A better way to use 700 Billion

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Wednesday October 01, 2008 · 6:06 PM PDT

2008/10/01 · 18:06

I understand the danger of Banks not having money to lend. I really do. What I don't get is why the solution is a 700 billion dollar "rescue" of the banking industry. If the danger is that these financial institutions will not have money to lend businesses and individuals, why doesn't the U.S. government, instead of bailing out wall street, use the 700 billion to loan money to individuals and businesses? I'm not an expert on economics, if there is a logical fallacy in this argument, please point it out.

This plan helps individuals who need to get car and home loans. It helps small business get loans for expansion and expenses. It helps individuals. It doesn't help the people who screwed up, but they shouldn't be helped. Why can't the government directly loan money to people to keep the economy going instead of giving an insane amount of money to wall street?

McCain, Hamas, & The Media. Action needed Urgently

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Friday May 16, 2008 · 6:29 AM PDT

2008/05/16 · 06:29

McCain's previous desire to talk to Hamas should be a huge story. But it isn't. So far the media is ignoring it. Us all talking back and forth to each other isn't going to get the media to cover this story. That is why we must bombard the media with polite emails about why, in the interest of fairness, they must cover this story. Here are some media contacts pages to get us started.

http://abcnews.go.com/...

http://www.msnbc.msn.com/...

http://www.cbsnews.com/...

http://www.cnn.com/...

If we can get the broadcast media to cover this story, the rest will follow. Lets get this ball rolling.

The Governor of Georgia Prays for Rain as I Hope for Sanity.

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Thursday November 08, 2007 · 6:46 PM PST

2007/11/08 · 18:46

cross posted @ Standing Before the Fire

What to do when the rain won't come? If you're Georgia Gov. Sonny Perdue, you pray.The governor will host a prayer service next week to ask for relief from the drought gripping the Southeast.

Praying to the Gods for rain was common in Ancient Greece, the Roman Empire, and apparently modern day Georgia. Good governors are policy wonks who look for solutions to problems.When solutions don’t exist they do their best to deal with the fallout of the problem. They don’t hold a public prayer asking for rain! The people of Georgia didn’t elect God governor of Georgia, they elected you, Sonny Purdue, so it is your problem to deal with this, not his. There is no evidence there is a God, let alone a God that hears prayers, let alone a God that responds to prayers! I don’t have a problem with him praying to God before hitting the sheets at night, but in his capacity as Governor of Georgia he should look for slightly more scientific solutions to his state’s problems.

Rudy Lying About Health Care.

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Tuesday October 30, 2007 · 7:56 AM PDT

2007/10/30 · 07:56

Cross Posted @ http://www.standingbeforethefire.com

"My chance of surviving prostate cancer — and thank God I was cured of it — in the United States: 82 percent," Giuliani says in a new radio spot airing in New Hampshire. "My chances of surviving prostate cancer in England: Only 44 percent, under socialized medicine."

Rudy is quoting a magazine article which did not cite any sources for it’s figure. The chances of surviving Prostate Cancer in the United States and England are virtually the same according to actual statistical studies, but why use those when you can use unsourced articles.

Rudy is using his own brush with death to prevent those who need affordable health care from getting it. His brush with cancer is over and has the best health care a millionaire can buy. He Doesn’t give a dam about those who can’t afford what he can afford. No one has mastered the art of using tragedy to promote the interests of the elite like Rudy.

Link for quote and statistics

Take Action- Help Protect America's Independent Media

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Monday October 29, 2007 · 10:33 AM PDT

2007/10/29 · 10:33

Cross posted @ http://www.standingbeforethefire.com

Tomorrow congress is holding a hearing on the Time-Warner written legislation that redistributed postal taxes away from magazines with large circulations to independent magazines with smaller circulations. This has the effect of stifling the free market and silencing magazines that are not owned by large corporations, since the large tax hike will put many independent magazines out of business. These independent magazines have traditionally not only been important watchdogs on government actions, but also on large corporations, such as Time-Warner. Its no wonder why wanted this legislation passed. Just to emphasize how ridiculous this rule is, it’s the equivalent of having people pay a smaller % of their wages to the government the more money they make.

Please sign this petition. Call your congressman and Senators. Enough political pressure can get a new bill passed. Just don’t expect to hear Wolf Blitzer talking about it on "The situation Room."

