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While we are on the point of political-types boinking the public because the sleep with their wives:
http://tpmmuckraker.talkingpointsmemo.com/2009/10/report_bayhs_wife_made...
Please give Evan Bayh a call . . .
LIEBERMAN ALERT:
The C.B.O. scored the House version of the Healthcare bill deficit-reducing in BOTH the short and long term . . . Does this mean Senator Lieberman (I-Aetna Health Insurance) CAN vote for it (as his sole stated objection to reform was the deficit impacts)?
What will he tell the insurance lobbyist he is sleeping with tonight?
LIBERATRIAN ALERT:
As Rhode Island adopts its planned indoor prostitution ban, only the Great State of Nevada will be civilized enough to allow their prostitutes work inside.
one mistake i made in victory over violence post is --------------- i will resolutely stand up against violence, be it passive or physical and teach others through my own example.
For those who really care, who spend great chunks of their lives staying informed and speaking out for collective progress towards a more sustainable, compassionate and prosperous future for all, yesterdays events concerning health care are disheartening and gray. Many voices are heard to counsel gratitude for what is gained; to see the glass as half full. We are warned of the Democrats propensity for assembling circular firing squads, and fed admonitions about not making the perfect the enemy of the good. We are cajoled with promises about this only being the beginning and how everything humanly possible was done. B.S.
I have not read the near 2000 pages and more than 400,000 words contained in the House's Health care bill. From what I have learned thus far the best thing it has going for it is that it will cover 36 million more people who have no insurance now. It will cover them beginning in 2013! Meanwhile, I guess they need to stay well. I'm not sure about the other 10+ million who are not addressed in this bill. The CBO has rated the cost of this bill to be 1.55 Trillion dollars. It appears that the biggest winners will once again be the insurance industry. The so called Public Option will not only be very weak but also NOT an option for most. We are told that there are strong new measures which will limit gouging by giving insurance commissioners the ability to impose sanctions on insurance companies which unfairly charge too exorbitantly. We'll see.
I am more than skeptical. Count me disgusted by the results. If this is the best we can expect from this Congress, if this all that can be accomplished, then we need a more able crew at the helm. Polling indicates that the majority of the American people were supportive of a much more robust sea change for our health care system. So what is it that tied the hands of our 535 representatives in Washington and made it impossible to reflect not only the will of the people but make the rational and prudent decisions in their constituents best interests? Two things for sure: Ignorance and graft. Not the kind of ignorance determined by intellect but rather the kind that results from indifference, laziness and perfidy. Graft, in all it's forms which has become institutionalized and sanctified by the courts and all other branches of government is the method by which our democracy is destroyed. Graft that flows from corporations and private interests. Graft that has grown so powerful and pervasive that it no longer even needs to hide itself for fear of drawing the ire of the people. The take over of our representative democracy by special interests is nearing it's apex. Our best hopes seemed to reside with the Democrats. They were supposed to be the party for the common people. It now has been shown that even when given control of two branches and a clear super majority to work with, they are too weak and corrupted to be counted on for anything but half measures and pandering for political cover.
The problem with accepting what we can get and being satisfied until more can be done is that history shows that these issues are unlikely to be revisited in our lifetimes. In other words we have been thrown a bone. Meanwhile tens of thousands a year will die because of it and the Corpocracy gains evermore power. The saddest part about this struggle is that no great principals were even advanced or established into popular acceptance by the people. No universal health care. No single payer. No comprehensive reform. No understanding that not everything should be for profit. If more people end up receiving health care because of this legislation I will be grateful. I think it is just as likely that ultimately this legislation will delay and prevent the kind of real and lasting reform needed and result in many more people being neglected for the sake of profit for a few.
I don't think the flag is advanced at all by this outcome. I believe the Democratic Party will be damaged more by this "compromise" than if they had fought hard for a principled bill and failed to pass it. We'll see.
thom was asking yesterday how we can bring people together . victory over violence pledge for nonviolence. i will value my own life. today, again, i will reach beyond my doubts, taking concrete stepts to uncover my unlimited potential. recognizing that a lack of self- identity and hope for the furture are at the root of all violence, i will fight to realize my dreams, even if they seem inpossible. i willrespect all life. through understanding, tolerance and respect for diversity, i will see beyond superficial differences. i will awaken to a deeper sense of interconnectedness with those around me by reflecting on the common humanity i share with all people. i will pursue dialogue. with care and consideration for the dignity inherent in others,i will make continual efforts to reach out to people each day, especially those different from myself. through genuine friendship, i will break through feelings of isolation and hopelessness that can lead to acts of violence. i will inspire hope in others. with courage, i will resolutely stand up against violence, be it paddive or physical and teach others through my own example. i will support others and encourage them to follow their dreams. this pledge was put together by the high school members of the soka gakkai international of the usa
Europe Is Breaking Up Its Too Big to Fails
http://www.independent.co.uk/news/business/news/government-to-break-up-t...
Gardasil Researcher Admits Vaccine May Be More Dangerous than the Disease
Less Than 10%, Maybe Even Less Than 1% of Vaccine Side Effects Reported
A researcher with Merck Pharmaceutical who helped develop the human papilloma virus (HPV) vaccines, Gardasil and Cervarix, has revealed that the controversial drugs will do little to reduce cervical cancer rates and may cause more illness than the disease they are intended to prevent.
http://www.lifesitenews.com/ldn/2009/oct/09102903.html
Pfizer in court again, this time for Wyeth's menopause treatment Prempro
On Monday, a Philadelphia jury, which had earlier found a link between a woman's breast cancer and the hormone-replacement drug she was taking, also found that Wyeth hid and ignored evidence of the drug's potential cancer risk.
http://www.dailyfinance.com/2009/10/27/pfizer-in-court-again-this-time-for-wyeths-menopause-treatment/?icid=main|htmlws-main-n|dl3|link6|http%3A%2F%2Fwww.dailyfinance.com%2F2009%2F10%2F27%2Fpfizer-in-court-again-this-time-for-wyeths-menopause-treatment%2F
President Signs Law Giving Defense Department Authority To Exempt Photos From Freedom Of Information Act
http://aclu.org/safefree/torture/41364prs20091029.html
BEWARE!
