Displaying 1,351 To 1,380 Of 2,270 Comments Americans Elect – A Wolf in Sheep’s Clothing? Ad, whether your subjective assessment bears out or not, I think this is the best piece that you’ve written. (my subjective assessment :-)) Looking at the tree ring of organizations, I was reminded of the housing crisis and how banks and investment groups would hide the bad mortgages inside bundles of good mortgages and sell the whole kit to another investment firm as “AAA”. Not all of the mortgages were bad, but enough of them were to render the whole mess “FFF”. What is really creepy about this organization and others is how smoothly and effortless it is now to establish a credible-looking and sounding organization with nothing more than a P.O. Box, a wealthy benefactor, and an i.t. guy. It is now cheaper and easier than ever to throw so much mis-information into the information stream how can everyday political-casual Americans ever tell the difference? This is very troubling. What do we do? We can only absorb and sift through so much information before becoming overwhelmed. The MSM is no help at all, and in most cases is an enabler rather than a guardian. MORE information by good people and organizations is important but sort of exacerbates the existing problem. Thanks again for a very interesting piece. » Posted By funksands On August 29, 2011 @ 9:08 pm America’s Shameful Culture of Rape Em the nation is FILLED with those kind of idiots. I hear stuff like that every friggin day. » Posted By funksands On August 26, 2011 @ 2:52 pm Doc, this is an excellent post. This is THE most evident and obvious symptom of a justice system that frequently does not dispense it. Other examples show up in our system all the time. The housing crisis for example: Sure there were a lot of Americans that bought homes they couldn’t afford with money they didn’t have, but Wall Street took the mortgages and re-packaged them into a hundred trillion dollars of un-secured derivatives. Blaming poor homeowners for the collapse of the housing bubble is like blaming uranium miners in Africa for the nukes that we built. But I know you hear it all the time….”If only those poor homeowners hadn’t taken out mortgages and TEMPTED those banks into creating exotic investments, none of this would have happened…” » Posted By funksands On August 26, 2011 @ 2:00 pm Bito, my post was meant to agree with that article. » Posted By funksands On August 22, 2011 @ 11:46 am The campaign donation to President meme has always amused me. Obama was number one recipient of donations from: FedEx This means he is in thrall to Big Mail, Big Environment, and Big Wall Street. Seriously…. » Posted By funksands On August 22, 2011 @ 11:05 am It’s PlanetPOV’s 2nd Anniversary! Please Support our Donation and Membership Drive! Some TextThanksKQ! » Posted By funksands On August 18, 2011 @ 2:44 pm KQ, I am sitting here with tears of joy in my eyes. Thanks for doing that….. » Posted By funksands On August 18, 2011 @ 2:20 pm Comment Box? » Posted By funksands On August 18, 2011 @ 2:19 pm italics? » Posted By funksands On August 18, 2011 @ 2:18 pm Bold? » Posted By funksands On August 18, 2011 @ 2:18 pm Oooooh…..that is cruel indeed…:-( » Posted By funksands On August 18, 2011 @ 2:12 pm “PlanetPov: A fat-free blog-site” I smell a bumper-sticker!! 🙂 » Posted By funksands On August 18, 2011 @ 2:11 pm I just thought of something: What do I have to donate to get “bold” or “italics” or “ comment boxes “? That would be worth a lot to me….:-) How ya like that edit? » Posted By funksands On August 18, 2011 @ 1:57 pm Half a million? That’s it? “Cat playing piano” over on YouTube has 40 billion hits. Seriously though. I know this is a labor of love and it shows. All of the people that make the planet turn are first class. Well done! Let me rummage through my couch cushions and see what I can come up with….. » Posted By funksands On August 18, 2011 @ 1:56 pm KQ, couldn’t agree more. The views of Obama we get while he is DC coming out of making sausage with the GOP is uninspiring (by definition). He is much better and much more powerful away from hermetically- sealed DC. » Posted By funksands On August 16, 2011 @ 5:46 pm Cher, Maggie Mahar had a great blogpost about Medicare Reimbursement with some nifty analysis and charts: http://www.healthbeatblog.com/2011/08/medicare-spending-slows-sharply-few-seem-to-notice-part-1.html » Posted By funksands On August 16, 2011 @ 5:42 pm Romney or Perry – Pick Your Poison Molly Ivins on Rick Perry: “First, we Texans would like to salute the only governor we’ve got, Rick “Goodhair” Perry, the Ken Doll, for vetoing the bill to outlaw executing the mentally retarded. We are Texas Proud. Such a brilliant decision—not only is Texas now globally recognized for barbaric cruelty, but a strong majority of Texans themselves (73 percent) would prefer not to off the retarded. Gov. Goodhair’s decision—in the face of popular opinion, the Supreme Court and George W. Bush’s recent conversion on this subject—is a testament to his strength