Eagles . . . . .

Gosh -- I love life so much, this group helps me along . . . .






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New Rules ---- Dems - Grow a fucking spine!

Boy I tell ya -- I sure am glad Bill Maher is on the side of the good guys.

With a comedic arsenal like Maher, Jon Stewart, Stephen Colbert (and the spirit and soul of the late, great George Carlin), it's only a matter of time before the good guys prevail and Democracy and America prospers once again.





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It is to ponder . . .

Deep thought:

Today is September 12th, 2009. Officially, President Obama has kept America safer 1 day longer than Bush and Cheney did after they came to power.

Imagine that . . .



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AssKKKlowns on Parade . . .

Today at the thousand moron march in Wash., D.C. :


This is what passes for vision and intellect amongst the right-wing crowd. Put a picture of President Obama underneath a pile of fresh horse shit in the road and take pictures of it. Then share it with all your widdle right wing friends to prove that that mean, ol' darkie in the White House really is lower (get it? lower!) than a piece of shit. Guffaw ! !

And these are the child-like, witless fuckers who want the rest of us to trust them with the reigns of government power? Over my dead fucking body.


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Reason .... a lost cause amongst wingnuts . . .

Just saw this NY Times headline re: the thousand rube march in Washington:

Thousands Rally in Capital to Protest Big Government

And being the astute observer of politics and recent history that I am, it took me all of about 2.5 seconds to ask the question --- where the fuck were these people the past 8 years while Bush and Cheney mortgaged America's future on an idiotic war of choice and tax cuts for the wealthiest 1% of Americans?? WHERE! WERE! THERE! VOICES! THEN???

Take a look at this graph --- tell me what's the common thread??

http://www.usatoday.com/news/washington/2008-07-27-deficit_N.htm

Fucking ignorant clowns.


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krazee's Annual liability disclaimer

I've been asked on a couple of occasions by acquaintances whether I ever feel any level of remorse for the caustic things I say about and post about right-wing conservatives on my blog.

And my unwavering, unhesitating answer has always been emphatically - NO!

When I look back on the body of evidence that exists demonstrating the damage that right-wing, neo-con, fundamentalist religious ideologues have inflicted on this great nation's reputation, honor and soul since the Reagan Revolution, how could I possibly feel any remorse for calling these people out and exposing them for being the deceitful, selfish, greedy, ignorant, hateful, anti-Democracy assholes that they are?

Over the past several years I've alternately been a centrist Democrat and an Independent voter. I've cancelled my Democratic registration on a couple of occasions and gone Independent. But - for better or worse - I always come back to the Democratic party because as flawed and as compromised as they are, the alternative -- right wing Republicanism -- is such a viscerally horrible choice that I'll take flawed and compromised any day. Additionally, the Democrats - once again for better or worse - have a strong, national infrastructure already in place and that is critical when going up against a vicious, partly insane political Goliath and corporate/religious mercenary army like the present day GOP.

So - in a nutshell -- no remorse -- none, nada, zero, zilch. If I hurt someone's feelings on the other side -- tough shit -- get over it. You are the ones who have chosen to align yourself with some truly awful people along with their awful ideas for a future America, so don't feign surprise, shock and hurt when folks like me who have entirely different and diametrically opposing views tell you to shove it up your ass.

So -- having clarified that -- Good night to all and good luck.

DAMN THE TORPEDOES BOYS! FULL SPEED AHEAD!!

**This has been an annual public service announcement from krazeeinjun. The views reflected in this announcement are solely those of the blogger known as krazeeinjun and in no way, shape or form represent the views of anyone related to krazeeinjun by blood or family ties nor anyone associated with krazeeinjun through friendship.**

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Happy, Happy, Joy, Joy --- Happy, Happy, Joy, Joy!

The million ---- ok - thousand ---- moron march is under way.









Imao!



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Health Care Crisis? What health care crisis? . . .

Crowds camp overnight in Brighton for free dental care

BRIGHTON — The doors to a free dental clinic in Brighton opened at 5:00 this morning to a throng of anxious people.

The first person in line was Robin Kelley, 59, of Westminster, who got in line at 5 p.m.

"We only have one car," she explained, "and my husband works at night, so he dropped me off."

Like others in line, she had a blanket and camped out on the sidewalk. "The company was warm and great," she said.

At 6:15 organizers ended the line at 808 people, because they felt that was the number of patients that could be seen today. Those who arrived later were turned away, and told that the clinic would also be open Saturday.

