We were told this was a crisis!
A couple of things to remember about these social security projections.
1. The social security trustees are appointed by Bush and the CBO numbers project trust solvency into the 2050's
2. Accepting the SSTrustees #'s, if we do nothing, 2041 is the year that social security will be able to only pay out 80% of current benefits well into the 22nd century.
3. Raising the cap on ss taxes from 90k (presently) to about 140k, eliminates the trust shortfalls totally.
4. Bob Dole, in 2000, said one of his greatest achievements when he was in the Senate was pushing the solvency of the trust until 2034.
In other words, there is/was no "crisis" with Social Security. So why did the Republicans and Bush pretend like there was?
5. Republican leaders don't want to return the money they raided from the Social Security trust fund to pay for tax cuts for the rich. And they hate the most succesful Government plan ever... insurance that you won't eat cat food when you retire.
And the new blog is coming. You are going to love it.
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WAKE UP FELLOW DEMOCRATS
Man,wish Sammy was on the air today! Sooo much happening today!
No, I havn't blah blah blah...I'll check it out when I get to work..maybe we have it...
The book budget ran out recently..no new books until Summer.... :(
When I heard about the recent Supreme Court decision on abortion, it reminded me of my own words -
We in the United States are so proud of our freedom, but women in the United States have lost ground, not gained it, even in controlling sexual access to our own bodies.
Women are forced into involuntary childbearing because men, not women, control women's reproductive functions.
Women are an enslaved population --the crop we harvest is children, the fields we work are houses. Women are forced into committing sexual acts with men that violate integrity because the universal religion -- contempt for women -- has as its first commandment that women exist purely as sexual fodder for men.
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This fascist ideology of female inferiority is the preeminent ideology on this planet.
No matter how it is disguised, no matter what refinements pretty it up, this ideology, reduced to its essence, postulates that women are biologically suited to function only as breeders, pieces of ass, and servants.
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Why do right-wing women agitate for their own subordination? How does the Right, controlled by men, enlist their participation and loyalty? And why do right-wing women truly hate the feminist struggle for equality?
Men know everything - all of them - all the time - no matter how stupid or inexperienced or arrogant or ignorant they are.
The First Amendment, it should be noted, belongs to those who can buy it. Men have the economic clout. Pornographers have empires. Women are economically disadvantaged and barely have token access to the media.
Money speaks, but it speaks with a male voice.
"I found this over at C&L
An important request for C&Lers: I have heard from a Code Pink member who went to Harry Reid’s office to thank him for telling the truth about Iraq. His office told her that of the calls they’ve received, few have been positive. We’re quick to condemn those who are trying to lie to us about what’s going on. Let’s let Harry Reid know we appreciate him speaking the truth. You can email his office or call (202) 224-3542.
Also a link to a Harper’s article on MSBlog fave, David Broder .
Comment by vernon"
Harry Reid’s office
just talked to Nick, one of his staffers, gave Harry some kudos.
he said he’d pass it on. i mentioned me being a reggied repub and discussing it with other repub buds and all of us approving.
took him a few seconds to recover…
good young man, his first year of DC ….
he reads C&L’s btw.
From Juan Cole:
Wednesday, April 25, 2007
McAffrey: Iraq Gov't Dysfunctional
Support for al-Maliki Eroding
Now that Senator John McCain has retired the Straight Talk Express, retired general Barry McAffrey, a veteran of the Gulf War, has taken up the mantle. McAffrey has recently carried out a study of the situation in Iraq. Highlights (not in original order):
"We’re in trouble."
"The Iraqi government in power is dysfunctional."
"There is essentially no province in Iraq where the central government holds sway."
"Iraq’s neighbors are bearing no good will toward a favorable outcome in Iraq."
" . . . collectively the American people have said that the conduct of the war has been so incompetent that we’ve come to disbelieve the administration has the ability to carry this off."
"The next president, unless the situation in Iraq is dramatically turned around, is pulling the plug."
Gee, I guess Harry Reid and Nancy Pelosi are in pretty good company after all. It is Dick Cheney who is living in fantasyland.