of character. Or something. His Perryness announced, anent the veto, that Texas does not execute the retarded. I beg your pardon, Governor. Johnny Paul Penry, now on Death Row for a heart-breaking murder and the subject of two Supreme Court decisions, has an IQ between 51 and 60, believes in Santa Claus and likes coloring books. And that’s not counting the other six we know about for sure since 1990.” There are other good ones at: http://motherjones.com/mojo/2011/08/rick-perry-molly-ivins » Posted By funksands On August 16, 2011 @ 8:38 am KQ, good call. I never would have picked that up. » Posted By funksands On August 15, 2011 @ 8:20 pm Seriously no one with pictures like these in their past should be President. http://static.texastribune.org/media/images/AM-Perry_jpg_800x1000_q100.jpg The larger size will do it better justice. » Posted By funksands On August 15, 2011 @ 8:03 pm Ad, all a state like Rhode Island has to do is to triple their birth rate, cut their property values to 70% less than they are now, and discover oil offshore and they too can experience their own “Texas Miracle”. » Posted By funksands On August 15, 2011 @ 7:47 pm After seeing these pictures, I guess Romney:[img]http://static.texastribune.org/media/images/AM-Perry_jpg_800x1000_q100.jpg[/img] » Posted By funksands On August 15, 2011 @ 7:41 pm Main Myths Regarding the Affordable Care Act Maybe this is a myth I believe in: Isn’t it true that there is no mandate to buy insurance? Aren’t we charged a fee that equals the premium of the lowest level of coverage? Is that true? » Posted By funksands On August 14, 2011 @ 4:26 pm Great article KQ, and one that I’ll use over and over in my conversations with others: If I can add a post-passage postscript from Forbes? “The provision of the law that permits young adults under 26, long the largest uninsured demographic in the country, to remain on their parents’ health insurance program resulted in at least 600,000 newly insured Americans during the first quarter of 2011. Wellpoint, the nation’s largest publicly traded health insurer with some 34 million customers, reports adding 280,000 new members in the first three months of 2011. Add in the results of some of the other large health insurers including Aetna, who added just short of 100,000 newly insured to their customer base, Kaiser Permanente’s additional 90,000, and Highmark’s 72,000 new customers, and we begin to sense our health insurance pools are filling up with some badly needed young blood. The Health & Human Services Department had estimated that the changes in the law would result in about 1.2 million new enrollees in 2011. However, according to Aaron Smith, the executive director of a Washington based non-profit that advocates for the young, it now looks as if that number will be exceeded. http://www.forbes.com/sites/rickungar/2011/05/23/more-solid-proof-that-obamacare-is-working/ » Posted By funksands On August 14, 2011 @ 4:22 pm I’m looking forward to the dumber, meaner, and more heartless version of Dubya running in a LOOOOONG, expensive primary. This dude smells rotten. A national audience is just what the doctor ordered. » Posted By funksands On August 12, 2011 @ 2:53 pm Kt, this is a really good article. Thanks! “In particular, an incredible 91% of young non-Christians say that Christianity is “anti-homosexual””. “the mainline churches have fallen from more than 50% of the American population in 1965 to less than 8% today.” I found these snippets really interesting. These trends would seems to indicate that in the future Americans will be split into two large camps: The godless and the zealots? With the casually religious forced to choose between the two camps? I’m not sure I like the sound of that….. » Posted By funksands On August 12, 2011 @ 2:36 pm Khirad, that is exellent context. » Posted By funksands On August 12, 2011 @ 11:37 am The President’s comments in the last story in your post are excellent. I don’t happen to agree that the payroll tax holiday is a particularly good idea, but this is exactly what the President needs to do to get people engaged and active. “Here is what I believe that we can do to make this one thing better today. Here is what others believe. They’re wrong. Put pressure on them to act/change their minds” You may not get what you want Mr. President, but you are clear, concise, and you are spurring others to act. Perfect. I’m so pleased I won’t even grind my teeth over the whole “tell Congress” part. Its the GOP. Not “congress”. » Posted By funksands On August 12, 2011 @ 11:36 am Replicant. Priceless. 🙂 You could be on to something. Has anyone ever seen Romney sweat? » Posted By funksands On August 11, 2011 @ 6:57 pm KQ, I really like that take on it. » Posted By funksands On August 11, 2011 @ 6:55 pm If a State is the only thing that can create a corporation, how is it a person? A State is not a person, how can it create a person? » Posted By funksands On August 11, 2011 @ 4:57 pmComments Posted By funksands
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