Are you scared yet?

Max Blumenthal presents some nut bunnies for your viewing enjoyment.

This would be ridiculous and outrageous if it weren't so scary. And why is Tom Delay not in prison? That could also be said about Lieberman as well. But just a padded cell for him.

It's an interesting angle to a long story. A twisted sub plot to the current tales.

CUFI, Christians United For Israel. And a leader that said this in his book that he blamed Jews for their own persecution. I would imagine that he also blames blacks for theirs. All these fools blame others for the folly that lies at their own feet.

They want the rapture. Instead let us give them revolution.

Waco and Ruby Ridge? I think not

It's funny how little I really care about Ed and Elaine Brown. It isn't this, it isn't that, it's just tax evasion. And from folks that could EASILY pay taxes in the first place.

I couldn't at one time and for 4 years didn't. And in that time I only acquired $1600 in back taxes. Now I know these two did it for far longer but in the millions?

Again they could have paid. There are many that just can't and they still manage to pay. And when I got my feet on the ground once again and started getting refunds once again, the IRS just took the refunds till they were paid up. Case closed problem solved.

I can't feel for Ed or Elaine much in their plight. Like the war on terror o'le Ed is making up reason as he goes along.

And another laugh riot is at the authorities. They claim they do not want another Waco or Ruby Ridge on their hands.

Give me a break, these two are in their sixties for crying out loud. Put them under house arrest. That would be easy, they are already there, and freeze assets.

This circus is really ridiculous. And doesn't need to be where it stands now. Ed is brandishing a gun in his pants and has been threatening a fight. In a way this is assumable "old guy". If it were more than two older citizens then yea you may have a Waco or Ruby Ridge. But Ed and Elaine Brown are far from that example. And even Ruby Ridge or the nutjobs in Waco could have been handled differently by not given them what they wanted, attention.

The people in Waco didn't die martyrs they just died, and at their own hands. A one time point in history where gut reaction told me the FBI was actually telling the truth. I give the FBI more credit than the sum of it's leadership anyway. But leaving the Branch Davidian Compound would have given the FBI possibly a psychological advantage. And over time a different tactic, divide and conquer. Ruby Ridge the same thing, leave, divide and conquer.

Technological and tactical advantage should have been the outcome of both Ruby Ridge and Waco. But the score in those two cases, were people heavily armed and with some serious intent.

Now going back to Ed and Elaine Brown. The comparison by authorities to these two incidents may be some psychological advantage they are trying with the media and viewers, listeners, and readers, ergo , US.

But seriously this altercation with the Brown's edges on the ridiculous. On either side, theirs and the authorities. The Browns claim that there is no law in the land that says we HAVE to pay taxes. And they are correct, there isn't.

We pay taxes whether we want to or not. Uncle Sam dips into everything we have, buy or get paid.

Never the less the issue isn't worth dying over.

The issue I have with the Brown's is that they have the capacity and have had the capacity to pay taxes.

Another issue in this whole affair? If the browns were black...

This case would be closed, the Browns would already be dead, and the status quo that is the United States would continue with nary a thought to that outcome.

Pageflakes upgrade and some other stuff

Gasp Planet and barnacles my source is down. What will I do. And other things. On the fly here at the drive.

Chris Mathews tells Judy Miller that she can be trusted with secrets? Hello where has he been?

Some archive audio, and apparently not that old

A little something from some archive audio files

This starts with Dennis the Menace and Hank Ketchum. I get a little taken aback by the use of 'sup by Dennis. It was funny. Was it a tribute to Aaron McCruder, who I haven't seen new comics for quite some time.

Also on Boondocks was drug use. You'll have to listen and if you saw the cartoon it was great. Which again I haven't seen for a very long time on Cartoon Network.

The ties to drug use here and how it ruins neighborhoods ( by intent ) is rather clever.

The Hegelian dialectic. Hard to type? Try saying it. I couldn't.

Reichstag fire anyone? Nero, USS Main, to go to war with Spain, what ever else. And they had an idea of framing Iraq into going to war with us.

Apparently this audio is an old as I thought.

Filibuster, a useful tool

Well this podcast here is take two of Ktop Radio "The Drive" Episode 3. The last audio got trashed and I didn't have the where with all to just edit it, so I did it completely over.

I concern myself here with last nights senate marathon. I stayed with it until 3am when Norm Colman took center stage. One day I'll have the opportunity to diss him, and I rather think I will.

In breaking news this morning Harry Reid took the Levin/Reed amendment off the table for consideration. Which was what the all night marathon was about. And that was extending debate further.

But what the democrats truly wanted was a up or down vote on the measure. And which enacted would have seen withdrawal of our troops within 120 days after passing.

It was questioned by the democrats last night as to what it is the republicans are afraid of. Certainly it isn't failure in Iraq, it is too late for that. And victory is a useless endeavor to try to achieve. You do not achieve victory in a police action. History tells us that. But then again they disregard history. Also admitted to last night by republicans.

But here is the deal about republicans, they are centrists, sitting at the intersection of here and now, not knowing where they are going. Because they do not look forward and by their own admission do not look at the past. Just stuck in the middle with no place to go.

