Random RecitalsA man who lies to himself, and believes his own lies, becomes unable to recognize truth, either in himself or in anyone else, and he ends up losing respect for himself and for others. When he has no respect for anyone, he can no longer love, and in him, he yields to his impulses, indulges in the lowest form of pleasure, and behaves in the end like an animal in satisfying his vices. And it all comes from lying to others and to yourself. Fyodor Dostoevsky Lively LinksLinks change randomly each time the cache is refreshed. |
Article by John on December 16th, 2009 at 5:53 am Audio clip: Adobe Flash Player (version 9 or above) is required to play this audio clip. Download the latest version here. You also need to have JavaScript enabled in your browser. Lieberman is a turncoat. He is the worst of worst, a complete sellout to the special interests. He is a symbol of what has gone wrong with our government. Howard Dean is so right here. There is compromise and then there is capitulation. The latter is what has happened to health care reform in the Senate. Is anyone surprised?
Article by John on September 15th, 2009 at 3:23 am Just when I thought everybody understood what was going on with health care reform, Congressman Wilson had to go and call the President a liar. The “liar” outburst was because Rep. Wilson took exception to President Obama saying illegal aliens would not be covered under the health care legislation being contemplated. And that is because amendments to require proof of citizenship to get health insurance did [...]
Article by John on August 25th, 2009 at 11:44 am Image via Wikipedia Thanks John for signing the Public Option Resolution. We need to get as many local political clubs as possible to pass the Public Option Resolution. For the text of the resolution, you can direct your activist friends here: http://action.firedoglake.com/page/s/resolved Once a club or committee has passed the Public Option Resolution, we need to have somebody let us know so we can help publicize it: http://action.firedoglake.com/page/s/passed Democracy [...]
Article by John on August 17th, 2009 at 1:05 pm Image via Wikipedia Hartmann lays out a perfect solution to the health care debacle. Why don’t we have more people like him running our government? Dear President Obama: A Modest Medicare Proposal Dear President Obama, I understand you’re thinking of dumping your “public option” because of all the demagoguery by Sarah Palin and Dick Armey and Newt Gingrich and their crowd on right-wing radio and Fox. Fine. Good [...]
Article by John on August 15th, 2009 at 11:07 am From Single Payer Action: John Mackey is a right wing libertarian. He’s a union buster. He believes that corporations should not be criminally prosecuted for their crimes. He has just launched a campaign to defeat a single payer national health insurance system. And he’s the CEO of Whole Foods. Primo hangout of liberal Democratic yuppies. “We are all responsible for our own lives and our own health,” Mackey wrote yesterday in the [...]
Article by John on August 10th, 2009 at 10:59 am Here is a health care PDF put out by the Kaiser Family Foundation which summarizes the various legislative proposals in Congress. Reading and disseminating this may help diminish the effectiveness of all the fear mongering that is appearing in the media and on the part of the regressives amongst us. If you want to be afraid, be afraid of what [...]
Article by John on August 6th, 2009 at 2:30 pm Image via Wikipedia One would think that after the last town hall sessions where his anti-war constituents tore into him in a big way, Representative Baird would be tiptoeing around trying to stay out of the war zone. But no. Now he has compared the health care reform opponents to Nazis: “What we’re seeing right now is close to Brown Shirt tactics,” Baird, D-Vancouver, [...]
Article by missy on July 23rd, 2009 at 3:57 pm But Republicans will find some way to blame the victim, or labor unions, or both: The Rand researchers examined the economic performance of 38 industries from 1987 through 2005, in an attempt to assess the economic impact of “excess” growth in health care costs on U.S. industries. Excess growth is defined as the increase in health care costs that exceeds the overall growth of the nation’s [...] | |
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