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30 Days of JFK Assassination Facts (Backyard Photos)

Thirty Days has November... and DeRosaWorld is bringing you a JFK Assassination fact for each day.

A Dartmouth Professor has put the JFK Assassination back in the headlines with his analysis of the cover photo of Life Magazine showing Lee Harvey Oswald holding a Mannlicher-Carcano rifle and some communist newspapers. Professor Hany Farid created a 3D model of the body of Oswald and set lights in his 3D software to see where the shadows fell on the face and body.

Based on this, he declares the photo (Warren Commission Exhibit 133-A) as authentic. But that is not really the issue…there were also Exhibits 133-B and 133-C… and the shadows of Oswald’s body and face are the least of this one image's problems.

Farid ignores these other images and does not go into any analysis of the body size discrepancies, the hands discrepancies, the rifle size discrepancies, and the lack of any discrepancies of background images (the back yard) between each photo and face of Lee Harvey Oswald in each photo... the face from the mouth up that is... that does not change perspective at all from photo to photo.

The consistencies of the shadows that Farid is so proud of are part of what is so damning. How could the facial shadow be the same on each photo? Oswald moved. The camera moved… but the face and background do not move… even by one pixel… from photo to photo.

The conspiracy isn’t in the shadows of one image of Oswald in the backyard … it is in the overall package of all the images discovered, that are obviously faked, and the media hype machine that keeps churning the lone-gunman theory decade after decade.

Here is a video reviewing the Exhibits 133A, 133B and 133C and their forgery. (It's a long video, jump in at 21:00 for photo analysis.)

Saturday Musings: 'What's A President To Do' Edition

The story of Army Maj. Nidal Malik Hasan (D-Kenya) is a horrific one. What would lead a man to such an outburst?

Well, he lives in a nation where guns are worn to Presidential events. He lives in a nation of serial-killer TV junkies. He lives in a nation where the TV news spews hatred of politicians that work for the common good. He lives in a nation where the TV news covers shooting by someone like him, but not by acts of violence against doctors and patients at abortion clinics.

Maj. Hasan has been delving into the minds of the modern American soldiers… what do you think he found there?

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The stupidity of the modern Republican is astounding. The latest Tea-Party against healthcare parades the crazies out in front of the nation and is proudly covered by the national media. I trust the American people, despite the assault on their reason over the last 30 years.

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2010 is going to be an election year in which the media takes the gloves off and tries to put the blindfolds on the America people. Does America really want to be run by the Michele Bachmanns of this country? Do we really want leaders who will do anything to let the financial giants raid the U.S. Treasury over and over again? I don’t think so.

And President Obama needs to look around the Oval Office and re-think some of his financial advisors. Voters may not switch Parties because of a Afghanistan, we are grown numb to our small foreign wars,  but they sure as hell will based on being unemployed and seeing a gang in the White House who really don’t seem to care.

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The United States needs to pull out of Afghanistan and fight the war on terror, or whatever we need to call it, Homeland Security or world peace… on a much different battlefield.

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The black ash of the Bush, Jr./Cheney administration is still reigning down on our heads with the U.S. unemployment rate hitting double digits. The solution is in the voting booth folks. Liberal politicians will solve our problems. Conservative and moderate politicians will not.

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A note to President Obama and the Democratic Party Leadership: If all your momentum is in the health care bill to carry you into the 2010 elections… you better have Plan B or Mariano Rivera ready to go.

30 Days of JFK Assassination Facts (Motorcade Route)

Thirty Days has November... and DeRosaWorld is bringing you a JFK Assassination fact for each day.

So, was the JFK motorcade route changed at the last minute? We are not so sure about this one.

The motorcade route was certainly a bad idea, taking the President into a shooting gallery in Dealey Plaza, but it seems that the route was actually printed both in the Dallas Morning News and the Dallas Times-Herald on November 19, 1963.

The question is why this route?

Half-Assed Democrats Clutch Their Pearls As The Democrats Pick Up Two More Congressional Seats

Of course the Republican News Media cheers the election of an asshole like Chris Chiristie in New Jersey and a Republican Governor in... surprise... Virginia.

The really big news is the Democratic victory Tuesday in New York's 23rd Congressional District.

"We won a congressional seat that's been in Republican hands since Ulysses S. Grant was president, in part because of the disunity in the Republican Party," Axelrod said. "That was the only truly national contest on the ballot." 

