Sunday, August 23
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Help spread the word…
I know this seems redundant, but this one has it’s own webpage and I spent like 30 minutes working on this video so I figured it deserved a second posting 
Please repost the link: http://www.itcouldbethatsimple.com
My simple 2-minute how-to video on how to solve the health care crisis in America. Feel free to forward this to your representatives and tell them you think they’ve been working too hard.
Hard on the heels of the health care protests, another “citizen” movement has “spontaneously” ignited…this one fueled by Oil companies whose bottom line is threatened by proposed legislation that would set limits on emissions of heat-trapping gases.
While polls show that a majority of Americans support efforts to tackle climate change, Big Oil is manufacturing outrage and disappointment by sponsoring rallies in cities in southern oil-producing states, bussing company employees to eat hot dogs, listen to high school marching bands and show their bestest angryface on Fox News.
One oil exec even went so far as to defend the use of busses, saying “If we all drove in cars, it wouldn’t look good.”
In related and yet equally disturbing news, a pro-coal industry group is being investigated for sending fake letters to members of congress, posing as the NAACP and Hispanic organizations, opposing new climate change laws. Nice work.
The House bill seeks to reduce greenhouse gases in the United States by 83 percent by 2050.
via Oil Companies Back Public Protests of Greenhouse Gas Bill – NYTimes.com.
It’s getting increasingly difficult for me to have any respect for anyone who doesn’t support universal health care for all. We are the richest country in the history of the world, and yet we do not take care of our own sick citizens.
The United States is the only developed nation that does not have a comprehensive national health care plan for all its citizens.
Who are these people that hate health care? Why do they hate America so much? Why do they want to continue in a system that gives financial incentives to KEEP PEOPLE SICK?
Sarah Palin said (in a Facebook posting) that Obama’s proposed health plan “is evil” and would create a “death panel” that would deny care to the neediest Americans. She’s like a character out of a Oliver Stone movie.
Rush Limbagh recently said the proposed health care logo was similar to a Nazi symbol. Nice one, you bloated pill popping prick.
The web site “Tea Party Patriots” circulated instructions to anti-health fanatics to attend Obama Town hall meetings and “Yell out and challenge the Rep’s statements early. Get him off his prepared script and agenda,” the memo continued. “Stand up and shout and sit right back down.”
The sad part is that Fox is reporting all of this like it is news. If you watch Fox regularly as a source for your news, you need to get your head checked out.
But then again, I don’t think any health insurance plan covers ignorance.
Now I’ll go back to tea-bagging your mom.
NYT: Health debate turns hostile at meetings – The New York Times- msnbc.com.
Some gems from a brilliant post by Bill Maher in the Huffington Post:
“This country is like a college chick after two Long Island Iced Teas: we can be talked into anything.”
“Here’s one fun fact you can take away: did you know only about half of Americans are aware that Judaism is an older religion than Christianity? That’s right, half of America looks at books called the Old Testament and the New Testament and cannot figure out which one came first.
“James Madison wrote that “pure democracy” doesn’t work because “there is nothing to check… an obnoxious individual.” Then, in the margins, he doodled a picture of Joe the Plumber.
“A smart guy named Chesterton once said: “My country, right or wrong is a thing no patriot would ever think of saying… It is like saying ‘My mother, drunk or sober.’ To which most Americans would respond: “Are you calling my mother a drunk?”
Excerpts From – Bill Maher: New Rule: Smart President ≠ Smart Country.
I was having dinner at my friend Dave’s house and caught this segment that Rachel Maddow did exposing men and money who represent themselves as “average Americans”.
“Maddow: This is what these groups do. They’re experts at fake grass roots campaigns that promote corporate interests. Americans for Prosperity is the group that ginned up anti-stimulus rallies earlier this year. They also organized what they called the “Hot Air Tour” to campaign against the whole idea of global warming. They were the ones who sent Joe the Plumber around the country to rail against the Employee Free Choice Act, which is pro-labor legislation.
This oil industry and Republican operative billionaires club is according to the Republican party spokesman today, just average middle class Americans. Just regular American folks sitting around the kitchen table thinking about whether they can get away with saying that the government, continuing its long standing policy of encouraging living wills, is really a secret plot to kill old people.
One other thing about Americans for Prosperity, their most visible spokesman, is a man named Tim Phillips. He is the President of the organization and we’ve asked him to come on the show to talk with us about the group. Tim Phillips got his start in fake grass roots with a firm called Century Strategies, run by Ralph Reed. Century Strategies is famous for having duped Christian groups into lobbying for energy deregulation. You know, like the Bible said.
They were doing that at the behest of Century Strategies’ client, Enron. Tim Phillips and Ralph Reed were later made even more famous in the Jack Abramoff scandal, for duping Christian groups into lobbying against gambling. But only in areas where these guys happened to have competing gambling interests as clients.
These guys are the pros. This is an industry. Americans are showing up at these events to shout down the discussion, to chase their Congressmen, and they are enraged. And they’re enraged at least in part because they’re being riled up by over the top, fabricated conspiracy theories about health care. And they’re being directed and orchestrated by the corporate interests that do this for a living and do it very well.
RecessRally.com is not some organic outgrowth of American anger. This is how corporate America creates the illusion of a grass roots movement to support their own interests. This is what they do. They are professionals. This is an industry.
To talk about these town hall events as some organic outpouring of average American folks who have concerns about health care is to be willfully blind to what is really going on, which is professional P.R. operatives generating exploitative, manufactured, strategically deployed outrage in order to line their own pocket.