On Crony Capitalism

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Sunday October 28, 2007 · 3:47 PM PDT

2007/10/28 · 15:47

Cross posted @ http://www.standingbeforethefire.com

The President’s veto of 35 billion dollars over 5 yearsfor children’s health care is amazing considering his signing of Medicare part D, at a cost of 700 Billion dollars over 10 years (Much of it corporate welfare to big pharma). Is it really more important that we help old people, who have already enjoyed 60-90 years on earth, get prescription drugs then expand the SCHIP program, at 1/10th of the cost? This is the same president who signed the 2002 farm bill, which results in farming subsidies of 25 billion a year, subsidies which mostly went to big agriculture. This makes the veto seem perplexing, unless one considers the lack of corporate welfare in this bill.(more in the body).

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Thursday October 25, 2007 · 9:36 AM PDT

2007/10/25 · 09:36

cross posted at my new blog http://www.standingbeforethefire.com Please give it a visit, I will be doing several posts a day, some of which wont be posted here. Thanks.

Rudy on whether he supports water boarding or not

It depends on how it’s done. It depends on the circumstances. It depends on who does it.

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It depends on who does it? What? Why would it matter who does it? Does this mean that it is okay for the CIA to do it, but not for the military? Again, another Republican pretending not to know what Water boarding is. Under what circumstances can making someone think they are drowning to death not be torture?

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Sunday February 04, 2007 · 5:34 PM PST

2007/02/04 · 17:34

CBS is still pandering to the right. They are promoting themselves as those who will report good news.! Not groundbreaking journalism. Not exposing the ills of society. Not showing the problems the impoverished face. Not that I expect great Journalism from the corporate hacks at CBS, but the fact that they have decided to become fox news lite is sad. CBS had a great chance to promote its news show tonight. Instead they showed the world they are abdicating there duty to report the news and instead planning on turning their news program into 30 minutes of "look how wonderful America is."

For those of you not watching the game, it went something like this.
(Katie Couric speaking) We hear all the time about the bad things in America, but on the CBS Evening News, we report on the good going on in America, great people doing great things"(Not exact, I am rewriting it from memory). If anyone remembers the exact language of the add please post it.

The Dishonest Mr. Dershowitz

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Wednesday November 22, 2006 · 8:47 PM PST

2006/11/22 · 20:47

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/...

Dershowitz clearly has no qualms about propogandizing against the palestinian people. He is enraged by President Carter's new book. It is scary how much the anti-palestinian forces in America reflect the mind of President Bush. Ignore reality, Create your own reality, sell it to politicians, sell it to the public, all the while avoiding reality.

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Friday November 17, 2006 · 7:46 PM PST

2006/11/17 · 19:46

Here it the quote:

He fully backs Howard Dean as the Democratic Party chairman. "I didn't support his running for the chair of the DNC," Reid said. "I was wrong. He was right....I support his grassroots Democratic Party-building."

Looks like James Carville(and whoever he is going to bat for) is failing to get traction in his anti-dean crusade.

http://www.thenation.com/...

Howard Dean for -Time man of the year(IMO)

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Wednesday November 08, 2006 · 9:34 AM PST

2006/11/08 · 09:34

Lets look at how monumental this election is.

+6 Senate seats- Not a single seat lost despite many democrats in swing/conservative states being up for reelection.

+6 governships, not a single Republican takeover.

+ at least 29 house seats gained, again republicans fail to take a single district from the dems

This absoultely would not have happened with Dean's vision of a 50 state strategy AND his willingess to take firm stands against the Right wing. Had we done the usual target 20 most vulnerable seats we would not have won the house. EX: Lois Murphy losing, while Sestak wins)

While Pelosi/Shumer/Emaneul were celebrating, Dean was calm, cool, colllected, ready to give credit to others. He realizes that this is just the beginning of turning the Dems into a national party, and the end of ceding parts of the country to the Right.

The Associated Press Disgraces itself by being George Allen's puppet

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Friday October 27, 2006 · 3:12 PM PDT

2006/10/27 · 15:12

Here is the extremely misleading headline they ran with.

"Allen labels Webb writing 'demeaning to women'; Webb cries foul"

They ran this headline knowing full well many people will only read or see the headline. Under the social norms we live under, violence against women in works of art, such as movies, plays, books, are not assumed to be incriminating of the author, unless it glorifies violence against women. This headline gives no indication that it is a work of FICTION. 99 percent of people seeing that headline will have no idea that the demeaning remarks he made were in a work of fiction, they will assume they were made in a non fiction book.

If they do decide this attack by the Allen campaign is newsworthy, they must put the Headline under the proper context.

This sensational headline by the AP is disgusting.

* This is not meant to be an attack on the writer of the article, who I believe did a good job writing the article. Whoever made up the headline should be fired. Here is the link. http://www.jacksonville.com/apnews/stories/102706/D8L1665O1.shtml

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The Dishonest Mr. Dershowitz

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The Associated Press Disgraces itself by being George Allen's puppet