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In the name of the "war on terror," the U.S. government has subjected people who have not been charged with or convicted of any crime to:
• Torture and other cruel, inhuman, or degrading treatment or punishment

• Abductions (known as extraordinary rendi... http://journals.democraticunderground.com/Jackpine Radical/141 Sun, 15 Nov 2009 13:34:26 http://www.data360.org/temp/dsg1387_500_350.jpg

Wage growth, benefits, length of the work week, proportion of GDP owned by the working and middle classes--all kept moving in worker-friendly directions as long as unionization was on the increase. Then came 1980, and the election of Ronald Reagan, ... http://journals.democraticunderground.com/Jackpine Radical/140 Sun, 15 Nov 2009 12:12:25 --because abortions would be covered, of course.

Mighty shortsighted of them, I'd say, since I presume publicly financed health care would save them a lot, just on mental health treatment for pedophilia alone.... http://journals.democraticunderground.com/Jackpine Radical/139 Fri, 30 Oct 2009 19:09:18 http://healthcarereform.nejm.org/?p=2126&query=TOC

When companies apply for drug approval, they submit the results of preclinical studies and usually at least two phase 3 studies — randomized clinical trials in patients with a particular condition. FDA reviewers with clinical, epidemiologic, stat... http://journals.democraticunderground.com/Jackpine Radical/138 Thu, 22 Oct 2009 10:52:31
Mike Thomas has reported in the Sentinel that the Republicans' five leading candidates all have declined to challenge Congressman Grayson. (Yesterday, as soon as Republican Chair Lew Oliver said that Oliver would endorse Jerry Pierce, Pierce dropped out.) As a public service, we have collected th... http://journals.democraticunderground.com/Jackpine Radical/137 Wed, 14 Oct 2009 16:50:25
“We owe it to our troops to bring hardnosed realism to whatever we ask them to do”

WASHINGTON – Congressman Dave Obey (D-WI), the Chairman of the House Appropriations Committee, released the following statement today:


“When the Appropriations Committee approved the supplemental request ... http://journals.democraticunderground.com/Jackpine Radical/136 Mon, 12 Oct 2009 13:48:52 Let's prove to the chickenshit wing of the Democratic Party that there's big bucks to be had for anyone willing to tell it like it is about the Republicans.

Pussyfooting, mealymouthing and wimping out with whiny apologies when the Republicans demand them will not be tolerated.

Let's turn "goin... http://journals.democraticunderground.com/Jackpine Radical/135 Fri, 02 Oct 2009 14:04:24 "Wilson went on to express his opposition to extending health care benefits to werewolves, using the ONE RING to subdue our enemies instead of casting it into the pits of Mordor, and called for the resignation of Voldemort, the White House czar for Paranormal Domination."... http://journals.democraticunderground.com/Jackpine Radical/132 Wed, 09 Sep 2009 22:48:39 Just looking at DU today, I see that Rove has implicated himself in having improper knowledge about the Siegelman thing.

Blackwater was licensed to identify & kill supposed terrorists. Sometimes they got the wrong people.

Tom Ridge came clean about the Bushies using terrorism alerts for politi... http://journals.democraticunderground.com/Jackpine Radical/130 Fri, 21 Aug 2009 15:52:02 he has always stood with us on most social issues. He is the publisher of [b][i]Sojourners[/b][/i] Magazine, which is a leftist social justice publication for religiously conservative Christians. I think we are fools to turn down alliances withpeople like Wallis simply because they may disagree on B... http://journals.democraticunderground.com/Jackpine Radical/129 Wed, 12 Aug 2009 14:33:42 there would be packs of starving lawyers and generals roaming the streets.... http://journals.democraticunderground.com/Jackpine Radical/127 Sun, 02 Aug 2009 12:03:42 They both oppose a robust public option in health care.

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2009/06/10/conrad-to-health-care-ref_n_213918.html

[div class="excerpt"] Conrad To Health Care Reformers: You Don't Have A Vote

Sen. Kent Conrad (D-N.D.) said Wednesday that he is "frankly not terribly ... http://journals.democraticunderground.com/Jackpine Radical/125 Tue, 28 Jul 2009 00:36:48 your own providers, and where you don't get punished for being taken to the wrong hospital by the wrong ambulance while you're unconscious. You know--a system where the good providers get lots of patients and the poor ones get driven out of business because word gets around and nobody will go to the... http://journals.democraticunderground.com/Jackpine Radical/123 Sun, 05 Jul 2009 11:16:35 Here's an email I got from SEIU (Service Employees International Union)


CNBC isn't exactly a shining example of responsible journalism. The financial news network has been ridiculed for enabling the financial crisis with flawed reporting and fawning coverage of failed CEOs.

