tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7594366310437242857.post2049734894506913603..comments2023-09-25T05:36:27.538-04:00Comments on Big Dan's Big Blog: Big Dan's Big News March 27, 2010Big Danhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11750364112179020584noreply@blogger.comBlogger27125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7594366310437242857.post-5401179957787588862010-03-29T15:58:48.714-04:002010-03-29T15:58:48.714-04:00LOL!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!LOL!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!Big Danhttp://bigdanblogger.blogspot.com/noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7594366310437242857.post-83027894444923222052010-03-29T15:58:39.461-04:002010-03-29T15:58:39.461-04:00Yeah, I saw your letter in the paper bashing Kanjo...Yeah, I saw your letter in the paper bashing Kanjorski and pro-O'Brien. No, I had a baseball draft, here's coverage of the blogger meeting though:<br /><br />http://gort42.blogspot.com/2010/03/blogger-meetup-post-game.html<br /><br />As far as the health care bill, I'm with Chomsky and Kucinich: hold your nose and vote for it. I'm for single payer, and I think Pennsylvania will get it, one of the first states.Big Danhttp://bigdanblogger.blogspot.com/noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7594366310437242857.post-84836154954998937022010-03-29T15:32:17.727-04:002010-03-29T15:32:17.727-04:00Finally some recognition for all our hard work and...Finally some recognition for all our hard work and contributions,..<br /><br />I think..................<br /><br />==============================<br /><br />Special Commentary by Big Dan: "Here's my 'hat tip' policy: if I steal something from you, I'm not going to 'hat tip' you unless you point out that you think I stole it from you and I did in fact steal it from you. Then I'll 'hat tip' you. If you point it out the next day, or if I don't acknowledge within one day, YOU LOSE!!! LOL!!!!!!!!!! But here's a hat tip to everyone I've stolen things off of: thank you, one and all!!!"<br /><br />=================================<br /><br />His humor is so dry and his demeanor so cynical - it is really hard to tell.<br /><br />But how can you not lub the guy.anonynoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7594366310437242857.post-3268381854178473912010-03-29T14:40:09.464-04:002010-03-29T14:40:09.464-04:00PS. my email is matthew.l.(lastname)@fisglobal.co...PS. my email is matthew.l.(lastname)@fisglobal.com (just put the last name in the parens.. )matty mcmatt mattnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7594366310437242857.post-29780955402330443422010-03-29T14:40:06.261-04:002010-03-29T14:40:06.261-04:00Dan - it's matt.. wanted to check what you th...Dan - it's matt.. wanted to check what you thought on healthcare, was hoping for some positive coverage and glad you gave some. It's not perfect, but far better than anything else brought to the 'reality' table in my lifetime. Especially for people who went through, or are going through, what you and the wife did. <br /><br />Did you go to that blog meeting? I decided to get involved again and helping the O'Brien campaign. Give me a shout and we can talk. later...matty mcmatt mattnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7594366310437242857.post-72858690011262807612010-03-29T14:19:11.901-04:002010-03-29T14:19:11.901-04:00Seven arrested in FBI raids linked to Christian mi...Seven arrested in FBI raids linked to Christian militia group<br /><br />From The Detroit News: http://detnews.com/article/20100328/METRO/3280313/Seven-arrested-in-FBI-raids-linked-to-Christian-militia-group=#ixzz0jX5vBcu1Big Danhttp://bigdanblogger.blogspot.com/noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7594366310437242857.post-16630994408719340362010-03-29T14:16:56.779-04:002010-03-29T14:16:56.779-04:00The End of the World 2 (Part 1)
http://www.youtub...The End of the World 2 (Part 1)<br /><br />http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DfsA260xQ2QBig Danhttp://bigdanblogger.blogspot.com/noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7594366310437242857.post-19053337138600360162010-03-29T14:16:55.509-04:002010-03-29T14:16:55.509-04:00Don't you "love" Meghann Kelly?
