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POPSBarack "Mathlete" Obama Obama: Premiums Will Decrease 3000% So You Should Get A Raise When H'care Is Passed Posted by: Greg Hengler at 2:31 PM Also included in this clip is an obligatory shot at Fox News and a proclamation that both parties agree on Obamacare--but "politics prevent it from getting done." BTW: As Morrissey pointed out to me, how can premiums decrease 3000%? Does this mean that insurance companies will be paying us? What a demigod our president is! Obama: Premiums Will Decrease 3000% .... So You Should Get A Raise When H'care Is Passed http://bit.ly/ahxstI
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POPSMedia Critic: Baier's Obama Interview Antidote to Brian Williams' Bow Zurawik contined: Baier was asking the hard questions of a journalist, while Obama was already directing his answers to the historians -- trying to craft their narrative for them. Baier was impressive, nevertheless, in pushing the president on the special deals that were cut for such states as Louisiana, Florida and Nebraska -- and the near-total lack of transparency about them. When the president insisted that "everybody knows" which deals will be in and which will be out in the legislation that Democratic leadership seems likely to try and pass in the House without an actual vote , Baier started going through the states one by one and asking Obama, "In or out?" And the president himself couldn't answer with any precision on at least two states. Still as a journalist and media critic, I salute Baier for putting the president to the test and respectfully challenging him on his contradictions and reversals --
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POPSThe Health-Care Wars Are Only Beginning 
House Speaker Nancy Pelosi believes ObamaCare would have a more congenial fate"that it will become as popular as Social Security and Medicare with voters. She's kidding herself. Social Security and Medicare were popular from the start and passed with bipartisan support. ObamaCare is unpopular and partisan. It's extremely controversial. Its passage is far more likely to spark a political explosion than a wave of acceptance. Democratic leaders believe the public doesn't focus on the process of how legislation is enacted. But in this case they're wrong. I've been amazed at how many people understand "reconciliation""a process that allows budget and spending bills to pass in the Senate with only 51 votes, instead of 60. Many voters are also now studying the details of the "Slaughter solution," which would allow the House to "deem" the Senate health-care bill to have passed without actually voting on it and then to vote through changes to the Senate bill .....
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POPSShameless Health Care Scam In addition to “buying” support through deals like the Cornhusker Kickback and the Louisiana Purchase, Pelosi is trying to trick the American people — most of whom have no genuine understanding of the interworkings of government. In addition to admitting that we don’t even know what’s in the bill, Pelosi is pushing a method that will merely “deem” the bill passed without Members actually voting so the power is all in their hands. That just doesn’t seem right to me. “I like it because people don’t have to vote on the Senate bill,” Pelosi said this week. How convenient. Though this tactic has been used many times before, it’s never been used to push through legislation as monumental and precedent setting as this. It’s happening all ready. Last week, Rep. Dan Maffei (D-NY) said the Senate bill “burns the village in order to save it.” Today Maffei has changed his mind and one has to wonder why he’s decided to “burn the village.”
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POPSObama HATES Fox News Boycotting debates, kicking journalists off a campaign jet, planting questions from friendly media during presidential news conferences, freezing adversarial media out of interviews, singling out individual journalists to scold them publicly — they've all been part of Team Obama's efforts at manipulating and intimidating the media. Newsmax magazine's special report "Obama Hates Fox News" takes an in-depth look at Obama's army of advisers, who seem to some critics part of an audacious end-run around congressional authority.
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POPSReport from Spy in Attendance at the Democrat Caucus Meeting They're going to "deem" it passed. I guess they're back to this. They're going to have one vote on the Senate bill (and the things they add to it) in the House of Representatives. So when members vote for or against the cramdown package, they will also be voting for or against the Senate-passed health reform bill. Now once passed, the Senate bill will go to the president for signing and the reconciliation provisions will go to the Senate where they will need to pass unchanged. That is the procedure. Now, our spy said that while the leadership has not yet shared the legislative language of the add-ons, they have been told that the cramdown package has deleted the Cornhusker kickback and the Gator deal, but the Louisiana deal and the Connecticut hospital deal are still included. So Nelson loses his thing. The Gator thing is out. But Mary Landrieu gets to keep her Louisiana Purchase and the Connecticut hospital deal is still included in there...
