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Source: Andrew Sullivan

The Lion Sleeps Tonight

Rest In Peace.

"And that's one reason he became not only one of the greatest senators of our time, but one of the most accomplished Americans ever to serve our democracy." - President Obama

What About The 46,999,999 Others?

Sen. Tom Coburn, a massive opponent to health care reform, pulls a 180 when confronted with a constituent. He, as a member of the Government, says he will try to help this woman and her husband. He then goes on to say it is a "very inaccurate statement" to think the Government can be a solution to our problems.

Seems to me that Coburn was the quick and easy solution. That takes some serious brain defects to want to be a Senator, to be in public office, then say how ineffective your are at your own job, then at the drop of hat, help an individual out with your Governmental power, proving how effective you can be.

That's putting the "mental" in Governmental.

No one is saying that Government has to be the solution to ALL the problems for ALL the people. That is the way Republicans like to frame it. In reality, most of us want to help those who need it. It's human, it's being part of society, it's civilization that makes us want to care for others. If the Conservatives could stop using this infantile all-or-nothing approach, they would see how this reform would go a long way in helping us care for each other.

CNN's Rick Sanchez add some perspective on the numbers of people who need help:

"What's interesting about that is that Sen. Coburn just essentially said the government is not the solution, but then you have to ask yourself. He just told her to come and see him, isn't he the government? By the way after helping her, what will he do about the other 46,999,999 who don't have insurance, and the thousands upon thousands of Americans who say they do have insurance but like her, they're not getting covered? We'll ask those questions."

Source: The Political Carnival

"Texting Can Be Deadly"

Pretty graphic PSA from the UK, via CNN, aimed at young people texting while driving. The ADD Generation behind the wheel: watch out!

From Torture To Town Hall Loonies: The GOP Anti-Truth "Up Is Down" Mindset

The Bush/Cheney gift that keeps giving: always take the easy road, always expect the best possible outcome yet never do any of the work it would take to get there, never adjust your plan in the face of massive failure, deny all the evil shit you do, pass on all your mistakes to the next guy.

Lest you forgot about the torture programs masterminded by Bush and Cheney and their effects:

"The fact that we are not really bothered any more by taking helpless detainees in our custody and (a) threatening to blow their brains out, torture them with drills, rape their mothers, and murder their children; (b) choking them until they pass out; (c) pouring water down their throats to drown them; (d) hanging them by their arms until their shoulders are dislocated; (e) blowing smoke in their face until they vomit; (f) putting them in diapers, dousing them with cold water, and leaving them on a concrete floor to induce hypothermia; and (g) beating them with the butt of a rifle -- all things that we have always condemend as "torture" and which our laws explicitly criminalize as felonies ("torture means. . . the threat of imminent death; or the threat that another person will imminently be subjected to death, severe physical pain or suffering . . .") -- reveals better than all the words in the world could how degraded, barbaric and depraved a society becomes when it lifts the taboo on torturing captives," - Glenn Greenwald, Salon.

This quote is symbolic of the Conservative mindset we now see in the Health Care reform "debate". They don't hold themselves accountable to the truth and just let the lies flow, not really caring if they incite the lunatics out there. How barbaric the Right becomes when you lift the responsibility of speaking the truth.

It's time our society got back its morals as laid out by the current Obama Administration, the one that ended the torture era in American history. All you idiots screaming fascism, say that outloud, "Obama ended torure".

Now Obama is trying to end the division of America brought on by Bush and Rove and their trumped up culture wars. By mending the cultural wounds inflicted and sustained by the Right, Obama will improve and increase the way Americans care for each other.

Source: http://andrewsullivan.theatlantic.com/the_daily_dish/

"Capitalism: A Love Story" By Michael Moore

New trailer.

"It's not about an individual, like Roger Smith, or a corporation, or even an issue, like health care. This is the big enchilada. This is about the thing that dominates all our lives — the economy. I made this movie as if it was going to be the last movie I was allowed to make."

The Right hates this guy so much, you know he is good.

Obama's Weekly YouTube Address

"President Obama debunks the myths around health reform, and discusses the public option proposal in which many of them are rooted. But he focuses his address on the stark moral and historical turning point at which we find ourselves. August 22, 2009"



Source: http://www.youtube.com/whitehouse