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He makes more
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of t…”
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November 19, 2009 11:19AM - “Farcical, isn't it?
monkey fingered.”
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mindkiller.
You seem
to be many things. Dull is not
one of them.”
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November 19, 2009 02:24AM
Behind Blue Eyes's Links
Armed with a giant dildo, how many baboons could you take?
The Value of Life - Can we help save one?
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 »
Pelosi's Promise of Vote on Single Payer about to be Broken
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.
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 on… Read full post »
Obama should be tried @ Nuremberg, not winning Nobel -update
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 »
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?
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 »
Obama supports Patriot Act/Extends Cuba Embargo (Change?)
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 »
Domestic Violence is a Pre-existing Condition (Not a Joke)
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 »
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
… Read full post »What "Reform" Really Means - Windfall 4 Insurance Companies
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 »
Meet heckler Louie Gohmert (R-TX) and his handmade sign
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 »
Rob Miller is opposing Joe "liar" Wilson - Toss him a buck!
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 »
Padraig Colman Published in the NY Times
How does all that Hope and Change taste now? (Update 13)
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)
Last… Read full post »
Media Pass Account - Saving Journalism a buck at a time
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 »
BBE's Secret Sauce 4 marytkelly's Thighs
(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 »
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 »
Celebrating Canada Day and July 4th in Style
BlueSkys is really Kind of Blue w/Gratuitous Nudity
Naughty Boys for Stellaa
I do not comment, I merely report.
Edit:
This context might help.
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 »
Norris knits the crips a cute dog yawning on Mt Kilimanjaro
No more more old stuff clogging the feed with those damned google image search generated hits.
I steal your mojo, thus!
No REAL healthcare reform? No one to blame, but Dems/Obama
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 »
Peter Winkler
Dr. Evan Levine
Sean Fenley
Ted Kappes
Lina Thorne
Glenn Gilchrist
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