... (a) think they're immortal, and (b) follow the "creative class" writers in the Atlantic or wherever, who never write about the story because they're fucking covered.

Ramen, anyone?

[ ] Very tepidly voting for Obama [ ] ?????. [ ] Any mullah-sucking billionaire-teabagging torture-loving pus-encrusted spawn of Cthulhu, bless his (R) heart.

directly you get seriously ill you find otherwise

-- John Edwards was there along with tons of people actually working on real liberal goals and helping people now -- see ThisModernWorld's posts on it --

http://thismodernworld.com/4404

http://thismodernworld.com/4406

and their site -- Tides is the org that ran it -- http://www.tides.org/

http://www.tides.org/momentum

(healthcare, rights, poverty, communication, PB2.0 stuff that we've talked about here...)

Not one of the 90 cosponsors bothered to show up.

but I have something of a problem with your characterization, because it implies that the onus for "showing up" lay with the cosponsors, rather than with the organizers.

Given that NN was little more than an Obama/DNC pep rally, and Obama has worked so hard to distance himself from single payer he's lied about ever saying that it was a good idea, I'm not so sure whether the welcome mat was rolled out for cosponsors -- or if it was, whether that welcome mat had ground glass embedded in it, and single payer advocates would have to crawl through it in tribute to Obama before they were allowed to participate in a forum.

protected. That's Allstate's stand. Are you in good hands?"

And Haysbert stands and delivers that line like it meant something good for the potential customers.

Can't make this stuff up ...

We can admit that we're killers ... but we're not going to kill today. That's all it takes! Knowing that we're not going to kill today! ~ Captain James T. Kirk, Stardate 3193.0

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