February 09, 2010 09:30 PM
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Oh come on, Senator Al Franken, we KNOW it was you.
Not a hoax, but thanks John K. for the obvious answer.
Open thread below....
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The Worst of the Pain
By BOB HERBERT
Those in the lower-income groups are in a much, much deeper hole than the general commentary on the recession would lead people to believe.
http://www.nytimes.com/2010/02/09/opinion/09h...
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but hasn't otherwise since the 3rd
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health?
weather?
what?
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Thanx.
I pray he's going to be well.
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He's taken short breaks before. I'm sure he's fine.
I have to do that every once in a while. Or he could be reading.
our economy can can take a dump again. For example China dumping the dollar would do it and it apears that may be what they are doing now:
The Dumping Begins: Chinese Reserve Managers Notified That Any Non-USG Guaranteed Securities Must Be Divested
Goodnight, Frau Blücher
Yes, only because I'm not a very good shot.
(To the powers that be...this is only a poor attempt at humor.)
Educate and inform the whole mass of the people... They are the only sure reliance for the preservation of our liberty.
Thomas Jefferson
picture on it.
Can someone with DVR check to see if Newt just brazenly lied to Jon, by claiming that the shoebomber was a US citizen.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Richard_Reid_(shoe_bomber)
NOT a US citizen.
Concensus also says: Newt a chronic liar. Follows Rovian Rules of Misinformation. Trust your instincts. If you think he lied, he did.
And if you don't think he lied he did.
Miss me yet? Fixed.
"Great minds discuss ideas; average minds discuss events; small minds discuss people." ~ Eleanor Roosevelt
Good one.
"Government by organized money is just as dangerous as Government by organized mob"
-= Franklin Delano Roosevelt =-
Thanks Man.
"Great minds discuss ideas; average minds discuss events; small minds discuss people." ~ Eleanor Roosevelt
hear, ye.
your name's Lebowski, Lebowski... and your wife is Bunny
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Only when the last tree has died
and the last river has been poisoned and the last fish has been caught
will we realize we cannot eat money.
http://www.redstate.com/haystack/2010/02/08/a...
Which just goes to show, the best weapon in the Democrat's arsenal is still the GOP!
http://gatewaypundit.firstthings.com/2010/02/...
Check out comment #14 for example.
"Parachutes are allowed in checked or carry-on baggage, but may not be worn in flight."
---Southwest Airlines
That should have been HELL NO!.
Why Are Americans Passive as Millions Lose Their Homes, Jobs, Families and the American Dream?
http://www.alternet.org/media/145481/why_are_...
Patriot Act Extension.... again, this time hidden in the new jobs bill just released.
Terror war to last 'long as Cold War': UK counter-terror office: Enemies will change, but war will remain.
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/uknews/terror...
"More Empires Have Fallen Because Of Reckless Finances Than Invasion"
"Great minds discuss ideas; average minds discuss events; small minds discuss people." ~ Eleanor Roosevelt
Robert Zirkelbach is with America's Health Insurance Plans, an industry trade association.
ROBERT ZIRKELBACH: Over the last year there has been an increase in uncompensated care as more and more people go without health insurance and aren't able to cover their bills if they go to the emergency room.
Health reform would prohibit insurance companies from rejecting customers with pre-existing conditions. But in exchange, the industry wants a mandate to make healthy people buy insurance, says Professor Marjorie Baldwin at Arizona State University.
MARJORIE BALDWIN: Otherwise premiums are going to go up too fast.
As hospitals and doctors seek reimbursement for uncovered health care from their patients who do have insurance.
the younger/healthy people are taking a risk and going without health care insurance. of course not only the healthy but the unemployed are going without health care insurance so the paying pool is becoming people that need/use health care services. this will also hurt small businesses. like president obama said today and many of us here know there will be more premium increases and more people without health care insurance.
http://marketplace.publicradio.org/display/we...
Kidding. That will never happen. Less people buying, more people using. Less money for the insurance companies. Let's see how they like bankruptcy court.
Five-year-old sues insurance company
Feb. 9: Kyler Van Nocker, who suffers from neuro-blastoma, is suing his insurance company, Health-America, for refusing to pay for an “investigational/experimental” treatment which will keep him alive even though they approved two of these procedures before.
