The Bishop and the Butterfly: Murder, Politics, and the End of the Jazz Age

    Now, now, now, now, now

    By Ripper on Thu, 09/10/2009 - 3:13pm |
    Don't waste all day talking about Sen. Joe Asshat.Call, fax AND email the White House and your congressional delegation today in support of the president's speech, passage of health care and the public option. Don't think about it. Don't waste...

    I Recommend This Post ... er, That Post

    By Ripper on Thu, 09/10/2009 - 2:39pm |
    Take a look at this post, perhaps the best explanation yet of the anger that Rep. Joe Dumbass displayed last night. Whoever the longtime TPM reader is, he has it exactly right. Here's part of it below. Don't miss reading...
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    Prez opens (up...): I got somethin' to say to you..."IT'S A LIE, PLAIN AND SIMPLE"" (updated)

    By jollyroger on Thu, 09/10/2009 - 2:34am |
    Who can resist the temptation to offer a preferred version of the coming Great Speech.? I have my own ideas as to the desired mix of policy prescriptions and down home anecdotes, but my fantasy turns on the appropriate use...
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    Wilson Should Apologize To The Nation, The President And Then Resign

    By oleeb on Thu, 09/10/2009 - 2:14am |
    Rep. Wilson is an embarassment to the Congress and to the United States for his unprecedented display of outlandish and unacceptable disrespect for the President of the United States.  There has never been such an incident in the history of...

    No More Mr. Nice President

    By Ripper on Thu, 09/10/2009 - 1:59am |
    President Obama served notice to Republicans tonight that bipartisanship only goes so far. He can play hardball as well as anyone.So the president repeatedly used the politically verboten word "lie" to describe ... Republican lies. He said he would "call...
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    THE PAPER DRIVE

    By Richard Day on Wed, 09/09/2009 - 6:59pm |
    The Tao is an empty vessel; it is used, but never filled. Oh, unfathomable source of ten thousand things! Blunt the sharpness, Untangle the knot, Soften the glare, Merge with dust. Oh, hidden deep but ever present! I do...
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    Obama's Little Big Horn: Is There A Lesson?

    By oleeb on Wed, 09/09/2009 - 2:51am |
    It appears more and more that if the Congress passes something lableled "healthcare reform" this year it will be the legislative equivalent of the infamous fat substitute Olestra.  Olestra, you may recall, was a product that provided all the fat...
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    No Poison Pill On Healthcare Mr. President

    By oleeb on Tue, 09/08/2009 - 9:17pm |
    We all know that the untrustworthy politicians who comprise the bulk of Democratic members of Congress and the key decision makers in the White House are furiously scheming to ditch the "public option" compromise upon which Obama and Co. sold...
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    FLATS AND SCRUBS; DUELING BOZOS

    By Richard Day on Tue, 09/08/2009 - 9:11pm |
    Under heaven all can see beauty only because there is ugliness All can know good as good only because there is evil.   Therefore having and not having arise together. Difficult and easy complement each other. Long and short...
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    My anger management assignment gone very, very wrong

    By crazedandconfused on Tue, 09/08/2009 - 2:08am |

    One of the take home assignments for my court ordered anger management course was to find useful articles to help de-stress your day.  Well, wouldn’t you know it; I came across this piece of garbage (below in black) and had to “sprinkle” the idiot author with my opinions (in blue) of her “tips and tricks”

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    LABOR DAY (Part 2)

    By Richard Day on Mon, 09/07/2009 - 9:00pm |
    Not exalting the gifted prevents quarreling. Not collecting treasures prevents stealing. Not seeing desirable things prevents confusion of the heart.   The wise therefore rule by emptying hearts and stuffing bellies, By weakening ambition and strengthening bones. If people...
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    The Dignity of Labor: a Labor Day Memorial.

    By amike on Mon, 09/07/2009 - 5:41pm |
    Perhaps the most appropriate way to celebrate Labor on its weekend is to work. My work is academic in nature, so here goes. I start by introducing someone who probably needs an introduction, especially to those who misuse him...
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    For Labor: A Pat on the Back, a Hail and Farewell

    By Ramona on Mon, 09/07/2009 - 12:36pm |
    "Less than a century ago the laborer had no rights, little or no respect, and led a life which was socially submerged and barren....American industry organized misery into sweatshops and proclaimed the right of capital to act without restraints and...
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    LABOR DAY (Part 1)

    By Richard Day on Sun, 09/06/2009 - 8:20pm |
    There is a saying among soldiers: I dare not make the first move but would rather play the guest I dare not advance an inch, but would rather withdraw a foot   This is called marching without intending to...
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    Only a malignant, degenerate, and despicable people treats its children like shit.

