The left is now attacking and punishing one of their own for disagreeing with ObamaCare!
I have sat on the sidelines observing the ObamaCare debacle, specifically the protests, AKA town hall meetings, and I must first say, protesters, leave your freaking guns at home! Watching the volatile situation unfold which has included so-called AstroTurf, mobs and racists, pull-the-plug-on-grandma "death panels," Hitler sightings, swastikas and the like, has been quite amusing, yet very frustrating.…
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76 - Christine
Don't kid yourself and think that this administration's concern is all about the poor and the sick, even David Axelrod has his hand in the health-care cookie jar!
AKPD Message and Media, the Chicago-based firm headed by David Axelrod until he left last Dec. 31 to serve as a senior adviser to the president. His son is still with the firm!
GMMB Campaign Group, where partner Jim Margolis was also an Obama strategist.
"This year, AKPD and GMMB received $12 million in advertising business from Healthy Economy Now, a coalition that includes the Washington-based Pharmaceutical Research & Manufacturers of America, known as PhRMA, that is seeking to build support for a health-care overhaul, said the coalition’s spokesman, Jeremy Van Ess."
And many deep-pocketed LEFT stand to gain more with ObamaCare and "cap-and-trade".....
Greed and corruption have no bounds..but it gets tiring when the right is always blamed!
77 - Cindy
66 (chuckles)
78 - roger nowosielski
I have no illusions, Christine.
(Handy will shoot me again.)
I think #75 was hilarious
79 - Cindy
pinker shade of Dave, lol
80 - roger nowosielski
was that a political or sex-orientation characterization?
81 - Clavos
Is 'pinker shade of Dave' like 'whiter shade of pale'?
But not as melodic.
82 - Clavos
I've never shopped Whole Foods. Visited my local one a couple of times, looked around, and didn't find much I liked.
My favorite grocery store is a regional chain headquartered in North Carolina called The Fresh Market (or TFM by us fans). I think they are only in the Southeast.
They don't sell healthy or organic food; no "green" product, all they offer is unabashedly GOOD gourmet (expensive, of course) food, with no attempt to be PC, and no apologies for being self-indulgent -- I love it.
I have both stores in my neighborhood; TFM does twice the volume of Whole Foods, at least (based on my unscientific "cars in the parking lot" surveys).
83 - roger nowosielski
And so is this:
Red...
I feel my soul on fire!
Black...
My world if she's not there!
Red...
The color of desire!
Black...
The color of despair!
ENJOLRAS
Marius, you're no longer a child
I do not doubt you mean it well
But now there is a higher call.
Who cares about your lonely soul?
We strive toward a larger goal
Our little lives don't count at all!
ALL
Red - the blood of angry men!
Black - the dark of ages past!
Red - a world about to dawn!
Black - the night that ends at last!
84 - roger nowosielski
Well, it's different in California of course. Trader Joes is comparable: less pricey. And so is Andronico's - a local specialty chain.
85 - Christine
Clavos, glad to see you have time to eat! Bon Appetit!
Roger, love Trader Joes and you are so right...less pricy!
86 - roger nowosielski
Well, specialty foods are worth it, though. Especially the deli sections, all kinds of fish, pates, imported cheeses, and best Italian cold cuts.
87 - Cindy
The 1935 Les Miserables with Fredric March & Charles Laughton happens to be on TV right now, Roger.
88 - roger nowosielski
You had better watch it then. I don't have cable. But I have a tape of one with Jean Gabin, (French production); and of course the tenth-anniversary of the musical from London.
89 - Arch Conservative
Silas I see the words you wrote but all I really hear is blah blah blah.
I'm going to send you a Christmas card that goes a little something like........
Twas the night before Christmas.....
And there's still no Obamacare bitch!
90 - El Bicho
lumpy, please explain to the idiots what "blothering" is
91 - Clavos
please explain to the idiots what "blothering" is
A typo.
Yer welcome.
92 - roger nowosielski
a variant?
93 - roger nowosielski
better link
94 - Christine
Wow, do any of us here on Blog Critics have a life? LOL
Good Night and Good Luck!
95 - handyguy
Trader Joe's doesn't carry produce. Whole Foods has fantastic produce, and if you pay attention to what you choose to buy, it's no more expensive than the inferior stuff in other stores [in NYC at least].
96 - Christine
OK, I don't have a life...how sad!
97 - Silas Kain
No, we have no lives. We're like the comic book superheroes. We lurk in the shadows protecting mankind from themselves. Some of us shop at Whole Foods, some of us don't. Then we come here, blabber and try to solve the problems of the world here in the heart of the sinister cabal of superior writers.
