Archive for August, 2009
17 Aug
Townhall Meetings
17 Aug
‘I’m as Mad as Hell, and I’m Not Gonna Take This Anymore!’
“Can you then consent to be the only sufferers by this revolution, and retiring from the field, grow old in poverty, wretchedness and contempt? Can you consent to wade through the vile mire of dependency, and owe the miserable remnant of that life to charity, which has hitherto been spent in honor? If you can [...]
17 Aug
Short Cuts . . .
“DISSENT IS THE HIGHEST FORM OF PATRIOTI… No, wait, that bumper sticker expired January 20th. Under the stimulus bill, there’s a new $1.3 trillion bills-for-bumpers program whereby, if you peel off old slogans now recognized as environmentally harmful (‘QUESTION AUTHORITY’), you can trade them in for a new ‘CELEBRATE CONFORMITY’ sticker, complete with a holographic [...]
17 Aug
VILLAGE IDIOTS
Lies beget more lies: “I mean, you know, eh — and people are saying crazy things right now [about ObamaCare]. … They took pieces of sound bites from different periods of time. They put a Chyron — that’s the words on the screen — that said, ‘wants to eliminate private insurance,’ to go along with [...]
17 Aug
THE DEMO-GOGUES
Nothing to fear but … nothing?: “For all the scare tactics out there, what is truly scary is if we do nothing. … Where we disagree, let’s disagree over things that are real, not these wild misrepresentations that don’t bear any resemblance to anything that’s actually being proposed.” –President Barack Obama The BIG Lie: “I [...]
17 Aug
Newspulper Headlines:
ObamaCare in Action?: “Thousands of Clunkers Line Up to Be Poisoned and Killed” –Detroit News Aren’t There Cheaper Ways to Hurt a Region?: “Obama Ventures Back to Hurting Region — With Money” –Associated Press Who Ya Gonna Call? Ghostbusters!: “Specter Holds Lebanon Town Meeting” –WGAL-TV Web site (Lancaster, PA) Talk About Packing the Court!: “Sotomayor [...]
17 Aug
DEZINFORMATSIA
When right-wing extremists attack: “If you thought the health care debate was heated in Washington, outside the Beltway it’s gotten downright hostile. From Tampa, Florida, to Austin, Texas, to Romulus, Michigan, town hall meetings over health care have turned chaotic; death threats against members of Congress, taunting and shouting, even fistfights. Democrats claim it’s all [...]
17 Aug
Reasonable Insights
“The history of the race, and each individual’s experience, are thick with evidence that a truth is not hard to kill and that a lie told well is immortal.” –American author and humorist Mark Twain (1835-1910) “If falsehood, like truth, had but one face, we would be more on equal terms. For we would consider [...]
17 Aug
Logical Observations
“The health debate, which now has moved beyond the Beltway and into raucous town halls across the land, is so intense in part because it’s not really about health care at all. On a deeper level, it’s about the role of government in America’s economy. And that is a raw and unresolved topic, only made [...]
