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The Pathological Narcissism of Neo-Cons on Iran

While Iranian Protestors Die in the Streets, John McCain and BFF Lindsey Graham seem to somehow think It's All About America.

Well, NO - it's not.

Chris Hayes of the Nation discusses with Rachel the dangerous and Myopic Foreign Policy view that the World "Revolves around America, while we shine our Light of Freedom upon them".

How awful would it be for Mousavi if he and his movement were seen merely as "Puppets of the West"? Wouldn't that kill his movement in it's crib?

Hayes rightly calls this need to Interject Ourselves into this situation just what it is : Pathological Narcissism.

Hayes: In the long mythology of Neo-Conservativism there's this notion that Reagan single handedly brought down the Soviet Empire because he said "Bring Down this Wall", and that if your really willful and and chest-thumping that the world will sort of bend to your will..

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There's just a tremendous Pathological Narcissism on behalf of people like McCain and Graham, that everything revolves around the U.S. and our own Preening Moral Self-Satisfaction and it's really destructive. If the President were doing what they want to do, it would be really worse for the protesters.

There's this virulent strain of Neo-Con ideology that has manifested itself. Every battle is battle between the Righteous U.S. and the Evil forces of Tyranny and Oppression, and that in this kind of solar system way, the U.S. is the Sun, and all Foreign Policy revolves around us and the "Freedom" that we cast out.

It think he nails it right on the head with that one. I think it's about time that we had a grown-up heading our foreign Policy who recognizes that playing directly into the "Great Satan" role - the way that Bush with such gusto - and worsen a situation that is already very bad to start into.

Common sense just might prevail, for once.

Freedom isn't something we can "Give" anyone. They have to fight for it, and protect it on thier on.

Vyan

Missouri State Rep thinks Kids just need some Motivation - Like More Hunger

Missouri State Representative Cynthia Davis think the kids in her state are just lazy, they need some motiviation - they need MORE HUNGER. Since the state is currently paying for free lunches, Davis thinks they should stop and that would make the little tykes go out and GET A JOB. Yeah, like at McDonald's where they can get some free (crappy, unhealthy) food on thier break.

The only problem is - who says McDonald's is Hiring! It's just that Missouri's current unemployment rate in Missouri is 9.0% compared to an All-Time Historical HIgh of 10.5% in April of 1983. Chances are they're going to be competing with their Parents for that McD's job.

Keith (Quoting Dickens): Have they no Workhouses? Have they no Prisons?

Indeed.

Vyan

Dean says Demorats need a Spine Implant on Health Care

Even with over 70% of the people behind a Public Option (which would increase competition and lower costs), including more than 50% of Republicans, Democrats like Diane Finestein and Tom Daschle are saying "It can't be done".

That's a load of Bullcrap.

IT.CAN.BE.DONE. if we insist that is *IS* Done.

That's what we voted for, that's what we expect. Get 'Er DONE!

Vyan

Fox Caught Lying About "Exclusive" ABC Access to Obama

Yeah, how dare ABC have an exclusive report exactly like the exclusive Reports that Fox Previously had to the President, Vice President and First Lady during the Bush Administration.

Today Journalism in America is Dead

Uh huh - well Journalism at Fox has always been Stillborne.

Vyan

Denying a Public Option Denies Life for #Eric De La Cruz and Others

Cases like this are why the Public Option matters.



Many people have addressed this including Celebrities such as Trent Reznor, Jane's Addiction, Actor Archie Kao, Skateboarder Tony Hawk but I think this real life example needs to be part of the current Health Care debate - this 27 year-old young man needs a Heart Transplant but can't get Private Insurance because of his Pre-Existing Condition and can't get the Public Option of Medicare because - it's not available to him.

By focusing Attention and polling energy and resources through sites like Tweet4Eric.com it might be possible to save this young man with donations before it's too late.

Eric De La Cruz is a young man with severe dilated cardiomyopathy. His health is failing and he needs a new heart as soon as possible. Because of unfortunate circumstances, he has faced tremendous obstacles in getting on the transplant list as a status 1a candidate. He has since had emergency bi-VAD surgery and is awaiting re-listing on the transplant list as soon as he recovers sufficently. Prayers are requested to help Eric get through the next stage of this saga as he remains in critical condition

But what about the next person?

In fact, what about the last person who went through this same type of high-profile Murder by Spreadsheet? What about Nataline Sarkisyan?

GLENDALE, Calif. - The family of a 17-year-old girl who died hours after her health insurer reversed a decision and said it would pay for a liver transplant plans to sue the company, their attorney said Friday.

Nataline Sarkisyan died Thursday at about 6 p.m. at the University of California, Los Angeles Medical Center. She had been in a vegetative state for weeks, said her mother, Hilda.

