From an annoyed New York Times:
“All I’m trying to do is protect the individual’s right to make health care decisions,” said State Representative Tom Emmer of Minnesota. “I just don’t want the government getting between my decisions with my doctors.” In Some States, a Push to Ban Mandate on Insurance
By MONICA DAVEY
September 29, 2009
ST. PAUL — In more than a dozen statehouses across the country, a small but growing group of lawmakers isSource: Sweetness Light RSS Feed
Yesterday, as expected, Lincoln voted against the public option in the Senate Finance Committee-- twice. She has a history of always sticking with her campaign donors when what they want conflicts with what Arkansas voters want. In this case only 38% of Arkansas voters-- almost all of them Republicans-- oppose the public option. 81% of Arkansas Democrats support the public option-- as do 55% of all Arkansas voters. During the committee markup process yesterday John Ensign taunted theSource: DownWithTyranny! RSS Feed
(Cartoon by Lisa Benson, via Townhall)
Wall Street Journal on Obamacare:
The more we inspect Max Baucus's health-care bill, the worse it looks. Today's howler: One reason it allegedly "pays for itself" over 10 years is because it would break all 50 state budgets by permanently expanding Medicaid, the joint state-federal program for the poor.
Democrats want to use Medicaid to cover everyone up to at least 133% of the federal poverty level, or about $30,000 for a family of four.Source: Wake Up America RSS Feed
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I went on Countdown last night to chat with Lawrence O'Donnell -- who was filling in for Keith Olbermann -- about Bill Clinton's remarks the other day about the never-ending bloodlust of the "vast right-wing conspiracy".
O'Donnell was critical of Clinton for suggesting that the power of the conspiracy was less today than what he faced -- and regarding that aspect of Clinton's remarks, I agree with him. The reality, as I explained in the Source: Crooks and Liars RSS Feed
Glad tidings from BBC News:
Cow dung cremations catch on in Bihar
By Amarnath Tewary
BBC News, Patna, Bihar
In India’s remote north-east, the people of the state of Bihar have devised a novel and environmentally friendly way to cremate their dead. Where traditionally only the wood from a mango tree was used to fuel the funeral fire in this part of India, now people are making do with cow dung as an alternative source of fuel.
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NYTimes | A Chinese threat to halt exports of rare minerals — vital for high-performance electric motors in wind turbines, hybrid cars and missiles — appears to have backfired.
With control of more than 99 percent of the world’s production of these minerals, China could try to use a ban to force other countries to buy the crucial motors for these high-tech end products, instead of just the minerals, directly from China.
But other governments and businesses reactedSource: subrealism RSS Feed
NSIDC | Arctic sea ice reflects sunlight, keeping the polar regions cool and moderating global climate. According to scientific measurements, Arctic sea ice has declined dramatically over at least the past thirty years, with the most extreme decline seen in the summer melt season.
Arctic sea ice appears to have reached its minimum extent for the year, the third-lowest extent since the start of satellite measurements in 1979. While this year’s minimum extent is above the record andSource: subrealism RSS Feed
From City Hall:
Avella watchers used to remark about what a tin-ear the outgoing Bayside Council member had for the most basic political necessities. But running for mayor may turn out to be one of the savviest moves an obscure New York politician has made in a long time. Few outside his district or among some hard-core issue advocates had ever heard of Tony Avella a few months ago. Now, he has stood toe-to-toe with Democratic nominee Bill Thompson at a debate, and television camerasSource: Queens Crap RSS Feed
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Rachel talks to native South Carolinian Eugene Robinson about the sorry state of South Caronlina's education and health care systems in contrast to the attitudes of their politicians who are all opposed to health care reform.
MADDOW: We‘ve had that lot of reaction to our report last night about the appalling new data out of South Carolina that read like a statewide cry for health care reform.