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POPSGlenn Beck Backlash at Fox The article talks about complaints from other Fox news folks. It's interesting to note that the author, himself, is a 'Fox News-like," conservative journalist.
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POPSFailed Former New York Times Editor Launches Bizarre Op-Ed Piece — a campaign without precedent in our modern political history? As Humpty Dumpty might have said: talk about a portmanteau! `That’s enough to begin with,’ Humpty Dumpty interrupted: `there are plenty of hard words there. “BRILLIG” means four o’clock in the afternoon — the time when you begin BROILING things for dinner.’ `That’ll do very well,’ said Alice: and “SLITHY”?’ `Well, “SLITHY” means “lithe and slimy.” “Lithe” is the same as “active.” You see it’s like a portmanteau — there are two meanings packed up into one word.’ There’s more: Whatever its shortcomings, journalism under those standards aspired to produce an honest account of social, economic and political events. It bore witness to a world of dynamic change, as opposed to the world of Foxian reality, whose actors are brought on camera to illustrate a preconceived universe as rigid as that of medieval morality.
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POPSTHE DEVILS SPAWN Coming across stuff like this is like winning the lotto, makes me glad I am on this side of the dirt..........
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POPSYes, yes, she did warn us. Glenn Beck owes Geert Wilders an apology. I certainly hope he gives it ASAP. I was really enjoying Glenn's shows on certain themes lately, but I guess the good times are over with him for me when he starts slandering and smearing heroes like Geert. I guess the Saudi influence/investment at Fox really is starting to show.
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POPSIs Geert Wilders A Fascist? Was unaware that he tried to ban the Koran, headscarves, etc. From what I had heard of Wilders, he wanted European countries to stick to their own laws and constitutions and not allow for sharia law. This is now on many sites, it is really pretty amusing to read the comments. As it was described to me in an e-mail from a friend who linked the story, "Wingnuts heads are exploding!" Lol!
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POPSThe buying and selling VOTES!!!!!!!
It also comes ten days after Fox News reported that an unnamed White House official, speaking on “background,” had denied Rep. Sestak’s claim, and nine days after the Philadelphia Inquirer reported that an unnamed White House official, who insisted on “anonymity,” had “vociferously” denied the congressman’s claim. Rep. Sestak, meanwhile, has repeatedly stood by his assertion that the administration offered him a job in exchange for not running against Specter. Sen. Specter, a five-term incumbent, switched from the Republican Party to the Democratic Party in 2009. Rep. Sestak is now challenging him for the Democratic nomination to run in the Senate election this November. The controversy started on Feb. 18, when Sestak appeared on “Larry Kane: Voice of Reason,” a public affairs television program on the Comcast Network in Pennsylvania. Kane asked, “Were you ever offered a federal job to get out of this race?” “Yes,” said Sestak. “Was it secretary of the Navy?” Kane ask
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POPSLETS HOPE THIS HAIL MARY IS INCOMPLETE This guy just does not get a single thing, does he even remember the big hole left in New York, granted we all do not see eye on the Iraq war but I really think the priorities were a tad different. Besides they had control of the house, what the hell did they do........
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POPSDemocrats Voice Health-Bill Doubts, Crowd Fence Kathleen Sebelius, secretary of the Department of Health and Human Services, urging action on the legislation in an appearance on NBC's "Meet the Press" on Sunday, cited a new report from Goldman Sachs that says profits for private-sector health insurers are rising and competition is decreasing. Messrs. Adler and Altmire opposed the original House bill, but are now being courted by House leaders scrounging for votes to pass a new compromise plan. Despite his reservations, Mr. Altmire said on Sunday that he was also worried about the cost consequences of doing nothing.
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POPS How to spell Obama energy policy: 'D-E-L-A-Y' • Within a month of taking office, Secretary of the Interior Ken Salazar delayed the offshore leasing process by extending the public comment period for an additional six months. • Just days before he delayed the leasing process, Salazar also voided several existing onshore drilling leases in Utah delaying the development of American energy. • Last September Salazar announced that he could delay offshore drilling until 2012, or longer, depending on Interior’s own internal analysis, which is at his discretion. • Days after the end of the public comment period, Interior promised that it would take “several weeks” to review and analyze the 530,000 comments received. That analysis was delayed, as there has been no public announcement from Interior. • Earlier this year Salazar announced a new layer of bureaucratic regulations for energy companies, which will further delay any kind of responsible energy development. • Last month Salazar announced that offshore drilling ....
