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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

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!!

"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.

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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Getty to Return Disputed Artwork to Italy
Ouch! That's gotta hurt.

Rep. Peter Hoekstra (R-Mich.), chairman of the House intelligence committee, and Sen. Rick Santorum (R-Pa.) told reporters yesterday that weapons of mass destruction had in fact been found in Iraq, despite acknowledgments by the White House and the insistence of the intelligence community that no such weapons had been discovered.

Hungary Is An Example Iraq Should Follow Says Bush
Funny, but we called Hungary's insurgents freedom fighters, but Iraq's insurgents are less likely to sell Big Oil some cheap crude than the ones in power so they're evil.  Evil!

Republicans Gone Wild
Do they wear bikinis?

US Forced to Admit that Missile Defense System is lame after propagandizing about its use against a possible missile launch from our far east Boogie Man.
I am not happy that we have a bogus NMDS.   We paid billions for this, it should work!!!!  Or we shouldn't have spent the extra money the Bush put into it in the first place.
I am happy that some truth came out of the Bush adminsitration's posturing over the latest crisis.

A witness says gunmen had Interior Ministry IDs. Lawyer was at work on closing arguments.

Lawmakers' Profits Are Scrutinized

Who knew that representing the little people was such a good way to become a fat cat?

FAA Grounds L.A. Sheriff's Drone Air Force
Hey Sheriff  Baca,  You do remember what they did to Saddam for supposedly having drones.   And those things in the pictures don't look like they'd make it through the illegal fireworks, gun shots, and other mayhem we have around here anyway.

4 Diabetes Drugs Are Seen Raising Hope and Profit
Especially profit, I'm thinking

GOP Rebellion Stops Voting Rights Act
Okay, that I have to read

U.S. Appeals Court Rejects Arousal Test for Sex Offender
ditto above

Letter From Ubon: In Northeast Thailand, a Cuisine Based on Bugs
Better learn this type of cooking.  A lot of us might be eating the creepy crawlies after a few more years under the Republicans.

Sex Bias Award Affirmed
Hard to believe this came out of the (They laughed at me when I sat down at the bench for the first time 4 years ago, now I is the Chief!.) Roberts court.

Al Qaeda Deputy Calls for Afghans to Fight US
Iraq insurgency inspiring more action in Afghanistan?  Could be.

Four Found Beheaded in Rosarito (Beach, Baja California, Mexico)
Oh yeah, there was that war on Drugs we forgot to finish.  I guess Bush declared victory, and then cut and run on that one.  If you remember that was supposed to be international war, because it all comes back to us.   But Bush needed his own war on the other side of the world that he could use for propaganda.

Top Court Rules Against Illegal Immigrant

2003 Bird Flu Death In China Reported

Rioting in China Over Label on College Diplomas

Drug, blood provide clues to healthy aging

Spike in Laptop Thefts Stirs Jitters Over Data
Sounds like time for "More Tracking of Americans" man to step up and do something about this! 

Crimes are beginning to pool into ones that will make money for the perp.  Anyone want to guess why more and more Americans are doing crimes for money.  Maybe because the immigrants got all the step up jobs and minimum wage hasn't been raised in 9 years (according to NPR ATC last night--I though it was longer, will check that out this evening.  ATC is usually accurate though).

Robbery Trend Causes Alarm
Haven't even skimmed this one.  Looks like it might be related to my comment above. 

California Prison Guards' Power Called 'Disturbing'

Video of Ill-Fated Uzbek Rising Offers Haunting, Complex View

Shuttle to Fly Despite Safety Concerns
As a matter of fairness maybe (Nasa Chief Michael D.) Griffin should be first to volunteer to take that ride

MS-13 Gang Uses Deportation to Its Advantage to Flourish in U.S.
Botched Israeli Strike Kills Palestinian in Gaza
Attempt to Steer the News Backfires in Afghanistan
Big business must not control the news media enough in Afghanistan.  Control by the Bushies is working pretty well in the US.  Just count the number of comments on a subject you see, hear or read by members of each party and note the absence of true liberals in most news shows.

New Gas Crisis Threat as Ukraine Signs Coalition Pact

For N. Korean Missile, U.S. Defense Is Hit or Miss

Haunted by One Question: Why?

Adobe to be Google's latest Web search distributor
Will deliver Google's toolbar  with Shockwave. 

Canada Apologizing to Chinese Over Tax

Casualties: New Guidelines Are Reducing Iraqi Civilian Deaths, Military Says
What no more fragging whole families?  No more phosporous?  Certainly we haven't seen the last of the constant lying and propaganda out of the military under Rumsfeld.

Former Defense Officials Urge U.S. Strike on North Korean Missile Site
JHC!  There goes Seoul and Tokyo in retaliation.

Iran Says Answer on Atom Deal Will Take More Than a Month

Immigrant Indiantown (FL) laborer accused of sex with a puppy
I'm most amazed that rape from an immigrant is actually covered by regular news source.  Usually it's covered up, only to appear in World News Daily or some place like that.  The big corporations that run the news don't want Americans finding out how massive the problem of immigrants raping women and now even animals is.  This is a local coverage.  WND does have it.  I've always wondered where WND got their reports on immigrants.  That's where, I guess, but no nation mainstream news source will cover this huge problem.


U.S. Eliminated After Loss to Ghana
You mean money isn't everything in sports?  Who knew?

LSU to host Katrina relief basketball classic in New Orleans

US sets conditions for shooting down N. Korea missile
Huh?

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