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DKC/Feral Cat recommended Short Sellers: The Unsung Heroes of the Financial Crisis by Dean Baker

2009-09-15T09:33:03Z

DKC/Feral Cat recommended HEALTH CARE: The Malpractice Myth by nemokc

2009-09-09T03:57:43Z

DKC/Feral Cat recommended Big Deficit Bob Rubin and the Strong Dollar by Dean Baker

2009-09-09T14:15:37Z

DKC/Feral Cat Commented on Hi-jacking the worlds food supply Part 2 : The "Terminator Seed" by DonDi

2009-09-05T23:20:09Z

Thanks for this post. Food issues and what Monsanto is up to unites the left and the right. I had Raj Patel on my radio show a year ago. He wrote "Stuffed and Starved" and is finishing another book on GMOs and just bad food practices.
There is a very bad bill called Lugar/Casey aka The Global Food Security Act that gives 7.7 Billion to Monsanto to test GMOs in Africa. The African farmers don't want it. They know what is happening in India and Iraq.

My right wing callers hate Monsanto and call it Monsatan. That's why I think our new third party should be the "Food First Party".
http://stuffedandstarved.org/drupal/node/480
Another site is: http://www.foodfirst.org/

DKC/Feral Cat recommended Hi-jacking the worlds food supply Part 2 : The "Terminator Seed" by DonDi

2009-09-05T07:40:08Z

DKC/Feral Cat Commented on Enough Lamentation by Todd Gitlin

2009-09-03T22:08:19Z

Fine, you keep playing football with Lucy. But I won't play Charlie Brown anymore. Todd is right although a vigil was appropriate for the death of democracy.

DKC/Feral Cat Commented on Enough Lamentation by Todd Gitlin

2009-09-03T22:03:47Z

And right now! No waiting 5 years.

DKC/Feral Cat recommended Enough Lamentation by Todd Gitlin

2009-09-03T12:58:43Z

DKC/Feral Cat Commented on How Progressives Should Weigh Compromises by Theda Skocpol

2009-09-03T21:57:18Z

Thanks for calling this crap what it is...corporate crap.

DKC/Feral Cat Commented on Sources: Expect Disappointed Progressives After Obama's Big Health Care Speech by Brian Beutler

2009-09-03T17:24:19Z

Schakowsky on NPR this morning said that a public option in the final bill is not "a make it or break it" for her to vote for it.
http://www.npr.org/templates/player/mediaPlayer.html?action=1&t=1&islist=false&id=112489187&m=112484593

The Clintons couldn't pass health care reform because they passed NAFTA first and so they lost their base for everything else.

Max Baucus says that in order to get "pre-existing conditions" off insurance policies, the insurance companies have to make it up in volume. That volume is mandates. This bill will be a bag of crap tied with a very yellow ribbon.

What might work is the "Mad as Hell Docs" with their Care-A-Van going from Portland, Oregon to Washington, D.C. Joining Doctors on strike will be far more effective than us writing letters and wringing our hands. http://www.madashelldoctors.com/

DKC/Feral Cat Commented on Is the White House setting us up for more vapid 'compromise'? by trblmkr

2009-09-03T17:03:44Z

Jan Schakowsky just said on NPR that a public option would "not be a make it or break it" item for her "for the final vote." So she will vote for a public option in a House bill, but the final bill will not have it.
http://www.npr.org/templates/player/mediaPlayer.html?action=1&t=1&islist=false&id=112489187&m=112484593

DKC/Feral Cat recommended Is the White House setting us up for more vapid 'compromise'? by trblmkr

2009-09-03T15:37:27Z

DKC/Feral Cat Commented on Real Public Option]]> by Brian Beutler

2009-09-03T16:08:20Z

The fix was in a long time ago. The House will try to have a real public option, but the final bill will dump it and Schakowsky says a public option is"not make it or break it" for her for the final bill. Then the President will try to run on this anemic bill and the House members will say that they really really tried. They are all sacks of crap. Our system is no longer functioning as a democracy.
http://www.npr.org/templates/player/mediaPlayer.html?action=1&t=3&islist=true&id=3&d=09-03-2009

