So first of all, I don't get why the Obama speech to a joint session of Congress will get more air-time, but oh well, I don't get why local newz will cover some dead gang-banger and not a Supreme Court decision that will affect 300 million people, not just Hillary Clinton.
This fucking lizard brain thinks that corporations should have more "free speech" rights. You think they control the political message now? HA. This will be Sotomayor's first case as a Supreme Court Justice. Wanna bet that she passes the rich fuck's first test? You think Puerto Ricans have rights? Pffft.
Yes I do understand why the Obama speech needs to be covered and since he's a great orator, I love to watch him. I dunno why the media whores keep saying how much they need "bi-partisanship?" They don't. What they need is to separate the corporate money from the congresswhores.
I hope that some of the right-wing fucktards get a clue, but they probably won't listen to him if they do watch him, so ginned up on hate spew from Hannity, Beck, and the other corporate funded msm whores. So stupid they refuse to see that the highly paid corporate media whores get them to vote against their own best interests.
Big Business's Hidden Hand in the Smear Job on Van Jones
By Adele M. Stan, AlterNet. Posted September 8, 2009.
"...The strategy is simple: Prey upon the worst fears of the right-wing folks who live next door in order to get them to organize against their own interests..."
See?
Update 4:21 PM 9/19/2009
Gordon at Alternate Brain draws attention to a comment that the WSJ
picked up on regarding the original court decision on corporate personhood. I'm still a bit skeptical, being that judges put so much stock in precedent but I'd like to hope for a new precedent on an old case, or no new powers given to corporations in the current case.
Wednesday, September 09, 2009
Tuesday, September 08, 2009
The Next Financial Crisis
Economy
The New Republic
It's coming--and we just made it worse.
* Peter Boone and Simon Johnson
* September 5, 2009 | 12:00 am
The New Republic
It's coming--and we just made it worse.
* Peter Boone and Simon Johnson
* September 5, 2009 | 12:00 am
Bloomberg still thinks Rethugs are important
* Congress
Current Party Numbers: 111th Congress, 1st Session
House Senate
Democrats 256 58
Independents 0 2
Republicans 178 40
Vacancies 1 0
House Senate
Democrats 256 58
Independents 0 2
Republicans 178 40
Vacancies 1 0
Think "fracking" ain't fucking your water supply?
Well water, that is.
Ahhh, Halliburton's lawyers are busy. They just can't seem to stay out of trouble, can they? Good thing they moved to Dubai .
Bet they hate this website:
Halliburton Watch
They probably weren't wild about this post of mine, either, since I have had an interest in gas and oil exploration because it wreaks environmental havoc:
halliburton.com landed here, wtf?
Ahhh, Halliburton's lawyers are busy. They just can't seem to stay out of trouble, can they? Good thing they moved to Dubai .
Bet they hate this website:
Halliburton Watch
They probably weren't wild about this post of mine, either, since I have had an interest in gas and oil exploration because it wreaks environmental havoc:
halliburton.com landed here, wtf?
Reading now
The Power of the Dog by Don Winslow
translated "El poder del perro"
It's about narcotraficantes, the "War on Drugs," mercenaries, dirty cops on both sides of the border, dirty politicians that go all the way up to presidents on both sides of the border, murder, revenge, Iran/Contra, the S American right-wing bullshit wars on the people funded by the US and trained at SOA It mentions NAFTA , you know, all the lovely things our foreign policy has inflicted upon Latin America.
It's in the fiction section, I dunno why, so far the "good guys" are not only non-existent, they're losing. Which brings me to a newspaper article I spotted this morning:
Mother of Colombian girl allegedly raped by U.S. officer seeks justice
By Gonzalo Guillen and Gerardo Reyes | El Nuevo Herald
Posted on Tuesday, September 8, 2009 McClatchy
Olga Lucia Castillo could never bring to justice the men who raped her in Bogota when she was pregnant with her daughter. Twelve years later, she is putting up the fight of her life to have a U.S. Army officer and a Mexican-born contractor indicted because, according to her, they raped her daughter at the military base in Melgar...
...both suspects were taken out of the country under diplomatic immunity,...
(more on the story here) | U.S. soldier's immunity clouds 2007 Colombian rape case
Enough about the "War on Drugs" how's that war in Afghanistan going?
translated "El poder del perro"
It's about narcotraficantes, the "War on Drugs," mercenaries, dirty cops on both sides of the border, dirty politicians that go all the way up to presidents on both sides of the border, murder, revenge, Iran/Contra, the S American right-wing bullshit wars on the people funded by the US and trained at SOA It mentions NAFTA , you know, all the lovely things our foreign policy has inflicted upon Latin America.
