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Rabbi Arthur Waskow : Healing Health Care NOW

Posted on August 19, 2009 by Thorne Dreyer

The Healing Tree / Terry the Weaver.Healing Health Care:NOW or Never We who have with illness bled,Welcome to our gory bed,Or to victory! Now’s the time and now’s the hour;See approach proud Money’s power.Will we turn and flee? Big Pharma’s … Continue reading →

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Ask Yourself, ‘How Valuable Is My Health?’

Posted on August 19, 2009 by RagBlog

Death Panels: Let Me ExplainBy Bill Freeland / The Rag Blog / August 19, 2009 As regular readers of these pages are aware, we seek to be a resource for information about the health care debate from an industry perspective. … Continue reading →

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Closing Time : Gilley’s Sherwood Cryer, a Honky Tonk Legend

Posted on August 18, 2009 by Thorne Dreyer

Gilley’s owner Sherwood Cryer, right, with singer Mickey Gilley, at the Pasadena club in 1980. Photo by Joel Draut / Houston Chronicle. Former owner of iconic honky-tonk Gilley’s dies Sherwood Cryer, whose honky-tonk Gilley’s created a lasting image of the … Continue reading →

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God Thinks You’re a Loser

Posted on August 18, 2009 by Thorne Dreyer

CLICK ON IMAGE TO ENLARGE “God Thinks You’re a Loser”The Rag Blog and South Austin Pictures present a screening of“God Thinks You’re a Loser,”a perverse comedy from Austin director Gary Chasonat The Independent at 501 Studiosin the 501 Studio Complex,501 … Continue reading →

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BOOKS / Sarah Bird : ‘How Perfect is That’

Posted on August 18, 2009 by Thorne Dreyer

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 →

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David Zeiger: These Wars Aren’t Over Yet

Posted on August 18, 2009 by RagBlog

Why We Fight from Displaced Films on Vimeo. An Open Letter to Iraq Veterans Against the War Members and SupportersFrom David Zeiger, Director of This is Where We Take Our Stand and Sir! No Sir! Dear Friends, As I write … Continue reading →

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The ‘Grassroots’ Puppet Masters : A Scorecard

Posted on August 18, 2009 by Thorne Dreyer

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 →

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Guadalajara : The Three Amigos Summit

Posted on August 17, 2009 by Thorne Dreyer

The Three Amigos: President Barack Obama, Mexico’s President Felipe Calderon, center, and Canadian Prime Minister Stephen Harper, in Guadalajara, Mexico on August 10. Photo by Alex Brandon / AP.The Three Amigos Summit:Sleepwalking through the minefield By John Ross / The … Continue reading →

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Austin Group Denounces Honduran Coup

Posted on August 17, 2009 by Thorne Dreyer

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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Greg Moses : The Dylan Show Plays Corpus Christi

Posted on August 17, 2009 by Thorne Dreyer

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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Alice Embree : The Court Martial of Travis Bishop

Posted on August 16, 2009 by Thorne Dreyer

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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‘Socialized’ Medicine : It Works all Over the World

Posted on August 16, 2009 by Thorne Dreyer

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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