Every media hack, Fox News junkie, and card carrying Republican should be required to watch and respond to this. Rachel should get the "Most Balls in American Media" award this year.
Daily Kos: Rachel Maddow rips apart Cheney, GOP attack machine
12.31.2009
12.30.2009
SFI #2
Stupid fucking idiot #2 .... Passes me on a blind curve, double-yellow line at about 65 mph, with a car coming at us. Again, I had to slow down hard to let the stupid fucker back in our lane.
December 29, 2009 on US 27 between Liberty and Richmond, Indiana.
Indiana handicapped plate #129253. Blue Mercury
SFI #1 also had a handicap plate? I guess it could be the same person. About the same place and time but it was a different car. SFI #1 was a darker red GM product (I Think).
December 29, 2009 on US 27 between Liberty and Richmond, Indiana.
Indiana handicapped plate #129253. Blue Mercury
SFI #1 also had a handicap plate? I guess it could be the same person. About the same place and time but it was a different car. SFI #1 was a darker red GM product (I Think).
12.28.2009
Settlement freeze?
How's that settlement freeze working out?
Israel to build 700 new homes in East Jerusalem - Haaretz - Israel News
Israel to build 700 new homes in East Jerusalem - Haaretz - Israel News
12.23.2009
Farm Welfare #2
here's the EWG.org listing for Union County, Indiana.
EWG Farm Subsidy Database - Union County Indiana
Over the 1995 to 2006 period, the farmers in one of the smallest counties in Indiana have received a total of over 41 million dollars in US government handed-out, farmer welfare.
Number two on the list, at over 1 million dollars in the period, is a farm partnership that includes an Indiana state congressman,... a republican.
EWG Farm Subsidy Database - Union County Indiana
Over the 1995 to 2006 period, the farmers in one of the smallest counties in Indiana have received a total of over 41 million dollars in US government handed-out, farmer welfare.
Number two on the list, at over 1 million dollars in the period, is a farm partnership that includes an Indiana state congressman,... a republican.
Farmer Welfare
Michele Backmann: Welfare Queen - Truthdig
Typical of the most anti-government Americans today, they're anti-government unless it's a program that feeds their pocketbook.
We really do need to cut back on welfare programs for farmers. I'm surrounded by Fox news watching farmers, that complain about Obama socialism, welfare queens, and socialized medicine while they collect nice farm subsidies and pay less property tax than they should on their mostly inherited land.
Typical of the most anti-government Americans today, they're anti-government unless it's a program that feeds their pocketbook.
We really do need to cut back on welfare programs for farmers. I'm surrounded by Fox news watching farmers, that complain about Obama socialism, welfare queens, and socialized medicine while they collect nice farm subsidies and pay less property tax than they should on their mostly inherited land.
12.21.2009
Truth in Advertising ?? - #3
Back in 1981 Amoco / Standard Oil was working on solar technology that was going to keep to keep America growing in the year 2000 and beyond. (April 1981 National Geographic).
I wonder how that's working out?
.. "You expect more from a leader"...
yes i do.....
I wonder how that's working out?
.. "You expect more from a leader"...
yes i do.....
Truth in Advertising ?? - #2
An AIG ad from inside the back cover of the January 2001 National Geographic.
"The greatest risk is not taking one!"
yep.
"The greatest risk is not taking one!"
yep.
Truth in Advertising ?? - #1
One-half of a Ford ad from the April 2001 National Geographic claiming Ford would have a fuel-cell powered passenger car available for testing in California later in the year.
12.18.2009
Euros become currency of drug cartels - The Observer
Could this be the real cause of the falling dollar?
Euros become currency of drug cartels - The Observer
Maybe we should start printing $1,000 bills to take back some of the drug money market.
Euros become currency of drug cartels - The Observer
Maybe we should start printing $1,000 bills to take back some of the drug money market.
12.17.2009
12.13.2009
A Fake Steve Jobs scolds AT&T
A great response to ATT's recent complaining about some iPhone users using too much of their precious bandwitdh.
FakeSteve blasts AT&T
FakeSteve blasts AT&T
12.11.2009
SFI #1
Stupid fucking idiot.... Passes me on a blind curve at about 65-70 mph, with a car coming at us. I had to slow down hard to let the stupid fucker back in our lane. He (she?) missed a 65-70mph head-on by less than 30 feet! Then, the SFI rides the center line for the next ten miles trying to get around a truck, often over the line, with traffic coming at us. Had a couple of less than one or two foot near-miss head-on's. Stupid fucking idiot....
i hope you hit a tree before you kill someone.
December 11, 2009 on US 27 between Liberty and Richmond, Indiana.
Indiana handicapped plate #47583.
Stupid fucking idiot....
i hope you hit a tree before you kill someone.
December 11, 2009 on US 27 between Liberty and Richmond, Indiana.
Indiana handicapped plate #47583.
Stupid fucking idiot....
12.04.2009
Israel - 51st State and US Capital !?