Look, Americans are going to the polls in 2010 and continue the fumigation of Congress.

30 Days of JFK Assassination Facts (Paging Curtis LeMay)

Thirty Days has November... and DeRosaWorld is bringing you a JFK Assassination fact for each day.

General Curtis LeMay says he was on a hunting trip in Michigan on November 22, 1963. The navy personal at Bethesda Naval Hospital who performed the autopsy of President Kennedy claim General LeMay was at the autopsy, smoking his ever-present cigar and laughing it up as if the autopsy was a party.

One of many men who seem to have been in two places at once on that fateful day.

A Treasonously Good Cake

Guy Fawkes Day: November 5th marks the anniversary of the Gunpowder Plot, a conspiracy to blow up the English Parliament and King James I in 1605, the day set for the king to open Parliament. The anniversary was named after Guy Fawkes, the most famous of the conspirators.

The day is celebrated like Halloween. A cake is part of the tradition.

Here is a modern interpretation of a very old cake.

Guy Fawkes Day Cake

(recipe inspired by Le Cordon Bleu)

Ingredients:
1/4 cup molasses
1/3 cup unsalted butter
1/4 cup dark corn syrup
1/2 cup soft light brown sugar
2/3 cup milk
1/3 cup rolled oats, blitzed to powder in coffee grinder
1 cup all-purpose flour
1 1/2 teaspoons ground ginger
1 teaspoon ground cinnamon
1/2 teaspoon ground allspice
1/2 teaspoon ground nutmeg
1/2 teaspoon baking soda
2 eggs

Instructions:
1. Preheat oven to 325 degrees F. Line an 8 inch cake pan with waxed paper. Grease the paper with butter and dust with flour.
2. Melt the molasses, butter, corn syrup, brown sugar and milk in a saucepan. Remove from heat and cool.
3. Put dry ingredients into a separate bowl: oat powder, flour, spices and baking soda. Pour in the butter mixture and beat. Beat in the eggs, one at a time. Continue beating until mixture becomes a smooth paste.
4. Pour the mixture into the prepared cake pan and bake for 35 minutes. Poke the center with a tooth pick. If it comes out clean, it is done. Leave in pan to cool for 5 minutes.
5. Turn the cake out onto a cooling wire rack, peel off the waxed paper and leave to cool.
6. Frost with ready-made dark chocolate icing. Cut cake into squares and serve.

30 Days of JFK Assassination Facts (The Magic Bullet)

Thirty Days has November... and DeRosaWorld is bringing you a JFK Assassination fact for each day.

"Get me one bullet in one case, just one from hundreds of thousands of cases ... that has done this. Nobody has ever produced one." - Cyril Wecht

According to the single-bullet theory, a one-inch-long copper-jacketed lead-core 6.5-millimeter rifle bullet fired from the sixth floor of the Texas School Book Depository passed through President Kennedy’s neck and Governor Connally’s chest and wrist and embedded itself in the Governor’s thigh.

If so, this bullet traversed 15 layers of clothing, 7 layers of skin, and approximately 15 inches of tissue, struck a necktie knot, removed 4 inches of rib, and shattered a radius bone. The bullet that is supposed to have done all this damage was found on a stretcher in the corridor at the Parkland Memorial Hospital, in Dallas, after the assassination.

The Warren Commission found that this stretcher was the one that had borne Governor Connally.

This bullet became a key Commission exhibit, identified as CE399. Its copper jacket was completely intact. While the bullet's nose appeared normal, the tail was compressed laterally on one side.

One bullet missed.

One bullet shot President Kennedy in the back and out the throat and through John Connally's body and through his wrist and into his leg. (see actual bullet pictured.)

One bullet shot the President in the head.

New Jersey Is A Strange State

Remember Governor Jim Florio?

New Jersey voters don't like taxes, especially property taxes.

Somehow, Democratic Governors get into a fiscal jam and the only option open to them is to raise property taxes. God forbid they raise corporate taxes... and then they go down in defeat and the State gets a Republican, asshole governor.

Well it happened again. Democratic Governors are like Charlie Brown kicking Lucy's football over and over again. They make the people of the State of New Jersey hate them... hate them so much they vote against their own self interest.

Chris Christie is bad for New Jersey. He is a corrupt and dishonest Republican.

Chris Christie is the next Governor of New Jersey? Pathetic.

