THE CANCER OF LIES

When the right wants to deny healthcare for the vast majority of Americans they point out to the incredible cost asking how would we balance the budget? No mention (of course) of tax cuts for themselves which really helps imbalance the budget. But what they talk about is the high cost of lingering diseases, not mentioned by name but of course cancer is right up there with those. Interestingly, the American Cancer Society has just come out with figures (and so far they are not disputed) that cancer is only 5% of the healthcare in this country. Interesting, and while it’s been more expensive than it was decades ago, we shouldn’t consider the expense, we should consider the savings.

FRIDAY PHILOSOPHY

It’s not troubling that so many citizens are “aginers” against what the Government is doing. What’s troubling is they’re not aware of what the Government is doing. Example; the loans to the bank and bailouts, have already been paid back with a 20 billion dollar profit. If they know it and still don’t think it was a good idea great, but . . .

FOOD FIGHT, A TEACHING MOMENT

Whatever you think about the obesity problem in this country, I can’t imagine anyone would want it for themselves. A survey some years ago asked obese people this simple question: If you could be given a million dollars or be made a normal weight, which would you choose? Well over 95% just wanted to be a normal weight and live a normal life. So maybe we have to go to an abnormal diet, because it’s been shown that kids eating school lunches have a far higher rate of obesity than kids that don’t. This kid is going to be a lethargic kid, he’s going to be a less attentive kid, and he’s going to be a less educated kid. And when the Obama Administration said that this is the civil rights issue of this generation’s education, they are so right. High sodium, high fat foods are so wrong. Just food for thought when you hear about the educational food fight. We think if he were around, John Belucci from Animal House would agree.

LET’S START OUT WITH SOME DICK BLUMENTHAL SUGGESTIONS

Linda McMahon said no to healthcare for her employees, no to testing for steroids, no to safe working environment, she is the perfect person for the Party of NO. Second approach; you get people in their 50s & 60s saying “I hear from Linda McMahon they want outsiders, experience doesn’t count”. And then you have a surgeon, a fireman, a police chief, an airline pilot…you get people that are actually in those occupations supporting Richard Blumenthal and saying “we hear McMahon wants outsiders and not experience. Trust me, in a crunch you want my experience”.

“REPUBLICAN PROGRESSIVE” KEN MEHLMAN

We have a saying about Republicans and that is they often do become progressive, reasonable, open to change, aware of the world around them, that’s when they stop being Republicans. The latest example; Ken Mehlman, who was George Bush’s campaign manager in ‘04, you remember that campaign with all the anti-gay local agendas in swing states such as Ohio and Florida. Ok, Ken’s out of that now and he had a realization that it was time to let people know he was gay. All right, he said it has taken him “43 years to come to terms with this problem in my life”. But they always come to these terms after their Republican term. And now he is an advocate for gay marriage, now he’s an advocate for reason for discourse, and now he is against labeling and slander and fear because he’s no longer an active Republican. Gees, can these guys go back and talk to their former party members and say, if you’re going to get rational, why not have a legacy? Be rational when you are with the party, so later with the clearest of conscience you can party.

HIRE EDUCATION

Lately the GAO (Government Accounting Office) at the behest of the Obama administration is examining these for profit universities and the degrees of their degree. The fact is these online folks appear to be giving people a line. One example is; a basic massage course from a junior college goes for $500.00 and from these folks as much as $14,000.00. This is truly “hire education” as in they are being hired but how much education are people getting? A number of these as Stephen Colbert pointed out are owned by very reputable parent companies, for instance Goldman Sachs or as they are officially known to Fauxvians as Goldman Sacks and Plunders and now if you attempt to buy your education from those folks you’ll have plundered because (to repeat), these for profit universities online are giving you a line. Truly hire education

FOX NEWS, MOSQUING THE TRUTH?

Fox News and “Fox and Friends” are in a “fair and balanced” furor these days about the so called ground zero mosque. They’ve got some legitimate and grave concerns about the mosque’s main financial backer and his motives for doing so. They also have serious questions about his background indicating he financed a number of fundamentalist schools in Saudi Arabia. And, he is the same individual who offered millions to the 9/11 recovery fund that then Mayor Rudy Guiliani so vociferously refused. In fact, our friends at Fox will tell you just about everything you need to know about this man except…his…name. The public should know why. He is in fact a Saudi Arabian billionaire prince and by-the-by a good friend of George W. Bush, and his name is Alwaleed bin Talal. So is it reasonable to expect the Fox News folks (owned by Newscorp) to know his true identity? Probably, because they work for him. That’s right, Alwaleed bin Talal is the second largest shareholder in Newscorp behind Rupert Murdoch and this can no doubt be verified on their “fair and balanced” balance sheet. Imagine if this fundamentalist supporting Saudi prince were an owner of MSNBC, CNN, or even NBC, we would hear his name so often that even “Fox and Friends” would be able to spell it. As for right now, we would just like them to explain why they wont even say his name thereby mosquing the truth.