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I live in Minnesota. I was shocked by this billboard.
I was talking to some of my friends...
We've "decided" that we're going to take a ride up there one of these days, and tack up some shoes on the dang thing.
I think that's the only way I'll be able to drive past it, and not feel ill.
if that sign was in minneapolis someone would burn it down.
with a t-shirt launcher converted to shoot shoes at it.
http://cbs5.com/local/anthem.blue.cross.2.148...
"Anthem Blue Cross' 30 to 39 percent (!!!!!) rate hike in California will affect an unknown number of its 800,000 individual policyholders..."
Makes me dread getting the mail every day. I don't know what I'll do it I get that much of an increase, definitely can't afford it. I'm pretty sure working for myself will end, and the chances of me getting a full-time job now are remote. Muscles....tensing....headache imminent...
fear-mongering. We should start our own health insurance company. We can call it "Progressive." Wait--no we can't as it is already the name of an insurance company. I know what to call it. "Rahm's Retards Strike Back." Our slogan can be, "Just try to collect bribes from us. Just try."
“This shows how far the police state has advanced. A presidential appointee in the Obama administration tells an important committee of Congress that the executive branch has decided that it can murder American citizens abroad if it thinks they are a threat. . . . In no previous death of a U.S. citizen by the hands of the U.S. government has the government claimed the right to kill Americans without arrest, trial, and conviction of a capital crime. . . . What defines ‘threat’? Who will make the decision? What it means is that the government will murder whomever it chooses. . . . There is no more complete or compelling evidence of a police state than the government announcing that it will murder its own citizens if it views them as a ‘threat.’”
– Paul Craig Roberts
http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/arti...
I do miss Bush. When we had Bush, we could at least believe there was hope for change, in regards to the above issue by restoration of habeas corpus and the rule of law.
Glad I didn’t vote for the lying scoundrel who exploited that hope and destroyed it.
BLACKBRIAR.
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I wrote a response explaining things to you but deleted it because I realized that there is no use . Carry on in your fantasy world , by all means .
Insanity , it is what it is , there is no understanding it .
Perhaps you should memorize it. It might give them a good laugh in the future.
Hope dwindles for bipartisanship
Feb. 9: The Huffington Post’s Lawrence O’Donnell explains why GOP obstructionism is preventing President Barack Obama and Congressional Democrats from passing a health reform bill.
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Obama Rebukes Boehner In Testy Exchange, Charges GOP Wants To Kill All His Initiatives
BUT (R)AHM IS STILL IN THE WH
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GOP blocks Obama labor board nominee
WASHINGTON (AP) — Senate Republicans have succeeded in blocking President Obama's choice of a union lawyer for the National Labor Relations Board.
The 52-33 vote to move forward with the nomination of Craig Becker fell short of the 60 needed to overcome a GOP filibuster.
Republicans have held up Becker's confirmation for months. They say Becker would push an aggressive union agenda at the agency that referees labor disputes between unions and management.
The task for Democratic leaders turned more difficult when at least two Democrats joined Republicans in opposing the lawyer
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actually filibuster. They should call this bullshit a "gentleman's filibuster." I prefer street fighting.
they don't give a fuck about anyone but the corporations.
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The corporations are the means. If we put all of our money together, do you think we could buy Iceland? They're broke, right?
I also might be able to rustle up a quarter.
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Reason appears to contradict optimism on bipartisanship
Feb. 9: Senator Ron Wyden talks with Rachel Maddow about why he still has hope for bipartisanship on a passable health reform bill.
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oops! dupe
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Britain asks, what caused the Iraq War?
Feb. 9: Prof. Jonathan Turley explains why the British are seeking evidence and interviews with officials from the Bush administration for their inquiry into the Iraq War.
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Keep the good news coming.
I hate them passionately!
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I hate them with a cold, hard bitterness. I hope they feel it.
that'll fix 'em!
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Maybe Britain is taking measures to prevent another "Iraq" for them.
They realize that Mr. Cheney has a great deal of explaining to do, for the sake of international security going forward. To do otherwise would be to invite another Mr. Cheney to come along. That is unacceptable. It will not be tolerated in the modern world.
