SO WHAT ARE THEY?
Fox News anchor Megyn Kelly said, "President Obama likes to point out that the American Medical Association, or AMA, supports the Democrats' health care reform bill ... it turns out that this group only represents about 20 percent of practicing doctors." Yet when the AMA was critical of Democratic support for the public option in early June, Fox News anchors -- including Kelly -- characterized the AMA as "very influential," called it "the nation's largest doctors' group" and claimed that it "represents most of the doctors in this country."
(MEDIA MATTERS)
Domingo Soto's Personal Blog https://domsoto.blogspot.com/
Saturday, August 22, 2009
The Health Insurance Racket Is Manufacturing Entertainment Value of Snuffing Out Grandma | Health and Wellness | AlterNet
KILLING HOPE
The slaughter of the innocents by the health care lobby has pretty much extinguished the political usefulness of the word hope. Nobody, especially Obama, uses it now.
(ALTERNET)
The slaughter of the innocents by the health care lobby has pretty much extinguished the political usefulness of the word hope. Nobody, especially Obama, uses it now.
(ALTERNET)
Friday, August 21, 2009
RED MEDS
The U.S. health care system performs poorly in comparison to other industrialized countries and still leaves 45.7 million without health coverage and millions more inadequately covered. Private insurance bureaucracy and paperwork consume one-third (31 percent) of every health care dollar. Streamlining payment through a single nonprofit payer would save more than $400 billion per year, enough to provide comprehensive, high-quality coverage for all Americans.
(PHYSICIANS FOR NATIONAL HEALTH PROGRAM)
The U.S. health care system performs poorly in comparison to other industrialized countries and still leaves 45.7 million without health coverage and millions more inadequately covered. Private insurance bureaucracy and paperwork consume one-third (31 percent) of every health care dollar. Streamlining payment through a single nonprofit payer would save more than $400 billion per year, enough to provide comprehensive, high-quality coverage for all Americans.
(PHYSICIANS FOR NATIONAL HEALTH PROGRAM)
Thursday, August 20, 2009
Creative Loafing chain up for auction | ajc.com
PAPER TUSSLE
This story about the sale of Creative Loafing brings back some memories. Way back in 1974 when I was a reporter at the Mobile Press-Register, I pitched the editors on an idea for a "soft news" supplement to the paper. It would be patterned on something called "readers" like Chicago's Reader and Atlanta's Creative Loafing. They turned it down. I did it anyway. They fired me. And I went on to publish the Azalea City News. Creative Loafing, which now publishes six weekly newspapers and has a combined weekly circulation of more than 400,000, is headed to the auction block next week in a Tampa bankruptcy court.
(ATLANTA JOURNAL)
This story about the sale of Creative Loafing brings back some memories. Way back in 1974 when I was a reporter at the Mobile Press-Register, I pitched the editors on an idea for a "soft news" supplement to the paper. It would be patterned on something called "readers" like Chicago's Reader and Atlanta's Creative Loafing. They turned it down. I did it anyway. They fired me. And I went on to publish the Azalea City News. Creative Loafing, which now publishes six weekly newspapers and has a combined weekly circulation of more than 400,000, is headed to the auction block next week in a Tampa bankruptcy court.
(ATLANTA JOURNAL)
WATCHACALLIT
The attack folks often justify their attacks as Bush payback. Bush was called a Nazi, Obama can now be called a Nazi, etc. (Let's leave the comparisons - Guantanamo concentration camps, Patriot Act, NSA, Valerie Plame, etc - alone for the moment.) However, when you point out that Nazi's are right wingers and that to be true to the political conventions Obama is a "commie" or a SOCIALIST, they point out that NAZI stands for national socialist. See? Okay, go try explaining that to our kind brethren at the American National Socialist Workers Party (Birmingham); Christian National Socialist Party (Childersburg, Al and Fl chapters); National Socialist Aryan Workers Party (Kennesaw, Ga.); American National Socialist Workers Party (Sarasota, Fl, Villa Rica, Ga. and the National Socialist Movement - NSM (Citrus County, Ocala, Tampa, St Augustine). Of course, if they don't like it here, they can always move to the Democratic People's Republic of Korea.
The attack folks often justify their attacks as Bush payback. Bush was called a Nazi, Obama can now be called a Nazi, etc. (Let's leave the comparisons - Guantanamo concentration camps, Patriot Act, NSA, Valerie Plame, etc - alone for the moment.) However, when you point out that Nazi's are right wingers and that to be true to the political conventions Obama is a "commie" or a SOCIALIST, they point out that NAZI stands for national socialist. See? Okay, go try explaining that to our kind brethren at the American National Socialist Workers Party (Birmingham); Christian National Socialist Party (Childersburg, Al and Fl chapters); National Socialist Aryan Workers Party (Kennesaw, Ga.); American National Socialist Workers Party (Sarasota, Fl, Villa Rica, Ga. and the National Socialist Movement - NSM (Citrus County, Ocala, Tampa, St Augustine). Of course, if they don't like it here, they can always move to the Democratic People's Republic of Korea.