30 Days of JFK Assassination Facts (Two Caskets)

Thirty Days has November... and DeRosaWorld is bringing you a JFK Assassination fact for each day.

The medical team at Parkland Hospital in Dallas claim to have put the body of the slain President in an ornamental casket after wrapping the body in white silk.

The medical team at Bethesda Naval Hospital in Maryland reported that JFK's body arrived in a gray metal casket inside a plastic body bag.

Both hospitals' medical staffs from that day have gone on record with their eye-witness testimony.

Could The Average American Translate This First Paragraph?

ISLAMABAD/SHERAWANGI: Troops fought deadly street battles in a Taliban stronghold and a den of Uzbek fighters on Sunday, pressing their operation in South Waziristan into a third week and killing nine militants.

Bring the troops home. The 21st century Guns of August are about to explode all over the region.

30 Days of JFK Assassination Facts (Three Rifles)

Thirty Days has November... and DeRosaWorld is bringing you a JFK Assassination fact for each day.

 
"We never could place Oswald in that window with a gun in his hand." -Dallas Police Chief Jesse Curry

According to the Warren Commission Report, Lee Harvey Oswald  killed President Kennedy with three shots from a mail-order Mannlicher-Carcano rifle with a badly misaligned sight.

The rifle found hidden near the 'sniper's nest' on the 6th floor of the Texas School Book Depository on November 22, 1963, according to Officer Seymour Weitzman, part of the Dallas police search team, had been so well hidden under boxes of books that the officers stumbled over it many times before they found it...

Officer Weitzmann, who had an engineering degree and also operated a sporting goods store, was recognized as an authority on weapons. Consequently, Dallas Homicide Chief Will Fritz, who was on the scene, asked him the make of the rifle. Weitzman identified it as a 7.65 Mauser, a highly accurate German-made weapon.

Deputy Sheriff Roger Craig was also there and later recalled the word "Mauser" inscribed in the metal of the gun. And Deputy Sheriff Eugene Boone executed a sworn affidavit in which he described the rifle as a Mauser. As late as midnight November 22, Dallas District Attorney Henry Wade told the media that the weapon found was a Mauser.

A third rifle seen in a film taken by Dallas Cinema Associates, an independent film company, showed a scene of the Book Depository shortly after the assassination: Police officers on the fire escape were bringing down a rifle from the roof above the sixth floor. When the policemen reached the ground, an officer held the rifle high for everyone to see. The camera zoomed in for a close-up. This third rifle had no sight mounted on it. Thus it could not have been either a Carcano or the Mauser, both of which had sights.

Ask Not For Whom The Bell Tolls, It Tolls For Lou

So someone took a shot a Lou Dobbs. I'm surprised that more celebrity conservative pundits have not been shot at... or at least attacked with pitch forks. The American left is so passive-aggressive.

How many Americans own guns? How many of them are liberals?

"I now - it's become part of a way of life - the anger, the hate, the vitriol, but it's taken a different tone where they've threatened my wife," Dobbs said on the radio show earlier this week.

"They've now fired a shot at my house while my wife was standing next to the car. It's become something else."

Yes Lou, actions have consequences.

You are lucky they didn't just beat the shit out of you and make your wife watch.

More like this please.

30 Days of JFK Assassination Facts (Oswald In Minsk)

Thirty Days has November... and DeRosaWorld is going to bring you a JFK Assassination fact for each day.

Lee Harvey Oswald spoke Russian and lived in Moscow and in Minsk in the USSR from 1959 to 1962, claiming during a radio interview on August 21, 1963 that he lived there and was in touch with the American Embassy.

"...at no time was I out of contact with the American Embassy."

Sunday Morning Music: Jefferson Airplane - White Rabbit & Somebody To Love

Here is a trip back to the 1960s from the Smothers Brothers Comedy Hour with Jefferson Airplane performing both White Rabbit and Somebody To Love.

Grace Slick turned 70 this past weekend!

Happy Halloween

Edgar Allen Poe's The Raven performed by Vincent Price.

The Health Care Bills: Who Pays & The Nitty Gritty

We have a House Bill and a Senate Bill and where-oh-where will they meet?

Do we tax the rich? Do we tax the working man? Do we tax unions?

What do we do about generic drugs? What about abortions and heavy smokers?

Are you ready to rumble?

The left ain't all too happy. The right is mad as hell. The middle have their pet peeves and their pet projects.

