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Congress and Health Care : ‘Ye Love Wealth Better Than Liberty’
Sameul Adams: “Crouch down and lick the hands which feed you.” If proposed health care legislation is to be a farce and a sham, [I hope] that the progressives… will vote it down, and deny the insurance and drug companies … Continue reading
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Tagged Congress, Corporate Power, Educational Reform, Health Care Reform, Obama Administration
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BOOKS / Sarah Bird : ‘How Perfect is That’
How Perfect Is That Suffice to say, Sarah Bird has constructed a multithreaded story that has more heft than many would expect for all the ‘chick lit’ labeling she gets. By Forrest Preece / The Rag Blog / August 18, … Continue reading
The ‘Grassroots’ Puppet Masters : A Scorecard
Texas’ Dick Armey, former Republican House majority leader and an ultra-conservative, heads the anti-reform FreedomWorks. (The Hammer, Texan Tom Delay, hovers at the left.) Opponents of health care reform:Big bucks behind the ‘grassroots’ By Ted McLaughlin / The Rag Blog … Continue reading
Gog, Magog and the Burning Bush!
The REAL force behind the Iraq War? Gog the demon as envisioned by Marvel Comics.A French Revelation, or The Burning Bush Now-departed President Bush is a religious crackpot, an ex-drunk of small intellect who ‘got saved.’ He never should have … Continue reading
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Tagged Evangelical Christians, George W. Bush, Iraq War, Religious Fanaticism
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Austin Group Denounces Honduran Coup
A message from Honduras: “Jail for the coup-plotters!”. Photo from Indymedia/Honduras.Demonstration is part of week of international action against Honduran coup. By Alice Embree / The Rag Blog / August 17, 2009 Demonstrators in Austin gathered on August 14 to … Continue reading
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Tagged Alice Embree, Austin, Coups d'etat, Honduras, Latin America, Political Protest
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Greg Moses : The Dylan Show Plays Corpus Christi
The Geometries of the Bob Dylan Show in South Texas Instantly the night is dark. Orchestra music plays from hanging speakers. Time to cheer and squint into the black box that has become the stage. There is a man in … Continue reading
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Tagged Bob Dylan, Corpus Christi, Country Music, Rock 'n Roll, Texas, Willie Nelson
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Alice Embree : The Court Martial of Travis Bishop
Travis Bishop (right), before his sentencing. With (left) journalist Dahr Jamail and attorney James Branum. Photo by Alice Embree / The Rag Blog.Anti-war GI Travis Bishop found guilty;joins Victor Agosto in Bell County jail I can not say that a … Continue reading
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Tagged Afghanistan, Alice Embree, Anti-War GIs, Fort Hood, Peace Movement, Travis Bishop, U.S. Military, Victor Agosto
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‘Socialized’ Medicine : It Works all Over the World
British Conservative leader David Cameron, certainly no “socialist,” calls the National Health Service (NHS), “one of the wonderful things about living in (England).” [The Republicans have] told so many lies about the government health care in other countries, that some … Continue reading
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Tagged Canada, Europe, Great Britain, Health Care Reform, Socialized Medicine
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Thomas McKelvey Cleaver : Why We Need Obama’s ‘Death Panels’
Death with dignity:Why we need those ‘death panels’ …my father had gone into a coma that afternoon, and it was time for the family to fly to Denver and gather ’round for his final time on earth. By Thomas McKelvey … Continue reading
Town Hall Crazies : Too Nuts for Jerry Springer?
Graphic by Larry Ray with apologies to Jerry Springer.Out of Control Town Hall mobs:Probably even be too much for Jerry Springer! By Larry Ray / The Rag Blog / August 14, 2009 It would not surprise me if former politician … Continue reading
Monsanto : Those Genetically-Modified Self-Destructing Seed Planting Blues
Image from photobucket.Monsanto : Ripe for the plucking By Steve Russell / The Rag Blog / August 14, 2009 I see in the business news, Midwest version, that Monsanto is raising the price of seed 42%. These jerkwads make genetically … Continue reading
