YES. NUTS!
Even in a media world where 24 hours of daily cable blather is so rarely tethered to the real-world concerns of Americans, the ACORN saga stands out as a story that everyone is talking about but no one is stepping back to even try and comprehend or place into any kind of rational perspective. The conservative dwellers of Glennbeckistan who've been flooding newsrooms across America with calls complaining that the press is not covering the ACORN story know next to nothing about the anti-poverty group other than their belief that it single-handedly elected Barack Obama as the 44th president of the United States and that it receives billions of dollars in taxpayer money.
(HUFFINGTON POST)
Domingo Soto's Personal Blog https://domsoto.blogspot.com/
Saturday, September 26, 2009
The Lie Machine : Rolling Stone
THE BIG LIE MACHINE
The insurance industry is using the same tactics to kill reform that it has used for many years. Top Republicans are working hand-in-glove with them and with the organizers of the town brawls. It's part of the larger agenda of bankrupting Obama's political capital before he could move on to other key items on his agenda.
(ROLLING STONE)
The insurance industry is using the same tactics to kill reform that it has used for many years. Top Republicans are working hand-in-glove with them and with the organizers of the town brawls. It's part of the larger agenda of bankrupting Obama's political capital before he could move on to other key items on his agenda.
(ROLLING STONE)
Friday, September 25, 2009
YouTube - Senator Sanders Unfiltered: US Congress Bought & Paid For?
COMRADE BERNIE
So, what does the only self-avowed Congressional Socialist really say?
(BRAVE NEW FILMS)
So, what does the only self-avowed Congressional Socialist really say?
(BRAVE NEW FILMS)
Obama's Nuclear Victory - Page 1 - The Daily Beast
PUSHING POPULARITY WITH PURPOSE
Obama is using his personal appeal, the uniqueness of his presidency, to push forward a transformational agenda on the global stage. This is popularity with purpose and was evident at the United Nations Security Council on Thursday as senior international diplomats scrambled like sports fans to get a handshake and a photo with him.
(DAILY BEAST)
Obama is using his personal appeal, the uniqueness of his presidency, to push forward a transformational agenda on the global stage. This is popularity with purpose and was evident at the United Nations Security Council on Thursday as senior international diplomats scrambled like sports fans to get a handshake and a photo with him.
(DAILY BEAST)
YouTube - Health Care Reform Thought Bubble
HEALTH CARE 101
Here's a little YouTube video on the health care debate that is quite clean and instructive.
(THOUGHT BUBBLE, suggested by SCOTT SOUTULLO)
Here's a little YouTube video on the health care debate that is quite clean and instructive.
(THOUGHT BUBBLE, suggested by SCOTT SOUTULLO)
Thursday, September 24, 2009
NEW BOOK ANNOUNCED
Good friend Jean Peelen (along with her co-authors Renee Fisher and Joyce Kramer) has written Saving the Best for Last: Creating Our Lives After 50. A look into the very real experiences of aging and reinvention. The authors speak candidly about sexuality, dating and mating, money, faith and spirituality, mothers, loss, and friendship - all within the context of aging as a beginning not the end. Available online on Amazon, Barnes and Nobles, Books-A-Million, or best of all, in Mobile at Gallery 54 from Leila Hollowell!
The Racist Truth About Beck and Limbaugh - Rasmussen Reports™
AMEN, BROTHER GLENN
Since Beck and Limbaugh seem to be obsessed with the touchy subject of racism, let's examine their record. It turns out that both established their keen racial sensitivity on air long ago.
(RASMUSSEN REPORTS)
Since Beck and Limbaugh seem to be obsessed with the touchy subject of racism, let's examine their record. It turns out that both established their keen racial sensitivity on air long ago.
(RASMUSSEN REPORTS)
The Anonymous Liberal
THAT'S NUTS 2
The current hysteria over ACORN is a perfect example of everything that is wrong with the general state of our political discourse. Let's consider just what ACORN is. It is a non-profit organization whose mission is to empower and improve the lives of poor people. As with many other organizations, ACORN has a number of legally distinct parts, each of which has different sources of funding and engages in different kinds of activities. ACORN's enemies routinely conflate these various parts to imply that ACORN is using federal money for improper political purposes.
(ANONYMOUS LIBERAL, suggested by GLENN GREENWALD)
The current hysteria over ACORN is a perfect example of everything that is wrong with the general state of our political discourse. Let's consider just what ACORN is. It is a non-profit organization whose mission is to empower and improve the lives of poor people. As with many other organizations, ACORN has a number of legally distinct parts, each of which has different sources of funding and engages in different kinds of activities. ACORN's enemies routinely conflate these various parts to imply that ACORN is using federal money for improper political purposes.
(ANONYMOUS LIBERAL, suggested by GLENN GREENWALD)
Wednesday, September 23, 2009
Op-Ed Columnist - Even Glenn Beck Is Right Twice a Day - NYTimes.com
PRAISE GLENN
Glenn Beck has notoriously defamed Obama as a "racist," but the race card is just one in his deck. His ideology, if it can be called that, mixes idolatrous Ayn Rand libertarianism with bumper-sticker slogans about "freedom," self-help homilies and lunatic conspiracy theories. It’s the same crazy-quilt cosmology that could be found in last weekend’s Washington protest, where the marchers variously called Obama a fascist, a communist and a socialist, likening him to Hitler, Stalin, Castro and Pol Pot. They may not know that some of these libels are mutually exclusive. But what they do know is that they need a scapegoat for what ails them, and there is no one handier than a liberal, all-powerful president (who just happens to be black).
