANDATING that every American buy health insurance or be fined/penalized and if they cannot pay the fine they will face prison.
I believe Keith did make a point of mentioning the whole IRS/prison aspect of the legislation a few nights ago.
Olbermann and Maddow and Schultz never to rarely mention Single Payer. I even noticed that Anthony Weiner has backed off from his Single Payer pitch lately. He apparently got the memo from the DNC: Shut up about Single Payer or no $$$$$$/endorsement next year.
We are witnessing hard core politics right now folks, and it's gonna get really ugly before the ink is dried on the bill.
Just my assessment of what I'm seeing going down.
The public is NOT supportive of this legislation as it's unfolding and the Democrats are prepared to ram it down all our throats whether we like it or not.
"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
The Pope of Hope will make a brilliant sounding speech and that will fool a lot of people most of the time.
statusquObama, change you can only pretend in
And life in this phony democracy will continue with 99.99% of all Americans enjoying the crickets chirping. Almost no one, even progressives here, want to change the corrupt system we have from top down. How many more years will we suffer of this dark corruption? From my experience sadly it won't end, nobody cares. And if some do care, they lack any real moral courage to do anything.
Politics is for the present, but an equation is for eternity. Albert Einstein
what exactly is it you suggest we do??? What morally courageous things have you done recently to eradicate the corruption?
"Egotism is the anesthetic that dulls the pain of Stupidity" - Frank Leahy
I say over and over I want to change the corrupt system.
Where were you?
statusquObama, change you can only pretend in
Who gives a crap, at least it's not twilight!
Bite my shiny metal ass.
http://www.startalkradio.net/
"Bless me father for i have sinned. Those crimes that i committed, well, i did 'em again. Empty my soul to empower yours. Lead me blind down the path to salvation's doors."
;)
You're welcome, i'm just stating facts. ;)
Bite my shiny metal ass.
http://www.startalkradio.net/
"Bless me father for i have sinned. Those crimes that i committed, well, i did 'em again. Empty my soul to empower yours. Lead me blind down the path to salvation's doors."
Well, the only dissimilarity in being a Rethug, is that Malfoy goes to jail and sits in the Azkaban for a bit before getting broken out by his fellow right-wing friends.
Real Rethugs NEVER go to jail.
Eric Holder and Barack Obama should spend 20+ years in prison for not yet having charges brought against the Bush cabal. This is getting way beyond ridiculous! The level of corruption going on in this country already makes Nigeria look normal and if it continues we'll yet make Somalia look normal. Something is about to give and it isn't going to be pretty if it's not through Constitutional democracy.
Get with the program!!!
We all need to look FORWARD.....not BACK.....
Keep your eye on the watch....back and forth.....back and forth....you are feeling relaxed....relaxed....you agree that we should look FORWARD.....right, Terrible????
Forward....forward....forward.....
"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
...................and 'impeachment is off the table.' Whatever it is, it's FASCISM!!! There's just no way to sanitize it FASCISM we thought we got rid of it in WWII, but it just got stronger and more viralent.
The grammar nazis have spoken. Meet the new boss. Totally different country from the old boss. Obama picks a gay ambassador. Looks like the "bi-partisans" are evasive about closing Gitmo. Will Cali finally legalize it? Survey seems to say yes. Thirteen million babies around the world are born premature. Obama goes into a group huddle over the jobs situation. Americans are as confused about Afghanistan as they were about Iraq. Obama claims we're turning the corner. Another would-be university shooter. Air pollution can lead to appendicitis. Cali's got some serious water usage issues to work out. I guess when Bush said Mission Accomplished, he meant making a young daughter of a soldier deployed to Iraq cry.
you have any other links for the "would-be" university shooter? The one you posted and the other ones I've been able to find, have no information other that someone reported a "man with a gun an a bomb" they have one person in custody, but they don't know if it was a hoax or real. The guy who stood up on the bus and stated that he was the one they were looking for, could of either been the person that was called on or a person that called in a hoax.
But you know, it is what it is at the end of the day anyway. Whatever.
Thank you
Thank you
THANK YOU, SIR! And get well wishes to your father. He and your mother raised a fine human being.
Knowing full well I risk the wrath of loyal Potterites, I can't think of another single plausible, justifiable reason for watching any Harry Potter movie other than,'my kids made me do it.'
...last spring. Lots of good discussions, great papers, excellent study, especially as Children's Literature is one of my primary subjects (along with Creative Writing.) The books are better. Read them.
