Mark Kirk has Assues

Representative Mark Kirk, the republicker for the 12th district (right next to mine) in Illinois must have a man-sized tube of Preparation H in his office and I can understand why. Pulling things from your ass can have serious consequences, not the least of which are hemorrhoids.

Using a combination of old statistics and some fuzzy math, Kirk made the argument that there are really only about 7 million uninsured. He did this by starting with 45.7 million uninsured based on 2005 statistics from an unknown source and backing out 9.5 million non-citizens, 12 million he claimed are eligible for current government programs, 9.1 million who he claimed are only briefly uninsured and 7.3 million he claimed were wealthy enough to afford their own insurance, but did not.

This isn't spin, or opinion, or half truths, or obfuscation. It's a fucking lie.

The last time I was subjected to his stupidity he was claiming that stronger marijuana would lead to OVERDOSES (of what? Twinkies?) and cause more traffic deaths.

First of all, NO TRAFFIC DEATH HAS EVER, EVER been attributed to pot - don't believe me, look it up - and second of all, do you think that someone who drinks regular Bacardi would have the same number of drinks if they had Bacardi 151 in them?

Mark Kirk is either ignorant or lying. Neither of which serves the people of his district.

Merchant of Death Hired by Cheney in Deep Shit

Erik Prince calls himself a soldier of god. Now he has to answer for the death and destruction wrought by his company Blackwater, a war-for-profit firm hired by former president and vampire-in-chief Cheney to further his culture of death in his WAR OF LIES.

The founder of Blackwater USA deliberately caused the deaths of innocent civilians in a series of shootings in Iraq, attorneys for Iraqis suing the security contractor told a federal judge Friday.

The attorneys singled out Erik Prince, a former Navy SEAL who is the company's owner, for blame in the deaths of more than 20 Iraqis between 2005 and 2007. Six former Blackwater guards were criminally charged in 14 of the shootings, and family members and victims' estates sued Prince, Blackwater (now calledXe Services LLC) and a group of related companies.

Every single person who pushed for this war, and those that profited from it need to be dropped in the middle of Iraq and left there, after our soldiers are brought home.

Huckabee-ach

Former Governor and Presidential Looser wannabe Reverend Mike Huckabee needs to go back to his roots and read the book of his first choice of careers. He can start with Matthew chapter 6 verse 24: NO MAN CAN SERVE TWO MASTERS.

In what way does the reverend serve his first master when he LIES like this:

"[I]t was President Obama himself who suggested that seniors who don't have as long to live might want to consider just taking a pain pill instead of getting an expensive operation to cure them," said Huckabee.

They lie because the truth won't help their cause. They lie because if people ever found out the truth about what they say, not only wouldn't they hold public office again, they would be hard pressed to find an honest job anywhere.

If they don't want to help, they should just go away, or at least stop lying.

Former Nazi Youth & Chief Boy Toucher Not a Fan of Senator Kennedy

"Here in Rome, Ted Kennedy is nobody"

"He's a legend with his own constituency," says the Vatican official. "If he had influence in the past, it was only with the Archdiocese of Boston, and that eventually disappeared too."

Hmmm...They make a lot of things disappear, like pedophile priests. These guys are like the dickless relocation program.

Anybody know the only sovereign nation that has no female citizens? That’s right ladies and gents, it’s The Vatican. What are they afraid of?

So the invisible guy in the sky is EVERYTHING and someone who tried to help the poor and the sick is nobody? No wonder attendance is down.

McSame Old Shit

What exactly would John McCain (and his media whore that won't shut up) have changed if the American people didn't hand him his ass last November?

Other audience members in the crowd of 2,000 told McCain about their medical problems, such as HIV and multiple sclerosis.

McCain urged them he would fight for health care reform but reiterated his opposition to President Barack Obama's plan to create a government option to compete with private insurers, arguing that it would be the eventual end of private insurers in the U.S.

Wow. I could just cry. The eventual end of private insurers in the U.S. How devastating! No more noble captains of industry, earning every penny of their 100k a day, watching after the sick. *SNIF*

Patriot Majority

These guys are serious. Hey, why bother taking all three branches if you're not gonna do anyting with it?

