Wednesday, March 31, 2010
Tuesday, March 30, 2010
I am proud to be gay, says pop star Ricky Martin
Martin, who has sold more than 60 million albums, said in a statement on his website he was "proud to say" he was "a fortunate homosexual man".
I can't handle all the shocking news today!!!
With No Jobs, Plenty of Time for Tea Party
When Tom Grimes lost his job as a financial consultant 15 months ago, he called his congressman, a Democrat, for help getting government health care.
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Then he found a new full-time occupation: Tea Party activist.
Well, this is a shock!
Obama Signing Student Loan Reform In Virginia
President Barack Obama has signed a law that finalizes his health care overhaul and makes the government the issuer of all federal college loans.
The president completed the measure at Northern Virginia Community College, where he emphasized new help for college students.
The legislation was the second of two steps needed for the Democratic-led House and Senate to approve a health care package affecting virtually all Americans. The new law makes a series of fixes to the one Obama approved last week. It removes some unpopular provisions among other changes.
Good!
Wednesday, March 24, 2010
Your request is being processed... The Most Ridiculous Amendments To The Health Care Reconciliation Bill
The GOP is the party of whiny, morally bankrupt, idiots...
Tuesday, March 23, 2010
Chinese Consume 3 Million Tons of Toxic Recycled Waste Oil Each Year
There goes my craving for chinese takeout!
Friday, March 19, 2010
Thursday, March 18, 2010
Wednesday, March 17, 2010
NY Times Reporter Confirms Obama Made Deal to Kill Public Option
Hopefully, that's changing. On Monday, Ed Shultz interviewed New York Times Washington reporter David Kirkpatrick on his MSNBC TV show, and Kirkpatrick confirmed the existence of the deal. Shultz quoted Chip Kahn, chief lobbyist for the for-profit hospital industry on Kahn's confidence that the White House would honor the no public option deal, and Kirkpatrick responded:
Change we can believe in???
Tuesday, March 16, 2010
House may try to pass Senate health-care bill without voting on it
After laying the groundwork for a decisive vote this week on the Senate's health-care bill, House Speaker Nancy Pelosi suggested Monday that she might attempt to pass the measure without having members vote on it.
Instead, Pelosi (D-Calif.) would rely on a procedural sleight of hand: The House would vote on a more popular package of fixes to the Senate bill; under the House rule for that vote, passage would signify that lawmakers "deem" the health-care bill to be passed.
The tactic -- known as a "self-executing rule" or a "deem and pass" -- has been commonly used, although never to pass legislation as momentous as the $875 billion health-care bill. It is one of three options that Pelosi said she is considering for a late-week House vote, but she added that she prefers it because it would politically protect lawmakers who are reluctant to publicly support the measure.
What are they afraid of? It isn't like the bill is worth a damn anyways...
Saturday, March 13, 2010
Pope knew priest was paedophile but allowed him to continue with ministry
The Pope was drawn directly into the Roman Catholic sex abuse scandal last night as news emerged of his part in a decision to send a paedophile priest for therapy. The cleric went on to reoffend and was convicted of child abuse but continues to work as a priest in Upper Bavaria.
The priest was sent from Essen to Munich for therapy in 1980 when he was accused of forcing an 11-year-old boy to perform oral sex. The archdiocese confirmed that the Pope, who was then a cardinal, had approved a decision to accommodate the priest in a rectory while the therapy took place.
Does this mean the abuse was condoned by God???
Friday, March 12, 2010
Tuesday, March 09, 2010
Limbaugh 'leaving the country' if health reform passes
But now the decidedly non-liberal Rush Limbaugh has made a similar move, telling his audience he will move to Costa Rica if health care reform becomes law. And now the only question that remains is whether Limbaugh will make good on his word, or join the ranks of the empty-promisers.
"If the health care bill passes, where would you go for health care yourself?" a caller asked Limbaugh on his radio show Tuesday.
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"I’ll just tell you this, if this passes and it’s five years from now and all that stuff gets implemented — I am leaving the country. I’ll go to Costa Rica," Limbaugh replied.
I don't think pre-pubescent boys are cobered in Costa Rica either, Rush...
Saturday, March 06, 2010
GOPer: ‘Govt run health care is wrong’ because it’ll ‘weaken Medicare’
“Harry Reid’s big government health care plan will raise taxes, put a bureaucrat between you and your doctor, weaken Medicare, kill jobs, push us further into debt. I’m Sue Lowden and I approve this message because government run health care is wrong.”
That damned liberal media!!
