Early Morning Swim

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Good news. Just a buncha frat pranks. Obama's in trouble TEAPARTY!!!! Getting scary.Correcting Mike Huckabee. They're being so mean to Rush.Still an ass. [...]

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Docudharma Times Monday May 11

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CRC Public Relations WhoBrought You Harry And Louise And The Swift Boat Ads Are BackAttacking Health CareReformHealth Care Is A RightNot A Privilege Monday's Headlines: Administration Plans to Strengthen Antitrust Rules Economic downturn[...]

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Of Course Wanda Went Too Far

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Wanda Sykes at Nerdprom:“Rush Limbaugh said he hopes this administration fails,” Sykesbegan. “So you’re saying, ‘I hope America fails’, you’re, like, ‘Idon’t care about people losing their homes, their jobs, our soldiers inIraq’. He just wants the country to fail.“To me, that’s treason.He’s not saying anything differently than what Osama bin Laden issaying. You know, [...]

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The conservative Dick Cheney: Just doing what
comes unnaturally

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Monday Morning Business Update

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Old NewsSaturdayStress Tests1 Improving markets helped banks pass stress testBy Mark Felsenthal, Reuters21 mins agoWASHINGTON (Reuters) - U.S. bank regulators breathed a huge sigh of relief in early April when improving financial markets looked set to[...]

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Worst of Recession Over

post from Librocrats - Designed Intelligent on 11 May 2009 07:05:00 AM. © Librocrats - Designed Intelligent

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On May 11th, BuzzFlash Celebrates Nine Years of
Pro-Democracy Journalism. It's Our Birthday!

post from BuzzFlash.org - Progressive News and Commentary with an Attitude | Fight Ignorance: Read BuzzFlash on 11 May 2009 07:03:50 AM. © BuzzFlash.org - Progressive News and Commentary with an Attitude | Fight Ignorance: Read BuzzFlash

A BUZZFLASH EDITORIAL

May 11, 2009, marks the 9^th anniversary of BuzzFlash.com, which began as an impassioned, feisty progressive news and commentary site out of disgust.

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Swift boaters for health care ripoffs

post from AMERICAblog News| A great nation deserves the truth on 11 May 2009 07:01:00 AM. © AMERICAblog News| A great nation deserves the truth

You knew it was coming. The infamous Swift Boat crowd is ready to point out health care problems in Canada and the UK, obviously because we know how well the US systems works. Ahhh yes, the memories of the US health care system. I still tingle with joy reflecting on the two times my own father was stopped at the front door of hospitals while they checked his health insurance papers. So what if they were 911 calls and he was dying? This was of course after he opted for treatment at the VA because he was afraid of losing all of the retirement money he saved but thankfully the Republican economic model took care of that after he died.

I also think fondly of the time in Philadelphia when another doctor made sure to keep me coming back for multiple treatments until it was too late to get proper treatment to fix a shattered bone. I guess he had to pay for that summer home and really needed the costly offices visits. See how easy it is to play the "in _______ system everything is terrible" game? The difference in my case is that I have actually used the US system as well as the WHO #1 system so I can compare with real life experiences as opposed to the boogie man talk of the ultra-rich wingnuts.

The Swift Boaters for health care ripoffs are obviously proud that the system is fantastic for the ultra rich - such as the former CEO millionaire who is running this group - but for everyone else, it's neatly tucked in between Costa Rica and Slovenia at number 37 in the world. What a proud, star-spangled ranking that is. Great! God bless America!

The television ads that began airing last week feature horror stories from Canada and the United Kingdom: Patients who allegedly suffered long waits for surgeries, couldn't get the drugs they needed, or had to come to the United States for treatment.

"Before government rushes to overhaul health care, listen to those who already have government-run health care," intones Rick Scott, founder of a group called Conservatives for Patients' Rights. "Tell Congress to listen, too."

Scott, a multimillionaire investor and controversial former hospital chief executive, has become an unlikely and prominent leader of the opposition to health-care reform plans that Congress is expected to take up later this year. While disorganized Republicans and major health-care companies wait for President Obama and Democratic leaders to reveal the details of their plan before criticizing it, Scott is using $5 million of his own money and up to $15 million more from supporters to try to build resistance to any government-run program.

The deep pockets who have profited while everyone else has been left behind intend to spend their money to avoid any change that might bring improvements for the broad population.

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Witness For Bush Prosecution Dies In Libyan
Prison

“Yeah I robbed the bank but look at all the bills I paid!”~Wanda SykesIt was an easy pun. Bush/Cheney’s “alibi” in the War on Terra, the source of the fabricated link between Iraq and al-Qaeda in the run up to the Iraq invasion, was a link obtained through torturing a man named punnily enough “al-Libi.” [...]

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Jimbo to Mitch: I'm staying in, you fucker

Jim Bunning could not be bumfuzzling the GOP more effectively if the Democratic Senate Campaign Committee had written his script.

Saturday night, at the annual Lincoln Dinner, hundreds of Kentucky repugs expecting to hear Bunning drop out of the 2010 Senate race heard this instead:

"I am nobody's puppet. I am my own man," Bunning said during his remarks. "I hope and pray I can count on your support in the coming months. The battle is going to be long, but I am prepared to fight for my values. I hope you are with me."

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