In contrast, it seems clear that former Secretary of Defense Donald Rumsfeld routinely sent spokesmen out to lie to us about cases like that of Jessica Lynch and Pat Tillman. Lynch says she was no Rambo, and that Tillman was killed by 'friendly fire' was covered up.
USA Today reports that support for the al-Maliki government in parliament is eroding. He hasn't been able to push key legislation through parliament, and appears indecisive. (I think the problems are structural, not inherent in al-Maliki's personality. He seems pretty decisive to me. But he heads what is essentially a minority government, since his United Iraqi Alliance only has about 85 members in the 275-member parliament after recent defections. He can only survive by depending heavily on the Kurdistan Alliance, a bloc deeply committed to a weak federal government. He doesn't have much of an army of his own, and cannot independently do much about the guerrilla war. It is not clear who could do better.
Kim Gamel of AP writes about the new "dump truck bomb" tactics of the Sunni Arab guerrillas in Iraq.
The LA Times reports a major split in the Iraqi Baath Party. The Baath is more important as a component of the guerrilla war than is usually admitted by the US press and by the Bush administration. Al-Hayat reported this winter that actually the Baath has split into 4 parties, with Izzat Ibrahim al-Duri leading the most influential one.
The US is pursuing indirect diplomacy with Iran on a range of issues now, Warren Strobel and Nancy Youssef report.
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talkin's about a revolution by tracy chapman
Lunatic Girl
Re: Prick Cheney
“I’m not going to get into a name-calling match with somebody who has a 9 percent approval rating,” - Harry Reid
Also:
Here’s DeLay in 1999, stating that the U.S. campaign in Kosovo will fail:
“[Milosevic is] stronger in Kosovo now than he was before the bombing. … The Serbian people are rallying around him like never before. He’s much stronger with his allies, Russians and others.” Clinton “has no plan for the end” and “recognizes that Milosevic will still be in power,” added DeLay. “The bombing was a mistake. … And this president ought to show some leadership and admit it, and come to some sort of negotiated end.”
Of course, none of this should come as a surprise. DeLay, who is currently under criminal indictment for money laundering and criminal conspiracy, has a long history of attacking the patriotism of progressives.
UPDATE: “I cannot support a failed foreign policy. … President Clinton has never explained to the American people why he was involving the US military in a civil war in a sovereign nation, other than to say it is for humanitarian reasons, a new military-foreign policy precedent. Was it worth it to stay in Vietnam to save face? What good has been accomplished so far? Absolutely nothing.” — Tom DeLay on the House floor in April 1999, when US troops were a month into their three-month mission in Kosovo
David Halberstam died in a car accident monday.
a good friend of Hunter Thommpson and one of the great writers in a generation of writers and reporters who opened up the world of journalism. what Tom Wolfe called the "New Journalism"
wonder what he thought of the web?
RIP David and thanks!
so eva braun says they're suffering. how nice for them. maybe she should go back and read that craigs list article from the wife who just lost her husband when his tour got extended because of bush'es stubborness.
Longer Iraq tours are good for ‘Army stress.’ “Extended overseas deployments affecting soldiers serving in Afghanistan and other locales overseen by U.S. Central Command should help to alleviate the stress on the Army, a senior U.S. officer in Afghanistan told Pentagon reporters today. ‘I’m absolutely confident that that’s going to work and that’ll manage the pressure and the stress on the force,’ Army Col. Martin Schweitzer, commander of the 82nd Airborne Division’s 4th Brigade Combat Team, said during a satellite-carried news conference.”
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You're turning this poor kids into monsters. This is rediculous. There is no normalcy in Iraq, how can they heal if they continue to see horrid things in this monsterous war!!
Hey, fellow Sammy fans!
There was an anti-war protest in my town last Friday, and I was able to film it. I just wanted to share the YouTube link with you.
Thanks! Hope you're back soon, Sammy!
http://www.youtube.com/SpectoSemper
"...bush'es stubborness."
April 25, 2007 1:49 PM
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Blah cubed,
Throw one more apostrophe on that baby and you'll have all of the bases covered; Bush'es'.
tanks Don!
appreciate it!
eya GBC, Blah3!
morfternoon!
goodun Don!
well done!