Last night, weSource: Crooks and Liars RSS Feed
This works and goes for all you verified "Vast Right Wing Conspiracy" veterans from the last dem government expansion during the 90's with Slick and the Skank.....who famously coined the name by the way for those wondering....send her all the thanks (this little piece below came email from Patriot Post btw..)
You might be a racist.....
If you think that a czar is unconstitutional
... you might be a racist!
If you are opposed to a government run healthSource: Chicagoray RSS Feed
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"Here are some pictures of myself and brothers while in Iraq 2003. Alpha Company 1-15 Infantry"
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The New York Post says EVERYBODY PANIC!
It’s official. It’s getting hot down here. And if we don’t stop burning oil and coal, the Big Apple will be cooked.
According to a high tech study commissioned by a concerned Mayor Bloomberg and generously funded by the Rockefeller Foundation, climate change caused by human-created greenhouse gases is threatening the health, livelihood and security of New Yorkers—especially those who take the subway toSource: Stop the ACLU RSS Feed
CON 43 (+2) LAB 26 (+1) LD 19 (nc)
And the “others” total drop to just 12%
The September ICM poll for the Guardian is just out and shows the Tories up a couple of points with Labour up one - all within the margin of error.
So the September polling is following August and we are seeing very little change. Perhaps the significant move is the decreasing share for “other” parties which has been at a high level since the Euro elections inSource: Political Betting RSS Feed
The New York Post seems to have changed hands over the weekend. It's no longer a print version of wing-nut TeeVee. Get a look at today's special issue. It's hot!!
Or, have The Yes Men struck again? We remark, you declaim.
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Early this morning, nearly a million New Yorkers were stunned by the appearance of a "special edition" New York Post blaring headlines that their city could face deadly heat waves, extreme flooding, and other lethal effects Source: Pensacola Beach Blog RSS Feed
Here's a photo I took one afternoon recently off the back porch:
They barely acknowledged my presence. And moved on.
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I just remembered ...
I had the opportunity the other day of rescuing a fawn from certain doom. I was working at the back of my property when I heard the distinct and prolonged bleat of a young deer. A distressful bleat (you live amongst them and you get to where you can understand the language). I walked about a hundred yards down the old turnpike toSource: From On High RSS Feed
Roddy MacKenzie leads at the moment on Triton Light in the Banbury Cross and Foxboro Farms Maiden Hurdle, but Jacob Roberts (3rd from the right) on Maximize went on to win
Karen and I were working yesterday at the Blue Ridge Fall Races a charity event held annually the last three years for the benefit of our local hospice organization.
Click on the above picture for a link to Karen’s preliminary photo essay
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Mark Twain: “A lie can travel halfway around the world while the truth is putting on its shoes.”
First, let me be clear. I am not going to defend the Waxman-Markey American Clean Energy and Security Act cap and trade system, because it rewards the worst polluters by paying them to stop polluting. This bill would also strip the Environmental Protection Agency of its existing authority to regulate greenhouse gases under the provisions of the Clean AirSource: One Utah RSS Feed
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The Say Anything Show - Fullscreen
ON TONIGHT’S SHOW: Democrats have a new talking point on health care: 45,000 Americans die every year due to lack of insurance. But there are some major problems with the study that came up with that number.Source: Say Anything RSS Feed
Polar bears are the Brad Pitt and Angelina Jolie of climate-change-endangered Arctic species. They get all the press (see Will polar bears go extinct by 2030? — Part II and Bush launches Unendangered Species List, phones “Rename the Polar Bear” winner“). But not-so-photogenic animals suffer at the hands of human-caused global warming, too, as World Wildlife Fund’s Nick Sundt explains in a post first published on WWF’s climate blog. And yes, I’m much moreSource: Climate Progress RSS Feed
From the L. A. Times
1. 40% of all workers in L.A. County ( L. A. County has 10.2 million people)are working for cash and not paying taxes. This is because they are predominantly illegal immigrants working without a green card.
