With all of the fuss over the SOTU, this should not be lost in the shuffle:

Obama has hit lists of US citizens that he has authorized the CIA and US military to assassinate.

How can this be justified?

What happened to innocent until proven guilty?… Read full post »

The Secret:  the vast majority of the most viewed posts on Open Salon garner their hits through google image searches.

Their popularity has nothing to do with their content.

The tens of tousands of hits they clock are because of the google rank of the photos selected… Read full post »

Am I the only one who thinks this is way too convenient?

Last week it comes out Obama is bombing civilians in Yemen.

Now the "terrorist" who conveniently set his lap on fire is alleged to have ties to Al Qaeda in Yemen. 

How much more are… Read full post »

This post is just to spread an email from Jane Hamsher, the founder of firedoglake.com.  I am pasting it here not because I think petitions can do anything, but because she lays out concrete reasons why the Senate's version of the heathcare bill is crap that should be killed and links… Read full post »

A Tucson man who volunteers as a humanitarian worker is facing 25 days in jail for leaving jugs of water for undocumented immigrants crossing the desert.  A jury convicted him of littering in a Federal refuge. 

After being hit with 300 hours of community service and a year of probation,… Read full post »

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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.

As Congre… Read full post »

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 on… Read full post »

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 bring… Read full post »

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?

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 »

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 wha… Read 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 are… Read full post »

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 actors… Read 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:

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

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Couldn't have happened to a more deserving OSer.  

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 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 »

(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 »

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 »