Giuliani: If Elected, Dem Pres Will "Wave White Flag" To Terrorists
AP | NEDRA PICKLER | April 25, 2007 11:51 AM
Democrat Barack Obama (news, bio, voting record) rebuked Republican White House rival Rudy Giuliani Wednesday for suggesting the United States could face another major terrorist attack if a Democrat is elected in 2008.
Obama, an Illinois senator, said the man who served as New York mayor's during the Sept. 11, 2001, terrorist attacks should not be making the serious threat that faces the country into "the punchline of another political attack."
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NY Post publishes fake AP story in order to blast Dems
by John Aravosis (DC) · 4/25/2007 01:50:00 PM ET
Wow, even FOX News hasn't tried this little trick. The conservative tabloid, New York Post, owned by Republican media magnate Rupert Murdoch, published a story today criticizing Democrats for giving a "death sentence" to millions of Iraqis. The only problem? The AP never wrote any such thing. You wouldn't really call this plagiarism - I'm not sure what you call it. Faking someone else's byline in order to print a story blasting a political enemy. Wow. TPM's Greg Sargent spoke with the AP reporter, David Espo, who the NY Post claims wrote the story. Espo says:
"I didn't write anything remotely like that. My name was on the story and I didn't write it anything like the way it was printed."
Publishing a fake AP story. I certainly hope the Associated Press is going to weigh in on this one.
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got it. sometimes my fingers work faster than my brain...
blah blah blah said...
got it. sometimes my fingers work faster than my brain...
April 25, 2007 2:20 PM
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For you it's fingers, for me it's lust.
it ain't friday
can i bounce my boobies anyway?
PowerPoint Politicking on the Job-NY Times.
http://www.nytimes.com/2007/04/25/opinion/25weds2.html?ex=1335153600&en=60712979376e915f&ei=5089&partner=rssyahoo&emc=rss
(Listening to Randi...)
Monica Goodling. Another Monica who... serves at the pleasure of the president.
hey bibimimi, dow broke 13K today so i say bounce away, but maybe we better put it to a vote. after all, we do live in a democracy.
randi is hot today. and she's just getting warmed up.
toniD said...
NY Post publishes fake AP story in order to blast Dems
by John Aravosis (DC) · 4/25/2007 01:50:00 PM ET
The Righties Just Have No Shame,Whatsoever!! I Smell a Big Lawsuit!! :)
bibi, it's our prerogative to bounce when we want to. I'll join you, Heh!
It's Wednesday ya bastids!!!
from imc-uk:
They say there is a dominant force in Welsh politics, and it has been ignored for too long. In the last election 62% of the Welsh public voted for Nobody, yet the politicians still did not get the message. "This time we'll make it an even more resounding victory by boycotting the elections. Have you ever noticed that nothing changes, whichever party is in power?
ASSEMBLY ELECTIONS
Cardiff Anarchists have launched a Vote Nobody campaign
They say there is a dominant force in Welsh politics, and it has been ignored for too long. In the last election 62% of the Welsh public voted for Nobody, yet the politicians still did not get the message.
"This time we'll make it an even more resounding victory by boycotting the elections. Have you ever noticed that nothing changes, whichever party is in power?
"Time and again we are asked to trundle down to the polling station and choose between a couple of carbon-copy candidates from the 'lets accommodate big business party'.
"They campaign with near-identical policies on issues that bare no relevance to 99% of people, while ignoring the issues that have communities by the throat. Only 1 in 7 people voted
for Rhodri Morgan last time, yet still he has the cheek to stay in office.
Alex Smith, of the Cardiff Anarchist Network, Nobody’s spokesperson said: “Choosing between politicians in our fake democracy is like choosing between Coke and Pepsi, they're all the same, just with slightly different packaging, sowhy not vote nobody, and start taking control of your own life."
"We say Vote Nobody because Nobody cares...
Why aren't you in prison, Delay?
I'll join you, Heh!
It's Wednesday ya bastids!!!
April 25, 2007 3:24 PM
it's bump day, toni!
