Tennessee Has “State’s Rights”? Not So Much

Last month, the state of Tennessee’s General Assembly passed House Bill 1796, the “Tennessee Firearms Freedom Act,” which states that any firearms or ammunition manufactured within the state and legally owned and kept within the state by citizens are “not subject to federal law or federal regulation, including registration” due to provisions in the Second, Ninth, and Tenth Amendments to the United States Constitution.

But according to Assistant Director Carson W. Carroll of the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms, and Explosives, the U.S. Constitution is little more than a g.d. piece of paper, as George W. Bush so infamously deemed it during his reign as the decider-in-chief.

On July 16, Carroll dispatched his agency’s official response to the law passed in Tennessee — the BATFE asserts that “Federal law supersedes the Act, and all provisions of the Gun Control Act and the National Firearms Act, and their corresponding regulations, continue to apply.”

h/t DeProgram

Originally published at  InfoWars

In other words, even tho we are a “Republic” built upon individual states’ rights to enact various and sundry laws, the ATF (a federal agency) tells us this is untrue. Just as is the case of medical marijuana laws and the Feds busting shops after being legalized by the state, this is another affront on this nation’s constitution. This is simply one more step into the Fascist World that our country has become.

Baltimore Sun Explains Why Our Government Is Stopping Single Payer Healthcare

The Baltimore Sun has a piece that dissects and explains why our government, especially the Demorats and the House Leader is saying no to Single payer, not for profit healthcare. Please read the entire piece, but here is a snippet:

The House plan is not set to go “live” until January of 2013. No, that is not a typo.

If I told you that in less than a year after the historic Medicare legislation was signed into law, the program was up and running, and millions of older Americans had been enrolled and were getting health care with hardly a hiccup, wouldn’t you wonder why it’s going to take so long to get essential elements of this version of reform in place? Wouldn’t you wonder why the elements that are designed to help the millions of uninsured are the ones that are going to take the longest to implement?

Or, maybe, you wondered if there’s a political reason why the plan won’t be fully operational until 2013, like the fact that we will have a presidential election in November of 2012, and it might not be good for the fortunes of the current president or the senators and representatives up for re-election if a new health care system is not going well or is not all it was advertised to be.

The rest explains exactly the reason (and below is the tag line). Political posturing while protecting the Health Insurance Companies:

What this is really all about, where the focus should have been from the start, is health care, not insurance. Having a shiny new insurance policy will not help if the out-of-pocket costs are such that people still cannot afford to see the doctor or get the medications they need.

And yes, that is the reason. It is about protecting Health “Insurance” and they care little about Health “Care”. Please think about the timing here. Think about the fact that they want to force people to buy insurance they can’t afford as it is.

I hope you all wake up to this, especially those of you who have clout.

h/t Single Payer Action

The World is a bad place… all over

Where are all the females ? What is happening…!!
Assignment_Chechnyas_Missing_Women

After years of bitter civil war Chechnya and its devastated capital Grozny are being rebuilt.
The leader of Chechnya, Ramzan Kadyrov, says his republic is now just a normal part of the Russian Federation.
But the kidnap and brutal killing on Wednesday of award winning human rights activist Natasha Estemirova demonstrates the violence and deep unease which still permeates Chechen society.
Lucy Ash has been to Grozny to report on the growing number of women snatched from the streets of the Chechen capital.
Some are taken as brides, some have simply vanished without trace, others like Estemirova have later been found shot dead.
The programme includes one of the last recorded interviews with Natasha Estemirova.

World’s oldest Man passes… WWI Veteran

I must say, before I post this, that my own Grandfather fought in WWI. He and his brother ran away from a Foundly Home in D.C. at 14 years old and lied about their ages and joined the Navy, and fought in the North Atlantic. I loved him dearly, and remember everything he ever shared with me. Every service person is a hero to me! Love the soldier– hate the war!

This post is to honor  Henry Allington, as well as all those that have passed before him. … like my Grandfather William F. Mortimer Sr.

RIP Henry!
Only death could silence Henry Allingham.

File – Britain’s oldest man Henry Allingham aged 112 and the last British serviceman alive to have volunteered for active duty in the First World War, holds a copy of his book at a launch in London, in this Sept.23, 2008 file photo.