It's in the fiction section, I dunno why, so far the "good guys" are not only non-existent, they're losing. Which brings me to a newspaper article I spotted this morning:
Mother of Colombian girl allegedly raped by U.S. officer seeks justice
By Gonzalo Guillen and Gerardo Reyes | El Nuevo Herald
Posted on Tuesday, September 8, 2009 McClatchy
Olga Lucia Castillo could never bring to justice the men who raped her in Bogota when she was pregnant with her daughter. Twelve years later, she is putting up the fight of her life to have a U.S. Army officer and a Mexican-born contractor indicted because, according to her, they raped her daughter at the military base in Melgar...
...both suspects were taken out of the country under diplomatic immunity,...
(more on the story here) | U.S. soldier's immunity clouds 2007 Colombian rape case
Enough about the "War on Drugs" how's that war in Afghanistan going?
Sunday, September 06, 2009
'Why should the liberals always cave?' Dem asks
Rep. Keith Ellison
Ellison said private insurers wielded substantial market power "in nearly every major metropolitan area" that gives companies the ability to set premiums at high rates.
Ellison said private insurers wielded substantial market power "in nearly every major metropolitan area" that gives companies the ability to set premiums at high rates.
"How are we going to get them down? By introducing three things: competition, choice and a competitive price. I don't know how any conservative can be against those three things," he said.
Thank you Mr. Ellison!!
Update, and Dr. Dean
(sorry I missed this)
Finished reading Cruel and Unusual by Mark Crispin Miller
(c) 2004Hucky-ducky, here's the deal; these are some sick motherfuckers that were at the helm of this country. Sick, twisted, abused and abusive critters who believed that their shit didn't stink and they could do no wrong. That's probably why you are still seeing the evil bastards on the Sunday talking heads shows. I say 'you' because I never watched watched those bullshit shows, and I don't watch these DC bubbleheads anymore, either. It was hard to go back over the destructive policy decisions again, but I learned a few things, so I'm glad I did. As painful as it was to read, it was worth it. I recommend it.
Pages 276-277
"The only legal way to halt the nation's slide into theocracy, it seems, would be to open serious investigations by the Congress and the press, begin a robust national debate, and finally vote the zealots out of power. And yet that electoral possibility as also been subverted-- to what precise extent we don't yet know-- by the Christian Reconstructionists and their allies in the GOP, for the computerized machines now widely used for voting purposes in the United States are actually the handiwork of Reconstructionist ideologues. It was Howard Ahmanson and his brother Robert who bankrolled American Information Systems (AIS) which was founded by another pair of brothers, Bob and Todd Urosevich. Under the corporate rubric of AIS, Bob Urosevich is president of Diebold, while Todd Urosevich is vice president of aftermarket sales at IS&E. Diebold and ESS are the nation's largest manufacturers of electronic voting machines, now mandated to be used in every state, thanks to the Help America Vote Act of 2002. Neither company's machines leave any sort of paper trail; neither company has allowed the public to review its programming code; and machines produced by both firms are notoriously easy to manipulate--from outside the system, so that anyone who has the skills and inclination can just revised whatever "final tally" he may find unacceptable. That a democracy would use such shoddy goods as its electoral infrastructure is disquieting enough. That both those companies were funded by a far-right partisan and active Christian Reconstructionist --whose am is an all-Christian franchise in America --is surely grounds for rational concern and timely action. Heir to an enormous fortune from the savings and loan business, Ahmanson is probably not into touch-screen voting for the money. "My purpose," he told the Orange County Register in 1985, 'is total integration of Biblical law into our lives."
Two Voting Companies & Two Brothers Will Count 80% of U.S. Election -
Using BOTH Scanners & Touchscreens
by Lynn Landes 4/27/04
Diebold Finally Dumps E-Voting Division... But Sells It To Equally Problematic ES&S
by Michael Masnick (Techdirt)
Thu, Sep 3rd 2009
Max Blumenthal
Senior Writer for The Daily Beast
Posted: November 4, 2008 02:14 AM
Who Is The Mystery Man Behind Prop 8?
Howard Ahmanson becomes a Democrat. Seriously
March 23rd, 2009, 8:49 am · 7 Comments · posted by Steven Greenhut
And one more thing, Van Jones was right, they are assholes.
Saturday, September 05, 2009
Taibbi nails it again, this time on health care reform
Published on Saturday, September 5, 2009 by Rolling Stone
How Washington is Screwing Up Health Care Reform – and Why It May Take a Revolt to Fix It
by Matt Taibbi
(Yep, once again he breaks it down into digestible chunks)
...Let's start with the obvious: America has not only the worst but the dumbest health care system in the developed world...
...Almost every single one of the main players - from House Speaker Nancy Pelosi to Blue Dog turncoat Max Baucus - found some unforeseeable, unique-to-them way to fuck this thing up...
...The only committee that didn't finish a bill is the one that's likely to matter most: the Senate Finance Committee, chaired by the infamous obfuscating dick Max Baucus, a right-leaning Democrat from Montana who has received $2,880,631 in campaign contributions from the health care industry...
