Tuesday, September 29, 2009
Trojan Horse
Republicans who oppose a public option say it's a Trojan horse for a single-payer system in which all private insurers would be driven out of business. These arguments have written about here, here and here.Well, I can only hope so! Without single-payer, we're making some improvements but not the real deal. So for once, I hope Republicans are right.
Monday, September 28, 2009
Mike Huckabee
[UPDATE] Ah! I'm not the only one thinking along those lines. Here are some comments by others:
RUCerious says:
Two words for former important guy Hucklebee…
SALAD BAR!!!!
Marcus Aurelius says:
Apparently, Huckabee is pregnant, again.
Allen Stanford
Allen Stanford's jail woes continue. The accused $7 billion Ponzi schemer sustained minor injuries after getting into a fight last week, reports the Houston Chronicle.This kind of news is very disappointing and really gets me furious, angry, and disheartened by our fellow human beings. Really, "minor injuries"? Can't someone have the balls to inflict on this fucker the kind of suffering he has inflicted on others?
OK, OK, I really don't mean it in literally, of course, but everything bad that happens to this greedy motherfucker is well deserved.
Sunday, September 27, 2009
Healt Care Reform Boredom
So, basically, Republicans are out of the picture. The fight is now only among Democrats, and all that is hanging in the balance is whether we'll have a robust public option or a watered down version of it.
Obama and the Democrats will win; Republicans will lose. The American people will be better off but not as well off as if we had passed Medicare for all (but we'll be a step closer for the next Democratic president to try it).
*yawn*
Bring on the energy fight. I can't wait to hear right wingers yelling and screaming, arguing that cleaner air is not good for us.
Thursday, September 24, 2009
Assisted Suicide
Wednesday, September 23, 2009
Dixie Chicks
National pride can be so flimsy.
Monday, September 21, 2009
It really is simple, stupid
Health care in USA: Waste and cruelty
The American health care system is an indefensible morass of waste and cruelty. The distance between the status quo and the ideal is therefore so vast that we could—and probably will—end up with a reform that massively improves the system, while coming nowhere close to the ideal."Waste and cruelty." Exactly.
No single-payer? Not ideal.
Sunday, September 20, 2009
Smart guy
Waiter, watermelon please
Eating watermelon has a similar effect on the body to Viagra, according to researchers in the US.
It's down to a chemical called citrulline which is found in the juicy fruit.
Citrulline is an organic compound which affects the body's blood vessels in the same way as the sex enhancement pills.
Robot plays soccer
The right way to pray
Mr. Henderson didn't say, but believing in fairy tales and phantom deities is also a requirement.“Prayer is like other activities,” the Rev. Daniel Henderson told me when we met at the tabernacle the week before Easter. He was visiting Brooklyn with a group of seminary students from Virginia. “You learn from people who are already good at it,” he went on. “The people who pray at the Brooklyn Tabernacle are committed. Praying with them is an education.”
Henderson is a peppy, unassuming man in his early 50s, a Jerry Falwell-trained Baptist minister. After serving for many years as the spiritual leader of a megachurch in suburban Minneapolis, he left the pulpit and founded Strategic Renewal, a nonprofit organization that holds “prayer summits” and how-to-worship seminars around the country... “The fact is, most pastors never learn how to really pray,” he explained. “They get to the seminary, and people just assume they know how to pray. But that’s not true. Prayer is a lot more than reciting words. It requires mastering both theory and technique.”
But hey, if you're going to waste your time, might as well do it in style. Cause I'm sure god is picky about that too.
Saturday, September 19, 2009
Race
Of course racism is the main issue for right wingers in general -- heck, if it wasn't for the disdain for "others," there would be no right wingers, just conservatives, libertarians, gun rights activists, and Republicans.
Thursday, September 17, 2009
Czars here, there, and everywhere
So, how many czars did the Bush administration have? Let Glenn Beck help us count:These elected officials seem to be unaware of some basic facts. Many of the people they insist need to be confirmed by the Senate already have been confirmed. Many of the people they consider to be holding unprecedented appointments are merely filling well-established positions. In some cases, these lawmakers seem to have forgotten that they themselves passed laws that mandated the appointments. And in a few cases, they just select some established functionary at random -- like a State Department envoy or the Deputy Secretary of the Interior -- and call that guy a "czar" just for fun!
And of course, it's always worth pointing out that "czars"... have been a fact of life in American politics since the Nixon administration. And it's equally worth pointing out that the Bush administration itself deployed a veritable flotilla of czars.
Wednesday, September 16, 2009
20 million
Tuesday, September 15, 2009
I'm Back!
Good to be back.
Monday, September 07, 2009
Time away
See you then.
Thursday, September 03, 2009
Righ wing head explosions - federal jobs
The federal government needs to hire more than 270,000 workers for "mission-critical" jobs over the next three years, a surge prompted in part by the large number of baby-boomer federal workers reaching retirement age, according to the results of a government-wide survey...Right wing head explosion to start in 3...2...1... Go!
Tuesday, September 01, 2009
We want government out of our business now
From a Steny Hoyer town hall meeting on health care insurance:
The first questioner who challenged Hoyer directly, April Burke of Mechanicsville, Md., said her son and daughter in law both had lost their jobs and health insurance but were covered by the state.
"So why should I want to have the government get into my business?" she asked Hoyer.
The congressman said Burke's family would benefit from the health care overhaul being proposed. But she shouted back: "We want government out of our business now."
I wonder how long it takes some people to see the irony stupidity of April's argument. The state IS government. And as someone else pointed out, how long will it take for April to realize that she and her family are socialists!
