Dianne Feinstein Signs On To Public Option Push

Good. When the majority of doctors and constituents in the US want the public option the Senate needs to know it and respond to it appropriately.



Dr. Flowers bravery should be rewarded. All she wanted was to do was put the truth of the above statement out there for our "representatives" to see.



http://www.pbs.org/moyers/journal/02052010/watch3.html
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Tesla Motors Executive Reportedly Killed In Palo Alto Plane Crash

"A Note from Elon Musk



February 17, 2010



"Three Tesla employees were on board a plane that crashed in East Palo Alto early this morning. We are withholding their identities as we work with the relevant authorities to notify the families. Our thoughts and prayers are with them. Tesla is a small, tightly-knit company, and this is a tragic day for us."



- Elon Musk, CEO"

http://www.teslamotors.com/
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Davos Confidential

“it’s like twitter, facebook and michael arrington had a drunken 3-way. twitter gets pregnant. 7 months later there’s a premature delivery and the afterbirth ends up in your gmail inbox.”

(stolen snark left as comment for Google CEO at Huffpo article)

— The best description of Google Buzz I’ve read so far (via) and via


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Dead dude killed a soldier in 1989?

February 16, 2010
British investigate ID theft by 'Mossad' hit squad in Dubai

British authorities were today investigating whether any its nationals had their identities stolen by the assassination squad who killed a Hamas leader in a Dubai hotel.


Seems like an awful lot of trouble to go to, but hey, Mossad doesn't make a fucking bit of sense to me anyway.

Neither do idiots like this.

Hey, let's rent a billboard like this, but not mean to imply that Obama has done anything impeachable.

Guy's a fucking genius, he thinks that Obama can control the banksters.

stuck in my head this morning

Must be the book I'm reading.

Could be the stuff I watch also. Personally, I don't think US college student should be allowed to graduate unless they have seen this. High school would be better, but it would make military recruitment damn near impossible.

the MSM sucks donkey dick

Fear Inc.

Posted by Tom Engelhardt at 5:25pm, February 14, 2010.

Hold Onto Your Underwear
This Is Not a National Emergency
By Tom Engelhardt

Mmm hmmm. And why do they feed us all this garbage about terrorism? Because they make money carrying the water for some rich fucks who make money roping the government into buying very expensive anti-terrorism shit that is protecting us from....

e-coli?

Nope

drunken idiots on the road?

Nope

tobacco use?

Nope.....


an incompetent buffoon underwear bomber.

Update 1:21 PM 2/24/2010
“The Media-Lobbying Complex”: Investigation Exposes Undisclosed Corporate Ties of Network Political Pundits
Media-lobbying-nation

A four-month investigation into the covert corporate influence on cable news found that since 2007 at least seventy-five registered lobbyists, public relations representatives and corporate officials have repeatedly appeared on MSNBC, Fox News, CNN, CNBC and Fox Business Network with no disclosure that they are paid by corporate interests. We speak to journalist Sebastian Jones, who carried out the investigation for The Nation magazine.


yeah, like I said.

this made me laugh

click on link or pic

The Creature from Jekyll Island cont'

D) Loan money to both sides of a conflict, you can't lose that way.

interesting show

The Creature from Jekyll Island

Still slogging through this book. Slowly. Ever so slowly. Because it's fucking depressing.

Watching The Money Masters - How International Bankers Gained Control of America 3:35:19

The basics.

A) Ain't nothing fucking Federal about the Federal Reserve. It's a bunch of greedy fucking asshole bankers and it's privately owned.

B) Money ain't nothing but our indebtedness to these rich assholes.

C) War makes these greedy assholes richer.

NY senator who dragged girlfriend fights expulsion

By MICHAEL VIRTANEN Associated press Writer

I swear my kid was more mature than some of these asinine politicians when she was ten years old.

In the Loop

Frankly, I didn't need a snippity little British flick to remind me that my country is run by a bunch of greedy fucking morons who can't think further than their wallets. They supply the old stupid fucks at the Pentagon with Viagra.

Sarah Palin

Sarah Palin assails Obama at 'tea party' gathering

Her fee was $100,000 for the appearance at the for-profit event.

Any excuse to show off Molly McMooseturd in her flaming costume.

Friday night TV

February 5, 2010
Pediatrician Margaret Flowersspeaks about protesting for change and her recent arrest in an effort to get a Medicare-for-all plan back on the table.

What the hell kind of fucked up political system do we have when the majority of the people and doctors want a public health system and they are shut out of the discussion?

A Roberts Supreme Court System if you ask me. A country not run by We the People, but a country run by the elites for the benefit of the elites to the detriment of We the People.

Libertarian journalist Nick Gillespie and legal scholar Lawrence Lessig discuss public financing of campaigns and the effects of money on politics.