...In the real world, nothing except a single-payer system makes any sense. There are currently more than 1,300 private insurers in this country, forcing doctors to fill out different forms and follow different reimbursement procedures for each and every one. This drowns medical facilities in idiotic paperwork and jacks up prices: Nearly a third of all health care costs in America are associated with wasteful administration. Fully $350 billion a year could be saved on paperwork alone if the U.S. went to a single-payer system - more than enough to pay for the whole goddamned thing, if anyone had the balls to stand up and say so...
(Yeesh sometimes I wonder how many times the Democrats will play Charlie Brown to the Lucy-with-the-football Republicans/Lobbyists/Moneyed Interests? And I did not know the following when I listened to Darrell Issa go on and on bitching about Obama's czars. )
...Many of the health care advisers in Obama's inner circle, meanwhile, are industry hacks - people like Nancy-Ann DeParle, the president's health care czar, who has served on the boards of for-profit companies like Medco Health Solutions and Triad Hospitals. DeParle is so unthreatening to the status quo that Karen Ignagni, the insurance industry's leading lobbyist-gorgon, praised her "extensive experience" and "strong track record."...
...employers who currently offer sub-par coverage will have their shitty plans protected by a grandfather clause. Which means ...
"If you have coverage you like, you can keep it," says Sen. Sanders. "But if you have coverage you don't like, you gotta keep it."
This grandfather clause has potentially wide-ranging consequences. One of the biggest health care problems we have in this country is the technique used by large employers - Walmart is the most notorious example - of offering dogshit, bare-bones health insurance that forces employees to take on steep co-pays and other massive charges. Low-wage workers currently offered these plans often reject them and join Medicaid, effectively shifting the health care burden for Walmart employees on to the taxpayer. If the HELP committee's grandfather clause survives to the final bill, those workers who did the sensible thing in rejecting Walmart's crap employer plan and taking the comparatively awesome insurance offered via Medicaid will now be rebuffed by the state and forced to take the dogshit Walmart offering...
...If the public option is the sine qua non for progressives, then the "individual mandate" is the counterpart must-have requirement for the insurance industry....
And Buzzflash nails it again.
Health Care "Reform" that Will Enrich For-Profit Insurance Companies and Big Pharma is What the WH is Fighting For Now
How Washington is Screwing Up Health Care Reform – and Why It May Take a Revolt to Fix It
by Matt Taibbi
(Yep, once again he breaks it down into digestible chunks)
...Let's start with the obvious: America has not only the worst but the dumbest health care system in the developed world...
...Almost every single one of the main players - from House Speaker Nancy Pelosi to Blue Dog turncoat Max Baucus - found some unforeseeable, unique-to-them way to fuck this thing up...
...The only committee that didn't finish a bill is the one that's likely to matter most: the Senate Finance Committee, chaired by the infamous obfuscating dick Max Baucus, a right-leaning Democrat from Montana who has received $2,880,631 in campaign contributions from the health care industry...
...In the real world, nothing except a single-payer system makes any sense. There are currently more than 1,300 private insurers in this country, forcing doctors to fill out different forms and follow different reimbursement procedures for each and every one. This drowns medical facilities in idiotic paperwork and jacks up prices: Nearly a third of all health care costs in America are associated with wasteful administration. Fully $350 billion a year could be saved on paperwork alone if the U.S. went to a single-payer system - more than enough to pay for the whole goddamned thing, if anyone had the balls to stand up and say so...
(Yeesh sometimes I wonder how many times the Democrats will play Charlie Brown to the Lucy-with-the-football Republicans/Lobbyists/Moneyed Interests? And I did not know the following when I listened to Darrell Issa go on and on bitching about Obama's czars. )
...Many of the health care advisers in Obama's inner circle, meanwhile, are industry hacks - people like Nancy-Ann DeParle, the president's health care czar, who has served on the boards of for-profit companies like Medco Health Solutions and Triad Hospitals. DeParle is so unthreatening to the status quo that Karen Ignagni, the insurance industry's leading lobbyist-gorgon, praised her "extensive experience" and "strong track record."...
...employers who currently offer sub-par coverage will have their shitty plans protected by a grandfather clause. Which means ...
"If you have coverage you like, you can keep it," says Sen. Sanders. "But if you have coverage you don't like, you gotta keep it."
This grandfather clause has potentially wide-ranging consequences. One of the biggest health care problems we have in this country is the technique used by large employers - Walmart is the most notorious example - of offering dogshit, bare-bones health insurance that forces employees to take on steep co-pays and other massive charges. Low-wage workers currently offered these plans often reject them and join Medicaid, effectively shifting the health care burden for Walmart employees on to the taxpayer. If the HELP committee's grandfather clause survives to the final bill, those workers who did the sensible thing in rejecting Walmart's crap employer plan and taking the comparatively awesome insurance offered via Medicaid will now be rebuffed by the state and forced to take the dogshit Walmart offering...
...If the public option is the sine qua non for progressives, then the "individual mandate" is the counterpart must-have requirement for the insurance industry....