These P.R. spin misters get paid a lot of money for doing it. The corporations they work for get to kill legislation that would hurt their profits. And the real people who they launch into these town hall settings after they’re told that health care reform is a secret commie plot to kill old people and to mandate sex changes, those real people get more, and more, and more and more angry, and more, and more, and more alienated, and ultimately they get left, like the rest of us, with a health care system that is broken and doesn’t work in the interest of the American people, but does work in the interest of the corporations that profit from the way the system is now.
This is professional, corporate funded Republican staffed P.R., and it should be reported as such.”
In Philip K. Dick’s short story “The Minority Report” (and the subsequent film of the same name), futuristic pre-cogs — humans with the ability to see future events — were used to predict violent behaviors so police could stop them before they happened.
A shooting on August 4th at a Pittsburgh, PA fitness center killed three people and injured ten. Another chilling aspect of the story, however, is the Internet presence that the suspected shooter, George Sodini, left behind.
It is not far-fetched to think that a search program could be written to detect keywords and possibly flag such posts, creating a very real pre-crime tool. Go to Twitter and type in suicide and see what you get. The results can be quite surprising.
George Sodini’s Chilling Blog Foretold Health Club Shootings.
In 1959 a man named Alan Abel hatched an elaborate media hoax, beginning with a story on the Today Show about movement called the Society for Indecenty to Naked Animals (SINA). SINA’s mission was to clothe naked animals throughout the world (their tagline: “A nude horse is a rude horse“). Abel and SINA “spokeman”, Buck Henry (of SNL fame and writer of “The Graduate”), appeared on many television and radio shows including the CBS Evening News.
Flash forward to present day: Orly Taitz. Lawyer, Real Estate Broker, Black Belt, Dentist, Mother of three and Obama Birther. In fact, she’s quickly become the face of the Birther “Movement” (although I don’t actually think it qualifies as a movement).
A Birther is the meme for someone who believes that President Obama was not born in the United States and therefore shouldn’t be eligble to be president. Taitz has allegedly filed one or more lawsuits related to this belief. For more on the “birthers” go here: Meet the Birthers
I first heard of Dr. Taintz…er…Taitz last week, when she appeared on The Colbert Report.
At first I thought it was a bit (like when Colbert interviewed David Cross portraying the fictional “Liberal Talk Show host, Russ Lieber“).
But then I saw this:
http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/21134540/vp/32274609#32274609
C’mon…she has to be a joke, right?
Her first name is Orly. O RLY? ????
The phrase “O RLY?” (“Oh, really?”) is an Internet meme typically used in a sarcastic manner, often in response to a statement that the speaker feels is obvious, or blatantly false and/or self-contradictory. (apparently it also means “Light” in Hebrew?)
And her last name is Taitz. Which sounds a heckofalot like taints, and everyone knows that taint is the slang term for the perineum (t’aint your balls, t’aint your asshole).
IS ORLY TAITZ REAL? My friend Ty thinks she’s a performance artist in the vein of Borat or Tony Clifton… or perhaps even Alan Abel?
So Diggz decided to do a bit of digging….
Is Orly Taitz a Dentist?
Apparently she is one…in South Orange County, California. According to the Dental Board of California, Orly Taitz has been a licensed DDS since 1989.
Here’s the website of her two Dental offices (one in Mission Viejo and one in Ranch Santa Margarita): http://drtaitz.com. There’s a picture of Orly with her staff on the site.
I called the number of the office (949) 586-8110 and got a recording that sounded very dentist office-like. (I didn’t leave a message)
Here’s a Google street view of the Mission Viejo Office. There is one review on Google Maps written Aug 4th which is obviously a joke.
The Google street view of the other office in Ranch Santa Margarita isn’t very revealing.
Is Orly Taitz a Lawyer?
According to the website of the State Bar of California, a Orly Taitz is a lawyer. The address on the site is the same as her Mission Viejo Dentist Office. But the phone number is different…(949) 683-5411. I called it but it went straight to voicemail (with a man’s voice saying it was Orly Taitz’s voicemail).
Apparently she went to Hebrew University in Jerusalem Israel for undergad. I can’t tell you much about that because much the site is, well, in HEBREW! (go figure).
Ms. Taitz apparently got her law degree from William Howard Taft Univ which is an “online university” not accredited by the American Bar Association.
Where is Orly Taitz from?
The bastion of right-wingish journalistic integrity, World Net Daily says “She was born and raised in Kishinev (also spelled Chisinau), the capital of the Republic of Moldova, a country in Eastern Europe that was formerly part of the Soviet Union.” Of course, it also says she speaks 5 languages (English, Russian, Romainian, Hebrew and Spanish), holds a real estate broker’s license (expired) a second degree black belt (unverified).
I will be expecting her to provide proof of the black belt post haste.
Orly Taitz Melts Down On MSNBC, Blames MSM “Brownshirts” VIDEO
A Wisconsin man accused of killing his 11-year-old daughter by praying instead of seeking medical care was found guilty Saturday of second-degree reckless homicide.
Folks, there’s absolutely no need to rattle your magic sticks at the sun gods anymore. Score one for science and reason. Tragic that a little girl was the victim of this heinous crime of pure stupidity and rejection of reality.
Wis. jury: Father guilty in prayer death case – Crime & courts- msnbc.com.
Dale and Leilani Neumann are charged with second-degree reckless homicide in the 2008 death of their daughter. Their daughter, Madeline, died at their Wisconsin home on Easter after becoming too weak to speak, eat, drink or walk.
Leilani Neumann, 40, has said the family believes in the Bible, which says healing comes from God, and she never expected her daughter to die as they prayed for her. The parents told investigators the girl had not been to a doctor since she was 3.
I don’t recommend clicking this link, but if you do, just be forewarned that it’s a bunch of bible quotes referencing other bible quotes, and how we’re all doomed. http://www.helptheneumanns.com
Mom of dead girl: Sickness was test of faith – Crime & courts- msnbc.com.
