When you get a chance, watch as President Obama schools Republicans in an English Parlimentary style back-and-forth question period. Finally, a Democrat taking the fight to the Right!

SCOTUS decided today that corporations are free to spend as much money as they want on political campaigns. Say goodbye to Democracy. And something else we should say goodbye to is the pointless blame game that seems to be burning up the blogoshpere in the shadow of the new America established by the Supreme Court today.

Stop blaming Nader, and Gore, and Bush, the Repukes, the Dems.

THIS IS OUR FUCKING FAULT.

We are too lazy, too committed to our own personal selfishness, to have stopped things from ending up where we are.

We are - collectively - unwilling to RISK our OWN PERSONAL SITUATION.

So what the fuck did you expect, then? Did you expect Obama to come along and snap his fingers and turn back the flood of corporate power?

Or was it the Dem Congress you pinned your hopes on? That they would have Obama in the White House, and with a wave of their magical pens, stop the power from flowing to where the capital pools?

WHAT THE FUCK DID YOU THINK WAS GOING TO HAPPEN WHEN YOU REFUSED TO COMMIT YOUR OWN LIFE TO THE PURSUIT OF LIBERTY?????

The Founders risked a hell of a lot more than we might have risked by going on a national strike, or stopping to pay our bills to the corporations, or refusing to participate in elections. There are MILLIONS OF WAYS to stop corporations - but they all involve PERSONAL RISK.

So go ahead - blame EVERYONE else. Don't look in the mirror and hold yourself accountable.

I'm not simply pontificating here - I've been advocating such anti-corporate actions for YEARS - and have been, for the most part, ridiculed and ignored.

So it disappoints me to hear people crying about how fucked we are, how its everyone else's fault, and how if so-and-so would have just done something - anything - we would not be in the very real danger we are now in of losing our country to corporate power.

It's not too late to turn back the tide. And until you are finally ready, to paraphrase our Founding Fathers, to risk your life, your fortune, and your sacred honor, it is disingenuous of you to bitch.

If Al Queda Really Wanted To Kill Americans They Should Have Formed As A Health Insurance Company
By Vinnie From Indy

I am still not getting the whole "clear and present danger" argument being offered in regard to the Taliban and Al Queda.

It has been widely reported that 45,000 Americans die EACH YEAR because they have no health care. It does seem a bit odd that we are committed to spending hundreds of billions to fight two wars to protect us from box-cutter wielding Saudi Arabians when so many Americans are dying from lack of health care.

It would seem that Al Queda could alleviate so much rancor and messy violence if they simply became part of the American health care insurance industry. The 9/11 tally of dead and wounded is child's play compared with the body count racked up by the American health care system each year.

Is it just me or does 45,000 Americans dying each year seem like more of a problem than some guys in caves with bad intentions and packaging tools?