Keith Olbermann’s Special Comment: Joe Wilson, You’re Wrong!

PoliticsNewsPolitics
September 10, 2009

On the night after Rep. Joe Wilson shouted “You Lie” at President Obama during an address to Congress, Keith Olbermann devotes a “Special Comment” to the Congressman, and mocked his apology.

“You embarrassed your district, you embarrassed your nation… and you were wrong!”

Olbermann said “Wrong-Way Wilson” “made himself look like an uninformed eight-year-old screaming at an adult.”

He also comments on how “stupid” certain Republican talking heads have made the party look. “The time has come to rise up and take this country back, to again make it safe for people who actually completed the seventh grade.”

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Magician Obama, the Great Health Reform Shrinker By Robert S. Becker

Health Care or Insurance Care – Take Your Pick by Dennis Kucinich

Riz Khan: The battle for US healthcare – Is healthcare really a right or a privilege?

Obama’s Speech To Congress: The Public Option + Health Reform Speech + transcript

single payer healthcare HR 676 S 703

No Escape From Guantánamo: The Latest Habeas Rulings by Andy Worthington

by Andy Worthington
Featured Writer
Dandelion Salad
www.andyworthington.co.uk
10 Sept. 2009

A month ago, rulings made by District Court judges in the habeas corpus appeals of prisoners held at Guantánamo seemed, for the most part, to confirm that the courts were uniquely placed to deliver justice to the prisoners after their long years of imprisonment, largely without charge or trial. Even more crucially, the judges’ rulings were allowing justice to be seen to be done, unlike the secretive interagency Task Force established by Barack Obama on his second day in office, whose deliberations are, sadly, as inscrutable as those of Obama’s predecessor, even though the Task Force has at least taken the time to consult with lawyers and other experts.

As I recently reported in a series of three articles (here, here and here), despite persistent obstruction from the Justice Department, where Bush-era officials have been behaving as though Dick Cheney is still breathing down their necks, judges had, by the end of July, reviewed 33 cases, and in 28 of those had ruled that the government had failed to establish, “by a preponderance of the evidence,” that it was justified in holding the men. The judges concluded that, amongst other failings, the government was relying on information provided by dubious informers, on multiple levels of hearsay that failed to stand up to outside scrutiny, and on a supposed “mosaic” of evidence from various sources that was also unconvincing.

Magician Obama, the Great Health Reform Shrinker By Robert S. Becker

By Robert S. Becker
Featured Writer
Dandelion Salad
rbecker@cal.net
Sept. 10, 2009

Obama offered a masterly centrist performance, elegantly cutting the loaf in half, then refining his cut. He was clear and workmanlike, and he finally owned HIS plan. I am not surprised mainstream Democrats like Paul Begala went gaga over the speech: to expect any risk-taking from this president is naïve, even crazy-making.  I still see half a loaf of health reform, shrinking daily.

Perhaps Dan Froomkin is right, here was “a turning point for Obama.”  And yet I ask, “Turning from what to what?  Risking what political capital for what genuine improvements”?  Wanting to be the last president to face health care reform is a good line, but where were new rhetorical levers, new, powerful “frames” for the “passing the bill” stage – stirring, memorable catch phrases that both neutralize rightwing noise and shift public opinion?  Please list any I missed last night.

Derrick Jensen: Star Wars – The Environmentalists Version

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stimulator
September 10, 2009

http://endciv.com
Derrick Jensen imagines Star Wars, as if it was written by environmentalists

Health Care or Insurance Care – Take Your Pick by Dennis Kucinich

Sept 10, 2009

Kucinich Responds To Obama’s Address To Congress

talkradionews
September 09, 2009

Correspondent Jack Rice speaks with Rep. Dennis Kucinich (D-Ohio) following President Obamas address to Congress. Distributed by Tubemogul.

Militarizing Latin America By Noam Chomsky

By Noam Chomsky
In These Times
September 9, 2009

The United States was founded as an “infant empire,” in the words of George Washington. The conquest of the national territory was a grand imperial venture. From the earliest days, control over the hemisphere was a critical goal.

Latin America has retained its primacy in U.S. global planning. If the United States cannot control Latin America, it cannot expect “to achieve a successful order elsewhere in the world,” observed President Richard M. Nixon’s National Security Council in 1971, when Washington was considering the overthrow of Salvador Allende’s government in Chile.

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via Militarizing Latin America — In These Times.

Cowed Barry (Obama, that is) by Ed Ciaccio

by Ed Ciaccio
Dandelion Salad
Featured Writer
Sept 10, 2009

(to the tune of “Proud Mary” by John Fogerty)

Left health care up to the Congress,
Corporate lackeys  workin’ evr’y night and day,
Insurance heads don’t lose one minute of sleepin’,
Knowin’ who they had to bribe and pay.

James Balog: Time-lapse proof of extreme ice loss

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In case you missed this.

TEDtalksDirector
September 09, 2009

http://www.ted.com Photographer James Balog shares new image sequences from the Extreme Ice Survey, a network of time-lapse cameras recording glaciers receding at an alarming rate, some of the most vivid evidence yet of climate change.

Riz Khan: The battle for US healthcare – Is healthcare really a right or a privilege?

AlJazeeraEnglish
September 09, 2009

With millions of Americans uninsured and healthcare costs rising as much as 12 per cent annually, Riz Khan looks at the systems in the US, UK and Canada and asks if healthcare really is a right or a privilege.

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