Monthly Archives: January 2011

Ariz. Cuts Transplant Coverage; Two Patients Die – CBS News

You don’t have to wait for an anti-government terrorist to cut you down in front of a grocery store to die in Aryzona.

All you have to do is be poor and need an organ transplant. Then Governor Brewer and her “compassionate conservative” lackeys will make sure to cut funding to cover transplants under Medicare and make sure that being poor is once again a death sentence in our land.

This reminds me of Mississippi and Governor Haley Barbour. He freed two sisters incarcerated for stealing $11. Should they have been punished? Yes. For 16 years? Questionable.

Released on condition that one sister donates a kidney to her dying sister because the state doesn’t want to pay for an organ transplant for a black girl? No. But that’s exactly what that fat jackass did. I understand that people want to be polite and praise him for some small sliver of humanity. But that isn’t why he did it. He wanted to save a few bucks, and demean some human beings to literally begging for both their lives and freedom.

This isn’t even criminal behavior by both these Republican “leaders”. It’s evil.

I Love You, You’re Perfect, Now Change | Mother Jones

In the effort to become a “more perfect union” we have amended our Constitution to right wrongs and expand rights to more of our population. Conservatives want to turn back the clock by removing some of those amendments and stopping people from becoming citizens or having rights in the first place.

And it isn’t just the rabid newly-angry Tea Party types who only got engaged when they saw a black man become president of their WASP-y nation.

No, it also goes hand-in-hand with vile conservatives like Antonin Scalia, who is very damn sure that women do not have any Constitutionally-protected rights.

I’m not kidding. That’s his interpretation, and given his place on the Supreme Court, that’s a damn scary opinion to have with that much power in his hands.

‘Vitriol’ Cited As Possible Factor In Arizona Tragedy : NPR

For once, amazingly, a NPR article that doesn’t suck up to the right wing.

This one discusses how the Tucson shooter may have been influenced by anti-government hate speech in the media.

Go figure.

Their followup article is even better at detailing the current climate and those who stoked it’s fires.

Paul Krugman says a lot of what I’ve been thinking in this article. I, too, am not surprised this happened. Saddened? Disappointed? Yes. But something like this was going to happen eventually, especially with cheerleaders like Palin egging people on.

Rep. James Clyburn puts it more pointedly. “The fact of the matter is, we just came out of an election. We saw a candidate for the United States Senate saying ‘if you can’t get what you want at the ballot box, let’s seek second amendment remedies.’ What does that mean? That is a very vitriolic statement.”

Rep. Giffords herself had some concerns over Palin “targeting” her.