THE issue that separates the truly compassionate from the liars

Ask them, ask the politicians and your neighbors, and anyone you meet... about "nanny state socialism" that would allow us ALL to live with health care.
Health care is a basic human right. If we need to write it into the Bill of Rights, then let's do it.
Any politician or voter who paints themself as "compassionate" needs to be on the correct side of this issue.
It is a litmus test.

Meanwhile, census figures reveal that this year two and two tenths million (2.2 million) more Americans entered the rank of uninsured just in one year, up to an unprecedented 47 million uninsured.
You call this first in the world?

I say we self-described compassionate ones have not followed the Golden Rule or the Sermon on the Mount, or loved our own brothers as we love ourselves.
This is third world behavior, folks. Dog eating dog.
The triumph of capitalism, indeed.
You ought to be ashamed, America.

Get this folks, one million of these newly uninsured are full time workers.
Where's their American Dream, America?

And this should kill ya, if you have a conscience, folks. The number of newly uninsured children rose by 600,000.
Why is any child in America being left behind?
How can we say "equal opportunity for all" when some are being hobbled from birth?
Children, America.
Eleven percent of the children in America are not covered by health insurance.
You ought to be ashamed.

Are we in a race to the bottom?
How can you still support these lying clowns in our political leadership?
Or should I characterize them as wolves, human wolves.

But hope dies last: Kucinich and Edwards are both talking seriously of what Senator Cornyn called "the mythical little guy." We ain't mythical, and we would be the big guy if we got together on this one. Fairness, it should begin at conception.

The Rats Betrayed Us

I ask you, Why Would I Bother to spend an hour fighting traffic, and paying $3.50 a gallon for gas to get there, to spend a day in Detroit attending a townhall meeting on the impeachment of the biggest criminal in American history, when Representative JOHN CONYERS, who HOLDS the GAVEL, has said time and time again that he will not proceed on impeachment?
He sent his wife to the last townhall meeting on the War on Iraq in Flint, afraid to show his face to the same crowd of Progressives who brought him in to speak about giving him the gavel before the last election. We served his purpose, to get him reelected, and now he ignores us. SHAME.

watchword: decentralization

The only hope I see in the world is in small decentralized problem solvers who do their thing away from corrupt governments and power structures.
Coincidentally here is a book about just such a concept(link).

Power to the people.
Thanks for the pointer, Bioneers.

Along the same lines, today I am investing in a local farmer.
I'm buying a share in a local, organic CSA.

dear gang

"If your baby has a fever you take her to the doctor.
When the doctor says 'You need to intervene here', you don't say 'Well, I read a science fiction novel that tells me its not a problem.'
If the baby's crib is on fire, you don't stand around speculating that the baby is fire retardant.
You take action.
The planet has a fever."
Vice President Albert Gore, testifying before Congress, 3-21-07

I want to mention here the thing I was trying to tell my little gang the other night, but folks were still wrapped up in last year's movie.

The global warming denyers are gathering strength, they have the airwaves (I heard Rush Limberger poohpoohing global warming on WJR, the strongest radio signal in Michigan, and remember, the most solid block of Bush supporters (deluded voters) are regular viewers of FOX News), and they are churning out skepticism about the seriousness of the global warming crisis.Much like the tobacco industry did when they were faced with facts.

The global warming denyers in the right wingnut Christian fundie movement, and the GOP are spreading around an English movie that counters 'An Inconvenient Truth'.
I've seen it, you can too. It's easy to find online.
It is very convincing if you aren't a serious thinker and are happy to be reassured that whatever you do is 'just fine, dear'.
But if you want to hear a fact by fact rebuttal to the GOP movie, Thom Hartmann had an EXCELLENT interview with Ross Gelbspan on March 20.

If you want to talk to global warming skeptics and be prepared for answering their points, factually, then find the clip and listen to it. Get it on White Rose in the archives, or maybe Itunes still has it.

Sheryl Crow

hope

There is another way to do this thing.