And Buzzflash nails it again.
Health Care "Reform" that Will Enrich For-Profit Insurance Companies and Big Pharma is What the WH is Fighting For Now
Friday, September 04, 2009
This is not good
By Brad Friedman on 9/3/2009 7:10PM
DIEBOLD FINDS ELECTION DIVISION BUYER; ES&S TO CONTROL MOST U.S. ELECTIONS
Bargain-basement sale price; Anti-trust complaints to be filed; Dreadful history of failure by both companies
Merger causes concern among Election Integrity experts...
DIEBOLD FINDS ELECTION DIVISION BUYER; ES&S TO CONTROL MOST U.S. ELECTIONS
Bargain-basement sale price; Anti-trust complaints to be filed; Dreadful history of failure by both companies
Merger causes concern among Election Integrity experts...
Wednesday, September 02, 2009
Darrell Issa's town hall meeting on health care
It was obvious before I even found a parking space that someone had gotten the word out and I soon found out who that was-- Rick Roberts, local AM hate radio wing-nut.
Or it might have been stump-speech-on-a-stick himself. I dunno.
Waiting in line the way in I heard the lady behind me say to her friend "So how did you hear about this?" Her friend answered "I got a call, personally inviting me." Hmmm, I went with my sister, who happens to be one of his constituents and she didn't get a call. Maybe it's because there is a D on her registration rather than an R?
All I know is that I never want to be in the midst of that many sheeple who will spread their cheeks out of sheer stupidity again. They politely applauded while he didn't answer question after question. God what a weasel he is. He made sure to give about a half dozen shout outs on tort reform, that's always good for Republican sheeple applause. He babbled on for a bit about cash payers being billed more than insurance ever pays. No shit Sherlock. Who created that mess, insurance agencies?
I laughed out loud when he went on about how drug companies spend billions testing and then getting the OK from the FDA to get a drug out on the market. No mention of settlements like this.
He's also really good at droning on until you totally forgot what the question was, you're just happy he quit babbling. It didn't really matter, it seemed most of the people who spoke or asked questions (some obviously rhetorical, it was a wing-nut love fest with no guns, that's illegal here) like everyone had made up their minds before they got there that HR 3200 is positively evil, but nobody knew why. Seriously, nobody could point to anything specific in the bill, they just hated it. Why? They are sheeple. They think what they're told to think and they do what they are told to do.
No mention of a public insurance option.
At all.
I guess Ricky must have been filling the sheeple's heads with noise about a public option being what? Unpatriotic because it might give a few greedy insurers a run for their money? Might crimp the profits of insurers?
I almost felt sorry for one woman who almost pleaded with him to tell her she wasn't a hypocrite for not wanting Obamacare because she already had Tricare and Medicare.
Almost.
I'd make a lousy politician because when she pleaded "Am I a hypocrite?" I said loudly "Yup!" Jesus fuckin Christ lady, you know you're not gonna get the truth at a place where a bunch of sad and sorry rethugs have gathered to have thewe poow widdle bwuised egos salved. Issa weaseled out of the question.
Damn, what kills me is nobody ever mentioned the three trillion dollar war when they talked about a balanced budget. At one point he mentioned $500 a month for health insurance. I wonder if that's his cockamamie bill that offers the health insurance options of Federal employees to everyone, but the government doesn't pay for any of it? I pretty much drove my sister crazy by mumbling not quite loud enough for her to hear me the whole time. I need a shower, I don't like being around people who wear Buck Ofama shirts and mobilize minors to wave signs about a bill that isn't even finished being written.
Fuck it, let's thump these assholes at the next election ALSO.
NC Times says 3,000 people were there, but wait, it says 1500 in the gym and that would make it 1500 outside. I don't know where the fuck they are talking about, but there were NOT 1500 people outside where I was, there were 300 people outside, max.
And here's the fishwrap coverage. One sided as usual.
Update: Wow, I'm glad the drama was in LA and not here. I'm short tempered at times and if "Buck Ofama" lady had punched me in the face, knocked me to the ground, continued to holler at me while pointing her finger in my face, I might have bitten her finger off too.
Update 2 1:00 PM 9/13/2009. I found this article. SONIC WEAPONS USED IN IRAQ POSITIONED AT CONGRESSIONAL TOWNHALL MEETINGS IN SAN DIEGO COUNTY
Hmmm. Sure looks like the loudspeaker I saw above the gym at the Issa event.
Or it might have been stump-speech-on-a-stick himself. I dunno.
Waiting in line the way in I heard the lady behind me say to her friend "So how did you hear about this?" Her friend answered "I got a call, personally inviting me." Hmmm, I went with my sister, who happens to be one of his constituents and she didn't get a call. Maybe it's because there is a D on her registration rather than an R?