April 25, 2007
McCain's Support Falls in Arizona
In Arizona, a new Cronkite-Eight Poll finds support for Sen. John McCain’s candidacy in the Republican presidential primary race declined from 44% in February to 32% this month. Rudy Giuliani places second with 27%, followed by Newt Gingrich at 9% and Fred Thompson at 6%.
On the Democratic side, Sen. Hillary Clinton leads with 25%, followed by Sen. Barack Obama at 20%, John Edwards at 18%, and Al Gore at 17%.
Interesting takeaway: "When asked how they think President Bush will be remembered compared with other U.S. presidents, more than half of Arizona voters think he will be considered as below average (22%) or as one of the worst presidents in history (31%)."
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blah3;
dow @13k.
I used to crack my ass up when people would call asking if we had a dow fund.
it's called being a bush.
Anybody else having a problem getting AAR online right now??I can't get thru.Must be super busy,or something??
mmrules;
yes i gave up a went thru kphx.com.
the green boys do not impress me
Paper: Investigators Bear Down on Former DeLay Aide
By Paul Kiel - April 25, 2007, 2:49 PM
The Jack Abramoff investigation has certainly come roaring out of its hibernation.
Next on the list, apparently, is Tom DeLay's former right-hand man, Ed Buckham. From The Houston Chronicle:
...prosecutors could decide within weeks whether to bring charges against former DeLay staff chief Edwin Buckham, according to sources close to the investigation who spoke on the condition that they not be identified. The decision should give a clear signal on whether DeLay remains in legal jeopardy, the sources said.
As we've noted before, Buckham was the main cog in DeLay's operation and a close associate of Abramoff.
And he also -- to further burnish his status as a distinguished muckrakee -- acted as the lobbyist for Brent Wilkes, the defense contractor who was recently indicted for bribing Duke Cunningham and CIA #3 Dusty Foggo.
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i was happy to see it up so i could go to cash in a few positions. i suspect that as we test north of 13 we're going to see another large correction to flush out the weak.
toss in some global unrest and the chinese eating our lunch and its going to be a wild ride this year.
its going to be a wild ride this year.
April 25, 2007 3:38 PM
bette davis; portfolio mgr
(April 25, 2007 -- 12:02 PM EDT)
Yesterday we showed you Karl Rove's speech about the 'hotspots' of 'vote fraud' around the country. See it here if you didn't catch it yesterday. Today we look at just where Rove was getting his information. Hint: it has something to do with sock-puppeteer John Lott ...
Update: We've got a side-by-side comparison of Rove's words and Lott's words over at TPMmuckraker.
Watch the video
why isn't delay in prison? that's a damn good question.
isn't it something how the right is trotting out the different attack dogs to try and get the upper hand. we got delay with treason, guiliani with dems cause terror attacks, and somebody bashing pelosi for missing a hearing.
whats the conventional wisdom on monica getting immunity. i thought she was one of the bad ones.
Bush Blames The Troops.
http://www.thenation.com/doc/20070507/scheer
bibimimi troll'p said...
mmrules;
yes i gave up a went thru kphx.com.
the green boys do not impress me
Thanks:)Yep,I had to go over to NovaM.Yea,the Green Boys.Don't get me started! :)
Hey Sammy! How about a New Thread,Please!! After Todays Volume of News,I'll be Eligible for Social Security,by the time I get to the Bottom of This Thread!! :)
blah blah blah said...
why isn't delay in prison? that's a damn good question.
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Relax, cowboy. If I understand the circumstances correctly, the DeLay prosecution delay is due to added charges.
I say, "Bring 'em on." The more, the merrier. I can wait. It would not break my heart of the DeLay trial competes for campaign coverage when it will count for something.
Hey at least MSNBC is testing the waters with a Liberal. Stephanie Miller will be on next week. THEN WE NEED TO SEND IN NOTES TO HAVE Sammy on. Last week they had Mike Snenomish???? something like that - one of his guest - Ted (I want to shot everything that moves) Haggart.
Opps - that should have been
Ted Nugent.... sorry - get those ladent Homosexuals confused.
