The Real Reason Obama's Plan Doesn't Include a Public Option
by Miles Mogulescu

"The reason Robert Gibbs gives for President Obama's health care plan not including a public option -- that despite majority voter support, it can't get 51 Democratic votes in the Senate -- doesn't hold up. The real reason is that Obama made a backroom deal last summer with the for-profit hospital industry that there would be no meaningful public option.

In case you didn't know:

from a Nova program/interview.

..."NARRATOR: Those questions still resonate today. Was the National Security Agency, the organization responsible for intercepting foreign calls and messages, listening in on Al Qaeda prior to 9/11? What role did the NSA play? And are we any safer today?

Surprisingly, the 9/11 Commission never investigated the NSA's role as fully as it did those of the CIA or FBI, but by carefully piecing together a variety of unclassified public records, the story of NSA and its role in the "war on terror" emerges.

IT WORKS!

Postcard from Canada: Why I Missed Obama's Speech
Sara Robinson's picture

By Sara Robinson

September 10, 2009 - 7:08pm ET
http://www.ourfuture.org/blog-entry/2009093710/postcard-canada-why-i-missed-obamas-speech

"True confessions: I missed the health care speech. While the whole lefty blogosphere was watching and blogging and tweeting, I was sacked out in my attic bedroom high on a mountainside in Vancouver, sleeping off a narcotic haze and the exhausting aftermath of a long night spent in the emergency room at Lions Gate Hospital.

http://www.noquarterusa.net/blog/2009/04/11/what-kind-of-commenter-are-you/#more-20907

what kind of commenter are you?

By American Girl in Italy
Site: http://sarainitalyblog.blogspot.com/

I read this giggle inducing post on Pajamas Media from a writer, Michael Malone, talking about the type of commenters that exist now, in the land of the world wide web.

For twenty years as a reporter and editor, I never worried about comments.

http://www.noquarterusa.net/blog/2009/04/11/gop-rip/#more-20817

GOP R.I.P.
By John Batchelor
Site: http://johnbatchelorshow.com/

Conservative radio host John Batchelor says it’s obvious: His Republican Party is a corpse. And its response to the financial crisis reveals how and when it died.

The Republican Party is dead like Lehman Brothers and Robert E. Lee, not to be revived by TARP, Rupert Murdoch, or a surge of feverish nationalism.

See if you can spot him somewhere in this crowd.

This is a photo from the 2009 Inauguration, In which you can see IN FOCUS the face of each individual in the crowd !

You can scan and zoom to any section of the crowd . . . wait a few seconds. . . and the focus adjusts.

The picture was taken with a robotic camera at 1,474 megapixels. (295 times the standard 5 megapixel camera)

Makes you wonder who's watching us right now !

http://gigapan.org/viewGigapanFullscreen.php?auth=033ef14483ee899496648c2b4b06233c

IF YOU CAN, wait a year to get your new car. The big changes will be a'comin' for the 2010 models:

Honda to Add Three New Hybrids: 2010 Fit, CR-Z, and Small Hatchback - Car News “Three new hybrids alongside the Civic hybrid will bring total to half a million per year for Honda. BY ALISA PRIDDLE, May 2008 Honda plans to sell half a million hybrids per year globally with three new vehicles supplementing the Honda Civic hybrid in its lineup.

I wrote this in October for the now defunct Survival Series. Some of the stuff may be dated, but the basic info should still be sound. Unfortunately, I can't include the pictures with my limited blogging ability.

Why? Read on. Read on and weep.

From:
http://exiledonline.com/larry-summers-a-suicidal-choice/