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Author Archives: John Wallenfeldt
Cheney’s Plans for a Military Coup–By Scott Horton (Harper’s Magazine)
Why isn’t the entire Bush Administration in prison right now?
That’s my reaction after reading this. In no way, shape, or form should the GOP be allowed to even pretend they are patriotic. At all. Ever.
Daily Kos: The Cost of Sotomayor Opposition
According to this poll, GOP support among Latinos is down to 3%, an 11 percent drop from before they went racial on Sonia Sotomayor.
Seeing as they pretty much had a lock on the racist white voters, what could this possibly have gained them? Ideological purity? Racial purity?
Or is just the party being intellectual honest? Face it, they hate Obama because he’s black. They hate health care because, wait, they don’t mind Medicare so that’s not a real issue. It must be because the President is black.
They hate closing Guantanamo because apparently they love torturing brown people. Or maybe just Muslims. You know, unless someone has a better logical reason to provide. Which, given the eight years available to provide such an answer, I doubt there is another one.
They hated Sotomayor because she’s a radical. Wait, no she isn’t. If anything, she’s conservative. So it must be because she’s brown. And a woman.
No, I think I see where this all goes and it’s a dark place. And I really, sincerely hope America wants no part of it.
Seeger Still Strumming After Hard Knocks – CBS Sunday Morning – CBS News
Pete Seeger is a trip. He’s also recently celebrated his 90th birthday, whether he wanted to make a big stink of it or not. CBS Sunday Morning gave a nice review of his life to date.
PBS has highlights of his birthday celebration. Some of the music is really, really good to give a listen to. Enjoy.
The Health Care Debate Is Making Me Sick : NPR
The latest from Brian Unger.
Still witty. Still on point.
He’s right. The worst part about this supposed opposition to health care reform is what it says about us as Americans.
There are still some very, very vile pieces of crap who think they deserve the same freedoms you and I enjoy. They don’t. Not if they are going to squander it on racial hatred and lies. And they even still call themselves Christians.
Sure, there may be some who aren’t brainwashed drones who genuinely loathe government of any stripe, but I doubt they are even a tiny percentage of the rabid psychopaths getting lathered up into zealot-filled mobs by the GOP.
New Syndrome “Attention Deficit (News) Disorder” Rampant – Beth Ingalls – Open Salon
You know how I know I’m becoming an old fogey?
Because I agree completely with this article.
New Rule: Not Everything In America Has to Turn a Profit
“If conservatives get to call universal healthcare ‘socialized medicine,’ I get to call private, for-profit healthcare ‘soulless, vampire bastards making money off human pain.'”
– Bill Maher
Also, this exists as a Goodreads quote.
Gallery: The Making of a Prehistoric Brew | Wired Science | Wired.com
This is a wonderful tale about the making of a beer using eons old baker’s yeast gathered from an old piece of amber. Personally, I’ve got to find a way to try this sometime.
A gallery of the brewpub and the brewing process is also available online.
Political Irony › In Pictures
A random collection of editorial cartoons and such on recent events – imaginary and not.
A few health care related ones.
And one for the douchebag “birthers”:
Alter: Our Heath-Care System Is Just Fine As Is! | Newsweek Voices – Jonathan Alter | Newsweek.com
Brilliant. Genius. Read this.
The freakiest part of the list of ills by our health insurance system is the part where 47 percent of the money we give these assholes goes to non-medical stuff, like, presumably, lobbying Congress to not pass health reform.
We are paying to get screwed more by the guys already screwing us. Genius!