by: FDL Action
Here are the FDL Action health care reform highlights for Monday, November 30.
1. To put it mildly, Jon Walker believes that the Urban Institute's new report "endorsing the idea of a super-hard trigger for a robust Medicare-style public option" is off base. Walker argues [...]
In a great post today, Moloch’s Children: Do Climate Skeptics and Climate Change Activists Need to Agree?, Sharon Astyk is speaking passionately about climate change, but what she says applies to all our ideological battles.
I’ve watched the battles of left and right, the old enlightenment political battles go [...]
by: btchakir
Hopefully, this impacts West Virginia!
Auditions in Shepherdstown, WV, Tonite, for
The Hunting of the Snark.
FULL CIRCLE THEATER COMPANY
113 S. Princess St.
Shepherdstown, WV
December 1, 2, 16 & 17 at 7:00 PM and Saturday Dec. 12 at 1:00 PM
Or by Appointment.
Director: [...]
In response to the Republican purity test, Devilstowers proposes a checklist for Democrats:
Still, the purity test does provide a convenient check list. You too can be accepted as a Republican if you promise to hate gays, poor people, immigrants, and the environment (which, come to think [...]
This Tuesday Obama is supposed to announce his decision on troops and Afghanistan (the last guess I heard was 30,000 as opposed to the 40,000 the General asked for) and we will once again see our middle-east battle commitment increase.
But is there a reason why the President didn't turn' [...]
We're a little over a month away from an election year. All three Congressional Representatives from West Virginia are up for re-election. In state house races, all of the House of Delegates are up for election as are half of the State Senate. Also, there's more than a' [...]
Despite those who have dismissed Obama's visit to China as useless, and despaired of any useful outcome from Copenhagen, Scientific American reports that his programs to advance clean energy in China and India, plus negotiations with Canada and Mexico and his commitment to cutting US emissions, addresses over half [...]
With all the hoopla about the delay in the PATH procedure in WV, I thought it was poignant that the planned receivers of the dirty coal powered electricity from WV doesn't want their power.
The governors of Virginia, Maryland and Delaware have announced a partnership designed to promote' [...]
In honor of our 39th Anniversary* we're having a special Eastern Panhandle meetup tonight, Saturday, November 28, at 7PM at Peking Restaurant in Martinsburg.
You know you're looking for an excuse to get out of the house for a few hours during Thanksgiving weekend, this is your excuse!
[...]
The Secret Service faces an unprecedented situation and the risks are up 400 percent.
And people should not crash parties, particularly state dinners.
But he's OUR' [...]
by: FDL Action
Here are the FDL Action health care reform highlights for "Black Friday" (November 27).
1. On Wednesday, Jane Hamsher asked, "Why is HCAN Defending Blanche Lincoln From A Primary Challenge?" The answer: "[HCAN] will continue to operate as part of the Democratic party infrastructure, try to" [...]
Today is Black Friday.
It has only been in the last couple of years that stores gave actually referred to "Black Friday" in their post-Thanksgiving-sale ads... There was a time that they didn't really want you to know that it was the point on the fiscal calendar when they went' [...]
From It's Getting Hot in Here:
As climate justice movements turn towards the floundering talks in Denmark, people in Appalachia are in the fight of their lives to save Coal River Mountain and end mountaintop removal. On Dec. 7, we'll be rallying and protesting at the WV Dept. of' [...]
By Clem Guttata
Mother Nature is serving up a dose of cold and wet for Thanksgiving, what are you preparing for tomorrow's feast?
* If you're planning to brave the weather for a stroll through the woods, don't forget your blaze orange... the woods are thick with hunters this time of [...]
by FDL Action
Here are the FDL Action health care reform highlights for Tuesday, November 24.
1. Jon Walker explains "the difference between really trying and pretending to try" by Majority Leader Harry Reid on the public option. Walker quotes Gerald Seib of the Wall Street Journal, who [...]
Judge Chuck Chambers has ruled that the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers did not give the public enough of a say on two MTR permits.
Sierra Club spokesman Oliver Bernstein says the decision issued Tuesday by U.S. District Judge Chuck Chambers affects most pending surface mine permits in West [...]
- Frances Beinecke, president of the Natural Resources Defense Council, gives an excellent rebuttal to Don Blankenship's latest load of B.S.
While it baffles me that flat-Earthers like Blankenship still exist, my response to the last few deniers is simple.
If you don't believe in the science, that's your problem. But' [...]
by FDL Action
Here are the FDL Action health care reform highlights for Monday, November 23.
1. Yesterday, Jon Walker took on Nate Silver, who "believes progressives should trade the public option away, but what he wants in return is far more useless and an even tougher political" [...]
Did you think they were doing a pretty good job? Well think again. All you have to do is look at the following Resolution that is making the rounds of Republicans called "RNC RESOLUTION ON FINANCIAL SUPPORT OF CANDIDATES," and you'll see why they have only begun to place' [...]
We've mentioned several times on this blog that West Virginia suffers from something call a resource curse:
West Virginia is both blessed and cursed with abundant natural resources. Historically, coal has been a major employer and source of wealth. But--and it is a big BUT--there are three big' [...]
