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Walter Cronkite interview with Dennis Kucinich: For a Department of Peace
In September 2005, the late, great Walter Cronkite sat down with Rep. Dennis Kucinich to discuss a novel and, as yet, heartbreakingly little-explored approach to making our world a better place: create a Department of Peace. Watch and be inspired.
Sadly, the idea makes far too much sense to be a plausible goal for our violence-addicted culture, especially when you consider that many of our leaders have track records of slavish devotion to the makers of Things That Go Bang in the Night. And that said leaders themselves are, all too often, wealthy white male draft-dodgers with pneumatic Caymans accounts in need of constant feeding. But you never know - perhaps we can get Halliburton, Lockheed Martin, SAIC, et alia, interested in the dove-breeding and butter-distributing business?
Sadly, the idea makes far too much sense to be a plausible goal for our violence-addicted culture, especially when you consider that many of our leaders have track records of slavish devotion to the makers of Things That Go Bang in the Night. And that said leaders themselves are, all too often, wealthy white male draft-dodgers with pneumatic Caymans accounts in need of constant feeding. But you never know - perhaps we can get Halliburton, Lockheed Martin, SAIC, et alia, interested in the dove-breeding and butter-distributing business?
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The High Cost of Cheap Food: http://www.commondreams.org/view/2009/07/20-13
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FDL:
How to post on an elected offical's Facebook wall, just in case you don't know:
Sign into Facebook, go to their page via the links above, click "Become a Fan" (you can always un-fan them right after if you understandably don't want your friends to think you're a fan of Mike Ross,) then write something in the "Write Something" box, and click "Share".
Why posting on elected officials' Facebook walls is better than emailing them:
I like this method better than emailing members, namely because staffers can't delete wall posts without a risk of people getting upset that they're trying to hide the fact that constituents are demanding that they support healthcare reform. Calling is of course great because unlike email they can't just filter it into a folder, but the visible plea that you get on Facebook puts them in a difficult situation of having to either host a difficult question or be faced with accusations of censoring them.
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Navigating Conservative Thinking
It must be difficult to be rightwinger. It seems to me that it would require a tremendous amount of mental effort to be able to navigate the logical U-turns it would take to keep on that side of the road. What was true yesterday, what you actually defended as a core principle of your political thought, is no longer true the next day. In fact, it may be that the next day, the exact opposite is true. How they manage this cognitive gear-grinding without blowing some sort of gasket is a mystery to me. I don't understand how you can operate in the world without some sort of constant. You'd think the constantly shifting realities that wingnuts expose themselves to would be hopelessly disorienting. Yet there they are, every day, believing today's truth and forgetting that they ever believed anything else.http://griperblade.blogspot.com/2009/07/navigating-conservative-thinking.html
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FEMA forced Palin to resign
Glenn Beck
Patriot
Dear Mr. Beck,
Many people laughed and called you insane, delirious, and "just plain fucking crazy" when you warned us that Obamaslamunistofascists at FEMA were building concentration camps for regular Credulous-Americans like ourselves. But all that laughter is going to stop on July 27th. That's the day FEMA launches National Level Exercise 2009! And yes, it is as sinister as it sounds.
The Arizona Citizen's Militia has all the intelligence on this. According to them:
- The federal government will use the this "to murder everyone who has ever owned a firearm."
- Sarah Palin knows about it. That's why she's resigning on the 26th.
- DHS Secretary Janet Napalitano announced it in a press conference, declaring: "Anyone exhibiting symptoms is being referred to an isolation room where they can be evaluated by a public health official before proceeding to their destruction."
Heterosexually yours,
Gen. JC Christian, patriot
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Airman Colton Read, 20, went into the David grant Medical Center at Travis Air Force Base near Sacramento for a simple gallbladder operation — only to end up a double amputee due to malpractice.
http://jonathanturley.org/2009/07/20/the-legacy-of-feres-negligent-military-doctors-amputate-airmans-legs-after-botching-gallbladder-surgery/#more-12941
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If you want a U.S. soldier being held captive to be killed by the Taliban to save legal fees, you do not support the troops. And perhaps Lt. Col. Ralph Peters should tell Pfc Bergdahl's parents that face to face instead of to a Faux News bimbo in a comfy studio.
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4,327 soldiers killed in Iraq; 747 in Afghanistan.
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Teen pregnancy and syphilis up sharply during Bush years
Oh those traditional family values. If only there were a few more purity balls, all of this could have been avoided. And some have the nerve to say the Bible was better than using science.
Teenage pregnancies and syphilis have risen sharply among a generation of American school girls who were urged to avoid sex before marriage under George Bush's evangelically-driven education policy, according to a new report by the US's major public health body.
At least the southern states get to lead the country in something.
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Good plan, dickhead!