All I know is that I never want to be in the midst of that many sheeple who will spread their cheeks out of sheer stupidity again. They politely applauded while he didn't answer question after question. God what a weasel he is. He made sure to give about a half dozen shout outs on tort reform, that's always good for Republican sheeple applause. He babbled on for a bit about cash payers being billed more than insurance ever pays. No shit Sherlock. Who created that mess, insurance agencies?
I laughed out loud when he went on about how drug companies spend billions testing and then getting the OK from the FDA to get a drug out on the market. No mention of settlements like this.
He's also really good at droning on until you totally forgot what the question was, you're just happy he quit babbling. It didn't really matter, it seemed most of the people who spoke or asked questions (some obviously rhetorical, it was a wing-nut love fest with no guns, that's illegal here) like everyone had made up their minds before they got there that HR 3200 is positively evil, but nobody knew why. Seriously, nobody could point to anything specific in the bill, they just hated it. Why? They are sheeple. They think what they're told to think and they do what they are told to do.
No mention of a public insurance option.
At all.
I guess Ricky must have been filling the sheeple's heads with noise about a public option being what? Unpatriotic because it might give a few greedy insurers a run for their money? Might crimp the profits of insurers?
I almost felt sorry for one woman who almost pleaded with him to tell her she wasn't a hypocrite for not wanting Obamacare because she already had Tricare and Medicare.
Almost.
I'd make a lousy politician because when she pleaded "Am I a hypocrite?" I said loudly "Yup!" Jesus fuckin Christ lady, you know you're not gonna get the truth at a place where a bunch of sad and sorry rethugs have gathered to have thewe poow widdle bwuised egos salved. Issa weaseled out of the question.
Damn, what kills me is nobody ever mentioned the three trillion dollar war when they talked about a balanced budget. At one point he mentioned $500 a month for health insurance. I wonder if that's his cockamamie bill that offers the health insurance options of Federal employees to everyone, but the government doesn't pay for any of it? I pretty much drove my sister crazy by mumbling not quite loud enough for her to hear me the whole time. I need a shower, I don't like being around people who wear Buck Ofama shirts and mobilize minors to wave signs about a bill that isn't even finished being written.
Fuck it, let's thump these assholes at the next election ALSO.
NC Times says 3,000 people were there, but wait, it says 1500 in the gym and that would make it 1500 outside. I don't know where the fuck they are talking about, but there were NOT 1500 people outside where I was, there were 300 people outside, max.
And here's the fishwrap coverage. One sided as usual.
Update: Wow, I'm glad the drama was in LA and not here. I'm short tempered at times and if "Buck Ofama" lady had punched me in the face, knocked me to the ground, continued to holler at me while pointing her finger in my face, I might have bitten her finger off too.
Update 2 1:00 PM 9/13/2009. I found this article. SONIC WEAPONS USED IN IRAQ POSITIONED AT CONGRESSIONAL TOWNHALL MEETINGS IN SAN DIEGO COUNTY
Hmmm. Sure looks like the loudspeaker I saw above the gym at the Issa event.
Court sides with Paris Hilton in Hallmark fight
Tuesday, Sept. 1, 2009
AP
I wonder if she would have been fine with it if she had gotten paid for it?
I mean, is she really known for having good taste? In any of her well known commercial enterprises?
Really?
Have any of her nauseating public projects done anything other than attempt to separate the "classes" more in the US? A supposedly classless society?
AP
I wonder if she would have been fine with it if she had gotten paid for it?
I mean, is she really known for having good taste? In any of her well known commercial enterprises?
Really?
Have any of her nauseating public projects done anything other than attempt to separate the "classes" more in the US? A supposedly classless society?
Tuesday, September 01, 2009
Don't kid yourself ladies and gentlemen,
the Poles have every right to be pissed off at the West AND the East for what happened to their country and peoples during and After WWII.
Stalin, FDR, Churchill, they all fucked Poland.
If you haven't seen the PBS special "WWII behind closed doors," I highly recommend it.
Polish, Russian press welcome Putin gesture
I guess the PR flacks are recommending a newer, softer, cuddlier approach to governance.
Stalin, FDR, Churchill, they all fucked Poland.
If you haven't seen the PBS special "WWII behind closed doors," I highly recommend it.
Polish, Russian press welcome Putin gesture
I guess the PR flacks are recommending a newer, softer, cuddlier approach to governance.
Monday, August 31, 2009
Reading Now
Cruel and Unusual by Mark Crispin Miller.
It's hard to go back over all the stuff that Bush/Cheney pulled. I don't think I've ever hated people that I never met like I hate that traitorous duo. Click on the book for a BuzzFlash interview with the author.
Sunday, August 30, 2009
More coal
India's generation of children crippled by uranium waste
defects in Punjab and pollution from coal-fired power stations
* Gethin Chamberlain, Bathinda
* The Observer, Sunday 30 August 2009
Observer investigation uncovers link between dramatic rise in birth defects in Punjab and pollution from coal-fired power stations.
