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"Americans Believe That This Is The Katrina Of Recessions. Folks Are On Their Rooftops Without A Boat. The Water Is Rising, And Many See No Way Out."
http://www.heldrich.rutgers.edu/uploadedFiles/Publications/Heldrich_Pres...
At what point will the corporations hae the legal right to claim their employees as property? if they are able to bypass the election financing laws they will be able to buy any law they want...
Is it time to just pack up and find a new place to achieve the "American Dream"? A nice government run country where the corporations haven't raped the system yet?
UN wants new global currency to replace dollar
The dollar should be replaced with a global currency, the United Nations has said, proposing the biggest overhaul of the world's monetary system since the Second World War.
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/finance/currency/6152204/UN-wants-new-global-...
There shouldn't be any of these huge profits in healthcare. Profit's in heathcare result's only in deathcare.
Obama has not been pushing a progressive agenda because he's not a progressive.
Thom,
Regarding the ridiculous "Reagan warning" observation:
Last time I checked, simply having a medical degree did not guaratee you a job in the city of your choice.
I'm still afraid that President Obama is going to come out too timid.
I wish that I could believe that he is playing chess while the our corporate-sponsored representatives are playing checkers.
But I'm afraid that they are playing checkers and he's playing tic-tac-toe. And giving them the first move.
With apologies to Higgins, the best that we can hope for is a "Cat's Game"...
Thom,
How is forcing employees to buy "private insurance" when a public option exists any different than my company forcing me to mail everything using FedEx when we have a Post Office?
Such a "law" would HAVE to be unconstitutional.
Loretta,
Regarding partying.....I'm filling my I.V. with Eau de Vie as we speak. Don't worry I'll save some for Portland.
Quark,
Thanks for the compliment, but never mind my snarky post. If you read through all the previous posts there is a remarkable shared and unabashed ignorance displayed. We need not worry about whether the teabaggers are playing checkers or chess. They seem to be playing the card game of "War", without a full deck. Reason for some optimism.
Loretta,
I will not be able to see O's speech tonight --- prior commitment.
I wonder, though, how much what he says will matter. 'Seems to me that what's in the final sausage (uh, bill) will tell us more. (I'm taking my cues from what Lawrence O'Donnell said last night --- URL link I posted above.)
Israeli Government Ads Warn Against Marrying Non-Jews
By Jonathan Cook, AlterNet. Posted September 8, 2009.
Israel has launched an advertising campaign urging Israelis to inform on Jewish friends and relatives abroad who may be in danger of marrying non-Jews.
http://www.alternet.org/world/142478/israeli_government_ads_warn_against...
This going to be one hell of a day. Are you all going to a watch party?
Kids Didn't Hear Obama, But Will be Bussed for Bush
By STACY MORROW
The Arlington Independent School District, which passed on airing President Barack Obama's live classroom address, has announced that some students will be bussed off campus to hear a message from former President George W. Bush on Sept. 21.
District officials said it's part of a Cowboys Stadium field trip that the North Texas Super Bowl Host Committee invited 28 fifth-grade classes to attend several months ago.
In addition to hearing from Bush and former first lady Laura Bush, the students will hear from legendary Dallas Cowboys players and North Texas business and community leaders. The event launches the Super Bowl committee's largest-ever youth education program.
Students must have their parents' permission to attend, school officials said...
http://www.nbcdfw.com/news/local-beat/Kids-Didnt-Hear-Obama-But-Will-Be-...
RandyWinn,
That's the elephant in the room that no one sees, apparently... (or they are willing to overlook it.)
Besides that, I almost always wonder, when at any health facility waiting room, why, when we are ALL citizens of ONE country we can't ALL get the same healthcare. So obvious (except if you've been brainwashed all these years.)
DDay,
RE: "FYI Check out http://www.teapartymn.com, and then click on Sept. 12th St. Cloud event. Read the comments which are mostly posted by excited teabaggers."
Nice comment and nice summary of the whole sick mess. I wonder how far back this crazy fringe goes back in MN politics. My first contact with right-wing crazies here was when I used to call Jackie Schwietz, the then-director of MCCL, and complain about her public comments and actions.
