ORCA & the Manchurian candidate

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Saturday November 10, 2012 · 1:04 AM PST

2012/11/10 · 01:04

We celebrated when Romney lost, but the USA dodged a bullet. He decided on a project to digitize voter lists for poll watchers to check off who had voted. Republicans who hadn't shown up would be called and encouraged. All would be automatically run from Central headquarters in Boston, bypassing the locals.

The Unmitigated Disaster Known As Project ORCA by an ordinary GOP volunteer says, "From the very start there were warning signs. Working primarily as a web developer, I had some serious questions. Things like 'Has this been stress tested?', 'Is there redundancy in place?'" Then he describes how Mitt was not just a RINO- but the secret agent from Massachusetts who hired a bunch of clowns(thieves?).

I missed the scoop on this story, but my point is not the damage Romney did to himself, but the harm he inflicted on the GOP. Democrats got elected and die hard Republicans vowed never to volunteer again- all thanks to Mitt.

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A President Romney who could oversee ORCA would

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A President Romney who could oversee ORCA would

Make Katrina look like a pool party

58 votes

Be poised for a nuclear stand-off with Iran

16 votes

Learn from his mistakes

1 vote

Have respect for states rights

2 votes

Make the whole world thank Massachussetts

13 votes

AZ: MD's can lie to Mom about fetal defects

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Friday March 09, 2012 · 8:49 AM PST

2012/03/09 · 08:49

Arizona legislature's love for the fetus extends to stopping women from aborting a one with a birth defect, by preventing her from ever finding out about it.

The Arizona Senate passed a bill this week that gives doctors a free pass to not inform pregnant women of prenatal problems... Republicans are banning lawsuits against doctors who keep information from pregnant women

Balloon Juice headlined the story from Addictinginfo

Only the Senate so far seems to have decided that informing a women with an ectopic pregnancy that she might need an abortion is perhaps medically unnecessary. /snark/I hope this law would not shield an MD who refused to act on a life/fertility threatening ectopic pregnancy.

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Nine state already have similar laws. Which are they?

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Nine state already have similar laws. Which are they?

mine

1 vote

Miss.

2 votes

Mich.

0 votes

Minn.

1 vote

Mass.

0 votes

Md.

0 votes

got to find out

5 votes

you're kidding me

30 votes

check b.c. NOW

1 vote

Mass/GBIO to cut healthcare costs

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Friday February 17, 2012 · 3:20 AM PST

2012/02/17 · 03:20

Romney care had nothing to do with him. The genuinely grassroots Greater Boston Interfaith Organization(GBIO) formed an alliance with some hospitals and HMO's which pushed it through the legislature. As a backup and as a pressure device GBIO collected enough signatures for a referendum. Those seventy faith organizations, Christian, Jewish and Islamic from both the city and the suburbs formed a group ten years ago committed to seeking fairness and economic justice.

GBIO successfully paved the way for Obama care but that is increasingly expensive and will eventually bankrupt both individuals and the USA. So now GBIO will step up again and take on the entire medical care industry and tame it. We intend to work on bending the cost curve. It might seem like too big a job, but then we have God on our side.

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Which player will need to change the most to control costs?

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Which player will need to change the most to control costs?

Patients

0 votes

Dying patient families

1 vote

Internists

0 votes

Specialists

1 vote

Hospitals

0 votes

Insurance Companies

2 votes

Pharmaceutical Man.

0 votes

Nurses

0 votes

Upper management

0 votes

AMA

0 votes

You

0 votes

Medicare

0 votes

Congress

1 vote

All of the above

4 votes

Terrorists kill Iranian nuclear expert

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Wednesday January 11, 2012 · 9:38 AM PST

2012/01/11 · 09:38

A car bombing removed chemistry professor Roshan from his post at the Natanz uranium enrichment plant as reported in the Guardian. Riders on a motorcycle attached a magnetic bomb which exploded killing both Roshan and his driver on the second anniversary of a previous Iranian nuclear scientist's assassination, Masoud Ali Mohammadi. Over the last few years, another scientist has been killed and two others have been attacked, but survived. Iran has accused Israel of organizing this series of assaults.

America opposes terrorism, but its ally Israel is deeply implicated in this bombing as is shown in the link.

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Do you worry about Iran going nuclear?

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Do you worry about Iran going nuclear?

Keeps me up nights

15 votes

Not much

16 votes

31 votes

Nuclear disarmament

1 vote

Peace

2 votes

What me worry?

5 votes

OWS martyrs are piling up

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Saturday October 29, 2011 · 7:41 PM PDT

2011/10/29 · 19:41

Marine Scott Olsen has brain damage.
Miran Istina, 18, chief media relations officer for Occupy SF will die soon.

