October 28, 2009 07:30 PM
Open Thread
From the wonderful artist Zina Saunders (click here for larger):
"Double, double, toil and trouble," chant Michele Bachmann, Ann Coulter and Rush Limbaugh as they stir up the pot against health care reform.
A few incantations from the trio's trick or treat bag: Congresswoman Bachmann says sex clinics will result from Health Care Reform, Ann Coulter says Obama's plan encourages assisted suicide for the elderly, and Rush Limbaugh says Obama's health care plan is right out of Hitler's playbook.
Boo!
Open thread below and John Amato has a World Series thread going as well...
WASHINGTON — House Democratic leaders have scheduled a rally for Thursday where they plan to unveil legislation to overhaul the health care system, which they hope to take to the House floor next week.
Scores of lobbyists were “cordially invited’’ to attend the event in e-mail messages sent Wednesday by Speaker Nancy Pelosi.
That just about says it all.
The final product in the House, reflecting many of President Barack Obama's priorities, includes new requirements for employers to offer insurance to their workers or face penalties, fines on Americans who don't purchase coverage and subsidies to help lower-income people do so.
and they don't even try to hide their greed anymore........they really don't care!
Philleeeeeeeeeees
0-for-4 with three strikeouts... nice to see Aroid is back to his old self. :)
Five Star comment.
Check this story out at AfterDowningStreet: http://www.afterdowningstreet.org/node/47370
I'm glad there are some people who are willing to stand up and be counted. The majority of the elected elite isn't willing to do anything but pocket money from the whores on K Street. There I said it and I'm not sorry either... Lobbyists are exactly that... whores!
painfully obvious by now, that members of congress are only in it for themselves, and the public be damned, then I'm not sure what it would take to convince someone. It isn't, and never has been, about public health care.....it's all about THEM, and how much money they can pocket from the lobbyists!!
Bribers. Graft givers. Why is lobbying legal at all?
..was greater access to the politicians. And legislation that would make their activities legal. What goes on under the guise of lobbying is called influence peddling in the
rest of thecivilized world, and it's a felony."In theory theory and practice are alike. In practice they are very different."
The minds of these people would be frightening to experience, even for a few minutes. A normal person would be haunted by nightmares for weeks as a result. Their depravity has no bounds.
"Government by organized money is just as dangerous as Government by organized mob"
-= Franklin Delano Roosevelt =-
should do to Fox what Chavez did to the one outlet that tried to back the coup in Venezuela but they would just be vilified as censoring the news. Actually Chavez didn't do anything, but because of the TV stations abuse of the airways, didn't renew the license. Sometimes, I think our right to free speech goes too far, but I suppose if they shut Fox down, someone would find a way to shut down our free speech even when we speak the truth. Fucked up it is.
I think they should recognize FOX NEWS as a political organization and subject to those rules.
Meanwhile, i suggest the Democrats put together their own grass-roots Cable Network without delay. I can think of dozens of public figures that would love to work for them.
"Government by organized money is just as dangerous as Government by organized mob"
-= Franklin Delano Roosevelt =-
it is not cost effective resulting in non-investigative,op-ed entertainment gossipy hearsay shouting matches. if i had $100mil to start a broadcast news network, i would build a base of dedicated journalists focused on hard-core investigative, no nonsense, get the facts jack, shoot straight to the heart journalists, broadcast it on the net and the likes of iTV, and advertise liberally. but since i don't, i am relegated to finding my bag of raisins to spice up my gruel.
and im sorry, but we are never coming out of the depression
we currently make only 5 percent of american clothing sold
WE DONT MAKE ANYTHING
WE WILL NOT SURVIVE
FUCK RONNIE REAGAN
Corporations are the enemies of humanity. It's long but worth the watch. Save it and watch it late if you can.
http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=32032...
plus they are immortal, as in forever if they can.
Corporations have no mind, no soul, but most importantly no vote. The real problem is that they got around that part by bribing the law makers. They don't need their one little vote when they can, and do bribe the law makers.
Just ask Joe Liebeman. he knows.
"Government by organized money is just as dangerous as Government by organized mob"
-= Franklin Delano Roosevelt =-
THE essential documentary that every American should be required to watch.
Good on ya for posting the link Ron.
"In theory theory and practice are alike. In practice they are very different."
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mRayUWkKX50
Sorry, no original.
"Parachutes are allowed in checked or carry-on baggage, but may not be worn in flight."
---Southwest Airlines
What's the name of the doc??
Thanks.
"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
Consumer confidence goes down in October. Fisker appropriates a GM factory for the purpose of building better cars. It'll be a while before Madoff's "clients" get their money back. Shit goes down in Pakistan the same day Hillary said we're turning the page there. Boeing flips off unionized plane-builders and sets up shop in S. Carolina. A pregnant woman dies of H1N1. Congress tries to stop firms from being too big to fail and credit agencies from lying about ratings. I'd rather take a thinker than a decider. The Nordic countries are better for chicks than the U.S. So it only took a guy to miss his destination and another guy to crash into a car for us to finally do something about distracted driving. Specter says we should get rid of DOMA, for some reason. What a concept. A Prez who meets with the families of dead vets. The fuzzy math of the stimulus.
It's not just that the insurance corporations in question have no souls, it's that as a result, they treat us as if we have no souls.
Let's see - the companies in question have no soul and treat us strictly as commodities... i'm sorry but that does not leave any room for favors for them, no way, no how.