I was so distracted by the thought that Mr. Reason magazine reminds me of a mix between a bad 70's porn star and a goombah that I almost missed how he brushed off legal concerns that he obviously didn't understand. Then again, I don't have much patience with libertarians, or Reason magazine.

The essay was awesome tonight also.

Golden Throne Award Goes to Tim Ryan, Spinmeister for U.S. Securities Industry

Submitted by Mary Bottari on February 3, 2010 - 3:02pm.

Oil, gas and food

This post is leading me, not the other way around.

January 29, 2010
What about Haitian oil and gas?
...At the high end of the estimate the holdings could be 941 million barrels of oil and 1.2 trillion cubic feet of gas...


Posted on Tuesday, 01.26.10
Haiti earthquake may have exposed gas, aiding economy
...Abraham Lincoln's consul to the Dominican Republic reported oil seeps there in 1862. Neither nation produces oil or gas. As much as 1 trillion cubic feet of gas may be trapped in a border formation near the earthquake fault, Pierce said....


I dunno how much natural gas we use, but that's around 44 days usage for the US and around 11 days world usage of oil.

As I passed by my bookshelf I picked up Paul Roberts' The End of Oil © 2004, some of which can be read here and briefly thumbed through it. Here is a 12 minute edited clip of the author speaking Oil and the Global Economy on YouTube.

Not sure how old these clips are.

I found out that Roberts had another book published called The End of Food.

Here he speaks about the food system. Part II is here .

I know the titles of his books sound incredibly gloomy, but the author is not gloomy, but rather optimistic that there is time to change things before they hit the crisis stage as long as the changes begin rather quickly in this country at least.

Howard Zinn -RIP

Howard Zinn, Historian and Activist, Dies at 87
By THE ASSOCIATED PRESS
Published: January 27, 2010

Howard Zinn, historian who challenged status quo, dies at 87
January 27, 2010 07:12 PM

...As he wrote in his autobiography, "You Can't Be Neutral on a Moving Train" (1994), "From the start, my teaching was infused with my own history. I would try to be fair to other points of view, but I wanted more than 'objectivity'; I wanted students to leave my classes not just better informed, but more prepared to relinquish the safety of silence, more prepared to speak up, to act against injustice wherever they saw it. This, of course, was a recipe for trouble."...

How Will SCOTUS Decision Affect Corporate Media?
Karl Frisch
Senior Fellow at Media Matters for America
Posted: January 26, 2010 12:44 PM

After that god-damned Supreme Court decision last week , d'ya blame his heart for pooping out finally?

Ohhhhh, so that's it

Teen Drinking May Cause Irreversible Brain Damage
by Michelle Trudeau

"...What remains unknown, says Tapert, is if the cognitive downward slide in teenage binge drinkers is reversible."

Oh, so that's my problem? Binge drink as a teenager and kiss your career in engineering bye-bye? That's why my dad is a math whiz and I couldn't learn my times tables in 4th grade? 4th grade is pre-teen, right? Have I forgotten that?

I wonder if the fucking genius brain experts ever asked the teens what might have motivated them to binge drink?

Have I mentioned before that the education system reminds me of of a cubby storage system? Tell me what in nature is like this?

Shock Doctrine in Reverse: A Week of Setbacks, A Window of Opportunity

Look to me like a few corporations could use some support by those of us who believe in the same thing theirs spokesperson does.



"Corporations Speak Out Against SCOTUS Ruling, Call On Congress To Approve Public Financing Of Campaigns"

http://thinkprogress.org/2010/01/22/corporations-public-financing/
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Beating a dead horse here

Diebold now, ES&S . suck. The mainstream media sucks syphlitic dick. They would have us believe that voters, especially blue collar worker voters are retarded, paranoid, and even more self destructively pissed off at Washington than is sensible. Yeah, some are, most are just intentionally uninformed, misinformed and incredibly forgetful or unaware of history. That has historically meant profits for companies who spent money on advertising, which paid for most publication costs. I don't buy it. I think a change happened in politics that made the ship of state too fucking big to turn quickly and big business is now so fucking arrogant that they couldn't be bothered to learn how to work with Democratic Congresswhores. After all, they've done well by investing in Rethugs and media sources.

Behind the Black Robes: Failed Justice

The Supreme Court ruling allowing unlimited political contributions by corporations on today, Thursday January 21, 2010 didn't surprise me. 5 to 4, just like I expected, the Robert's court is conservative. The conservatives have been chomping at the bit since Roberts took control. Well, maybe even before that, since Sandra D though it might be horrible if Gore won in 2000 and picked her replacement. Hmm, let's go even further back than that, lets go to the conflict of interest involved in the roots of the corporate personhood stuff. Woo hoo, the corporate media whores love it!
'Shadow Elite': Do You Know Whose Agenda You're Being Sold?