Thought for the day:
"One day, we Americans will view the peculiar industry of profiting from the misery of others in the same way we now view the peculiar institution of slavery"
Quark,
Thank you. I missed L. O'Donnell last night because I was herding cats, (running a meeting of Dems). If I could pick my "dream team" of political gurus, Lawrence would be a first round pick. It is nice to learn that we of the blogo-sphere may have some influence as L. O'D says. Want another chance to laugh with glee? FYI Check out www.teapartymn.com, and then click on Sept. 12th St. Cloud event. Read the comments which are mostly posted by excited teabaggers. You will find an amazing abundance of ghastly spelling and grammar. Turns out that fliers left by the Tea Party organizers also contain numerous humorous errors. BTW. Michele Bachmann will be the keynote speaker at "The Convention for the Developmentally Challenged" there on Saturday. I love living here,.... so many strange beasts.
I would like the President to ask the American People Why They Keep Voting Against Their Own Best Interest?
Lately I've been laughing more while watching Countdown than Comedy Central. I just had to share this second clip and hope you like it, too:
http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/3036677/ns/msnbc_tv-countdown_with_keith_olb...
You'll want to listen to this discussion with Lawrence O'Donnell on Countdown last night if you haven't heard it before. He discusses the trading away of the public option and the possible backlash from the "blogisphere" of the left wing, which WASN'T around during the Hillarycare debate.
http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/3036677/ns/msnbc_tv-countdown_with_keith_olb...
09/09/09 A very lucky date according to the Chinese. Nine is the second luckiest number by their reckoning. It appears that Gerald, Mark, and you know who forgot to take their happy pills. So much gloom and doom. I share many of the concerns cited but am not willing to surrender to despair. Early indications this morning are that President Obama has heard some rumblings from the progressive wing, (us!). While he may not be ready to stand firm and resolute...yet...it now appears he will not throw us under the bus...yet. That means we are not dead...yet. Maybe that Mojo of trip nines will instill him with a stiffened spine and the realization that our advice and consent must be heeded much more than any Blue dogs or craven congressmen. Someone seems to be listening, at least, if not yet fully getting it. Our best allies are the Republicants. Their lack of common decency and smug cynical attacks may finally make the President abandon his laudable but useless fixation on Bi-Partisan reconciliation. I suspect that this latest flapdoodle over speaking to school children has awakened him to finally understanding his opponent's true nature. We'll see. Cheer-up!...we have the nines working for us.
To add to the discussion in regard to the resignation of Obama adviser Van Jones over allegedly “inflammatory” remarks in regard to Republicans, the apparent disregard of intelligence into the possibility of a terrorist attack before 9-11, and who tends to be responsible for mass shootings in schools, this is indicative of the hypocrisy and double-standards that the right allows itself to practice with impunity. Nothing Jones said was particularly new or surprising, but because he was a black man in a Democratic administration, anything that could be construed to “disparage” white people sets off the those most guilty of inflaming such paranoid passions against minorities.
Glenn Beck is a man who to anyone with half a brain acts and talks as if he is off his medication. Beck and his ilk’s obliviousness to the fact that their own frequently violently provocative commentary could be construed as racist, unpatriotic and sadistic ought to cancel the effect, but this is clearly not happening. The constant stream from the right of loaded nouns, adjectives and verbs, which are utterly meaningless by themselves, but together create a state of paranoid agitation among bigots, xenophobes, jingoists and the otherwise purposefully ignorant amongst us, also unfortunately has a ready audience among whites who feel themselves uncomfortably put-upon. That is why the likes of white commentators such as Beck and Lou Dobbs (of whom the SPLCenter called on CNN to fire for his tendency to use hate groups as his principle source of information) are allowed to make racially-charged commentary without fear of censure.
It is an unfortunate fact that “mainstream” media has devolved into such juvenile behavior, disregard for facts and common human decency. The Becks, Dobbs and the like have been allowed such a long rope, it is difficult to imagine what it will take to marginalize them or remove them from the TV screens altogether. When they actually deign to consider serious issues, all they have to offer is empty puffery and mindless demagoguery. The same tired mantra of tax cuts for the wealthy and more deregulation—despite the evidence that neither prevented the steady disappearance of manufacturing jobs, and increased income disparity during the Bush years—is all they are intellectually capable of , doubtless because they have never been personally touched by the problems of "commoners." One waits in vain to hear anything intelligent about the health care crisis, or the looming energy and environmental disasters.
Dday, I hope you do that.
War is hell.
http://skyways.lib.ks.us/poetry/desaire/war.html
Thom Hartmann listeners... Read what George Carlin has to say about all this Health Care Debacle... from Beyond ! He "Guest Blogged" on Healthcare, and he's pissed!
http://blameblakeart.wordpress.com