Ron Chusid

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They Must Be Kidding

Ron Chusid posted an article on - Nov 27, 2009, 11:30 pm
News so ridiculous that they had to sneak it in over a holiday weekend: New Group Tries to Convince Cheney to Run in 2012. I suspect this is one of those End of the World in 2012 cults who believe hum...
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Britain Expected To "Prove Saddam Was Guilty" After Invasion

Ron Chusid posted an article on - Nov 27, 2009, 9:25 am
Reports that the Bush administration was trying to blame the 9/11 attack on Saddam, and that they ultimately went to war without evidence of WMD, are hardly news. Reports from the Iraq War Inquiry in ...
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A Thanksgiving Message From Barack Obama

Ron Chusid posted an article on - Nov 26, 2009, 11:47 pm

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Happy Thanksgiving

Ron Chusid posted an article on - Nov 26, 2009, 2:04 am
This year we can be thankful that George Bush is no longer president.
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Housekeeping Note

Ron Chusid posted an article on - Nov 25, 2009, 9:06 am
Posting will be more erratic while traveling over a long Thanksgiving Weekend. I should be on line intermittently to at least add some links to stories of interest.
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Dana Perino Has Forgotten About 9/11

Ron Chusid posted an article on - Nov 25, 2009, 9:02 am
Bush apologists typically deny the degree to which George Bush undermined our national security and placed us a far greater risk of terrorist attacks. Now’s here is the ultimate revision of hist...
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E&P On The Media Coverage of Acorn

Ron Chusid posted an article on - Nov 25, 2009, 8:45 am
The right wing noise machine has fabricated a mythology around Acorn which has little to do with the actual organization. Editor and Publisher has reviewed both the truth about the stories about Acorn...
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From Hospital to Bankruptcy Court

Ron Chusid posted an article on - Nov 25, 2009, 12:54 am
The New York Times looks at the increasingly common path of going from hospital to bankruptcy court: The legislation moving through Congress would attack the problem in numerous ways. Bills in both ...
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Documentary Planned On Questions Surrounding Bush's Military Service

Ron Chusid posted an article on - Nov 24, 2009, 6:28 pm
The New York Observer reports that Meghan O’Hara, who has worked with Michael Moore on previous documentaries, is working on a documentary about the controversy over George Bush’s military ser...
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Conservative Religious Leaders Issue Declaration Opposing Gay Marriage Rights and Embryonic Stem Cell Research

Ron Chusid posted an article on - Nov 24, 2009, 12:44 pm
Conservatives love to play the victim, even when they are engaged in denying the rights of others. A group of  conservative religious leaders have issued the Manhattan Declaration: A Call of Christi...
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Cafe Press Pulls Merchandise Calling For Death of Obama

Ron Chusid posted an article on - Nov 22, 2009, 10:09 am
A few days ago I posted a report on sales of  merchandise with the logo: “Pray for Obama: Psalm 109:8.”  While this might look like an innocent suggestion, reading the full verse in cont...
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Disaster Movie: Palin 2012

Ron Chusid posted an article on - Nov 22, 2009, 12:02 am
How the world might come to an end.
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SciFi Weekend: Doctor Who; The Prisoner; The Fringe Observers; and Katee Sackhoff on 24

Ron Chusid posted an article on - Nov 21, 2009, 11:01 pm
There were two special events in genre television this week, with one turning out to be excellent and the other horrible. I’ll start with the Doctor Who special, The Waters of Mars. As it does n...
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Just Like The Cylons, Glenn Beck Has a Plan

Ron Chusid posted an article on - Nov 21, 2009, 10:24 pm
The Cylons had a plan. So does Glenn Beck, which he promises to reveal here. We have to wait until August 28, 2010 for the full plan to be revealed. We have been warned. I expect to see two similarit...
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Amy-Sherman Palladino Leaves Door Open on Gilmore Girls Movie

Ron Chusid posted an article on - Nov 21, 2009, 8:09 pm
One of the most heavily visited old posts on the blog is about the possibility of Amy Sherman-Palladino returning to do a movie of The Gilmore Girls and possibly reveal the four final words she intend...
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Quote of the Day

Ron Chusid posted an article on - Nov 21, 2009, 7:38 pm
“They made a porn movie about Sarah Palin and the same actress, Lisa Ann, played me in the porn version of 30 Rock. Weirdly, of the three of us, Lisa Ann knows the most about foreign policy.R...
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Blog Traffic

Ron Chusid posted an article on - Nov 21, 2009, 5:29 pm
Blog traffic has really shifted in ways I can’t explain recently. Starting in late September there was an abrupt decline in traffic which persisted for over a month, and then suddenly things app...
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Carl Levin Calls Calls For Tax on Upper-Income Earners to Pay for War