Allingham, who was the world’s oldest man when he died Saturday at 113, attributed his remarkable longevity to “cigarettes, whisky and wild, wild women.”
Jokes aside, he was a modest man who served as Britain’s conscience, reminding young people time and time again about the true cost of war.
“I want everyone to know,” he told The Associated Press during an interview in November. “They died for us.”
He went to war as a teenager, helped keep flimsy aircraft flying, survived his wounds and came home from World War I to a long – very long – and fruitful life.
But only in his last years did he discover his true mission: to remind new generations of the sacrifices of the millions slaughtered in the trenches, killed in the air, or lost at sea in what Britons call the Great War.
He was the last surviving original member of the Royal Air Force, which was formed in 1918. He made it a personal crusade to talk about a conflict that wiped out much of a generation. Though nearly blind, he would take the outstretched hands of visitors in both of his, gaze into the eyes of children, veterans and journalists and deliver a message he wanted them all to remember about those left on the battlefield.
“I don’t want to see them forgotten,” he would say quietly. “We were pals.”
Only a handful of World War I veterans remain of the estimated 68 million mobilized. There are no French veterans left alive; just one left now in Britain; and the last living American-born veteran is Frank Woodruff Buckles of Charles Town, West Virginia. The man believed to have been Germany’s last surviving soldier has also died.
“It’s the end of a era_ a very special and unique generation,” said Allingham’s friend, Dennis Goodwin. “The British people owe them a great deal of gratitude.”
Born June 6, 1896, during the reign of Queen Victoria, Allingham would later recall sitting on his grandfather’s shoulders waving a flag for King Edward VII’s coronation in 1902. Transportation was horse drawn, coal was the primary fuel, street lighting was gas and in the financial heart of London, there was same-day mail delivery.
But the world was changing fast. In 1903, Wilbur and Orville Wright flew an airplane at Kitty Hawk, North Carolina, and in 1913, Henry Ford began making Model Ts on an assembly line in Michigan.
Allingham left school at 15 and was working in a car factory in east London when war broke out in 1914.
He spent the war’s first months refitting trucks for military use, but when his mother died in June 1915, he decided to join up after seeing a plane circling a reservoir in Essex, east of London.
“It was a captivating sight,” he wrote in his memoir. “Fascinated, I sat down on the grass verge to watch the aircraft. I decided that was for me.”
That chance encounter with an early flying machine was to change his life.
It was only a dozen years after the Wright brothers first put up their plane, and Britain’s air resources were primitive. Allingham and other valiant airmen set out from eastern England on motorized kites made with wood, linen and wire. They piled on clothes and smeared their faces in Vaseline, whale oil or engine grease to try to block the cold.
“To be honest, all the planes were so flimsy and unpredictable – as well as incapable of carrying large fuel loads – at the start of the war that both British and German pilots would immediately turn back rather than face each other in the skies if they did not enjoy height supremacy,” Allingham would later write. “But I remember getting back on the ground and just itching to take off again.”
As a mechanic, Allingham’s job was to maintain the rickety craft. He also flew as an observer on a biplane. At first, his weaponry consisted of a standard issue Lee Enfield .303 rifle – sometimes two. Parachutes weren’t issued.
He fought in the Battle of Jutland, the largest naval battle of World War I. He served on the Western Front, by now armed with a machine gun. He was wounded in the arm by shrapnel during an attack on an aircraft depot, but survived.
After the war he worked at the Ford motor factory and raised two children with his wife, Dorothy. She died in 1970, and when his daughter Jean died in 2001, friends say he waited to die, too. His will to live was waning; his life seemed without a larger purpose.
That’s about the time he met Goodwin, a nursing home inspector who realized that veterans of Allingham’s generation were not getting the care they needed to address the trauma they had experienced at the Somme, Gallipoli and Ypres and the other blood-drenched World War I battlefields. Some veterans ached to return to the battlefields to pay their respects to their slain friends, and Goodwin found himself organizing trips to France for that purpose.
He encouraged Allingham to share his experiences and the veteran, even though he had passed the century mark, started talking to reporters and school groups, providing the connection to a lost generation some had forgotten. He found himself leading military parades. He was made an Officer of France’s Legion of Honor and received other honors.
He met Queen Elizabeth II and wrote his autobiography with help from Goodwin. It was called “Kitchener’s Last Volunteer,” a reference to Britain’s Minister for War who rallied men to the cause. Prince Charles wrote the introduction.
He grew accustomed to being one of the last ones standing. Last year, he joined Harry Patch, Britain’s last surviving World War I soldier, and the late Bill Stone, the country’s last sailor, in a ceremony at the Cenotaph war memorial near the houses of Parliament in London, to mark the 90th anniversary of the war’s end at the 11th hour of the 11th day of the 11th month in 1918.
As the wreaths were being laid, Allingham pushed himself up out of his wheelchair to place his arrangement at the base of the memorial – refusing the help of an officer deployed at his side. He leaned forward and placed the red poppy wreath beside the others. Tears flowed.
Allingham remained outspoken until his death, pleading for peace and begging anyone who would listen to remember those who died.
“I think we need to make people aware that a few men gave all they had to give so that you could have a better world to live in,” he said. “We have to pray it never happens again.”
Goodwin said Allingham’s funeral will take place in Brighton. He is survived by five grandchildren, 12 great-grandchildren, 14 great-great grandchildren and one great-great-great grandchild.