Anyway - like I said above - Sammy May is to long to wait to here you the air someplace - get some kind of guest spot.
The Self-Organization of Cyberprotest
Abstract
The specific task of this paper is to describe cyberprotest as a self-organizing system. Cyberprotest is a global structural coupling and mutual production of self-organization processes of the Internet and self-organization processes of the protest system of society. In cyberprotest the self-organization of the Internet system and the self-organization of the protest system produce each other mutually in a self-organization process, hence cyberprotest is a self-organization of self-organization processes, a form of second-order self-organization
dada said...
"Anti-American" is code for recognition and strong criticism of the history of bungles, follies, and atrocities known as U.S. foreign policy. - Max Sawicky
April 25, 2007 12:17 PM
Yep...good quote...
House Panel Subpoenas Rice
By Paul Kiel - April 25, 2007, 1:29 PM
From the AP:
By 21-10, the House oversight committee voted to issue a subpoena to Condoleezza Rice to compel her story on the Bush administration's claim, now discredited, that Iraq was seeking uranium from Africa.
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Learn how to fart your way
to inner peace, today.
House Committee Approves RNC Subpoenas
By Ben Craw - April 25, 2007, 12:51 PM
The Committee on Oversight and Government Reform has just voted 20-8 to authorize subpoenas for both RNC Chairman Mike Duncan and emails held by the RNC. They are set to vote on three more subpoenas this afternoon.
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Alice:your right.Good quote.......But, (totallynext) 's Ted Nugent,Ted Haggert line is The Best One I've Heard all Day!I'm still Laughing. :)
Wolfowitz Deputy Doctored World Bank Climate Change Reports
Juan José Daboub, a strong advocate of the Iraq war, was rewarded with a managing director post when Paul Wolfowitz took over the World Bank. In that role, Daboub appears to have been Wolfowitz’s designate to drive the conservative agenda.
Daboub has started to come under heavy criticism from the Bank’s executive directors for pushing a hard-right agenda that stands in stark contrast to many of the Bank’s long-standing policies. In addition to his efforts to undermine family planning policies, Bank scientists are now disclosing that Daboub also tried to eliminate references to climate change in official reports:
Robert Watson, the chief scientist, said Mr Daboub tried to dilute references to climate change in the Clean Energy Investment Framework, a key strategy paper presented to the bank’s shareholder governments at its annual meeting in Singapore last September.
“He tried to water it down. He tried to take out references to climate change,” Mr Watson said. Two other officials confirmed this account.
The chief scientist said Mr Daboub, who oversees the sustainable development division, tried to remove some references to climate change completely and, in other cases, replace them with the phrases “climate risk” and “climate variability”, which convey greater uncertainty over the human impact on climate.
Mr Watson said: “My inference was that the words ¬’climate change’ to him implied human-induced ¬climate change and he still thought it was a theory and was not proved yet.”
Daboub’s efforts at the Bank bear a striking similarity to efforts by Philip Cooney, the former chief of staff for the White House Council on Environmental Quality. Handwritten notes on drafts of several climate reports issued in 2002 and 2003 showed Cooney repeatedly edited government climate reports in ways that play down links between such emissions and global warming.
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Blah cubed: "...but i still have the knack of picking a top when i'm buying and picking a bottom when i'm selling."
April 25, 2007 4:04 PM
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I am (slowly) learning that this is an asset to trading. The counter-intuitive lesson is to run INTO the fire instead of away from it.
Here are my current rules:
1.) Do nothing.
2.) If a compelling urge strikes, do the opposite.
3.) Bitch a lot and self-flagellate often.
Sorry Alice.I didn't get any sleep last night,and I'm abit dingy.More than usual. :)
http://bigbloosky.blogspot.com/2007/04/suffer-little-bushies.html
Wednesday, April 25, 2007
Suffer little bushies
The Bushes never cease to amaze. It must be wonderful living in Fantasyland, where reality and truth never rear their ugly little heads. How insulated from the real world does a Bush have to be to believe that the results of November's election where Republicans were handed a sound thrashing was a mandate for a military surge in Iraq and that the two people who suffer most when it comes to Iraq are George and Laura. Yet, that's exactly the mindset of both George and Laura. The two make no apologies for their failures or mistakes, but instead, attempt to paint themselves as the victims"
wulp!