Time for our Congress and Senate to show their stripes.

Not Exactly Something To Celebrate, But We Do Need To Understand: The Wall Street Crash of 1929 Turns 80 Years Old

 

Black Thursday, Black Friday, then Black Monday, and Black Tuesday

Modern America is too complex a society to even attempt un-regulated political and business practices.

Our economic, social, financial, education and health care system are all interdependent.

Regulate, watch, legislate and penalize those that break the law.

We are all in this together or it should be considered treason.

"The banking lobby is as powerful and deeply entrenched as ever, but it was powerful in the 1930s, too. Nonetheless, the New Dealers learned the Great Lesson: Powerful insiders cannot be permitted to write the rules, and prosperity and security depend on a playing field that supports a vibrant middle class. Today, we face a similar set of questions as we faced then. Will the institutions that created the crisis continue calling the shots and writing the rules, or will Washington take the side of families? Have we learned the Great Lesson?" -  Elizabeth Warren

A History Lesson For President Obama

Parallels to Vietnam are obvious, but the enemy is different, the times are different and the President is different.

I can't begin to get into the mind of Lyndon Johnson, but John Kennedy's political journey is much easier to read. It was a clear and logical progression away from war.

He learned he had nothing to prove and no one to prove it to... and he ended up in the shooting gallery of Dallas, Texas because of it.

But the endless war for peace is a lie. There never is to be a peace.

In the late 1950s and early 1960s the French Government faced the War of Algerian Independence. A colonial war, but with something different, something new... the Islamic Revolution was in the mix.

President Obama and his team should take a look at A Savage War of Peace: Algeria 1954-1962 by Alistair Horne. A history of France's Algerian War. Supposedly a bestseller in the U.S. military during the disastrous Bush, Jr./Cheney years as the military searched for an understanding of what they were facing in Iraq and Afghanistan.

Each war is unique in its time, its landscape, its leaders and its soldiers. But each war teaches the next set of warriors lessons. Afghanistan is a war zone that has had many lessons to teach over the centuries, but those lessons are eventually forgotten or ignored by succeeding generations.

President Obama stands at a crossroads in history, a crossroads in this war and a crossroads in his Presidency. He faces a dust storm. He can take cover or he can enter the blinding sand.

It is hard to offer this President the advice that he should heed the lessons of President Kennedy. President Kennedy ended up dead for his decisions. Leaving Afghanistan will blow a dust storm of hate and fear around President Obama... but it is time for a new profile in courage.

We voted for a change.

President Obama should turn away from Afghanistan and take refuge from the storm.

Anyone For Tea?

 

This is how you do it, my fellow Americans. Make the bad guys feel like bad guys.

"The American Bankers Association has helped loosen the rules that protect us, allowing the unfettered greed that has brought us to the brink of a recession. And for those bankers who are members and support the ABA's war against the working and middle class, shame on you!"

Because this protest is real, it scares the shit out of the Bankers.

Sunday Morning Music: Malcom McLaren - Madame Butterfly

Malcom McLaren exploding with experimentation in the 1980s. Here is his Madame Butterfly.

Ann Coulter Wants To Be A Conspiracy Theorist Now?

“…every Presidential assassination or attempted Presidential assassination was committed by some sort of left wing loon, communist, anarchist, communitarians—yes they were—or they had no politics at all...

...Lee Harvey Oswald tried to move to the Soviet Union. He was on his way to Cuba. He was a communist. You have one after another of all these guys. So it isn’t…it isn’t because Obama is liberal…if something happens to him it’s going to be MoveOn.org."

So we have a famous and revered right-wing pundit, Ann Coulter bringing up the Kennedy Assassination on national television… okay bitch… game on.

First of all, Lee Harvey Oswald did move to the Soviet Union. He renounced his American citizenship and moved to Russia. He lived, worked and fell in love and got married… then very easily moved back to America with his Russian wife. Now how did that happen? You brought it up!

So can the full force of your connections and FOX News help us regular Americans understand how a U.S. marine could defect to the Soviet Union in the 1950s and then move back to the United States with his Russian wife no questions asked? Did the CIA or FBI know he was back? He gave up his passport! When he came back to the States, he ate, slept and dreamt CIA up to 1963.

As for getting into Cuba, someone going by the name of Lee Harvey Oswald went to the Mexican Embassy not long before the JFK assassination asking for a visa to Cuba, but the embassy had cameras and the photos of that person coming and going was not Lee Harvey Oswald… you brought this up, bitch!

