October 2009
24 posts
Obama's Declaration Of Swine Flu Emergency Prompts... →
WASHINGTON—Claiming that the president was preying on the public’s fear of contracting a fatal disease last week when he declared the H1N1 virus a national emergency, Republican leaders announced Wednesday that they were officially endorsing the swine flu. “Thousands of Americans—hardworking ordinary Americans like you and me—already have H1N1,” Republican National Committee...
WatchMore of the same… what kind of people would be against protecting people from GANG RAPE??? As Congressman Grayson related in a previous post of mine, if Democrats are for something, no matter how obviously good, necessary, moral, and humane it is, the Republicans will be against it.
You should feel bad for the health insurance...
At least that’s how this story (which I am embarrassed the Associated Press allowed to be printed) wants you to feel.
Its argument is that those evil Democrats are unfairly accusing the health insurance companies of making obscene profits while letting people die when in reality the industry “only” made 2.2% profit last year, placing them at 35 out of Fortune’s 500 list....
Finland Establishes Broadband as a Legal Right to... →
livejamie:
The policy will be active in July 2010, when every Finn will get a one-megabit connection. But that’s just an intermediate step towards their final goal: By 2015, everyone will have a 100Mbps—yes, a hundred megabits per second—available.
And we can’t even get universal health care…
“It is even harder for the average ape to believe that he has descended from man.”
– H. L. Mencken
Funny things
Every now and then some chain of events unfolds that is particularly enjoyable in its own sense, but also because it reminds me of something enjoyable in the past. This happened recently. I’m not sure of the exact cause… maybe he saw my post from Blog Action Day, or maybe it was just a random occurrence. It’s very rare that someone just stumbles across my Tumblog and even more...
395. Be mindful of what comes between you and the...
(via rulesformyunbornson)
Dogs and Train Wrecks
Health insurance should not be a for-profit industry. For instance, could this happen to you?
Health insurance should not be a for-profit industry. Thankfully all the recent talk of death panels has really died down, but what no one really bothered to talk about is the existing death panels that are all around us. You know, the ones that many of us receive as a benefit of full-time employment,...
“Socialized risk, privatized gain.”
-Elliot Spitzer while describing the current culture of sharing the cost and responsibility when big industries (banks and car companies) fail, but not collectively enjoying the rewards of capitalism and big business profits.
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Want!
This vending machine is operated by the Goss Wine Bar in Ginza, Tokyo’s poshest neighborhood. All customers need to do is to insert a pre-paid card, select a bottle of wine among 24 different kinds and watch how the wine flows into their glasses.
Health Insurance Companies Tell Women: You're a... →
“I get that health insurance companies are in the business of making money, but considering women a pre-existing condition is despicable.”
I know! What’s next? Life insurance companies charging higher premiums for older people? Or those that smoke?? Hell, they might even jump on board with this gender idea. Oh wait…. THEY DO! Is this discrimination? Statistically, each of...
Interracial couple in Louisiana denied marriage... →
“He’s an elected public official and one of his duties is to marry people. He doesn’t have the right to say he doesn’t believe in it.”
“However, Bardwell told Hammond’s Daily Star newspaper that he was concerned for the children who might be born of the relationship and that, in his experience, most interracial marriages don’t last.”
If the...
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Blog Action Day 2009 - Climate Change
Blog Action Day encourages you to write about climate change in the context of how it relates to the topic of your blog. Mine is kind of a weird collection of humorous posts, political rants, and funny pictures. There is a recurring theme, though, and that tends to be wine. Keeping with the other posts I make, this one will be littered with links to other sites.
Coincidentally, around the same...
Continuing a theme... →
“There was what President Obama likes to call a teachable moment last week, when the International Olympic Committee rejected Chicago’s bid to be host of the 2016 Summer Games.
“Cheers erupted” at the headquarters of the conservative Weekly Standard, according to a blog post by a member of the magazine’s staff, with the headline “Obama loses! Obama loses!” Rush Limbaugh declared himself...
“I’m not young enough to know everything.”
– Oscar Wilde
This Week in Unnecessary Censorship
Jimmy Kimmel is no fan of the Federal Communications Commission (FCC), the regulatory body in charge of policing the airwaves. Each week he mocks their job by taking clips with normal every day language and using censorship to make it seem lewd or inappropriate. As a result everything from “Sesame Street” to CNN comes out dirty…and hilarious.
Les Leopold: The Forbes 400 Shows Why Our Nation... →
“Collectively, [the wealthiest] 400 have $1.57 trillion in wealth. It’s hard to get your mind around a number like that. The way I do it is to imagine that we were still living during the great radical Eisenhower era of the 1950s when marginal income tax rates hit 91 percent. Taxes were high back in the 1950s because people understood that constraining wild extremes of wealth would...
“There is nothing worse than aggressive stupidity.”
– Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
“When I am abroad, I always make it a rule never to criticize or attack the...”
– Sir Winston Churchill