Isr...Don't you "love" Meghann Kelly?<br /><br />Israelis Happy Obama Snubbed Netanyahu<br /><br />http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GVwFzXFsvegBig Danhttp://bigdanblogger.blogspot.com/noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7594366310437242857.post-27980191705687857622010-03-29T14:16:38.340-04:002010-03-29T14:16:38.340-04:00Megan Fox... and totally not health care reform
h...Megan Fox... and totally not health care reform<br /><br />http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2TQhVYZFBzMBig Danhttp://bigdanblogger.blogspot.com/noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7594366310437242857.post-15718449888737409402010-03-29T14:16:36.483-04:002010-03-29T14:16:36.483-04:00Students Make 8,000 mpg Vehicle
http://www.youtub...Students Make 8,000 mpg Vehicle<br /><br />http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_iC1CNFKowQBig Danhttp://bigdanblogger.blogspot.com/noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7594366310437242857.post-84457202894736285412010-03-29T14:16:32.481-04:002010-03-29T14:16:32.481-04:00FBI raids in Washtenaw, Lenawee counties tied to M...FBI raids in Washtenaw, Lenawee counties tied to Michigan militia group pt 1<br /><br />http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UbhBAWapx0YBig Danhttp://bigdanblogger.blogspot.com/noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7594366310437242857.post-89659163690691917232010-03-29T14:09:45.516-04:002010-03-29T14:09:45.516-04:00City Of Chicago To Modernize Outdated Graft Progra...City Of Chicago To Modernize Outdated Graft Programs <br /><br />http://www.theonion.com/articles/city-of-chicago-to-modernize-outdated-graft-progra,17140/Big Danhttp://bigdanblogger.blogspot.com/noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7594366310437242857.post-48357221668183121272010-03-29T14:02:44.289-04:002010-03-29T14:02:44.289-04:00The Politics of 'Corrections'
By Robert P...The Politics of 'Corrections'<br /><br />By Robert Parry<br />March 25, 2010<br /><br />Perhaps nothing measures the imbalance of media and political power in the United States better than the decision-making by major news organizations about when to issue “corrections.” <br /><br />http://www.consortiumnews.com/2010/032510.htmlBig Danhttp://bigdanblogger.blogspot.com/noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7594366310437242857.post-26793195103841997172010-03-29T14:02:35.550-04:002010-03-29T14:02:35.550-04:00The GOP's Double Standard on Anger
By Nat Par...The GOP's Double Standard on Anger<br /><br />By Nat Parry<br />March 27, 2010<br /><br />In the wake of the bitter health-care debate and some ugly incidents of violence against Democratic members of Congress, there have been some belated – and halfhearted – appeals from Republican leaders to tamp down the fiery rhetoric on the Right.<br /><br />http://www.consortiumnews.com/2010/032710a.htmlBig Danhttp://bigdanblogger.blogspot.com/noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7594366310437242857.post-1844437824405105502010-03-29T14:02:32.897-04:002010-03-29T14:02:32.897-04:00A Surprise Tea-Party Confrontation
By Richard L. ...A Surprise Tea-Party Confrontation<br /><br />By Richard L. Fricker<br />March 28, 2010<br /><br />Editor’s Note: Oklahoma-based journalist Richard Fricker was with his wife on a spring-break vacation to Washington when he came face to face with the Tea Party furor.<br /><br />In this first-person account, Fricker describes how a cell-phone comment apparently upset the protesters, who chased him and called him (cover your ears!) a “professor”:<br /><br />When I visited the Capitol grounds on March 21, the day the House of Representatives passed healthcare reform, I was aware that some protesters there had been directing violence, threats and insults against members of Congress, but I was surprised when I ended up on the receiving end of some abuse myself.<br /><br />http://www.consortiumnews.com/2010/032810d.htmlBig Danhttp://bigdanblogger.blogspot.com/noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7594366310437242857.post-390366834850195742010-03-29T14:01:19.553-04:002010-03-29T14:01:19.553-04:00Did you fall for the propaganda to be against the ...Did you fall for the propaganda to be against the college loan bill? I hope not:<br /><br /> Chalking Up a Win on Student Loans<br /><br />By Jeff Cohen<br />March 28, 2010<br /><br />Editor’s Note: Many progressives are angry at President Barack Obama’s concessions to corporate interests -- and even to Republicans -- on healthcare reform, essentially embracing Mitt Romney’s industry-friendly plan for Massachusetts and throwing away the sliver of a public option that the House had approved.<br /><br />But, as Jeff Cohen notes in this guest essay, progressives won an important consolation prize when Congress tacked on to the healthcare "reconciliation" bill a direct student loan program, which cut bank subsidies out of the process:<br /><br />We won!<br /><br />http://www.consortiumnews.com/2010/032810c.htmlBig Danhttp://bigdanblogger.blogspot.com/noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7594366310437242857.post-69440420922038778822010-03-29T13:58:58.448-04:002010-03-29T13:58:58.448-04:00Big Jim [Moderator] 22 hours ago