She got cancer at age 14 and her insurance company refused to pay for treatment. She traveled "looking for someone to give a damn, really, someone to care enough to treat me."
"The decision was absolutely influenced by some corporation or some bank saying, 'She's not worth our money.' In end terms, corporate greed is going to cost me my life. I just happen to not be one of the ones they wanted to be around much longer."

After repeated refusals she decided, "I was going to spend the rest of my life doing whatever my heart wants." which has turned out to be Occupy San Francisco.

who's next?

Veiling anti-Muslim Bigotry

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Monday April 18, 2011 · 8:08 AM PDT

2011/04/18 · 08:08

BRIAN FUCHS resident of Halamish, West Bank writes on April 12, 2011 on the NYT that

The French ban on the full-face veil is a first step in helping some of the most powerless women participate more fully as equal citizens.

As is well known, most non-Arab occupants of the West Bank love and respect their female Muslim neighbors, especially when they are about to give birth and are waiting to pass through a checkpoint. Read More

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Muslim women wear veils to

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Muslim women wear veils to

demonostrate their identity

2 votes

show courage

0 votes

support their community

0 votes

be modest

1 vote

praise Allah

0 votes

obey the patriarchy

3 votes

any of the above

2 votes

all of the above

1 vote

beats me

1 vote

cause it's warmer in the winter

0 votes

Call the Republican bluff

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Wednesday April 06, 2011 · 7:15 AM PDT

2011/04/06 · 07:15

and really shut down the government. If the Republicans want to wreck the US internationally and financially make the pain so quick and sure that it will turn around quickly.
Stop all US commerce that travels by airplane or crosses a border by closing the FAA (airports) and Customs. Put fear into the ruling classes by discontinuing the convoying by warships of merchant vessels past Somalia.
Make the pain personal to those teapartiers that want the government to keep their stinking hands off Medicare, by closing more than National Parks. Close down the National Weather Service (NWS), so they won't get warnings of the type of severe storms that just devastated Georgia (or tornadoes). Close down the Coast Guard, to make boating dangerous. Stop sending out Social Security checks-they will be paid later. Close all the military bases on US soil.
Keep Medicare going so that no has an operation halted midway or their oxygen turned off.
The Republican challenge requires a Napoleonic response.

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What to include in the shutdown?

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What to include in the shutdown?

minimal

2 votes

Plus NWS

0 votes

above + FAA

0 votes

above + Customs

0 votes

above + US bases

0 votes

above + Coast Guard

0 votes

above + convoys

1 vote

above + Soc. Sec.

0 votes

above+ Medicare

0 votes

above+ most Pentagon

5 votes

Rep.Murtha said pullout in 2005- now he needs our help

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Friday October 31, 2008 · 4:03 PM PDT

2008/10/31 · 16:03

Rep. Murtha PA-12 is in a suddenly tight race. Rep. John Murtha (D) 46%, William Russell (R) 44%
Kossack Singiser roundup

Murtha's early call for a pullout from Iraq has made him a nationwide rethug target. They hate this ex-marine for defending the troops and trying to spare their lives. Don't let them win this one.

This Korean War veteran stood up for us early, when it counted. Don't let him down now. Donate through Move on.

Hurricane Gustav Liveblog Diary #9

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Monday September 01, 2008 · 11:26 AM PDT

2008/09/01 · 11:26

Latest official advisory

Please DO NOT Recommend this diary. Instead, please recommend the Mothership (3).

These diaries are intended to provide an up-to-date emergency information and references for our many Gulf Coast Kossacks. Our thoughts and prayers go out to all those affected by the hurricane. If you are trying to reach someone in the area of the storm, try text messaging. It often works when cell phones do not.

Please post only relevant images. We are trying to keep these diaries loading easily.

Please use the first comment to post updates. Responses to the first comment should be updates only.

Please use the second comment to volunteer for liveblogging. Respond to the second comment if you can volunteer to liveblog. It's very easy! You can just copy what others have done.

Resources are below the fold.

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Sunday July 10, 2005 · 4:10 PM PDT

2005/07/10 · 16:10

Leonard Clark 'Liberal' Soldier Arrested In Iraq by Jimstaro is a currently recommended diary.
Leonard has been arrested and his blog has been shut down for calling for the impeachment of George Bush.He is a natioal guard soldier who is more than willing to go out on patrol.

Please read jimstaro's diary and recommend it so the Kos machine can move into action behind Leonard Clark.

Revolutionary Women Boston 2004

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Tuesday July 27, 2004 · 9:31 AM PDT

2004/07/27 · 09:31

As a sideline to the convention, a lot of progressive groups are having conferences. Besides having Hillary and Andrea Cabral (Black woman running locally for Sheriff) speak, there will be workshops on being a woman senator, in congress, and organizing women to vote.
It's this afternoon.
http://tinyurl.com/3lrfe

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