Wednesday, August 19, 2009
Organizing for America | BarackObama.com | Setting the Record Straight
COUNTERING THE HOO-HAH!
The Administration has just announced a new site that claims to "set the record straight and expose the special interests and partisan attack groups" who deliberately spread lies about health insurance reform.
The Administration has just announced a new site that claims to "set the record straight and expose the special interests and partisan attack groups" who deliberately spread lies about health insurance reform.
NEW GALLERY DOWNTOWN
Don't know much about these guys, but want to welcome my new neighbors, The Robertson Gallery at 450 Dauphin Street. Judging from their site this looks like a top-notch addition to the local art scene. Think globally, buy locally.
Don't know much about these guys, but want to welcome my new neighbors, The Robertson Gallery at 450 Dauphin Street. Judging from their site this looks like a top-notch addition to the local art scene. Think globally, buy locally.
United Breaks Guitars Song 2: The Saga Continues
GUITAR 2
When United Airlines workers destroyed Dave Carroll’s guitar in 2008, he tried everything to get fair compensation. After being denied, he promised that he would write three songs and post them onto YouTube. The result was that United Breaks Guitars, the first song, became a viral sensation. It surpassed 3 million views in 10 days and is now just shy of 5 million. It was social media in action, as United immediately contacted him and told him that they were taking the lesson to heart and offered compensation, albeit too late. Just released: Guitar 2.
(MASHABLE.COM)
When United Airlines workers destroyed Dave Carroll’s guitar in 2008, he tried everything to get fair compensation. After being denied, he promised that he would write three songs and post them onto YouTube. The result was that United Breaks Guitars, the first song, became a viral sensation. It surpassed 3 million views in 10 days and is now just shy of 5 million. It was social media in action, as United immediately contacted him and told him that they were taking the lesson to heart and offered compensation, albeit too late. Just released: Guitar 2.
(MASHABLE.COM)
FROM THE HORSE'S MOUTH
All this talk about "socialized medicine" and "socialism" had me wondering what the official position of our one-and-only socialist senator truly is.
(SENATOR SANDERS UNFILTERED)
All this talk about "socialized medicine" and "socialism" had me wondering what the official position of our one-and-only socialist senator truly is.
(SENATOR SANDERS UNFILTERED)
Tuesday, August 18, 2009
IT'S THE END OF THE DOLE AS WE KNOW IT
Ever since the ACORN-rigged election of 1932, in which FDR first introduced crack cocaine as an incentive to induce black Americans to vote for the party of slavery, liberal nihilists have been using the tools of government to "help" the scum of America. No longer would we permit the free-market to take care of the elderly, sick, infirm, or poor. Hence forth, it was public dole time!
(AMERICAN NIHILIST BLOG)
Roger Ebert's Journal: Archives
AN EXCELLENT LIE
"Death panels" is such an excellent term. You know exactly what it means, and therefore you know you're against them. Debate over. This term more than anything else seems to have unified the opposition to the Obama health care proposals. It fuels the anger that has essentially shut down "town hall" meetings intended for the discussion of the issues. Of course the term is inspired by a lie.
(CHICAGO SUN-TIMES, suggested by MOLLY THOMAS)
"Death panels" is such an excellent term. You know exactly what it means, and therefore you know you're against them. Debate over. This term more than anything else seems to have unified the opposition to the Obama health care proposals. It fuels the anger that has essentially shut down "town hall" meetings intended for the discussion of the issues. Of course the term is inspired by a lie.
(CHICAGO SUN-TIMES, suggested by MOLLY THOMAS)
JUST SAY IT AIN'T SO, JO
Jo Bonner's "Town Hall" meetings illustrate just how much needless hysteria surrounds the issue. And, just how disingenuous or irresponsible it is to hold supposedly informational meetings across the district but never correct any of the fears and misapprehensions of your constituents? Kudos to this lady from Prichard who calls Bonner out on it. Now, I wasn't there, so I don't know what the congressman's ultimate response was to the lady who was afraid of losing her health care because she is old (and, therefore, apparently, worthless and powerless without the good-willed intervention of her insurance company) or to the wild assertion that the government can attach your bank account, but I do know that it was Bonner's response to the crazy allegation about illegal aliens, not the questioner's (as this Steve Alexander piece suggests), that that was the "reason we must defeat this thing." After all, Bonner opines, there's nothing wrong with the system of health care we have now.