John Smits, 47, of Adams County, showed up after the tickets had
already been handed out but just as someone standing in line discovered he had two tickets stuck together.

When a volunteer handed Smits the extra ticket, he broke down and sobbed.

I don't know why that gentleman was sobbing. He got some of that wonderful U.S. health care that Republicans say doesn't need fixing for free! So what if he had to stand in an outdoor line for several hours overnight hoping he'd be one of the lucky ones to be given an entry ticket - beggars can't be choosy right?

I mean - when you get right down to it -- it all sounds exactly as my conservative friends would portray it - - the greatest health care from the greatest health care system in the world. What's the problem?







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WWYT? Who Would You Trust? . . .

Who's integrity and word of honor would you put more trust in?: a guy who used 5 draft deferments to avoid military service during wartime or two men who've honorably served and dedicated their lives to serving America in uniform?

BY CHARLES C. KRULAK and JOSEPH P. HOAR

In the fear that followed the Sept. 11, 2001, attacks, Americans were told that defeating Al Qaeda would require us to ``take off the gloves.'' As a former commandant of the U.S. Marine Corps and a retired commander-in-chief of U.S. Central Command, we knew that was a recipe for disaster.

But we never imagined that we would feel duty-bound to publicly denounce a vice president of the United States, a man who has served our country for many years. In light of the irresponsible statements recently made by former Vice President Dick Cheney, however, we feel we must repudiate his dangerous ideas -- and his scare tactics.

We have seen how ill-conceived policies that ignored military law on the treatment of enemy prisoners hindered our ability to defeat al Qaeda. We have seen American troops die at the hands of foreign fighters recruited with stories about tortured Muslim detainees at Guantánamo and Abu Ghraib. And yet Cheney and others who orchestrated America's disastrous trip to ``the dark side'' continue to assert -- against all evidence -- that torture ``worked'' and that our country is better off for having gone there.

An excellent and important op-ed which will be completely ignored by the worthless mainstream media.

And of course --it goes without saying that you can expect the usual cat-calls from the right-wingers and accusations of traitor and turncoat to be lobbed against the character of these two good men.

[Click here to read]


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"No one could have imagined . . . "

Lest it be forgotten:

And I said, at one point, that this was a historical memo, that it was -- it was not based on new threat information. And I said, "No one could have imagined them taking a plane, slamming it into the Pentagon" -- I'm paraphrasing now -- "into the World Trade Center, using planes as a missile."

---- Condoleeza Rice (former Bush NSA testimony before the National Commission on Terrorist Attacks Upon the United States May 19, 2004)


And from that same hearing:

BEN-VENISTE: Isn't it a fact, Dr. Rice, that the August 6 PDB warned against possible attacks in this country? And I ask you whether you recall the title of that PDB?

RICE: I believe the title was, "Bin Laden Determined to Attack Inside the United States."

Now, the...

BEN-VENISTE: Thank you.

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The Coultergeist . . .

Lucifer must be strapping on his ice skates as we speak and planning a little Ice Capades show on the River Styx. Hell has indeed frozen over.

You know it's a sad, sad day for the nuttiest of the right wingers when Bill O'Reilly starts sounding like the voice of reason.

Ann Coulter slithers out from beneath her rock, and with the sheer, unbridled inanity of her pea-brained thought process, causes O'Reilly to actually call her sanity into question on television.

The saddest part of all this ... it's the Coulter faction of the GOP that is in charge of their party these days.

It is the Hannitys, Limbaughs, Becks, Palins and Bachmanns who are basically dictating the Republican political platform now, and in the process, dragging the whole GOP party slowly down into the bottomless pit of irrelevancy.

Not that there's anything wrong with that mind you.






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Shame! Shame! Shame!

Congress critter Wilson realizes the damage he inflicted on his own party and apologizes to the President.

Ok -- so Wilson manned up. Good enuff for me. Now lets see the fallout from Limpballs and Company tomorrow as they try to prop up and support the incivility.



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The GOP ... keeping it classy

Thug congressman Joe Wilson from South Carolina demonstrates for all the world to see what a bunch of hateful, disreputable pricks that are running your modern day Republican party.

Can you imagine if a liberal Democrat had yelled out in the middle of Bush's infamous Niger uranium yellow-cake speech back in the run-up to the Iraq War resolution, "You lie!"?

Wow.

