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    Moyers on Single Payer

    Article by John on May 23rd, 2009 at 2:58 pm

    For those of you that missed this Bill Moyer’s segment last night on single payer health care.  David Himmelstein & Sidney Wolfe

    http://www.democracyforvancouver.org/wp-content/uploads/himmelsteinwolfe.mp4

    Why do you suppose for forty years now single payer healthcare has been off the table even though it is favored by a majority of Americans?  Could it be that our representatives do not represent us?  And if that is [...]

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    New Nationalism Speech – Teddy Roosevelt History Lesson

    Article by John on April 2nd, 2009 at 7:32 am

    Mt. Rushmore, Theodore Roosevelt closeup. Image via Wikipedia

    Since the 1980s (when I worked for Eastern Airlines, which no longer exists due to deregulation fever) we as a people have amnesia when it comes to the lessons that history teaches us.  Regulations did not just magically appear one day.  They were derived from the wisdom that came about from the mistakes of the past.  Reagan [...]

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    Chomsky on Geithner (and some Colbert Comedy)

    Article by John on March 28th, 2009 at 7:08 am

    Noam Chomsky on the economy and democracy Pt2

    Noam Chomsky on the economy and democracy Pt3

    Stephen’s Angry Mob Will Crush AIG (click to show/hide Colbert video)

    The government can’t stop AIG but Stephen’s angry mob will crush these punks. He pulls out his pitchfork and gets the audience on his side. [...]

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    time to name names and put the blame where it belongs

    Article by missy on March 18th, 2009 at 9:20 am

    On Hank Paulson’s bald head.

    When AIG started to become unwound last fall, who better to know just how much Goldman Sach’s own rape & pillage squad was going to depend on its AIG bad bet insurance than the former CEO, Paulson himself – and who else but the Treasury Secretary would be better positioned to make sure that at least his alma mater – if [...]

    Category: Bush crime family, Congress, Corporate control, Democrats, Economic justice, Fascism, Fiscal policy, Gov Acctability, Iraq, Labor, Media, Money Party, Obama, President Barack H, Republicans, Tax Policy, War on terror | 2 comments - Click HERE to chime in! | Show Discussion | Share/Save |


    another crappy week in crapistan

    Article by missy on March 16th, 2009 at 8:21 am

    Sorry for the lack of posts — L. came down with something like the plague and has been coughing up bits of lung for about 5 days now, and yesterday woke up looking like he’d developed full-blown mumps overnight (either his lymph nodes are having a hard time with the virus or it’s a secondary bacterial infection). So, off to the urgent care and [...]

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    merit pay ain’t the way

    Article by missy on March 11th, 2009 at 11:04 am

    There is no question that Barack Obama will be a better president for the state of education in this country than George “is our children learning” Bush could ever hope to be, and almost anything would be better than Bush’s odious, expensive, top-heavy and radically stupid No Child Left Behind.

    That being said, merit pay is just another Republican red herring and should be round-filed along [...]

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    Bring on the Whistleblowers

    Article by John on January 22nd, 2009 at 3:07 pm

    Thom Hartmann mentioned this morning that he believes his phone was tapped in March of 2004.  Russell Tice of the NSA in the video below says the NSA monitored ALL communications of Americans.  It is any wonder that Congress and the Democrats in Congress have caved to this illegal regime knowing that ALL of their communications may have been collected and analyzed over the [...]

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    ratcheting up the pressure

    Article by missy on January 8th, 2009 at 10:03 am

    I assume these recent speeches by Obama are intended to publicly call out Blue Dogs and Senate Republicans to get along and go along once the Economic Plan is presented. From today’s speech at George Mason University:

    This crisis did not happen solely by some accident of history or normal turn of the business cycle, and we won’t get out of it by simply waiting [...]

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