- According to the latest from Climate Ground Zero, Nick Martin is out of jail.
Dea, Grace, and Laura are still in jail with bail set at $2000 cash only each. We need help raising money to pay their bail, any donations are appreciated!
What's on your mind this fine Sunday afternoon?
(below the fold: The Raconteurs "Steady, As She Goes")
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Responding to Harmful Government Inaction, Protestors Stop Blasting on Coal River Mountain
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE 11/21/09
Contact: Zoe Beavers
Email: news@climategroundzero.org
PETTUS, W. Va. - Early this morning two concerned citizens, Dea Goblirsch and Nick Martin, locked down to a drill rig on Coal River Mountain's Bee [...]
AP reports Delegate Ralph Rodighiero of Logan has filed pre-candidacy papers to challenge Representative Nick Rahall in the 2010 Democratic primary.
Some people run for office because they want to make a difference or because they feel a calling to take part in the civic [...]
by FDL Action
Here are the FDL Action health care reform highlights for Friday, November 20.
1. Jon Walker asks, "Is Harry Reid Laying The Ground Work To Betray Progressives For Snowe's Vote?" In the end, Walker concludes, "Reid does have the power to get a public option passed," [...]
It appears that Steve Roberts of the West Virginia Chamber of Commerce is echoing an earlier proposal by Mingo County's embarrassment, Truman Chafin.
Mother Jones reports the chamber wants our state's senators to hold up health care reform until Don Blankenship and pals get everything their way.
The West [...]
'Economy' is simply the Greek word for 'housekeeping'. Remembering this is a useful way of getting things in proportion, so that we don't lose sight of the fact that economics is primarily about the decisions we make so as to create a habitat that we can actually live in. [...]
by FDL Action
Here are the FDL Action health care reform highlights for Thursday, November 19.
1. Jon Walker lays out "eight things wrong with the Senate health care bill," beginning with "Delays Start Until 2014" and including "Nationwide Plans Gutting State Regulation." Definitely a few things that need [...]
Big news on the climate change legislation front today is yet another study shows that addressing climate change is good for the economy (emphasis mine):
The study, Clean Energy and Climate Policy for U.S. Growth and Job Creation (pdf), assumes that the bills will be kept at least [...]
Ken Ward Jr. reports that coalfields resident Bo Webb has requested a meeting with Gov. Manchin.
From Webb's e-mail:
I would like to bring a total of no less than 6 people with me. The people I desire to attend are Dr. Ben Stout, Dr, Michael Hendryx, Jack Spadaro, Robert [...]
In recent days, conservative blogs and Twitter feeds have been ablaze with the latest craze, the posting of the message "Pray for Obama - Psalm 109:8."
When you look up the scripture in question it reads, "May his days be few, may another take over his position."
While this may seem [...]
by FDL Action
Here are the FDL Action health care reform highlights for Wednesday, November 18.
1. Jane Hamsher reports that voting is now open for the Public Option Please (POP) art contest. There are six finalists, vote now!
2. Jon Walker writes that "it seems [Senator" [...]
The U.S. Senate pays tribute to Sen. Robert C. Byrd, via the Office of Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid:
The WV Division of Natural Resources conducted a poll to elect a state animal as a symbol for West Virginia in 1954, and as a result, the black bear has been one powerful symbol promoting our forests. Since mountaintop removal takes more and more of its natural habitat, [...]
Here are the FDL Action health care reform highlights for Tuesday, November 17.
1. Jon Walker reports that a new ABC/Washington Post poll indicates the country "nearly divided" on the overall health care reform effort, but "very high popular support [for] the public option and the employer" [...]
by FDL Action
Here are the FDL Action health care reform highlights for Monday, November 16.
1. Jon Walker reports that "HR 3962's Massive Expansion Of Coverage Would Result In Very Small Increase In Health Care Spending." Walker adds, "Despite the Republican talking point, it is not some liberal" [...]
When you, your wife, your daughter, your partner, your neighbor, your co-worker, your friend, or any one else you care about faces a life-threatening health issue, you expect health insurance to cover it. No questions asked.
Unfortunately, for too many people in too many situations, that's not the case. [...]
BooMan points out "The Palin Image is a Fraud."
Imagine this as federal policy. Imagine every citizen of this country getting an annual check for $3,200 from the federal government. Imagine all of that money coming from royalties and taxes on Big Oil. That's what Governor Palin did [...]
U.S. Sen. Jay Rockefeller spoke at the Jefferson Jackson Dinner on October 31, 2009 in Charleston.
U.S. Rep. Alan Mollohan (WV-1) discusses the Public Option
U.S. Rep. Nick Joe Rahall appears at a press conference on November 10 at WV Health Right in Charleston, honoring him for his work on health care reform.
My weekend was busier than I expected and the pace isn't slowing down. Here's an open thread to post links, observations, etc.
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The answer to that is ... NO! PATH is NOT dead! We are experiencing a fleeting moment of [...]
