This graphic to the right doesn’t make one proud to be a Washingtonian. And a big part of the reason is Washington, like Florida, has no state income tax. So the sales taxes, the property taxes and all the other “taxes” just keep climbing on the [...]
A woman in a hot air balloon realizes she’s lost. When she lowers her altitude, she spots a man in a boat below and shouts to him:
“Excuse me, can you help me? I promised a friend I would meet him an hour ago, but I don’t [...]
Quite an interview exposing an example of how our system is corrupted by money. This guy is full of you know what. You can read more about it here.
Sharyl Attkisson spoke with Rep. Stephen Buyer (R-Ind.), whose non-profit organization “Frontier Foundation” has yet to award its first scholarship to [...]
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 pmHealth' [...]
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 [...]
Local blogger extraordinaire, Chris Bassett, was quoted in an Oregonian (Mapes on Politics) article about Clark County politics and the increasingly odd behavior of the 3rd District Representative Brian Baird.
Former Democratic activist Chris Bassett, whose blog on Clark County politics I discovered today, points [...]
This will play continuously.
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Lisa Gerrard & Hyperborea Devotion
“The injunction of Jesus to love others as ourselves is an endorsement of self-interest,” Goldman [Sachs]’s Griffiths said Oct. 20, his voice echoing around the gold-mosaic walls of St. Paul’s Cathedral, whose 365-feet-high dome towers over the City, London’s financial district. “We have to tolerate the inequality as a way [...]
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Kill the Bill
At November 8, 2009, John www,democracyforvancouver.org wrote:
From Kucinich, why he voted against the Health Care legislation (Baird deserves credit for doing so also)
“By incurring only a new requirement to cover pre-existing conditions, a weakened public option, [...]
Boston Tea Party
Here are my thoughts – for what they are worth:
Even if he got it for remembering to leave the seat down for Michelle and the girls, Barack Obama getting the Nobel Peace Prize is a good thing. Don’t we want the United States to be [...]He wants to audit the Federal Reserve.
If the President has a BLT tomorrow, the Republicans will try to ban bacon.
Florida congressman Alan Grayson laughs in Ben Bernanke’s face -- priceless!
So send him some money. He is one of the few that actually deserves your support.
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ING to be broken up in wake of bail-out. The US government should do this also. The big banks are too big to not fail. And the failure has already happened.
Related articles by Zemanta Geithner still worried about recovery (dailyfinance.com) [...]
or as Obama’s second term VP:
Rep. Broun, I believed you just got served:
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i can’t decide whether i’d prefer alan grayson as our next AG
At October 23, 2009, John www,democracyforvancouver.org wrote:
His campaign [...]
Every year, more than 44,000 Americans die simply because have no health insurance. Share your story:
Names of the DeadOn a different subject, this is good to see. Obama administration actually doing some regulating (a little bit anyway) and the Wall Street Journal complaining.
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Bail out the rich. Fail to regulate corporations. Allow unconstrained corporate compensation agreements. Do not facilitate unionization of workers. Allow big corporations to control the media. Make free trade more important than our manufacturing industries. Ignore environmental priorities. Keep taxes low. Deficit spend on the military. Constrain [...]
Here is an hour conversation with Noam Chomsky.
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Noam Chomsky: Philosophies of Language and Politics
What can I say. You do not know how to sing. You do not have to necessarily know how to be funny. But technology will make you hilarious anyway.
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T Pain Obama Auto-Tune
Newspapers are dead. I mean the kind that get ink on your hands. How do I know newspapers are dead? Because I started reading newspapers when I was 9 years old. I loved the NY Herald Tribune. Unfortunately The Herald shut down a couple of years [...]
Old Barn In Vancouver No More (click to enlarge)
This magnificent structure was torn down a couple days ago. It was about a mile from my home (119th st and 72nd ave) and I had grown attached to it for reasons unknown. [...]
Please go see this, Capitalism A Love Story:
and let us know what you think of the movie.
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Representative Grayson is a true patriot fighting for the people. President Obama should take a lesson from Grayson and have some guts:
Embedded video from CNN Video
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Go Grayson
I’m sure by now you’ve read or heard about John Perry’s cris de coeur begging the military to take care of “the Obama problem.” Some, like Jurassic Pork, have even questioned whether Perry is a real person or just some [...]