Well, CNBC is a... http://journals.democraticunderground.com/Jackpine Radical/121 Tue, 16 Jun 2009 13:40:03 Rev. Jeremiah Wright
Colin Powell
Sonia Sotomayor
Bill Richardson
Barack Obama

If you said, "They're all racists," you're absolutely right. (Wright?)

I have this information from no less an authority than the great, esteemed Rush Limbaugh. And if anybody in America would know about racism,... http://journals.democraticunderground.com/Jackpine Radical/120 Tue, 02 Jun 2009 15:07:46 Get yourself a tent & waterboard setup, and tour the hinterlands challenging the local rednecks to withstand 30 seconds of water [s]torture[/s] boarding. $500 if you can make it for 30 seconds. Make them sign all kinds of waivers, of course. You charge $5 admission to the show, and incidentally educ... http://journals.democraticunderground.com/Jackpine Radical/119 Sat, 23 May 2009 18:11:38 From the newsletter of the International Association of Correctional & Forensic Psychologists newsletter


I can't provide a link because the article is in a Members Only area of the IACFP website

APA BANS INTERROGATIONS

THE CORRECTIONAL PSYCHOLOGIST, January 2009

The American Psychol... http://journals.democraticunderground.com/Jackpine Radical/118 Sat, 23 May 2009 11:51:20 http://childofillusion.blogspot.com/2009/05/quote-of-week_14.html

[Water-boarding] is torture... Give me a water board, Dick Cheney and one hour, and I'll have him confess to the Sharon Tate murders.

-- Jesse Ventura

Ventura was water-boarded as part of his Navy Seal training.... http://journals.democraticunderground.com/Jackpine Radical/117 Sun, 17 May 2009 14:57:09 something no virtually no living American has seen as an adult.

People just aren't drinking the Kool Ade any more. The cat's out of the bottle. The genie's out of the bag. There ain't no goin' back now. We have the power, we have the popular will on our side. There's a new game in town, and the p... http://journals.democraticunderground.com/Jackpine Radical/115 Fri, 08 May 2009 11:01:01 I was sitting here brooding about the fact that Holder is going after the miscreants who bungled the Stevens prosecution while leaving the Siegelman case to fester.

Now, I have no doubt that Stevens was guilty of a lot of abuses, or that he deserved to be convicted, but if his prosecutors broke t... http://journals.democraticunderground.com/Jackpine Radical/114 Fri, 10 Apr 2009 12:56:44 And I was born during the reign of King Franklin and Queen Eleanor.

You expect that of Presidents. They just aren't going to do everything to your satisfaction. I still have high hopes that Obama will be a far better President than any of his predecessors since FDR, but I don't expect him to do e... http://journals.democraticunderground.com/Jackpine Radical/113 Tue, 31 Mar 2009 12:06:43 in providing cheap and effective health coverage.

For starters, private insurance costs about 25% more to administer than a single-payer system like Medicare. Furthermore, there are some other factors that generally don't seem to get figured in, one of which is the obscene profits the insurance ... http://journals.democraticunderground.com/Jackpine Radical/112 Thu, 26 Mar 2009 20:21:28 1) The fact that the bailout for the bankers is proceeding apace, seemingly with the same sort of Goldman-Sachs-tainted people in charge who created this mess, and not doing much for ordinary citizens.

2) The health care proposal seems to be getting hammered out without any single-payer people or... http://journals.democraticunderground.com/Jackpine Radical/110 Mon, 23 Mar 2009 11:11:19 The whole purpose of a health insurance company is to collect fees from the insured and to distribute as much as possible of those funds to the executives and owners of the insurance company. This is done by several means--for example, by increasing the cost of the insurance premiums, by denying and... http://journals.democraticunderground.com/Jackpine Radical/108 Tue, 17 Mar 2009 10:29:20 https://www.newsmaxstore.com/nm_mag/radio_free.cfm?s=al&promo_code=7C3C-1

Homeland Security has advised all Americans that every home needs an emergency radio, in the event of hurricanes, tornadoes, earthquakes, electric power outages, and even terrorist attacks.
Be Prepared in Any Circumstance!... http://journals.democraticunderground.com/Jackpine Radical/107 Mon, 16 Mar 2009 20:24:50