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Pfizer's R&D Cuts Render Kelo v. New London Eminent Domain Case a Waste of Time

2009-11-11T13:47:00.000-05:00

Pfizer’s abandonment of its plans for New London render moot the U.S. Supreme Court’s decision on eminent domain in Kelo v. New London. In the case, the city of New London had sought “eminent domain” power to seize the houses of several people living in a run-down neighborhood. The land was to be transformed into Pfizer’s new facility. The city argued it needed to bulldoze blighted areas in order to redevelop them. Susette Kelo argued the government should not have the right to take her home.

This is absolutely disgusting!

Key oil figures were distorted by US pressure, says whistleblower

2009-11-11T12:57:00.000-05:00

The world is much closer to running out of oil than official estimates admit, according to a whistleblower at the International Energy Agency who claims it has been deliberately underplaying a looming shortage for fear of triggering panic buying.

The senior official claims the US has played an influential role in encouraging the watchdog to underplay the rate of decline from existing oil fields while overplaying the chances of finding new reserves.

We really have got to do something for alternative fuels...and soon!

Filibuster Joe Now

2009-11-09T19:32:00.000-05:00

Connecticut residents support giving people the option to buy health insurance from a government plan by a 64-30 majority, according to a September, 2009 Quinnipiac poll.

So why is Lieberman so against a public option?

Fact: Two of Lieberman’s top 10 campaign contributors in his 2006 senate re-election campaign were large insurance companies (Aetna and Purdue Pharma).

Is it any wonder why he doesn’t care about the will of his people???

It is high time to tell him we’ve had enough! He needs to get out of bed with the insurance companies and do what is right for Connecticut and what is right for America.

My new sister-site! Please sign the petition!!!

Assume you are a Chinese immigrant...

2009-11-05T13:13:00.002-05:00

Awesome!

I Can Has Swine Flu?

2009-11-05T13:06:00.000-05:00

On Wednesday, the Iowa Department of Public Health reported the first confirmed case of H1N1 in a house pet, a 13-year-old domestic shorthaired cat. The animal likely contracted the virus from its owners, veterinarians say, since two of the three family members living in the cat's household had recently suffered from influenza-like illness. Late last week, when the cat came down with flu-like symptoms — malaise, loss of appetite — its owners brought it to Iowa State University College of Veterinary Medicine for treatment. The family mentioned to the vet that they had also recently battled illness, which led to testing the pet for H1N1.

That's pretty scary!

Former McCain strategist is about to lose his health insurance

2009-11-03T13:44:00.000-05:00

If history had taken a different course, Doug Holtz-Eakin would be inside the McCain White House driving the Republican president's domestic agenda, including health-care reform. But now, one year after Sen. John McCain (R-Ariz.) lost the presidential election, the man who was by McCain's side as the campaign's top health-care guru remains unemployed -- and his COBRA health coverage is running out.

Irony of ironies, it gets worse. Holtz-Eakin, who is about to start shopping for insurance on the individual market, is 51. And he has one of those pesky "preexisting conditions" that insurance companies often cite in denying coverage.

Ouch...

Enough is enough with these blown calls

2009-10-30T13:05:00.002-04:00

It’s laughable at this point. It really is. It’s confounding to see players and managers and executives pooh-pooh the idea of instant replay when MLB is approaching a dozen missed calls in its most important month of the season. And it’s horrifying to see games turn not on the actions of players but of the men charged with enforcing the rules. And it’s sad that only an epic World Series will save this month from being remembered for the dodgy eyesight of middle-aged men.

This is getting fucking ridiculous!

I didn't give up on MLB when they botched the steroid mess, but this is making me think it might be time to walk away.

Does Selig have his job for life? Why can't we fire him???

We Are Douchebags

2009-10-30T11:18:00.001-04:00

We Are Douchebags - watch more funny videos

A little fun for Friday.

I thought this was hilarious!

Lieberman pledged support for universal health insurance in 2006 campaign

2009-10-29T09:26:00.001-04:00

I’ve been working on health insurance reform for more than a dozen years. … I have offered a comprehensive program. Small business health insurance reform, plus something I call MediKids to cover all the children in America on a sliding fee basis up until the age of 25.