Hat tip, schmat...<i>Big Jim [Moderator] 22 hours ago<br />Hat tip, schmat tip. If it's good stuff, pass it along post haste.<br /><br />PS- I wish I got to the draft sooner. "Communication breakdown."<br /></i><br /><br />Exactly! Just pass important information and fuck the hat tips. If you're worried about a hat tip, then you're not worried about passing information.Big Danhttp://bigdanblogger.blogspot.com/noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7594366310437242857.post-28582572978256240772010-03-29T13:58:49.910-04:002010-03-29T13:58:49.910-04:00Proud Primate's website, I've had it in my...Proud Primate's website, I've had it in my links on the right for a long time:<br /><br />http://proudprimate.com/Big Danhttp://bigdanblogger.blogspot.com/noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7594366310437242857.post-42678427935762614262010-03-29T13:58:45.097-04:002010-03-29T13:58:45.097-04:00ProudPrimate [Moderator] 1 hour ago in reply to...ProudPrimate [Moderator] 1 hour ago in reply to LIVE FREE OR DIE<br />That sure is the way to think if you want to use the least mental energy. So easy on the old noggin — just lump them all together and feel smug about it. No sense wasting time reading all those old dusty books, listening to all those old black and white videos, filling up notebooks and getting paper cuts.<br /><br />No point in reviewing the work, say, of the Church Committee, how much excellent evidence they compiled against the dogged resistance of Richard Helms and his cohorts, an indelible record that still today in many important ways protects the republic from those same conspirators.<br /><br />Just say, "they're all equally bad".<br /><br />Or, just say "sorry Mrs. B — the dog ate my homework."<br /><br />http://rawstory.com/2010/03/wikileaks-release-video-civilians-journalists-murdered-airstrike/#comment-42018789Big Danhttp://bigdanblogger.blogspot.com/noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7594366310437242857.post-51180106189675472992010-03-29T13:58:43.810-04:002010-03-29T13:58:43.810-04:00ProudPrimate [Moderator] 1 hour ago in reply to...ProudPrimate [Moderator] 1 hour ago in reply to vince j<br />Yes — and the heroic Sy Hersh who exposed the My Lei Massacre forty years ago was they guy the Abu Ghraib whistleblower knew he could trust.<br /><br />http://rawstory.com/2010/03/wikileaks-release-video-civilians-journalists-murdered-airstrike/#comment-42019331Big Danhttp://bigdanblogger.blogspot.com/noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7594366310437242857.post-34063410635031517382010-03-29T13:57:43.026-04:002010-03-29T13:57:43.026-04:00ProudPrimate [Moderator] 16 hours ago in reply ...ProudPrimate [Moderator] 16 hours ago in reply to plunger<br />1 person liked this.<br />Ah, Plunger! So good to see your byline as always. You put me in mind of an awesome little quiz that I found thanks to Kevin Barrett. Have you seen it?<br /><br />"Who's to blame for the Iraq war?"<br /><br />http://sabbah.biz/mt/archives/2010/03/13/whos-to-blame-for-the-iraq-war/<br /><br />http://rawstory.com/2010/03/wikileaks-release-video-civilians-journalists-murdered-airstrike/#comment-41960003Big Danhttp://bigdanblogger.blogspot.com/noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7594366310437242857.post-9885902210791441082010-03-29T13:57:41.325-04:002010-03-29T13:57:41.325-04:00ProudPrimate [Moderator] 17 hours ago in reply ...ProudPrimate [Moderator] 17 hours ago in reply to Terrible<br />I suspect it's less the AEI crowd than the Alex Jones crowd who use the expression "God Emperor". People I used to have the highest respect for, including Jones and Webster Tarpley, have been promulgating this meme for a couple of years now. On the opposite side of the table you've got other prominent voices, well publicized by Jones over the years, like Ray McGovern and John Perkins, who see Obama's position as quite difficult and dangerous, McGovern quoting (to Brad Friedman) at some length from James Douglass's awesome book, JFK and the Unspeakable, and Perkins in a more direct if less intense way talking to Jones about what serious limits BHO faces, at least so far.<br /><br />I find it head shaking time, whenever I hear some of the Ron Paul gang (and I love Ron Paul, and put in my $100 for the first moneybomb) expressing belief that if he were president, we'd have pulled all the troops out of 700 bases by now, &c.<br /><br />Bit of a rosy view, in my opinion.<br /><br />Indeed, one of the clearest voices on the subject of The Deep State, as he likes to call it, referencing the crash at Susurluk (q.v.), Peter Dale Scott, considered it bold of Obama not to commit any more than 30k troopers into Afghanistan, calling it a sign of resistance on BHO's part.