Our pullback results in another accomplished mission. Dog-fighting raids across six states. Bush's spying program was extensive. Repug anti-stimulus fact checks. A Wisconsin town refuses to support the troop. Pelosi and the GOP don't care about black performers. Barry wants to cover up our war crimes in Afghanistan.
Bottled water needs more regulatin. Arnie don't care about the poor or disabled, while bailed-out banks don't want to bail out Cali. Bush also covered up our war crimes in Afghanistan. House Dems plan to make the rich do their part for America. (For now, anyway.)

Most Americans don't believe humans responsible for climate change, study finds

About 49% of Americans believe the Earth is getting warmer because of the burning of fossil fuels and other human activity, the survey by the Pew Research Centre and the American Association for the Advancement of Science said. Some 36% attributed global warming to natural changes in the atmosphere and another 10% said there was no clear evidence that the earth was indeed undergoing climate change.

49% - global climate change caused by human activity
36% - global climate change caused by natural changes
10% - no such thing as global climate change
05% - non-respondent

So: 51% did not agree that global climate change is caused by human activity.

6 more outs to something really special happening in san francisco

it might be on espn right now

about the health care plan I had the other night and here is the follow up.
I checked with the other doctors listed on the provider list and none of them were contracted with the insurance company. In reality, I was paying the premiums but had no coverage. This was a Medicare Advantage plan for those that may be on the same type of plan.
What I did today was contact Medicare and they finding that I was deceived allowed me to change back to the regular Medicare plan. If you are having the same type of problem, contact MEDICARE.
I'm not done with this insurance company. I plan to file more complaints and try to get a refund for the premiums paid since the providers they listed weren't contracted, therefore I wasn't covered. One friend of mine was on the same plan and they weren't paying the claims so I know how they operate. If we do get a public option, stay way from Evercare/Healthcare United.

Bill Moyers looks at the influence of money and lobbying on health care reform efforts in Washington, D.C.

You can watch the entire segment online by go here. To see how callous the health insurance industry CEOs are go to minute 3:16 of the clip. http://www.pbs.org/moyers/journal/07102009/wa...

Over the past five years the companies — Assurant, Golden Rule and Wellpoint — had cancelled 20 thousand individual policies.

During a subcommittee hearing Michigan Congressman Bart Stupak asked their executives if they would change their ways after hearing testimony of a woman who was denied coverage for needing a double mastectomy immediately. Blue Cross and Blue Shield pre-certified her for the surgery and for a hospital stay. The Friday before she was to have my double mastectomy, Blue Cross and Blue Shield called her by telephone and told her that her chart was red flagged.

BILL MOYERS: Red flagged. The insurer used inadvertent omissions on her original application — data that had nothing to do with her current condition — as an excuse to cancel her health policy. Without that insurance she couldn't have the cancer surgery that she needed.

REP. BART STUPAK: Let me ask of our CEOs this question, starting with you Mr. Hamm, would you commit today that your company will never rescind another policy unless there was intentional fraud - fraudulent misrepresentation in the application?

DON HAMM: I would not commit to that.

REP. BART STUPAK: How about you Mr. Collins, would you commit to not to rescind any policy unless there is an intentional fraudulent misrepresentation?

RICHARD COLLINS: No, sir. We follow the state laws and regulations. And we would not stipulate to that. That's not consistent with each state's laws.

REP. BART STUPAK: How about you, Mr. Sassi, would you commit that your company will never rescind another policy unless there was an intentional fraud, misrepresentation?

BRIAN A. SASSI: No, I can't commit to that. The intentional standard is not the law of the land in the majority of states.

REP. JOE BARTON: Doesn't it bother you that people are going to die, because you insist on reviewing a policy that somebody took out in good faith and forgot to tell you that they were being treated for acne? Doesn't that bother you?

DON HAMM: Yes sir, it does. And we regret the necessity that that has to occur even a single time and we've made suggestions that would reform the system such that that would no longer be needed.

http://www.reuters.com/article/GCA-GreenBusin...

Ebay?~?

NEW YORK - As part of its turnaround plan, General Motors Corp. said Friday it plans to experiment with auctioning new cars on eBay, expanding on an existing partnership covering certified used vehicles on the online marketplace.

GM CEO Fritz Henderson said the company is working on an "innovative new partnership" with eBay Inc. to let consumers in California bid on vehicles as they would in a normal eBay auction or choose a "Buy it Now" option to purchase the car at a set price. Dealers would still distribute the cars.

http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/31855060/ns/busin...

How innovative. Not. Here's an idea GM. I know it's radical and all. But how about you make a decent vehicle once, with a reasonable price and reasonable repair costs? Now I know, that would be a complete 180 from your conventional thinking, but you should give it a damn try. The solution to GM's bankruptcy is massive downsizing and jobcuts, followed by trying to sell cars on Ebay? Good grief.

WASHINGTON – President Barack Obama on Saturday dismissed the idea the nation might need a second stimulus to jolt the economy out of recession and urged Americans to be patient with his economic recovery plan.

Faced with rising unemployment numbers and criticism from Republicans who have already labeled the $787 billion stimulus a failure, Obama used his weekly radio and Internet address to remind voters that reversing job losses takes time.

He criticized Republicans for opposing the stimulus but offering few alternatives to the worst recession since the Great Depression. And he rejected talk of a second stimulus, an idea that has been discussed by Democrats and even famed investor Warren Buffett.

http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20090711/ap_on_go_...

Because everyone knows, if you give it enough time, all recessions and depressions will end! Ta da!

JUST FELL INTO THE TOILET.

If they want to fight whaling ships in the open seas, you have my support. Deface a national monument, GO FUCK YOURSELVES AND ROT IN PRISON.

I'm not even going to listen to their argument.

look, i posted this earlier, but this will be the last time. i know how this site feels about what some call "conspiracy theory", so i'll keep this rant brief:

IT'S THE JOES, STUPID.

the JOES control EVERYTHING; therefore the JOES must shoulder ALL of the blame.

think about it:

WHO controls football? JOE montana, JOE namath, mean JOE green.

WHO controls entertainment? JOE pesci, JOE jackson, JOE jonas.

WHAT do your kids play with? g.i. JOE dolls.

the JOES have us all so thoroughly brainwashed into accepting their way of thinking, we now use expressions like "average JOE" or "JOE sixpack" where we once said "regular guy"; or "cup of JOE" in place of "mug of coffee".

(don't get me wrong; i know there are some good JOES out there. c&l's very own uncle JOE mccarthy and JOE h. come to mind. not all JOES are bad, but every bad person IS a JOE!)