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The revolution will not be televised, emailed unfiltered, or allowed to trend on Twitter, but it’s starting without you

OCCUPYWALLSTREET- Eighty nonviolent #OWS protesters arrested Saturday by NYPD, some penned in and maced, others manhandled, as they marched in NYC against America’s bankster oligarchs. Wall Street proper remains fortified by anti-invasion barriers preventing pedestrians and demonstrators from getting anywhere … Continue reading

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Frank Bator and Princess Lisa Czeladtko

I went to his memorial service at Marian House 6 years ago. He had died in his trailer home, alone, and the body not discovered for about a week. There were a few people attending, some of the staff at … Continue reading

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Boehner says “Mandate to Kill the Disabled! Hooray!”

So, what was the first thing the Korporate Kash Klub putting on their agenda today? Destroy any hope of actual Health Care. Why don’t the Republicans take out their 2nd Amendment Specials and just shoot any disabled people they see … Continue reading

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9/11 of course. What did you expect?

Thanks to Friend Tony for pointing out that people who don’t believe the Official Story of 9/11 is actually valid, are so stupid that we don’t merit being read, listened to or answered. This makes somewhere around a hundred times … Continue reading

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MV Rachel Corrie to run Gaza blockade

Final preparations are underway at Brown’s Quay in Dundalk, Ireland, to launch the Free Gaza Movement‘s next run against Israel’s blockade of Gaza. FGM were able to acquire the 1,800 ton MV Linda impounded by the ITF for failure to … Continue reading

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Got an message from an Elitist Snob who claims to “help the Homeless”

Saying that the reason he lives in wealth is because he “earned” it. Which is a backward way of saying that those of who live in Poverty never “earned” anything. Like me, I guess. Working construction labor for 20 years, … Continue reading

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Daily KOS says: you support, we decide

Fuck Markos Moulitsas and the Miniature Lipizzaner he rode in on. KOS calls for deposing Democratic Representative Dennis Kucinich because he won’t hang with the corporatist Dems on the health insurance mandate reform/bailout. The Daily KOS plays centrist whip, but … Continue reading

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Healthcare reformist TR Reid visits COS to say universal coverage not possible

COLORADO SPRINGS– [UPDATED] My question to TR Reid, who speaks tonight at CC’s Palmer Hall, is how can voices for health care rights get past the corporate media editors? As Washington Post Denver bureau chief and NPR reporter, Reid’s answer … Continue reading

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Well well well WellPoint…

My my my… WellPoint Inc, Health Insurance company, is raising its rates by 39% –Nothing to see here, citizen, keep moving, nothing to see here. The Tea Baggers will insist that it has absolutely nothing to do with the fact … Continue reading

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US health industry tells Vic to snuff it

Vic Chesnutt took his own life on Christmas Day. By coincidence, he’d just given an upbeat interview to NPR’s Fresh Air in spite of an ongoing battle with his health care providers. The segment seemed to pierce the celebrity veil … Continue reading

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Merry Christmas…

I had this posted 8 years ago, and here we have new relevancy for it. Since Donald is ramping up  the kill-off-the-peasants by denial of health care to anybody who isn’t wealthy Official Republican Policy. You say you have a … Continue reading

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Tailgunner Joe: health care not for you

Should a television cameraman get photo credit for a studio image? Can NBC copyright what represents a national address in a neo-public forum? I think not.   Joe Lieberman reminds me of dogged namesake un-American. What more proof do our … Continue reading

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Right Wing Capitalist Fanatics called “Moderates”

In the Health Care fight. “Moderate” meaning they get to say that people like ME, unemployed and unable to get Private Health insurance, get to DIE. Yeah, REAL “moderates” there. I bet Joe Liar-Man or any of the others associated … Continue reading

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Sen Udall oks metaphorical health care

The only medicine our senators want their constituents to take is the hard-to-swallow metaphorical variety. Senator Mark Udall’s monthly email explains his part in the Senate health care holdup. Two things: Udall and ten fellow freshmen set a roadblock to … Continue reading

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The text of my letter to Sen. Udall and Sen. Bennett

Don’t Drop the Public Option! It will have to be implemented, there’s no way to do more than temporarily “fix” Health Care without it. I know from personal experience how much more it costs society to abandon basic medical care … Continue reading

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Does your elected representative need to hear from you?

The emails are flowing in furiously. Senator So & So needs to hear from you; we need your donation to run this ad; our voices must be louder than the interests arrayed against reform. I ask you. On the issue … Continue reading

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Such boobs

All that pink was not only for cancer awareness, advocates insisted, it was for breast cancer research. But when research finally yielded a result, which was to recommend fewer mammograms, the whole pink bandwagon wailed in defense of its major … Continue reading

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Positive action on health care

There’s a news story going on right now about a nationwide Free Clinic, the person featured is a man who is employed, but uninsured (in Houston) and his wife is employed as well, gets (increasingly rare, especially in Texas) health … Continue reading

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HR-3962 a travesty of mockery of sham

While a number of Democrats implicated themselves by joining all but one Republican to vote against the Affordable Health Care for America Act, let’s make a distinction for Representative Dennis Kucinich who had reasons the other congressmen are not prepared … Continue reading

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The face of the health insurance lobby

Nurse Ratched, to my imagination, was the most despised movie villainess of all time. She didn’t murder anyone, but by the sheer frigidity of her indifference, Nurse Ratched caused debilitating anxiety and heart-break. She’s my nominee for the face of … Continue reading

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Health reform nuclear option is HR3200

Health insurance, what is it good for? Absolutely nothing –say it again. President Obama spoke of insurers as nice people who perform a valuable service, but where did the flattery get him? Industry death panels have redoubled their determination to … Continue reading

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Labor Movement splits over supporting the Democrat health insurance bailout

AFSCME’s president, Gerry McEntee, has broken with the SEIU in selling Barack Obama’s health care ‘insurance reform’ kool aid. He calls it all a ‘barnyard epithet’ as the press labels it. Would that censored word be BULLSHIT? Politico writes about … Continue reading

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Big Insurance greed? COS is Sick Of It!

KRDO‘s Eric Singer called today’s health care reform rally “very one sided,” so much so, seeing it, “you might have done a double-take.” Because it wasn’t our backwater’s customary Teabag Pity Party where agitated ignorants throw their own hopes for … Continue reading

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Not Health Insurance, Health CARE

NOT HEALTH INSURANCE, HEALTH CARE. Local Dems are being rallied again by the SEIU and other corporate handlers to ask for Health Insurance Reform. These are the same gate keepers who squelch calls for Universal Health Care, and who stand … Continue reading

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To mandate health insurance premiums is to privatize tax collection & spending

Compulsory insurance premiums represent the privatization of taxes. Talk about taxation without representation. How would a personal expense mandated by the government be any different than a tax? The burden is contributed toward the common good, but administrated privately. While … Continue reading

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