MediChoice to allow anybody in our country to buy into a national insurance pool like the health insurance pool that we federal employees and Members of Congress have. Medical malpractice reform.

It will cover 95% of those who are not covered now, and it will reduce the pressure on rising costs for all the millions of others.

Fucking hypocrite!

Hamsher: Reid will pay a price if he lets Lieberman ’screw him over’

2009-10-28T14:25:00.000-04:00

"One has to wonder," Hamsher agreed. "Sixty votes is meaningless if you don't have them. ... His job is basically to be of more value to the Republicans within the Democratic caucus than he would be on the outside of it."

Hamsher concluded by suggesting that Reid and President Obama "are going to have to lean on Joe this time, because otherwise I think there will be a price to pay for allowing him to dictate what the caucus does. ... There are consequences down the line for Joe's lack of loyalty."

I honestly don't know what they can threaten Lieberman with...

Lieberman: Sure, I'd Filibuster A Health Care Reform Bill With A Public Option

2009-10-27T14:44:00.000-04:00

"I told Senator Reid that I'm strongly inclined--i haven't totally decided, but I'm strongly inclined--to vote to proceed to the health care debate, even though I don't support the bill that he's bringing together because it's important that we start the debate on health care reform because I want to vote for health care reform this year. But I also told him that if the bill remains what it is now, I will not be able to support a cloture motion before final passage. Therefore I will try to stop the passage of the bill."

He should be stripped of any amount of power he has...

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2009-10-27T14:43:00.000-04:00

Using his "originalist'' philosophy, Scalia said he likely would have dissented from the historic 1954 Brown v. Board of Education decision that declared school segregation illegal and struck down the system of "separate but equal'' public schools. He said that decision, which overturned earlier precedent, was designed to provide an approach the majority liked better.

Wow!

Interracial Couple Denied Marriage License

2009-10-16T09:17:00.000-04:00

"I'm not a racist. I just don't believe in mixing the races that way," Bardwell told the Associated Press on Thursday. "I have piles and piles of black friends. They come to my home, I marry them, they use my bathroom. I treat them just like everyone else."

WTF??? Is this still going on in America???

2nd GOP Senator Expresses Potential Support For Healthcare Bill

2009-10-14T14:10:00.001-04:00

As the Senate continues its debate on health care reform, Senator Susan Collins (R-ME) released a statement today saying that she supports the efforts of Senator Olympia Snowe (R-ME) to pass the Senate Finance Committee's health care bill yesterday; however, she expressed concern over the bill in general.

They have to do this if they want their party to survive.

Saudis Seek Payments for Any Drop in Oil Revenues

2009-10-14T14:08:00.001-04:00

Saudi Arabia is trying to enlist other oil-producing countries to support a provocative idea: if wealthy countries reduce their oil consumption to combat global warming, they should pay compensation to oil producers.

Is there any question that we need to stop using oil???

Snowe Voting Yes On Senate Finance Health Care Reform Bill

2009-10-13T13:57:00.001-04:00

Sen. Olympia Snowe (R-Maine) said Tuesday that she intends to vote for the Senate Finance Committee's health care reform package. She cautioned that her vote should be seen as a sign of her faith in the process going forward, not as support for the final package that will arrive on the Senate floor.

"Is this bill all that I would want? Far from it," said Snowe. "Is it all that it can be? No. But when history calls, history calls, and I happen to think that the consequences of inaction dictate the urgency of Congress to take every opportunity to demonstrate its capacity to solve the monumental issues of our time."

Snowe's statement came several hours before a scheduled committee vote.

This should shame the blue-dogs!

House: Working hard or hardly working?

2009-10-08T12:06:00.000-04:00

After taking control of the House in 2006 — and again when President Barack Obama was elected president in 2008 — Majority Leader Steny Hoyer (D-Md.) boasted that lawmakers would work four or five days a week to bring change to America.

But midway through Obama’s first year in office, Hoyer’s House has settled into a more leisurely routine. Members usually arrive for the first vote of the week as the sun sets on Tuesdays, and they’re usually headed back home before it goes down again on Thursdays.

WTF???