Friday, March 05, 2010
Sarah Palin Had Help From Jay Leno Laugh Track, Says Audience Member
They added laughter where there was none during uncomfortable portions. Well, there was some laughter. Mine, of derision. During those pregnant pauses in her performance I was laughing long and loud, couldn't help myself as much of what she was saying was utterly surreal, ridiculous, hypocritical - nonsense, spewed platitudes, pushed buttons. I was seriously thinking of leaving as it was getting hysterically unfunny.
Now, I AM laughing...
Obama advisers set to recommend military tribunals for alleged 9/11 plotters
President Obama's advisers are nearing a recommendation that Khalid Sheik Mohammed, the self-proclaimed mastermind of the Sept. 11, 2001, attacks, be prosecuted in a military tribunal, administration officials said, a step that would reverse Attorney General Eric H. Holder Jr.'s plan to try him in civilian court in New York City.
The president's advisers feel increasingly hemmed in by bipartisan opposition to a federal trial in New York and demands, mainly from Republicans, that Mohammed and his accused co-conspirators remain under military jurisdiction, officials said. While Obama has favored trying some terrorism suspects in civilian courts as a symbol of U.S. commitment to the rule of law, critics have said military tribunals are the appropriate venue for those accused of attacking the United States.
I am so sick of the demowimps.
Remind me why we voted for Obama? How is he any different than the Shrub?
I hope we can find a real democrat to challenge Obama in the primary next time!
Thursday, March 04, 2010
Individual health insurance policy premiums soaring
Consumers in Illinois who lose their jobs and have no other option but to buy their own health insurance will get socked this year with premium increases of up to 60 percent, according to state records.
We don't need healthcare reform!
US senators push to lift ban on gay blood donations
"We write today to express our concerns regarding outdated, medically and scientifically unsound deferral criteria for prospective blood donors," they wrote in the letter, which Kerry's office made public.
"With hospitals and emergency rooms across the country in constant and urgent need of blood products, we believe certain blood donor deferral policies should be reviewed and appropriately modified and modernized while ensuring the blood supply meets the highest possible standards," they wrote.
The American Red Cross and other health organizations support ending the ban, saying the law is "medically and scientifically unwarranted."
Jesus...I didn't even realize it WAS banned.
Tuesday, March 02, 2010
End the Filibuster
I've been saying this for some time.
I plan to launch a new site with a petition soon! (I'll post it here of course!).
I plan to launch a new site with a petition soon! (I'll post it here of course!).
GOP's Bunning continues one-man Senate filibuster
Sen. Jim Bunning, the Republican from Kentucky whom Democrats love to blame for preventing passage of an extension of unemployment benefits, again blocked the Senate from taking up the measure on Tuesday.
Bunning objected to a request from fellow Republican, Sen. Susan Collins of Maine, to pass a 30-day extension of jobless benefits and other expired measures included in a $10-billion spending bill. Bunning, who is retiring from the Senate, has said he supports the bill’s goals but is opposing the measure until it is fully funded without increasing the federal deficit.
In a one-person filibuster, Bunning has blocked the bill that, in addition to extending benefits, would also fund highway projects and prevent a big cut in Medicare payments to doctors. Thousands of workers on federal transportation projects have been furloughed and 41 transportation projects around the country have been suspended. About 100,000 people have seen their benefits expire.
While everyone expects Senate leaders to eventually heal the damage and pass the bill, the filibuster has become a good issue for Democrats to argue that the GOP is callous and unfeeling in dealing with U.S. economic woes. Even some moderate Republicans, like Collins, have been upset with Bunning’s one-person crusade to force government to live by its decision to pay for programs without increasing debt.
Note: This is the asshole who declared, "Tough Shit," one the senate floor and flipped off an ABC news producer.
Nice guy!
Analysis: Republicans setting filibuster record
The filibuster — tool of obstruction in the U.S. Senate — is alternately blamed and praised for wilting President Barack Obama's ambitious agenda. Some even say it's made the nation ungovernable.
Maybe, maybe not. Obama's term still has three years to run.
More certain, however: Opposition Republicans are using the delaying tactic at a record-setting pace.
"The numbers are astonishing in this Congress," says Jim Riddlesperger, political science professor at Texas Christian University in Fort Worth.
The filibuster, using seemingly endless debate to block legislative action, has become entrenched like a dandelion tap root in the midst of the shrill partisanship gripping Washington.
But the filibuster is nothing new. Its use dates to the mists of Senate history, but until the civil rights era, it was rarely used.
The party of NO!
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