Archive for November 12, 2009
Shocker: The Republican National Committee’s Health Care Plan Covers Abortion!
I am getting so tired of typing the word hypocrisy:
The Republican National Committee’s health insurance plan covers elective abortion – a procedure the party’s own platform calls “a fundamental assault on innocent human life.”
Federal Election Commission Records show the RNC purchases its insurance from Cigna. Two sales agents for the company said that the RNC’s policy covers elective abortion.
Informed of the coverage, RNC spokeswoman Gail Gitcho told POLITICO that the policy pre-dates the tenure of current RNC Chairman Michael Steele.
“The current policy has been in effect since 1991, and we are taking steps to address the issue,” Gitcho said.
The “current policy has been in effect since 1991?” For 18 freakin’ years?! And for 18 freakin years (at least) they’ve been telling women in this country that abortion is a sin and that people who have one are murderers and that they don’t “value life”?! But their very own insurance policy covers…
I swear, my hair is almost on fire. I need to take a minute or 20 to calm down before I either break my keyboard or write something I might regret.
More Hypocrisy from Fox “News”
So Much Hypocrisy, So Little Time
When Fox “News” was jumping up and down about ACORN a month or so ago, it was doing so because, in a nutshell, ACORN operates in the inner cities and it helps poor people register to vote and poor people generally vote for Democrats. But that wasn’t what Fox told its viewers. It claimed to be worried about “the folks;” about taxpayer dollars that were going to ACORN, a supposedly corrupt organization.
So why isn’t Fox jumping all over Blackwater today? Blackwater has been accused of “authorizing secret payments of about $1 million to Iraqi officials that were intended to silence their criticism and buy their support after a September 2007 episode in which Blackwater security guards fatally shot 17 Iraqi civilians in Baghdad, according to former company officials.”
The United States has paid Blackwater (now known as “Xe”), millions of dollars for the ahem, work it has done in Iraq, yet it is taking some of that money and bribing Iraqi officials?
Hey Fox? Where’s the outrage? There is none because Eric Prince, the founder, owner and CEO of Blackwater Xe is an extremely conservative, multi-millionaire fundamentalist Christian who floats in the same circles as George W. Bush and many of the talking heads who appear on Fox, like John Bolten and Karl Rove. He is one of them. So they look the other way.
We Have Plenty of Money for Wars but…
Report: More than 25% of U.S. bridges are structurally deficient or functionally obsolete.
For example, according to Obama’s Budget Director Peter Orszag, every 10,000 troops we send to Afghanistan could cost $10 billion over the course of a year. We send 40,000 troops, that’s $40 billion. The wingers want us to send 70,000. That would be $70 billion. Think what we could do with that money.
The Definition of Oxymoron: George W. Bush / Think Tank
Bush to Outline Vision of his Think Tank:
Former President George W. Bush and his wife, Laura, are expected to outline their vision for the ex-president’s think tank during speeches Thursday at Southern Methodist University.
Set to begin in spring 2010, the George W. Bush Institute will be part of Bush’s presidential center at SMU.
The center, which includes a library, museum and archives, will become the first presidential library complex to house a policy institute.
That’s going to be one short speech. His vision? Start wars and give the money it takes to wage them to your friends.
Here are some suggestions for what the “think tank” should be called.
Tom Tancredo Running for Governor of Colorado in 2010
He just threw is hat in the ring.
The guy is like a bugger you can’t flick off your finger.
Is a Black Police Officer the Real Hero at Fort Hood?
From today’s New York Times:
Sgt. Kimberly D. Munley has been applauded as a hero across the nation for shooting down Maj. Nidal Malik Hasan during the bloody rampage at Fort Hood last week. The account of heroism, given by the authorities, attracted the attention of newspapers, the networks and television talk shows.
The Federal Reserve on Thursday announced new rules that will soon limit the overdraft fees banks can charge their customers.