"Courtesy is owed. Respect is earned. Love is given." --Unknown author, found in Guide to Texas Etiquette by Kinky Friedman
Souls of dead celebrities, including Billy Mays, are trapped in purgatory, a plane stuck on the tarmac that can't take off or return to the gate, until Michael Jackson gets to fulfill his dream of being a little white girl.
"Parachutes are allowed in checked or carry-on baggage, but may not be worn in flight."
---Southwest Airlines
Too big to fail, too big to jail…
Crony Capitalism, it's a Predator State…
Every manner of Public Option except a real one…
Endless wars, endless deficits…
Been down so long it looks like up to…
Climate change, peak oil, peak energy, peak Capitalism, peak ecology…
FISA, the Patriot Act, the Logan Act, don't insult religion, don't insult idiots, don't prosecute the crooks…
Prosecute the innocent, prosecute the protesters…
Save the Banksters…
But now it can be revealed:
the Universe Has More Entropy Than Thought here
Don't touch that dial…
statusquObama, change you can only pretend in
While I'm checking out your link, check out me as a "chick monster" in this Happy Halloween card:
http://sendables.jibjab.com/view/yJDloHPeDrLK...
(Anything to try to keep my sanity in this sea of bad news).
"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
I am speechless…
Which almost never happens…
statusquObama, change you can only pretend in
Cool vid. My friend sent me hers yesterday. Now I have to make one for my friends as a Hallowe'en surprise.
"If the US government enforced its banking laws like it did its park regulations, we wouldn't be
in this damn park in the first place." OCCUPY.!!
I read a post yesterday about it and when I checked out the vid I went down the ol' rabbit hole and started working on my own. It was fun to make! My kids think I've lost it. Ha!!!
"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
I will not be the same…
statusquObama, change you can only pretend in
Gang violence in Chicago....!
I don't know much about universal entropy, but it does appear that entropy right here on Earth will be leading to heat death sooner than I'd like.
Thinking about the Universe (which is much easier now with easy access to Hubble photos and Nova on PBS), is my way of coping with all the day-to-day crap - I just tell myself -'in the scope of the Universe, what does (
fill-in crap)really matter?? Then I feel better for a few hours, until I read some article or turn on the TV."Egotism is the anesthetic that dulls the pain of Stupidity" - Frank Leahy
Detroit is the murder capital of the universe…
Never mind billion solar mass black holes…
The universe is a far more orderly place than it has a right to be, except in Detroit…
statusquObama, change you can only pretend in
Gads, my auto filter has failed and Sarah Pailin is staring at me…
statusquObama, change you can only pretend in
I am one who watches television perhaps three hours a week.
I would totally agree that most of what it offers is crap.
Perhaps I am lucky here in Canada, but I know that I am well informed if I choose to be.
I have access to the CBC, which has news documentaries & investigative reports that are factual & incredibly researched...about not only Canadian issues, but those from around the world.
I am able to watch a unique individual, George Stroumboulopoulos, who has an hour interviewing such people as:
Al Gore, Sarah Palin, Tony Bennett, Tom Cruise, Ricky Gervais, Bono, Robert F. Kennedy Jr., Jane Goodall, Noam Chomsky, Matt Damon, Gordon Ramsay, former Prime Minister Jean Chrétien, former Prime Minister Brian Mulroney, Tim Robbins, Gore Vidal, Spike Lee, former U.S. President Jimmy Carter, Richard Dawkins, Samuel L. Jackson, Paul Anka, Richard Branson, Barbara Walters, Former President of Mexico Vicente Fox, Arnold Schwarzenegger, Bill Maher, Bif Naked, Adrien Brody, Ted Danson, Paul Potts, NHL Commissioner Gary Bettman, Chris Jericho, Georges St-Pierre, Dave Grohl, Geddy Lee and Alex Lifeson of Rush, The Smashing Pumpkins and Coldplay...and so many others.
Not all television is bad & I do consider myself very lucky to have access to such diverse & free speech as well as true journalism.
It was around this time last year that I was filming my little Halloween video with me playing Palin. It's called "Sarah Palin Becomes President: Boo!" on YouTube.
"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
http://www.independent.co.uk/news/people/news...
"Levi Johnston is going for the ultimate exposure - the 19-year-old father of Sarah Palin's grandchild will pose nude for Playgirl, his lawyer said."