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POPSAfter UN Watch Protest, Chief Goldstone Aide Cancels Keynote Address for ‘Russell Tribunal on Palestine’ UN Inquiry Accused of Anti Israel Bias FOX News, March 5, 2010 By Ben Evansky UNITED NATIONS - A controversial United Nations report called the UN Fact-Finding Mission on the Gaza Conflict and more commonly known as “The Goldstone Report,” is under fire for being biased against Israel. Among its conclusions was an accusation that Israel had committed “war crimes” during its twenty-two day war with Palestinian terrorists that ended in January, 2009. Critics discredit this finding - saying key members of the report were clearly biased in favor of the Palestinians. The Geneva based UN Human Rights Council created the Goldstone report in April 2009 after a recommendation by Richard Falk, the United Nations Special Rapporteur on “The situation of Human Rights in the Palestinian Territories Occupied since 1967″, to investigate Israel’s Gaza offensive. Prior to his UN appointment, Falk had written that Israel’s “imposition of collective punishment had a certain resemblan
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POPSThree States Sue EPA Over Power To Regulate Carbon Emissions But that hasn’t satisfied global warming skeptics. Virginia Attorney General Ken Cuccinelli said last month the finding could “create a staggering burden” on the state. He added: “While we’re open to seeing where honest, unbiased science leads us in the climate policy arena, we’re not prepared to stand by while EPA proceeds to implement jobs-destroying regulations based on unverifiable and unrepeatable so-called science.” Texas Gov. Rick Perry said the finding would usher in a new era that would destroy his state’s ability to provide energy to the rest of the world. Stacked with oil refining and other industries, Texas is the top carbon dioxide emitter in the country and would be heavily affected if mandatory emissions reductions go into effect. “They’re using sweeping mandates, Draconian punishments to force a square peg of their vision into the round hole of reality,” he said. “In the process, they’re preparing to undo decades of progress while
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POPScondoms for kids I heard this topic being discussed tonight on fox news talk. I am speechless. This should not be happening...not here, not there, not anywhere.
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POPSBrkn, Pt5: For further study on Republican lies and corruption and the scapegoating of Democrats for Rep's "sins"
For further study: The Rise and Fall of "Obvious Truths": Part One. by SillyMickel Adzema http://www.entertonement.com/clips/rzznhtzjsk--The-Rise-and-Fall-of-Obvious-Truths-Part-1 The Rise and Fall of Obvious Truths, Part 2. by SillyMickel Adzema http://www.entertonement.com/clips/dhvsqlbnjl--The-Rise-and-Fall-of-Obvious-Truths-Part-2 "The Rise and Fall of 'Obvious Truths' Part 3" http://www.entertonement.com/clips/gjhxqmkbdn--The-Rise-and-Fall-of-Obvious-Truths-Part-3EntUp The Why of Obvious Truths, Culture War and Matrix Beginnings: Pt. 1, "Whatever Happened to the Sixties Generation?" The Fear they Engendered in the Privileged, the All Out Campaign to Slander, Distort their Values, and to Scapegoat Them, the Big Lie of the 'Conservative Backlash,' and the Eventual Morphing of All of This and More Lies into the Big Web of Deceit, More Easily Termed The Matrix, and Its Adoption as the ONLY Strategy of Republican Politics" http://www.entertonement.com/clips/yjfphlpwyq-
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POPSBrkn, Pt4: "Reaganomics led 2 recession TOTALLY FORGOTTEN thru corporate brainwashing, allowed Bush's econ. mess It's truly amazing how a hugely funded misinformation campaign by corporations and their lackey media can mesmerize so much of the American people so quickly and easily and make them forget what they once knew -- the Republicans are corrupt, owned by the wealthy, and seek nothing but the profits of the corporations and the filthy rich at the expense of the American people. And it's been done over and over again, e.g., the success of the Clinton economy, leaving a surplus, was so easily forgotten by the media and the electorate when they said not a word as Bush dismantled and reversed the Clinton economy with the expected results, which were "oh so shocking and surprising" to Republicans, though it had happened exactly that way the first time that Reaganomics was tried. (cont'd in Pt 5)
