Posts tagged "quotes"

“Besides getting shot in the back of the head do you know what else Abraham Lincoln did? He was a champion wrestler in high school and no, I’m not making that up.”
Kenny Powers
“By this novel logic, virtually any submission could be reconceptualized as “a claim that the Government has violated my rights,” and it would then be available to the Court to entertain any conceivable issue that might be relevant to that claim’s disposition. … There would be no need for plaintiffs to argue their case; they could just cite the constitutional provisions they think relevant, and leave the rest to us.”
Justice Stevens, dissenting in Citizens United v. FEC via absurdlakefront: alcaniglia

NEWSWEEK: You’ve noted that the relief effort so far has been overly militarized. Given that the military is responsible for coordinating much of the aid, why do you think that’s inappropriate?

KLEIN: It’s a self-fulfilling prophecy. Every day that people are not receiving food, it becomes harder to maintain order. What we’re hearing from U.N. and aid agencies is that they’re afraid of going out without military escort. And what we just saw during the quake is that some foreign investors had their own parallel privatized disaster infrastructure. Citigroup sent in private-security SWAT teams equipped with medical supplies and satellite phones to save their people, but not their neighbors. That’s dehumanizing. Aid should be prioritized over security. Any aid agency that’s afraid of Haitians should get out of Haiti.”

—Naomi Klein, on Haiti via Newsweek

  • Joanie Stubbs: You want cash Elmer, to convert to pussy at The Gem or Bella Union.
  • Elmer: Alright, Joanie.
  • Joaniie: And let it be known in camp, closest to pussy two bucks will get a man in here is a deep whiff walkin past.
  • Elmer: Hey can I get one of those and keep my money?
  • Joanie: Have at it.
  • Elmer: Wooo! Mother, it's the ocean!
“You know I bet when you and your partner’s out on the trail, when ya ain’t greasin poles and choosing who’s gonna be rider, oh I bet you and him just bust each others guts with your little fuckin funnies.”
Dan Dority, Deadwood Season 2
The stock of the major health insurance companies since the health reform bill has been dropping govt-run insurance options. All in all, relative to the last version of health reform issued by the Senate, things have turned out pretty well for the health insurance industry,” said Carl McDonald, an analyst at Oppenheimer. “In particular, all versions of a government-run health plan have largely been eliminated. -HuffPo I’m very interested in hearing how Obama spins this in the State of the Union..this is what he said in his 2009 State of the Union Jr a year ago: So let there be no doubt: health care reform cannot wait, it must not wait, and it will not wait another year. This is what he said in the first Presidential debate: We right now give $15 billion every year as subsidies to private insurers under the Medicare system. It doesn’t work any better through this private insurers; they just skim off $15 billion. That was a giveaway, and part of the reason is because lobbyists are able to shape how Medicare works. They did it on the prescription drug bill. They’ve done it with respect to Medicare. In an ad in Jan 2008: I’ll be a president who finally makes health care affordable to every single American by bringing Democrats and Republicans together. In the 2007 primaries: I’ve got a plan. But we’ve had plan before, under a Democratic president in the ‘90s and a Democratic Congress. We couldn’t get it done because the drug and insurance companies are spending $1 billion over the last decade on lobbying. And that’s why we’ve got to have a president who is willing to fight to make sure that they don’t have veto power. 2004: I ask for a Senate vote to allow safe imports of US-approved drugs that are manufactured in US-approved plants. And, I urge Jack Ryan to stop siding with the drug manufacturers and put aside his opposition to the re-importation of lower-priced prescription drugs from Canada. I know it must be difficult to put a stop to the insurance behemoth and turn around and go the other way but wow. We’re handing more to the insurance companies, we jettisoned the cheaper drugs from Canada idea, we gave in to those billion dollar lobbyists, we brought no one together (except when we needed to throw poor women under the bus) and as far as I know we haven’t had a President who put up a decent fight against all this.

The stock of the major health insurance companies since the health reform bill has been dropping govt-run insurance options. All in all, relative to the last version of health reform issued by the Senate, things have turned out pretty well for the health insurance industry,” said Carl McDonald, an analyst at Oppenheimer. “In particular, all versions of a government-run health plan have largely been eliminated. -HuffPo

I’m very interested in hearing how Obama spins this in the State of the Union..this is what he said in his 2009 State of the Union Jr a year ago:

So let there be no doubt: health care reform cannot wait, it must not wait, and it will not wait another year.

This is what he said in the first Presidential debate:

We right now give $15 billion every year as subsidies to private insurers under the Medicare system. It doesn’t work any better through this private insurers; they just skim off $15 billion. That was a giveaway, and part of the reason is because lobbyists are able to shape how Medicare works. They did it on the prescription drug bill. They’ve done it with respect to Medicare.

In an ad in Jan 2008:

I’ll be a president who finally makes health care affordable to every single American by bringing Democrats and Republicans together.

In the 2007 primaries:

I’ve got a plan. But we’ve had plan before, under a Democratic president in the ‘90s and a Democratic Congress. We couldn’t get it done because the drug and insurance companies are spending $1 billion over the last decade on lobbying. And that’s why we’ve got to have a president who is willing to fight to make sure that they don’t have veto power.

2004:

I ask for a Senate vote to allow safe imports of US-approved drugs that are manufactured in US-approved plants. And, I urge Jack Ryan to stop siding with the drug manufacturers and put aside his opposition to the re-importation of lower-priced prescription drugs from Canada.

I know it must be difficult to put a stop to the insurance behemoth and turn around and go the other way but wow. We’re handing more to the insurance companies, we jettisoned the cheaper drugs from Canada idea, we gave in to those billion dollar lobbyists, we brought no one together (except when we needed to throw poor women under the bus) and as far as I know we haven’t had a President who put up a decent fight against all this.

“Self-deluding, interfering motherfucker.”
Trixie, Deadwood Season 2
“There was a point where it got really tense. The experience for many people was snowball fight kind of fun…and then there’s a guy with a gun.”
Eyewitness to the fun snowball fight in DC that got an ex-cop to wave a gun around in anger and then go into the crowd and grab a kid he thought threw snowballs at his Hummer.
“Well, it’s two things. Part of it was we need to do whatever it takes to get a bill. Never mind whether it’s a really good bill, let’s get a bill passed so we can claim that we solved health insurance. Secondly, let’s get the drug industry and the insurance industry either supporting us or not actively opposing us. So that there was some skirmishing around the details, but the deal going in was that the administration, drug companies, insurance companies are on the same team. Now, that’s one way to get legislation, it’s not a way to transform the health system.”
Robert Kuttner in a really good discussion with Matt Taibbi and Bill Moyers. I can’t look away, so many things wrong with what’s going on.
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You want to be a road agent? Deal out death when called upon? Make a proper seal, stop off the breath, apply pressure even and firm like packin’ a snowball.

You can go now, brother.

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Al Swearengen, putting us all out of our misery