Obama Had A Steamy Love Affair With Larry Sinclair

Apparently in the back of a limo then at the Holiday Inn.

Click the link: I swear you just gotta see this…

LMAO

The thing is, he may be right.

UPDATE: Kelso pointed out in comments that it appears that I may think Mr Obama is gay and likely do to that last statement. I don’t know if he is gay or not (and don’t give a damn). I should have been more clear, but the last sentnence was really about the white man revolt part when I said he “may be right”. But the entier intent of this post was for humor (Pastor Manning, even at his most serious, just cracks me up). Sorry for the confusion.

But, as I told Kelso, who pointed out that this rumor came out during the campaign (and I never heard it until I saw that video), if Obama is gay the only thing that ruffles my feathers is that he runs being so anti-gay. But honestly, I doubt he is. I do not doubt that there are many white people who seem ready to revolt.

B’Man’s Redneck HipHop: We’re All Pancakes

Cracka

(Press the Cracka Above or link below for Rap)

Cracka

Crackas and Pancakes Unite!

Jealous that minorities get all the good ‘We’re not going to take it anymore’ rap songs? Well, white people, your song has arrived. Let’s take our word back.

h/t bln.kr & College Humor

B’Man’s Rants: The Realities of US Manufacturing

Manufacturing in the USA has been declining substantially for decades. Back in the 90′s, we saw how Japan got a foothold in some high tech areas like PC Board manufacturing (I saw countless businesses go out of business and it forced me to find other work). We saw NAFTA come in and destroy some jobs, as they were shipped off to lower paying and much lower skilled workforces in Mexico (I witnessed and participated in RCA’s move to Juarez which was devastating to many American jobs and quality suffered).

Yesterday, the Senate Subcommittee called the “Banking, Housing, and Urban Affairs Subcommittee” which is chaired by Sherrod Brown, had three witnesses participate in a hearing called, “The US as a Global Competitor: What Are The Elements of a National Manufacturing Strategy” (click link to see the video, extremely informative). The hearing is started at the 24:30 mark and is fairly long at 107 minutes. Sam Smith at UnderNews posted an article in his “Crash Talk” series and included a link to Mike Lux’s article at OpenLeft that addressed some of this, in particular, Leo Hindery’s testimony.

One of the clear issues that I have been harping on for many years now is that we have intentionally allowed the Corporations to find ways to disallow Americans to manufacture their products and to save a few pennies and enrich the Corporation, by moving them elsewhere (as I have been a first hand witness to the demise of manufacturing, both by first pursuing lower wage areas in the southeast USA, in which I was able to make money, but those up north lost; and by the further movement of these jobs for even lower wages jobs overseas).

We were told that all of this was good for our economy because we were going to move from a manufacturing sector based economy to a “Consumer Spending/Wall Street Economy”.

One of the most important issues is the fact that we invited and encouraged China to join the WTO in 2001. We were promised that they would be fair in their monetary policy and would raise their Yuan value as their economy flourished. Until very recently they did not and even the amount they have raised it is about 5% (which still means its value is around 25% undervalued). This causes a huge deficit in trade and causes the rich corporation owners to send work there as opposed to making stuff here (their purpose is to make the company as much money as possible and they don’t give a rat’s ass about where it is made or if Americans benefit).

It isn’t ONLY the losses to China and other foreign countries, but the major recent losses are obvious because we all know about the automobile industry tanking and the housing crisis. It is obvious that these sectors will be extremely slow to improve and whatever strides are made will be low. Why? Because the bubble popped… the “Consumer Economy” cannot be supported without a manufacturing base and the “Wall Street” economy is and has been proved to be a huge rip off of the American’s money and way of life.

