Friday, October 9, 2009
Just for a Good Laugh- Anesthetists Singing and they actually aren't horrible
"The Laryngospasms, a group of practicing Certified Registered Nurse Anesthetists that create & perform medical parodies for audiences throughout the United States."
Extended Video of Barney Frank talking about Single-Payer and Public Option Health Care
Kerry talking about how ... Single-Payer would Kill Insurance Companies
Let's Talk about Some Who Really Deserves the Nobel Peace Prize...
I received this email a few days ago and was trying to figure out when and how I would post it...and today with the ridiculous actions of the Nobel Peace Prize Committee I knew it was time. Now, for me this story was so incredible, so honorable that I couldn't believe that I had never heard it...but a quick search on Snopes proved it to be...
Mind you she was a nominee from 2007, but the point is-- the most deserving person doesn't always win.
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Irena Sendler aka Irene Sendlerowa
On May 12, 2008 a 98-year-old lady named Irena passed away.
During WWII, Irena, got permission to work in the Warsaw Ghetto, as a Plumbing/Sewer specialist.
She had an 'ulterior motive'...
She KNEW what the Nazi's plans were for the Jews, (being German.)
Irena smuggled infants out in the bottom of the tool box she carried and she carried in the back of her truck a burlap sack, (for larger kids..)
She also had a dog in the back that she trained to bark when the Nazi soldiers let her in and out of the ghetto.
The soldiers of course wanted nothing to do with the dog and the barking covered the kids/infants noises.
During her time of doing this, she managed to smuggle out and save 2500 kids/infants.
She was caught, and the Nazi's broke both her legs, arms and beat her severely.
Irena kept a record of the names of all the kids she smuggled out and kept them in a glass jar, buried under a tree in her back yard.
After the war, she tried to locate any parents that may have survived it and reunited the family.
Most had been gassed.
Those kids she helped got placed into foster family homes or adopted.
In 2007 Irena was up for the Nobel Peace Prize ... She was not selected.
Al Gore won, for a slide show on Global Warming.
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The Nobel Peace Prize Nominees are not released by the Organization until 50 years after they have been awarded, but every year the organization that nominate can release the names themselves. For the 2009 Nobel Peace Prize there were some amazing activist that were nominated for example:
Hu Jia
- An activist and dissident in the People's Republic of China.
- Focused on the Chinese democracy movement, Chinese environmentalist movement, and HIV/AIDS in the People's Republic of China
- Director of June Fourth Heritage & Culture Association
- Involved with AIDS advocacy as the executive director of the Beijing Aizhixing Institute of Health Education
- One of the founders of the non-governmental organization Loving Source.
- Also been involved in work to protect the endangered Tibetan antelope.
- For his activism, Hu has received awards from several European bodies
- On December 27, 2007, Hu was detained as part of a crackdown on dissents during the Christmas holiday season.
- On April 3 2008, he was sentenced to 3.5 years in jail. Hu pleaded not guilty on charges of "inciting subversion of state power" at his trial in March 2008.
Tuesday, October 6, 2009
A YouTube Video Makes Me Question College Classes
In college I took my share of Socialist...I mean Sociology Classes. I didn't realize really until now though how anti-capitalistic some of those classes were.
Kind of sad that even with as educated as I've become I was still under the impression that my education was relatively socialism free. I remember thinking it was a treat when my Sociology Class screened Roger and Me, a Michael Moore film. And I remember thinking, I'm going to take this with a grain of salt, since I already knew that Michael Moore films weren't really the most unbiased documentaries. Even when my super-Obama-loving documentary film class Professor refused to show Michael Moore films, I didn't realize just how corrupt his movies are. It took a comedian's YouTube video for me to realize something interesting about Moore's films and in the bigger picture...my college experience.
If you had a chance to watch the video above you heard the "interviewer" ask "Michael Moore" why he choose not to include the interview with "Roger" in Roger and Me. If you haven't been "fortunate" enough to see Roger and Me let me fill you in. Basically, Michael Moore spends the entire documentary trying to get an interview with then GM CEO, Roger Smith, who had closed several plants in Flint, Michigan, which "devastated" the city economically. Well, since the whole premise was based on the the fact that Moore couldn't get an interview with the big bad corporation, you would think this movie would be totally discredited and ignored when you find out that he actually did get the interview.