Lee Harvey Oswald could speak Russian well enough to move to Moscow and work in the 1950s. Where did he learn Russian? In the military? While working at Atsugi airbase with Gary Powers and the U-2 flights?
 
If you want to bring this shit up on the national news, lady, then be ready to bring it on. You want crazy, I’ll shove crazy so far down your throat on the JFK assassination you will be shitting tin foil.

Now, do you want to continue and discuss James Earl Ray’s politics? Or Sirhan Sirhan and the RFK autopsy? Does dining with the Bushes give your family liberal street cred? What exactly was liberal about John Wilkes Booth? 

Are you ready to rumble on national television about Presidental assassins and would-be assassins? I'd love it.

Saturday Musings: 'What The Fuck Is John McCain Doing On TV, Again?' Edition

It took less than a month for the U.S. military to strike Afghanistan after the 9/11 attacks in 2001. The troops were amazing, even trapping Osama Bin Laden, but the Commanders-in-Chief, Cheney and Bush, Jr. were very bad warriors.

Iraq became their focus, and oil. Afghanistan didn’t really matter, they said over and over on FOX News and the pundits rallied to that cause, even shouting down Senator John Kerry as he tried to focus attention back onto that war in 2004.

But the Republicans and their Press would hear none of it. They mocked anyone who questioned them.

Now we have the neo-coward bastards all steaming about how the Obama Administration does not know how to conduct the war in Afghanistan.

They should all shut up or be sent to the front, like the German Army threat of the Russian Front during World War Two for those who disagreed with their current military policy... after all... Obama is the new Hitler, right?

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Health Care Reform. I am sick and tired of this nonsense. I do not care what the Insurance industry wants any more. Having the majority in both Houses means we should have went for the single-payer option and be disappointed with a robust public option (their words not mine) instead of going for a public option and being disappointed with the Insurance industry maybe not raising our premiums, but accepting no oversight.

I know the fight ain’t over, Obama is playing long-ball and all that shit, but the Republicans don’t even have a bloody nose, yet. Maybe that is coming in 2010 and then a knockout blow in 2012, but I’d like to see intelligent, humane public policy again. We haven’t had it since 1980.

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The Media in America... it should not be a war against FOX News alone. Pundits and news readers should be afraid to let their children go to school.  They should be intimidated when out to restaurants or at the movies. They should be branded TRAITORS and their heads should be shaved.

Ask not for whom the bell tolls, it tools for thee.

"The lady doth protest too much, methinks." Hamlet Act 3, scene 2

When it comes to covering the Democratic Party, and Hillary Clinton especially, the BBC on line NEWS site seems to run their stories by FOX News before posting.

That was how it was during the 2008 Presidential campaign and now most stories about President Obama have a conservative rightward, superior mocking tone...

...and now Secretary of State Clinton gets the full monty from the Loyalists across the pond. It is all dressed up like high-tea, but it is a sour mash.

Did they really like being slapped around by Bush, Jr. better?

Robert Capa - October 22, 1913

On May 25, 1954, the career of Robert Capa, whose exploits as a war photographer had made him a legend in modern photography, came to an abrupt end when he stepped on a land mine on an obscure battlefield in Indochina.

Afghanistan: Where Empires Go To Die

Most empires take their time, build roads leading back to them, get fat and drunk and then go to war in Afghanistan to kill themselves when the shame and guilt get to be too much and all the chickens come back to roost....

A people always ends by resembling its shadow. - Rudyard Kipling 

From Andrew Bacevich:

Fixing Afghanistan is not only unnecessary, it’s also likely to prove impossible. Not for nothing has the place acquired the nickname Graveyard of Empires. Americans, insistent that the dominion over which they preside does not meet the definition of empire, evince little interest in how the British, Russians, or others have fared in attempting to impose their will on the Afghans. As General David McKiernan, until recently the U.S. commander in Afghanistan, put it, "There’s always an inclination to relate what we’re doing now with previous nations," adding, "I think that’s a very unhealthy comparison." McKiernan was expressing a view common among the ranks of the political and military elite: We’re Americans. We’re different. Therefore, the experience of others does not apply.

