Sen. Bernie Sanders of Vermont delivers one hell of a current events lecture here, and as mcjoan tells us, PolitiFact was asked to do a fact check on what Sanders said, and every word of it is true (though we knew that anyway; more on the filibuster here - kudos to Sherrod Brown and Mary Landrieu, of all people, for doing the right thing and joining in)...
...and after watching the vid, you can do something else by clicking here and signing a petition...
..."Worst Persons" (Bill Sammon and Michael Clemente of Fix Noise get the "bronze" for pushing their poll-tested language...by Frank Luntz, of course...in the runup to the health care circus which, as we know, went on forever, and of course it inflamed opinion against HCR; the "silver" collectively goes to the 41 Repug senators who opposed funding health benefits for 9/11 first responders - I thought this was a good commentary on this issue also; but baseball player Luke Scott of the Baltimore Orioles gets top "honors" for some Beck-esque incendiary language about Obama, with a truly cruel twist at the end...I've got some of this stuff covered in "Do-Gooders and Dregs," so you'll probably be hearing about it again in a couple of weeks, but the first responder funding and Scott's garbage is so bad that it deserves to be mentioned twice, at least)...
...and I'm not sure how you can get into the Christmas spirit after this stuff, but I'll try - this is a seasonal tribute to Otis Redding, who left us on this date 43 years ago today.
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I watched Bernie Sanders in his filibuster on C-Span which broadcast it from end to end with no interruption which is why I love C-Span. It was very enlightening, and I am amazed at his stamina.
While the no nothings defend the rights of the super rich to buy the biggest and best yachts Americans in this country are burning the family furniture in the fireplace to keep warm.
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