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A great article on bad insurance (not in any newspaper)
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- Monday 13th April 2009
Now that the New Depression has struck our little household, our insurance coverage is a major source of concern; once our COBRA coverage runs out, that’s it for us. One of us has a chronic illness classed as a “pre-existing condition” that no insurer will cover, so our chances of getting insurance again, even as a family, are close to nil.
So when people in the media (or my dear sweet…
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A quick review of some major areas in which Obama needs to get his ass kicked
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- Sunday 22nd March 2009
It’s Sunday, I’m working, and all I can do to help the world situation is point towards a few pithy pieces in this morning’s NY Times (where you need a free subscription, someone reminded me).
1) A fine, fine, superfine editorial about the resemblance of certain aspects of both the Bush and Obama administration’s actions legal actions regarding “detainees” in US custody.
…Even as…
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Guantanamo sadists ramping up torture as closing approaches (updated, unfortunately)
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- Sunday 1st March 2009
Reuters reports that the “interrogators” at Guantanamo fear that their opportunities to abuse Muslim detainees will diminish as the deadline to close the military hellhole approaches. The reaction has been an increase in detainee torture:
Abuses began to pick up in December after Obama was elected, human rights lawyer Ahmed Ghappour told Reuters. He cited beatings, the dislocation of limbs,…
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Rupert Murdoch strikes again
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- Thursday 19th February 2009
Consider the various Fox and Murdoch media properties; bags of shit, every one of them.
The latest example is from The New York Post, a Republican comic book inhabiting the dead body of a newspaper.
See, there’s this chimp in Connecticut that goes berserk and gets shot by the cops, and there’s the stimulus bill. What a natural pairing, eh?
Several people have taken issue with this….
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Jon Stewart on Fox after TWO DAYS of Obama
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- Friday 23rd January 2009
These people are serious scum.
The Daily Show With Jon Stewart
Fox News Fear Imbalance
Barack Obama Interview
John McCain Interview
Sarah Palin Video
Funny Election…
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The nightmare is over
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- Tuesday 20th January 2009
Finally, after 8 long, long, looooong years.
Let’s celebrate a return to intelligence, rationality, excellence and erudition as a national path.
Let all those who do justice and love mercy say amen; say amen; and…
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My bile remains intact
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- Friday 16th January 2009
1) WFMU turned me on to a wonderful post from The Beast of the 50 Most Loathsome People in America. Excellent stuff. some of my faves: #47, #45, and, um, everything else.
2) Paul Krugman is right on the money in this NYT column about not forgiving and forgetting the serious crimes of the Republican scum.
“I’m sorry, but if we don’t have an inquest into what happened during the Bush…
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Obama chooses Rick Warren for the inaugural invocation.
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- Wednesday 17th December 2008
Oy.
Update:…
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Washing the Bush slime off our society
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- Sunday 9th November 2008
The Washington Post reports that Obama’s been preparing for months to roll back BushCo “initiatives” as soon as he got into office.
Is this great or what?
“A team of four dozen advisers, working for months in virtual solitude, set out to identify regulatory and policy changes Obama could implement soon after his inauguration. The team is now consulting with liberal advocacy groups,…
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Read it and… think
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- Saturday 8th November 2008
Bob Somerby of The Daily Howler goes off on the current state of political punditry and BS, as revealed by coverage of McCain:
… we actually weren’t surprised to see Obama elected. Nor are we “proud” when voters do sensible things; as in the days when we taught fifth-graders, we expect sensible conduct. Beyond that, our thumb comes down on the part of the scale which says that Barack…
