yawn.
bOReAC must need the hits.

This morning it seems the cable news channels are filled with stupid. Morning Joe's show had a doctor on who was explaing why health care reform is so very necessary and what it is now costing us to cover people without insurance in the long run. Mika and Pat Buchanan, thinking they are experts in the field, wouldn't shut the hell up and let the doctor make his case.

Fox and Friends had some guy, who said he was an astronaut, on who denied man's responsibility for global warming. He said it was too difficult for scientist to be able to model. Of course that's a hefty helping of horse manure.

Thank goodness for c-span and the possibility of hearing something worthwhile.

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2009/09/23/glen...

Add Mt. Vernon to the list of places to avoid in the US.

Alice X posted a link last night to an article which revealed that 4 separate security cameras went blank just before the explosion at the Murrough building in Oklahoma. This was revealed through the freedom of information act.

The explanation of the FEDS? They were changing the tapes.

All the cameras started to roll again just after the explosion.

http://rawstory.com/blog/2009/09/attorney-okl...

You can't make this stuff up!

Unless of course you're the government.

From the naked capitalism art.:
"The Fed not only lost control, D’Arista asserts, but its policy actions have unintentionally become “pro-cyclical”–encouraging financial excesses instead of countering the extremes."

I sincerely doubt that anything the Fed has ever done has been 'unintentional'. The whole reason for creating it in the first place was to ensure that the banksters had total control over the monetary system - so they could control the flow of capital into their own coffers.

The Shakesville article is right - a little accountability would be a good thing. But, the foxes took over the hen house decades ago, and the remedies everyone suggests requires a Congress and Supreme Court that are not filled with corrupt, greedy, fascist, corporate-owned, pigs. How will we get that??

the brain destroying pablum on the TV set.

I had missed a post by Dr. Andrew Weil, M.D., in HuffPo the other day. It was called President Obama: Get Angry About Health Care Reform.

Here's a really revealing clip:

President Obama's Sept. 9th speech on health care reform to Congress was like a kindly doctor's first consultation with an overweight, one-pack-a-day patient who is still ambulatory and functional. The president was reasonable and restrained, pointing out that Congress needs to make a better choice, one that reflects the centrist view.

But it did not work because the president, a rare politician who seems essentially immune to political greed, misjudged how much insurance and pharmaceutical funding has corrupted both parties. The center, as it turned out, has moved so far right that it sits smack in the middle of a self-destructive kleptocracy. Congress has, via the Baucus bill, essentially told the president that "this pathetic performance is the best we can muster."

So far, watching the Senate Finance Committee mark up sessions, we see that PhARMA is being protected and will not have to lose more than the $80 million they already agreed to (and when I say "lose" I mean from their billions in profit) and the Insurance companies appear to be making big plans for the huge profits they'll make when the Public Option is diminished or dumped.

The idea of Obama getting angry about all this and pushing for what we really need... ie: a Public Option or, better still, a government mandated single-payer system (yeah, like that's going to happen)... could make the majority of Americans see the President we thought we had voted for.

So what are the odds?

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