...But an Observer investigation has now uncovered disturbing evidence to suggest a link between the contamination and the region's coal-fired power stations. It is already known that the fine fly ash produced when coal is burned contains concentrated levels of uranium and a new report published by Russia's leading nuclear research institution warns of an increased radiation hazard to people living near coal-fired thermal power stations....
Let's see how Big Coal tries to spin this one. Max Baucus is a big coal guy. And here is a map of his health care lobbyist complex.
Crap-OLA it's hot again today (98°F)
defects in Punjab and pollution from coal-fired power stations
* Gethin Chamberlain, Bathinda
* The Observer, Sunday 30 August 2009
Observer investigation uncovers link between dramatic rise in birth defects in Punjab and pollution from coal-fired power stations.
...But an Observer investigation has now uncovered disturbing evidence to suggest a link between the contamination and the region's coal-fired power stations. It is already known that the fine fly ash produced when coal is burned contains concentrated levels of uranium and a new report published by Russia's leading nuclear research institution warns of an increased radiation hazard to people living near coal-fired thermal power stations....
Let's see how Big Coal tries to spin this one. Max Baucus is a big coal guy. And here is a map of his health care lobbyist complex.
Crap-OLA it's hot again today (98°F)
Saturday, August 29, 2009
Coal
It's hard to tell from this picture, but the full coal trains running through Nebraska (where this pic was taken) to the link hub in Illinois are miles long. Half of the electric generation in this country is coal fired.
Coal industry caught faking supporters.
03 Jun 2008: Opinion The Myth of Clean Coal
The coal industry and its allies are spending more than $60 million to promote the notion that coal is clean. But so far, “clean coal” is little more than an advertising slogan.
by Richard Conniff
Coal industry caught faking supporters.
Visit msnbc.com for Breaking News, World News, and News about the Economy
03 Jun 2008: Opinion The Myth of Clean Coal
The coal industry and its allies are spending more than $60 million to promote the notion that coal is clean. But so far, “clean coal” is little more than an advertising slogan.
by Richard Conniff
Economic Hit Men and the Next Drowning of New Orleans
Hurricane Bush Four Years Later, Part 2
by Greg Palast
For Crooks and Liars, Thursday, August 27, 2009
Expert Fired Who Warned Levees Would Burst
Hurricane George, Four Years Later
by Greg Palast
Wednesday, August 26, 2009
Frankly, I'm surprised it took the contractor privateers so long to get rid of Ivor Van Heerden. Intelligent acadamecians who actually care about the people that their research may affect are always dangerous if their revelations might adversely affect private profits.
God, I'm so tired of crying. My country is no more or less corrupt than any other place on the planet, it's just less honest about it.
Perkins Coie’s Patrick Collins on the Culture of Corruption
23 Corporate Crime Reporter 32, August 23, 2009
Bill Moyers Journal Money-Driven Medicine
by Greg Palast
For Crooks and Liars, Thursday, August 27, 2009
This week only, our readers can download, free of charge, Greg Palast's film, "Big Easy to Big Empty: The Untold Story of the Drowning of New Orleans." Or donate and get a signed DVD. Watch the 1-minute trailer ...(title link)
Expert Fired Who Warned Levees Would Burst
Hurricane George, Four Years Later
by Greg Palast
Wednesday, August 26, 2009
Frankly, I'm surprised it took the contractor privateers so long to get rid of Ivor Van Heerden. Intelligent acadamecians who actually care about the people that their research may affect are always dangerous if their revelations might adversely affect private profits.
God, I'm so tired of crying. My country is no more or less corrupt than any other place on the planet, it's just less honest about it.
Perkins Coie’s Patrick Collins on the Culture of Corruption
23 Corporate Crime Reporter 32, August 23, 2009
Bill Moyers Journal Money-Driven Medicine
Friday, August 28, 2009
While I was tuned out this week
Two stories should have been highlighted.
As Obama Golfs with UBS CEO Days After Firm Avoids Criminal Prosecution, UBS Whistleblower Given 40-Month Jail Term
“One Nation, Two Economies”–As Obama Nominates Bernanke to Second Term, a Look at Who Benefits from Economic “Recovery”
‘Just 4%’ of Israelis think Obama is pro-Israel
By Agence France-Presse
Published: August 28, 2009
Updated 5 hours ago
Right, we should give a good Goddamned flying fuck about a country of 6 million why?
As Obama Golfs with UBS CEO Days After Firm Avoids Criminal Prosecution, UBS Whistleblower Given 40-Month Jail Term
“One Nation, Two Economies”–As Obama Nominates Bernanke to Second Term, a Look at Who Benefits from Economic “Recovery”
‘Just 4%’ of Israelis think Obama is pro-Israel
By Agence France-Presse
Published: August 28, 2009
Updated 5 hours ago
Right, we should give a good Goddamned flying fuck about a country of 6 million why?
Tuesday, August 25, 2009
I'm not much of a country fan
But I love Jo Dee Messina.