A giggle compliments of Tom DeLay...
Tom Delay’s “treasonous” rant against Harry is just plain crazy
By: Logan Murphy @ 12:30 PM - PDT
This giggle-fest from Tuesday's "Tucker" was priceless. Guests Pat Buchanan and A.B. Stoddard simply couldn't contain their laughter before or after watching a video taped interview with Tom Delay where he claims that Harry Reid and Nancy Pelosi are "very very close to treason." When the interviewer suggests that treason is a pretty serious charge Tom assures him that he's right because he "looked it up while we were driving over here, what the definition of treason is." Pure comedy gold…
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Buchanan: "Call Gonzales!"
Stoddard: "It's amazing. It used to be oh, how the mighty have fallen, and now it's oh, how the might have fallen and gone out on book tour."
Tucker, to his credit did mention The Bug Man was an intimidator….
Is it just me or does Tom look a little tipsy in that video?
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does Tom look a little tipsy in that video?
April 25, 2007 4:23 PM
tap the bug man, you get 85% corruption and 15% gin
Stewart and McCain debate Iraq on The Daily Show: It gets heated….
By: SilentPatriot @ 10:19 AM - PDT
Saint McCain sits down with Jon for a spirited debate over Iraq policy.
John Amato:..If anyone wants to write a transcript for the second half of the interview—that would be great….Stewart and McCain got into a brawl in that segment…Do you think any of the talking heads would have this kind of debate with McCain?
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Stewart tries to explain a few things to St. McCain about fighting a civil war:
"…but that assumes that we're fighting one enemy—they're fighting each other. We're not surrendering to an enemy that has defeated us. We're saying, how do you quell a civil war when it's not your country?"
McCain got very angry that Stewart called them out for using the " you're not supporting the troops," theme and was trying to filibuster the segment…He tried to use the troops as a wedge. Stewart got hot and fought back…McCain started to stutter. (rough transcript)
Stewart: All I'm saying is you cannot look a soldier in the eye and say questioning the president is less supportive to you than extending your tour for three months when you should be coming home to your family.
McCain: Every American..
Stewart: And that's not fair to put on people that criticize…
McCain: Jon…
Stewart: And you know I love you and respect your service and would never question any of that—this is not about questioning the troops and their ability to fight and their ability to be supported. And that is what the administration does and that is almost criminal.
If you haven't seen it, watch it, if you have, worth a re-watch
bibimimi troll'p said...
does Tom look a little tipsy in that video?
April 25, 2007 4:23 PM
tap the bug man, you get 85% corruption and 15% gin
April 25, 2007 4:31 PM
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Sorry. I'm still irretrievably focused on the image of bouncing boobies.
I wonder if the brassiere industry needs a consultant?
My E-mail to My CA-Democratic Rep.
Short and sweet.I Sure Hope it Helps.But,I doubt it.
Are you going to help Rep.Dennis Kucihich Impeach VP Dick Cheney??If you don't.I will be switching Political Parties.From Democrat to Independent.And,vote against you in the next election.Please,Listen to The People,and help Rep.Kucihich.Thank you,Michael.
Sorry. I'm still irretrievably focused on the image of bouncing boobies.
you weren't supposed to peek.
For what it's worth.
Not one Jose Farmer book in the whole place...
Expert panel faults U.S. policies on disabled people By Will Dunham
Tue Apr 24, 4:20 PM ET
Outdated U.S. policies are keeping many disabled Americans from getting help they need, an expert panel said on Tuesday in a report faulting government inaction toward the needs of this growing population.
"Society must do more now before a crisis is upon us," Alan Jette, director of Boston University's Health and Disability Research Institute and head of the Institute of Medicine panel, wrote in a report.
"Far too little progress has been made in the last two decades to prepare for the aging of the baby boom generation and to remove the obstacles that limit what too many people with physical and cognitive impairments can achieve," Jette added.