As we moved into this “Consumer Economy” of debt consumption from manufacturing, there has been a steady drop in the manufacturing sector in America. But in the last 13 months, we have seen it “turbo-charged” (as Scott Paul put it). That is why I find it sadly ironic that Mr Obama tells us in his pretty speeches that this stimulus policy will “add or save” 3.5 Million jobs, even though over 13 Million have been lost. Even The Messiah is disconnected or lying. (Take a hint, he is NOT disconnected).

The numbers are horrific if you take the time to evaluate and understand. When you hear the TV telling you that the unemployment rate is 9.5%, remember that there are factors that they are not taking into consideration. In other words, they are misleading you (purposeful or just stupidity, you determine). Officially, they tell us the unemployment rate is 9.5%, but when you consider every other factor, the “effective unemployment rate” is around 19 – 20%. Not only that, but the hours lost per week is growing and is now around the 33hrs/week mark. Think about that for a minute. 20% unemployment and on average, those people are only working 33 hours per week.

There are several things that we MUST do, if we are ever going to come out of this (and the more I consider and study this, I can only determine that we are “purposefully” set on a course to continue this downward spiral). Being able to get the corporately fed Congress and especially this administration who is in bed with Sachs and The Fed will be a long, tough road to travel. It is even conceivable that it is too late, but I hope not.

We must get rid of these trade imbalances and China’s unfair trade policy it lied to us about. We MUST begin “stimulating” High tech manufacturing (like solar, exotic materials, etc) and we MUST implement a “Buy American” plan that bolsters US manufacturing, but doesn’t alienate other countries that play fairly.

Our past shows us that our current path is leading to doom. Manufacturing simply CANNOT be replaced by a service sector economy. It is idiotic to even consider it, but we are in the middle of it for decades now.

Only 8.7% of our jobs are in manufacturing and only 11.7% of our GDP is from manufacturing. This cannot be sustained if we plan on coming out of this mess. We MUST grow our manufacturing base, but how?

We are never going to go back to hand assembly of little bullshit trinkets and garbage for the “consumer economy”. We must focus on high tech manufacturing like solar, wind energy, exotic materials and other leading edge technologies. But we will be playing catch up because as it is, China produces 80 – 90% of wind and solar products right now. Foreign automobile manufacturing has and is getting even more of a foothold in the USA (which, btw, they generally use their country’s integration firms and by passes American companies that could build their systems, which just grows their sector and takes away from ours).

This is not a “Protectionist Sentiment”. It is only fair because they don’t trade fairly. As Mr Hindery and others have put it when asked why we should implement such a Buy American mentality, “Everyone Else Does It!”.

It is reality. You can see from the screen shot I took that we are hugely imbalanced across the board.

It is obvious that allowing China into the WTO was a huge mistake for regular working Americans, but not for those that profit the most from sending the work there.

I was interested at the 96 minute mark where Mr Brown asked the question how we can attract more young people into manufacturing, especially the high dollar folks that go to Harvard. 1/2 of Harvard’s current Grads go into finance. Why is that and how do we change it?

In many ways, the answers are obvious. Education in this country sucks and pushes people either towards the richest college (if they have money) or into the “service sector” or lower wage jobs. It is the divide of the classes. But there also MUST be a job market for them (at 8.7%, there are lean pickings). It is also compensation, of course. When a Harvard Grad can make 400 times the wages of a factory worker or manufacturing head, it makes sense for them to go where the money is. This divide went from 20-25 times, to about 400 times.

In a nutshell, we have devolved, not evolved. We have seemingly systematically dismantled our manufacturing base, when it is apparent that this very strategy is causing our downfall.

For when it comes down to the bottom line, the countries that “Buy Wherever They Are From” are fed up with our debt, they will stop providing the consumer crap, but will also stop providing essential products we have allowed them to take over manufacturing for us. At the very least, the prices will go so high we can’t afford it anyway.

Re-Cross Of:SO, NOW BARBARA BOXER’S A RACIST! THIS IS LIKE I MAKE IT 1000 TO GO AND YOU MAKE IT 500,000…MY KINGS ARE NO GOOD HERE..BOTO LA BARAJA!

FYI: “Boto La Baraja” is an Andino Spanish poker term meaning “I fold!”