Jo Dee Messina - My give a damn's busted
Jo Dee Messina - Bye Bye
Jo Dee Messina - Stand Beside Me
Jo Dee Messina I'm Alright
Jo Dee Messina - My give a damn's busted
Jo Dee Messina - Bye Bye
Jo Dee Messina - Stand Beside Me
Jo Dee Messina I'm Alright
Sunday, August 23, 2009
I need more
I'm so bored with the liberal political bloggers stating the obvious. Stating what anyone with any common sense knows. Talking to each other about how fucking stupid the bullshit lies on Fox news are. Constantly warding off blows by the Congresswhores and MainsStreamMediawhores. Bitching about Sarah Palin instead of ignoring the stupid ass distraction that she is.
I don't want to get involved with campaigns, that's the same old 'who's the richest sheikh in the neighborhood' shit. I want the system changed. I want the money OUT of politics. I want to see everyday people with a vote that fucking means something. I'm fucking tired of the cash from multi-national corporations and people who's families haven't worked in six fucking generations on mah tee-vee newz trying to blow smoke up my ass by blathering on that this a Democracy and my vote means something. Bullshit, they know god-damned good and well that they can get what they want, no matter what "the little people" want.
What I want is the kind of change I was hoping for when I voted for Obama. Yes, I know what he's up against, I'm not some starry-eyed naive kid.
Here's the thing.
The world is tired of our crap, and I don't fucking blame them. Our shit stinks.
Let me know what you think "our shit" is, I'd like to know what you think it is?
I don't want to get involved with campaigns, that's the same old 'who's the richest sheikh in the neighborhood' shit. I want the system changed. I want the money OUT of politics. I want to see everyday people with a vote that fucking means something. I'm fucking tired of the cash from multi-national corporations and people who's families haven't worked in six fucking generations on mah tee-vee newz trying to blow smoke up my ass by blathering on that this a Democracy and my vote means something. Bullshit, they know god-damned good and well that they can get what they want, no matter what "the little people" want.
What I want is the kind of change I was hoping for when I voted for Obama. Yes, I know what he's up against, I'm not some starry-eyed naive kid.
Here's the thing.
The world is tired of our crap, and I don't fucking blame them. Our shit stinks.
Let me know what you think "our shit" is, I'd like to know what you think it is?
Mexico's finally had enough of the "War on Drugs"
Friday, Aug. 21, 2009
It's killing average Mexicans, not the big guys in the drug cartels.
This week's Boiling Frogs was on the "War on Drugs" and it was awesome. Sibel Edmonds is one smart cookie, and quite brave. I subscribed to the podcast and it's easier to listen to. The streaming was spotty.
Mexico decriminalizes small-scale drug possessionBy MARK STEVENSON Associated Press Writer |
It's killing average Mexicans, not the big guys in the drug cartels.
This week's Boiling Frogs was on the "War on Drugs" and it was awesome. Sibel Edmonds is one smart cookie, and quite brave. I subscribed to the podcast and it's easier to listen to. The streaming was spotty.
Saturday, August 22, 2009
Michael Moore' s new trailer
TRAILER: Michael Moore's 'Capitalism: A Love Story'
Boy do I have a shit eating grin on my face right now :)
Boy do I have a shit eating grin on my face right now :)
Friday, August 21, 2009
Milk market a free market? Bwaaaaa ha ha ha ha ha ha hahahahahaha
Independent Farmers Feel Squeezed By Milk Cartel
by John Burnett
The Milkweed
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Here is your Friday rodent
Caught a ground squirrel in a tree, heh.
by John Burnett
The Milkweed
Dairy’s best marketing info and insight
P.O. Box 10, Brooklyn, WI 53521 · (608) 455-2400 © 2002 - 2008 The Milkweed all rights reserved
Here is your Friday rodent
Caught a ground squirrel in a tree, heh.
Health care reform
Betsy McCaughey's Ideas Called "Hyperbolic... Dangerous" By Jon Stewart (VIDEO)
Here's the bill, search to page 432
‘‘America’s Affordable Health Choices Act of 2009’’.
Health Care Bill Page 425 - The Truth
Monday July 27, 2009
About.com UrbanLedgends
Health Care Reform Proponents Review Options for Passing Plan
Friday, August 21, 2009
California Healthline
A daily digest of news, policy and opinion
Money, Meds, and Members of Congress Sunlight Foundation
Healthcare Ripoffs
— By Kevin Drum | Fri August 21, 2009 8:10 AM PST
Mother Jones
Miller-McCune glosses some recent research about the exorbitant rates the uninsured are forced to pay for medical care:
Here's the bill, search to page 432
‘‘America’s Affordable Health Choices Act of 2009’’.
