There's a birth certificate that shows where Obama was born. No one has any documentation to prove that BushCo didn't ignore the warnings (remember Richard Clarke with his "hair on fire"?) purposely -- and a hell of a lot of evidence that they wanted very badly to go to war in the Middle East.

Ya didn't give away TOO much of the ending, now didja?

In a world where a significant segment of online porn consists of "cumshots," in which men ejaculate into women's faces, it seems we've got rage issues that simmer below the level of murder but are nonetheless pretty damn disturbing.

Like Limbaugh's audience gives a shit what the Jews think.

I don't much like that picture. Wasn't there another way to illustrate the article?

As right as everything Joe says is, you've got to wonder if it's worth the ink. The lizard-brains whose reptilian fulminations he's addressing are never going to change their ways. Our job is to somehow overpower them, work around them, nullify their puerility by active means -- because we're never going to shame them into changing their tune. The requisite self-reflection would cause their heads to implode and they know it.

The DCCC pimps for contributions by offering one the opportunity to "Sign our petition telling Republicans they should immediately condemn Limbaugh's hateful rhetoric."

Right, that's really gonna hit 'em where they live. And actually, what we want is for Republicans to embrace Limbaugh's vile spewings, to hasten their reduction into irrelevance.

To push back against a lizard-brain you have to think and act like one -- nastiness is the only language they speak. Democrats have higher cerebral functions which permit of empathy and charity but make for iffy fighters.

From Greg Sargent's Plum Line: "CNN Refusing To Run Health Care Ad Critical Of Insurance Industry"

What has GE done that it's so shit-scared will find its way to the light of day if Bill O'Reilly isn't silenced? If that clown knows where the skeletons are buried, shouldn't someone else know, and shouldn't they -- there must be someone out there who is not subject to GE's corporate blackmail -- be telling us about them? I mean, if GE has really done something wrong?

As far as I'm concerned, the weakest part of this whole story is the notion that GE is rather clumsily trying to cover up some kind of publicity-disaster-in-the-making corporate malfeasance -- and everyone is just taking on faith that it really exists at all as the basis for the rest of the story.

I ain't buyin'.

Why give this cow one second of time in the spotlight?

What are these awful things about GE that it's trying to keep quiet by not having Bill'O air them in public? If they're that heinous, someone oughta be talking about them -- on CBS, maybe even. You know, the competition?

Control of the message by those who own "the news" is nothing new.

What is new is that we have probably the strongest, most alert and accessible alternate/independent press that has ever existed to call bullshit right out loud and in public.

Hell, if we had major media that was honest, trustworthy and fearless in the face of power, we wouldn't need any Glenns or Janes or Davids.

There is much to be thankful for.

Name me one.

Libertyaintfree: "It is an assault against individual liberty and freedom to suggest we give these life choices up to any beauracracy."

So what is the insurance company, if not a bureaucracy? And whatever you want to call your insurance company, it's making a lot of health-care "choices" for you -- many more than would be make for you under a Medicare-type plan.

I know, I know, facts are inconvenient, but there you are.

Are we still talking about Sarah Palin? Why?

Extremism in the defense of core principles is no vice.

At the same time I understand why Massing feels, at times, drawn into a wind tunnel. GG is so smart and articulate, he finds an elegant way to express a point -- then having done so, is struck by a different, equally elegant way of making the same point and proceeds to do so. Maybe three times, or four. If he weren't such a good writer and so right-on, his style might be said to border on bombast.

Core values in the news industry down through the ages.

I always assumed Obama wanted the question asked at the end of his presser. Hasn't it been established that when it's decided who will be called on that some tiny precis of the question to be asked is provided? At least the area that the question will cover? Hard to believe that's not the case in this media-groomed era. That being the case, on some level Obama -- who to my mind was extremely foolish in answering the question at all, much less as he did, but who is a lot more politically savvy than I am -- has to have felt that it was a good way to end the press conference.

Got me scratching my head, that one...

It sounds like they're better off paying the $220 mil. It's a pittance compared to the potential losses.

Unfortunately, the idiocy of resistance to single payer is obvious to us smart people, but the dummies are impossible to convince. Even with great cartoons!

Blue Cross/Blue Shield Dogs

NOW can we stop talking about this woman, once and for all?

Can we start not talking about her anymore?

The parents should be in total control of the situation. Period.