The Founding Fathers Explain Why Senators Are Such Assholes

This little gem from James Madison is getting passed around the progressive blogosphere:

PROPERTY

4. Should Experience or public opinion require an equal & universal suffrage for each branch of the Govt., such as prevails generally in the U. S., a resource favorable to the rights of landed & other property, when its possessors become the Minority, may be found in an enlargement of the Election Districts for one branch of the Legislature, and an extension of its period of service. Large districts are manifestly favorable to the election of persons of general respectability, and of probable attachment to the rights of property, over competitors depending on the personal solicitations practicable on a contracted theatre. And altho' an ambitious candidate, of personal distinction, might occasionally recommend himself to popular choice by espousing a popular though unjust object, it might rarely happen to many districts at the same time. The tendency of a longer period of service would be, to render the Body more stable in its policy, and more capable of stemming popular currents taking a wrong direction, till reason & justice could regain their ascendancy.

In light of our recent Health Care debate, a simple and forthright explanation of why Senators are usually assholes and act against reason, decency and the common good.

Didn't U.S. Taxpayers Bailout Airline Industry With Billions?

Industry analysts say there are roughly 700 FAA-approved repair companies in other countries — including repair shops in Argentina, Costa Rica, Ethiopia, Kenya, China and Indonesia. The Aeroman company in El Salvador is becoming one of the more popular, drawing business from US Airways, JetBlue, Frontier, Southwest and other U.S. carriers.

We are becoming a meaningless country. Our livelihood, our health, our safety, our morals, our economy are all just a game for the super rich, backed by the Republican Party and the media.

We are becoming a bloated, sloppy, stupid, foolish mess... and we are taking the rest of the world with us.

A Working Actress Practicing Her Craft

I saw Medea, the Euripides play from 431 BC, performed at UCLA starring Annette Bening this weekend.

The set and staging were a bizarre mix of Los Angeles skid row and Euro-trash techno, but Annette Bening stood above all that and gave an intense and moving performance of a mother who, when betrayed by her husband, kills his new bride and murders her children.

They may not be two Oscars she is holding, but Annette Benin came from the stage and proved she knows how to rule one.

Sunday Morning Music: The Clash - Koka Kola

Having a cuppa with The Clash and Koka Kola.

Saturday Musings: 'Coast To Coast' Edition

Taking a quick coast-to-coast tour of issues between Philadelphia and  Los Angeles...

First up, MLB, the National League Playoffs... Dodgers and Joe Torre vs. Phillies…

The series is tied at one game apiece…what to do, what to do… Go Phillies!

Cliff Lee takes the mound for The Phillies Sunday.

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Some other comparisons between the two cities;  we can see that both public school systems are still screwed up by people mostly at the city and state level who have no idea, no interest and no investment in the future of the public school system. There will be hell to pay.

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Back east, it looks like Senator Arlen Specter (D?-PA) is going to get his ass kicked in his re-election bid. That magic-bullet theory coming back to haunt him?

My California Congresswoman, Jane Harman, a died-in-the-wool Blue Dog is painting herself pink down to her underwear by supporting a public-option in any health care reform bill.

And I quote:

"Far from being an option of last resort or a government-funded takeover of the country's health care system, we see the public option as a critical market mechanism that will drive down costs, foster competition and expand Americans' insurance choices.

This is not just smart health care policy, it is smart economic policy."

A man works from sun to sun, but a woman’s work is never done.

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In Philadelphia this past week, Dawn Smith’s mini van arrived at CIGNA’s headquarters and she was joined in the lobby by a group of nurses to ask the CEO why the insurance company had rejected her daughter’s brain tumor treatment needs. It wasn’t pretty and some CIGNA folks were seen looking down at them in the lobby and giving her the finger.  Now that is bad karma.

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Meanwhile, in the rest of the country… Is the Health Care Debate over now that Olympia Snowe is Sicko Czar?

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How’s that surge idea in Afghanistan coming?

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Is it just me or are there too many vampires in our pop culture right now.

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Did I see it right? Were there actually friends of Lou Dobbs Banksters arrested this week… it is hard to get the real story from CNNMoney, or FOX News. I heard they were going to put them in front of a firing squad for treason against Capitalism.

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So the big question going into the next round of health care reform seems to revolve around the bulge in Senator Harry Reid’s pants… who exactly is on his Underoos? Captain America or Wonder Woman?

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"Flow backward to your sources, sacred rivers,
And let the world's great order be reversed.
It is the thoughts of men that are deceitful,
Their pledges that are loose."
- Euripides, Medea