We knew the 912ers were nuts, just not this nuts

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Thursday May 06, 2010 · 1:09 PM PDT

2010/05/06 · 13:09

912 organizer takes aim at cities of Fort Collins, Loveland
Activist opposes UN-linked environmental group, requests recall of Fort Collins councilor

912 Group Sees the United Nations in Local Governments

I wonder if Glenn Beck weighed in on this controversy. I was recently in Loveland, CO a modest town in the foothills of the Rockies and I believe I saw Kofi Annan wandering around downtown.

This is too much to believe. You have to read this story.

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Thursday November 12, 2009 · 9:49 AM PST

2009/11/12 · 09:49

After Betsey Markey's disappointing vote on Health Reform, I sent a short message expressing my displeasure. I’ve copied it below the fold along with her response.

I would like to respond back and I thought it might be fun and helpful to solicit some feedback from the blogosphere.

Since I am a constituent and she will actually accept my messages, I wanted to open it up to you for suggestions.

I would like to respond with a set of specific questions regarding her position on health care based on her letter and current position. If you have any ideas, I would certainly welcome them and will include them in my response.

Thanks!

slyde734

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Wednesday November 11, 2009 · 2:34 PM PST

2009/11/11 · 14:34

I wrote a constituent email to Congresswoman Betsey Markey regarding her cowardly vote on health reform. Below is her attempt to justify her position.

Yes, I understand that staff writes these form letters and there isn't much substance to them. (I know, I used to write them myself a long time ago).

What kills me about the letter is that she says this isn't about the "idea of health reform." Really? I think it’s about finding a solution to the horrible mess that is our health system.

I recognize that she is in a competitive district, but does she believe that alienating her base will result in huge gains with Republicans? She has been a huge disappointment.

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Is Congresswoman Betsey Markey's vote on Health Reform

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Is Congresswoman Betsey Markey's vote on Health Reform

Disappointing

8 votes

Dumb

5 votes

Sad

5 votes

Pathetic

30 votes

Dear Congresswoman Markey

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Monday November 09, 2009 · 8:34 AM PST

2009/11/09 · 08:34

I sent the following message to Congresswoman Betsey Markey. She displayed an extreme lack of courage with regard to the health care vote and has been a huge disappointment.

The district that she represents, while competitive, is trending Democrat. There are far more Democrats who supported the health care bill that are in more difficult races than Betsey Markey. She is a profile in cowardice.

I'm curious to get her response, but I'm sure it will just make me angrier.

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Friday October 30, 2009 · 4:26 PM PDT

2009/10/30 · 16:26

A small online publication, the Ann Arbor Chronicle, has been running a series on life in county lock up. It's a really fascinating read. Below is an excerpt from

I ask what it’s like in the Washtenaw Jail. The older man grins. "You ain’t never been to jail before." He is the first of many to take one look at me and guess. The teen-looking guy rolls his eyes: "Pfft. Washtenaw’s like summer camp."

To pass time, we twirl the chains on our handcuffs. The smell in the holding pen, with three men and one toilet, is noticeable. Over time, I will build a kind of immunity to odors. When it is time to leave the holding pen, the Ann Arbor officer shackles our legs, chains the three of us together and we waddle out. For some reason, I never really mind handcuffs. It is the ankle-pinching leg irons and the forced waddling that will always get to me.

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Thursday October 29, 2009 · 11:02 AM PDT

2009/10/29 · 11:02

Radical mosque leader killed in FBI shootout

After a 2-year investigation, FBI agents descended on a Dearborn warehouse Wednesday hoping to capture the suspected head of an Islamic fundamentalist group.

The scene quickly turned chaotic, however, in a shootout that caused agents to gun down Luqman Ameen Abdullah, 53, leader of the Masjid Al-Haqq mosque in Detroit. Abdullah is accused in a federal complaint of heading a Sunni Muslim group with the mission of establishing a separate Islamic nation within the United States.

Detroit Free Press Article

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Monday October 26, 2009 · 10:56 AM PDT

2009/10/26 · 10:56

Each of the Sunday morning news shows devoted time to the war on Fox News by the Obama administration. The discussion was predictable. Picking a fight with Fox News clearly drew the ire of national pundits seeking to protect their own. Or, better yet, protect their seat in the pecking order or the punditocracy. Who knows when a lucrative job at Fox might open up just ask Greta Van Susteren.

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President Obama is attacking Fox News to...

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President Obama is attacking Fox News to...

counter the distortions

25 votes

have some fun with Glenn Beck and Bill O'Rielly

5 votes

marginalize the right wing media machinge as being biased and unreliable

49 votes

don't know

8 votes

Steny Hoyer's Townhall on C-Span

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Thursday September 03, 2009 · 10:43 AM PDT

2009/09/03 · 10:43

I wanted to know if anyone caught Hoyer's town hall last night on C-Span.

As fodder for the chronicles of right wing lunacy, there was a woman who very passionately described her son and daughter's job loss and how they were able to get coverage through the State of Maryland. Ok? Health care reform supporter? Maybe.

Nope,she went on to tell Rep. Hoyer how she didn't want a government takeover of health care. His response appropriatly pointed out that her son and daughter's coverage was technically "government" health care. She had some bizarre rationale about it being state and not federal, so it was somehow ok.

I was curious if anyone witnessed that inanity or if it was just me...

Steny Hoyer Town Hall

What's To Fear in Health Care Reform...(link)

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Friday August 28, 2009 · 9:02 AM PDT

2009/08/28 · 09:02

Being a pro-health reform guy, I wanted to share with you this awesome blog from a primary care physician from Ann Arbor, Michigan.

Its from the Ann Arbor Chronicle, a small online news outfit that provides some really great local coverage. It may have slipped under the radar for most of you, so please take a read.

People who are complacent about the problems of the uninsured may be ignoring how vulnerable we all are when there is no promise of universal coverage. Some people lose coverage when they are laid off, some when their small company decides they can no longer afford covering healthcare benefits for their employees. I have patients who are retired but too young to qualify for Medicare who are told that their former employer has dropped healthcare coverage from their retirement benefits.

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We knew the 912ers were nuts, just not this nuts

Dear Congresswoman Markey - Please help

Dear Congresswoman Markey...Response

Dear Congresswoman Markey

The Jail Diaries...

Mosque Leader Killed in Detroit

The War on Fox News...err the Main Stream Media

Steny Hoyer's Townhall on C-Span

What's To Fear in Health Care Reform...(link)