The report looked at a wide range of issues affecting the disabled such as accessibility of buildings and other places, gaps in public programs such as those paying for wheelchairs and scooters and health insurance coverage.
The panel said younger and middle-aged people face increasing risk for future disability due to factors such as diabetes, obesity and a sedentary lifestyle.
This suggests the coming generation of elderly Americans may have more disabilities than the current one.
DISABLED SOLDIERS
Jette told reporters he hoped the return home of thousands of U.S. soldiers who suffered disabling combat wounds in Iraq and Afghanistan would bring greater national attention to the plight of disabled Americans.
The 14-member panel urged the government to change rules blocking the disabled from getting equipment and services to help them work and do other activities outside the home.
Jette said he particularly wanted more progress on making buildings and other places accessible to the disabled and the creation of a national program to track data on the disabled.
Panel member Lisa Iezzoni of Harvard Medical School urged the Justice Department to increase efforts to make sure health care facilities are fully accessible.
The panel said the public programs such as Medicare and Medicaid and private health plans continue to restrict access to technologies and services that can help disabled people.
The report called for changing Medicare's "in-home use" rule for equipment like wheelchairs or scooters. Current regulations require that equipment must be "appropriate for use in the home," which the report the government has interpreted to mean equipment will not be paid for if, for example, it would help a person at work and not at home.
RISING NUMBER OF DISABLED
Between 40 million and 50 million Americans -- roughly one in seven -- have some kind of disability, the report said. The number is expected to balloon over the next three decades as the baby boom generation ages.
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I wonder if the brassiere industry needs a consultant?
April 25, 2007 4:59 PM
Think along the lines of undulating powder pockets
Murdoch plays politics at Milken event
By Paul Bond
April 25, 2007
Rupert Murdoch wore his politics on his sleeve Tuesday, telling a large audience of business leaders that the press is routinely unfair to George W. Bush and that the president doesn't seem capable of defending himself.
"I'm a supporter of President Bush, but I do believe he's a bad -- or inadequate -- communicator," Murdoch told attendees at the Milken Institute Global Conference in Los Angeles.
The News Corp. chairman and CEO said that, personally, Bush is "persuasive, strong and articulate" but that "he seems to freeze whenever a television camera appears."
Motioning to Paul Gigot, editorial page editor of the Wall Street Journal, Murdoch said, "Apart from your newspaper and mine, there's a sort of monolithic attack on him every day of the year."
News Corp. is the parent company of Fox News Channel, the New York Post and dozens of other media assets.
"The atmosphere is absolutely toxic," Murdoch said of the partisanship of U.S. politics and much of the media. "You can't really expect anything to be achieved in the next 18 months, and it's a very serious, sad problem for this country."
Murdoch also lamented a U.S. populace that can't agree on how serious a threat militant Islam is, and he suggested skepticism about the danger of man-made global warning.
The environment is a long-running theme at the Milken event, now in its 10th year. In the past, former Vice President Al Gore has promoted his message about the perils of global warming, and this year Sen. John Kerry, D-Mass., did likewise.
But Murdoch said that "alleged climate changes" and other problems are far more manageable than is the threat of Islamic terror, which will worsen significantly if Iran is allowed to develop nuclear weapons.
"It's a tragedy that we're not more united" in the war on terror, Murdoch said.
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Air America Radio today announced a few big changes both to its program roster and to its infrastructure, as it announced some upcoming changes.
First, a revamp of the schedule, effective May 21:
# Mark Riley moves from 5-6A to 8p-Midnight ET, hosting "The Air Americans" with "Ring of Fire" hosts Robert Kennedy, Jr and Mike Papantonio, current "Politically Direct" host David Bender and "RadioNation" host Laura Flanders.
# Jon Elliot gets bumped to the Midnight-3AM shift, giving the network a live presence in the early morning hours.
# And of course, Lionel moves to the midday shift starting May 14.
On the weekends, there are also a few changes:
# Mark Green gets his own show, "This Week In America", featuring panelists Ariana Huffington and Bob Kerry. The show will air 6-7P ET Saturdays.
