Archive for the 'direct action' Category
Dear AIG: Don’t Quit! I Have a Better Suggestion!
Via atrios, I learned that the crybabies executives at AIG might quit if they have to take a pay cut:
Five senior executives at American International Group told the bailed-out insurer last week they may quit if their compensation was cut significantly by the U.S. pay czar, the Wall Street Journal reported.
The five senior AIG executives [...]
New Philly Weekly
In which I antagonize Philadelphians by stickin’ with the union.
For a working class, blue-collar city, there are sure a lot of people who hate working class, blue-collar employees.
New Philly Weekly
my new Philly weekly column is up. It discusses the Eshoo-Barton amendment in the health care bill, which if left standing will ensure that people with breast cancer, MS, diabetes, and similar chronic, life-threatening diseases will continue to pay through the nose for biologic drugs for at least 12 years, and possibly forever.
What are biologics? [...]
Stacie Ritter: Watch
Thank You Michael Moore
Embedded video from CNN Video
Please forward. Betray us, and pay a price you feckless corrupt motherfuckers.
The Real Face of the Public Option
John Boehner’s Hysteria Leads Inevitably to Comedy
I wasn’t been following the ACORN non-story, a fake scandal peddled by Glenn “I May Have Raped and Murdered a Young Girl” Beck, until Congress decided to weigh in on the matter. And you know it wasn’t gonna be good: both the House and the Senate, including large numbers of Democrats including Joe Sestak and [...]
Read More..>>Values, Values, VAAAAAAALUES!
Via Susie, Mike Stark visits with the values voters: hilarity ensues. I particularly enjoy the African American woman who keeps saying “why are you asking me these questions”, as if it’s somehow out of bounds to point out that the Values Voters’ leading lights are philandering hypocrites.
…which inevitably reminds me of Hamell on Trial:
Read More..>>If the Insurance Companies Win, We Lose
There’s a big health care event in Philadelphia tomorrow, September 22. Thanks to HCAN’s Marc Stier for the announcement.
The debate about health care in Washington has come down to this: If the insurance companies win, we lose.
Come out to fight for reform at our
Big Insurance: Sick of It
Rally for Health Insurance Reform
Tuesday, September [...]
Dennis Writes a Letter, I Write Back
Over at Daily Kos, Dennis Kucinich writes a sad little letter to progressives:
Dear Kos Community,
It is said one should not ask how sausage or laws are made. Are you concerned about a public option? Let me share with you some insight about health care legislation which may not be good for your health.
A lesson in [...]
