Death and the Public Option

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Tuesday May 12, 2009 · 6:00 PM PDT

2009/05/12 · 18:00

The act of digging her grave made it real for me. I was going to kill her. Until then, it'd just been an idea. She had to die, but it hadn't really set in that I was going to have to kill her. Digging her grave settled that issue. I was going to kill her.

If you are feeling a mounting horror, then you feel as I do. But please, have the fortitude to read on...

Pen

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Sunday April 12, 2009 · 10:20 PM PDT

2009/04/12 · 22:20

In the midst of all the hoopla about the incredible job everyone all around did in today's amazing rescue little has been said about the Somalian pirates response.

Abdullahi Lami, one of the pirates holding the Greek ship anchored in the Somali town of Gaan, said: "Every country will be treated the way it treats us. In the future, America will be the one mourning and crying," he told The Associated Press. "We will retaliate (for) the killings of our men."

Jamac Habeb, a 30-year-old self-proclaimed pirate, told the AP from one of Somalia's piracy hubs, Eyl, that: "From now on, if we capture foreign ships and their respective countries try to attack us, we will kill them (the hostages)."

"Now they became our number one enemy," Habeb said of U.S. forces.

Could these threats spell the beginning of the end of piracy in Somalia and the perfect chance to put a nail in the coffin of the Republican meme that Democrats are weak on foreign policy?

Pen

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Monday January 26, 2009 · 11:52 AM PST

2009/01/26 · 11:52

The NYT's came out with an article Sunday that posed the question: Should the government nationalize the banks? Natually, our fearful leaders danced around the question of nationalization, fearing right wing backlash. The Dems still fear being called socialists and commies doncha know?

"This Week" on ABC, the House speaker, Nancy Pelosi, alluded to internal debate when she was asked whether nationalization, or partial nationalization, of the largest banks was a good idea.

"Well, whatever you want to call it," said Ms. Pelosi, Democrat of California. "If we are strengthening them, then the American people should get some of the upside of that strengthening. Some people call that nationalization.

"I’m not talking about total ownership," she quickly cautioned — stopping herself by posing a question: "Would we have ever thought we would see the day when we’d be using that terminology? ‘Nationalization of the banks?’ "

How about we call it what it is then? Repossession.

Pen

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Thursday November 27, 2008 · 1:02 PM PST

2008/11/27 · 13:02

From Information Clearing House comes the speech "based on history rather than mythology" by Wamsutta (Frank B.) James, Wampanoag. that was to be delivered at Plymouth, Massachusetts, 1970 that he was never allowed to make.

Pen

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Wednesday November 26, 2008 · 10:56 AM PST

2008/11/26 · 10:56

Well, well, it seems the first blush is wearing off on the Obama honeymoon. People are getting up in arms over some of his recent appointments. While others are trying to defend his choices by saying that:

He is keeping his word to us by keeping Gates. This is what "new politics" looks like.

Which is to say it looks disturbingly much like the old politics. You know, the politics that Kos wrote about when he said:

Oh boy. Robert Gates, Bush's choice to replace Donald Rumsfeld at the Pentagon, is another shoot first crazy neocon

So let's take a look back at what we had to say two years ago and what is being said in todays "new politics".

Pen

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Tuesday November 18, 2008 · 2:09 PM PST

2008/11/18 · 14:09

Not 10 years from now. Not 5 years from now. Not 2 years from now. TODAY. Starting IMMEDIATELY.

Because if 6 high school kids from Philly were able to do it a few years ago, then you can certainly do it RIGHT NOW.

It's called "The Attack" and it's a hybrid supercar with over 300 hp developed from a AC electric motor powering the front wheels and a 1.9L VW TDi biodiesel powering the rears. The batteries powering the electric motor act as capacitors able to discharge a lot of energy in short bursts, enough for 0-60 runs in the sub 4-second range. Under normal driving conditions the car is powered by the biodiesel engine and achieves 50mpg.

