So, I hope my pharmacist is not some whacko who does not like fat people (there are people in Healthcare who beleive that fat people do not deserve treatment) and they deny me my high blood pressure drugs. Would THAT be what they have in mind?

“What the McCain campaign doesn’t want people to know, according to one GOP strategist I spoke with over the weekend, is that they had an ad script ready to go if Obama had visited the wounded troops saying that Obama was…wait for it…using wounded troops as campaign props. So, no matter which way Obama turned, McCain had an Obama bashing ad ready to launch. I guess that’s political hardball. But another word for it is the one word that most politicians are loathe to use about their opponents — a lie.”

Clearly these people are putting the screws to the public to the full extent possible knowing once Obama gets into office he’ll be shining the lights on these cockroaches.

Their argument was that windfall profits would prevent alternative engergy investment. They have no genuine interest in that. Let other players(non-oil backed) get into the space to compete. I’m all for the strongest windfall profits tax imaginable. These people are all about the bottom line regardless the cost to the economy. They deserve no favors or special consideration as they offer none in kind.

Good morning, everyone – excellent piece on Adkisson and his ties to rightwing hate:

Good to see you Leftside Annie :)

great post thank you….

No one schooled outside the privileged class has had the kind of education I took for granted in my youth. I could and did read critically in the 8th grade (circa 1958/59), a competence you will visit thousands of contemporary classrooms vainly before you once encounter it in Murkin schools today (except for the schools of the wealthy/privileged.)

The “people” have been schooled in passivity, ennui, and television. It’s really hard to expect much out of ‘m when they’ve got a plasma screen, survivor, bud in the fridge and the pizza guy at the door…
all’s im sayin

Well said tokin librul :) In my case, I was extremely lucky being in a great school district with some incredible progressive teachers that went beyond what they were required to teach. I see what passes at high school for classes and it has become a tragic loss. They are certainly not going to produce great leaders or young adults with inspiring visions for the future. Or at least not as many as they use to. High School in many cases has become mind numbing; unless you are going to a private school or are lucky enough to be in a good school district.

There is a combination of factors from the administrators, curriculum, lack of good books, lack of proper funding, etc… the list goes on. I was surprised at how much in had changed since I had gone and my daughter entered High School. I believe in progress but if something is not broke don’t fix it, not when their fix is standardized testing, that has proven to be a complete failure.

Great post tokin :)

Here in San Diego, with some of the previously highest prices for gas in the country, the price has been falling, and rapidly. $.45 in the past two weeks alone. The funny thing? Arco is the company selling at the lowest prices – and there’s a Exxon-Mobil across the street, selling it for $.24 a gallon more.

In your wildest, Cheetos-smeared wet dreams, moron.

Right-Wing TN Church Shooter is Fan of O’Reilly, Hannity, Savage

Jonathan Kim

On Sunday, 58-year-old Jim Adkisson entered the Tennessee Valley Unitarian Universalist Church during a children’s performance of the musical “Annie Jr.” In a guitar case, he carried a shotgun and 76 rounds. Adkisson killed two church members, Greg McKendry (60) and Linda Kraeger (61), and wounded six more before he was wrestled to the ground as he tried to reload. What was Adkisson’s motive? From RawStory:
A report from the local Knoxville news details the findings from Adkisson’s home, along with key statements from a document written by Adkisson related to an apparent motive behind the violent attack that rocked the suburban community:

“Adkisson targeted the church, [Investigator Steve] Still wrote in the document obtained by WBIR-TV, Channel 10, ‘because of its liberal teachings and his belief that all liberals should be killed because they were ruining the country, and that he felt that the Democrats had tied his country’s hands in the war on terror and they had ruined every institution in America with the aid of media outlets.’

“Adkisson told Still that ‘he could not get to the leaders of the liberal movement that he would then target those that had voted them in to office.’”

…Nancy Pelosi can talk about saving the planet all she wants to: her duty, however, is to preserve, protect, and defend the U.S. Constitution. And that is also the job of every single American citizen. Unfortunately, most of us are no better at doing our job than Pelosi is at doing hers.
July 31st, 2008 at 11:34 am

What I, modestly, would call ‘nobly empty rhetoric.’ Sound and fury, bombast, sentiment, righteousness, all the right notes.
Falls apart for me at the ‘bootstrap’ level. I have learned to almost instinctively distrust folks who haul out that ol’ trusty bootstrap metaphor.

Have you ever tried that? It’s tricky
Physics gets in the way. Turns out it’s damn near impossible. Archimedes, or somebody, gets in the way.

Ya gotta have a place from which to apply force and ya gotta have a lever.

Through a near-century-long program of taught ignorance and helplessness, the Govt/Entertainment/Propaganda machine has ground down the public education of the citizen from mere competence to near imbecility. “school” has grown expert at churning out waves of earnest, willing, uncritical, unwary consumers–that became their job, around 1970, after it became obvious that the students rebelling in the streets had learned the lesson of liberty all too well…

No one schooled outside the privileged class has had the kind of education I took for granted in my youth. I could and did read critically in the 8th grade (circa 1958/59), a competence you will visit thousands of contemporary classrooms vainly before you once encounter it in Murkin schools today (except for the schools of the wealthy/privileged.)

The “people” have been schooled in passivity, ennui, and television. It’s really hard to expect much out of ‘m when they’ve got a plasma screen, survivor, bud in the fridge and the pizza guy at the door…
all’s im sayin

“…Also, regarding the Republicon’s screaming for offshore drilling as a solution to our high gas prices, if the Democrats feel the need to do something for political cover, I have the solution for them. They need to put restrictions on the oil leases whereas if they don’t start drilling within a year, they lose the lease…. Actually, the “drill within a year” requirement should also be imposed on the leases the oil companies currently hold.”

They need to have to trade the already held “useless leases” in on the new ones. I don’t think our Dems are creative enough. They should not be allowed to hoard leases, anymore!

So life begins before conception now? By that logic, menstruation is a crime.

I was glad to see Salon put some light on the issue of the “Blue Dogs”. They seem to be close to taking over the Democratic party if they haven’t already.

I hope you also have a great day!