"Government by organized money is just as dangerous as Government by organized mob"
-= Franklin Delano Roosevelt =-
the three stepford witches
suffering from penis envy.
Nearly one year in, I'd like to ask the posters here what has been Obama's biggest achievement.
If a drone kills a child in Kandahar, do the crying parents make a sound?
Well, so far as I can see, he hasn't had anything that could be called an achievement. In many respects, Obama has been worse than George Bush. With Bush you expected garbage and got it in bushel loads. Obama promised change and raised the hopes of millions and millions of people the world over. Thus far, the only thing that's changed is that the debacles that W brought about have been magnified and strengthened. Change we can believe in is actually correct. I believe that things are bad and going to get worse rather than better.
1) Remaining pragmatic in a storm of republiscum resentment.
2) Improving US standings in international arena.
"Government by organized money is just as dangerous as Government by organized mob"
-= Franklin Delano Roosevelt =-
I'd agree with #2. But is that really much of an achievement? Just not being George Bush?
For all his grandiosity prior to the election, Obama is coming off as more of a pragmatic middle-of-the-road politician than an idealist.
If a drone kills a child in Kandahar, do the crying parents make a sound?
And letting Bush/Cheney and Co. skate off as if they should all be considered national heroes instead of war criminals.
"We need to look to the future, not to the past." - President Barack Obama
"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
next time, you simply start off with, "I really don't like Obama, I didn't vote for Obama, I'm rooting for his failure and I'm trying to make everyone that voted for him feel like a tool so that I can roll around in my own sanctimonious goo."
Dick Cheney is gone and that's a wonderful thing, oh, and the puppet (masquerading as president)is also gone.
You and I both know, that whatever he does he will be criticized and for the drive-through, quick-edit crowd nothing will ever be done fast enough.
I'm pretty sure I know the answer to this, but I could be wrong and I will happily admit it if I am, but you didn't vote for him did you?
You are right, I didn't vote for him. But that's only because I live in Canada otherwise I would have. But I celebrated his victory along with millions of others around the world. I was just trying to get a guage of what others think of his performance so far.
If a drone kills a child in Kandahar, do the crying parents make a sound?
I guess some people still believe that Reefer Madness was effective propaganda, but it's a bit outdated. The latest horror film might as well feature Harry Anslinger rising from the grave.
Meet Evil Weed.
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Unicorn weed? What the HELL were they thinking? Maybe they should have stuck with some known quantity like Northern Lights #5.
"In theory theory and practice are alike. In practice they are very different."
circulated for the ballot in California right now. At least one is guaranteed to qualify for next November's general election.
It's probably just beginning to dawn on certain people in "high" places that a major showdown is coming between California and the federal government.
It's one thing for Obama and Holder to call the dogs off as to the medical marijuana dispensaries that are all over Cali. But it is quite another thing to flat out legalize pot and tax it in order to pull California away from the breach of bankruptcy, which is what I believe is behind the initiative campaigns.
If Obama is serious about seeking re-election I don't think he's going to want to piss off California voters with a crackdown on pot right before his re-election campaign starts. Plus, reapportionment may add a few more electoral votes to Cali. Who knows?
It's interesting that in spite of Holder and Obama wanting to ease off on the dispensaries, the jerk D.A. in Los Angeles, Cooley, said he is determined to take the cops in and bust almost 1000 dispensaries in So.Cal he says are operating "illegally".
"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 new SFPD Chief, Gascon, is from Los Angeles, and he's announced a crackdown on 'pot houses' - rental properties where people basically convert the whole place to a pot-growing space, including illegal mods to the electrical wiring.
to the unbridled overabundance of dispensaries in los angeles? city council left some major loopholes open and now people are going to lose their business investment.
http://kcet.org/socal/2009/05/marijuana-clini...
either way, it sounds like the jerk's answer is to shut them all down and open those that prove their legitimacy, and we have 3 more years of the jerk.
It's not fair and balanced. And CNN enabled FOX.
MSNBC doesn't necessarily have a bias one way or the other but do report on Fox's bias. Big difference.
Thank you for perpetuating the stereotype of witches as evil.
Keep those rabid Christianist bastards in your own religious backyard.
No witch would want to be in the company of any one of those three.
I heard yesterday by T.R. Reid. He was speaking at The Commonwealth Club in California. He has a new book, "The Healing of America". Here's a link to the speech:
http://www.linktv.org/about/blog/month/9
"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
Thank you! I have listened to most of it, he is very insightful.
I will listen again.
You're up early… me too…
statusquObama, change you can only pretend in
Baucus had T.R. present it to his committee, everyone showed. Their biggest concern was dealing with the insurance companies in getting them to go non-profit without losing their donor base...no surprise there.
The only one that showed any nuts was the "labor lefty" Sherrod Brown... @ 29:00 minute mark
And Rush has bigger boobs than both of em.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=A1lHYvxieB8
Diabolus est Deus Inversus
"BUBBLE, BUBBLE, toil and trouble""
from the opening scene of MacBeth.
Still fitting, however.
Shots Fired At Home Of CNN Reporter Lou Dobbs
It was only a matter of time.
http://airamerica.com/entertainment/10-28-200...
"Parachutes are allowed in checked or carry-on baggage, but may not be worn in flight."
---Southwest Airlines
This is disparaging to witches! I like witches...
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0JBeZUwhAqM
Diabolus est Deus Inversus
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