Rachel Maddow: Strip Support from Dems Siding with Republican filibuster on Health Reform

2009-10-08T12:02:00.001-04:00

What does this proposal mean? In general, it means Democrats need to be Democrats!

Republicans are planning to use the Senate "filibuster" procedure to block a vote on health care reform. But if all Senate Democrats stick together, a clean up-or-down vote will take place.

This means 51 votes -- not "60 votes" -- would be needed to pass reform. And winning a public health insurance option would be very likely.

Sign the petition!

D.C. to Introduce Same-Sex Marriage Bill

2009-10-06T12:21:00.000-04:00

Democrats and Republicans on Capitol Hill said it appears unlikely that Congress will block a bill to be introduced Tuesday that would allow same-sex marriages in the District.

Good!

Glenn Back Analogy Fail

2009-09-24T18:26:00.002-04:00

Conservative commentator Glenn Beck was trying to illustrate a point on his TV show yesterday, but it really didn’t work out — for his point or for the poor little prop.

That’s what it looked like anyway. But the whole thing really is confusing. We concur with the LA Times’ Andy Malcolm — “we’re not sure we fully understand” his stunt.

Beck likened the conservative uproar to Obama’s initiatives to frogs who are thrown into boiling water. The experience is so shocking that the frogs jump out. It’s too much, too fast, he says. And the frogs (conservatives) ain’t takin’ it.

If the water was cooler, he says, and it gradually heats up to a boil, the frogs would be toast because they wouldn’t know what’s going on.

So we get the analogy. It doesn’t quite work, but we know where he’s going.

FAIL

The problem is, his experiment appeared to fail.

Beck had a pot of boiling water on his stage as well as a container of cute, little, jumpy frogs. He appeared to grab an unlucky one to begin the lesson.

“Barack Obama has galvanized the country because of the sheer size of the bills he has proposed and the number of bills and the urgency that he’s placing on the bill,” he said.

“He has forced us to think and get involved,” he continued. “We have not, like John McCain, been boiled slowly. We have been tossed quickly into boiling water… and what happens when you throw them in, when you throw them in, frogs into boiling water?”

Like Julia Child flicking in some paprika onto a delightful omelette, Beck tossed the little frog into the water.

Ooooops \

Maybe he should have used a better prop...LOL!

P.S. At least it doesn't appear to have been a real frog.

Kansas town hall erupts into laughter at GOP Rep's health reform lie

2009-09-23T09:34:00.000-04:00

This was pretty funny...but sad at the same time...

Protect Insurance Companies PSA

2009-09-22T13:54:00.000-04:00

Protect Insurance Companies PSA from Will Ferrell

Birther lawyer in hot water after accusing judge of treason

2009-09-21T16:43:00.001-04:00

Orly Taitz, the lawyer heading up the "birther" movement trying to prove President Barack Obama wasn't born in the United States, has suffered severe setbacks in recent days to her strategy of litigating Obama's provenance in federal courtrooms.

A federal court judge in Georgia has given Taitz two weeks to present an argument why he shouldn't fine her $10,000 for pursuing what he called a "frivolous" lawsuit on behalf of an army captain who questioned Obama's place of birth.

And to add to the complications, the army captain has now distanced herself from her lawyer, asking the judge to withdraw a motion of appeal Taitz had filed on her behalf and declaring she plans to file a complaint against Taitz with the California State Bar.

LOL!

75 Percent of Oklahoma High School Students Can't Name the First President of the U.S.

2009-09-18T08:56:00.000-04:00

Only one in four Oklahoma public high school students can name the first President of the United States, according to a survey released today.

Someone please tell me this is a joke!

Keep F***ing That Chicken

2009-09-17T11:51:00.000-04:00

Legendary New York broadcaster Ernie Anastos had a momentary lapse of reason Wednesday night when he dropped the F-bomb live on TV.

During some playful banter with local weatherman Nick Gregory, Anastos complimented Gregory, or at least attempted to, by saying, "It takes a tough man to make a tender forecast, Nick."

Looking confused, Gregory responded, "I guess that's me."

Without missing a beat, Anastos continued, "Keep f***ing that chicken," a completely bewildering phrase that made co-anchor Dari Alexander's eyes bug out of her head. Gregory, for his part, just threw his hands up and shook his head.

What does that even mean???