(WKRG-TV)
Jo Bonner's "Town Hall" meetings illustrate just how much needless hysteria surrounds the issue. And, just how disingenuous or irresponsible it is to hold supposedly informational meetings across the district but never correct any of the fears and misapprehensions of your constituents? Kudos to this lady from Prichard who calls Bonner out on it. Now, I wasn't there, so I don't know what the congressman's ultimate response was to the lady who was afraid of losing her health care because she is old (and, therefore, apparently, worthless and powerless without the good-willed intervention of her insurance company) or to the wild assertion that the government can attach your bank account, but I do know that it was Bonner's response to the crazy allegation about illegal aliens, not the questioner's (as this Steve Alexander piece suggests), that that was the "reason we must defeat this thing." After all, Bonner opines, there's nothing wrong with the system of health care we have now.
(WKRG-TV)
Be sure you check out this KEITH OLBERMANN PIECE that shows vintage Reagan attacking "Socialized Medicine" (aka Medicare) and see if you don't see any parallels.
See also this MEDIA MATTERS PIECE
The sound is horrible on this HOWARD DEAN VIDEO but the talking points are well worth a listen. Here's a NEWS PIECE about Dean's position.
Monday, August 17, 2009
LOSING ARTUR
There are some in the Alabama progressive community who are becoming more openly exasperated with Congressman Artur Davis. By the time of the Obama candidacy, Davis had been positioned wonderfully, having gained for himself the mantle of this state's new wunderkinder. And, black at that! Having bucked the conventional wisdom that he should hitch his star to Hillary's coat tails, his new-found clout seemed like a just reward. But then came his announcement that he would run for governor. It sounded like trying to catch lightning in a bottle twice. It meant that at a time when we need progressive leadership in this state, one of its leading lights would be off on a quixotic chase. But, if Davis was quick to discount Hillary, it was obvious he had Bill on his mind and it looked like Davis was going to pass the others on the right. When Obama announced that he had nominated Regina Benjamin to become the new Surgeon General about a few weeks ago more than a few of us worried. After all, why was Obama's point man playing footsie with Jeff Sessions on the new US Attorney by even considering a Washington, D.C. insider over a local? Why was it taking so long to get these people in place? Was the Benjamin announcement, we wondered, just a sop to the local yokels for what was coming? And then the shoe dropped. Vicky Davis was passed over. Now,with his most recent announcement that he opposes the health care reform bills "in their present form" Davis has really stoked this discontent. As one critic points out "Health care reform is the most critical issue of our time, besides the environment. It's frustrating living in L.A. where affecting meaningful help from our 3 Federal representatives is hopeless. But losing Davis is unbearable."
There are some in the Alabama progressive community who are becoming more openly exasperated with Congressman Artur Davis. By the time of the Obama candidacy, Davis had been positioned wonderfully, having gained for himself the mantle of this state's new wunderkinder. And, black at that! Having bucked the conventional wisdom that he should hitch his star to Hillary's coat tails, his new-found clout seemed like a just reward. But then came his announcement that he would run for governor. It sounded like trying to catch lightning in a bottle twice. It meant that at a time when we need progressive leadership in this state, one of its leading lights would be off on a quixotic chase. But, if Davis was quick to discount Hillary, it was obvious he had Bill on his mind and it looked like Davis was going to pass the others on the right. When Obama announced that he had nominated Regina Benjamin to become the new Surgeon General about a few weeks ago more than a few of us worried. After all, why was Obama's point man playing footsie with Jeff Sessions on the new US Attorney by even considering a Washington, D.C. insider over a local? Why was it taking so long to get these people in place? Was the Benjamin announcement, we wondered, just a sop to the local yokels for what was coming? And then the shoe dropped. Vicky Davis was passed over. Now,with his most recent announcement that he opposes the health care reform bills "in their present form" Davis has really stoked this discontent. As one critic points out "Health care reform is the most critical issue of our time, besides the environment. It's frustrating living in L.A. where affecting meaningful help from our 3 Federal representatives is hopeless. But losing Davis is unbearable."
TAKE ME TO YOUR LIDER
No University of Alabama player has arguably developed more over the past three years than Javier Arenas out of Robinson High School in Tampa. Thought to be too small for the Southeastern Conference at 5-foot-9, 198 pounds, he’s now on the field more than any other player. If coaches and football officials would let him, the cornerback might consider putting up a sign in the defensive backfield.
(TUSCALOOSA NEWS)
No University of Alabama player has arguably developed more over the past three years than Javier Arenas out of Robinson High School in Tampa. Thought to be too small for the Southeastern Conference at 5-foot-9, 198 pounds, he’s now on the field more than any other player. If coaches and football officials would let him, the cornerback might consider putting up a sign in the defensive backfield.
(TUSCALOOSA NEWS)
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