"To get ready for his close-up, Mr Johnston is training three hours a day, six nights a week at an Anchorage gym with a local body builder."
"A formal agreement hasn't been reached with the online magazine, but the photo shoot is a "foregone conclusion," said Mr Johnston's lawyer, Rex Butler"
"Mrs Palin's representatives did not respond to a request for comment on the Playgirl job."
Back to Beethoven…
statusquObama, change you can only pretend in
"In the beginning, Colbert created the heaven and the earth."
within five minutes somebody noticed then panicked and pulled the plug on the C website.
Let it stay broken…
statusquObama, change you can only pretend in
Its not there if you try it directly, yet its still accessible if use a proxy server !!!!! that suggests its being blocked for whatever reason or purpose by someone.
Either Conservapedia is using a IP blacklist to stop bad people viewing their website, or a third party is selectively blocking it.
As they have that article on rewriting the New Testament and received lots of ridicule for it, and prob plenty of new people coming from news aggregation sites, my moneys on a black list by IP.
Not surprising, paranoia quite often comes with
Republicanismmadness. They have a 'news' section dominating their front page, it reads like a teabagger hate list.that since they were asking for help in "taking the liberal parts" out of the Bible, he'd like to see his name in there. Funny stuff.
"Parachutes are allowed in checked or carry-on baggage, but may not be worn in flight."
---Southwest Airlines
REPUBLICANS FOR VOLDEMORT!
Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince's Birth Certificate.
Regards,
Tengrain
Americans are warming up to Obamacare. The new silent majority. Oakland has to pay for its shitty cops. For people who didn't get that joke about Detroit in Moore's movie.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kCvkatCGNFY http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kCvkatCGNFY
Some true and clear minded patriots are ahead of the mainstream Republicans. This is a must-see for anyone who wants to understand the Republican base.
Idiocracy on the march. That is more than a typical Murcun
While leaving at least 17 million citizens and 8 million non-citizens out of the equation.
Beck as Dumbledore?
Dumbdown is more like it.
And here I thought it was Viggo the Virulent.
Diabolus est Deus Inversus
http://tpmdc.talkingpointsmemo.com/2009/10/se...
This is a bad policy idea, but it could be politically savvy: If Republican lawmakers in red states tell their constituents that they can't get a public option while blue states can, I think we'll see quite a few Republicans losing their seats come midterms.
Okay, what's going on? Jeb Bush is on Fox and Friends this morning and Morning Joe is advertising that he'll be on that show too, this morning. Are they trying to find a new-ish face to represent the republican party or is this the beginning of Jeb's run for a higher office? That's frightening.
Say what you mean. Mean what you say. But don't say it mean.
I've actually got both MSNBC and Fux here at my motel (for a change), but I don't want to throw up last night's pizza.
Thanks for the warning.
"Parachutes are allowed in checked or carry-on baggage, but may not be worn in flight."
---Southwest Airlines
I was treated to a puff piece about drone aircraft, explaining that "they don't have human pilots." Well, duh!!
I already lost too many IQ points.
"Parachutes are allowed in checked or carry-on baggage, but may not be worn in flight."
---Southwest Airlines
They were mean to his brother. Boo fricken hoo.
I don't need to mention why.
Poppy Bush and Iran Contra. Then Poopy Bush with the last 8 years.
It all started with Boosh succeeding by 5-4.
What is your conceptual, continuity?
http://abcnews.go.com/Blotter/halliburton-emp...
"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
I'm out in an upscale NE Atlanta suburb of about 20K people. Talk about a ghost town--hundreds, maybe over a thousand, new houses, townhomes, and commercial sites recently built that are vacant. Lots of subdivisions with pads graded, then construction stopped dead. A city employee told me that building permits, averaging between 300-400/mo two years ago were at three last month. All this about an hour commute NE of the city.
Not a scientific study, but this looks far worse than what I've seen in my travels throughout CA, FL and Las Vegas recently. Scary stuff.
"Parachutes are allowed in checked or carry-on baggage, but may not be worn in flight."
---Southwest Airlines
bluegal, you're watching Harry Potter? Please tell me you're watching it with a child:)
I kinda like that look on Glen. It rather suites him.
Anything but that '50s California peach fuzz he does now... and those baby blue sweaters... wolf in lambs clothing.
"Government by organized money is just as dangerous as Government by organized mob"
-= Franklin Delano Roosevelt =-
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