Bob Morris @ Apr 8th 2007 15:55 - Category: Unfiled ;
Sen. Carl Levin says the Dems will now “compromise” on war funding by voting for it anyway and instead demand the Iraqi government do something.
This is no compromise, they caved in completely. Not that anything else should be expected from one member of the Twin Parties of US Militarism.
Bob Morris @ Apr 8th 2007 11:25 - Category: Immigrant rights ;
Yesterday’s march got a surprising amount of quite favorable media coverage.
Photo by Travis Wilkerson.
Bob Morris @ Apr 8th 2007 08:08 - Category: Unfiled ;
Brickburner has a succinct rundown of Sen. Dianne Feinstein’s massive conflicts of interest. When they posted it as a dairy on DailyKos, it was, quite predictably, attacked by the Thought Police there who virtually always attack and censor any criticism of a Democrat, no matter how justifiable.
The silence on Feinstein from other liberal blogs and news sources, with few exceptions, is equally deafening. They just don’t get, or can’t admit, the complicity of Democrats in the war(s).
Bob Morris @ Apr 8th 2007 00:23 - Category: Unfiled ;
Luis (not his real name) is in his 50’s. He got Hepatitis C and now badly needs a liver transplant. His HMO has been jacking him around, either intentionally or through incompetence. It took a month, and he’s continually weakening, just to see the specialist to try to get on the waiting list for a transplant. Bizarrely, it took them quite a while to determine that he has diabetes and high blood pressure too. Hello? High blood pressure can be diagnosed in three minutes. What IS the problem here?
His former employer (Luis is too weak to work now) wonders why the HMO keeps shuttling him around, doing more tests, when it’s obvious his health is failing. It appears the American health care system is so broken that even those with insurance can’t always get the help they need.
Luis and his wife recently had to sell everything and move in with one of their daughters because they can’t afford rent now that he can’t work. He’s getting forgetful, apparently the toxins from a damaged liver can and do get into the brain. Plus his eyes and various organs may be starting to go.
The US health care system is broken. In a civilized country, Luis would get the health care he needs, and get it quickly. Now, apparently, they’re just letting him die.
Oh yeah, he’s Latino, and thirty five years ago was a gangbanger and still has the tattoos. Maybe that’s why the HMO keeps ignoring him - just another Hispanic gang member, screw him. But he hasn’t been that for decades, and even if he was, it says something despicable about US health care that, even though he has insurance, the HMO fiddles whiles his health disintegrates.
Bob Morris @ Apr 8th 2007 00:15 - Category: Unfiled ;
From The Angry Arab
When the British sailors were in Iran, they read statements of Iranian propaganda; when they returned to UK, they read statements of British propaganda.
The pride and glory of the British Empire recalls their ordeal: “They were “stripped and dressed in pajamas … we were kept in stone cells, approximately 8 feet by six, sleeping on piles of blankets. All of us were kept in isolation.” Now that is much worse than Guantanamo, don’t you think?
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