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Health Care Around the World: Why American Health Care for Uninsured is Like that Of 3rd World Nations
11-07-09 7:39 P GMT-08
Interview with TR Reid on the 4 methods of health care in the world and the types of insurance and other bundled medical programs in the developed world found in the nations of the world.
Neda's Mother: She Was Like an Angel
11-07-09 7:16 P GMT-08
Her mom, talks about Neda's life. New: Neda found it impossible to get work because she was divorced.
Why negative thinking makes the world a better place
11-07-09 5:32 P GMT-08
Writer's brush with positive thinking program illustrates how focusing on a positive outlook can hurt in the long run. 'come to think of it, positive thinking started out as a busineess ploy, didn't it? A ploy by already powerful and rich white men to ingnore the harm their business practices have on the world. Maybe they should go back to the EST scam. Oh yeah.that was for underlings. h/t @R_A_W at Twitter.com
Jake Tapper Interviews Roland Hedley Jr. On Twitter
11-07-09 7:03 A GMT-08
Over his new book based on his Twitter posts. (Has to be a first.) The Insufferably sufferable journalist opens up to the ABc's Political Punch columnist, or not. Now I know what I want for Christmas.
Focusing on Ft. Hood Killer's Beliefs Are an Easy Out to Avoid the Deeper Reasons for the Massacre
11-06-09 9:19 P GMT-08
Fort Hood and it's vicinity have have a lot of problems with killings and low morale. The fact that Hasan did not act until the day before he was to be deployed shows his actions were more about being denied his right to avoid war than because of his religious beliefs. Hat tip @ontd_political at Twitter.com for link
New book tells how Right Wing and business push mainstream news media into a right wing bias.
11-05-09 4:18 A GMT-08
Calls liberal bias of news media "and urban legend" and shows how the right forces news media to back up their own propaganda. Hat tip Twitter colleagues, probably either @maafa or @mparent77772
Meg Whitman's radio whoppers
11-02-09 5:04 P GMT-08
Right Now Ms. Whitman is a California concern, but such things go on in your state as well, and it's good to see some reporting on them which we do this far from the election. Beside should she win the governor's seat she's likely to be running for president by 2016 at the latest.
ROFLMAO Slate Imagines Barack Obama's Facebook Wall
11-02-09 4:26 A GMT-08
Must read. No registration required.
Users of Roan Plateau in CO Want Oil and Gas Drillers to Back Off
11-02-09 3:54 A GMT-08
My question is how many of those same people were at the GOP convention or at least in solidarity with the chant "drill baby drill". Just a bit ironic, don't you think?
Scott Roeder As John Brown? I can't begin to say all the things wrong with that
10-30-09 3:12 P GMT-08
While John Brown was helping fight off pro-slavery murderers in Kansas, the predecessors of Scott Roeder were probably there too, on the other side. And the David and Goliath fight was an arranged battle, not a cowardly assassination against an unarmed man attending church.
A Liberal's Hit List: Limbuagh's Crew Misses Hoax and Treats Obama Thesis Satire as Truth
10-25-09 7:11 A GMT-08
Yeah, so Limbaugh got scammed. Well it is important,because though his listeners call him a comedian, they treat him like a news reporter (a similar lack of skepticism is found in Glenn Beck fans. Therefore with Limbaugh and Beck, who make lots of money and can afford quality help it's almost criminal that they don't avail themselves of them. Apparently though TV advertisers are more sensitive to the standards of a show host. After Limbaugh spread racism a few years ago, a concerted effort was made by a large number of liberals to get his advertisers to give him the heeve ho, without much of the success that one group has had getting advertisers to drop Glenn Beck due to his racist remarks. Hat tip @crewislife at Twitter.com
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Can You Get a Six Figure Job from the Unemployment Line?
10-25-09 12:27 A GMT-08
I think it would take many years of training and experience. Who's going to hire someone to totally screw Americans unless they know that person is without scuples or compassion. Still Pett's cartoon makes a good point.
"Swine" Flu Declared a National Emergency
10-24-09 9:22 P GMT-08
Order will allow hospitals to place separate H1N1 emergency rooms further from main hospitals.
Too bad our government (including Congress) can't fight the oligarchy created by campaign donations from the wealthy as quickly and effectively.
New Book Coming Out in November on Sarah Palin "Going Rouge"
10-22-09 7:17 A GMT-08
No, actually I spelled that correctly. A book about Sarah Palin will be out the same day as her book. The only thing that scares me about the former governor is that we laughed so hard at Ronald Reagan until one day we woke up and he was the president-elect. Hat tip shadowfax_rulz at twittercom
Sci American Podcast: Racist Jokes Are Only Funny to People Who Think They're True
10-20-09 5:31 P GMT-08
Scroll down on Sci Am 60 Second Psych page to which I've linked to It's Funny Because It's True" link. If I link straight to the podcast itself it is likely to bring up ITunes or other player.
So Rush Limbaugh is only a comedian. Only?
Not exactly.
Support Creative Commons with donation or by purchasing Shepard Fairey T Shirt
10-20-09 3:52 P GMT-08
With all his problems Mr. Fairey seems to have given time to design an emblem for a T Shirt for Creative Commons. Click on notice on Creative Commons page. (Linkblog wouldn't accept link to purchase page.)
BadTux: US Isn't Innovating and Has Done Little Real R&D for 30 Years
10-18-09 5:28 P GMT-08
The only good news is that competing nations aren't inovating either, just developing 30 year old ideas and tweaking current products. (And, of course this isn't really good news.) Read the original. I'm not a tech person myself and probably can't explain even the sunrise as well as BadTux can.