The author of this book goes back even further. She shows examples of how the courts subvert the Constitution going almost all the way back to the publishing of the Constitution. Today and most of the time I see a ruling that blatantly favors big business I wonder "Who are these fuckers playing golf with?" I can wonder that, can't I? Well Johnson wondered also and made a stink about court reform being necessary and paid for it.

I'm still finishing the book and I am fortunate enough to have avoided being in court a lot, so I don't know poo poo about the law, but I'm learning some. I did not know about judicial immunity . Hmmm. Judges are still human beings. Anybody who sniffs and says they are incapable of using their job to favor friends or acquaintances is oblivious to how human nature works.

Maybe I will just go back to bed

It's raining really hard at times. Landscaping like this is only possible with sprinkler systems and really good drainage systems.

San Diego is is scrub desert. Before development most of it looks like this.

This property probably won't flood, but flooding is happening in San Diego.

Update 3:09 PM 1/21/2010: Bwaahahahaha, I just found this little gem, 2 news crews had to have people rescued from the floods. Yeah, we don't know how to deal with water here in San Diego because the typically dry weather, droughts, fires and development make it a real mess when it does rain.

Lovely historical photos and postcards of the valley below the mission.



And the Mission Valley Shopping Center finished and opened in 1961. Gee, I wonder why Mission Valley floods? Could it be that it was built in a floodplain?





So now onto why I just want to go back to bed :

The Supreme Court changed the rules so that companies can give unlimited amounts of money to our CongressWhores.

Greg Palast documented his fears here.

Never mind all the compound fractures in Haiti that are causing untold amounts of misery due to infection now, the Doctors Without Borders group was stuck flying around instead of being able to land and set up another field hospital. If you watched the national mainstream news that I was watching for the first few days you might think the only field hospital available was run by the Israelis.

Great PR for Israel though, good on them, they could use some good PR.

Barf.

Perhaps they are just better at dealing with security threats to aid groups?

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The the mercenary companies are . banging on the door to get into Haiti

Jeremy Scahill on Rachel Maddow today.

Tomgram: William Astore, Going Rogue in Combat Boots

Posted by William Astore at 4:00pm, January 19, 2010.

Prop. 8 trial Day 6: Live coverage from the courtroom

9:34 a.m. San Diego mayor chokes up describing daughter's quest to marry partner

By Howard Mintz
hmintz@mercurynews.com
Posted: 01/19/2010 09:00:17 AM PST
Updated: 01/19/2010 09:38:13 AM PST

Sanders publicly came out in favor of the position, deciding against a mayoral veto that may have played better politically in conservative San Diego. "If government tolerates discrimination against anyone for any reason, it becomes an excuse for the public to do the same thing," he testified.

(please click on the title link ... sniffle)

Live courtroom coverage

• Day 1
• Day 2
• Day 3
• Day 4
• Day 5

Inside Story - Has the world failed Haiti?

IMF to Haiti: Freeze Public Wages
posted by Richard Kim on 01/15/2010 @ 5:47pm

e-mail problems

I've had the same e-mail account for 6 or 7 years and never had a problem signing in. Wonder what the problems is?

Aristide and the Endless Revolution (2005)

Only an hour south of Miami, the elected president of the Western Hemisphere's poorest nation, Jean Bertrand Aristide, has twice been forced from office with the complicity of the international community. An intelligent and engrossing examination of the oft-suppressed story of the 2004 coup d'etat in Haiti, Rossier's film investigates the events that led to the second violent expulsion of Aristide from Haiti, and reveals the tangled web of hope, deceit, and political violence that has brought the world's first black republic to its knees. Written by Anonymous

I watched this documentary last night. It's no wonder that the Clintons and Baby Bush are front and center are right there in Haiti . The whole reparations from France is a pipe dream as long as the sorry ass US mainstream media spoon feeds us pablum like this. So is the hope that Haiti will "pull itself up by it's bootstraps" with vested business interests dominating the country. I can see how these interests would need to shut him up and depose him.

There were approximately 40,000 to 45,000 Americans in the country during the quake, but only 16 dead? Ah, sounds like they don't exactly live like most Hatians, or they just haven't been accounted for.