# As reported yesterday, Marc Sussman's investment show will air 9-10A ET Saturday mornings.
# "Clout" with Richard Gerrn will air 8-10P ET on Saturdays
# Sam Seder returns for a Sunday afternoon show
# "RadioNation" with Laura Flanders gets a makeover
In addition, Air America announced a new advertising sales deal with Westwood One, which will replace a similar 3-year deal they had with Jones MediaAmerica, which terminates next month. Westwood One will oversee all of Air America's network and affiliate ad sales, in conjunction with the network's in-house affiliate relations department, effective June 1.
http://ltradio.blogspot.com/2007/04/big-changes-for-air-america.html
I wonder if they will still have Ring of Fire on Saturday along with
the nightly show? I hope so. That was one of my favorites.
Looks like Rachael stays in her spot.
They still want Lionel? Yech!!
Malkin gets out the big guns to challenge Senate Dems...
http://atrios.blogspot.com/2007_04_22_archive.html#7542242159138247142
Support for Stephanie Miller on Teevee
Stephanie Miller on MSNBC
"hmmm,...I wonder what Hitler would do now?
whups! I try again
Support for Stephanie Miller on Teevee
Stephanie Miller on MSNBC
Through a Taliban Chieftan, they are bringing out Osama again. This time the supposed high leader of the Taliban is saying that bin Laden tried to assassinate VP Cheney.
I cannot believe any of this because it was tried before! Every time this admin is in trouble, they march out Osama. Yet noone goes after this man.
I just heard this on CNN from Wolf Blitzer. I am sure it will be heavily reported.
European Parliament votes for Wolfowitz to resign. In “an extraordinary move in diplomatic terms,” the European Parliament voted 332-251 to call on the E.U. Presidency and the U.S. government to push for World Bank President Paul Wolfowitz’s resignation.
LINK
Fox News’ John Gibson: The U.S. invasion “unmasked” Iraqis “as knuckle-dragging savages from the 10th century.”
LINK
Inhofe calls Reid remarks ‘un-American.’ “Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid (D-NV) should be recalled by voters over his ‘un-American’ remarks about the Iraq war, Sen. James Inhofe (R-OK). Asked if the Nevada Democrat should resign from his leadership position because of his comments, Inhofe said: “I think it’s more serious than that. I think there should be a recall…for saying something as un-American as that.”
LINK
Schumer wants answers on Charlton firing. Sen. Chuck Schumer (D-NY) in a letter today called on Alberto Gonzales “to disclose by Friday all contacts between the office of Rep. Rick Renzi (R-Ariz.), the Justice Department and the White House related to his department’s probe of the lawmaker.” Schumer told Gonzales that the new reports out today “raise new and serious questions about whether improper political motivations were involved in your decision to force [former U.S. Attorney Paul] Charlton to resign just a few weeks after the election.”
UPDATE: House Judiciary Committee is looking for documents too:
Paul Charlton, the ousted U.S. attorney from Arizona, followed the rules. He reported an inappropriate contact last fall about an investigation into Arizona Republican Rep. Rick Renzi from the lawmaker’s own chief of staff as is required by Justice Department rules.
But that document is nowhere to be found among the thousands of pages of records turned over by the Justice Department to the House and Senate Judiciary committees investigating whether Charlton and seven other prosecutors were fired to silence public corruption investigations like the one into Renzi.
A House Judiciary Committee aide said that the document is “missing” and they plan to ask the Justice Department to find it and find it fast.
LINK
Fresh thread every 1
toniD said...Every time this admin is in trouble, they march out Osama.
April 25, 2007 7:10 PM
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To the tune of "Maria" from West Side Story, as sung by Dick Cheney:
The most beautiful sound I ever heard:
Osama, Osama, Osama, Osama.
All the beautiful sounds of the world in a single word:
Osama, Osama, Osama, Osama, Osama, Osama.
Osama, I really need a guy named Osama,
and suddenly the name will never be the same to me.
Osama! I've really missed a guy named Osama.
And suddenly I've found how wonderful a sound can be.
Osama, say it loud and there's war drums playing.
Say it soft and it's almost like praying,
Osama, I never stop saying: "Osama!"
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