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As David Swanson points out, Acorn does not even make the top 100 companies guilty of serious misconduct in terms of total contract dollars. Have you heard anyone in Congress talking about canceling General Electric’s contracts? Why not?
Could it be because [...]
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Letter to the Editor:
America Sinking into Socialist Abyss
Having traveled in socialist and communist countries, I believe I recognize both clearly. The American government and the individual citizens have lived on money that exists only on paper, with nothing of value backing that paper.
In the [...]
for why we’ve become this way, but curv3ball nails it anyway.
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i still don’t know all the sociopolitical reasons
I once cut off the end of my left-hand ring finger in a buffet-line plate warmer. (It just missed taking all of the nailbed, so I’m lucky to have a weird – but existent – fingernail.)
I broke two toes on my right foot while swimming by entangling [...]
I once cut off the end of my left-hand ring finger in a buffet-line plate warmer. (It just missed taking all of the nailbed, so I’m lucky to have a weird – but existent – fingernail.)
I broke two toes on my right foot while swimming by entangling [...]
I once cut off the end of my left-hand ring finger in a buffet-line plate warmer. (It just missed taking all of the nailbed, so I’m lucky to have a weird – but existent – fingernail.)
I broke two toes on my right foot while swimming by entangling [...]
I once cut off the end of my left-hand ring finger in a buffet-line plate warmer. (It just missed taking all of the nailbed, so I’m lucky to have a weird – but existent – fingernail.)
I broke two toes on my right foot while swimming by entangling [...]
Margaret and Helen weigh in on the lack of important news coverage in America. Or put another way, these two wise souls discuss the copious amounts of drivel which parades as news spewed by huge corporations with agendas that are inimical to the best interests of our citizenry.
Just to [...]
I’m excited to announce that I’ll be teaching a Mature Learning (ages 55+) course beginning next month. Being me, I want to make it as fun as possible. Sure, health care reform is serious stuff, but that hasn’t stopped a lot of professional comedians and amateur jokesters [...]
Bertha Lewis does a good job defending her organization and speaking out about how her organization is being targeted by those that are no longer in power. She may have made a mistake by not warning her employees that these actors were out there trying to trap employees into providing [...]
it’s time to get off your heiny and do so. NOW.
Click here to view the embedded video.
I’m working on our company’s health insurance renewal, making a spreadsheet of quotes from every insurer available in our company’s geographic area. I can’t get a rate from [...]
In the end this peasant will probably get the short end of the stick, but maybe she will get lucky and receive some leniency from the King. And who knows, maybe this is the beginning of a debtor’s revolt and a new movement. Reminds me of burning draft cards in [...]
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 [...]
Here is the full length webcast (wmv).
Archived for two weeks following the event.
Greencastle, Ind. — Two heavyweights on the national political scene — Howard Dean, who recently completed a four-year term as chairman of the Democratic National Committee, and Karl Rove, the former [...]
The South Carolina Democratic Party should assign round-the-clock tails to the Congressman to shout out “You lie!” every time that miserable asshole makes a declarative sentence.
It’s jerks like Wilson that are the reason I haven’t been posting of late.
I signed up for Facebook about a [...]
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Yeehaaaaaaw. Ain’t Twe Luky.
At September 11, 2009, John democracyforvancouver.org wrote:
The Real Truth Behind Public Option
At September 12, 2009, John democracyforvancouver.org wrote:
Maher video
At September 15, 2009, John democracyforvancouver.org wrote:
Here is some more [...]
Please join us for an Approve 71 Community Organizing Meeting in Vancouver on September 14th, from 6:00 pm to 7:30 pm at the Clark County YWCA, 3609 Main St, Vancouver, WA 98663-2225
Washington’s statewide domestic partnership law is at risk and we need your help to save it. [...]
The possibility of David Hedrick, spokesman for the angry Town Hall mob locally, running against Brian Baird in the next election cycle is intriguing. Since there are already two other possible Republican contenders, it means there would be 3 R candidates running in the primary.
If another [...]
President Obama gave a great speech last night. He did what he does best. He made the “Party of No” look ugly and irrelevant with the help of Congressman Wilson. It is so wonderful to actually be able to listen to a Presidential speech without turning it [...]
