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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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Palin Clears Herself of Wrongdoing in Troopergate! Official Results Due Out Tomorrow

posted 10-09-08

The same kind of extra legal maneuvering we've seen for over 8 years with the Republicans is still in play and as usual with the McCain camp with an extra dash of sleaze.  In fact, given that the Bush people became worse after he was  elected you'd have to wonder what depths of fascism we would find ourselves in if we elect McCain/Palin.

Thursday Sarah Palin's campaign declared she did nothing wrong in firing the respected Alaska public safety commissioner.

I think we are going to have to dispatch some teams to Alaska to see if we can find some limits up there to Governor Palin's ambition and readiness to act upon it.

See AP report " ."

Excerpt:

Palin's critics say that shows she used her office to settle family affairs.

"When you're the governor, you leave your household hat at home and you become governor," said state Senate President Lyda Green, a Republican who has frequently clashed with Palin.

McCain spokesman Taylor Griffin, who distributed the campaign's report, said it was based on public filings and Todd Palin's affidavit.

The report blames former campaign opponent, Andrew Halcro, who has a blog, of conspiring with Wooten to pin Monegan's dismissal on the family's dispute with Wooten. Three days after Monegan was fired, they say, Wooten told his ex-wife, Palin's sister, that: "You guys are going down. Get ready for the show."

Two days after that confrontation, they say, Halcro and Wooten met at a hotel bar in Anchorage for more than three hours — and that evening, Halcro posted the first accusations on his blog that Monegan had been fired because of a vendetta against Wooten by the Palin family.

"It is tragic that a false story hatched by a blogger after drinks with Trooper Wooten led the legislature to allocate over $100,000 of public money to be spent in what has become a politically driven investigation," the 21-page report concludes.

Now remember that news released on Thursday has a lot better chance at wide distribution than that released on Friday or Saturday.  

 

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