DKC/Feral Cat Commented on Real Public Option]]> by Brian Beutler

2009-09-03T16:04:04Z

Schakowsky just dumped on the public option on Morning Edition. She says it needs to be in the House version but "it is not a make or break it" for the final bill. Go to about 2:30 minutes into the story.

http://www.npr.org/templates/player/mediaPlayer.html?action=1&t=3&islist=true&id=3&d=09-03-2009

DKC/Feral Cat Commented on Kennedy's Quick Win for Social Security by Dean Baker

2009-08-27T00:37:41Z

Wow, Dean, that's the best story I've heard all day. I was a bit skeptical about what Teddy did. I could never see anything BIG. But you have shown that he subtly kept us afloat.

But now we are, I fear, drowning.

Feral Cat from Montana

DKC/Feral Cat recommended Kennedy's Quick Win for Social Security by Dean Baker

2009-08-26T16:10:12Z

DKC/Feral Cat recommended Industry-Backed Anti-Health Care Reform Group: Yeah, We're Packing And Disrupting The Health Care Town Halls by Brian Beutler

2009-08-04T16:59:48Z

DKC/Feral Cat Commented on Profiles in Cowardice: Senator Max Baucus by eades

2009-07-24T00:00:16Z

North Dakota's dumb bunny is Kent Conrad. Max Baucus is from Montana. Max gets elected like Harry Reid, Conrad, Daschle, etc. etc. because all of us hate the Congress, but think their representative is OK. So every election voters get amnesia about all the crap that their Senator has done and re elects them because he/she gave them parking garages and grants for the colleges.

We all we wondering what the people of Connecticut were thinking electing Lieberman again.

People have got to stop voting for their guy and start voting these people out of office.

DKC/Feral Cat Commented on Profiles in Cowardice: Senator Max Baucus by eades

2009-07-23T22:52:23Z

I'll be at the Baucus office tomorrow at noon. Baucus has never been in touch with the people.

He also has the audacity to be holding a health summit to pin the blame on health care where it belongs--on fat poor people. From the Bozeman Chronicle:

"Sen. Max Baucus, D-Mont., is putting on a health summit in Bozeman Aug. 9 and 10, his office announced Monday.

The summit will be free and will feature world-class experts and top foundation and business leaders discussing ways to improve health and promote wellness in small communities across the state.

Speakers include Sally Jewell, president and CEO of REI; Risa Lavizzo-Mourey, president and CEO of the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation; and Neil Nicoll, president and CEO of YMCA.

“With diabetes, obesity, and heart disease plaguing communities throughout Montana, it is crucial that we gather together and brainstorm solutions to improve the overall health of Montanans,” Baucus said in the announcement. “This summit will focus on how to confront these challenges and promote healthy lifestyles.”"

DKC/Feral Cat Commented on Obama: Entitlement Reform May Begin With Social Security by Brian Beutler

2009-07-23T18:35:08Z

This is the new divide brought to us during the primaries; the generational divide. Middle and lower class Boomers are the enemy. Those awful hippies with their sixties "psychodrama". "Soylent Green" may not be so far away.

DKC/Feral Cat recommended Medical Tourism by GregorZap

2009-07-02T18:36:09Z

DKC/Feral Cat recommended Export Emergency by Jon Taplin

2009-06-28T16:21:40Z

DKC/Feral Cat Commented on "What Can I Do?" by Robert Reich

2009-06-25T22:26:46Z

The ten year trigger is fine for the old rich fart. Also the Kennedy plan exempts the satraps of congress from having to be part of a public plan. They can keep their Cadillac Plan and we get the moped plan someday.

When do we take to the streets? Come on Sheeple.

DKC/Feral Cat recommended "What Can I Do?" by Robert Reich

2009-06-25T19:30:00Z