And the best part is, this super-hybrid didn't come from the Big 3 or some obscure Euro supercar maker, The Attack is the work of the West Philadelphia High School Electric Vehicle Team - a group of 6 high school, YES, high school kids.

Pen

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Wednesday November 05, 2008 · 7:47 PM PST

2008/11/05 · 19:47

Today I heard audio of Obama saying that every American should have health insurance. I certainly hope that was a simple semantic error on President Obama's part. Because Americans neither need nor want health insurance. What they need, what they want, is affordable health CARE.

I'm sure it's just a matter of semantics. I'm sure President Obama didn't mean that all Americans should have the same right to pay outrageous copayments for their prescriptions.

Insurers say the new system keeps everyone’s premiums down at a time when some of the most innovative and promising new treatments for conditions like cancer and rheumatoid arthritis and multiple sclerosis can cost $100,000 and more a year. But the result is that patients may have to spend more for a drug than they pay for their mortgages, more, in some cases, than their monthly incomes.

Pen

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Tuesday November 04, 2008 · 11:40 AM PST

2008/11/04 · 11:40

As the top recc'd diary reports: Those who vote straight party ticket are seeing their votes for Obama disappear. The diary then states

No one is quite sure why, but it's happening

But that's not true. People ARE sure why and they were warning that exactly this would happen in Pennsylvania weeks ago.

Not only did they warn you, they even told you WHO was doing it.

Pen

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Friday October 31, 2008 · 4:37 AM PDT

2008/10/31 · 04:37

I really hope those of you who listened to my initial warning back in 2006, And So It Begins, had the werewithal to invest in gold. What was selling just two years ago for $500 an ounce is now sitting at $767 and guess what? It's going to go up.

Not that the average Joe could afford to buy gold back then or now. But lots of people DID buy gold back two years ago, thus starting golds meteroic rise. Funny thing was, only those people privvy to the information that I posted up had reason to go out and start buying gold in such quantities that it drove the price up.

As I reported two and a half years ago, when the Federal Reserve stopped reporting M3 data, it marked the beginning of our journey to the economic meltdown we've witnessed the past few weeks.

And it was the opening salvo leading up to the penultimate act of Treason.

Pen

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Thursday October 02, 2008 · 2:38 AM PDT

2008/10/02 · 02:38

Don't know if anyone's read the IPC's excellent plan to address the bailout but I think THIS is how whatever final plan gets passed should be paid for. Americans don't want to pay for the greed and avarice of the wealthy elite. They shouldn't have to. With IPC's ideas, they won't have to.

Just don't stand too close to any conservatives when you tell them this plan. Their heads will explode. You see, this plan not only is fiscally responsible and morally just, but it explodes the entire conservative philosophy (mythology?) at the same time.

But first, to the plan:

Pen

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Tuesday September 30, 2008 · 10:08 PM PDT

2008/09/30 · 22:08

These are historic times and Monday didn't let us down in that regard. Monday was a day of truths revealed. We saw that Boehner and the rubber stamp Republicans CAN lose control of their party. We saw 40% of the Democratic Party, led by progressives, actually DO have spines.

We saw the myth of bipartisanship fail.

A day later we saw that the. world. didn't. end.

But the biggest Moment of Truth is yet to come. Nancy Pelosi's Moment of Truth.

Pen

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Monday September 29, 2008 · 4:58 PM PDT

2008/09/29 · 16:58

Today was a great victory for progressives everywhere. Kucinich, Inslee, Conyers and many other Dems all stood up and said a big loud NO! to a bill that many Americans did not want to pass. A bill we now know was flawed.

Even as Nancy "Impeachment is off the table" Pelosi, Steny "Let 'em wiretap us" Hoyer and other Dems wanted to ram this bill down the American publics throats, Republicans, scared that the few "compromises" in the bill meant socialism and Progressives, aware that what the bill actually did was put a huge burden on the middle class to enrich the elite, came together put a stop to the fraud that was the Emergency Economic Stabilization Act of 2008.

Kucinich and Co. literally saved America's ass today.

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