People United Means Action
From the category archives:
Every few weeks, whether by design because it gets damn difficult to write thoughtful commentary once a day or more, or by accident because it’s, well it’s damn difficult to write thoughtful commentary once a day or more and sometimes we repeat ourselves, someone in the Puma/Disenfranchised Dems/Under-the-Bus-Liberals camp writes a blog post about the [...]
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Another big night in the president’s ongoing rock star tour. Will he break through and convince us in our hearts and minds that his plan to reform health care give billions of OUR dollars to health insurance companies is a really great idea? The Right thinks he’s a maniac socialist. The Left thinks he’s a corporate [...]
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From the Black Agenda Report, via the always excellent Violet Sox: Top Ten Ways To Tell that Obama is NOT Fighting For Health Care For Everybody by BAR managing editor Bruce A. Dixon 1. Their plan doesn’t cover the uninsured until 2013. 2013 isn’t “day one.” It’s not even after the midterm election. It’s clear after [...]
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Because no Mother’s Day would be complete without a feature article from the New York Times to remind us all that women, whenever we are allowed to wield any power, are a bunch of back-stabbing, bullying Bitches. “a good 40 percent of [workplace] bullies are women. And at least the male bullies take an egalitarian [...]
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It’s a glorious Sunday here in the Boston area. A great day for a walk, a picnic, or simply sitting out on the porch and watching the world go by while you pretend to read a book. Oh, and what Cinie said: “Just for giggles, why not? Considering the connections, motives and tactics of the [...]
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Message to Paul Krugman: THE REVOLUTION WILL NOT BE ASTRO-TURFED. If you havent had a chance to read Madamab’s post this morning about Krugman’s ridicule of the Tea Parties, dont miss your chance now. I make it easy for you: JUST CLICK HERE. “Look. These tea parties may be astro-turfed; run by Republican big-wigs. But [...]
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Actually, it’s not at all funny. 13 Banks and private firms that received billions in taxpayer dollars owe the IRS more than $200 MILLION dollars in overdue federal taxes. That’s bad enough — making it worse is that the feds made it an explicit condition for receiving bailout money that all recipients be up to [...]
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From the department of, “Why Am I Not Surprised?” comes this news: Obama Caves to Europe: “Agrees to Water Down ‘Buy American’ Plan After Threat from EU.” So, the president of the, correct me if I’m wrong here , UNITED STATES OF AMERICA has Promised Germany, France, and England that the US Stimulus Bill won’t harm [...]
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Our senators and congresspeople DO NOT CARE what we want or what we think. Pat Roberston says his constituents are PISSED OFF and don’t want him to support Tim Geithner for Treasury, but he DOESN’T CARE! ” ‘You will be confirmed,’ Pat Roberts of Kansas told Geithner. Still, the senator said, his phones were ‘ringing [...]
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