Last Sunday, August 16, Chris's panel included Ms. CNBC Trish Regan, John Heileman, Rick Stengel, and Kathleen Prissy-Pants Parker. It was quite the Algonquin Round Table he'd assembled. The last segment concerned the "Woodstock Nation" meme as it related to,...
Darcy Burner, John Aravosis, Jane Hamsher, Howie Klein, et.al. have created simple ways to thank the Progressive Caucus members en masse. John Aravosis has dubbed the effort "Carrots, Not Sticks.": http://www.democracyforamerica.com/activities/181 Howie Klein also created "Take the Pledge" at...
"There will be no lasting economic recovery without a robust Public Option for health care; there may be some temporary recovery on Wall Street, but even that can't last without a People's Recovery."...
I have been bothered by this question, and began looking into it more seriously lately. I had assumed from polls and conversations with Fundamentalist Christianists who seem to have inordinate influence over the issue, that mainstream Christians were AWOL in...
Page 425 is making the Insurrectionists crazy. If I understand correctly, there were two versions that were originally stand-alone bills, authored and co-sponsored by Republicans, one as a Medicaid measure, one as a Social Security measure. It provides for Medicare payments for...
David Long of the Four Corners Free Press (not online) in Cortez, Co attended a July 20 meeting of the Four Corners 9-12 Project (a la Glenn Beck) at the Elks Hall. Approximately 100 people attended; the subject was health...
They are of the astrological sign Leo; The Lion, the independent, the proud (sometimes too proud), the showman, the slow-to-burn with anger. Our son is half-black, half- Aztec, his birth mother from Old Mexico, born across the border in El...
A penny today costs between 1.4 and 1.7 cents to mint. The coin is largely zinc now, the mining of which causes great environmental degradation. Billions (4.6 billion, I think) are minted each year, but most are stashed in jars and...
Here is an editorial from yesterday's Washington Times explaining how "Obama's" health plan equals euthanasia. It is evil to scare so many old people this way. Obama even got the question at a health care event on Wednesday. Thank you,...
McCotter wants there to be checks and balances in the Gate-gate affair, and wants the President to apologize to Crowley. He scolded the President for not having his fact-ducks in a row before he castigated Officer Crowley and maligned the Cambridge...
Some commenters at the site wonder if it is a spoof; I think not, as Pat and Sister Bay have said almost all of the same things on the air. I had to cut and paste it, I was unable to...
Here's a link to find viewing times and the sky area to scan for your area: www.heavens-above.com Under configutations, choose either register and login, or select from data base; they will allow you to select your town for viewing times...
Last night on Bill Moyers Journal, two helathcare journalists,Trudy Lieberman and Marcia Angel, M.D., discussed the current plan, and expressed great skepticism about the true results of a plan based on the current system. Angell's position was that throwing money...
And there is evidence that the biases and bigotries we hide from ourselves may be the worst. For one reason, if they remain hidden to us, we won't work to change them. For two, we act on them, even while...
To Senator Graham: "Did you know that on many gay blogs you are known either as "Miss Pittypat" or "Aunt Pittypat" and that it's just not working for you to be so adamantly anti-gay-marriage? Are you the Senator who...
In his MSNBC interview, he tells that part of the story, then says he was "like eww; get me out of here." Now I have read some of the online comments about it, and mainly they are sick jokes claiming...
A new USA Today/Gallup poll (post resignation presser-by-the-lake) shows a whopping 71% of Republicans polled say they would vote for Palin in 2012! Also scary, 51% of Independents polled say they would not vote for her. For President! Even now! ...
I am having trouble finding accurate national alcohol sales numbers, but one site claimed that americans spend $77.8 billion on take-home alcohol. More, obviously, is consumed in restaurants and bars. Tobacco has taken a huge federal tax increase, and some...
Kenneth Lewis of (now) Bank of America told Darrel Issa's Congressional committee a couple weeks ago that Hank Paulson and Ben Bernanke pressured him not to back out of the Merril Lynch acquisition deal. He claims they threatened him that if he...