But I NEVER heard that from any of my liberal college professors in all of the 3 classes where that film was shown. They failed to mention, discuss or analyze the film with that information. This film has been shown to hundreds of students year after year in every Intro to Sociology class at my college at least. How many of them have heard the truth? I emailed an old friend of mine from college who was a sociology major to see if she ever heard about this. I've yet to hear back from her. (But she bathed in the kool-aid right after we graduated so I don't know if its that shes ignoring me, the message or just busy.)
Moving on...There was one class in specific that I remember watching this film in, American Contemporary Society. I hated that class with all the fiber of my being. There was always something very disturbing and annoying about class and now I realize that we spent an entire semester focusing on anti-capitalist topics.
We spent an extra long time on one topic in particular; the "Great American Streetcar Disaster". We spent weeks talking about the big bad car companies that bought out all the streetcar companies and destroyed them by creating a monopoly that has ruined our worlds environment and devastated the infrastructure for future America.
Of course I wiki-ed this topic to see if I could remember more about it and this is the article that appeared: Great American Streetcar Scandal
The Great American streetcar scandal (also known as the General Motors streetcar conspiracy and the National City Lines conspiracy) is a conspiracy in which streetcar in the United States were dismantled and replaced with buses in the mid-20th century as a result of illegal actions by a number of prominent companies, acting through National City Lines (NCL), Pacific City Lines (on the West Coast, starting in 1938), and American City Lines (in large cities, starting in 1943).
Now, I was amazed at first to think maybe I was wrong. Maybe this wasn't some anti-capitalism, anti-corporation Professor skewing her class in the direction she wanted. But upon close inspection of the wiki article I notices something else. A closer look at the page reveals a disclaimer :
The neutrality of this article is disputed. Please see the discussion on the talk page. Please do not remove this message until the dispute is resolved. (August 2009)
It is just hysterical to me that I was almost fooled again! Neutrality, such a simple word and yet it is so often ignored. This was for me a lesson to be a little more careful about what I'm reading, hearing and taking in. During college I was obviously being informed and attempted to be molded by the professor that I had, but now, in the real world there are just as many liberal influences that we need to wary of.
I've spent a lot of time talking about the influences of left-leaning ideals in schools across the country, but I'm only just now realizing that simply because we've left the halls of our alma maters doesn't mean that we are free from misinformation and left-leaning biases. We must always be vigilant about the neutrality of even the most seemingly benign sources.
Kind of sad that even with as educated as I've become I was still under the impression that my education was relatively socialism free. I remember thinking it was a treat when my Sociology Class screened Roger and Me, a Michael Moore film. And I remember thinking, I'm going to take this with a grain of salt, since I already knew that Michael Moore films weren't really the most unbiased documentaries. Even when my super-Obama-loving documentary film class Professor refused to show Michael Moore films, I didn't realize just how corrupt his movies are. It took a comedian's YouTube video for me to realize something interesting about Moore's films and in the bigger picture...my college experience.
If you had a chance to watch the video above you heard the "interviewer" ask "Michael Moore" why he choose not to include the interview with "Roger" in Roger and Me. If you haven't been "fortunate" enough to see Roger and Me let me fill you in. Basically, Michael Moore spends the entire documentary trying to get an interview with then GM CEO, Roger Smith, who had closed several plants in Flint, Michigan, which "devastated" the city economically. Well, since the whole premise was based on the the fact that Moore couldn't get an interview with the big bad corporation, you would think this movie would be totally discredited and ignored when you find out that he actually did get the interview.
But I NEVER heard that from any of my liberal college professors in all of the 3 classes where that film was shown. They failed to mention, discuss or analyze the film with that information. This film has been shown to hundreds of students year after year in every Intro to Sociology class at my college at least. How many of them have heard the truth? I emailed an old friend of mine from college who was a sociology major to see if she ever heard about this. I've yet to hear back from her. (But she bathed in the kool-aid right after we graduated so I don't know if its that shes ignoring me, the message or just busy.)