We should just declare Israel the capital of the US. It seems everything the US government does must have its approval anyway. We might as well make it official and move the whole beltway clan to Jerusalem.
American Jews eye Obama's 'anti-Israel' appointees - Haaretz - Israel News
American Jews eye Obama's 'anti-Israel' appointees - Haaretz - Israel News
12.02.2009
Evan Bayh - Lord of Indiana, Wellpoint and other Heath Care Interests.
Glenn Greenwald nails Evan Bayh
........ From Glenn ......
It's impossible to find a more perfectly representative face for the rotted Washington establishment than Evan Bayh. He is the pure expression of virtually every attribute that makes the Beltway so dysfunctional, deceitful and corrupt.
Bayh wants to send other people into every proposed war he can find and keep them there forever without ever bearing any of the costs himself -- not in military service for him or his family nor even in higher taxes to pay for his glorious wars. Sacrifice is for everyone other than Evan Bayh and his friends. He runs around praising himself as a "deficit hawk" while recklessly supporting wars and indefinite occupations that the country can't afford and which drive us further into debt. He feigns concern over the "deficit" only when it comes time to deny ordinary Americans benefits which he and his family already possess in abundance. He is a loyal servant to the insurance and health care industries over his own constituents -- as his wife sits on the Boards of numerous health care giants, who, right when Bayh became a Senator, began paying her millions of dollars in cash and stock. And this Sermonizer of Personal Responsibility is the ultimate by-product of nepotism, following faithfully and effortlessly in the footsteps of his Daddy-Senator, whose seat he now occupies. The fact that he's a Democrat -- and was Obama's close-second choice for Vice President -- just underscores how bipartisan these afflictions are.
When the sad and destructive history of the U.S. over the last decade is written, the coddled, nepotistic, self-serving face of Evan Bayh should be prominently included. It embodies virtually every cause.
........
........ From Glenn ......
It's impossible to find a more perfectly representative face for the rotted Washington establishment than Evan Bayh. He is the pure expression of virtually every attribute that makes the Beltway so dysfunctional, deceitful and corrupt.
Bayh wants to send other people into every proposed war he can find and keep them there forever without ever bearing any of the costs himself -- not in military service for him or his family nor even in higher taxes to pay for his glorious wars. Sacrifice is for everyone other than Evan Bayh and his friends. He runs around praising himself as a "deficit hawk" while recklessly supporting wars and indefinite occupations that the country can't afford and which drive us further into debt. He feigns concern over the "deficit" only when it comes time to deny ordinary Americans benefits which he and his family already possess in abundance. He is a loyal servant to the insurance and health care industries over his own constituents -- as his wife sits on the Boards of numerous health care giants, who, right when Bayh became a Senator, began paying her millions of dollars in cash and stock. And this Sermonizer of Personal Responsibility is the ultimate by-product of nepotism, following faithfully and effortlessly in the footsteps of his Daddy-Senator, whose seat he now occupies. The fact that he's a Democrat -- and was Obama's close-second choice for Vice President -- just underscores how bipartisan these afflictions are.
When the sad and destructive history of the U.S. over the last decade is written, the coddled, nepotistic, self-serving face of Evan Bayh should be prominently included. It embodies virtually every cause.
........
Elect This Guy,....
but i would add,...
#11. end the wars. they are money pits that kill our people, kill their people, breed hate and terrorism, enable radical elements on both sides, and make the US look like the bad guy to most of the world. it is not money well spent.
From: Jeff Frankels Weblog
Ten Ways to Move the Budget Back Toward a Sustainable Path
... First, auction off most greenhouse gas emission permits, rather than giving them away to firms (which would confer windfall profits). This is what President Obama originally proposed last February, but it is not in the congressional legislation.
Second, raise the gas tax. Among the benefits, besides raising revenue, would be reducing traffic congestion, accidents, pollution, dependence on Mideastern oil, and the trade deficit.
Third, cut agricultural subsidies to rich farmers and agribusiness, saving money and improving economic efficiency. This is another measure that Obama proposed when he first took office, but that was voted down.
Fourth, continue to cut expensive weapons systems that the military doesn’t want, but are kept only because the suppliers are in the districts of influential congressmen. President Obama and Secretary Gates amazingly managed to do this with the F22 (the first administration to succeed at such a thing, or even to try, so far as I know).
Fifth, end manned space exploration. We don’t need it. Spend half the money on useful science instead, including research on energy and medicine (and unmanned space exploration).
Sixth, let the George W. Bush tax cuts for the rich expire as under current law. Of course the Bush plan to eliminate the estate tax completely in 2010 and have it bounce back to its 2001 level thereafter is nonsense. Level the taxable threshold out at some reasonable estate size, a few million dollars, something high enough to de-legitimize the hysterical stories about inheritors supposedly being forced to sell their small farms or small businesses to pay the tax. (Use some of the revenue in these proposals to fix the AMT once and for all. And, in the meantime, continue Obama’s return to honesty in budget accounting regarding the costs of AMT, wars in Iraq and Afghanistan, tax cuts, etc. Bush’s habitual trick of purposely understating such costs in future budgets allowed him to pretend that we could afford his profligate fiscal policies, which in turn added far more to the national debt than the current recession measures are adding .)