Ron Chusid posted an article on - Nov 21, 2009, 3:12 pm
Senator Carl Levin of Michigan has suggested a tax on upper-income earners to pay for more troops for the war in Afghanistan. I suspect he did not note how the Democrats lost many independent voters i...
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Senate Democrats Get Enough Votes To Keep Health Care Bill Alive, But Futher Revisions Needed on This Bill

Ron Chusid posted an article on - Nov 21, 2009, 2:57 pm
It appears that the Democrats now have the sixty votes necessary to keep consideration of the health care reform bill alive. Blanche Lincoln of Arkansas is the 60th Senator to agree to at least keep t...
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A Football Wish

Ron Chusid posted an article on - Nov 21, 2009, 2:31 pm
Bring back John Cooper.
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Right Wingers Use Biblical Verse To Advocate Assassination of President

Ron Chusid posted an article on - Nov 19, 2009, 7:36 pm
Right wingers who hate Obama have come up with a subtle way to advocate killing the president in public. The Christian Science Monitor reports: There’s a new slogan making its way onto car bumpers ...
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Be Comfortable In Your Own Skin: PETA Using Nude Keeley Hazell Posters To Promote Anti-Fur Campaign

Ron Chusid posted an article on - Nov 19, 2009, 7:00 pm
PETA is using posters of  Keeley Hazell posing nude for their anti-fur campaign. They are bound to get them plenty of attention: Posting of these pictures does not represent endorsement of PETA. Pos...
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Abstinence-Only Education Funding In Health Reform Bill To Please Republicans

Ron Chusid posted an article on - Nov 19, 2009, 4:14 pm
The House health care reform bill restricts abortions to get conservative votes. Now it turns out that conservatives also got something slipped into the Senate bill–funding for abstinence-only p...
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Guiliani May Run For Senate

Ron Chusid posted an article on - Nov 19, 2009, 2:42 pm
The New York Daily News reports that authoritarian war monger Rudy Guiliani plans to announce that he will not be running for Governor of New York as many have speculated. They report that instead he ...
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Fox Has Again Used Old Video, Distorting The News

Ron Chusid posted an article on - Nov 19, 2009, 12:25 pm
Fox has been embarrassed again for using old video to exaggerate turn out at a recent event. Sean Hannity was recently caught doing this.  The Swamp reports on the latest case: FOX has done it again...
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Senate Health Care Bill Posted On Line

Ron Chusid posted an article on - Nov 18, 2009, 9:03 pm
The full text of the Senate health care bill is now on line. It is 2,074 pages. I don’t think I can handle reading through all of this and watching all six hours of  the remake of The Prisoner ...
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Aaron Sorkin Returning to Television

Ron Chusid posted an article on - Nov 18, 2009, 8:42 pm
TV Guide reports that Aaron Sorkin (Sports Night, The West Wing, Studio 60 On The Sunset Strip) will be returning to television: Sorkin tells TVGuideMagazine.comthat – like his previous series Spor...
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Tonight's Television

Ron Chusid posted an article on - Nov 18, 2009, 6:04 pm
What a relief. The remake of The Prisoner is over. Now I can catch up on Doctor Who: The Waters of Mars, Monday’s episode of Heroes, and then later watch Glee. Update: The Waters of Mars was fa...
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Democrats Should Not Tolerate Restrictions on Basic Liberties As in Stupak Amendment

Ron Chusid posted an article on - Nov 18, 2009, 3:55 pm
Nancy Pelosi clearly knows far more than I do about getting bills passed. It is certainly possible that she knows what she is doing in attaching the Stupak Amendment to health care reform. Maybe this...
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Patrick McGoohan Explaining The Prisoner

Ron Chusid posted an article on - Nov 18, 2009, 4:00 am
Warner Troyer interviewed Patrick McGoohan in 1977, discussing the meaning of The Prisoner. After watching the dreadful remake on AMC, this is a good reminder of the brilliance of the original:
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Possibly The Worst Remake Ever

Ron Chusid posted an article on - Nov 18, 2009, 3:33 am
Well, I’ve now made it through all six hours of the remake of The Prisoner. It wasn’t easy. As a huge fan of the original I had to see this, but it was a real bore. I’ll probably wri...
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Palin Cover Encourages Conservative Whining

Ron Chusid posted an article on - Nov 17, 2009, 6:33 pm
The picture of Sarah Palin on the cover of Newsweek has elicited some selective outrage from the right. In a post entitled Newsweek Photo of Palin Shows Media Bias and Sexism, David Brody begins ̶...
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Can The Republicans Fool Enough Of The People With This Report?

Ron Chusid posted an article on - Nov 15, 2009, 12:29 pm
While the Republican Party might have little meaningful to say on today’s issues, you have to concede they sure beat the Democrats when it comes to showing chutzpah. They are making a lot of noi...
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Paul Undecided On 2012 Run

Ron Chusid posted an article on - Nov 15, 2009, 9:18 am
While there was little which was truly pro-freedom in Ron Paul’s platform of mixing Republican social conservatism and states’ rights ideas with libertarian bumper sticker lines, the Paul ...
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Television Suggestion

Ron Chusid posted an article on - Nov 14, 2009, 2:35 pm
I hope Saturday Night Live gets Tina Fey to come on tonight and play Sarah Palin doing a book interview (perhaps with Katie Couric).
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Really, Would We Have Expected Anything Else From Sarah?

