Supreme Court Reverses Anti-Citizens United Ruling From Montana

When faced with a rigged game the wise simply refuse to play it and come up with a new game to replace it.



"No change is permanent, but change is."



Tom Sawyer - RUSH
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How Obama and the Democrats Got Played by the Insurance Industry on the Mandate

The best the Americans can hope for is a complete government takeover of healthcare and the complete elimination of the immoral, unethical For Profit Health Care Industry. Americans need access to health care, they don't need investors polluting the process with profit demands, and damaging the quality of health care deliverables.
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Supreme Court Reverses Anti-Citizens United Ruling From Montana

If we do not replace the current system of financing elections with Public Financing the American Voter will be doing little more than electing fresh meat to brothels, masquerading as public office.
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Allen West Denounces Egyptian Presidential Election As Proof Of 'Radical Islamic Nightmare'

It's a big world and not every nation is going to be run by radical right wing born again Christians ... sorry to break the news to Congressman West.
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Media Mostly Covered The Politics Of Health Care Reform, Which Is Probably Why No One Knows What The Law Does

The MSM is infotainment focused, not journalism focused, so it is extremely rare to find relevant information shared on important issues, because relevant information tends to be too weighty for the 7th grade educational level of most media consumers.
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Achievement Gap Persists For Low-Income Students While Competing Philosophies Vie For Influence

The Red, White and Blue will be worthless if it flies over a nation of uneducated ignoramuses. The most Patriot thing we can do is see those seats are filled and remain filled until American students graduate. The rest of the world that is fixated and focused on educating their students is experiencing prosperity and moving forward, while we talk a good game about Americans future when in actuality we can't compete. Why does the Private Sector want Visa's to bring in skilled labor? Because Americans have decided they are too cool for education.



Try to build prosperous tomorrow on that.
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Jerry Sandusky Guilty: Verdict Reached In Child Molestation Trial Of Former Penn State Football Coach

I read many of the jurors had direct affiliation with Penn State, and this verdict proves that when given evidence of crime responsible jurors will block out all other considerations and do the correct thing. This is truly a victory for the jury system.
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Karen Klein Should Give the Money Back

Let's get straight to the point here. TV commentators won't say it because they need viewers to sell toilet paper to ... but I'm not selling anything. Politicians won't say it because they need votes, but I'm not running for anything so let me make something perfectly clear here. All problems with children begin the same place ... with their parents. It's not the teachers fault that the kids are louses. It's not the bus monitors fault the bus ride becomes a journey with the Lord of the Flies. It is the parent's fault. All problems of children's behavior have the parents fingerprints all over it.



So before we bash the poor Bus Monitor for not controlling the hooligans on the bus. let's remember that if she complained about the "little darlings" some parent would have found a way to sue her for her observation. Many American Parents are more or less garbage, who are so distracted with the petty nonsense that frame their meaningless lives that they, more or less. let their little monsters raise themselves.



I say Ms Klein should take the money and run, these kids are hopeless.
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Obama Executive Privilege Asserted Over Fast And Furious Documents

Let's see if we can use just a little logic to figure out why AG Holder would withhold documents, and the President would asset Executive Privilege.



Hmm.



Fast and Furious had components involved in both the United States and Mexico. That makes it an international operation, not a domestic one. That would lead me to believe the CIA provided support to the operation on the Mexican side of the border. It would not be in the best interests of United States National Security to expose the sources and methods of the CIA operating in Mexico. So that would explain AG Holder's reluctance to release documents, and the President's desire to exert Executive Privilege to limit access to sensitive intelligence information.



The Republicans don't seem to have any problem with information related to the CIA in Mexico becoming accessible by the public. That I find disturbing.
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Ron Paul Admits He's On Social Security, Even Though He Believes It's Unconstitutional

Nice to see Ron Paul is enjoying the Libertarian "Ayn Rand Exemption" in drawing his Social Security. Social Security IS Constitutional, and always has been.
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The F Word

Excellent post. Knowledge is Power, so of course that makes knowledge dangerous as well. I like the sharing a fact with others in a bucket brigade (#InfoBucketBrigade or #FWord), but we need to recognize that these hash tags will become targets for disinformation too, for that is the way the game is played. Who will watch the Watchers? Who will correct non-facts in a crusade to share facts. In a way it is quite daunting.