The right-wing howler monkeys would have been out in full force demanding an apology, censure, resignation, self-flagellation, etc. from said liberal and if none were forthcoming they would have enlisted Fox News and Hannity, O'Reilly, Cavuto, Fox & Friends, Limbaugh, Savage, Coulter, Boortz, Reagan, Ingram, Gallagher, etc., etc., ad-nauseum, in a vicious and relentless media smear campaign to destroy said liberal's reputation and career.

You know it's true.

Nonetheless, I'm certainly not holding my breath to hear an apology from Congressman Wilson. Nor do expect any form of bold campaign from Fox News or AM hate radio to hold Wilson accountable in any way shape or form. Such is the way of hypocrites.





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Right from Wrong . . . trusting those who've been perennially wrong . . .

(snark on) Ahh yes, the hew and cry of the conservatives over the fate of traditional health care insurers and the pharmaceutical companies tugs at one's heartstrings and gets the tears flowing in one's eyes.

Poor things. How will they ever cope without their mini-monopolies and their corrupt business practices? What kind of people are we as a society if we were to allow these beleaguered, ethically challenged corporations who profit so handsomely off of human suffering and economic misery, to wither on the vine of American capitalism? Ohhh the humanity!!! (snark off)

Two separate, but telling, stories just from this past week:

Pharmaceutical giant Pfizer pleading guilty to a U.S. criminal charge relating to promotion of its now-withdrawn Bextra pain medicine and agrees to pay a record $2.3 billion to settle allegations it improperly marketed 13 medicines.

Health care insurance giant Blue Cross Blue Shield caught doling out millions in bogus bonuses and spending money lavishly on executive retirement parties and other suspect expenses. All money, which it should be noted, that comes straight from it's customer's pricey premiums.

Do I want to see every single private insurance company removed from existence? No. But I tell you what -- faced with a cheaper, more efficient public option in the Medicare mold as competition, you'll start seeing many of the CEO con artists of these insurance companies start to act more like true capitalists as opposed to the heartless and greedy monopolists they currently are.

And that's why they fight the public option tooth and nail and with such viciousness. These health insurance CEO's aren't really that different than your average ghetto drug dealer who has a monopoly on the drug trade in his neighborhood, and, who when a new dealer shows up on his streets, declares all-out war on the threat to his profit margin. I would venture to say that their personal ethics and morals are about on par as well.

Why anyone would put any faith and trust in an industry that has been so corrupt and unfair for so long is completely unfathomable to me. They've had their goddamn chance to do good and right by their fellow Americans. They have failed that challenge miserably.

Give us a public option (key word is option). Americans deserve a fair playing field health care industry and it's long, long fucking overdue.



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Gotta luv them Republican style Family Values . . .

Oh dear! What will we tell the children?





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Reality -- gee what a concept . . .

INDOCTRINATION .. in the minds of idiots . . .

http://www.whitehouse.gov/MediaResources/PreparedSchoolRemarks/




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A popsicle?

I try to explain his brilliance,


They ignore,


The Lovely, George --





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Suffer the Little Children . . .

The Bush legacy:

While current national data are not available, the number of schoolchildren in homeless families appears to have risen by 75 percent to 100 percent in many districts over the last two years, according to Barbara Duffield, policy director of the National Association for the Education of Homeless Children and Youth, an advocacy group.

There were 679,000 homeless students reported in 2006-7, a total that surpassed one million by last spring, Ms. Duffield said.

Yeah -- so keep those e-mails coming to me about how George W. Bush was the greatest thing to happen to America since sliced bread. It's gallows humor, but humor nonetheless.


P.S. --- WWJD?




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Oh my . . .

I've added another hero to my very short list heroes.

MSNBC's John Harwood dares go where no mainstream media news correspondent dares to go. He told the truth about some very dumb Americans on live television.

Transcript (video after):

Novotny: John, what about this controversy over opposition to Obama's speech to school children?

Harwood: I've got to tell you Monica, I've been watching politics for a long time and this is, this one is really over the top. What it shows you is there are a lot of cynical people who try to fan controversy and let's face it, in a country of three hundred million people there are a lot of stupid people too, because if you believe that's it's somehow unhealthy for kids for the President to say work hard and stay in school, you're stupid.

Novotny: Ouch.

Harwood: In fact, I'm worried for some of those kids, I'm worried for some of those kids of those parents who are upset. I'm not sure they're smart enough to raise those kids.





There's faint hope for salvaging the integrity and reputation of the American media yet.

P.S. - John, expect an in-box full of hate filled e-mail sprinkled with random death threats on Tuesday morning my friend.



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