Monthly Archives: August 2009
The Watering Hole: August 11
American birders may well not recognize this fellow–he’s perched on a feeder at Octofad Farm, Islay, the southernmost island in the Hebrides, Scotland.
Rachel Maddow: Who’s Behind Health Care Disinformation?
Special Comment: Sarah Palin rhetoric putting nation at risk
In a Special Comment, Countdown’s Keith Olbermann decries former Alaska Gov. Sarah Palin’s “death panel” invention in her criticism of President Barack Obama’s health care agenda, pointing out that by peddling frightening lies to her mob of ill-informed followers she puts the safety and security of the nation at risk.
Bipartisanship…
(How timely, eh, Terrytheturtle?)
Here’s an article in the New York Times called “The Lobbying Web” (published August 1, 2009).
Want to know the numbers of what the healthcare lobbies are throwing at this issue in order stop any kind of reform? This is the healthcare industrial complex at work. Read it.
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Nick Anderson, Houston Chronicle Editorial Cartoonist and Animation Artist.
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Insurance companies don’t need no stinkin’ death panels!!
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Created for TheZoo by Paul Jamiol
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Paul Jamiol, Jamiol’s World
The dirty f*cking hippies were right.
HT: Max on ThinkProgress
CNN: Family Raffles Off House To Save Their Child’s Life
The Thornton family are raffling off a house, in Clayton Co., Georgia, to pay medical bills for Payton’s future transplant.
Another reason why we so desperately need healthcare reform.
To say “my fate is not tied to your fate is like saying, ‘Your end of the boat is sinking’.”
Boogeyman
From Matt Davies:
I assume a repaired health care system that makes sense is a little scary, if you are a marauding health insurance company profiteer who stands to see billions of dollars diverted from your coffers and into actual health care for patients instead. Truly terrifying.
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Matt Davies, NY Journal News
Caught between Iraq and a hard place.
Criminal Investigation into CIA Treatment of Detainees Expected
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Paul Jamiol, Jamiol’s World
Sibel Edmonds – In her own words..
More at The Brad Blog.
More in-depth video from Erik Larson.
So now what…
How is it possible for our government, supposedly based on the rule of law, to continue looking the other way..? I’m not stupid. I know this monkey business (or treason and high crimes) has gone on for years, lucrative or not, but now that someone like Sibel is brave enough to stand up and speak out, exposing what has been happening with people in high places and in seats of power, authority, and influence, isn’t it about time to stop the pretense of standing for the law and do something about this? Actually STAND for the rule of law? (Which means, actually UPHOLD the laws—I know, a novel concept..).
It’s time to weed out the rot and plug up the holes. Time to hold people accountable, especially those who take the oath to protect and defend this country and the Constitution, and who instead, sell her out..
UPDATE: This from Huffington Post: Gagged Former FBI Translator Claims U.S. Rep Bribe Evidence
Isn’t it simply amazing how dead silent the MSM (corporate) media is on this story.. Not a whisper..
UPDATE 2: I forgot to add the article on Global Research that came out on August 1, 2009. This was before Sibel Edmonds gave her deposition.
Bombshell: Bin Laden Worked for US Until 9/11 – Sibel Edmonds on the Mike Malloy radio show
I knew there was a reason I wouldn’t eat tofu…
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Jen Sorensen, Slowpoke Comics
Health care debate heats up
Al Jazeera’s Fault Lines looks at the US health care system, expose its cracks, and uncover the forces that are spending millions of dollars every day to influence the debate over the US health care reform.
In two parts:
Emphasis on mindless…
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Paul Jamiol, Jamiol’s World
The Watering Hole: August 10
Good morning, all.
What’s on your mind today? Anything goes…
Sibel testifies under oath! So, what happens now…?
For more posts on Sibel Edmonds at The Zoo, go here.
BradBlog has done an EXCELLENT job of following this story:
LIVE BLOG: Deposition of Sibel Edmonds Completed, DoJ a ‘No Show,’ Bombshells Under Oath
EXCLUSIVE UPDATE: DoJ Pressures Ohio Election Commission to Block Edmonds Testimony
FBI Whistleblower Sibel Edmonds Subpoenaed, Set to ‘Break’ Gag Order Unless DoJ Intercedes
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Paul Jamiol, Jamiol’s World
Sunday Roast: The Supersizers go Wartime
This week’s program takes place during World War II, with rationing and bombing.
Part 1 of 6 (each about 10 minutes long)
Part 2
The Cowardice of Conservatives
News Hounds has uncovered a gem. If you want to know what today’s Conservatives are like, just listen to the people who claim to speak for them. Now, I have a hard time understanding how Conservatives think (which inspired me to write “Conservative” below), and I just can’t reconcile the nonsense I hear out of people like Sean Hannity and Mark Levin, and the philosophy of Conservatism I heard preached by conservative giants like Barry Goldwater. One thing Goldwater always said Conservatism was about was Continue reading
Conservative
Conservatives. What are you gonna do? You can’t reason with them, and you can’t take away their guns and shoot them with them. Not that I would want to. Shoot them with them. But you can’t reason with them. They just don’t operate from the same set of facts that we do. We liberals tend to believe that something is true because it can be proven to be true. But listening to today’s conservatives (of all stripes), it’s as if they believe something is true because enough people believe it to be true, regardless of whether or not it actually is true. And it is from this point of view that they debate things. Not from facts, but from beliefs. And it simply does not matter to them if whatever they believe is not actually true, as long as it supports the rest of their argument, they believe that their argument has merit. I admit that you can sometimes give them credit for following a proper chain of logic based on the propositions they put forth, but even then they sometimes veer from the strict discipline of logic and try to use their conclusion as their proof. But since their propositions are often wrong from the start, it makes no difference how reasonable they sound, they’re still wrong! (Or, if they’re right, it’s for the wrong reasons.) And so I wrote this song to them. I hope you like it.
Conservative
Original words and music “Conquistador” by Procol Harum, 1967
Additional lyrics by Wayne A. Schneider, 2009
Conservative, your argument’s in need of scrutiny
And with some devil’s talking points you speak of certainty
I see your litmus paper test
Has long since come to mean
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Money Bags
This would be funnier if it wasn’t so right on the mark..
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Matt Davies, NY Journal News
He (f)lies through the air with the greatest of ease…
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Jeff Danziger, Syndicated Political Cartoonist
I’m out on break, doc
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John Cole, Scranton, PA Times-Tribune
Old Friend
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Matt Davies, NY Journal News
Flight Arrangements
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Nick Anderson, Houston Chronicle Editorial Cartoonist and Animation Artist.
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Iran, I won, You Lose…
