(Link) 06, 2009 Guess what? I am an American hating terror-enabler! It seems that by pointing out that the obvious issue with the Fort Hood shooting is NOT that the shooter was Muslim, but that he was first and foremost an American soldier frightened of being deployed to war makes me an "America-bashing terror enabler," according to professor of political science and professional fighter of 'teh Communistofascists' : "And in response, Larisa Alexandrovna, who is one of the left's biggest race...

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MSNBC Countdown w/ KEITH OLBERMANN - 6 November 2009: Gold goes to Tom Kenniff from the Army National Guard Judge Advocates General group, a JAG, an Army lawyer, who, after asserting that Maj. Hasan could never have had post-traumatic stress disorder because he never served on the front lines, and calling the whole thing psychobabble and asserting that the real story here was the man's last name, he was asked a question by another guesst, a woman: GUEST: 'Maybe the fact is that you're a JAG o...

 
Elizabeth Warren from 'Capitalism: A Love Story' on MSNBC's Morning Joe: "The way I think of it is: they say something like 'Give me your money, investors and I'm going to Las Vegas and put it all on red 22. And if red 22 comes in -- woo! we are RICH. If red 22 doesn't come in, don't worry because the tax payers will pay you back the money you invested." Had all our money on Black 17 at (Link)

(Link) Latest Whip Count On House Health Care Bill By: David Dayen Friday November 6, 2009 4:10 pm OK. I’ve basically gone through practically every member in the House. And here’s what I’ve got. There are 258 Democratic members of the House. There are 25 definite no votes. Adler, Baird, Boren, Bright, Childers, A. Davis, L. Davis, Gordon, P.Griffith, Herseth Sandlin, Kissell, Kosmas, Kratovil, Marshall, Massa, Matheson, McMahon, Melancon, Minnick, Peterson, Skelton, Stupak, Tanner, Taylor,...

Iam having a with you WATCH THIS VIDEO BEFORE YOU READ THIS and KNOW THE TRUTH!!!: John Stewart is now as smart as Steven Colbert and figured it all out for Glenn: (Link) (Image) Then: (Link) You try to MAKE FUN of the Gleen Beck show with your LIBERAL MAINSTREAM MEDIA bias,,, about Glenn's appendix and his Hemmoroids The doctor's schools don't teach the truth. You won't hear about THIS WAR in the mainstream media The liberal powers that be don't want us to hear about this! But we know...

 
Democracy Now!: 9 Arrested at Lieberman Office Sit-in In other healthcare news, nine people were arrested Thursday at the offices of independent Senator Joseph Lieberman. The action was organized by the group Mobilization for Health Care for All. It came just over a week after Lieberman said he would back a Republican filibuster if the public option is included in a final healthcare reform bill. Kai Newkirk of Mobilization for Health Care for All: Were waiting to talk to somebody from Joseph L...

 
Sen. Sanders addresses the idea of breaking up concentration of ownership, taking a lesson from Theodore Roosevelt. Reason One: You Don't Want A Repetition Of 'Too Big To Fail.' "Here's amazing irony. Three out of the four largest financial institutions in the country, who led us to this economic disaster, are now bigger than they were before the financial collapse." Reason Two: Concentration Of Ownership And Lack Of Competition. Get weekly Sanders Unfiltered delivered to you on Facebook, emai...

 
MSNBC Countdown w/ KEITH OLBERMANN - 5 November 2009: Silver goes to "Orly Taitz" Limbaugh using his fave imagery while commenting on the HBO Obama documentary: "...if a documentary could get anal poinsoning, this one could. I mean, it just kissed butt, kissed butt, kissed butt all over." According to Olbermann, this is "by our count... at least the 13th time in the last two years, just the last two years, that Limbaugh has used this imagery of anal poisoning, combined with 19 other reference...

As he states below, Silver predicted that the attempt to repeal Maine's gay marriage equality law would be defeated. He discusses some of the possible factors for why he got it wrong that the bigots would prevail: (Link) What Happened and Why? by Nate Silver @ 2:43 AM - snip - Maine -- Question 1. Maine votes Yes on Question 1 -- which means no on gay marriage -- by a margin of about 52-48. Turnout was extremely high and should eventually surpass 500,000 voters, about where it was during th...