It is nice to see mainstream media calling out a Republican politician on the faux criticism of President Obama’s speech today to school children. David Sirota is quite outraged by this and the Van Jones fiasco as we all should be.
The Wall Street Journal (a paper btw I stopped [...]
Obama’s speech is over here.
How come few complain about this which IS indoctrination?
Back to School: Military Recruiters Increasingly Targeting High School Teens
Transcript of the above is here.
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Obama’s Student Address -- ‘Not Indoctrination’
thank any of the other “official” stories that have been coming out about the disappearance of that Russian freighter a few weeks ago. If you haven’t been following the story, here’s the background:
WHO: The Arctic Sea and its crew of 15
WHAT: On July 24, the Maltese-flagged [...]
thank any of the other “official” stories that have been coming out about the disappearance of that Russian freighter a few weeks ago. If you haven’t been following the story, here’s the background:
WHO: The Arctic Sea and its crew of 15
WHAT: On July 24, the Maltese-flagged [...]
More melanoma, same leg, different mole.
I go in Thursday for wider margins.
This was a mole that my previous dermo punch-biopsied 3 years ago (I’ve since learned that the standard of care in anyone with a family history of melanoma is to take the whole mole, [...]
so his constituents can go fuck themselves.
Courtesy of Jill and Rockland Progressive Dems, I give you congressional wannabee Greg Ball:
“My godmother was personal secretary to Joseph Kennedy, the father of Jack Kennedy. As an infant I had cat-scratch fever, and Jean Kennedy- Smith, Jack [...]
This is a must see.
Part one
Part two
Part three
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Moyers on Maher
has been that Orrin Hatch was among his best friends:
Ted Kennedy was largely responsible for the bill, complete with robust public option, that was voted out the the HELP committee. One has to believe he would want passage of the bill he helped author.
With friends like that…
(I have trouble [...]
Every American should have the opportunity to receive a quality education, a job that respects their dignity and protects their safety, and health care that does not condemn those whose health is impaired to a lifetime of poverty and lost opportunity. -Ted Kennedy
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Ted Kennedy stumbled into my awareness sometime in the mid-70s, as the butt of late-night jokes. I didn’t understand the references to driving and bridges and drowning, but I did understand that this Kennedy was some relation to the demi-god who was assassinated before' [...]
His brothers would have been very proud of him.
Download audio file (1968-06-08EMKEulogyofRFKhigh.mp3)
On behalf of Mrs. Robert Kennedy, her children and the parents and sisters of Robert Kennedy, I want to express what we feel to those who mourn with us today in this Cathedral and around [...]
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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: [action.firedoglake.com]
Once a club or [...]
“Back to distrust of Govt- what about Vietnam, Kent State or 24?”
(Emphasis mine.)
Uh, Tom – 24 is fiction. I wouldn’t base my opinions on it even if I watched it
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actual argument made to me against a public option
Or maybe just their answer to health care reform:
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the birther anthem?
At August 25, 2009, me wrote:
CNN = Lou Dobbs = birther = sucks. Reuters! (for now)
here is a comment on a birther/Dobbs/CNN story on media matters:
"The part I" [...]
“You stand there with a picture of the president defaced to look like Hitler and compare the effort to increase health care to the Nazis,” he said, adding such behavior demonstrated the strength of First Amendment guarantees of what he called “contemptible” free speech.
“Trying to have a [...]
Continued from parts i, ii, iii and iv:
. . . to be continued . . .
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to have, and [...]
Continued from parts i, ii and iii:
. . . to be continued . . .
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to have, and have nuts – part iv
Continued from parts i and ii:
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to have, and have nuts: part [...]
Welcome to Vancouver HealthCare Now!
ATTEND OUR 3rd Community HealthCare Event
Clark County Health Care Forum
Dr. Eusterman, one of the
“Mad as Hell Doctors”,
will be one of our guest speakers!
*Learn in depth facts about our healthcare crisis
*Learn just exactly what is a Single-Payer Plan
*Compare the latest version [...]
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 [...]