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POPSBrkn, Pt3: "equating..occasional cor. Dem w/entire corrupted party..Republicans, acting only.benefit filthy rich" It is to the corporations and the Republicans advantage to say there is no difference between the Democrats and the Republicans and to equate an occasional corrupted Democrat or two with an entire party of corruption, the Republicans, acting only in the interests of the wealthy at the expense of everyone less wealthy than filthy rich. We knew this when we threw out the Republicans and brought the Democrats into power in the election of 2008. It's truly amazing how a hugely funded misinformation campaign by corporations and their lackey media can mesmerize so much of the American people so quickly and easily and make them forget what they once knew -- the Republicans are corrupt, owned by the wealthy, and seek nothing but the profits of the corporations and the filthy rich at the expense of the American people. (cont'd in Pt 4)
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POPSBrkn Gov't, Media, Pt2: "little help f/ internet pundits..regurgitate..right wing line..they C all around them" I disagree. I believe that the media coverage is ALMOST 100% broken (exception is MSNBC) and that that brokenness has caused the masses to believe that ALL the government is broken. When actually, the government has been in dictatorship for the 8 years of Bush (check the books written on this), and is now in a broken state that is mightily trying to be fixed by the Democrats...with no help from the almost 100% broken media, the totally 100% dishonest corporations that fund the media, and now even the minds of the masses who are assaulted with a near infinite supply of corporate misinformation that makes them equate the Democrats with the Republicans who have destroyed this country, that makes them blame the Democrats for the mess that the Republicans left them and which the Democrats are heroically trying to tackle (with little help from internet pundits who regurgitate the right wing line that they see all around them). (cont'd in Part 3)
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POPSThe gov't is..broken;..is mightily trying 2 B fixed by..Dems..no help f/ broken media, Reps, & misinformed public I disagree. I believe that the media coverage is ALMOST 100% broken (exception is MSNBC) and that that brokenness has caused the masses to believe that ALL the government is broken. When actually, the government has been in dictatorship for the 8 years of Bush (check the books written on this), and is now in a broken state that is mightily trying to be fixed by the Democrats...with no help from the almost 100% broken media, the totally 100% dishonest corporations that fund the media, and now even the minds of the masses who are assaulted with a near infinite supply of corporate misinformation that makes them equate the Democrats with the Republicans who have destroyed this country, that makes them blame the Democrats for the mess that the Republicans left them and which the Democrats are heroically trying to tackle (with little help from internet pundits who regurgitate the right wing line that they see all around them). It is to the corporations and the Republicans advantage to say
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POPSSarah Palin Does Comedy + Gig on Jay Leno
Palin started work earlier this year as an analyst at Fox News (as if that wasn't comedy enough). Now, she's doing standup comedy. Future plans? the former vice presidential candidate has been pitching an idea for a TV show about Alaska. The rumors are that while in Hollywood (which she previously described as 'elitist,') she's been running around pre-Oscar events and scooping up the freebies at "gifting suites." Now that is a Sarah I could love. The idea of her as a political decision maker really deep fries the brains of anyone with common sense (although she has not of supports here on Clipmarks). But Sarah as a comedian. Sarah doing a TV show about Alaska. Sarah 'going Hollywood." this is great. The USA does have a wide range of people and opinions and lifestyles -- and they can be 'entertaining,' and admirable each in their own way; a core NECESSARY idea of a secular nation of mainly immigrants is tolerance. As long as she avoid political decisions, she's
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POPSAcademy Awards for Movies&Politics The USA is a tremendously entertaining nation. If not subject to it's invasions or hardships, it's practically a non-stop party. In the category of Best Picture (now Expanded to 10 choices) there are so clear pro-war vs. anti-war vs. rewriting war choices; also flicks that highlight race, and more. Real movie and/or storytelling quality easily falls victims to politics and/or a pretty face. All Hollywood needs now is an Award Show for which are the Best Award Shows. Then the circle of self-absorption and warped perspectives will be complete.
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