98 - roger nowosielski
They do in CA, Handy - full scale supermarket.
Manana, everybody.
99 - Christine
Silas, that is too funny..love it!
100 - El Bicho
Christine, if you are going to hang out here, you should get the name of the site right. It's one word.
101 - STM
Clav: "A typo. Yer welcome."
Thanks for blothering Clav ... no one else did.
102 - Christine
100 - El Bicho
My Bad!
103 - Cindy
Dave...there's a question for you here. But first,
There was an ad in the sidebar for 'Traitor Joe's'...it was a greenpeace ad, which explained how they sell red list fish and remove the labels to trick customers.
Capitalists don't care if they kill everything off. I love this free market stuff, it's like legalized rape. sha la la I've got my dough...
Dave how do free markets deal with overfishing? pollution?
By the way Dave, your idea about prostitution was tried and it was a failure. Legalizing prostitution didn't solve any problem. More slaves were created to compete with the legal pricing.
Legal Prostitution in Australia a "Failure"
Ten years ago, Australia made a risky policy move it thought would help protect women and children: it legalized prostitution. Today, only 10% of the prostitution industry operates in Australia's legal brothels. The other 90% takes place in underground, illegal sex markets thick with forced prostitution and human trafficking victims.
104 - Cindy
Oh, btw, Dave, I know anti-market people are just a bunch of dunder-headed air-brains and all, but do you recall when you claimed that legalized prostitution would solve the problem and I suggested there would just be more trafficking based on price competition. So, is this where I get to hear your apology, perhaps with a comment about how, based on the evidence, you will reconsider your position? I bet that's not going to happen; is it Dave?
105 - roger nowosielski
That's interesting, Cindy, about Traitor Joe's. I guess human greed knows no limits.
106 - Cindy
Roger,
I guess human greed knows no limits.
I agree. With the caveat that, that does not say everything there is to be said about human nature.
107 - Christine
Oh my gosh, Cindy, we finally agree on something! Two things,
First "I guess human greed knows no limits." YES, but I will add it has no bounds, it's in capitalism and government, left and right, Democrat and Republican, Religion and non, etc,!
Second: I am against legalizing prostitution! Bad Idea!
I'll give you all the last word, because I am getting my daughter prepared for 8th grade this week...lots to do!
Have a nice day!
C-
108 - Cindy
"...it's in capitalism and government, left and right, Democrat and Republican, Religion and non, etc..."
So, how do you explain its prevalence in all those things, Christine.
(I am agreeing with you. Just asking why. And, please take your time. I will be here way past September. :-)
109 - Silas Kain
I'm all for legalized prostitution. Sex workers deserve rights and protections especially since the majority of their clients are Ultra Right wingers.
110 - Christine
Cindy, I don't need that long to reply..I believe it is human nature, just like some of our other defects (and in some cased darkness), lust, envy, lack of self control, lack of contentment, lack of forgiveness, selfishness, anger, power hungry...
We are bent toward serving self instead of serving others..but we can change!
111 - Christine
I forgot one big one...pride: lack of humility!
112 - Cindy
That is a reasonable conclusion, Christine--that it's human nature--after all that is what we see in front of us. I came to that conclusion myself (a few times).
But, just for the sake of argument, let's say it's not human nature. If for a moment, we just set aside that possibility, can you see any other explanation for all the greed you see around you?
113 - Baronius
Oh, wait, Cindy, I got it! Capitalism causes all the greed! That's why there was no greed under communism, mercantilism, feudalism, corporatism, etc. No greed among the Vikings or the Huns. The Assyrians were generous as all get-out. In fact, what we call human nature is really a phenomenon that began in 1810 in a factory outside London.
114 - roger nowosielski
Are you suggesting perchance that some societies encourage it? What a preposterous proposition, Cindy, because in that case, they're doing the work of the devil.
But I had better let Christine consider this conundrum.
115 - Cindy
Baronius,
How could I believe that Capitalism causes all the greed? Wouldn't that be flawed thinking?
How could human nature be based on Capitalism? It hasn't been around very long.
(I can see Baronius has simply written me off as an idiot.)
116 - Glenn Contrarian
Cindy -
IIRC one of the official government slogans for communist China under Deng Xiaoping was, "To get rich is glorious!"
Every time I see the greed of uber-capitalists, I can't help but think of their soulmates in China.
117 - Cindy
116
Glenn,
I never said hello. Hello :-) Nice to see you.
...uber-capitalists, I can't help but think of their soulmates in China.
Sounds about right to me too.
Everyone went away...Christine must be busy. Maybe I'll ask again after school starts.