"Government by organized money is just as dangerous as Government by organized mob"
-= Franklin Delano Roosevelt =-
Pres. Obama to consider recess appointments for stalled nominations
By Tony Romm - 02/09/10 01:47 PM ET
President Barack Obama on Tuesday signaled he could appoint nominees to key federal posts while Congress is on break next week.
At a rare appearance during Tuesday's press briefing, Obama criticized the upper chamber for hanging up a number of those appointees so far -- a moot manuever, he added, seeing as the chamber often grants "overwhelming support" to those candidates when their final confirmation votes arrive.
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if he actually does something. he might pull of being the 'reluctant progressive'. if nothing else, it's good PR.
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Amen to that .
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think it should be a wakeup call for those here that keep bashing Obama. Things could be a hell of a lot worse.
We shouldn't criticize the president since there have been worse presidents? Yes, things could be a hell of a lot worse, and yes, things could be a hell of a lot better.
he's spent a year being a raygun Democ(R)at. I'm tired of it.
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but direct your anger to the whitehouse website, your congress critters. By constantly posting on the blogs how bad you think he's doing just gives more ammo to the right wing neocon fascist corporatists to spread to the MSM. Listen to them lately. They are using your comments to say that the far left bloggers hate everything he is trying to do.
AT WH.GOV. I know they don't give a shit.
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you should tone down your rhetoric.
when they don't give a damn if they kill us.
if you two aren't making my point.
Their corporate bent. Their corruption.
people are dying all over this planet for the fucking greed these fuckwads manifest in their zeal for the goddamned dollar. they watched dead people floating in NOLa and then watched $2Bil in aid vanish due to corruption and did nothing, not even remove LIEberman from the chair of the committee. they watched the karlrove airlift of 250,000 black people out of Louisiana after Katrina on one-way trips just to turn that state Repug. And with the majority, the (R)ahmocrats didn't do dick.
I will not be hurling pleasant platitudes at these murderous corrupt scum. I am out of patience. I don't want the fucking army to be the only job available to my son.
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does that have to do with Obama and his goals right now?
home team, but don't expect everyone to join you.
expect it because you are who you are.
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into cannon fodder, to resurrect an old term.
trust that.
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They probably hired a private corporation to delete all the emails on the WH site every day.
laffin' at the "left".
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that when they use the negative blogs to attack Obama, they are attacking you also.
I can take it.
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Less corporaty at least.
doesn't give a shi* about us and doesn't mind saying so. It's not a mystery. Gee, if I'm ever elected, I'll go make friends with the people who'd love to have me out of power. And even though I keep getting stabbed in the back - my back is strong and can take it. And as for the people who elected me - well, I've got more important things to attend to.
I'm with Co and Savannah.
Water punishment for US child
A US soldier has been charged with assault after allegedly punishing his four-year-old daughter with water, police in Washington state have said.
Sgt Joshua Tabor dunked the girl's head in a sink full of water for not reciting the alphabet, police in the town of Yelm said.
Yelm police chief Todd Stancil said Sgt Tabor was arrested on 31 January.
The girl was then found hiding in a locked bathroom in the soldier's home, Mr Stancil said on Monday.
"From what I understand it is very similar to waterboarding," Mr Stancil said of the alleged offence, according to the AFP news agency.
"And to make it only worse, the daughter is afraid of water," the police chief told AFP.
Waterboarding is an interrogation technique that simulates drowning and has been banned as torture by the US.
Officers were called after Sgt Tabor was seen walking around his neighbourhood holding a Kevlar helmet and threatening to break windows, the police chief added.
Sgt Tabor posted bail of $10,000 (£6,400) on Monday and has been confined to barracks at his base in Washington state.
Sgt Tabor is a helicopter repairer who served in Iraq from 2007-08.
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No age restrictions that I know of.
This has been in our news for several days. They said he seemed to think what he did was ok, as in no big deal, and that he was awarded custody of his daughter a couple of months ago. Makes you wonder why the mother wasn't given custody.
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my cousin is on his sixth tour, third in afghanistan. we always chek on him whnever he's home. we hold him and love him because we have several military people in the family and we know.
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until they're veterans in need.
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there is a religious deference accorded to our military. this guy may have come home with whatever damage and got no debriefing and no rehabilitative down time. Soldiers can be transitioned out of wartime by time on the base while they adapt to non-combat situations and get outside job counseling so they can hit their stride as they rejoin the population.
they gave him custody without any of those considerations.