It’s easy to give whole foods a miss because they are terribly overpriced and snooty. Their level of annoying rich hypocritical yuppiehood just reached new heights when their CEO, Mackey, wrote this op-ed which says our health problems are our own fault and by golly tort reform is the [...]
Continued from part i (click first image for enlarged slideshow):
. . . to be continued . . .
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to have and [...]
(click on image for slideshow)
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to have, and have nuts – part i
Coming soon to a blog near you.
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a heartrending tale of politics and loss
Coming soon to a blog near you.
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a heartrending tale of politics and loss
Coming soon to a blog near you.
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a heartrending tale of politics and loss
This is complete crap. Next thing you know there will be an army of people with their guns strapped to their legs at every political rally in the country. If this guy came anywhere near a Bush speaking event, he would be hauled off never to be seen again. [...]
After all the flip flops and disappointments that are piling up around the President, his recent deal with the pharmaceutical companies is a hard pill to swallow. Here is a 53 minute film about these scumbag companies.
Cenk Uygur reminds us that President Obama might be right with regard to [...]
I’ve got a new gadget on the right side of my blog, for my newly set-up shop, equality über alles. It’s mostly handmade jewelry with many pieces using recycled materials: vintage buttons, sterling flatware, sea glass and shell finds from my trips home to Florida, [...]
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 [...]
After all, he’s a Republican:
Grassley’s point is not only classless, cruel, disgusting, and a prime example of the Fox News “some people say…” schtick, but also without a shred of merit.
If I thought such a human turd deserved to meet a woman of joy, grace [...]
update:
Single Payer health care advocates will be in front of the entrance
beginning at 5:30 p.m. with signs and leaflets. Please join us.
Rep. Baird’s town hall will move to Clark County Amphitheater
by Allan Brettman, The Oregonian
Friday August 14, 2009, 5:23 PM
VANCOUVER — A controversial town hall [...]
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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 [...]
And may ENDA soon make cases like hers a thing of the past:
The US Department of Justice has decided not to appeal a federal district court ruling awarding transgender veteran Diane Schroer a total of $491,190 for the discrimination she suffered because of her sex [...]
It is amazing the power of TV to make people stupid especially with stooges like Glenn Beck around:
And then again some people make up their own vitriol without anyone’s help:
And with “newscasters” like this, is it any wonder people are confused?
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Nothing Better Than [...]
For the last few days I have been trying to shake the overwhelming sense that we have all been flipped into a novel, an outrageous conflation of 1984, The Manchurian Candidate, and Idiot America.
In this version, O’Brien need not torture Winston into believing [...]
Remember when the Bush Administration promised us that peace, prosperity and a pony for each and every American would result from their massive tax cuts?
Sadly, we didn’t get the pony, despite the horseshit rhetoric. What we got was one of the worst recessions in history, [...]
Remember when the Bush Administration promised us that peace, prosperity and a pony for each and every American would result from their massive tax cuts?
Sadly, we didn’t get the pony, despite the horseshit rhetoric. What we got was one of the worst recessions in history, [...]
That depends: does your god take bribes from Big Pharma?
I’ve had three news stories banging around my brainpan since last Thursday, bumping up against one another and trying to make connections that my subconscious knows are there, but that my frontal lobe can’t seem to suss [...]
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A few tidbits about money and health care that were noticed today.
From Bill Maher via Pam Miles on Facebook:
If conservatives get to call universal healthcare “socialized medicine,” I get to call private, for-profit healthcare “soulless, vampire bastards making [...]
Frank Rich has an Op-Ed in the New York Times today worth a read about Cronkite and why he was so admired. Today’s mainstream lapdog news people can learn from him:
What matters about Cronkite is that he knew when to stop being reassuring Uncle Walter [...]
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. [...]
From the Wall Street Journal:
The nation’s wealth gap is widening amid an uproar about lofty pay packages in the financial world.
Executives and other highly compensated employees now receive more than one-third of all pay in the U.S., according to a Wall Street Journal analysis [...]
Jill points us to Ross Douthat’s latest bit of illogic:
By [the year 2028], according to recent Supreme Court jurisprudence, some kinds of affirmative action may no longer be permissible. In 2003, writing for the majority in Grutter v. Bollinger, Sandra Day O’Connor upheld race-based discrimination [...]
