July 2009
Dobbs Takes Rating Hit →
This restores my faith in the maxim: “talk like an idiot, lose some of your ratings.”According to analysis of Nielsen data by the New York Observer, as criticism of Lou Dobbs has continued to…
The Gang Of Six Represent 3% →
We have to put the Gang of Six in context:The “Gang of Six” senators involved in bipartisan health care negotiations represent six states with a total of less than three percent of the U.S….
Frank Schaeffer Interview →
Frank Schaeffer on John Whitehead’s Friendly Fire. Discussing how the popular, yet marginal, Right Wing players are “encouraging the deranged”. Part One:
Boston Cop: "Banana Eating Jungle Monkey" Not... →
Justin Barrett, a Boston cop and National Guardsmen, sent an email to the editor of the Boston Globe and to colleagues at the National Guard calling Henry Louis Gates a “banana eating jungle…
Prof. Gates' Unconstitutional Arrest →
via The Atlantic:
“Lucia Whalen, whose 911 call led to the arrest of the Harvard professor Henry Louis Gates Jr. at his home, made her first public comments Wednesday, saying at no time did she…
Factcheck.org Certify, Birthers' FAIL →
Not that birthers were ever interested in the truth.
FactCheck.org staffers have now seen, touched, examined and photographed the original birth certificate. We conclude that it meets all of the…
Consumers Like Medicare Better →
Consumers give Medicare higher marks than private insurance plans. The majority of Americans who are experienced with “government-run” health insurance, i.e. people over 65, like what they have and…
Quitter →
Sarah Palin in a nutshell.
The GOP Sideshow Craziness →
Rachel Maddow sums up the sideshow craziness from the conservative Right regarding health care reform. It’s not about the public option, to the Right, it’s all about a secret plan to kill old…
Filing "Disorderly Conduct" Just Because →
Obama tries to explain the police state we live in, vis a vis Gates, he gets the brush back. Here’s another example of the police mentality: Police in Mobile, Ala., used pepper spray and a…
Bill Maher On Henry Louis Gates →
Bill’s take on arresting a 58 year-old guy with a cane for disorderly conduct in his own house.”I’m not even sure this is a racial situation because I don’t know if this cop is racist. But I…
Bill Kristol: Gov't Health Care Is Better →
Bill Kristol admits to Jon Stewart, after trying to make the asinine case that some people are more equal than others, the government can does provide first-class health care.On Monday night’s…
Evidence And Logic Not Enough For Birthers →
Alex Knapp explains the birther mentality:“While traditional adherence to quaint philosophic concepts might make it appear that the evidence overwhelmingly favors the conclusion that Barack…
Those Annoying Ads For Big Pharma →
Fun fact of the day: only the United States and New Zealand allow direct-to-consumer drug advertisements. You know those ads, two people in a bathtub viewing a sunset. A guy throwing a football…
Quote Of The Day: Howard Dean →
Socialized health care works. The private health care industry is inefficient and “insurance companies do a terrible job”. Holding this two thoughts, simultaneously, is of little use for Maria…
Blue Dogs Follow The Money →
What exactly does the Blue Dog Coalition want? The lessons of Watergate’s “follow the money” comes to mind. via HuffPo:“The Blue Dogs are (suddenly and at last) concerned with how much health…
Reform At A Snail's Pace →
A snail’s pace at our expense. Republicans have blocked health care reform for a decade and a half. We have to end their influence and control the message. ”The Republicans claim the health…
Shopping For A Religion →
While not a prefect chart, how obsessive does Roman Catholicism come across? Control issues? There is pretty much nothing they do not condemn. And you wonder why we had 700 years of the Dark Ages…
Top Ten Things Heard At Palin Farewell →
Letterman gets the last laugh.