I very rarely hurl accusations of anti-Semitism around for various reasons: (1) I don’t encounter it very often (2) I’m a Pan-Semite, meaning that I consider Arabs to share my ancestry and heritage and bear Arabs or Arab-Latinos a reflexive goodwill for that reason (3) I am resolutely ANTI-ZIONIST (4) I’m not a big believer in “victimology” in general.

A bit of right-wing, American Black anti-Semitism, based upon historical and cultural ignorance and a political bias in support of ExxonMobil’s rights to pollute California at will, directed toward a White, Jewish, politician with a sterling and well-known civil rights voting record, Senator Barbara Boxer (D-CA), was weird enough.  The document that the ExxonMobil shill enters into the Congressional Record is not only anti-Jewish in the worst possible way, it seeks somehow to conflate Obama’s political success and Sonia Sotomayor’s judicial success as somehow victories in an American Black battle against Jews.

To say that is bizarre in its philosophical underpinnings hardly does the piece or its insane author justice.  I almost never advocate violence and I’m not really doing that here.  I’m using a kind of esoteric bit of mundial Jewishness (the Jewish “firm” of North London football hooligans known as the Tottenham “Yids”) in an ironic way to point out how silly all this can get.

I do blame Obama for some of it, however, in that he has used ethnicity as a sword and shield at the same time and in pretending to “unify” has often set groups with natural ideological connections in opposition to him AGAINST one another.  Libertarian/progressive Southern “Rednecks” and libertarian/progressives urban Jews  in America are a perfect example, which is why I took pains to write the “WIDGET” averring my great friends BuelahMan and Lynda to be in my judgment very Jewish-phillic and not anti-Semitic in the slightest.  They are, like me, opposed to AIPAC and the goals of the Israeli Right.

Anyway, the whole thing is weird enough:  The “Black Chamber Of Commerce’s” Mr Harry Alford’s press release and attacks on Senator Boxer, her surprise at something I doubt she’s experienced too often, and my own craziness which needed something so weird as this to allow me to really let my freak flag fly!

Enjoy. And think. http://thedisbrimstone-dailypitchfork.blogspot.com/2009/07/so-now-barbara-boxers-racist-this-is.html

-Kelso

Sweet Home Alabama

It’s not exactly what you think, but to me this is very, very cool.

h/t Neatorama

(There are several Mariachi band cover songs found here. Queen’s Another One Bites The Dust, The Cranberry’s “Zombie”, Pink Floyd’s “Another Brick In The Wall”, and Michael Jackson’s “Beat It” (and more). But you know I’m a redneck and Lynyrd Skynyrd is one of my favs. What can I say?

Obama: The Legless Dog

I saw this at Ed’s place, Not Another CONspiracy and knew I had to cross post it for those that might miss it there.

We have a saying in Mississippi when we see a two faced lying prick say shit like this:

“He’s lyin’ like a legless dog“

Dude, don’t piss in my boots and try to tell me its raining.

And while I’m at it:

That dude is more crooked than a dogs hind leg and about as useful as a fart in a windstorm.

Analogy: We’re fucked like a tied up goat.

Drag Me to Health – Universal Health Care

more about “Drag Me to Health – Universal Health …“, posted with vodpod

Support Dennis Kucinich’s Single Payer Amendment TODAY

B’Man: We don’t have many chances to get this into place because the Health Insurance Owned Congress and POTUS are pulling out all the stops trying to eliminate any chance of this, the only viable solution, from even being put on the table for debate. The only way to “get her done” will be through amendments from the few patriots we have on The Hill. Keep in mind that they are already trying to stop any state created Single Payer systems, so this is extremely and critically important.

Can you not see that these people, by and large, are only interested in protecting the coffers? Do you still believe these assholes when you can see where their money comes from and how that DIRECTS their votes? It is as obvious as a horny three dicked dog.

Rep. Dennis Kucinich proposed a crucial amendment today for single-payer healthcare and we urgently need you to call one or more of the 26 Democrats on the House Education and Labor Committee. Our message is simple:

Please support Rep. Kucinich’s Amendment today in the HELP Committee to let states create single-payer healthcare systems. The federal government should give states the freedom to fix our health care crisis.

You can call any time and leave a voicemail if no one answers. If you do speak with a staffer, please post their reply here:
http://www.democrats.com/support-kucinich-single-payer-amendment-today

You can also urge your Senators and Representatives to support the Single Payer Health Plan (H.R. 676) by signing our petition:
http://www.democrats.com/single-payer-petition

The Kucinich Amendment would let individual states create single-payer healthcare systems even if Congress fails to create a nationwide single-payer system.