“REAL healthcare reform will make America a stronger country. That’s why Congress has a patriotic duty to pass healthcare reform that includes a strong public option.

“The battle lines are drawn. Republican leaders, rightwingers and insurance companies are trying to kill real healthcare reform.

“This is what you can do to fight back.

“Call your Senator and Member of Congress TODAY at 202-224-3121. Tell them to support healthcare reform with…one, a strong public option…two, an employer mandate…and three, no tax on healthcare benefits."

PATRIOT MAJORITY

5 Myths About Health Care Around the World

I heard Governor/Doctor/Marginalized Scream Therapist Howard Dean talking about the lying sacks that are the Republickers. I don't remember it verbatim, but the gist was that the Republickers are a master race of propagandists. But that's it. That and that alone is the one quality they possess and the only thing you'll find me conceding to them. The savant like nature of their ability to control the message (DEATH PANELS, and let's not forget that for the last 40 years 12 years and 7 months have belonged to Democrats, but WE'RE the problem??? ) is all they really have. By doing this they can actually win elections or just take a giant shit on what 77% of Americans really want. They can't govern; they have proven that over and over. All they can do is screw the little guy and suck off their corporate masters, but they can't govern because that would involve TELLING THE TRUTH also known as Republicker's Kryptonite.

Here are a few truths:

I've traveled the world from Oslo to Osaka to see how other developed democracies provide health care. Instead of dismissing these models as "socialist," we could adapt their solutions to fix our problems. To do that, we first have to dispel a few myths about health care abroad:

1. It's all socialized medicine out there.

FreedomWorks is NOT free!

While viewing my last post, something came to me. How can sites such as FreedomWorks.org really claim themselves free, when in fact, they are slaves to the insurance companies, and pharmaceutical companies, and laboratories that make the overpriced drugs that, if desperately needed, the average American can't afford to purchase?
I went on FreedomWorks.org to where you can donate, and came across some interest things. They claim they are a "...nonprofit, nonpartisan education and advocacy organization". Nonpartisan must mean this: the organization is headed by former House Majority Leader Dick Armey, otherwise known in Germany as Schwanz Coastguard, House Majority Leader under the Repugnican control. The president of FreedomWorks is none other than Matt Kibbe, former Chief of Staff and House Budget Committee Assoc. for U.S. Representative Dan Miller (R-FL), from 1993 to 1996. Kibbe is the same guy who was quoted in Politics Daily (posted 8/10/09) in regards to inciting Health Care chaos as saying that his people were "not nearly as rowdy as a high school football game". Nonpartisan, my Ass!
Going back to the donations page of the site: for $100, you can be in the Ronald Reagan Circle. For $500, you can be in the Barry Goldwater Circle. Readers, I'm sure that neither Barry Goldwater, nor running mate William Miller, father of liberal talk show host Stephanie Miller, would want anything to do with a site that allows an ad that depicts the President of the United States as Hitler.
Another thing; guess who said, "Folks, you've got to get to know this organization. They have been doing a great job all over the country educating people"? Good old former President George Dubya Bush. And he would know, he knows good edumacation, 'cause "Children's do learn"!
Nonpartisan? Yeah, right.
People, don't be fooled. "Fool me once, shame on you, fool me twice...we won't get fooled again"! I wonder if The Who ever collected on royalties for that flub.
This talk about the government coming between you and your doctor? Really? What do you think that the insurance companies have been doing all this time, as anyone with a pre-existing condition will tell you. We are the only industrialized nation on this big rock that doesn't have a public health care OPTION. What was that word? Oh, yeah, OPTION: that thing that means you get to CHOOSE. Young people, this DIRECTLY involves you, because you guys won't be able to afford it when you decide to have a kid, if you want it done in a hospital. Unless you are rich. And old people- If you don't want socialized medicine, DROP YOUR MEDICARE! Because what do you think that Medicare is? It's government-run health care! Do you understand that? People like Sen. John McCain has been on it for quite some time now. As are the majority of government workers. They use public, government-run health care! Get it? If you don't, I'd suggest you quit watching Glen Beck.

