When Capitalism Works

Well, I have to admit, there are times when capitalism does work. Here is one of them, from the pages of Alternet:

ColorOfChange.org’s James Rucker reports that in response to the group’s campaign, GEICO has decided it no longer feels comfortable financing fearmongering paranoia and has pulled its ads from Glenn Beck’s Fox News program. This makes five advertisers who have distanced themselves from Beck since he declared that President Obama is “a racist” who harbors a “deep-seated hatred for white people.”

From ColorofChange.org’s press release:

“On Tuesday, August 4, GEICO instructed its ad buying service to redistribute its inventory of rotational spots on FOX-TV to their other network programs, exclusive of the Glenn Beck program,” said a spokesperson for GEICO Corporate Communications in an email to ColorOfChange.org. “As of August 4, GEICO no longer runs any paid advertising spots during Mr. Beck’s program.”

“We applaud GEICO and all of the other companies who have stepped forward to pull their ads from Glenn Beck,” said James Rucker, executive director of ColorOfChange.org. “Beck’s rhetoric is dangerous to the fabric of our democracy, and we are heartened that so many big companies feel the same way. We won’t stop here — we’re going to continue our fight to see that as many of Beck’s advertisers pull their support as possible.”

The question is quickly becoming, why do Beck’s other advertisers still feel comfortable with his inflammatory, hateful rhetoric?

Beck is not enough of a racist for FOX

As if Glenn Beck and Rush Limbaugh were not racist enough, FOX is trying to sign Don Imus on. Too much, really.

TVNewser has confirmed with a source close to the negotiations that Fox Business Network executives are in talks with Don Imus to bring his radio show to the 22-month old network.

AllYourTV.com, which first reported the news Friday night, reports the show "could make the move as early as September 1." RFD-TV, which currently simulcasts Imus in the Morning is looking to drop the show, "due to financial problems at the network," the blog reported.

A Fox Business spokesperson tells TVNewser, "We're always talking to interesting talent."

Full story on MediaBistro

How long will we believe the lies?

- We did not sell arms to Iran or negotiate with terrorists
- John Kerry lied about his war record
- We must go into Iraq because Saddam Hussein has Weapons of Mass Destruction
- We do not torture
- Obama wants to kill our grandparents and children

Here is some truth:

• Congress has government sponsored health care and it works
• Military personal in America have government sponsored health care and it works (Tricare)
• Many low income Americans have government sponsored health care and it works (Medicaid)
• Most Americans over 65 have government sponsored health care and it works (Medicare)
• Most of the developed world has government sponsored health care and it works

What is this nonsense about Obama wanting to kill people? Unplug yourself from the corporate matrix and wake up.

Freedom and Honesty is Back!

I'm a super busy person but I need an outlet for the ridicules, unAmerican acts happening in the United States today. As long as the GOP is held captive by the religious right trying to force their sick version of fundamentalist Christianity down our throats (I'm not against all Christianity, just the proselytizing extremists) and self serving, greedy corporations who are abusing the privileges we have given them, I'll continue to post in hopes of bringing insight and truth to more people. If you see a mistake here or you disagree, I would love to hear from you.

Contrary to the belief of what I thought were some of my more intelligent conservative friends, I am not partisan. Hell, I'm not even a Democrat. You'll see criticism here of Obama and his team and of the left when it is needed.

Today's video: UnitedHealthcare CEO Stephen Hemsley makes $102,741 an hour. Do you think he cares more about your health or his obscene profits?

banks more important than your childs education or your home

Hundreds of BILLIONS of our tax dollars are being given to failed, maybe fraudulent banks and poorly run car companies while public schools are being closed, teachers laid off and hard working American's are loosing their retirements, savings and even their homes.

Simple question: what are the priorities of Capitalistic America?

Looking for that 'change' you promised Obama.

The bold effort the present (central) bank had made to control the government ... are but premonitions of the fate that await the American people should they be deluded into a perpetuation of this institution or the establishment of another like it.
- Andrew Jackson, seventh president of the United States (1829–1837)

The Cheney Torture Tour: What's the Deal?

by Harry Shearer from the Huffington Post

Monday's NYT piece on the unraveling of the torture program during the second Bush term provokes a key question, and provides a stark answer. If, as the article reports, the Bush administration, due to rampant internal debate, had stopped waterboarding and walling and all the other repellent practices by 2005, what is Dick Cheney doing in 2009 saying that the Obama administration's rejection of those practices is making us less safe?

Of course, Cheney's resort to old-style Republican "the Democrats hate America" rhetoric is amusingly disturbing in any case. But if he's re-fighting an internal argument he lost four years ago, what's the point?

Three words: "don't prosecute me."

Cheney's goal is now revealed: to stir up enough passion on the Republican side to make a decision to prosecute the Bush administration's torture syndicate a political hot potato.

Without the former Vice President's publicity tour ginning up a "torture debate," public revulsion at the revelations in the declassified torture memos, and at the photographs the Pentagon is preparing to release, might have made prosecution not only politically desirable, but, to use a Tenetism, a slam dunk.

So why didn't the Obama administration react by saying publicly that Cheney was defending practices his own boss had disowned? Why was it necessary to set the usual "high administration officials who insisted on anonymity" loose on the Times?

Whatever the answer to that question, one waits eagerly to see what Cheney says now, as he sits down with Regis and Kelly and the ladies of The View.

Waterboard Dick!!!

From Bradley Whitford on the Huffington Post

Poor Dick Cheney.

Free at last from The Bunker and ready, as always, to do whatever it takes to protect the United States of America, he's seen the vital information that proves that waterboarding works, but, doggone it, the country went and elected this softy-brainiac guy who just doesn't "get it" the way George Bush did, and doesn't want to release it.

Obama's such a wuss, he's making it sound like America doesn't have the guts to torture people anymore.

What's a patriot to do?

It would be illegal to leak classified intelligence himself. Dick Cheney has too much respect for the rule of law to do something like that.

But waterboarding works. American lives are at stake. And Dick Cheney has the all the information we need.

Open your ears America! Are you so jaded you can no longer hear the patriot's call? He's begging us. The time has come.

Waterboard Dick!!!