23 May, 2009
Two Sides of the Same Coin... Heads-Heads
SIBEL EDMONDS: Two Sides of the Same Coin... Heads-Heads
"In
politics we presume that everyone who knows how to get votes knows how
to administer a city or a state. When we are ill...we do not ask for
the handsomest physician, or the most eloquent one." -- Plato
14 May, 2009
Hallelujah! White House Czar Calls for End to 'War on Drugs'
White House Czar Calls for End to 'War on Drugs'
at least goodbye to the "bellicose metaphor"Hopefully some less-un-enlightened policy might be in our future.
heck, we recently saw this headline:
Arnold Schwarzenegger: it's high time to review marijuana law
Its stupid, corrupting, unjust, costly, and sadistic to put peaceful people in prison. perhaps this has gone on so long
because so many people that seem to be referred to as Christians, support torture
08 May, 2009
Single Payer
Candidate Obama said he was for Single Payer.
More on the politics & the recent lockout here
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20 Apr, 2009
Treasury Department Issues Emergency Recall Of All US Dollars
http://www.theonion.com/content/video/treasury_department_issues
Treasury Department Issues Emergency Recall Of All US Dollars
12 Apr, 2009
Doctors, Traders & Bailouts
22 Mar, 2009
Yes We can
Yes We can
Legalization = Rational Policy
Law Enforcement Against Prohibition
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18 Mar, 2009
some of tonights reading...
President Obama, Why Did You Pay Blackwater $70 Million in February?
We Are Entering a New Political Era, and We Need an Educated Public to Deal with It
The Growing Clout of Atheists and Non-Believers
... interesting having recently viewed Religulous
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22 Feb, 2009
familiar picture
& also a nice clip from today's mouse circus
h/t Drifty
20 Feb, 2009
continued delay of the seating of Senator Al Franken
Time for SCOTUS or POTUS to seat Al Franken?
What Digby says:
$250,000 or $5 million is a small price to pay for the Big Money Boyz to keep workers from forming unions. And in addition to gumming up the works for months upon months, they get to delegitmize the electoral process, as well as Al Franken's claim to the seat. It's a really nice investment for them. Better than anything in the stock market these days.
09 Feb, 2009
remember the “up-or-down vote”?
Now the villagers have changed their mind...
Tonight Barbra Boxer, among others, repeat the:
everybody knows/do the math/
must have 60 votes to pass the senate.
Can't have real obstructionist senators actually speak, that would be uncivil or something
30 Jan, 2009
national security
Investigation of the Bush administration is a matter of national security
07 Jan, 2009
meet the new boss same as the old boss Another bad pick apparently
And for health insurance companies
From C&L
Gupta’s qualifications. But I do remember his mugging of Michael Moore over Sicko. You don’t have to like Moore or his film; but Gupta specifically claimed that Moore “fudged his facts”, when the truth was that on every one of the allegedly fudged facts, Moore was actually right and CNN was wrong.
What bothered me about the incident was that it was what Digby would call Village behavior: Moore is an outsider, he’s uncouth, so he gets smeared as unreliable even though he actually got it right. It’s sort of a minor-league version of the way people who pointed out in real time that Bush was misleading us into war are to this day considered less “serious” than people who waited until it was fashionable to reach that conclusion.