Brooks is Right.
. This morning Republican-American and overpaid NYT columnist/pundit (pardon the redundancy) David Brooks opines away on a Democratic Party he sees working to "lose touch with America". The column's...
View ArticleConrad's Corrupt, Craptacular, Often Criminal Co-ops.
. Senator Kent Conrad (Shill-Insurance Industry) continues to bang away at his One Man Band for Health Care Co-ops, as an alternative to a Public Option. Unfortunately the President and others are...
View ArticleTwofer: Co[-o]ps.
. The planets have sort of aligned. Two of the hottest topics over the past several days have been Cops and (now) Co-ops. Well, Co-ops should have been a hotter topic in days and weeks...
View ArticleCo-ops: Rife with Corruption, Mismgt, Criminality.
Senator Kent Conrad likes Co-ops. Making Health Care Co-ops a reality is his pet project and his alternative to a Public Option. The President and others are starting to listen. Conrad's primal fear...
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My Hiroshima Diary.
.My first full day in my new town was on August 6, 1990. The day before, a couple of town hall employees had picked me up in Kobe and together we had driven a couple of hours to the small town that...
View ArticleDear Media Heathers: 580,000 nuts don't equal 1/2 the U.S. Population.
. From a comment of mine in NCrissieB's great diary. Last year Barack Obama whipped John McCain 66.8 million votes to 58.3 million. Electoral votes: 365 to 173. Landslide. Let's be extremely...
View ArticleWagging the Dog (w/ a compliant Media Heather assist).
Last year Barack Obama whipped John McCain 66.8 million votes to 58.3 million. Electoral votes: 365 to 173. Landslide. Let's be extremely charitable. Let's say that "only" 10% of those who voted...
View ArticleUPDATED! Public Option Goes Under the Bus.
. AP headline, within the past 10 minutes: Sebelius: Obama OK with insurance co-ops."Health and Human Services Secretary Kathleen Sebelius says Obama still believes there should be choice and...
View ArticleIt's run by evil people.
. Yesterday I listened to an Insurance "Spokesperson" on NPR, talking about health care reform. They want mandates: for the government to pass a law to force people to buy their product. Like...
View ArticleOMG!
. Wow. First time on the Rec List! Bet you can't tell! Thank you for recommending my diary. I mean, OMG! .
View ArticleHellbent to Lose - not the diary you think
. Preface This was originally posted (and has been re-promoted a couple of times) over at Left in Alabama several weeks ago....
View ArticleMcCain: Obama must drop Public Option.
. McCain: Obama must drop Public Option. Well, here's the thing, you doddering dumbass: Obama beat you like a cheap gong in the last election. Your plans, your ideas, your desires for America were...
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The Last of Four.
. As we approach the fourth anniversary of 9/11, President Bush should admit that he wrongly invoked the tragedy of 9/11 to justify war with Iraq. The war has made terrorists even more determined to...
View ArticleCrazy Climate Change Libs: The Asia Development Bank.
. The Asia Development Bank is tasked with fighting poverty and assisting developing countries/economies throughout Asia. It was founded in 1966 and is financed by 67 member countries. It partners...
View ArticleThe Racist Hate, Fear & Agenda Exposed
. . . . as if it hadn't been exposed before. In most of my diaries I try to provide links and photos and quotes and vids and all sorts of reader-friendly elements in order to take advantage of this...
View ArticleCounter-Trigger: if No P.O., then This.
. DallasDoc's inspired me. If his idea can gain legislative traction (sure, sure, it's just an air quote Coincidence air quote), then why not mine? Of course, the answer would be because his is...
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Ever Considered a Japan Trip?
. Prologue: this is an offbeat Diary. But so are "Pooty & Woozle" diaries, and "Hawaii Photo Diaries", and all those somewhat offbeat which add a richness to this site. :: I've put together two...
View ArticleSo, Obama, you wanna fight? 2 Updates.
. You say you want to "fight" for regular folks. Good. Then over the next 36 hours have your staff work with allies in the House and Senate to craft simple Bills -- to be introduced by 12:00 Noon...
View ArticleGood Faith.
From the Comments Thread in today's Abbreviated Pundit Roundup. .Ezra Klein's piece (cited in the Pundit Roundup) mentions it. It's a term that the Democrats (at least in any kind of...
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2008: We Saw What We Wanted to See.
. Back in the winter/spring of 2008, during the height of Primary Season, when we looked at, listened to, and heard the words of then-Candidate Obama, - if Daily Kos was any indication of the larger...
View ArticleQuicker! Who said *this*?
. "I happen to be a proponent of a single payer universal health care program. I see no reason why the United States of America, the wealthiest country in the history of the world, spending 14 percent...
View ArticleMANIFESTO (Updated: with even more Waugh!)
. From The Christian Science Monitor: "Washington – In conservative circles, manifestos are all the rage. "On Wednesday, it was the Mount Vernon Statement, an affirmation of 'constitutional...
View ArticleWhich Obama Will Show?
. President Obama hosts his big Health Care Summit this Thursday at Blair House, just across from the White House. In theory it's to provide one last chance for Capitol Hill Democrats and Republicans...
View ArticleWish We'd Been Wrong. Gave it a shot, though. =Bummer Update=
. February 23, 2010: The White House officially takes the Public Option off the table August 16, 2009: HHS Secretary Sebelius tells America that when it comes to Health Care Reform the Public Option a...
View ArticleRoll Call: Profession, Age, Region. =Update=
. I just thought I'd go ahead and do it. Below is an Age Poll. In the comments, please type your profession (teacher, fire fighter, manager, accountant, farmer, student, technician, nurse...) in the...
View ArticleUp or Down Vote! (about friggin' time).
