Health Care Reform: My Number One Issue
18 OctCertainly, in this time of great uncertainty in the United States, many issues are of importance to me, and indeed to us all. The poor state of our economy, and the handout of billions to the very people who made this mess, the morally bankrupt, never-ending war and threat of war, the use of fear of “the other” by our leaders to control our thoughts and actions, the loss of civil rights (such as privacy in our communications, and the right of dissent with said governmental leaders), the tenor of some politicians’ discourse, seemingly calculated to engender a firestorm of hatred against their opponents, to name but a few. I could go on, perhaps ad infinitum. Our nation is truly at a cross-roads, and where it goes from here is either on the road to recovery or to ruin, in so many ways. But one issue seems to me so obvious as to how it must go, and sometimes I feel like I am the only person who feels as I do.
Privatized Profit but Socialized Risk
9 OctToday’s Doonesbury makes a great point about the financial industry bailouts of late.
Thanks to Jonathan Stein of MoJo for bringing the series of strips on McCain’s lobbyists to my attention.
Stay the course?
31 OctA new course on ‘staying the course’
BY LEONARD PITTS JR.
‘The Party said that Oceania had never been in alliance with Eurasia. He, Winston Smith, knew that Oceania had been in alliance with Eurasia as short a time as four years ago. But where did that knowledge exist? Only in his own consciousness, which in any case must soon be annihilated. And if all others accepted the lie which the Party imposed — if all records told the same tale — then the lie passed into history and became truth. `Who controls the past,’ ran the Party slogan, ‘controls the future: who controls the present controls the past.’ ” — from 1984 by George Orwell
“I’m here to tell you we’re going to stay the course.” — George W. Bush, Nov. 28, 2003
War with Iran in 3 weeks?
10 OctDoes Bush Think War with Iran Is Preordained?
My opinion? Probably. And Chris Hedges seems to think so as well. Follow the link to read this very important and terrifying article. Or just click the cut below…
An Aging Trans Woman 