That’s exactly how Canada evolved towards single-payer: one province at a time. Given the corporate-funded resistance to single-payer in Congress, the U.S. may have to follow the Canadian path.

Progressive activists in California, Illinois and Pennsylvania are leading the way for single-payer systems and the Kucinich Amendment would remove the legal roadblocks they face.

The fate of the Kucinich Amendment rests in the hands of the 26 Democrats above. Please call as many as you can.

George Miller (CA-7) 202-225-2095
Dale Kildee (MI-5) 202-225-3611
Donald Payne (NJ-10) 202-225-3436
Robert Andrews (NJ-1) 202-225-6501
Bobby Scott (VA-3) 202-225-8351
Lynn Woolsey (CA-6) 202-225-5161
Ruben Hinojosa (TX-15) 202-225-2531
Carolyn McCarthy (NY-4) 202-225-5516
John Tierney (MA-6) 202-225-8020
David Wu (OR-1) 202-225-0855
Rush Holt (NJ-12) 202-225-5801
Susan Davis (CA-53) 202-225-2040
Raul Grijalva (AZ-7) 202-225-2435
Tim Bishop (NY-1) 202-225-3826
Joe Sestak (PA-7) 202-225-2011
David Loebsack (IA-2) 202-225-6576
Mazie Hirono (HI-2) 202-225-4906
Jason Altmire (PA-4) 202-225-2565
Phil Hare (IL-17) 202-225-5905
Yvette Clarke (NY-11) 202-225-6231
Joe Courtney (CT-2) 202-225-2076
Carol Shea-Porter (NH-1) 202-225-5456
Marcia Fudge (OH-11) 202-225-7032
Jared Polis (CO-2) 202-225-2161
Paul Tonko (NY-21) 202-225-5076
Dina Titus (NV-3) 202-225-3252

Read at AfterDowningStreet and originally posted at Bob Fertik’s Blog.

Kucinich/Paul 2012

Bernanke Says We “Could” Have a “Jobless Recovery”

From Reuters:

WASHINGTON (Reuters) – Federal Reserve Chairman Ben Bernanke sees the possibility of continued high unemployment even after the recession loosens its grip, a key U.S. senator said on Monday after talking to him.

“It was a rather sobering meeting,” Richard Shelby, an Alabama Republican, said on CNBC.

“I said, … ‘Could this be a jobless recovery?’ … and he said it could be,” Shelby said.

Do I have to explain to you that if he actually said it “could”, that he knows damned well it will? These people are calculating and know exactly what they are saying and doing.

If there is a chance of a jobless recovery, where do you suppose those people who have and will lose their jobs will work? What will be there only recourse?

Doesn’t it amaze any thinking person that after all these bailouts to the richest of the rich, after Obama’s Fed takeover of our government and his administration, after the promise to never allow a lobbyist in his admin, after the housing bubble’s deflation and subsequent home prices falling like an apple from a tree, after record setting unemployment and home foreclosures, after all the promises (read as “Lies”) to help the middle class that we are in for a “jobless recovery”?

I mean, WTF have we been doing and why, IF this is going to be a jobless recovery? Can anyone explain to me, sensibly, what the plan is if it isn’t what appears: a purposeful destruction of our way of life and the country that I love and hold dear? A planned and organized theft of our treasury and strides we have tried to make in the past 50 years?

Are you rednecks even paying attention?

Are you ok with getting a road worker’s job (if your lucky) after being an engineer for 20 years? Is that your idea of Progress?

When will you Sheople wake up?

(PS: Richard Shelby “sober”? Bwahahaha)

B’Man’s Wacky Weed Watch: Bruce Mirken on CNBC Power Lunch

An absolutely amazing interview. Something is stirring in America.

B’Man’s Patriot Watch (Part Deux): Bernie Sanders

Is the VA “Socialized Medicine”? He asked Mr McCain, who has a lifetime of Socialized Medicine usage, that question.

h/t Heather at Crooks and Liars

Heather wrote:

It is not the job of the Senate to protect the private health insurance industry. It’s a shame the best we may get out of the Senate is a public option and that we don’t have a few more Bernie Sanders out there fighting for real health care reform.

Its nice to know that at least one of them over there has some sense and isn’t totally in bed with the Demublican Party asshat that runs the joint.