BadMormon

Why we need PUBLIC HEALTH CARE!!!!!

Why We Need Government-Run Universal Socialized Health Insurance

By all Reasonable measures Americans should be proud

Rachel Maddow: The Nobel Prize & Obama Derangement Syndrome

Melissa McEwen Is one of the smartest out there…

From Shakesville: Rank (and File) Bigotry ”

The Republican Party has traded again and again on the conjured idea of an American golden era, circa 1945 to 1960, after boys who were ripped from the arms of their virginal sweethearts and sent to another continent to fight a great war against tyranny and despair, had returned home as men, as heroes, and set to work, every last one of them, making babies with doting wives and grabbing the American Dream with both hands in the dawn of suburbia. Scientists in white lab coats and square, black-framed glasses toiled away to make American astronauts the first on the moon, and to fill all the pretty new homes behind perfect white picket fences with fancy, new-fangled household gadgets to make life easier and more fun. Teenagers hung out at sock hops and neon-lit diners, girls longing for lavaliers and boys wondering how to get laid. Elvis’ pelvis was considered a scandal, and Marilyn Monroe a bombshell. Dad had a pension and the promise of a gold watch at the end of a long career with a single firm, and Mom had a Frigidaire. And everyone was happy.

Vote for us—and we’ll give you that.”

Shakesville: Rank (and File) Bigotry.

I never feel i have anything to add to posts like these, they are simply sublime.  But I like to share.

on the Madoff Issue

you know I don’t care what you do, you CAN NOT spend 650 BILLION – that’s right, 650 BILLION dollars. There are swiss bank accounts full of madoff ill got gains and we ALL know it.

You know it’s funny.

Rhymes With Snitch: Aretha Franklin’s Inauguration Hat Gets Around More Than Yung Berg’s Chain

Another thank heavens this man is elected.

President Barack Obama on Friday will lift restrictions on U.S. government funding for groups that provide abortion services or counseling abroad, reversing a policy of his Republican predecessor George W. Bush, an administration official said.

“It will be today. He’s going to make an executive order (lifting the global gag rule),” the official said.

The Democratic president’s decision is a victory for advocates of abortion rights on an issue that in recent years has become a tit-for-tat policy change each time the White House shifts from one party to the other.

Obama to lift funding ban for abortion groups abroad – Yahoo! News.

Is it possible? Is the Government on MY SIDE?

“We cannot have a free, prosperous, peaceful, progressive world if women are treated in such a discriminatory and violent way. … I take very seriously the function of the State Department to lead our government, through the Office of Human Trafficking, to do all that we can to end this modern form of slavery. We have sex slavery, we have wage slavery, and it is primarily a slavery of girls and women. … We’re going to have a very active women’s office, a very active office on trafficking; we’re going to be speaking out consistently and strongly against discrimination and oppression of women, and slavery in particular—because I think that is in keeping not only with American values, as we all recognize, but American national security interests as well.”

Shakesville: Two-Minute Nostalgia Sublime.

Will Bush Commute the Sentence of someone Bush treated criminally?

He was the first.
The first American to get Abu-Ghraibed, long before Americans knew they were capable of such an exotic verb. The first to inspire Donald Rumsfeld to issue the order "Take the gloves off," and the first to be on the order's receiving end. The first to be denied medical treatment, the first photographed naked and bound, the first taunted while blindfolded, the first–certainly the first–to have SHITHEAD scrawled on his blindfold, the first whose digital photos made their way round the world as souvenirs, the first denied access to the Red Cross, the first to be ushered into a legal limbo created ex nihilo by the administration's notions of executive power. He served as a test case for an administration eager to see what it could get away with, and what it tried to get away with was, well, this: His father hired him a lawyer as soon as he saw his son on MSNBC. The lawyer immediately wrote to John Ashcroft, Donald Rumsfeld, Colin Powell, and George Tenet and informed them that John Walker Lindh had counsel, and counsel was ready to fly to Afghanistan to meet him. They did not write him back, but John Ashcroft did not believe he was obliged to. He operated on the theory that John Walker Lindh had a lawyer only if he, not his father, hired one, even though at the time John Walker Lindh was blindfolded and duct-taped naked to a stretcher in Afghanistan. He was being held in a shipping container, and he had a bullet in his thigh, and by the time an FBI agent interrogated him, the bullet had been in his thigh for nearly two weeks and the wound was starting to stink. "Of course, there are no lawyers here," the agent told him, and two days after he gave his statement, he was moved to a ship in the Arabian Sea and the bullet was finally extracted.

Pam’s House Blend:: Who Needs Pardon?

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Immigration

But when Mr. Ng, who had overstayed a visa years earlier, went to immigration headquarters in Manhattan last summer for his final interview for a green card, he was swept into immigration detention and shuttled through jails and detention centers in three New England states.

In April, Mr. Ng began complaining of excruciating back pain. By mid-July, he could no longer walk or stand. And last Wednesday, two days after his 34th birthday, he died in the custody of Immigration and Customs Enforcement in a Rhode Island hospital, his spine fractured and his body riddled with cancer that had gone undiagnosed and untreated for months.

On Tuesday, with an autopsy by the Rhode Island medical examiner under way, his lawyers demanded a criminal investigation in a letter to federal and state prosecutors in Rhode Island, Connecticut, Massachusetts and Vermont, and the Department of Homeland Security, which runs the detention system.

Ill and in Pain, Detainee Dies in U.S. Hands – NYTimes.com

YAAAAAAAAAAAAY!

Hillary Rodham Clinton has decided to give up her Senate seat and accept the position of secretary of state, making her the public face around the world for the administration of the man who beat her for the Democratic presidential nomination, two confidants said Friday.

Clinton Is Said to Accept Offer of Secretary of State Position – NYTimes.com