 
MSNBC The Rachel Maddow Show - 3 November 2009: "Fringe and Purge" segment. Dick Armey embraces town hall disrupter. - snip - MADDOW: "The reason that sort of thing happened in so many different townhall meetings during the month of August all around the country is, in part, because those things were not spontaneous. Organizing memos were circulated ahead of the health care town hall events. One of them was authored by a Connecticut man named Bob McGuffie. His memo, which was called 'Baracking...

 
This is Keith Olbermann's Special Comment on Prop 8, which was broadcast a week after it passed, Nov. 10, 2008. (Link) Olbermann: Gay marriage is a question of love Everyone deserves the same chance at permanence and happiness SPECIAL COMMENT By Keith Olbermann Anchor, 'Countdown' msnbc.com updated 9:13 p.m. ET, Mon., Nov . 10, 2008 Finally tonight as promised, a Special Comment on the passage, last week, of Proposition Eight in California, which rescinded the right of same-sex couples to m...

Source: NBC News NBC News projects Christie win in N.J. Republican defeats incumbent Jon Corzine in tight gubernatorial race updated 12 minutes ago TRENTON, N.J. - Republican Chris Christie has defeated Democratic incumbent Jon Corzine in New Jersey's gubernatorial race, NBC News projected. With 71 percent of precincts reporting Tuesday night, Christie had 50 percent of the vote to Corzine's 44 percent. Christie, a 47-year-old former federal prosecutor, became the first member of his party i...

 
Afghan War Vets March On Washington To Protest Against Ongoing War. As the conflict in Afghanistan becomes increasingly unpopular, a group of veterans came to Washington, DC to show lawmakers the perspective of soldiers and afghan civilians. Priya Sridhar talks to former soldier Brock McIntosh about U.S. options in Afghanistan. RT NEWS RT IS A 24/7 ENGLISH-LANGUAGE NEWS CHANNEL. FROM OUR CENTRAL MOSCOW HEADQUARTERS AND BUREAUS ALL OVER THE WORLD, WE ARE SET TO SHOW YOU HOW ANY STORY CAN BE AN...

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MSNBC Countdown w/ KEITH OLBERMANN - 3 November 2009: Bronze - Gov. Tim Polenty for saying you can't be a Republican if you are for bank bailouts, he who supported Bush's bank bailouts & Rep. Joe Wilson for blaming Obama administration for shortage of H1N1 vaccine despite voting against the supplemental that would have funded it. Silver - Rep. Cathy McMorris-Rogers of Washington state, disagreeing with Rep. Virginia Foxx, saying that health care reform is an internal attack, not an external att...

Source: NBC News In Virginia, NBC News declared that Republican Bob McDonnell had defeated Democrat R. Creigh Deeds. Interviews with voters leaving polling stations in Virginia showed that independents — the crown jewel of elections because they often determine outcomes — broke heavily for McDonnell. Exit polls showed that nearly a third of voters in Virginia during the day described themselves as independents and they preferred the Republican to the Democrat by almost a 2-1 margin. It was a ...

Source: The Daily Reflector Commissioners vote to send letter opposing BCBSNC mailing By Josh Humphries The Daily Reflector Tuesday, November 03, 2009 The Pitt County Board of Commissioners voted to send a letter to Blue Cross/Blue Shield of North Carolina stating disapproval of a recent mailing from the state's largest insurance provider. Commissioner Tom Johnson requested a discussion at Monday's meeting on a recent mailing from BCBSNC that states the company's opposition to a government o...

This article is from a few days ago, but it is a very good simplified overview of the American health care situation. (Link) UPDATED ON: SUNDAY, NOVEMBER 01, 2009 08:58 MECCA TIME, 05:58 GMT The paradox of US healthcare By Andrew Kennis For nearly two decades, Wendell Potter led a very comfortable life as a public relations health insurance executive. However, while flying on a corporate jet and being served lunch on gold-rimmed china with gold-plated cutlery, Potter had an epiphany of sor...

(Link) Posted on Monday, November 2, 2009 Goldman takes on new role: taking away people's homes How one couple beat Goldman Sachs and saved their home By Greg Gordon | McClatchy Newspapers SAN JOSE, Calif. — When California wildfires ruined their jewelry business, Tony Becker and his wife fell months behind on their mortgage payments and experienced firsthand the perils of subprime mortgages. The couple wound up in a desperate, six-year fight to keep their modest, 1,500-square-foot San Jos...