Attorney Mark Geragos said he plans to ask the district attorney to press murder or manslaughter charges against Cigna HealthCare in the case. The insurer “maliciously killed her” because it did not want to bear the expense of her transplant and aftercare, Geragos said.

Then as now, the issue was "Cost".

While the Senate backs cowardly away from a Public Option, people are dying without coverage because Private Insurers are simply Too Damn Greedy to provide the coverage people are already paying for.

Fortune 500's List of Most Profitable Industries for 2008 (Profit as % of Revenues)

1	Network and Other Communications Equipment	28.8%
2	Mining, Crude-Oil Production	23.8%
3	Pharmaceuticals	15.8%
4	Medical Products and Equipment	15.2%
5	Oil and Gas Equipment, Services	13.7%
6	Commercial Banks	12.6%
7	Railroads	12.4%
8	Entertainment	12.4%
9	Insurance: Life, Health (stock)	10.6%
10	Household and Personal Products	10.2%

3 out of the top 10 most profitable industries in the U.S. are directly linked to Health Care, and the way the profits are maintained is by taking in premiums then Denying Care to People Who Need It the Most.

How much More Money do these people need to make, and how many people will suffer and die needlessly in order to give it to them?

People Like Eric. People like Nataline.

People like me and my Wife who's been on Medicaid for the last few years since the IT industry collapse and Enron destroyed my Consulting Career in Sacramento and forced us to move and me to take an entry level job at about 1/5th my previous salary. A job with no Health Care.

Nearly a Year ago her knee gave out and she feel down a flight of stair causing a back injury, in addition to a compression fracture at her T-11 vertabre. It took six months just to get UCLA Medical center to even X-Ray her back, and we still haven't heard what they found.

They told us the T-!! fracture is inoperable, and that she's too young (early 50's) for a knee replacement that will probably wear out before she does so they just Won't DO IT.

The things we've personally seen with other people in the UCLA Emergency Room while trying to address her condition would make your hair stand on end.

The attitude in places such as that (and frankly in Washington) is that if you're poor - you simply don't deserve to live. It's like medical care is some kind of luxury, like a nice new Car or Flat screen TV. If you can't pay for it - YOU DON'T DESERVE IT.

Well FUCK THAT, we do deserve it. All of us.

We have to change, drastically change this attitude. If there's a "Right To Life", then there's A Right to LIVING free of preventable disease and pain. We need to focus the Fact like a LASER at Congress, particularly the Senate, as we remember what this means for people like Eric he continues through his struggle, what it would have ment for Nataline if life preserving care cuold not have been denied simply because it cut into the insurance companies Profit margin - and all the rest of us out here either under insured or not insured at all, who have to let small issues go under they become huge, dangerous and expensive for everyone else.

You can donate to Eric's Cause via Paypal by visiting http://tweet4eric.com

You can help the rest of us by Calling your Senator. NOW!

Vyan

Update via Comments -

per Veronica's Tweet "A judge approved Eric's medicare on 5/21/09..."

But this was only because of the extraordinary attention drawn to his extreme case, and the efforts of his sister Veronica (who is a TV journalist), Trent Reznor, Dave Navarro/Jane's Addiction, other celebrities and a veritable Twitter Army. Who ultimately drew enough attention to his case to get Sen Harry Reid to intervene and get Eric an emergency hearing for his Soc Security Disability to be approved--you can't get Medicare without it. His initial applications had been denied, and his next hearing was a YEAR down the road, even though his Ejection Fraction was down to something like 15%. Which means his heart is barely functioning.

Confirmed by 13 Action News. - Happened while I was typing this up. Hopefully it's not too late for him as it was for Nataline.

That's one down - 41 Million to go!

Anti-Letterman Crackpots Attack his Wife (Slut) and Son (Bastard)

Yeah, this is the way to stay classy people by countering Letterman's Bad joke, and ignoring his 2 Apologies with an attack on his wife as a "Slut" and his son as a "Bastard". Not to mention the rants to "Shutdown the Boarder for 20 years" and that "Socialism is Evil!" - which has exactly what to do with Letterman?

Now we know where all the "He's an Arab" people went after the Tea Party...

Sam Seder and the War on Jokes (and Letterman)

Sam Seder goes to interview people at the Anti-Letterman Rally (all 20 of them) and finds that Dave has a long history of making jokes about Pedophiles (aka Michael Jackson - as if ANYONE DIDN'T CRACK A MICHAEL JACKSON JOKE during his Trial!!) and when Sam questions her, she explodes and says - "Who trained you - ACORN??!!" Highly hilarious.