(NYT)
Glenn Beck has notoriously defamed Obama as a "racist," but the race card is just one in his deck. His ideology, if it can be called that, mixes idolatrous Ayn Rand libertarianism with bumper-sticker slogans about "freedom," self-help homilies and lunatic conspiracy theories. It’s the same crazy-quilt cosmology that could be found in last weekend’s Washington protest, where the marchers variously called Obama a fascist, a communist and a socialist, likening him to Hitler, Stalin, Castro and Pol Pot. They may not know that some of these libels are mutually exclusive. But what they do know is that they need a scapegoat for what ails them, and there is no one handier than a liberal, all-powerful president (who just happens to be black).
(NYT)
Finally: For the First Time, the U.S. Census Bureau Releases Data on Same-Sex Couples | PEEK | AlterNet
SURVEY RESULTS UNSHEATHED
The Census Bureau has released estimates from the annual American Community Survey (ACS) of same-sex couples who identifed as married spouses in 2008. (Although the Census Bureau has been keeping track of same-sex marriages since 2000, the Bush administration refused to release the data, citing the federal ban on marriage equality.) Nearly 150,000 people said they had a same-sex spouse, and approximately 415,00 identified as "unmarried partners".
(ALTERNET)
The Census Bureau has released estimates from the annual American Community Survey (ACS) of same-sex couples who identifed as married spouses in 2008. (Although the Census Bureau has been keeping track of same-sex marriages since 2000, the Bush administration refused to release the data, citing the federal ban on marriage equality.) Nearly 150,000 people said they had a same-sex spouse, and approximately 415,00 identified as "unmarried partners".
(ALTERNET)
Lawmakers regrouping to seek bipartisan healthcare deal - TheHill.com
POWER VACUUM
The balance of power in the healthcare debate is shifting as the Senate Finance Committee began marking up legislation this week that Democrats once hoped would serve as a vehicle for bipartisanship. But so far that bill has alienated both liberals and conservatives, leaving an opening for others to step in.
(THE HILL)
The balance of power in the healthcare debate is shifting as the Senate Finance Committee began marking up legislation this week that Democrats once hoped would serve as a vehicle for bipartisanship. But so far that bill has alienated both liberals and conservatives, leaving an opening for others to step in.
(THE HILL)
Tuesday, September 22, 2009
Canada and France Also Have Health Care Debates - Rasmussen Reports™
SOCIALIZED INSURANCE?
The debate over what kind of health care system we should have often includes the kinds others have. The programs in Canada and France have received special attention, and so those countries' efforts to fix their own programs should be of interest.
(RASMUSSEN REPORTS)
The debate over what kind of health care system we should have often includes the kinds others have. The programs in Canada and France have received special attention, and so those countries' efforts to fix their own programs should be of interest.
(RASMUSSEN REPORTS)
Dobbs Plays the Victim, as Movement Demanding CNN Dump Him Grows | | AlterNet
DON'T CRY FOR LOU
The recent flareups against the hate-mongers like Lou Dobbs and Glenn Beck has them hiding behind the first amendment, claiming - like Dobbs did recently - that a fear of competing in the marketplace of ideas and facts drives the boycotts against them. The dunderheads have a right to their opinions but there's nothing in the Constitution that says they deserve news platforms to disseminate hurtful and dangerous myths. Just as they are free to gin up hateful sentiments, we are free to educate our communities, call out their patterns of fear mongering and faulty reporting and put economic pressure on their advertisers.
(ALTERNET)
The recent flareups against the hate-mongers like Lou Dobbs and Glenn Beck has them hiding behind the first amendment, claiming - like Dobbs did recently - that a fear of competing in the marketplace of ideas and facts drives the boycotts against them. The dunderheads have a right to their opinions but there's nothing in the Constitution that says they deserve news platforms to disseminate hurtful and dangerous myths. Just as they are free to gin up hateful sentiments, we are free to educate our communities, call out their patterns of fear mongering and faulty reporting and put economic pressure on their advertisers.
(ALTERNET)
Monday, September 21, 2009
Bill Moyers: Conservative Radicals and the Politics of Vengeance | Media and Technology | AlterNet
RIGHT'S LAST GASP?
The rising tide of populist resistance to Obama, the anger over the massive government bailout of Wall Street and big failed corporations, have raised Republican hopes for a comeback. It has Democrats scratching their head wondering how to respond.So, How can this in any way be seen as the "last gasps of the conservative movement"?
(ALTERNET)
The rising tide of populist resistance to Obama, the anger over the massive government bailout of Wall Street and big failed corporations, have raised Republican hopes for a comeback. It has Democrats scratching their head wondering how to respond.So, How can this in any way be seen as the "last gasps of the conservative movement"?
(ALTERNET)
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