Daily Archives: August 18, 2009

Remember when you could get arrested just for wearing a T-shirt critical of the president to an event where he would appear?

Also from Reddit:

“Remember when you could get arrested just for wearing a T-shirt critical of the president to an event where he would appear?”

– submitted by conyat2

There are stories of Rethug asshats carrying assault rifles to Obama town halls and speeches and while, yes, most of them are obeying the letter of the law, shouldn’t you be asked to be a responsible adult and go the hell away by the police/FBI/Secret Service/voices in your head?

HAVING rights means being smart enough to know WHY you have them and HOW to be worthy of them.

Something lost on the racist GOP mobs of late.

What I Learned On My Summer Vacation : Rolling Stone : National Affairs Daily

Taken with the appropriate level of tongue-in-cheek:

Barack Hussein Obama, natural born Kenyan socialist, usurper of the American presidency and “Trojan Horse of Islam,” possessed of a “deep seated hatred of white people” and with the aid of his media “brownshirts,” is embarking on a Nazi-styled eugenics campaign to grant “death panels” the authority to “pull the plug on grandma” and “redistribute the wealth” otherwise required to sustain her “unproductive” life as “reparations”. Failure to halt his “government takeover” — with assault rifles if necessary — will lead inexorably to future generations having to “wait in line for, I dunno, toilet paper.”

Political Irony › Congress goes on vacation, people die

Saw this a couple weeks ago, but still important to remember that Congress’ laziness and lying is killing Americans while they decide whether or not to fail at reforming health care.

To put this in perspective, what will happen while Congress is on vacation for three weeks?

* 143,250 people will lose their health insurance coverage.
* 53,507 people will be forced into bankruptcy because they can’t pay their medical bills.
* 1,265 will DIE because of a lack of health coverage.

Squeaking by on $300,000 – washingtonpost.com

Good God. Yet another pity story about rich people suffering in the recession.

Seriously? You can’t buy your kid the new “it” phone for back to school and that somehow compares to people who can’t make house payments or provide enough for their families to eat?

Yeah, it’s all relative, but maybe these reporters should go interview people actually suffering instead of those mildly inconvenienced by the economic downturn.