. Well, finally. "WASHINGTON – The White House called for a "simple up-or-down" vote on health care legislation Sunday as Speaker Nancy Pelosi appealed to House Democrats to get behind President...
View ArticleRangel's Ramblings. Congress thru the Looking Glass.
. The big stink over Harlem Congressman Charlie Rangel is this: "The ethics committee said Rangel violated standards of conduct by accepting 2007 and 2008 trips to Caribbean conferences that were...
View ArticleGOP Memo: "Fear" to be used in 2010. = Update =
. As if we haven't been noting this about the GOP since, hell, 2001. From a Yahoo "Newsroom" report that cites a Politico "scoop":The memo candidly confirms that the aim of such caricature is to amp up...
View ArticleGOP Brings T'baggers/Liberals Together in the South
Right out of the gate: h/t to 'mooncat' and Left in Alabama& to Real Clear Politics for this No Laugh-Track Needed, the Guffaws Should Come Naturally This is a rather simple, "Before & After"...
View ArticleObama yesterday: "Roll Tide!"
. President Obama traveled to Pennsylvania yesterday and talked about something dealing some legislation having to do with some stuff and blah, blah, blah . . . But the important thing he did was...
View ArticleBernie Sanders on the White House's "tragic mistake."
. To wit: "that the White House fruitlessly chased Republican votes on health care rather than take advantage of the ripe environment to pass legislation." Here's another excerpt from the full...
View ArticleGhastly Al Qaeda Plot Uncovered. =Update=
. Just hitting the newswire: "The CIA has uncovered an al Qaeda plot to crash 1 fully-loaded 747 every other day for a full year and to continuing crashing 747s until the world bows to this...
View ArticleJesus Horsers Don't Like Tea.
. The weirdnesses, contradictions and rifts are running rampant within the so-called "Tea Party" movement. Here's the latest (but certainly not the largest) in a series of "clouds on the horizon" re...
View ArticleConservatives have always fought reform. And lost.
. Conservatives, Bigots, those in power who are loath to cede any of that power . . . they always fight tooth and nail against Reform. And -- eventually -- they always lose. Then you know what...
View ArticleHx Lesson: the 'scary thing' always eventually wins.
=A reworked and updated diary= Let history be your guide. Conservatives, Bigots, those who are loath to cede any Power... they always fight tooth & nail against...
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Artur Davis & the Other 33 "No" Dems. We'll remember.
. Last night 34 House "Democrats" voted "Nay" -- voted against HR 3590, the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act. Just as we've come to expect that mendacious, rapacious, citizen-betraying crap...
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Screw Me! (Updated)
. Just days old and already a Modern Classic (and I think Pulitzer worthy): From this site, by the way. And then there's the new Facebook page that a few (3 or 4) of my "friends" have...
View ArticleTo you Godless Atheists on Good Friday...
. . . . remember, the vast majority of Christians neither belong to creepy, hokey, but very dangerous Rapture Militias. Anyway, please enjoy this 3 min & 15 sec classic scene -- perhaps something...
View ArticleLeo Gerard, Pres. United Steelworkers. Damn you.
Earlier tonight United Steelworkers Pres. Leo Gerard was on "The Ed Show." Ed Shultz interviewed him re: the (ongoing) tragedy of at least 25 miners killed at the Montcoal, WV, Performance Coal...
View ArticleLimbaugh defends a pedophile. Reminds us of his own proclivities.
. I'm not saying Rush Limbaugh's a pedophile, that he's a fat old sweaty man who likes to have sex with children. But since he's the de facto head of the Republican Party, I think asking whether his...
View ArticleHi.
. My name's Richard Newton. Older, more long-time friends, know me as Rick. But I answer to either. I live in Alabama, though I was born in our Nation's Capital and grew up in Virginia. When I was...
View ArticleBP to Change Name, Boost Corporate Image.
. London -- June 16, 2010 (Reuters) -- In an effort to shore-up precipitously falling share prices at British Petroleum (BP) company, ever since its deadly and now environmentally disastrous and...
View ArticleDNC: Learn How to Make an Ad, Please!
. In the wake of Texas GOBP CongressmanJoe Barton's shameless suck-up to BP -- which was in fact symptomatic and emblematic of the entire Republican Party's suck-up to Big Oil -- and then, 6 hours...
View ArticleTurmoil & Opportunity in India.
. A day-long national strike ("Bharat bandh") took place throughout the world's second most populace country, and largest democracy, yesterday July 5. From the BBC: "Normal life has been disrupted in...
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Satsuma
. While I cannot, and would not even try to, compete with this site's Mr. Science, or any of the professional, professorial historians here, I think I can chip-in some useful, if eclectic, information...
View ArticleMy Daddy was Atticus Finch
= Expanded 're-post' from Comment in Teacherken's To Kill a Mockingbird Diary =. I'm an Alabama lawyer. I'm from the South Alabama town of Slocomb.* Yes, 3 letters different from "Maycomb." I can't...
View ArticleConsider Talking to a Lawyer.
= NOTE: I do not provide Legal Advice below. I'm just a guy who happens to be a lawyer expressing his opinion (based on lots of experience, mind you). If you want Legal Advice, talk to an attorney...
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Obama's, Democrats', Popularity Surges.
. That would be the headline, you know. If -- hopefully, when -- the Administration and Capitol Hill Democrats spend as much time, effort, energy and attention looking to see how they can work for the...
View ArticlePrudential: Profiteering from Soldiers' Deaths
. Tonight CBS News committed an act of journalism, taking and running with a Bloomberg Markets Magazine exposé regarding the bloated, soulless, rapacious Prudential Insurance profiteering from the...
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65 Yrs Ago - Hiroshima
= Excerpted from this last year's post at LetsJapan.Worpress.Com =. . . The next morning another introductory whirlwind. I was brought to the Principal’s office where I would be officially received....
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