Susie for President

How come the money that can’t be found to insure all children this year can be found every 2 months for the Iraq war?

Some slices from Susie's site...

These are actual stories of children and families living without health insurance.

Family earning $35,000 a year is $50 a month above the SCHIP income limit.
Posted: March 15, 2007 |

Children caught up in red tape and unable to renew coverage
Posted: February 23, 2007 |

Families with siblings ineligible for the same programs
Posted: February 23, 2007 |

Navigating the confusing and cumbersome enrollment process
Posted: February 23, 2007 |

This last one here was the most eye opening to me and is the VERY reason we need to address national healthcare for all in this country and that is RED TAPE.

Red tape is like that child proof cap. Luckily some person with a brain required that the patient ask for an easy open container for his/her heart medication. But our current health system is exactly like that. By the time you get the care and diagnosis you need you just may be dead.

Max Hubris said...

My new health insurance carrier won't pay for my acid reflux medication. It's not in their "formulary". I guess they're hoping I just get esophageal cancer and die. Rat bastards. I'm stuck buying over the counter crap that doesn't even work.

Universal health care? Is there really any hope? Is there any politician alive who ISN'T in the insurance companies' pocket? I doubt it.

Max, that isn't healthcare, I don't even know what that is. "Formulary"? You should be able to get ANYTHING that you need. The system is so corrupt, this country is so corrupt.

And if a person in need in LA, well you may just find yourself under the hospice care of skid row. Dropped there by the local health care facility. Otherwise known as a hospital. Ain't that a bitch? And it is an institution of common practice that I do not think they have done ANYTHING about YET.

Then there is a woman who died on the ER floor. How did this happen? No care given, just lying there.

I often ask myself, "where do I live?", the occurrence of this question is rising in number.

Hell even in jest, Susie's a better choice than what we have coming. How hard can healthcare for everyone be? They don't want to ask.

Lighten the load a bit

Apple Mac Guy VS PC Guy = 15 short Ads

A little lighthearted ribbing from the MAC department.

The GOP view of civil rights told in one photo

Seriously. One? Only one? Wasn't worth shuffling the schedule around for? Even FAKING caring about this debate would have shown a little more about you, than what this photo gives away.

The NAACP invited all 9 Republican candidates to the forum, but only one showed up: Tom Tancredo. All the Democratic Presidential hopefuls showed up for their forum, btw.

Anyone who sees this photo, and believes any of the bullshit that comes out of the GOP's mouth regarding civil rights deserves exactly the candidate they get. I'm sure I wouldn't agree with anything Tancredo says on many issues, but I tell you I commend him greatly for showing up there.

The rest of the lot make me sick. They should be ashamed. And HELLO- media? Why am I getting this photo off a blog, instead of off every major news site on the internet?

Completely. Disgusting. They have absolutely no class whatsoever.

Pffft.

The Francis L. Holland Blog: The Secret "Family Business" of Markos Moulitsas Zúñiga is Uncovered

The Francis L. Holland Blog: The Secret "Family Business" of Markos Moulitsas Zúñiga is Uncovered

Well this is interesting. For some time now I have figured that there was something fishy going on at the dailykos. This expose at Francis Holland's blog lays it out pretty well that there is indeed something fishy going on at dailykos.

Francis isn't alone as being banned from dailykos because Cindy Sheehan has been also. There is a partisanship here that needs to be understood, but for the life of me, I can't come up with it.

Of course I am not partisan when it comes to the 110th congress, as we are still at something in Iraq that is costing the life of thousands. And also Bush and Cheney are still running this fucking shit pile into the ground with such impunity that it makes me sick.

But will the dailykos make a fuss about any of that? Nope, Nancy Pelosi is their bitch, and the dogs of war are their candidates. Those being Hill, Obama, and Edwards.

Yea I said dogs of war and yes I did point out democrats.

Need a worthier list, check the hopefuls for the democratic nod and remove Hillary Clinton, Barack Obama, or John Edwards, and you have a better start.

Of course just relinquish the right, they glow in that dark with the glow of depleted uranium that they haven't taken out of the arsenal yet and our soldiers are getting sick from.

Am I centrist in my approach here?

Oh hell no I am way to angry to even give the impression of a fence sitter.

The results of the poll and healthcare

Yes	1 (16%)
No	4 (66%)
I Remembered it	1 (16%)

6 Votes altogether with a consensus of anti-Americans ( perhaps ) not celebrating the fourth. I remembered it for what it was. One spent the fourth in the traditional way. I don't know who's who and what's what, but that isn't the point. It's just knowing how people look at the fourth. I haven't looked at it the same for years now. There was a time I did of course. But times change. And there will be hopefully a time I do.

In other news, national health care. Somehow politicians on the hunt for the big house know the talking points to get elected. What they do afterwards is at times something completely different, like Bush still being president. But in national health care wouldn't it be nice if you could go to any doctor for any reason? Say you have a health condition that you are aware of but it's not considered one that Doctors look for, under national health care you could. Because under national health care, you are as an American already a patient of that Doctor that specializes in that ailment.

So you can get the help you need and the diagnosis you can get confirmed.