“Bush Was Responsible for Destroying Haitian Democracy”–Randall Robinson on Obama Tapping Bush to Co-Chair US Relief Efforts

Aristide and the Endless Revolution (2005)

Mon Jan 18th 2010
US "Security" Companies Offer "Services" in Haiti
By Jeremy Scahill

Martin Luther King "I have a dream"

(I can't watch it without bawling like a baby)

JP Morgan

J. P. Morgan
"A man generally has two reasons for doing a thing. One that sounds good, and a real one."

January 17, 2010
The Secret Bailout of J. P. Morgan: How Insider Trading Looted Bear Stearns and the American Taxpayer
by Ellen Brown
...The mother of all insider trades was pulled off in 1815, when London financier Nathan Rothschild led British investors to believe that the...
...In the United States a century later, John Pierpont Morgan again used rumor and innuendo to create a panic that would change the course of history. The panic of 1907 was triggered by rumors that two major banks were about to become insolvent. Later evidence pointed to the House of Morgan as the source of the rumors...

Lehman's Bankruptcy and the Hidden $138 Billion Bailout of JP Morgan
Companies / Derivatives Sep 21, 2008 - 06:38 PM
By: Rob_Kirby

Will JPMorgan Lend Its Bailout Cash? Perhaps Not
By Luke Mullins
Posted: October 27, 2008

JP Morgan Chase, 25 Billion Bailout Recipient, to Spend 400 Million to Outsource Thousands of Jobs to India
Posted by LBG1 on March 18th, 2009

March 23, 2009 01:04 PM
JP Morgan Spending Millions On Jets: Keep Blowing The Whistle On Bailout Waste
JPMorgan Chase, beneficiary of $25 billion in taxpayer bailout dollars, plans to spend $138 million for swank corporate jets and a new hangar

1/13/2010-In reaction to President Obama's consideration of charging financials up to $120 billion in fees to recoup costs from bank bailouts,
JP Morgan Chase (NYSE:JPM) Chief Executive Officer Jamie Dimon said, "using tax policy to punish people is a bad idea. All businesses tend to pass their costs onto customers."

JP Morgan Chase reports $3.3bn profits
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January 14, 2010, 1:45PM ET text size: TT
JPMorgan commits $1M to Haiti relief effort

Saudi Arabia and the oil bank

Middle East
Jan 16, 2010
By Chris Cook


...I believe that it is macro manipulation by oil producers, funded by cheap money from investors, which has been the principal reason for recent movements in the oil price. The advantage producers have over oil traders is that producers are able to store their oil in the ground for free....



"...The outcome - which has the effect of monetizing oil in the ground - is very similar to the way in which some governments maintain their currency more or less pegged to the US dollar and illustrates the reality that oil is not priced in dollars: dollars are priced in oil.

Whether or not it is in fact, as I suspect, macro manipulation by producers that accounts for movements in the prices of crude oil and oil products, and the flows and storage of crude oil and oil products, is a judgement I must leave to expert traders. But I am absolutely certain that the "speculator" investors blamed by US politicians and public for the movements in oil prices are not in fact responsible..."

Disappointed in this Rachel Maddow segment

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You would think from watching this segment that the only people who are helping Haitians are US military personnel. And what is all this crap about how fucking wonderful USAID is? Is this an opportunity to clean up the name of that particular entity in this part of the global south?

WTF?
You would think we don't know anything about USAID in Latin America.

Nothing at all

What an absolute crock of bullshit. Heaven forbid any reporting regarding any commie help be reported. A quick Google search should bring up that there are (or were) search and rescue teams from all over the planet working in Haiti.

And really, never mind that Haiti is a basket case and the Dominican Republic is not. And never mind that Haitians are not welcome in the Dominican Republic. No prejudice in Latin America? Nonsense. It may have more to do with poverty and lack of education than actual skin color, but how did that evolve?

Anyway, we did cancel Haiti's debt in the last year. Not that they ever had a chance to get out of debt. It's how the IMF and the World Bank do loans. It's what they do.

IMF to increase Haiti loan by $100 million
14 Jan 2010 18:26:39 GMT
Source: Reuters
(Adds details on IMF loan)

The Truth about Haiti’s Suffering

Haiti and American Colonialism : The Story Behind the Story

NOW and Bill Moyers Journal are great tonight

Week of 1.15.10
Saving American Journalism
A radical plan to save journalism in America.

I have a huge amount of respect for McChesney. I didn't think the idea was so radical. I thought it was sensible if we are to have an informed democracy.


Thomas Frank
(author of the author of three books having to do with the cultural inversions of our times: THE CONQUEST OF COOL (1997), about the advertising industry; ONE MARKET UNDER GOD (2000) about the myths of the new economy; AND WHAT'S THE MATTER WITH KANSAS? (2004) about the red-state mindset. His book about conservative governance, THE WRECKING CREW, was published in 2008.

January 15, 2010
Author and humanitarian Greg Mortenson, whose best-selling books THREE CUPS OF TEA and STONES INTO SCHOOLS argue that education is the best way to peace in Afghanistan and across the Islamic world.

January 15, 2010
A Bill Moyers Essay.

National Priorities Project