2. 95% of warrants for murder in Los Angeles are for illegal aliens.
3. 75% of people on the most wanted list in Los Angeles are illegal aliens.
4. Over 2/3 of all births in Los Angeles County are to illegal alien Mexicans on Medi-Cal , whoseSource: Chicagoray RSS Feed
This has to be one of the best singles ads ever printed. It is reported to have been listed in the Atlanta Journal.
SINGLE BLACK FEMALE seeks male companionship, ethnicity unimportant. I'm a very good girl who LOVES to play.
I love long walks in the woods, riding in your pickup truck, hunting, camping and fishing trips, cozy winter nights lying by the fire.
Candlelight dinners will have me eating out of your hand.
I'll be at theSource: Theodore's World RSS Feed
Take a look at his cool photo from space (h/t Jules Crittendon):
Taken by the Space Shuttle? A weather satellite?
Nope, a camera stowed in a beer cooler flown into space by a helium balloon:The two students (from MIT, of course) put together a low-budget rig to fly a camera high enough to photograph the curvature of the Earth. Instead of rockets, boosters and expensive control systems, they filled a weather balloon with helium and hung a styrofoam beer cooler underneath to carry a Source: HolyCoast.com RSS Feed
Many people have speculated that once former Governor Terry Branstad enters the gubernatorial race, the current field of Republican candidates will shrink substantially. Some speculate that a Branstad candidacy would clear the entire field except for Bob Vander Plaats. The chances of a two person primary
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I attended the Conservative Breakfast Club at the Republican Party of Iowa headquarters this morning. The speaker was Doug Gross, local attorney and former gubernatorial candidate. He spoke to us some findings of a poll he commissioned for the Iowa First Foundation.
He noted that the
“MY FRIENDS, THIS IS ONE INSTANCE WHERE BIG GOVERNMENT IS JUSTIFIED, SINCE THE CONSTITUTION AND DECLARATION OF INDEPENDENCE GUARANTEE EVERY AMERICAN THE RIGHT TO LIFE, LIBERTY …Â AND THE PURSUIT OF PRESCRIPTION DRUGS.”
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Jon Perr has some instructive, actually Â10 Lessons for Tea Baggers.Â
MarketWatch puts together a by-the-numbers analysis of President Obama's speech on the anniversary of the death of Lehman Bros. That's 13 risks, 11 reforms, and four "accountabilitys." Uncounted by MarketWatch were three instances of Obama's favorite rhetorical setup: "There are those/some who say/claim/argue...." I believe that's relatively low for a 4,300-word oration.
The speech seems to have threaded the needle. There was tough talk about regulation even though all the president'sSource: Reason Magazine - Hit Run RSS Feed
We on the right know there was another dem president and his wife who not so long ago gained attention from all the political enemies along the way of his and her careers' who found themselves on the deep side of early graves strangely enough.
And now it appears that one of former Illinois Governor Hot Rod Blagojevich's closest associates, confidants and head cronies has now turned up dead from an aspirin overdose, as the Illinois corruption starts to bubble to the surface more thanSource: Chicagoray RSS Feed
I apparently missed the largest flash mob in American history today, and it took place just a few blocks from my house. Michelle Malkin and the redstaters have been abuzz about how there were more than two million people marching on Washington today, (that would make it bigger than even the inauguration) but all anyone who wasn't a right-winger saw today was 30,000 to 60,000 right-wingers bused in from around the country.
Here's what the organizers themselvesSource: Crooks and Liars RSS Feed
I have been diligently following the developments in the shooting death of anti-abortion activist James Pouillon in Michigan since the news broke this morning and based on the little information and few details that are available, it is impossible to know why Pouilon was killed.