Health Care Bill Page 425 - The Truth
Monday July 27, 2009
About.com UrbanLedgends
Health Care Reform Proponents Review Options for Passing Plan
Friday, August 21, 2009
California Healthline
A daily digest of news, policy and opinion
Money, Meds, and Members of Congress Sunlight Foundation
Healthcare Ripoffs
— By Kevin Drum | Fri August 21, 2009 8:10 AM PST
Mother Jones
Miller-McCune glosses some recent research about the exorbitant rates the uninsured are forced to pay for medical care:
Thursday, August 20, 2009
Drop in world temperatures fuels global warming debate
Oh puhleeeeeeze. That's why it should always be referred to as "Climate Change" rather than "Global Warming." Yeeesh.
This is the man we need to pay attention to. George Lakoff is someone that every progressive should be familiar with.
This is the man we need to pay attention to. George Lakoff is someone that every progressive should be familiar with.
Wednesday, August 19, 2009
Rethinking Afghanistan
Dostum?
Afghan media blackout plunges election day into confusion and fear
• Coverup sees officials dodge questions on Taliban attacks
• Government orders press not to scare voters away from polls
* Jon Boone in Kabul (UK Guardian)
* guardian.co.uk, Wednesday 19 August 2009 18.12 BST
Pipelineistan, hellooooooo?
Cash-Roots, Manufactured Anger, and Hot Air over Health Care
Submitted by Lisa Graves on August 17, 2009 - 10:00pm.
I spoke with a physician last week who told me that over 50% of doctors in this country are pro single payer. Quit asking your doctor for drugs you see advertised on tee-vee and quit asking him for pain meds that you wouldn't need if you got your ass to some NA meetings and got off of them and ask your doctor if they have had enough of not being able to treat patients instead of fucking around with insurance bullshit, including indemnities against ambulance chasers.
Rep. Frank lashes out at protester for Nazi remark
Wednesday, Aug. 19, 2009
DARTMOUTH, Mass. (AP) - Rep. Barney Frank lashed out at protester who held a poster depicting President Barack Obama with a Hitler-style mustache during a heated town hall meeting on federal health care reform.
"On what planet do you spend most of your time?" Frank asked the woman, who had stepped up to the podium at a southeastern Massachusetts senior center to ask why Frank supports what she called a Nazi policy.
"Ma'am, trying to have a conversation with you would be like trying to argue with a dining room table. I have no interest in doing it," Frank replied.
Good for him!!!! Man, I wish he was my rep. *sigh*
I spoke with a physician last week who told me that over 50% of doctors in this country are pro single payer. Quit asking your doctor for drugs you see advertised on tee-vee and quit asking him for pain meds that you wouldn't need if you got your ass to some NA meetings and got off of them and ask your doctor if they have had enough of not being able to treat patients instead of fucking around with insurance bullshit, including indemnities against ambulance chasers.
Rep. Frank lashes out at protester for Nazi remark
Wednesday, Aug. 19, 2009
DARTMOUTH, Mass. (AP) - Rep. Barney Frank lashed out at protester who held a poster depicting President Barack Obama with a Hitler-style mustache during a heated town hall meeting on federal health care reform.
"On what planet do you spend most of your time?" Frank asked the woman, who had stepped up to the podium at a southeastern Massachusetts senior center to ask why Frank supports what she called a Nazi policy.
"Ma'am, trying to have a conversation with you would be like trying to argue with a dining room table. I have no interest in doing it," Frank replied.
Good for him!!!! Man, I wish he was my rep. *sigh*
Tuesday, August 18, 2009
Hmmm. The White house has not given up on the public option.
And on to Health Care.
MSM proves again what whores they are. Notice how they keep quoting Republicans. Guess what? Fuck the RepugnanThuglicans, they are not in power, they lost.
Now, the Congresswhores the Health Sector needs to pay are Democrats. Fuck me. Representative Democracy my ASS. Who the fuck are the Congresswhores representing? I'm a Democrat and Max Baucus does not represent me. He represents who pays him, and that includes Big Coal and the Health Sector .
‘Nothing Has Changed’ for Public Option
Posted on Aug 18, 2009
White House / Pete Souza
Press secretary Robert Gibbs called the media’s determination that the president had abandoned the public option “one of the more curious things I’ve ever seen in my life.” Is this a case of spin or spine? Read Gibbs’ entertaining back-and-forth with reporters (full text after the jump) and come to your own conclusion.
MSM proves again what whores they are. Notice how they keep quoting Republicans. Guess what? Fuck the RepugnanThuglicans, they are not in power, they lost.
Now, the Congresswhores the Health Sector needs to pay are Democrats. Fuck me. Representative Democracy my ASS. Who the fuck are the Congresswhores representing? I'm a Democrat and Max Baucus does not represent me. He represents who pays him, and that includes Big Coal and the Health Sector .
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‘Nothing Has Changed’ for Public Option
Posted on Aug 18, 2009
White House / Pete Souza
Press secretary Robert Gibbs called the media’s determination that the president had abandoned the public option “one of the more curious things I’ve ever seen in my life.” Is this a case of spin or spine? Read Gibbs’ entertaining back-and-forth with reporters (full text after the jump) and come to your own conclusion.
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