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How many baboons could you take in a fight? (armed only with a giant dildo)

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Life is constant tragedy. 

But ever so often the opportunity presents itself to make a difference. 

To perhaps stop a tragedy.

Today on reddit I ran across this headline:  She has leukemia and no health insurance; if she has a bone-marrow transplant, her survival odd jump to 60%,Read full post »

Way back when, Speaker Pelosi promised a vote on Single Payer.  According to a flurry of linked reddit articles and this email I got this morning from Heathcare Now!, one of the most proactive organizations fighting for Single Payer (HR 676)Medicare for all, that promise may be broken.

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OCTOBER 23, 2009 1:48PM

How to make real Change

If you want to learn how to influence politics and make real change happen, watch the video of Barney Frank answering this question from reddit:

Congressman Frank, earlier this week you remarked that the National Equality March in Washington D.C. was, "a waste of time at best". You went onRead full post »

The truth

 

Sometimes the world is shameless in its pandering. 

Obama is a mass murderer just like Bush before him.

But yet the Nobel prize committee curries the favor of the American Empire, fearful that we might decide they have something of value within their borders and thus bringRead full post »

OCTOBER 5, 2009 10:14AM

Life under Obama: Arrested 4 Tweets

Hope?  Change?

It tastes like a tin pot banana republic dictatorship that supresses its people.

Last I checked the FBI took its orders from the President.

What happened to that pesky first amendment?

 

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OCTOBER 1, 2009 9:39AM

Who is Alan Grayson? (Updated)

 

 

The status-quo hates TRUTH TELLERS.

According to the media this morning, Freshman Rep Alan Grayson (D-FL 8, the formerly Republican district around Orlando) has gone too far and is part of the thug-like culture in our discourse.  He is an extremist and said outrageous thi… Read full post »

 

The Truth

 

To add to the healthcare debacle what with the Baucus bill being openly called the "Insurance Industry Profit Protection and Enhancement Act" by former health insurance industry executive-turned-whistleblower Wendell Potter in his testimony before Congress this week, look at whaRead full post »

 

 

Read about this bullshit here:

Domestic violence is a "pre-existing condition"?

 and here:

Big Insurance Defines Abuse as a Pre-Existing Condition

Reflect on what this means and take it to the logical conclusions.  If you have fallen out of a tree and broken your arm, you areRead full post »

SEPTEMBER 12, 2009 10:33AM

This needs to go Viral

 

Out of the mouths of doctors:

 

Amongst the four docs in our practice, we all want to see health care reform. The current system is broken and will only get worse. We are very disappointed, even angered, at the ridiculous debates that have been had these last

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Yes, you loved the speech.  But do you know what public option really is?  Do you understand what was proposed last night and how it will impact healthcare?

Hint:  It is a bailout/corporate welfare for the Insurance industry and big Pharma.  These are the bad actorsRead full post »

Joe "liar" Wilson was not the only congressional representative not being decorous last night.

 Check out Louie "birther" Gohmert at 1:37 in the video:

 
gohmer and his sign

Unlike Joe "liar" Wilson, Gohmert is not yet opposed in the race for his seat as the representative for… Read full post »

 

Heckling is all well and good in the House of Commons, but not cricket (yet) in the US Congress.

If Joe Wilson's "liar" outburst pissed you off, do something real about it.

 

Contribute now to Rob Miller

From his ActBlue page:… Read full post »

SEPTEMBER 9, 2009 6:38AM

Padraig Colman Published in the NY Times

Couldn't have happened to a more deserving OSer.  

 

 

 

  change?

 

 The truth is that every morning war is declared afresh. And the men who wish to continue it are as guilty as the men who began it, more guilty perhaps, for the latter perhaps did not foresee all its horrors. -Marcel Proust, novelist (1871-1922)

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Journalists deserve to be compensated for their labor and this is my proposal for doing just that:

The Media Pass Account

If the NY Times, LA Times, Salon.com, and others want to start charging to view their content so they can afford to pay reporters for the hours of investigation… Read full post »

 
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(Chicken thighs.   Get out of the gutter, people.)

Hollandaise and Bernaise have always left me cold. 

Not enough taste to keep it interesting.  Way too subtle.

I make this sauce up instead and use it on all the stuff you would put Hollandaise or Bernaise on and ev… Read full post »

JULY 5, 2009 5:49PM

Killing time on reddit (July 5th)

 

More and more of my free internet time is spent on reddit and exploring places I would never have found otherwise on the web.

I have a ton of crap I need to do elsewhere, but today this site posted by redditors to the main reddit and the pic… Read full post »

 
 
Originally titled: "Snatch this, Peel, because yours is all fuzzy and gross," this blog is dedicated to Ms. Peel and teaching her how to de-fuzz her... photos.  Yeah, that's the ticket.
 
 
 
canada maple leaf bikini
 
Canada maple leaf flag bikini from the rear
 
 
 
Canada maple leaf flag bikini with big ol' boobies
 
 
If BlueSkys hadn't wanted drama and to start a flame war, the dumbass wouldn't have written the following post and sure as hell wouldn't have mentioned me.
 
I love a good flame war and would hate to have BlueSkys lose nerve and
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JUNE 12, 2009 4:51PM

Naughty Boys for Stellaa

 

 

I do not comment, I merely report.

 

Edit: 

This context might help.

MAY 17, 2009 10:01PM

Naked? Ok, I will join : UPDATED Read full post »

 

Obama proposed a new system of Indefinite Preventive Detention yesterday in his National Security speech that is stunning in its illegality.

Obama is proposing we keep people locked up not for the crimes they have committed and we prove they committed in a court of law, but on… Read full post »

No more more old stuff clogging the feed with those damned google image search generated hits.

I steal your mojo, thus!

chuck norris

jane austen

cute dog yawning

aryan brotherhood

kilimanjaro

 

 

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The Democratic Party comtrols both the house and the senate and not by a small margin.  Their failure to pass a bill that actually does something to reform healthcare is because of the failure of their leadership to crack the whip and whip the votes from within their own party ranks. Read full post »

Once more taking back the feed from google image searches.

 

fast food logos

50s housewife

elisabeth hasselbeck

iron man tony stark robert downey jr

starbuck kara thrace

steve martin

steve martin speaking

drive thru Read full post »