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    The whole modern world has divided itself into Conservatives and Progressives. The business of Progressives is to go on making mistakes. The business of the Conservatives is to prevent the mistakes from being corrected.

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    Could Not Have Said It Better

    From the African T-shirt Factory (click image to buy)

    This comment posted below this article, Public Option is Just Another Private Party – and We’re Not Invited, says it all about what is happening to the health care reform legislation:

    mujeriego November 6th, 2009 3:53 pm

    Health reform can never happen in the US until you have campaign finance reform.

    As long as the insurance industry can throw [...]



    Pets are People Too!

    Now here is some legislation I can get behind. An up to $3500 itemized deduction for pet care expenses. We give tax deductions and credits for people having children. Seems to me we should use tax policy to help people care for pets too. They are important too!

    As much as I favor this, the chance of this legislation passing is about the same as successfully [...]



    this should surprise no one

    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 [...]



    Vietnam Videos and Photos Helped Stop the War

    So much for learning from our mistakes. President Obama is attempting to block the release of hundreds of photos showing US personnel abusing detainees.

    Pass of Salang – Afghanistan

    President Barack Obama is seeking to block the immediate release of hundreds of photos showing U.S. personnel allegedly abusing prisoners in Iraq and Afghanistan. An Obama administration official said Wednesday that the president told his [...]



    Another Wrong Not Righted

    Gerald Ford, the 38th President of the United States, defending his pardon of former President Richard Nixon at a press conference. Image by Getty Images via Daylife

    Well it is official.  America tortured people.  And the people that committed these crimes and the people that devised these crimes are not going to be prosecuted or otherwise investigated.  Rahm Emanuel said so yesterday on TV.  [...]



    New Nationalism Speech – Teddy Roosevelt History Lesson

    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 [...]



    Chomsky on Geithner (and some Colbert Comedy)

    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. [...]



    the know-nothing prize

    Once again, the Templeton prize has been awarded not for new discovery, but for the admission by a scientist that there are mysteries that science cannot penetrate, and therefore the answer is WOO:

    French physicist and philosopher of science Bernard d’Espagnat won the Templeton Prize for religion on Monday for work which acknowledges that science cannot fully explain “the nature of being”.

    He will receive STG1 million [...]

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