The new policy, which begins July 1, puts an end to the $25-or-more penalties banks can levy on consumers who spend more than they have. Buyers now will have to consent to those fees before banks can charge them — or they will lose the ability to spend even a penny more than their accounts contain.
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But Sergeant Todd’s account agrees with the statements of an eyewitness who had gone to the base’s processing center, where the shooting occurred, to conduct business before being deployed.
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How the authorities came to issue the original version of the story, which made Sergeant Munley a national hero for several days and obscured Sergeant Todd’s role, remains unclear.
Sgt. Munley is a white woman. Sergeant Todd is a black man. Could it be that we are so deeply prejudicial in this country that the media and the military couldn’t fathom, and/or tolerate, the idea of a black man as hero, so they tried to cover it up?
Overdraft Fees
New Fed Rule to End Overdraft Fees for the Majority of Americans:
The Federal Reserve on Thursday announced new rules that will soon limit the overdraft fees banks can charge their customers.
The new policy, which begins July 1, puts an end to the $25-or-more penalties banks can levy on consumers who spend more than they have. Buyers now will have to consent to those fees before banks can charge them — or they will lose the ability to spend even a penny more than their accounts contain.
That’s good, and it’s about time, but why wait until friggin’ July? (The big guys get all the breaks.)
Jon Corzine to Head Bank of America?
Talk about the incestuous relationship between Washington and Wall Street — Charlie Gasparino is on CNBC right now reporting that rumors are flying that former Senator and former New Jersey Governor, Democrat Jon Corzine (who was at Goldman Sachs before entering politics) is being rumored as the new head of Bank of America.
Gawd. It is so true that there are like 500 people who control everything. They sort of bounce around but always stay within the elite-o-sphere.
The Name of John Kings’ New CNN Show?
CNN announced today that John King will slide into Lou Dobbs’ time slot so, of course, someone set up a Twitter category titled: NewJohnKingShowTitles. Check it out. There are some pretty funny suggestions there.
The Liberal Media
Woke up to Fox airing a piece about Roger Ailes being honored by the Boy Scouts, CNN airing a report titled, “The Republican Resurgence Begins Again,” MSNBC interviewing a guy from Politico, Eric Cantor on CNBC, and a Senior VP from Blue Cross/Blue Shield on C-SPAN.
Good Luck Having a Good Night
●● The U.S. ambassador in Kabul sent two classified cables to Washington in the last week expressing deep concerns about sending more U.S. troops to Afghanistan. Yet, Obama is reportedly set to send at least 40,000 more troops there. Change I can’t believe in.
●● How Credit Raters Fended Off Oversight from Congress and the SEC. I prefer the title: How A Bought Off Congress Played Dumb and Looked the Other Way.
●● Obama might cave and give an interview to Fox — so typical of wimpy Democrats who are so afraid of the right — even though they’re spot on in their criticism of it. More change I can’t believe in.
●● Millions of our tax dollars are — still — going to the mercenary group Blackwater, a friend of the Bushies, despite the crimes they’ve committed in Iraq that put us at risk for blowback. Change that should have happened by now.
●● Former V.P. candidate Sarah Palin — I repeat: the former candidate for the office of Vice-President of the United States of America — is so stupid — or she counts on the media and/or us to be so stupid — that she insinuates that President Obama moved the inscription, “In God We Trust” to the side of U.S. coins. Fact: George W. Bush did that.
●● The CEO of Goldman Sachs, a guy who makes more in bonuses than all the people who live on my block will make in a lifetime, says he’s “doing God’s work.”
●● David Sirota (AM760.net) gave Amy Goodman some long-deserved corporate airtime today. Has Ed — I love Michael Medved — Schultz ever heard of Amy?
●● General Stanley McChrystal, the commander of U.S. troops in Afghanistan and someone who says Obama should send 70,000 more troops there, is a liar.
●● Texas Governor Rick Perry is insane:
