It’s Time to Push Back HARD on Health Care

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Tuesday August 18, 2009 · 5:25 PM PDT

2009/08/18 · 17:25

It’s not time, it’s long past time.

Mr. President, you’re certainly aware of the fallout from President Clinton’s failure to pass meaningful health care reform — he lost what momentum he had early on, and (despite some real accomplishments) his presidency was bogged down by Republican obstructionism. They continued obstructing after killing health care reform, simply because it worked.

I’m not just hang-wringing here, I have an idea. Follow me downstairs…

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Palin pick is a fallback - not a Hail Mary

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Tuesday September 02, 2008 · 8:22 PM PDT

2008/09/02 · 20:22

This is a short one, but I like to keep things to the point as much as possible.

There's been a lot of talk about McCain's VP pick being a "desperation move," or even a "Hail Mary," a last-ditch attempt to pull a win out of Rove's (or Diebold's) arse. Living on Planet Georgia, where the pod people took over 20 years ago, I have a little different perspective under the jump.

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Monday January 30, 2006 · 9:13 AM PST

2006/01/30 · 09:13

"Crisis is Opportunity" - ancient Chinese motto

Whether or not Peak Oil is at our door, the real story is how demand has begun to outstrip supply, which shall lead to more-or-less permanent shortages, and sooner than later. A diary by Jerome a Paris from last year shows what happens to market prices when demand gets ahead of supply, whether the cause is dwindling supply or increasing demand, using molybdenum (recent) and whale oil (19th century) as examples. In the case of whale oil, prices may well have gone higher had not kerosene (i.e. petroleum), and electricity later on, replaced whale oil for lighting some time after the peak.

Using molybdenum as an example, prices climbed fairly steadily for a few years (sound familiar?), suddenly tripled almost overnight, then doubled again over the next few months before falling back a little. If gasoline and diesel fuel follow the same trend, we could hit $15/gallon in the US! That is, when we can get it.

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Hell Freezes Over: White House Rebukes Pat Robertson (w/poll)

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Friday January 06, 2006 · 12:09 PM PST

2006/01/06 · 12:09

The BBC has picked this one up. After Splat mouthed off about Sharon's stroke being divine retribution:

Trent Duffy said Mr Robertson's views were "wholly inappropriate and offensive" and did not really have any place in this, or any other, debate.

The "useful idiots" of the religious right, goaded along by Pat Robertson and others, have been Bush-league's most reliable support all along. This may be another crack in the wingnut coalition, a cynical plan to make Bush-league sound reasonable for a change... or perhaps Bush-league no longer feels like he needs the religious right to promote his real agenda.

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Fighting High Gas Prices, Part 1: The Easy Stuff

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Wednesday April 27, 2005 · 7:10 AM PDT

2005/04/27 · 07:10

First of a short series.

Many of us could cut our personal gasoline consumption by 5% — perhaps up to 10% — with the vehicles we have now. It gets better: we don't have to drive less or anything. This is stuff even wingnuts can get behind.

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Afghanistan, China, and the Oil Wars

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Tuesday April 19, 2005 · 12:26 PM PDT

2005/04/19 · 12:26

Jerome a Paris's energy diaries must have been on my mind when I read a few days ago about Rumsfeld in Afghanistan to discuss permanent US bases, because I made a connection.

Eh? Afghanistan has no oil. What are you blithering about?

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Lou Sheldon on Tom DeLay: "Outspoken Defender of Traditional Values"

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Thursday April 14, 2005 · 7:20 AM PDT

2005/04/14 · 07:20

Gag me. Lou Sheldon likes to spam me with his hateletter; it's an unsavory look into one of the darker corners of Pharisee thought.

While Delay apologizes for "heated rhetoric", it looks like at least part of the right-wing propaganda machine is swinging into action to defend him.

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Lou Sheldon's Latest: "Take Back Our Courts from the Anti-God Left"

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Tuesday April 05, 2005 · 1:38 PM PDT

2005/04/05 · 13:38

Rev. Lou Sheldon of the "Traditional" "Values" Coalition (TVC) has created a new website, http://www.OurBattlePlan.com, to gather support (i.e. $$$) for a Senate pressure campaign. He seems to have fallen in love with the phrase "anti-God Left."

Please take a minute right now to contribute the largest amount you can afford today to help us fully-implement our TAKE BACK OUR COURTS Battle Plan.

He wants to raise $10 million.

A couple of years after constant complaints to hosting companies, Louie cleaned his email lists. Looks like he wants a new Mercedes or something; he's "expanded" his mailing list without the consent of those being emailed. (That's called "spamming" if you hadn't guessed.)

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