(Almost) One Year In: Barack Obama and Views from the Black Left
It's a podcast, with no transcript, but you should listen when you get an extra couple of hours. Jared Ball and Dedrick Muhammad and the audience cover a wide range of topics. Some random examples, remembering off the top of my head:
running for President as an obscure third party [Green] candidate,
Obama's beer with the white cop who arrested a black Ivy League professor and his complete silence on Oscar Grant,
Nobel peace prize winner Obama to send 34,000 more troops to Afghanistan?
McClatchy. Fortunately, we've got at least one Friedman Unit to play with:
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Don't You Just Love the Word "Maverick?" It's So...Serious.
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If you'd like to, ahem, make room for all that Thanksgiving deliciousness that's just around the corner, just read this pap from The Wall Street Journal about "The Other Maverick," Joe (Droopy Dawg) Lieberman.
When John McCain ran for president, he positioned himself as "the original maverick." The dissenting votes that so annoyed his fellow Republicans—on tax cuts, campaign-finance reform, offshore drilling—were hailed as evidence of these maverick credentials.
"Dump this dog and start over"
The House Bill with its "compromises" was bad enough, but it was stronger than this pap. Do you really think the House will adopt the tattered remnants of reform that might survive whatever Reid shepherds through the senatorial gauntlet? I can't stress this part enough: this is not just about extending coverage to another 12 people (as Reich put it); this is about AFFORDABILITY. There is nothing that is going to be affordable about this once the Dems give the entire goddam thing away in the name of political feasibility. It will create a previously non-existent financial burden on people who can ill afford it, force shitty coverage down their throats in exchange for their hard-earned money, and once the full horror of its consequences begin to perk through the heartland, the Dems won't be able to get elected dogcatcher in a town full of puppy mills.
On the other hand, if we refuse to pass this shell of a bill, yes, the Republicans will get what they want---no reform---but is that a good enough reason not to do the only thing that makes sense? If this is not a strong bill with teeth, the Republicans WILL get back in, trust me, and they will dismantle what's left of it in record time, leaving Dems with both public enmity AND no health care reform. Get real. Dump this dog and start over. And get Obama out there to DO something about it, instead of sitting around trying to play the Buddha card."
Come on.
Now that Bill Moyers is ending Bill Moyers Journal...
... (here) is there any reason to own a teebee?
An Animated Map of Declining Employment in the US
The Consumerist has a link to this sad post at Boing Boing, an America fading to unemployment. HERE ( The Decline: Geography of a Recession, by Latoya Egwuekwe )
Too bad we don't have people in power who could do something about this, you know if we had only had the chance to elect "progressives" who could feel our pain.
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Negative Future Projection Vs. Medicare Equality for All
How we look at things matters.
How we choose to look at things matters.
How we think about things matters.
If we assume, as our fearless unelected leaders in the occult cabal clique-who-must-be-obeyed have, that outcome A is hopeless, we will clearly be unable to take steps to achieve outcome A.
This is negative future projection, and it is a cognitive style with behavioral implications.
Weirdly enough, this aberrant cognitive style has gone viral, and has nearly wiped out Medicare Equality for All, as an outcome.
It's like one of those dog-torture scenarios: delivering electric shocks that are unavoidable, so the dog sinks deeper and deeper into hopelessness, then goes belly-up, and submits and dies.
Single payer action blog calls for scrapping the bill and today's single payer news
Single Payer Activists to Congress: Defeat Democratic Health Bill
The Democratic health care bill is a massive bailout of the private health insurance industry.
It is convoluted and complicated.
And it should be defeated.
Healthcare information technology has not saved hospitals money, report says
All Life is Problem Solving
Other than that, Mr. Ackroyd, how was the farce?
And you thought pinning the bogometer on public option was no longer possible. Jay Ackroyd:
The only argument in opposition to a public option is that it will lower executive compensation and shareholder value in the health care industry.
Well, except that [a|the][strong|robust]? public [health insurance?] [option|plan] won't lower costs, the health exchanges it's based on -- however they turn out to work -- can't be shown to work on a national scale, and the friggin thing is only going to cover ~9 million people after "progressive" access bloggers like Ackroyd helped sell the American people that it would be like Medicare and cover 130 million. So there's that.
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