Political involvement should be a requirement for citizenship
Democratic Representative Alan Grayson is correct in his statements in that the results of the policies that Republicans would put forth would make someone who gets sick want to or hope to die quickly lest they possibly leave their families in debt or bankrupt. His statements were crude but sometimes shock and awe is necessary to give the opposition pause to realize that the moral side can get rough to defend that which is moral.
We will be the seed of our demise!!
I hate to write about this, but I have actually been to this play before and it is really disturbing.
I was in Israel interviewing Prime Minister Yitzhak Rabin just before he was assassinated in 1995. We had a beer in his office. He needed one. I remember the ugly mood in Israel then — a mood in which extreme right-wing settlers and politicians were doing all they could to delegitimize Rabin, who was committed to trading land for peace as part of the Oslo accords. They questioned his authority. They accused him of treason. They created pictures depicting him as a Nazi SS officer, and they shouted death threats at rallies. His political opponents winked at it all.
And in so doing they created a poisonous political environment that was interpreted by one right-wing Jewish nationalist as a license to kill Rabin — he must have heard, “God will be on your side” — and so he did.
Others have already remarked on this analogy, but I want to add my voice because the parallels to Israel then and America today turn my stomach: I have no problem with any of the substantive criticism of President Obama from the right or left. But something very dangerous is happening. Criticism from the far right has begun tipping over into delegitimation and creating the same kind of climate here that existed in Israel on the eve of the Rabin assassination.
This is serious. The Right Wing through the author of this piece has clearly committed a seditious act. From the Tea Parties, to the raucous town halls, to the above average vile towards the president, this is ultimately what they would actually support.
The Right Wing like to portray themselves as more patriotic than everyone else when ultimately they portray all the instincts of dictatorship or government not of the people but of a particular people.
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In a column published yesterday, Newsmax’s John L. Perry wrote that there is a "gaining" possibility that the military will stage a coup to "resolve the ‘Obama problem.’" Newsmax has apparently removed the column from its site. Links are now redirected to the homepage, and Perry’s author page has no mention of his latest work. You can read the full text here. The coup — which would be "civilized" and "bloodless," according to Perry — would consist of a "patriotic general" sitting down with the President and working out a new system in which "skilled, military-trained, nation-builders" would "do the serious business of governing and defending the nation" while Obama would still be allowed to make speeches. Obama, he said, is inviting such a "family intervention." |
Newsmax Columnist: Military Coup May Be Needed ‘To Resolve The Obama Problem’ | TPM LiveWire
Meet Bing. Bing lives with his wife and baby boy in Billings, Montana.
When he collapsed last year from heart problems, his family racked up over $100,000 in medical debt. No private insurance company will cover him — they profit by denying care to people like him.
Now Bing’s senator — Max Baucus — may vote this week against letting Bing buy into a public health insurance option. So today we’re releasing a new TV ad in which Bing asks Sen. Baucus to side with him instead of his insurance-company campaign contributors. Click here to see our powerful new ad — and help put it on TV in Montana and DC.
This ad — made with our friends at Democracy for America — comes at a critical time.
Starting tomorrow, the Senate Finance Committee will cast key votes on the public health insurance option. The outcome will impact the rest of the health care debate.
Max Baucus chairs this committee — and he wrote the bad bill that we’re trying to change. But he’ll have an opportunity this week to vote the right way.
We can only put this ad on TV — and use it to pressure Max Baucus — if thousands of folks chip in. We’re aiming to raise $100,000 to air this ad. Can you help?
The vote on a public health insurance option in the Senate Finance Committee could be tomorrow. Your Senator sits on the Committee, so they need to hear from you!
Can you make another call to your Senator and ask them to vote for a public health insurance option? Click here to call.
Even if you’ve called already, please pick up the phone. It only takes a few minutes to have an impact on this crucial vote.
Thank you!
–Levana Layendecker
Health Care for America Now
For those who think that the outsourcing of our jobs have not begun our migration to has been and third world status just read on.
BEIJING — When the best job Mikala Reasbeck could find after college in Boston was counting pills part-time in a drugstore for $7 an hour, she took the drastic step of jumping on a plane to Beijing in February to look for work.
A week after she started looking, the 23-year-old from Wheeling, West Virginia, had a full-time job teaching English.
"I applied for jobs all over the U.S. There just weren’t any," said Reasbeck, who speaks no Chinese but had volunteered at the 2008 Beijing Olympics. In China, she said, "the jobs are so easy to find. And there are so many."
Young foreigners like Reasbeck are coming to China to look for work in its unfamiliar but less bleak economy, driven by the worst job markets in decades in the United States, Europe and some Asian countries.
Many do basic work such as teaching English, a service in demand from Chinese businesspeople and students. But a growing number are arriving with skills and experience in computers, finance and other fields.
"China is really the land of opportunity now, compared to their home countries," said Chris Watkins, manager for China and Hong Kong of MRI China Group, a headhunting firm. "This includes college graduates as well as maybe more established businesspeople, entrepreneurs and executives from companies around the world." <CONTINUED>
Fox News feels free to lie as they know their constituency treats them as a Bible; no questions asked. Well CNN and all the networks are taking them to task. Unfortunately Fox News listeners are unlikely to hear the truth as they do not balance their viewing.
Veterans have fought for the country without asking why. When they come home, it is shameful the way they are treated and the support they get. CNN created an iReport.com project to interview these heroes. Katie Hawkins-Gaar, an Associate Producer at CNN presents this telling article. Click here for the full CNN article.
In Kingwood, Texas, software developer Egberto Willies spoke with 34-year-old veteran Paul Rodriguez. Willies met Rodriguez through a mutual friend. The former Navy corpsman happens to live just a few blocks away.
Willies listened to Rodriguez talk for nearly two hours about his time in Iraq, his return home in 2005 and the struggles he faces as a veteran. Rodriguez suffered a brain injury during combat and shared painful stories of adjusting to civilian life.
"I used to be the life of the party," said Rodriguez, who used to freelance as a radio disc jockey. Now, he says, he’s more serious and tense in social situations.
Rodriguez shared a particularly touching story about a Thanksgiving that he spent alone in his bedroom, rather than visiting with family.
"You don’t know how to interact with people. It’s kind of like being a foreigner," he said. "In your own home," added Willies, finishing the thought. iReport.com: Watch as Willies and Rodriguez interact
For Willies, the conversation was so powerful that it "gave me a new cause in life." A longtime supporter of health care reform, Willies is now interested in veterans’ benefits as well.
In fact, a week after meeting Rodriguez, the avid iReporter interviewed another veteran at a recent health care rally in Houston, Texas. Missy Rothe, who served in both the Gulf War and war in Iraq, was happy to answer Willies’ questions.
After speaking to Rodriguez and Rothe, Willies observed that while former servicemen and women are grateful for government support, "most believe they are taken for granted by employees of the VA or the country as a whole."
"As a country, we are all talk when it comes to honoring and caring for our veterans," Willies said.
Interviews give veterans a voice, iReporters a cause – CNN.com
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