Moving on...There was one class in specific that I remember watching this film in, American Contemporary Society. I hated that class with all the fiber of my being. There was always something very disturbing and annoying about class and now I realize that we spent an entire semester focusing on anti-capitalist topics.
We spent an extra long time on one topic in particular; the "Great American Streetcar Disaster". We spent weeks talking about the big bad car companies that bought out all the streetcar companies and destroyed them by creating a monopoly that has ruined our worlds environment and devastated the infrastructure for future America.
Of course I wiki-ed this topic to see if I could remember more about it and this is the article that appeared: Great American Streetcar Scandal
The Great American streetcar scandal (also known as the General Motors streetcar conspiracy and the National City Lines conspiracy) is a conspiracy in which streetcar in the United States were dismantled and replaced with buses in the mid-20th century as a result of illegal actions by a number of prominent companies, acting through National City Lines (NCL), Pacific City Lines (on the West Coast, starting in 1938), and American City Lines (in large cities, starting in 1943).
Now, I was amazed at first to think maybe I was wrong. Maybe this wasn't some anti-capitalism, anti-corporation Professor skewing her class in the direction she wanted. But upon close inspection of the wiki article I notices something else. A closer look at the page reveals a disclaimer :
The neutrality of this article is disputed. Please see the discussion on the talk page. Please do not remove this message until the dispute is resolved. (August 2009)
It is just hysterical to me that I was almost fooled again! Neutrality, such a simple word and yet it is so often ignored. This was for me a lesson to be a little more careful about what I'm reading, hearing and taking in. During college I was obviously being informed and attempted to be molded by the professor that I had, but now, in the real world there are just as many liberal influences that we need to wary of.
I've spent a lot of time talking about the influences of left-leaning ideals in schools across the country, but I'm only just now realizing that simply because we've left the halls of our alma maters doesn't mean that we are free from misinformation and left-leaning biases. We must always be vigilant about the neutrality of even the most seemingly benign sources.
Monday, October 5, 2009
Polls, the Clean Informative Type
Daily Presidential Tracking Poll: -6
The Presidential Approval Index is calculated by subtracting the number
who Strongly Disapprove from the number who Strongly Approve.
63% of voters nationwide say guaranteeing that no one is forced to change their health insurance coverage is a higher priority than giving consumers the choice of a "public option" health insurance company.
78% of Those Following Polanski Story Say He Should Go To Prison
46% of voters nationwide now favor the health care reform plan (this is after they "took out" the public option mind you)
Just 39% of Americans now say the United States needs stricter gun control, 50% are opposed to stricter gun control laws, and 11% are not sure.
Only 16% Like The Job Congress Is Doing
55% Still Blame Bush for Economic Problems
43% Say U.S. And Allies Winning War on Terror
The Presidential Approval Index is calculated by subtracting the number
who Strongly Disapprove from the number who Strongly Approve.
63% of voters nationwide say guaranteeing that no one is forced to change their health insurance coverage is a higher priority than giving consumers the choice of a "public option" health insurance company.
78% of Those Following Polanski Story Say He Should Go To Prison
46% of voters nationwide now favor the health care reform plan (this is after they "took out" the public option mind you)
Just 39% of Americans now say the United States needs stricter gun control, 50% are opposed to stricter gun control laws, and 11% are not sure.
Only 16% Like The Job Congress Is Doing
55% Still Blame Bush for Economic Problems
- Funny how Congress' only has 16% of the people thinking they are doing a good job, but yet everyone is still blaming Bush for the Economic Problems. WHEN DOES IS BECOME THIS ADMINISTRATIONS ECONOMY?!?!?!?
43% Say U.S. And Allies Winning War on Terror
Wonderful Satiric Video from Catholic Vote Action
A parody PSA about Big Government and its plans to take over health care. A spoof of Will Ferrell's ad for MoveOn.org.