Radio host Tom Joyner's Great Uncles' Murder Convictions Overturned
10-17-09 6:00 A GMT-08
With the help of Henry Gates Jr. (yes, the Harvard professor) radioman Joyner learned that his great uncles were executed for the death of a Civil War Soldier. South Carolina overturned their convictions today, after reexamining the case. Details at link
Why Don't Reporters Ask the GOP When They Are Going to Stop Being Obstructionists?
10-16-09 7:51 P GMT-08
They should ask Republicans when they are going to cooperate so we can get beyond the health care issue (which would help people in New Orleans too) and back to helping this nation recover from the triplet disasters of war, Katrina non recovery, and economic melt down that they and the Bush administration left behind.
Liberal Media, My A..
Fox News: Limbaugh Urged to Sue For Defamation Over Losing Place in Team Bidding
10-16-09 6:18 A GMT-08
I guess CNN and MSNBC can then sue him for ten times the defamation jabs Limbaugh often throws their way. But shouldn't the suit be at the man who published the claim in a book? And wasn't the time to claim back when the book was published? Is Limbaugh an idiot who didn't know this was printed in a book?
Democratic Hero, Rep. Alan Grayson Attracts Carpetbagging Republican Opponent
10-16-09 4:59 A GMT-08
I guess the GOP believes there are a lot of Central Floridiians that want to die quickly if they get sick. Nasty bugger Armando Guttierez Jr. is moving from South Florida, says all the property he owns around Lakeland gives him local creds. Isn't that the Republican't way. You are what you own.
AP: Limbaugh dropped from group seeking to buy Rams
10-15-09 1:20 A GMT-08
Ha Ha! Now "The Ego" really has landed!!
People Magazine Has Exclusive Jaycee Dugard Interview and New Picture (Story at Yahoo shows cover photo of the young woman)
10-14-09 5:42 P GMT-08
Welcome back, Jaycee
"Bash America" becoming the brand of the GOP?
10-13-09 6:28 P GMT-08
Lady ends asking if this is the same thing Democrats did to Bush. Not really because Obama hasn't started any illegal wars lately. There is a difference.
Dylan Ratigan: The Cost of Corporate Communism
10-11-09 4:33 P GMT-08
My synopsis: In the end we have a relatively small group of Americans controlling the government which in turn favors them right back. Industries grow old and inefficient, but are retained because of the largess of the government they control. But in this case, the power emanates from corporations who then use the government as their own piggy bank. Pls read for yourself and see if I'm right.
Barbara Ehrenreich: Overrated Optimism: The Peril of Positive Thinking
10-11-09 4:14 P GMT-08
It turns out that positive thinking is a type of arrogance and foolishness which requires ignorance of reality.
30 GOP Senators Vote to Defend Gang Rape
10-11-09 9:13 A GMT-08
Rush Limbaugh Agrees with Taliban, Iran
10-11-09 6:53 A GMT-08
Also, we heard recently that Limbaugh had lost 90 lbs. Looks like he's found it.
France floats law requiring Photoshopped images carry a warning
10-10-09 9:45 P GMT-08
Good. If they don't ban it, they should carry a warning. The Ralph Lauren ad that got attention recently should have had one that warned about making one want to burn one's eyes out.
Apple, others Drop Out of Chamer of Commerce
10-10-09 9:41 P GMT-08
Finally the CoC steps even on the toes of big comapnies that were for it protecting their rights to profits, and efforts to block unions before they realized what a nut house it was over cliimate change. CoC response illustrates their r/w nuttiness.
Why Have Mainstream Media Neglected the Recession's Human Costs?
10-10-09 9:25 P GMT-08
One word Ms. Vanden Heuvel: Oligarchy You do show how the media tends to promote the needs and problems of the wealthy and business. Kudos
The Real Model Photoshopped by the Ralph Lauren Folk
10-09-09 4:41 P GMT-08
Word in comments at Boing Boing says the Ralph Lauren people stretched her body when she gained a few pounds leading manipulators to stretch her body to lose them. But they must have gone much further. I've seen women who look like the photoshop, but they are often very ill. The real model is beautiful even in a pound adding photo. See at link.
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Kurdish President Snubs Rice During Visit Due to US Approval of Turkish Raids
posted 12-18-07
Even our friends in the Kurdish "government" are angry about the US allowing Turkey to use airspace to attack 'militants' (and their spouses apparently as at least one civilian, a woman, was killed).
Read Reuters report "Iraq Kurdish leader snubs Rice over Turkey raid "
The New York Times in "Rice in Baghdad as Tensions With Turkey Rise " says:
There were further, unconfirmed reports Tuesday of incursions by hundreds of Turkish troops a few miles into Iraqi territory. Over the years, Turkey has staged brief, small-scale incursions into Iraq to chase Kurdish militants, and keeps a small contingent of Special Forces troops at an outpost there, but the army has not entered since the American invasion in 2003.Kirkuk is one of the most potentially explosive places in Iraq, and its fate is seen as a crucial issue by all sides in the debate about whether Iraq will eventually be partitioned among Kurds, Sunni Arabs and Shiite Arabs.
And um yeah, it has a lot of oil too.
The Times report surmises that Condi's visit could smooth things over about the Turkish raid. I don't want to dump on the lady. Maybe if she stays away from thet Gawdawful talking points that the Bushies send with her she might be able to do so. People who want to tear down a female in a high position forget how constrained she most likely is. (Assuming, of course, that she was not the primary author of the "Birth Pangs of a New Middle East" BS, and that she was forced to use the phrase by those in charge. Otherwise, she gets no respect.)
Also from the Times report:
The Sunday assault was the second set of strikes against the Kurdish militant group since Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdogan of Turkey met with President Bush in Washington last month. In the first strikes, on Dec. 1, artillery was fired from Turkish territory.
Interesting.
Does anyone know where Henry Kissinger is skulking about these days?
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