 
MSNBC Countdown w/ KEITH OLBERMANN - 2 November 2009: Keith interviews John Dean about former Vice President Dick Cheney's recently released FBI May 2004 interviews concerning the outing of CIA operative Valerie Plame Wilson. Keith asks if what is revealed as the answers of Cheney, including 72 'I don't recalls,' a possible record according to Dean, constitutes perjury or obstruction of justice. Dean says there seem to be violations of the false statements law, as well as possible obstruction o...

 
MSNBC Countdown w/ KEITH OLBERMANN - 2 November 2009: Debunks Chris Wallace's interview With Rush Limbaugh, in which Wallace asks Limpballs "This week, it will be one year since Barack Obama was elected President. In that time, what has he done for, and to, the country?"

 
MSNBC Countdown w/ KEITH OLBERMANN - 2 November 2009: Bronze - Pat Boone, for deplorable ,iolent imagery, dog-whistle Newsmax column; Silver - NC Representative Virginia Foxx for absurd comparison of health care reform as greater threat than terrorists; Gold - Conservative Twitterers falsely reporting White House visitor logs, without reading the introduction that this was a different Bill Ayers than the one they thought it was.

 
MSNBC Countdown w/ KEITH OLBERMANN - 2 November 2009: Keith interviews Rep. Alan Grayson (D-FL) on latest developments on health care reform. OLBERMANN: "Did you... find it telling in that little clip we just played of Sen. Lieberman where he said that the 'government going into the health insurance business is such a mistake.' This really does mainline back to the fact of which state he represents and who his largest campaign contributors are, does it not?" GRAYSON: "There are hundreds and hu...

 
MSNBC The Ed Show - 2 Nov. 2009: David Shuster cuts through the Cheney-Libby 'memory issue' muck. SCHULTZ: "How could prosecutor Fitzgerald miss on this?" SHUSTER: "Well, that's what's so shocking, Ed. I mean, it wasn't just that Cheney contradicted the sworn testimony of Scooter Libby, which was played at Scooter's trial, he also contradicted documents that Libby created. Cheney also contradicted people who were supposedly friendly witnesses to Cheney, like Cathy Martin, who was his press sec...

Source: New York Times Uighurs Leave Guantánamo for Palau By DAVID JOHNSTON Published: October 31, 2009 WASHINGTON — Six Chinese Muslims were flown from the United States military detention center at Guantánamo Bay, Cuba, to Palau, the island nation in the Pacific Ocean, as part of the Obama administration’s effort to close the prison, an administration official said Saturday. The transfer leaves seven of the Chinese detainees, known as the Uighurs, still confined at the naval base, along wit...

Source: Reuters Obama's Afghan decision not likely before November 11 Sat Oct 31, 2009 7:33pm EDT By Ross Colvin WASHINGTON (Reuters) - President Barack Obama is unlikely to make a decision on his Afghanistan strategy and sending thousands more troops there before he embarks on his trip to Asia on November 11, a senior administration official said on Saturday. The official, who spoke on condition of anonymity, stressed that while a decision was unlikely before then, it had not been ruled ...

Source: Al Jazeera NEWS MIDDLE EAST Iraq bombing suspect kills officer SUNDAY, NOVEMBER 01, 2009 02:07 MECCA TIME, 23:07 GMT At least 150 people were killed and 500 others injured in last Sunday's attack in the Iraqi capital A man being questioned in connection with a massive bomb attack in Baghdad has killed his interrogator before being shot himself, Iraq's interior ministry said. The man, who was not identified, snatched a gun from a guard, wounding the guard, and killed the investig...

(Link) Democratic National Committee Organizing for America "Health Reform Video Challenge" I was particularly moved by the one with the children "I Deserve Health Care," by "Human Instinct," and by the one with true health care horror story "Anglea's Story."

(Link) 22 Things Dick Cheney Can't Recall About the Plame Case — By Nick Baumann | Fri October 30, 2009 2:06 PM PST Notes from former Vice President Dick Cheney's interview with the FBI about the leak of Valerie Plame Wilson's covert CIA identity were finally released on Friday afternoon after a lengthy legal battle. Citizens for Responsibility and Ethics in Washington sued the Justice Department last year to obtain the interview notes; a judge finally ordered their release on October 1. In t...