The Monster Still Lives →
We’re still not out of the woods. Via Newsweek:”Goldman Sachs and JPMorgan Chase have reported huge profits, the Dow has made it past 9000, and Barack Obama has moved on to health care. The…
RNC Health Reform Strategy = Where Was Obama Born →
Newsweek’s Howard Fineman was on MSNBC’s “Countdown” last night talking about the RNC [Rush, Newt, Cheney] plan “committed to stoking ‘racial fears and resentments’ and talking about ‘where…
Chappelle Predicted Gates Arrest →
Dave Chappelle predicted the Henry Louis Gates Jr incident in Cambridge. Mind you, Gates is a slight “5 Ft. nothing” and walks with a cane because of a hip surgery. Glad the cops were heavy…
John Yoo Gets Punk'd →
Australian comedy show The Chasers War On Everything punk torture memo writer John Yoo. And in America, he gets hired as a lecturer at Berkeley and a columnist at The Philadelphia Inquirer. WTF?…
Lou Dobbs Birther Nonsense →
Kitty Pilgrim, guest hosting for Lou Dobbs, thoroughly debunks the Obama “birther” myth on July 17. Then Lou Dobbs on July 20, back on his show, says there are still questions. Jon Stewart…
Public Option 40% Cheaper, Republicans Still... →
Republicans making the case for a public option, without any idea they are doing it.”Approximately 114 million Americans are expected to leave private health insurance. Why? Their employers will…
Beware "Birthers": Code For Lunatics →
Chris Matthews rips into a Republican birther, Rep. John Campbell.”You’re playing to the crazies.”Republicans refuse to outright deny whether Obama is a citizen, playing the “it’s not what I…
Conservatives Just Make Up The Numbers →
This is the kind of information you get from the conservative right wing, where all relevant details to their claims are either demonstrably false or wildly misleading:“…the right’s claim that the…
Maddow: Deconstructing The Buchanan Falsehoods →
Rachel Maddow corrects some of the massive erroneous “whites do everything in America” statements by professional old white guy, Pat Buchanan. Too bad the corrections come after the fact and Pat…
Obama: Health Care Reform Cannot Wait →
The President is mandating a public option:”That’s why any plan I sign must include an insurance exchange: a one-stop shopping marketplace where you can compare the benefits, cost and track…
Dem TV Ad: It's Time For Health Care Reform →
It’s time. It’s not about profits. It’s not about keeping Big Business happy. Source: HuffPo
American Medical Association Backs Health Care... →
The first of many steps. Momentum is gaining. The AMA backs the House Health Care Bill.Here’s the American Medical Association’s official statement: “This legislation includes a broad range of…
Obama Stepping Up His Game →
It’s time to get serious. I love his energy.”I will not defend the status quo. We are going to change health care reform”, President Barack Obama.Health care industry’s profits are not in our…
A "Good Faith" Autocrat Is Still An Autocrat →
Inside Story covers how Dick Cheney broke requirements for disclosure, hid information from lawmakers, broke the National Security Act, approved unauthorized illegal assassinations and was…
40 Years Ago Today →
July 16, 1969. The take-off.
Bernie Sanders Counters Republicans →
Sen. Bernie Sanders points out: we already have socialized medicine with the VA Hospitals.
we already have single-payer system with Medicare.
While not perfect, people like the way they work. They…
Where Is Dick Cheney? →
Ever since Leon Panetta broke the news of how the then-Vice-President had the CIA withhold information from Congress for 8 years, ol’ Dick Cheney has not been seen or heard from. He was “Chatty…
Sessions' Memory Hole →
Racist douche bag Sen Jeff “Where’s My Hood?” Sessions has zero memory. Roberts and Alito refused to answer questions all the time. Then he turns around and says Sotomayor lacks “clarity”….
Obama At The All-Star Game →
Obama throws out the first pitch with his dad-jeans on and white sneakers, looking like Seinfeld from 1996. The dude driving the mini-cart looks trés psycho. Prolly a Rush or Beck fan.
Palin's "Always The Victim" Is Getting Old →
Knocked out by Katie Couric and David Letterman:“Indeed, if political figures stand for ideas, victimization is what Ms. Palin is all about. It is her brand, her myth. Ronald Reagan stood…
How Stale Are Southern Old White Male Politicians? →
Sen Jeff Sessions from Alabama, if you recall was blocked from the federal bench himself two decades ago for making insensitive remarks about the Ku Klux Klan and the NAACP, is now representing the…
What Palin's Op-Ed Didn't Say →
Sarah Palin’s blathering op-ed in this morning’s Washington Post on Cap and Trade does not contain the words “pollution”, “emissions”, “carbon”, or “global warming”. Palin: Unable and unstable.
Colbert: How To Bork Sotomayor →
Stephen Colbert offers advice to the GOP on how to derail the Sotomayor confirmation. Here’s one of the tips: spin her positives as negatives.Referring to a New York Times article from May,…
GOP Investigates 'Clinton Blow Job' But Not CIA →
FireDogLake blogger Marcy Wheeler on MSNBC criticizing the GOP’s unwillingness to investigate the illegal actions of the Bush Administration:”Your idea is that, after investigating Bill…
Righteous Indignation →
Bush and Cheney were War, Inc. Let the war crimes investigations begin. You do the crime:
James Risen of the New York Times: the Bush administration “discouraged” investigation of a mass…
Secret Assassinations = Cheney →
The UK has hit the bricks running. The Guardian reports on uber-zealot Dick Cheney’s secret assassination program. This is when the cover up will be worse then the crime and crimes are heinous:
McCain's Pathetic Allegiance To Palin →
Zero respect for John McCain after watching this video. Granted he served our country, but to hear him go through his bullshit explanation about how he respects Sarah Palin for quitting, the…
Constructionist Republicans: FAIL →
For all those strict constructionist Republicans: Please show me where in the Constitution it says the Vice-President may give an order to ANYONE, let alone the CIA. Just like “financial…
Cheney Behind CIA Concealment To Congress →
I am on on a cloud. It’s like Christmas morning when you’re a kid. The New York Times reports that Cheney ordered the CIA to withhold information from Congress.The CIA “withheld information…
Hannity Edits Tape, Then Uses Edit To Belittle... →
Watch how college drop-out Sean Hannity edits out what Obama said, then used the edit against him in his disparaging, condescending summation. Fox News has to spin everything so drastically,…
Sarah Palin's Speecher →
Sarah Palin’s speech writer, Dan Tubagoo. He needs a new gig. Source: http://www.youtube.com/Stranahan