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as was known from psychological review of the tortures of WWII, torture screws up the doer and the done-to. the mental damage is exacerbated by moral relativism of thinking that they do it so we can or, even worse, 'do it to them before they do it to us.'
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MLK Jr pointed out numerous times that the racist filled with hatred was more the victim of his own hatred than were the people he hated.
On that basis he convinced his followers to endure the physical pain of putting their bodies literally on the line.
Powerful message a al Martin Buber's I and Thou.
When will government of the people, by the politicians, for the corporations perish from this Earth?
Not soon enough!
none willing to sacrifice.
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RAHM SUCKS!!!!!!
According to the New York Times, the "White House on Thursday signaled the outlines of its strategy for breaking the partisan logjam holding up President Obama’s agenda." And that outline is the most depressing thing I've read on the chances for health-care reform.
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if that billboard sign was by me, I'd burn it to the ground
and a comparable YouTube please!
(He's had some issues with his heart and some type of arrhythmia?)
"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
a comparable YouTube
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OYecfV3ubP8
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NEW MEXICO HOUSE VOTES TO MOVE STATE'S MONEY
House Says 'No More' To Big Banks In 65-0 Vote, Could Move $2 Billion - $5 Billion
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Nice to see a big player supporting locals.
"Parachutes are allowed in checked or carry-on baggage, but may not be worn in flight."
---Southwest Airlines
Well, what else can you do? The big banks steal my money from me, and i'm gonna want to do something about it!
The customer is always in charge.
"Government by organized money is just as dangerous as Government by organized mob"
-= Franklin Delano Roosevelt =-
I am in the absurd predicament of having to cast a wide net in case someone reading this should care... the most horrendous example of political corruption is taking place in Memphis, Tennessee right now:
http://www.commercialappeal.com/news/2010/feb...
we need help, America! Crooked Memphis politicians have stolen Elvis's Last Ride from the folks who formed the grass-roots organization to save it -- is nothing sacred?
http://www.savethepippin.com/
risk from something seemingly benign--urban trees--I know that many cities are VERY concerned with "old school" type things, from bus benches to playground equipment. A large, wooden, one-off rollercoaster must be an amazing potential liability for a mid-sized city.
That said, it's always sad to see these things go away. There are never enough collectors or museums to preserve all of our old memories. Hopefully it works out for the city residents.
"Parachutes are allowed in checked or carry-on baggage, but may not be worn in flight."
---Southwest Airlines
Target forced to pull Valentine's-themed bears, 'cus they're full of lead and coincidentally from China. Speaking of China, their milk is still tainted. Americans want campaign finance reform. Honda's forced to recall over 400,000 cars for airbag safety only a few weeks after they recalled over 600,000 other models. The least trused banks in America.
community banks, here we come!
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From my con bro in law.
My reply was one word. No.
What is your conceptual, continuity?
what do you mean not a hoax? isn't it a hoax? like crop circles are a hoax, but not photoshopped lol
after suffering stroke.
http://latimesblogs.latimes.com/gossip/2010/0...
Say what you will about him (little education, chain-smoking, hard-living, workaholic), he was also a family guy whose sons kept his fishing business "in the family." There was something sincere and genuine about him.
RIP.
"Parachutes are allowed in checked or carry-on baggage, but may not be worn in flight."
---Southwest Airlines
Presumably, I35 North of Minneapolis would be down Michele Bachmann's rabbit hole. Anything can happen in that universe.
of a Wastewater Treatment Plant(named after him).
http://www.theworriedshrimp.com//DeficitDubya...
miss him like a chapped ass
http://www.wfaa.com/news/health/Baby-Gets-Hap...
I would also put money on the baby's mother & father not having insurance. Or at least not having insurance that would cover his post-natal needs. Sure, I'm happy for the baby, but thinking about the likely cause did not make me happy.
Wouldn't it be great if Chimpy's picture got plastered by rotten eggs and ketchup?
Where's that sign located? Oh yeah, it's about 32 miles north of Minneapolis on Hwy 35W. Just outside Wyoming, MN.
Save up a bag of spoiled broccoli and dump it at the feet of Emperor Chimpy. Let the stench of garbage be his legacy!
http://images.huffingtonpost.com/gadgets/slid...
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