Here is the original Will Ferrell Video:
Hard to believe that is supposed to be as funny as this Ferrell classic:
Here is the original Will Ferrell Video:
Hard to believe that is supposed to be as funny as this Ferrell classic:
The Landlord from Will Ferrell
White House Quietly Pushing for Govt-Run Health Care Option
WHEN WILL IT DIE??!?!?!?!!?!
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Obama Quietly Tries to Shore Up Senate Support For Public Option
Reporting from Washington - Despite months of outward ambivalence about creating a government health insurance plan, the Obama White House has launched a behind-the-scenes campaign to get divided Senate Democrats to take up some version of the idea for a final vote in the coming weeks.
President Obama has cited a preference for the so-called public option. But faced with intense criticism over the summer, he strategically expressed openness to health cooperatives and other ways to offer consumers potentially more affordable alternatives to private health plans.
In the last week, however, senior administration officials have been holding private meetings almost daily at the Capitol with senior Democratic staff to discuss ways to include a version of the public plan in the healthcare bill that Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid (D-Nev.) plans to bring to the Senate floor this month, according to senior Democratic congressional aides.
Among those regularly in the meetings are Obama's top healthcare advisor, Nancy-Ann DeParle; aides to Reid; and staff from the Senate Finance and Health committees, both of which developed healthcare bills.
The measure that goes to the floor will be an amalgam of the two committees' bills, put together by Reid and key Democrats. The health committee bill contains a national government plan; the finance committee version does not.
Obama has also been reaching out personally to rank-and-file Senate Democrats, telephoning more than a dozen in the last week to press for action.
The White House initiative, unfolding largely out of public view, follows months in which the president appeared to defer to senior lawmakers on Capitol Hill as they labored to put together gargantuan healthcare bills.
It also marks a crucial test of Obama's command of the inside game in Washington in which deals are struck behind closed doors and wavering lawmakers are cajoled and pressured into supporting major legislation.....(continued)
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Obama Quietly Tries to Shore Up Senate Support For Public Option
Reporting from Washington - Despite months of outward ambivalence about creating a government health insurance plan, the Obama White House has launched a behind-the-scenes campaign to get divided Senate Democrats to take up some version of the idea for a final vote in the coming weeks.
President Obama has cited a preference for the so-called public option. But faced with intense criticism over the summer, he strategically expressed openness to health cooperatives and other ways to offer consumers potentially more affordable alternatives to private health plans.
In the last week, however, senior administration officials have been holding private meetings almost daily at the Capitol with senior Democratic staff to discuss ways to include a version of the public plan in the healthcare bill that Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid (D-Nev.) plans to bring to the Senate floor this month, according to senior Democratic congressional aides.
Among those regularly in the meetings are Obama's top healthcare advisor, Nancy-Ann DeParle; aides to Reid; and staff from the Senate Finance and Health committees, both of which developed healthcare bills.
The measure that goes to the floor will be an amalgam of the two committees' bills, put together by Reid and key Democrats. The health committee bill contains a national government plan; the finance committee version does not.
Obama has also been reaching out personally to rank-and-file Senate Democrats, telephoning more than a dozen in the last week to press for action.
The White House initiative, unfolding largely out of public view, follows months in which the president appeared to defer to senior lawmakers on Capitol Hill as they labored to put together gargantuan healthcare bills.
It also marks a crucial test of Obama's command of the inside game in Washington in which deals are struck behind closed doors and wavering lawmakers are cajoled and pressured into supporting major legislation.....(continued)
CNN Anchor's Reaction to Chicago Being Eliminated First--HYSTERICAL!
What!? The Messiah's trip didn't seal the deal!?! Pure shock on the Anchors voice...pretty funny!
Michelle Obama got a Little Confused....
It's not that big of a deal, I understand what she was trying to do, but um, at least get your story straight before you go on record. It just kinda makes her look dumb.
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But at least she seems to know whats going on here:
I can't embed the video but it is definitely worth checking out.
Sesame Street's Big Bird Wants Michelle Obama to Tell the Truth About her Husband's Birth Certificate
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But at least she seems to know whats going on here:
I can't embed the video but it is definitely worth checking out.
Sesame Street's Big Bird Wants Michelle Obama to Tell the Truth About her Husband's Birth Certificate
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