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The health care thing; a few loose ends

Trudy Lieberman bringing it every time:

1) Was a public plan ever really in the cards?

2) Who will be at the table? (part XIV)

3) Who will be at the table? (the whole sad story).

4) Nicholas Kristof interviews one of the originators of the “Block Socialized Medicine” shitbomb (he feels bad about it now). Homeboy also spilled his guts to The Hill.

5) Robert Reich thinks the public…

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The torture thing; a few loose ends

1) About those torture memos Cheney swore would exonerate his lying ass.

2) Not that the CIA even paid attention to its own regulations, because torturing the people we kidnap is a good thing in and of itself.

3) The CIA and the Bush White House kept tight, hour-by-hour supervision of torture that truly rivals the Nazis; check the record-keeping.

4) Eichmanns For Hire. The only…

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What if the RIAA had existed in 1915?

The “Home Cylinder Duplication Is Killing The Music Industry” refrigerator magnet.

Thanks to Kev at DJ…

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The Duke On A Foggy Morning

Like the pack rat I am, I’ve been carrying around the December 1975 copy of Esquire – the theme of the issue is Great American Things – because it contains a lovely profile of Duke Ellington written by photographer/director/author Gordon Parks, illustrated with his photos. In the mid-1950’s Parks traveled with Ellington and his band (probably for LIFE Magazine), and his reminiscences of that…

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The guy who runs Whole Foods turns out to be rotten.

From Counterpunch, via Undernews:

“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.”

The whole story, in an organic nutshell. The guy’s hero is Margaret…

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Well, it was fun while it lasted…

Obama’s speaking at a town hall meeting in New Hampshire tonight. Numerous right wing crazies are already demonstrating outside the hall, waving signs calling for Obama’s death. They’re wearing guns.

Tha NH police are doing nothing but “observing.”

Brownshirts, mob rule, hysteria, and guns. With Fox News, Rush Limbaugh, Sean Hannity and the rest of the shrieking heads cheering them…

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“Some lawyer for you on line 3, says it’s important…”

Thanks to DJ Food, a video link. Hats off to the Foley and ADR masters who produced this, as well as mostly English.

May this idea…

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Thanks to the Li’l…

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Sony v. Tenenbaum, the latest RIAA outrage.

So it’s the old story – college student sued for file sharing, imminent damage award of several million dollars, all according to the Digital Millennium Copyright Act, a law written by the RIAA.

Here’s a general overview of the recording industry’s nuclear strike. By me (no expert), the defense’s argument seems a bit weaker than it needs to be.

Other commentators weigh in, despondently….

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In case you haven’t seen it

Conan. Palin. Shatner….

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