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June 2009 archive
Jun 04 2009
Muse in the Morning
Jun 04 2009
South Carolina’s Dangerous Stupidity
Once again in South Carolina, Governor Sanford and the state legislature proves that being “Pro-Gun Rights” equates into being “Pro-Dangerously Stupid”. Of course, once again, the media let down the residents, as well.
The story follows in my letter to the editor and legislature…
Jun 04 2009
Fuck Obama
The Obama administration just approved two-dozen more of what you see in this picture.
It’s called “mountaintop removal”. It’s a somewhat accurate name, like “detainee” is a technically accurate name for “political prisoner”.
Fuck Obama. This guy fucking lied to us to get into office so that he could continue the policies of the Bush administration.
He’s a goddamn liar, nothing but a slick con artist who manipulated millions of people’s emotions and passions and good natures so that he could get into office and be nothing but a tool for the same gangsters and crooks who have had their way with us for countless years now.
Jun 04 2009
Uniting American Families Act update
On Monday afternoon, I posted a diary discussing the Uniting American Families Act. It also got Front Paged here (thanks, benign overlord administrators) I also received an excellent e-mail about the issue.
I titled the diary “The gay rights bill you don’t know about.” I should have checked some tags first. Heh.
At any rate, the Senate Judiciary Committee held a very informative hearing on the bill Wednesday morning.
To recap, UAFA does one simple thing. It would allow American citizens to sponsor same sex partners for immigration just like married couples. The Senate bill is sponsored by Patrick Leahy of Vermont while the House version is sponsored by Jerrold Nadler of New York. Follow me below for a recap of the hearing.
Jun 04 2009
cutting while having a cold
I have been notified that I have not posted here lately, so…. and my kids have informed me that I should write about what I know, what I have direct experience of…
I have a cold. Not a killing cold, just a medium one. It’s the kind of cold that decreases my energy by about 50%, and my enthusiasm about life by about 85%.
Since I have a cold, I can indulge in moaning. Moaning is very therapeutic for me. I lie there and moan, or sigh, which is very good because:
Jun 04 2009
Help! My government is trying to kill me. Part 1
I’m a U. S. citizen. I was born here. I was born into the right to life, liberty and the pursuit of happiness.
So it was a complete, dis-orienting shock when I got a brief glimmer of the fact that my government was trying to kill me. That was 1984. Since then, I have seen, repeatedly, the undeniable reality of this situation.
Yes, my government is trying to kill me. Not consciously, not through intention nor plan; my government is trying to kill me in absentia, through total denial of responsibility, through attrition.
Attrition! A vague, amorphous assignation of causation to indeterminate factors far removed from individual, human accounting. Noone is to blame. Noone is responsible. It is a random act of the universe. It is attrition!
But as you try to kill me, try to state your plausible reasons…
Something inside me rises up, even against the fatal blow, and says, “No! This is a lie! You will not kill me in a lying deceit.” I will withstand long enough to call your fraud, your devious bluff.
You are killing me because I am inconvenient for you, because our species has exceeded the carrying capacity of the planet and something must be done to relieve the over-population problem. You are killing me, out of attrition, because you cannot admit the magnitude of your great mistakes.
You think you must reduce the excess population you allowed, as quickly and as quietly as is possible.
But your random attribution calculations of expendibility did not forsee nor calculate the fact of highly intelligent, highly evolved beings who could and would see right through your machinations to maintain “residual” control. Yet many of us remain, and will not lightly acquiesce to your inability to honor life.
I do not acquisce to your desire to silence me. I, and others like me, will rise up to contest the error of your ways.
Jun 04 2009
Obama gets behind Public Option — finally!
well, sort of … in a letter, at least …
msnbc.com
President Obama issued a public letter to Sens. Ted Kennedy and Max Baucus, the two Democrats seen as most key to the design of potential health-care legislation.
June 2, 2009
Dear Senator Kennedy and Senator Baucus:
[…]
In short, the status quo is broken, and pouring money into a broken system only perpetuates its inefficiencies. Doing nothing would only put our entire health care system at risk. Without meaningful reform, one fifth of our economy is projected to be tied up in our health care system in 10 years; millions more Americans are expected to go without insurance; and outside of what they are receiving for health care, workers are projected to see their take-home pay actually fall over time.We simply cannot afford to postpone health care reform any longer.
[…]
I agree that we should create a health insurance exchange market where Americans can one-stop shop for a health care plan, compare benefits and prices, and choose the plan that’s best for them, in the same way that Members of Congress and their families can. None of these plans should deny coverage on the basis of a preexisting condition, and all of these plans should include an affordable basic benefit package that includes prevention, and protection against catastrophic costs. I strongly believe that Americans should have the choice of a public health insurance option operating alongside private plans. This will give them a better range of choices, make the health care market more competitive, and keep insurance companies honest.
[…]
Sincerely,
BARACK OBAMA
(emphasis added)
http://firstread.msnbc.msn.com…
Strong Words, need to be followed up with Stronger Actions.