Ron Chusid posted an article on - Nov 14, 2009, 10:13 am
Sarah Palin’s book, Going Rouge is coming out. Look for it in the fiction section of your local book store. Considering how many of my posts on Sarah Palin are devoted to debunking the falsehood...
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Hardly A Surprise: Health Care Reform Good For Business, Bad For Insurance Companies

Ron Chusid posted an article on - Nov 13, 2009, 4:34 pm
A report from the Business Roundtable finds that health care reform will be good for business. They support much of what is in the health care reform bills but disagree on some points . They do not su...
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Jon Stewart Watches Sean Hannity Admit He Screwed Up

Ron Chusid posted an article on - Nov 13, 2009, 9:46 am
The Daily Show With Jon Stewart Mon – Thurs 11p / 10c Sean Hannity Apologizes to Jon www.thedailyshow.com Daily Show Full Episodes Political Humor Health Care Crisis Jon Stewart’s cov...
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9/11 Mastermind To Be Tried in Manhattan

Ron Chusid posted an article on - Nov 13, 2009, 8:36 am
Khalid Sheikh Mohammed, who has admitted to being the mastermind behind the 9/11 terrorists attacks, is to be tried by a civilian court in lower Manhattan. Trying him around the scene of the crime rai...
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RNC Insurance Plan Covered Abortions

Ron Chusid posted an article on - Nov 12, 2009, 11:27 pm
One of the ideas behind the Democratic heath care reform plans is to allow all Americans to have the type of choice which members of Congress have. John Kerry’s health care plan explicitly calle...
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Obama Rejects Bad Choices on Afghanistan

Ron Chusid posted an article on - Nov 12, 2009, 8:31 pm
When presented with various options for Afghanistan but none were satisfactory, Barack Obama had the guts to do the right thing and demand more choices. This shows a tremendous difference for his pred...
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Charles Johnson On "Obama Derangement Syndrome" In The Conservative Movement

Ron Chusid posted an article on - Nov 12, 2009, 8:13 pm
Charles Johnson of Little Green Footballs has become a controversial figure in the conservative blogosphere for failing to to along with their mass hysteria. The League of Ordinary Gentlemen interview...
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Hannity Admits to Screw Up But No Sign Fox Will Abandon Practice of Using Doctored Videos

Ron Chusid posted an article on - Nov 12, 2009, 7:51 pm
Yesterday I posted a video clip of Jon Stewart showing that Sean Hannity had used video from an earlier political rally to make it appear attendance at a more recent rally opposing health care reform ...
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AMA Backs Medicinal Marijuana

Ron Chusid posted an article on - Nov 11, 2009, 5:46 pm
The American Medical Association has recommended that the federal government change the classification of marijuana as a Schedule I drug to allow for its use under medical supervision. Schedule I drug...
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Today's Book Shopping

Ron Chusid posted an article on - Nov 11, 2009, 3:16 pm
My wife and I had lunch earlier and then ran into a book store next door.  I primarily went in to pick up David Plouffe’s book on the Obama campaign, The Audacity to Win. I also wound up buying...
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Tea Baggers, Clones, and The Holocaust

Ron Chusid posted an article on - Nov 11, 2009, 2:11 pm
The Daily Show With Jon Stewart Mon – Thurs 11p / 10c The Men Who Stare at Votes www.thedailyshow.com Daily Show Full Episodes Political Humor Health Care Crisis John Stewart ridiculed the ...
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Even Fox Debunks Sarah Palin's Imaginary War on Coins

Ron Chusid posted an article on - Nov 11, 2009, 10:21 am
A couple of days ago I noted a couple of the areas where Sarah Palin had her facts wrong in a recent speech. This included both her continued mischaracterization of the health care reform legislation ...
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False Positive on Malwarebytes Anti-Malware

Ron Chusid posted an article on - Nov 11, 2009, 12:28 am
If anyone is running Malwarebytes Anti-Malware, beware that a database from earlier on Tuesday had a false positive. Normally the program is very valuable in eliminating malware but sometimes it has f...
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Barack Obama's Statement At The Fort Hood Memorial

Ron Chusid posted an article on - Nov 10, 2009, 4:51 pm
Above is the video of Barack Obama’s remarks at the Fort Hood memorial ceremony. The transcript is below: We come together filled with sorrow for the thirteen Americans that we have lost; with ...
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Obama Expresses Reservations About Stupak Amendment

Ron Chusid posted an article on - Nov 10, 2009, 11:29 am
Yesterday it appeared that Obama was willing to accept the Stupak amendment which would restrict funding of abortion by private insurance companies if this was the cost of passing health care reform. ...
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