Results are in!
Surgery is our only option!
Heads will drop! Screams abound!
Corporations undergo loss of limbs!
Capitol groups expand waiting list for donors!
Growling "pets" seek bloody revenge!
Shadowy Ghouls illuminate their ilk.
Creepy morys disintegrate followers.
Slimy forms absorb gooey evil doers.
SILENCE!!!
All is still; all is light; all is new; all is right!
Awake! A new world awaits!
Walk through the THRESHOLD!
Young and Old!
Jacob really frightens me.
Great costumes!
I guess the kid in us never really leaves us.
Thom's second hour was devoted to Afghanistan. Here is an article by Glenn Greenwald.
http://www.salon.com/opinion/greenwald/2009/10/28/propaganda/index.html?...
Earlier this week, “Tea Bag Party 2” was kicked-off in Bakersfield, California. The “entertainment” was provided by some right-wing brother in a cowboy get-up. He performed his updated minstrel show in front of an all-white audience, mightily entertained by his caricatures o Obama. It is safe to add that he has little understanding of the dark underbelly of Bakersfield, which consists of such things as the Klan, neo-Nazis and other groups of that ilk. Recent events included the hanging of a Nazi flag on Martin Luther King Jr.’s birthday at a local high school, and the sentencing this past July of a Bakersfield man for the stabbing of a Korean man in a Los Angeles park, while “explaining” to witnesses that his action were a representation of “white power.”
Bakersfield is also the hometown of a girl group called “Prussian Blue,” and the twin sisters who make-up the “musical” act are of naturally of Arian-Nordic extraction, and predictably blond- haired and blue-eyed. Their repertory of race hatred and neo-Nazi fanaticism, accentuated with Nazi salutes and “Sieg Heils.” In 2005, when these twins were 13-years-old, they told a reporter that "We are proud of being white. We want our people to stay white; we don't want to just be, you know, a big muddle. We just want to preserve our race." “Big” words for girls who were singing this trope since they were nine. It seems that they did not just make this up this up all by themselves, however; their racist mother was their “manager” and “inspiration” for their neo-Nazi songbook.
Meanwhile, Boeing has apparently decided that it will move a second 787 assembly line to South Carolina (where it already builds parts of the plane’s fuselage in North Charleston), after the break-down of the so-called talks with the machinists' union in Washington (no thanks to our weak governor). But it seems likely that these talks were just for show and never serious; Boeing didn’t enter the discussions in good faith, and never intended not to move assembly to South Carolina, a so-called “right to work” state—which means, ironically, that workers have no rights (like having your locker room arbitrarily taken away because someone higher-up the food chain wants it). Proof of this is the “secret” pacts made with Boeing obliquely referred to by Columbia lawmakers before the final decision was made. The number of new jobs that Boeing is expected to create in South Carolina (in order to trigger the handing out of state funds) is more than needed for the second 787 line, so it appears that the company plans on a program of moving additional union jobs from Washington to non-union South Carolina.
A thought on the House’s “final” healthcare reform bill introduced on Thursday. Other than Dennis Kucinich and a few others, almost all Democrats back it; the Republicans can do whatever it is they do when no one is looking. But it does make too many concessions to the insurance industry in that it weakens the public option’s ability to control costs and force real competition. But it’s a “beginning,” and given weak-kneed Democrats, we ought be thankful for whatever we can get.
In America we "Kings" can have it any way we want!!!!! You the people will just have to suffer as we rewrite the constitution for OUR benefit!!!! It's money that RULES!!!!
hank you Jacob Bankster
For highlighting the crime
For realizing the real robbers will never do the time
Thank you Jacob Burger King
Thank you Jacob Royal
I wish all the kings and banksters could be flame broiled
Thank you Jacob Madoff
For giving back the gold
Your generous spirit brings the warm in with the cold
"Most Talented" in High School
I could sing and I sang
I could draw and I drew
But I couldn't for the life of me do Halloween like you!
Through the looking glass we see the king, the serf, and the corportate kingdom, exposed for all to see.
another one i see is the eight years of bush administration. bush as the king of the united states the demonising of all prisoners at git-mo and all the people that made tons of money because of king bush while others suffered in the name of neo conservatism.
I'm in NY, but signed up for updates on the legal battle over the Senate seat. :)
Frankenstein's Monster represents our monstrously criminal, out of control economy.
The Bankster represents the criminals who are taking advantage of said economy.
The Burger King represents the resulting would-you-like-fries-with-that job market.
Thom
You pronounced Nisar's name right but you mispronounced his community. It's Granada (Gra-nah-da) Hills not Gra-nay-da.
"IRV voting to be unveiled in Minneapolis on Nov. 3."
http://www.mndaily.com/2009/10/28/irv-voting-be-unveiled-minneapolis-nov-3
Minneapolis is about to conduct its first instant run-off election. Minnesotans are all watching with interest.
i look at Jacob as the king. frankenstein monster in prison garb and the banker it make me think of fundamentalism in religions. the king is always right the master the follower are like monsters in prison. and the money being made in the name of religion
B Roll,
Yes, that occurred to me, too. He knows he has a big battle ahead --- again.