In an effort to get to some actual truth, PBS created this Frontline investigation into the health care systems of Great Britain, Japan, Germany, Taiwan, and Switzerland. It apparently is the full show, warts and all, of each nation’s system.
Even when showing the true pros and cons, we don’t stack up among the best.This truly needs to change.
It turns out, if you are an American soldier captured by the Taliban, conservative media types have no problem – and actively encourage your captors – if you are executed. Presumably this would likely involve having your head lopped off with a Ginsu knife.
Granted, Ralph Peters – who is STILL pissed off he wrote a half dozen books on a Russian war in Europe that never happened – swears this particular soldier deserted, even though he has no real proof of this. Even so, get the soldier back, try him in a military court, and send him to Leavenworth if guilty.
They used to say anti-war lefties were traitors for not wanting our troops in Iraq. Now, conservatives actually wish for our soldier’s murder if they are captured by our enemies. And this ass clown was actually in the military, unlike so many armchair generals in the GOP.
If that isn’t treason, I’m not sure what is, folks.
Meanwhile, media clown and hatemonger Randall Terry is promising violent domestic terrorism if Sonia Sotomayor is confirmed to the Supreme Court.
Wait a minute asswipe. You don’t have to like the lady – as I certainly loathe Roberts, Scalia, Alito, and Thomas – but each of them went through a confirmation hearing and were voted by the Senate – as the Constitution proscribes.
So basically, we have one Rethug arguing for the execution of a soldier held by our enemies in a combat zone and another calling for terrorism in our borders if the Constitutional confirmation process is followed.
And all the airtime on FAUXNews to argue for what is treason in about every sense of the word.
Marketplace concluded it’s series called “Working” yesterday and once again it was a pretty illuminating look at the life of someone just trying to get by in this world.
I presume that after 29 stories they just ran out of funds to keep it going but it was entertaining and instructive to hear how people fall into the work they do and how they strive to do it to the utmost, whether legal or not.
Looks like the traitors are beginning to sue. A reservist purposely volunteered for duty in Afghanistan and then refused to deploy since he says Obama isn’t actually an American citizen and thus isn’t a legal president.
This is part of the racist “birther” movement which is basically a Republican cover to be racist bastards. If waterboarded, I am sure nearly all of them would swear that they KNOW Obama is American. Actually, if waterboarded, I’m sure every single one of these cretins would say anything you’d want them to say.
The Army has cancelled his deployment orders and a civilian judge has stupidly allowed his case to carry on. As far as the military is concerned, I hope they strip this traitor of his officer’s commission and clear a bunk at Leavenworth for the asshole.
More on the case, as well as information that ties both FAUXNews (more here) and the Republican Party to this mutineer and his potentially traitorous act.
Apparenty FAUX and the GOP are “palling around” with treason.
Absolute genius. Thanks, Bernie!
This lunatic is running on a platform of, hey, armed insurrection if Republicans aren’t allowed to cram their 18th century religion-based racism and hatred and anti-science agenda down our throats.
Tell ya what crazy lady, you turn in everything that isn’t a blunderbuss and stand by your backwards ideals and I’ll go shopping for a Galil and some body armor and meet you on an open field later.
Remember when this country had big dreams and didn’t settle for less?
Remember when we didn’t check on focus groups or gave a shit what lobbyists told us?
Remember when big business just sucked it up and did the damn job?
THAT and a dose of hope and optimism got us to the moon. Not GOP whining and fear tactics.
Learn from this, be amazed of what we used to be able to accomplish in this country, and let’s try to regain our glory.
Republican “family values” are shown as a false talking point every time they:
* cheat on their spouses
* deny health care for children
* make it even for their pals to pollute our water, sell our jobs overseas, poison our food, kill our forests and farms, etc. ad nauseum.
The latest? The illegal war in Iraq and the hard fight we didn’t have to fight in Afghanistan if we’d have keep our eyes on the ball have resulted in a major rise in the children of deployed troops seeking mental help.
That’s right. Years of backdoor drafts and multiple deployments without proper gear result in tattered warriors and their kids. Gee, thanks GOP!
Another sign of the recession: rest stops are closing up across America.
Face it, when states can’t even afford to let visitors easily take a pee break, we’ve got some financial issues to fix in this country. And meanwhile, governors across America are trying to reject stimulus money and instead focus on cheating on their wives or just plain quitting their jobs to go fishing.
Genius!
This article calls out NPR on being too timid to call out torture for what it is. Instead, they fall back on the Cheney-style euphemisms for what is, to be completely honest, torture.
This is the continuing problem I have with NPR and the author gives some reasons for why this is how it is. There are some great shows, with fantastic hosts, but the whole “let’s suck up to the Republicans” meme really brings down the quality.
A lot.
Enough to stop me from donating anything to them. Ah well. You really do hope for more. Why is is wrong to call racists racist? Or corporate-paid politicians enemies of the common man? Or the folks stocking up on guns because we have a black President traitors?
Wrong is still wrong, right?