Great speech, but...

I don’t understand why the President had to address the nation to explain the healthcare plan floating through congress because “people are frustrated because they don’t understand what’s being proposed.” What? Anyone who has read a newspaper, blog, watched TV, or listened to NPR in the last three months knows the basics of the Democrat’s proposal. Look, here it is in a tweet. [1. Have health ins? Like it? Keep it/stop getting scrwd by ins co. 2. No ins + no $? Govt ins. 4 cheap/$0 3. No ins + $? Req. like car ins.] There you go. The problem is, the country still seems to be run by obstructionist, lying (Obama’s word) politicians (read: Republican’ts) who were voted in by this segment of the population:



Seriously, the ability to tell fact from fiction should be a prerequisite to vote. This guy’s waiting for the big, black U.N. helicopters to swoop in and take his guns and kidneys to give them to Obama’s secret Muslim brothers and sisters in Kenya.

For a split second there, I thought as a country, we had moved past this policy of fear. Death panels? Really? Obama compared to Hitler? Really? Socialism, Fascism, Communism? Really? Do you even know what these terms mean? And for Rep. Joe Wilson (R) Douchebag, you yell at the President in the middle of an televised address to Congress, “You lie!” Really? Where do you think you are, a Sarah Palin rally? (I’ll bet you wish you were). Obama said he was going to call out people who spread misinformation about his healthcare plan. He should have called out this Turrets-stricken frat boy, stopped the speech, made him stand up, and said "OK everyone, whose side are you on, his? or those who can rationally discuss one of the most important pieces of legislation in the last forty years?

Regrettably, until the Democrats grow a collective pair and shout down these false accusations, we’re stuck with the birthers, deathers, and their ilk.

Meet Robert Reich,

Secretary of Labor under President Clinton. I’ve listened to Mr. Reich on NPR and frequently read his blog at (http://robertreich.blogspot.com/), and he’s long been an advocate of reigning in corporate influence and income inequality through sensible government policy. Not surprisingly, he is also an advocate of the dreaded health insurance ‘private option’. Check it out and pass it on to your less informed friends...

The Health Care Debate

as described on the back of a napkin...

Healthcare Napkins All

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Net Neutrality and Fake Grassroots Organizations

I follow media policy and one of the issues that comes up over and over is Net Neutrality. Big telecom companies are doing everything they can to control the internet so they can charge you more money and limit access to small internet developers who then turn into thriving companies they have to compete with. These companies try over and over to push through legislation and regulation that would limit free and open access to the internet and as you can imagine, each time they try to do it their is an enormous public outcry.
Now they're putting together their own fake grassroots organizations to combat the will of the people (something like political astroturf). Check out the widget below to see what some of the biggest media companies have done and are doing to mess with your internet. Click on the puppeteer hands for information.

Go get 'em Barney!

One of the coolest things I have ever seen,,,

And the healthcare debate rages on...

Study: Most Children Strongly Opposed To Children’s Healthcare