Seventh, encourage hospitals to standardize around national best-practice medicine – to avoiding unnecessary tests and procedures – using levers such as making Medicare payments conditional on best practices. This is another part of the Obama plan. (Don’t follow the logic of radio show propaganda that labells even modest government involvement in health care “socialism,” because that would certainly require dismantling veteran’s hospitals, which provide good medical care relatively efficiently, even before it would require dismantling Medicare.)
Eighth, limit or eliminate the tax-exemption for employer-paid health insurance (proposed by Senator McCain), at least the cadillac plans which are very expensive but don’t even pay off in health results (proposed by Senator Kerry).
Ninth, ideally, eliminate the tax deductibility of mortgage interest too. But proposing this would be political suicide. Congress and the public are still virtually unanimous in wanting to tilt the playing field in favor of owner-occupied housing and against rental housing and the rest of the capital stock, notwithstanding that such policies contributed to the housing bubble and crash.
Tenth, to save Social Security, raise the retirement age (just a little), tax higher incomes (just a little), and progressively index benefits for future retirees to price inflation, rather than to wage inflation (just a little).
.......
#11. end the wars. they are money pits that kill our people, kill their people, breed hate and terrorism, enable radical elements on both sides, and make the US look like the bad guy to most of the world. it is not money well spent.
From: Jeff Frankels Weblog
Ten Ways to Move the Budget Back Toward a Sustainable Path
... First, auction off most greenhouse gas emission permits, rather than giving them away to firms (which would confer windfall profits). This is what President Obama originally proposed last February, but it is not in the congressional legislation.
Second, raise the gas tax. Among the benefits, besides raising revenue, would be reducing traffic congestion, accidents, pollution, dependence on Mideastern oil, and the trade deficit.
Third, cut agricultural subsidies to rich farmers and agribusiness, saving money and improving economic efficiency. This is another measure that Obama proposed when he first took office, but that was voted down.
Fourth, continue to cut expensive weapons systems that the military doesn’t want, but are kept only because the suppliers are in the districts of influential congressmen. President Obama and Secretary Gates amazingly managed to do this with the F22 (the first administration to succeed at such a thing, or even to try, so far as I know).
Fifth, end manned space exploration. We don’t need it. Spend half the money on useful science instead, including research on energy and medicine (and unmanned space exploration).
Sixth, let the George W. Bush tax cuts for the rich expire as under current law. Of course the Bush plan to eliminate the estate tax completely in 2010 and have it bounce back to its 2001 level thereafter is nonsense. Level the taxable threshold out at some reasonable estate size, a few million dollars, something high enough to de-legitimize the hysterical stories about inheritors supposedly being forced to sell their small farms or small businesses to pay the tax. (Use some of the revenue in these proposals to fix the AMT once and for all. And, in the meantime, continue Obama’s return to honesty in budget accounting regarding the costs of AMT, wars in Iraq and Afghanistan, tax cuts, etc. Bush’s habitual trick of purposely understating such costs in future budgets allowed him to pretend that we could afford his profligate fiscal policies, which in turn added far more to the national debt than the current recession measures are adding .)
Seventh, encourage hospitals to standardize around national best-practice medicine – to avoiding unnecessary tests and procedures – using levers such as making Medicare payments conditional on best practices. This is another part of the Obama plan. (Don’t follow the logic of radio show propaganda that labells even modest government involvement in health care “socialism,” because that would certainly require dismantling veteran’s hospitals, which provide good medical care relatively efficiently, even before it would require dismantling Medicare.)
Eighth, limit or eliminate the tax-exemption for employer-paid health insurance (proposed by Senator McCain), at least the cadillac plans which are very expensive but don’t even pay off in health results (proposed by Senator Kerry).
Ninth, ideally, eliminate the tax deductibility of mortgage interest too. But proposing this would be political suicide. Congress and the public are still virtually unanimous in wanting to tilt the playing field in favor of owner-occupied housing and against rental housing and the rest of the capital stock, notwithstanding that such policies contributed to the housing bubble and crash.
Tenth, to save Social Security, raise the retirement age (just a little), tax higher incomes (just a little), and progressively index benefits for future retirees to price inflation, rather than to wage inflation (just a little).
.......
12.01.2009
US funding against US policy?
Here's an Israeli newspaper with an article complaining (apparently) about a US group funding a right-wing Israeli group that is supporting Israeli soldiers that refuse to help remove the settlements. The same settlements that the US government along with most of the world, wants Israel to remove ?
and,... you won't hear anything about it im the US press
How does the U.S. help fund pro-settler IDF troops? - Haaretz - Israel News
and,... you won't hear anything about it im the US press
How does the U.S. help fund pro-settler IDF troops? - Haaretz - Israel News
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