Stab at them with their own Sword

I was listening to radio great Randi Rhodes on my iPhone the other day. It was a back issue, as usual, and she was talking about how the website, Freedomworks, was sending out a mass mailing for its members (or tools, which ever you prefer) to "sign" and forward on to Representatives like Zack Space, Baron Hill, Mike Ross, Jim Matheson, Jane Harman, and Charlie Melancon a petition to go against "ObamaCare". Well, must I remind you, that you, too can use the powers that they have against them. Just go on to Randi's twitter page, or you can use this, just click on the link: http://tinyurl.com/lfxh3t and change the wording a little. Change " Vote No!" to "Vote Yes". Then hit send message, and you will be campaigning to help America once again. You'll have an impact if you do this. If enough people do this. Good luck!

The Lion Sleeps

Edward Moore Kennedy moved on late last night. He joins his two older brothers who served us and attempted to implement great change to our long broken political system. Jack and Bobby paid with their lives and America paid with her innocence.

I would like to take this moment to thank Senator Ted Kennedy, and by extension his family, for all they have done for our country. I would like to thank him for sticking around and working for us to the end.

I know what the tag line of this site is and I’m not gonna change it. Senator Kennedy and his family were old money. In spite of my opinion about today’s 1%ers, the Kennedy family, in particular Teddy, Bobby and John’s generation, understood that if the country club allowed you to become or achieve amazing things in life, you definitely need to pay your dues.

America was their country club and they forked over their lives to belong.

John’s took us to the moon. Bobby worked for truth and justice. All Teddy wanted for us was HEALTHCARE.

Thank you Senator.

“This is the cause of my life. It is a key reason that I defied my illness last summer to speak at the Democratic convention in Denver—to support Barack Obama, but also to make sure, as I said, "that we will break the old gridlock and guarantee that every American...will have decent, quality health care as a fundamental right and not just a privilege." For four decades I have carried this cause—from the floor of the United States Senate to every part of this country. It has never been merely a question of policy; it goes to the heart of my belief in a just society. Now the issue has more meaning for me—and more urgency—than ever before. But it's always been deeply personal, because the importance of health care has been a recurrent lesson throughout most of my 77 years.”

— Ted Kennedy

Socialized Slapdown Challenge - Hannity is My Bitch!

I have a challenge for the reality challenged. Hannity, I'm talking to you. I know you won't accept. Because it might expose your audience to something they have never seen before - the truth.

I hereby challenge you to a Slapdown.

These are the rules:

The host goes first. He has to limit himself to one (1), solo una, nur ein, of his out-of-his-ass claims about health care. NOT one of his rambling, bullshit laden screeds that his equally fact deficient guests understands, not so much as question but as a queue to nod and repeat the talking points.

If I can prove that he's lying, I get to slap his fat ass as hard as I want to.

Then I will state a fact about Health Care. If he can prove that I'm lying, he can slap me as hard as he can.

I will bring two fact checkers from FactCheck.org and Hannity's free to bring two message pigs from his menagerie. If THEY are found to be lying, I get to slap them too.

The facts are the final word.

By the time I'm done with this big-assed, bloviating, blow-dried blowhard bitch, he may not have come over to the idea of COVERAGE FOR ALL, but he'll be free to go to the emergency room of his choosing.

I once had a teacher...

...who's favorite phrase was "Why is it always the emptiest heads that make the most noise?"

Conservative Economist: The person the screamers should be angry with left the White House seven months ago

Leading conservative economist Bruce Bartlett writes that the Obama-hating town-hall mobs have it wrong—the person they should be angry with left the White House seven months ago.

The Teabaggers are pissed at the wrong guy.

the healthcare reform clusterfuck

Yesterday I called Senator Chuck Grassley’s office and asked in a hillbilly voice “is it true that they wanna put my gramma to death with this “death panel” that Gov. Palin talked about?”. The staffer on the other end told me “yessir, that is a fact”. I asked in my billybob voice “is Mr. Grassley a Christian?”. “Yes” replied the young staffer.
Then in my regular voice “why would a Christian ask you to LIE?”
… she hung up.
Mathematically speaking, if any part of an equation is wrong the whole equation is wrong. Therefore, if any part of a statement is a lie, the whole statement is a lie.
If you have to abandon facts for your own ego, you’ve lost.
If you have to lie to support your side of an argument, you’ve already lost.