    By jollyroger on Sun, 09/06/2009 - 12:09am |
    THE WELFARE OF ALL YOUNG OF THE SPECIES IS THE RESPONSIBILITY OF ALL ADULTS OF THE SPECIES I will not waste bandwidth explaining the evolutionary mandate contained hereabove. That said, what kind of a people lets ONE MILLION of their...
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    Health Care - A Condition, not a Commodity

    By Ramona on Sat, 09/05/2009 - 10:28pm |
    Bill Moyers has been tireless in his efforts to get through to the President the importance of universal, equitable health care. This isn't something he--or we--can afford to put off. Millions are without health care, millions are without jobs, millions are without homes, millions are without money. If this isn't the time to push for health care as an inalienable right for all Americans, I don't know when that will be.
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    A VICTIM OF HIS OWN SUCCESS

    By Richard Day on Sat, 09/05/2009 - 8:50pm |
    When men lack a sense of awe, there will be disaster.Do not intrude into their homes. Do not harass them at work. If you do not interfere, they will not weary of you.Therefore the sage knows himself, but makes...

    No Public Option with a Trigger

    By Ripper on Sat, 09/05/2009 - 8:43pm |
    TPM's front page this weekend teases the story that the White House is negotiating with Sen. Olympia Snowe for her support in a compromise that might garner her vote and satisfy progressives. The teaser link asks "Public Option With Trigger...
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    Staying Calm, but Remaining Firm

    By Barth on Sat, 09/05/2009 - 3:02pm |
    Our system of government is not generally amenable to Big Ideas or to enacting the platform of a strong leader. Our founders had enough of the royal prerogative and sought to retard the ability of a single leader to impose...
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    Bill Moyers Just Asked the President to let Josh Marshall Write his Health Care Speech!!!

    By we are stardust on Sat, 09/05/2009 - 12:10am |
    http://www.pbs.org/moyers/journal/blog/2009/09/bill_moyers_on_obamas_mom...   Moyers briefly explained who Josh Marshall is, and what TPM is, and identified him as a journalist and an historian, and "not a politician."  Moyers said Marshall has a clear and simple message on the question people should be asked...
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    DDT FOR YOU AND ME

    By Richard Day on Fri, 09/04/2009 - 10:27pm |
    A brave and passionate man will kill or be killed. A brave and calm man will always preserve life. Of these two which is good and which is harmful? Some things are not favored by heaven. Who knows why?...
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    Question: How Do You Define Robust Public Option?

    By oleeb on Fri, 09/04/2009 - 9:42pm |
    For me, this is an easy answer.  Here's the honest and best definition of a genuninely robust public option:   Single Payer!   Single Payer!   Single Payer!   SINGLE PAYER!   If Obama wimps out next Wednesday, the...

    HYPOCRITE ALERT: AZ's Schools Supt. Says Obama Wants Students To Take "WORSHIPFUL" Approach

    By azpaull on Fri, 09/04/2009 - 4:48pm |
    OMG!  (Wait, will my schools supt Tom Horne allow me to share HIS God?) Arizona's Superintendent of Public Instruction got into the act late yesterday, and in a mind-bending sort of way.  Granted, I didn't expect him to remain silent. ...
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    Prez as pugilist: The Barack Shuffle, The Rope-a-Dope, The Lights-Out Left Hook

    By jollyroger on Fri, 09/04/2009 - 2:31pm |
    Knowing that Prez is the greatest political counterpuncher in history, I have been sorting anxiously through the entrails of his (seemingly feckless) strategy for successful achievement of meaningful health care reform. I was looking for the rope-a-dope, and now I...

    How Is YOUR School Dealing With Tuesday's Speech?

    By azpaull on Fri, 09/04/2009 - 2:26pm |
    As we have all heard for the last couple of dozen years, the religious rightwing has tried to place as many of its adherents on school boards as possible (the farm teams for higher office).  They have had mixed success,...

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