<br /><br />And even Tarpley expressed some benefit of the doubt in talking about the comment by Richard Wolffe, "conspiracy or cockup", referring to the Christmas Bomber, and how the Obama team were angry when Patrick F. Kennedy of the State Department, a Neocon Bushist holdover, told a January 27 hearing of the House Committee on Homeland Security that "revocation action would've disclosed what they were doing," Kennedy said that allowing the alleged terrorist to keep his visa would have "helped" federal investigators take down the entire network "rather than simply knocking out one solider in that effort."<br /><br />In short, the CIA overruled the policy that Abdulmutallab should have been put on the no-fly list.<br /><br />Instead he appeared on Christmas Day, when all the politicians were far from the cameras, so they could be portrayed as feckless and ineffective.<br /><br />If Tarpley with two books painting Obama as the most dangerous man in history can give him the benefit of the doubt, ie., that he was the victim of a False Flag propaganda attack by the CIA, that should give some of these talking-points-spewers some thinking to do.<br /><br />http://rawstory.com/2010/03/wikileaks-release-video-civilians-journalists-murdered-airstrike/#comment-41958422Big Danhttp://bigdanblogger.blogspot.com/noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7594366310437242857.post-32539456860998113462010-03-29T13:57:39.574-04:002010-03-29T13:57:39.574-04:00ProudPrimate [Moderator] 17 hours ago in reply ...ProudPrimate [Moderator] 17 hours ago in reply to xyoungblood<br />2 people liked this.<br />I see it the same way you do. I would frame it this way:<br /><br />Ever see an episode of that BBC series "DANGER UXB" (UXB standing for "unexploded bomb")? The stories were about the Blitz in London, and the men who found unexploded bombs in the basements of buildings, and with pistol drills and wrenches had to remove the firing mechanism. Sort of "grandpa's version of The Hurt Locker".<br /><br />If Obama is truly the Antichrist, as 24% of Republicans suspect, or a puppet of Brzezinski as many good honest Truthers assume, or just a sellout and extremely slick fraud, as Libertarians seem to think, it will not be certain for a while yet. The mere fact that he has not reversed decades of US militarism in his first year in office is not proof of the above. Remember how long this has been going on.<br /><br />Gen. Smedley Butler said, in a speech in 1935:<br /><br />I helped make Mexico and especially Tampico safe for American oil interests in 1914. I helped make Haiti and Cuba a decent place for the National City Bank boys to collect revenues in. I helped in the raping of half a dozen Central American republics for the benefit of Wall Street. The record of racketeering is long. I helped purify Nicaragua for the international banking house of Brown Brothers in 1909-1912. I brought light to the Dominican Republic for American sugar interests in 1916. I helped make Honduras “right” for American fruit companies in 1903. In China in 1927, I helped see to it that Standard Oil went its way unmolested....<br /><br />I too am deeply troubled and sorrowful to see Sec. Clinton seem to be furthering the longstanding regime-change machinery of the State Dept. in Honduras, and against Venezuela.<br /><br />But I am hedging my bets. When you are removing the detonator from a bomb that big, you don't want to be hasty, and drop the damn thing. After all the millions of innocent victims of American militarism since Vietnam and even before (think Philippines ca. 1900) scores of new victims, as tragic as they are, must be seen in perspective.<br /><br />With a stronger political position, as I expect will be evident in six months or a year, Change is still credible. Nuclear reduction will have to pass the Senate, and how many Republicans do you think will vote for it???<br /><br />http://rawstory.com/2010/03/wikileaks-release-video-civilians-journalists-murdered-airstrike/#comment-41955389Big Danhttp://bigdanblogger.blogspot.com/noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7594366310437242857.post-22787654353139003292010-03-29T13:57:30.405-04:002010-03-29T13:57:30.405-04:00The BRAD SHOW interview
with Ray McGovern, June 11...The BRAD SHOW interview<br />with Ray McGovern, June 11, 2005<br /><br />http://www.bradshow.com/Transcripts/RayMcGovern_061105.htmBig Danhttp://bigdanblogger.blogspot.com/noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7594366310437242857.post-32492026418156694772010-03-29T13:57:26.771-04:002010-03-29T13:57:26.771-04:00Major-General Smedley Butler (1881-1940)
http://c...Major-General Smedley Butler (1881-1940)<br /><br />http://coat.ncf.ca/our_magazine/links/53/butler.htmlBig Danhttp://bigdanblogger.blogspot.com/noreply@blogger.com