Is this in any bills for national health care? Probably not. But it should be. Maybe I should run against Norm Colman who probably doesn't have a program idea for health care.

I see socialized medicine good for all. And perhaps a national registry that can follow you to any doctor, anywhere in the united states. Can you imagine that? Red tape gone and no need to register as a new patient as you already are. And no need for referrals. And any beauty of any health care system is the openness of patient doctor relations where second opinions are commonplace. Sometimes they are necessary, but patients do not like to step over that line, but with this system they are free to do so, as it is part and parcel of the system.

Socialized health care, Universal, National, whatever it need be, is an open system where medical integrity and the Hippocratic Oath will mean something again. In a stump speech Joe Biden suggests national health care for all and supports labor and unions.

Socialized healthcare scares some people, as some did 60 years ago. They opposed healthcare for the same reason they do today, national security.

What?

Well 60 years ago Truman suggested it and it was deemed by the republican party to be a communist plot. And for some illogical as hell reason today the right again sees national health care as helping terrorists.

As an Idea of how the wrong side of the track thinks. And this fool wrote a book. I wonder if the author bothered to separate his paragraphs in his book. It again bashes Michael Moore and looks more at the failings of other countries, which of course is normal. They do not have the capacity to be objective where it comes to their own nation. Typical.

There may be hope though at this time. The national health care of children is at stake and the AMA supports the extension of national health care for children. There is a huge lobby for health insurance providers. HMO's have privatized medical services with appropriate and listed Doctors that you can see. Is this system good? No it is not.

Everywhere you go, everywhere you work, health care is privatized and you have only certain practitioners you can go to, and to go beyond that practice you have to have a referral. Is this system good, or even adequate? No it is not.

Here today gone tomorrow. The end of health insurance and the beginning of real honest health care. Health care isn't a plan. Health care shouldn't even be a thought or a second guess. And today, because of privatized health care and health insurance it is. It is time to end all of that.

It's Only Satire

And so is this, really, I swear, this armed anarchist hippy truly means you no harm.

Really, it's only satire.

Oh what am I doing now?

National Health care, race relations, centrists are something,

It isn't the messenger, it is the message

This is my very best friend in the internet universe and a contributor here from time to time at the tap. Well worth the listen and is slowly but surely getting me into the podcasting game once again.

Maybe.

It is yet to be seen, but I discovered that I have been paying a bill that could be useful still in an audio endeavor. But getting back to my married with children little sister muse here. She pulls no punches and someone out in podcastingville thought it would be humorous to make fun of "independence". You see Dani and I have been having trouble with our independence. The turd blossom that questions her patriotism hasn't met me yet. Actually she has a few turd blossoms, and some refer to her as "dear", yea right, fact check yourself mister. You're leaning right. However...

I'll turn every stone in order to call you fence sitters OUT! Either pick a side or shut the fuck up! Either way I'll call ya the way I see ya and get out the trusty label gun.

"Independence" should be listened to, and by all means take a listen to the rest of the episodes. But to laugh at "independence" is not to laugh at the messenger, who isn't really Dani, but Langston Hughes. I have often said that when a black man speaks, even through someone else that a white person needs to do but one thing, shut up and listen.

'Ya but topper isn't shutting up a form of fascism?' Fair question and I beat your ass to it. But the answer is no. Listening to it first before making a judgment is what is important. You did nothing to the messenger but did the message a disservice.

She does the message honor here.

I feel better now.

Fight for Humanity

Wow- Charlie Chaplin?
Yep.
Here's the original, but watch the excellent slide show that Old American Century put together first!
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dZ3Ad7812MI

So, the fourth

the field negro: This 4th of July let's remember these words from Field Negro Douglas.

the field negro: This 4th of July let's remember these words from Field Negro Douglas.

From one of my favorite bloggers out there in the afrosphere.

Remember the fourth

On this fourth of July, let us not celebrate it, but remember it. We honor the dead, and our independence is just that. Let us set aside this day for remembering the fallen, that have lost their lives for our current leadership. That which knows nothing of independence, but of dictatorship...

"This would be easier if this were a dictatorship, as long as I am that dictator" George W. Bush.

This nation longs for its independence once again. Yearns for this land to be truly free for all.

Wouldn't it be a grand gesture that on this day, Bush relinquishes this administration of power. Not only of himself, but the whole lot.

A grand gesture indeed. Actually the gesture would reach far and wide and into the history books as one of the greatest presidential gestures of good faith. Shadowing the good faith of another, and yet in the gesture, disallowing any pardon available, as no one is available to give it.

I say that knowingly of Nancy Pelosi and the ilk that is the 110th congress. The republicans would surely brandish a pardon upon these less than worthy individuals, and the black sheep within the democratic party would follow suit.

I have no faith in my Government to do the right thing and that is why on this fourth of July I celebrate nothing, but remember what this nation once was.

Libby's Sentence Commuted

Even MSNBC has declared this to be a surprise...

COME ON!

Can this nation ever see something coming Well of course progressives saw it coming from afar.

Has Libby ever spent a day?

Journalistic Integrity? YOU BET!

This is how it should be, real news first, fluff second, if it all. Remembering first off that Paris is a city in France.