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“If only we’d stuck to the president’s August timetable and passed a gazillion-page health-care reform entirely unread by the House of Representatives or the Senate (the world’s greatest deliberative body) in nothing flat, we’d now have all the time in the world to sit around having a “serious discussion” and “real debate” on whatever it was we just did to one-sixth of the economy.

But a sick, deranged, un-American mob has put an end to all that moderate and reasonable steamrollering by showing up and yelling insane, out-of-control questions like, “Awfully sorry to bother you, your Most Excellent Senatorial Eminence, but I was wondering if you could tell me why you don’t read any of the laws you make before you make them into law?”…… read more HERE.

 

Sloppy Main Stream Journalism taken to task

Posted by Lisa Van Dusen - Washington Bureau

on Sunday, 9 August 2009 19:50

Sloppy and Biased – LISA VAN DUSEN Toronto Sun article August 9th

” The first big sign that this leg of health reform is a campaign and not just a debate came when the rent-a-ranters surfaced. They’re the passionately anti-(fill in the blank) protesters who wander the countryside disrupting meetings by bellowing gibberish and wearing inscrutable headgear so that television cameras will be diverted from the issue at hand, in this case fixing health care.

This is a campaign and not a debate partly because the Republicans have been wanting to re-run the one they lost last year. Falling back on the tactical and financial arsenal that has been used so many times so effectively to keep the health system as it is, is as easy as opening a kit. This time, there’s the twist of an ongoing series of race-based headlines to help the loudest rightie talkers rally the truly toxic anti-Obama fringes.”

Ed Note: Pick the group of rent-a-ranters: Homemade signs or Mass produced signs?

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Can’t tell yet? Great Photo-essay HERE.  Mark Steyn’s humorous take HERE.

Van Dusen Taken to Task beautifully by citizen (4 comment down  HERE🙂

Dear Ms Van Dusen:

1) Could you provide some evidence that the citizens who come to the Town Houses are not legitimately concerned about changing the health care system?

2)Could you provide some evidence that debate, discussion, questions and analysis, should not be a vital necessity when dealing with a change to a society’s economic and societal infrastructure that deals with at least 6% of its economy? (Ed: emphasis mine)

3) Do you agree with Mr. Obama that there is no need to read the bill? Or debate it? Or discuss it? That one should accept his Bill simply on the basis of TRUST in him?

4)  Could you provide some evidence and explanation of ‘race-based headlines’? What are you talking about? I’m sure you don’t mean the Gates affair, when both Prof. Gates and Mr. Obama inserted racism into what was not a racial incident. Therefore, – what are you referring to?

Thank you in advance for your comments to my questions. “

Will she answer? Probably not.

 

By a House for $25:00 in the USA

Posted by Point 2 Homes

on Saturday, 8 August 2009 16:30

House for sale for $25.00 in Detroit USA. Thats right 25 bucks. Go HERE.

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‘You Are Terrifying Us’ Voters send a message to Washington, and get an ugly response

Posted by Peggy Noonan - Wall Street Journal

on Friday, 7 August 2009 19:49

“What the town-hall meetings represent is a feeling of rebellion, an uprising against change they do not believe in. And the Democratic response has been stunningly crude and aggressive. It has been to attack. Nancy Pelosi, the speaker of the United States House of Representatives, accused the people at the meetings of “carrying swastikas and symbols like that.” (Apparently one protester held a hand-lettered sign with a “no” slash over a swastika.) But they are not Nazis, they’re Americans. Some of them looked like they’d actually spent some time fighting Nazis.”

…read more HERE.

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