Today is a sad day for America.
--- T
Wednesday, August 26, 2009
Monday, August 24, 2009
iPhone Love
I have just switched to iPhone, and I love it! I have been a faithful Nokia person for many years, but I could not wait any longer for the 'smart' Nokia phones to come to America. I got my new iPhone yesterday and had dreams about it all night. It really is an amazing little machine - it's pure magic!
Thursday, August 20, 2009
Rage
The health care debate rages on but people seem to have left the facts behind...
People are bringing guns to town hall meetings openly - even where President Obama is to speak. But Obama says it's their right to bear arms(!). Here goes another gentle democrat unwilling to confront the nasty right-wing zealots. Let's all just get along and be nice.
When is the first seriously violent outbreak going to happen? And where? Now it's just a matter of time.
--- T
People are bringing guns to town hall meetings openly - even where President Obama is to speak. But Obama says it's their right to bear arms(!). Here goes another gentle democrat unwilling to confront the nasty right-wing zealots. Let's all just get along and be nice.
When is the first seriously violent outbreak going to happen? And where? Now it's just a matter of time.
--- T
Monday, August 17, 2009
Sunday, August 16, 2009
Wimpy Democrats
Wimpy Democrats are bowing under pressure (what's new?). They are giving up the public option in the health care overhaul as pitchfork conservatives are fighting hard to stop Obama from changing the country they love. At the same time thousands of Americans are lining up to get free health care at tents set up with volunteer doctors, nurses and dentists to provide much-needed medical care for those without sufficient insurance.
--- T
--- T
Friday, August 14, 2009
US Healthcare Fight
As the politicians fight about healthcare and the masses fill the townhalls to yell at the politicians, people elsewhere are going to Mexico to get cheaper healthcare. Many simply cannot afford to pay for treatment even if they have insurance!
--- T
Mexico
--- T
Mexico
Wednesday, August 12, 2009
Bernie Madoff And the Birthers
By Paul Krugman
Obama is a Kenyan-born Nazi Muslim planning to euthanize seniors while putting them in concentration camps. The Clintons were drug-runners who murdered Vince Foster. Why do people believe this stuff?
Yes, there’s a lavishly funded industry pushing these stories. But Glenn Beck, Rush Limbaugh, and all the others wouldn’t succeed without a receptive audience. So what makes that audience so receptive?
Here’s a thought: maybe we can learn something from Bernie Madoff.
How did Madoff pull off his scam? A lot of it probably involved affinity fraud: Madoff’s victims, largely affluent Jews, trusted him in large part because he seemed like one of them.
What I think is going on here, at least partly, is that the peddlers of anti-progressive lies are managing to convince a certain kind of American — white, socially conservative, etc. — that the hate-mongers are people like them; and, even more important, that progressives are Those People, people not like them.
Obama’s skin color makes this easy; but the Clintons faced the same kind of thing. Why? Well, the old line about Clinton being the first black president gets at something: even if Bill Clinton had a regular skin and name, he was obviously comfortable with people who didn’t, which made him one of Them.
And anti-intellectualism is also part of it.
In any case, it’s scary: you’ve got a good segment of the American population that is completely impervious to any kind of evidence, any rational argument. I mean, who collects statistics? People in black helicopters!
Obama is a Kenyan-born Nazi Muslim planning to euthanize seniors while putting them in concentration camps. The Clintons were drug-runners who murdered Vince Foster. Why do people believe this stuff?
Yes, there’s a lavishly funded industry pushing these stories. But Glenn Beck, Rush Limbaugh, and all the others wouldn’t succeed without a receptive audience. So what makes that audience so receptive?
Here’s a thought: maybe we can learn something from Bernie Madoff.
How did Madoff pull off his scam? A lot of it probably involved affinity fraud: Madoff’s victims, largely affluent Jews, trusted him in large part because he seemed like one of them.
What I think is going on here, at least partly, is that the peddlers of anti-progressive lies are managing to convince a certain kind of American — white, socially conservative, etc. — that the hate-mongers are people like them; and, even more important, that progressives are Those People, people not like them.
Obama’s skin color makes this easy; but the Clintons faced the same kind of thing. Why? Well, the old line about Clinton being the first black president gets at something: even if Bill Clinton had a regular skin and name, he was obviously comfortable with people who didn’t, which made him one of Them.
And anti-intellectualism is also part of it.
In any case, it’s scary: you’ve got a good segment of the American population that is completely impervious to any kind of evidence, any rational argument. I mean, who collects statistics? People in black helicopters!
Friday, August 07, 2009
Nazi-Talk
The discussion is heating up. People on the right are getting their pawns heated up by un-civil talk and watching, as the crowds are getting more and more restless. People are making threats of killing each other because of health care reform and other "Obama ideas". I have a feeling that something stupid is going to happen soon...
T
Nazi talk
T
Nazi talk
Wednesday, August 05, 2009
A Teachable Moment
Can't we all take a moment and rejoice in the return of these two young women without throwing rotten tomatoes at our own Madam Secretary of State? It's bad enough that former UN Ambassador, John Bolton is doing his Nikita Khrushchev imitation banging his shoe on the desk in rage. This was a tremendously delicate situation with North Korea. If it took Bill Clinton showing up to pick up the American journalists, so be it. What matters is the outcome period. The two women were allowed to come home to their lives, and diplomatic channels have been re-opened with North Korea. If for any reason we think that the Secretary of State, the State Department, President Obama, the former Vice President Al Gore and the Chair of the Foreign Relations Committee were not involved, you are delusional.
The take away from this episode in the saga of US foreign relations is that President Obama's calm, methodical teamwork is effective. It got the job done. He brought in the best team and stepped back and let everyone do their job. At long last, there is competence. May we learn from it and move forward. That is the teachable moment.
Michelle Kraus on Huffington Post
The take away from this episode in the saga of US foreign relations is that President Obama's calm, methodical teamwork is effective. It got the job done. He brought in the best team and stepped back and let everyone do their job. At long last, there is competence. May we learn from it and move forward. That is the teachable moment.
Michelle Kraus on Huffington Post
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