Unconventional Sources

Ex-Democrat Senator Joseph Lieberman has joined the chorus of politicians well-paid by the medical industry (almost a million dollars in the last five years) who are now saying that health care reform isn’t so important. “I’m afraid we’ve got to think about putting a lot of that off,”Lieberman says.

If you’re one of those Americans who doesn’t have the luxury of insurance companies and pharmaceutical corporations offering you big checks, you know that health care reform cannot afford to be put off again. The last time health care reform was “put off” was 16 years ago.

Americans who suffer under the expensive and unfair current system of health care rationing by insurance company bureaucrats need to speak out strongly so that distant politicians like Senator Lieberman can hear. Wear a button like this one, saying Health Care Reform Now.

You can find this button, and related health care reform bumper stickers and tshirts, at the Health Care Reform – The Time Is Now Shop.

Running up to the 2008 presidential election, right wingers tried one last burst of hate to try to recapture the American imagination. People weren’t really afraid of terrorists any more, so Republicans aimed larger, trying to get Americans to fear anyone who didn’t speak English. They invented an immigration crisis out of nowhere, and started complaining that they had to do the simple task of pressing the “1″ button on the telephone to select English customer service.

Around this time, bumper stickers started to appear, reading Welcome to America. Now Speak English! The message was clear: Conform, or get lost.

That’s a terrible message to send about how things are here in the United States. After all, we’re supposed to be the home of freedom of speech, and freedom of speech means nothing if you can’t even choose the language you want to speak in. So, I was tickled to find this tshirt that mocks that English-only concept: Welcome to America. Now Speak Ojibwe. – If we’re going to get pushy about people speaking the language that’s native to America, why not actually choose a native American language?

Seriously, there’s a huge universe of language that’s native to the Americas. These languages are every bit as valid as English. You can begin to explore these native American languages at Native American Language Net.

Know why the Republicans really want to do offshore drilling? It’s because they’ve got Prius envy.

The Republicans are just all burned up, hotter than global warming, that environmentalists thought up a good idea to make our economy run more efficiently and cleanly, and made it work. The hybrid car is an expression of environmentalism moving America forward, and the Republicans were caught just sitting on their rear ends next to their Lincoln Town Cars, saying that everything should continue to be done the old way.

So, now, the Republicans are trying to show that they can do something new: New offshore oil drilling!

The trouble is that this new offshore oil drilling is kind of like new Tide, now with extra cleaning power – it isn’t really new at all. It’s just the same old thing.

The old offshore oil drilling was dirty and inefficient and vulnerable to hurricanes. The new offshore drilling would be dirty and inefficient and vulnerable to hurricanes. The old offshore drilling couldn’t keep pace with our energy needs. The new offshore drilling wouldn’t keep pace with our energy needs either.

This offshore drilling plan is the last gasp of a dinosaur economy of rusted industrialism. What we need is a new vision that can do better than offshore drilling. More of the same will just bring us more of the same, and more of the same means more failure.

The time for new offshore drilling is history.