If you want to boil down the position of Republicans on healthcare reform, this from Minority Leader Mitch McConnell, in response to a question about the uninsured, says it all: "Well, they don't go without health care, because they can just go to the emergency room."
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And who pays the exorbitant bill once the treatment is over? It will probably wipe out the people who need the care if they have any means whatsoever. If they have no resources, it is made up from you and me, the people who do have health insurance, in the form of higher premiums or less options.
The hypocrites who whine about the costs of a 'public option' have no qualms about recommending the uninsured get the most expensive care possible. That's because their masters in the insurance industry and Big Hospital have ways of recouping those losses.
Your Republican Party: Corporations Über Alles!
The hypocrites who whine about the costs of a 'public option' have no qualms about recommending the uninsured get the most expensive care possible. That's because their masters in the insurance industry and Big Hospital have ways of recouping those losses.
Your Republican Party: Corporations Über Alles!
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Same old song and dance, 50 years later:
Listening to the recording now, it's kind of embarrassing to hear how very wrong Reagan's attacks on Medicare were at the time. In 1961, Reagan was a GE spokesperson, known for his conservative politics. When he lashed out at the idea of Medicare, it wasn't surprising, but it was the message itself that was so bizarre.
According to Reagan, Medicare would lead federal officials to dictate where physicians could practice medicine, and open the door to government control over where Americans were allowed to live. In fact, Reagan warned that if Medicare became law, there was a real possibility that the federal government would control where Americans go and what they do for a living.
In a line that may sound familiar to Sarah Palin fans, Reagan added, "If you don't stop Medicare and I don't do it, one of these days you and I are going to spend our sunset years telling our children and our children's children what it once was like in America when men were free."
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This is the same stupid shit we're hearing now.
I tell ya what, you Republicans who feel so strongly about a 'public option' and the downfall of our society it portends, give up your Medicare for a while and see how well you do.
Listening to the recording now, it's kind of embarrassing to hear how very wrong Reagan's attacks on Medicare were at the time. In 1961, Reagan was a GE spokesperson, known for his conservative politics. When he lashed out at the idea of Medicare, it wasn't surprising, but it was the message itself that was so bizarre.
According to Reagan, Medicare would lead federal officials to dictate where physicians could practice medicine, and open the door to government control over where Americans were allowed to live. In fact, Reagan warned that if Medicare became law, there was a real possibility that the federal government would control where Americans go and what they do for a living.
In a line that may sound familiar to Sarah Palin fans, Reagan added, "If you don't stop Medicare and I don't do it, one of these days you and I are going to spend our sunset years telling our children and our children's children what it once was like in America when men were free."
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This is the same stupid shit we're hearing now.
I tell ya what, you Republicans who feel so strongly about a 'public option' and the downfall of our society it portends, give up your Medicare for a while and see how well you do.
Freaking hypocrites ...
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Rep. Randy Forbes (R-VA) issues challenge for debate to prove we're a christian nation: http://crooksandliars.com/nicole-belle/rep-randy-forbes-r-va-issues-challeng
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The CIA lied in court?
Judge accuses CIA officials of fraud, unseals secret files: http://www.mcclatchydc.com/251/story/72176.html
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Randall Terry, oberfuhrer of Operation Rescue, has stated that his followers will commit acts of terrorism if the health care insurance bill provides coverage for abortion services.
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A group of Senate Democrats is threatening to filibuster an amendment offered by Sen. John Thune (R-SD) "that would allow gun owners to carry concealed firearms into states with similar gun regulations." "This amendment is a bridge too far, and could endanger the safety of millions of Americans," Sen. Charles Schumer (D-NY) said. "We will do everything we can to stop this poisonous amendment from being enacted."
And this:
Mark Muller, the president of Max Motors in Missouri, is offering a gift certificate for a Kalashnikov AK-47 rifle to anyone who purchases a pick-up truck. Muller, whose business slogan is "God, Guns, Guts, and American Pick-Up Trucks," said the response to the offer has been very strong. "There is a lot of worry about crime, we have a methamphetamine problem around here and people just want to protect themselves," said Muller. The UK Telegraph notes that there may be other dynamics at play:
Never before, however, has the AK-47 been used to sell cars in Missouri. For all its gimmickry, the interest in Mr Muller's newest promotion reflects rising concern among gun owners that President Barack Obama will eventually seek to tighten the rules on ownership, despite his promises to the contrary.
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Obama meets the moon people
Yesterday, Barack Obama met with leaders of the Mormon church and with the Apollo 11 astronauts. Not at the same time, which is a shame because they surely must have loads in common. For example, the former wear magic underpants, the latter pooped in their space suits.
Mysteriously, there seem to be no pictures of the meeting with the Mormons, but Neil Armstrong, Buzz Aldrin and the, you know, other one, faked their White House footage on a sound stage in a Northrop Grumman hangar.
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