(kind an inconvenient time for a Presidential road trip, eh?)
Jun 04 2009
Hypocrisy Watch: Excuses By Fundies, The Death of A Doctor
cross-posted from The Dream Antilles
My wonderful phone company, Credo, sent me the following:
“Tiller the Baby Killer.”
That’s how FOX News host Bill O’Reilly referred to Dr. George Tiller who was murdered in cold blood Sunday while he attended church.
Tiller’s crime? He provided healthcare to women. Including abortion.
Salon.com reports that FOX’s “O’Reilly Factor” has featured attacks on Dr. Tiller on no less than 28 episodes:
“He’s guilty of “Nazi stuff,” said O’Reilly on June 8, 2005; “a moral equivalent to NAMBLA and al-Qaida,” he suggested on March 15, 2006. “This is the kind of stuff happened in Mao’s China, Hitler’s Germany, Stalin’s Soviet Union,” said O’Reilly on Nov. 9, 2006.
What happened Sunday was devastating. And it might not have happened if it wasn’t for the hate mongering of Bill O’Reilly and others.
There are two things you can do.
1. Sign our petition to Bill O’Reilly. Ask him to take responsibility for creating an atmosphere in which the assassination of Dr. George Tiller comes as no surprise. And tell him to stop spreading hateful rhetoric which encourages violence against doctors who provide reproductive healthcare for women.
2. Make a donation to Medical Students for Choice in honor of Dr. George Tiller. We must lift up a new generation of doctors who are willing and able to provide reproductive healthcare to women.
This Epistle to the Subscribers made sense to me. I signed petitions and I sent $$. I thought about it. It made sense, sort of: Billo spews garbage, crazy persons ingest garbage, garbage in garbage out, crazy person kills doctor who provides abortions. So it might go. But, alas, it didn’t make that much sense, because if somebody believes that the life of a fetus is precious, how much more precious is the life of a doctor? Even a doctor who allegedly commits cardinal sins. Have we gone insane, I wondered.
Jun 04 2009
World Bank Bailout
Not bad enough bailing out Wall Street and keeping them in their corporate jets. Let’s bailout those global criminals the IMF.
http://www.reuters.com/article…
And by attaching it to a war funding bill no less.
But tell me what else in life sucks? My free COBRA health insurance ran out. Well this is Massachusetts the land of mandated health insurance. A couple of read between the lines directly from the application.
Jun 04 2009
Spiegel, Spiegel, am der Mauer
I can always tell when the NY Times has a pearl of wisdom like THIS to offer on it’s front page…
…that it’s time to check Der Spiegel to find out what’s really going on.
And once again the Deutsch do not disappoint, serving up an insightful and thorough analysis of the current state of uneasy politics between the US and Germany. However, not content with that, they further use the opportunity to dish up excellent information on some of the behind-the-scenes globalist machinations that have further served to create tension between Merkel and the Obama administration:
Washington has not forgotten how she thwarted the US Treasury’s attempts to solve the crisis within the forum of the G-20. The Chancellery instead used diplomatic channels to push for a meeting of G-8 states.
The thinking in Berlin was that Germany would have had more influence over G-8 decisions. And that would have meant that China, the world’s third largest economy and the US’s biggest creditor, would not have been involved. However, the US regarded Germany’s stance as unacceptable both economically and politically. In the end Berlin had to back down.
Ever since, the Germans have been shown time and again that things can be done without them. It was the Americans and the British who were behind the push to triple the International Monetary Fund’s lending capacity to $750 billion. The Germans, who had originally specified a lower figure, were persuaded to fall in line.
The IMF’s executive board, on which Germany has a seat, didn’t even get to meet to discuss the issue. It simply had to implement the decision made at the London G-20 summit. For the first time in the IMF’s history huge sums could be doled out without obligations attached. In recent weeks credit lines worth billions of dollars have been granted to Poles, Mexicans and Colombians. A leading IMF employees said: “We have almost no control over how this money is used.”
The fact that Germany is being left out of the loop has registered with Merkel. But she is maintaining her silence. She doesn’t dare enter into conflict with a US president who is so popular in Germany.
You will roll away from this story alone feeling like your brain has just loaded up on an obscene amount of protein and carbs at a Bavarian ski lodge. “Der Fatterland” as I facetiously call it (as I ruefully look down upon the extra 50 pounds I came back home with 18 years ago and was never quite able to lose) has plenty of food for thought these days. They have not forgotten their hard-learned lessons, even if we have. A love of freedom and democracy still burns in the heart of the German people. They do not take such things for granted, even if we do. Let that be the light and sweet Nahe Spatelese which is paired with the delicious and meaty offering of Der Spiegel.
For those of you with less demanding tastes, I leave you to the NY Times, “Randy Kennedy” (WTF?!??!?!??!?) and the excessive perusal of Speedos. Yikes.