I have had the opportunity to work with many Russians who immigrated to the US after the fall of the Soviet Union and we discussed life in the USSR. One thing that was pointed out to me over and over again was how the Soviet Government undermined itself with the propaganda it disseminated to the population via TASS and PRAVDA. The information the Russian people received was verifiable as different from the world they actually lived in. This created a cynicism overtime to a point that information the Russian people received from the Government was met with constant skepticism.



More important than correcting the Fact deficit, is for the American people to develop the same level of skepticism towards the information Corporations provide them, that the Russians developed for information provided by the state. You may not be able to replace disinformation with fact, as easily as discrediting the sources for the disinformation itself.
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Obama Executive Privilege Asserted Over Fast And Furious Documents

The Republican 112 Wurm Congress has done Performance Art masquerading as legitimate Congressional business since it was sworn in in January 2011. Darryl "Cry-Baby" Issa is just another novelty act
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Howard Dean Hopes Supreme Court Throws Out Individual Mandate

The most hilarious thing about this Individual Mandate kerfuffle is that the Democrats included it as a giveaway to AHIP, built off an idea fashioned by the Right Wing Heritage Foundation, that would have entrenched the For-Profit Health Care system in a National Health Care Plan, but now the Republicans are attacking it, for it is the weakest link in Obama's ACA. I mean, its like the scene in Catch-22 when Milo Minderbinder, during WWII, uses the US Air force to bomb its own Airbase as part of a contract his Syndicate made with the Germans.



The Republicans are destroying their own concept in going after the Individual Mandate, and screwing their constituents in the For Profit Health Care Industry by doing so ... now that's funny.



I've been against the Individual Mandate from the start ... next thing you know they will be mandating we buy a 2 liter bottle of Coke every day. Same difference.



Throw out the individual mandate and we can improve ACA with a Public Option. Throw out the entire ACA and we can resume the fight for Comprehensive Universal Single Payer Health Care. Keep the whole ACA in place and it is a political victory for Obama, and we can excise the Individual Mandate later.



Anyway it turns out it's good.
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Susan Tyrrell Dead: Cult Film Actress Dies At 67

I'll tell you this, Susan Tyrrell did an amazing job in the psychological thriller "Buddy Boy" ... fantastic.



http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Buddy_Boy



RIP
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Greek Election Results: New Democracy Wins

Forming a coalition with the New Democrats is the last act PASOK will take as a viable political party in Greece. It's time for the fake Socialists to betray Greece ... we're all waiting.
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John McCain: Syrian Rebels Need Our Help

If President Obama doesn't help the Syrian Rebels it's shameful ... if President Obama helps the Syrian Rebels he's overstepped his authority and should be impeached. We know how the Republicans play this game all too well.
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Egypt Elections: First Hours Of Presidential Vote See Smaller Lines And Dampened Enthusiasm

Too much tampering in the current Egyptian Electoral Process by foreign interests. The Egyptians are saddled with a false democracy. We need to see what remedy for that The People of Egypt come up with.
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Greece Elections: Euro Could Be Rocked By Vote

The People of Greece have the choice between US Backed Harvard MBA Antonis Samaras or homegrown man of The People, Alexis Tsipras.



The election comes down to whether Greece will exist for the benefit of the Greeks, or for the benefit of Wall Street.



If I were Greek, I'd vote for my country ... I'd vote for SYRIZA.
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A Time to Choose: DREAM or Impeach?

The Right Wing Republicans have been calling for Obama's impeachment since his inauguration. His crime? Being the first African American elected President. At one point I was under the impression the way the President deployed mustard on a hamburger was being used by American Rightists as a justification for impeachment.



Furthermore, even if the Republicans were to Impeach Obama they face the same problem they had with Clinton. A dog-and-pony show of Rightist Nitwittery in the House of Representatives, turning the United States into an embarrassment in the eyes of the civilized world, followed by a trial in the Senate that is inconclusive, leaving the President in office anyway. A total work of Right Wing Republican Performance Art that wastes the time and money of the American people.



The John Boehner Do-Nothing Congress substitutes Antics for Action and has made a mockery of the United States Government.



You don't let a four year old play with a band saw, and you don't let Right Wingers anywhere near positions of Responsibility. The American People's mistake in 2010.
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Euro 'Is A Bloody Doomsday Machine,' Economics Professor Says

The Greeks need to leave the EURO before Greece is carved up as spoils by the International Bankers. What the Greeks are really voting on is their sovereignty and national dignity. If they vote to abide by the draconian bailout measures Greece is lost. The International Bankers made a bad bet, let them take the loss.
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