Reports indicated that Pouilon was gunned down from a moving car early this morning. A witness got the car's license plate and police arrested someone an hour later. At that point, the suspect reportedly
Has America’s reaction to September 11 – its invasions of Afghanistan and Iraq – accelerated the end of U.S. dominance of the international system? According to commentator He Liangliang of Hong Kong’s Phoenix TV – one of the few privately-owned cable operators permitted by Beijing authorities to broadcast to the Mainland – America’s days as a global cop are well and truly over.
For Hong Kong newspaper Wen Wei Po, He Liangliang presents what is likely a
From ABC News:
Bomb Threat Forces Evacuation of DC TEA Party Planners
September 11, 2009
On the eve of what organizers call a ‘Big Ol’ TEA Party’, the Washington, D.C., offices of FreedomWorks were evacuated by DC Metro police on Friday afternoon after the conservative organization reported to authorities at 3:42 pm ET that it had received a bomb threat.
At 4:48 pm ET, the organization put out a Twitter message saying that itSource: Sweetness Light RSS Feed
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“THIS IS THE KIND OF BIBLICAL ‘EYE FOR AN EYE’ APPROACH THAT WE DEMOCRATS HAVE TO BE MORE RECEPTIVE TO, ALTHOUGH WE COULD HAVE BEEN HARSHER WITH A RESOLUTION TO ‘SMITE’ HIM, OR TO HAVE HIM CIRCUMCISED … WHICH BY THE WAY, HE’D BE FULLY COVERED FOR UNDER HIS GOVERNMENT HEALTH PLAN.”
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Here's one for the memory banks from Bill Moyers Journal, September 2008, talking about the rise of hate talk on right wing radio, and Glenn Beck saying he'd like to kill Michael Moore along with some other right wing screechers doing their best to incite violence in the name of keeping their ratings up.
RICK KARR: Michael Savage isn't the only right-wing talk-radio host who launches blistering, even violent, verbal attacks onSource: Crooks and Liars RSS Feed
From the ‘Magazine’ section of the New York Times:
How Did Economists Get It So Wrong?
By PAUL KRUGMAN
September 6, 2009
I. MISTAKING BEAUTY FOR TRUTH
It’s hard to believe now, but not long ago economists were congratulating themselves over the success of their field. Those successes — or so they believed — were both theoretical and practical, leading to a golden era for the profession. On the theoreticalSource: Sweetness Light RSS Feed
A story in the Washington Post today is headlined: “Obama Would Keep $85 Billion in Tax Breaks for Working Poor.”
The “tax breaks” in question are expansions in the earned income tax credit and the child tax credit. The Post story repeatedly calls the expansions “tax breaks” and “tax cuts.” The budget expert quoted in the story calls them “tax cuts,” and so does a House staffer and a spokesperson for the president.
But these are not tax cuts.Source: Cato-at-liberty RSS Feed
US fury as Israel defies settlement freeze call
Times Online
Israeli plans to authorise the construction of hundreds of houses in the occupied West Bank sparked furious protests from American and Palestinian officials yesterday.
In a nod to US requests to suspend all building work at Jewish settlements, Binyamin Netanyahu, the Prime Minister, is offering a freeze on construction at a later date — Source: Theodore's World RSS Feed
No global warming here as the near warmest summer in history fades into the climate changed sunset...along with the far left loon suckers who bought into Gore's Folly.
The record low for Aug. 31 is 47 degrees, set in 1872. Overnight Sunday into Monday, the nippy readings were close, and in some areas even lower.
CBS 2's Ed Curran reported that the overnight low at O'Hare International Airport was 49 degrees.
At 5 a.m., it was 49 at Midway International Airport, 48 inSource: Chicagoray RSS Feed
Keeping tabs on those who represent us in Washington is a grueling year-round task. But it’s a crucial effort for progressives to have any legislative impact.
While we can be counted on to disagree among ourselves about what strategy and tactics to use in nudging Senators and Representatives in our direction (and, of course, on the details of what "our direction" is), an essential step in the process no matter what our specific viewpoint must be to acquire both basic andSource: Daily Kos RSS Feed
