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George Carlin Recast As A Right Wing Mouthpiece

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I just watched…

one my favorite George Carlin clips, after laughing my ass off at the introduction to it on this site, which is another in a long line Alex Jones/Prison Planet conspiracy subsets of the insanity soiling and spoiling this nation.

Such manipulation is getting more common with each passing week, and this one is just typical of the "any lie that someone will buy" school of publishing that Andrew Breitbart aspires to each time he opens his word processor. With almost limitless corporate money behind them, and an increasingly angry and blinded electorate, they will say anything, contrive anything, fabricate anything, or contort anything that they think will advance the memes that advance their concorporate agenda. It's shameless, dangerous, and sadly… probably unstoppable.

I am quite sure they won't publish my hastily crafted comment, so I've included it here.

And my comment was…

You fuckwits. Anyone that knows Carlin knows that “30 years ago” referred to the Reagan takeover (by Don Reagan and his stooge, Ronnie). And he never spoke of the Rothschilds, Soros or any of your other Illuminati boogie men. He was referring to the same “business” interests (Corporations) that this stupid fucking site is always blowing smoke for. You stopped fooling people years ago. Now go ahead and delete this, and get on with your hysterical paleoconservative agenda.

Then Carlin's daughter commented…

Someone in my Twitter stream alerted @kelly_carlin to the post above, and her response was great:

And although he would entertain the conspiracy theorists at times (illuminati, etc.), he HATED REAGAN, and was speaking about Reagan in this piece. HE HATED THE RIGHT WITH FEROCITY.

Read her whole comment

Brad Bauman Leaving Sunlight Foundation to Serve Blue America

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A classy letter from a class act.  Not many people I know would give up such a core position in such an exciting project as Sunlight, in order to to go help the Democrats try and save America. 

 

Best of luck, big guy. I am proud to call you my friend.

 

From: Brad Bauman, Communications Manager, Sunlight Foundation
Sent: 5/12/2010. Reprinted with permission

Dear friends,

 

While I sincerely love my co-workers over at the Sunlight Foundation, and have been so very lucky to work alongside some of the smartest, most innovative people I've ever met, I am sorry to say that I will be leaving the Sunlight Foundation at the end of this month.

 

The fact is, 2010 is going to be a challenging year, and as someone who has spent the better part of the decade working on behalf of Democrats, I can't continue to talk about how this is an, "All hands on deck" year without hopping on board myself. That is why I am going to be heading out on the campaign trail, but more on that later.

 

For the next few weeks I am going to help the Sunlight Foundation fill the Communications Manager position and I would very much like your help. We are looking for an aggressive go-getter, who would be able to assist Communications Director Gab Schneider in spreading Sunlight's message, and help her team build on the successes we've had this year.

 

Personality-wise, we're looking for a kick-ass pitch person who is ridiculously driven to make government transparency and accountability an issue the media can't avoid talking about.

The new team member would be joining a communications team of 3 and work closely with Sunlight's engagement team, policy shop labs and reporting group.

We're in a position where we get an average of 7-10 mainstream media/A-list blog hits per day at Sunlight (as many as 25-30 on big days), and the Foundation needs someone who can proactively push Sunlight's spokespersons, articles, visualizations, resources etc all the time.

The communications manager could expect weekly experience with TV (CNN and MSNBC most common), radio (NPR relatively common), mags (WIRED, Harper's, Fast Company, Mother Jones etc most common), news (nat'l and local), blogs (HuffPo, ReadWriteWeb, Mashable, Instapundit, you name it) and all the rest – including doing some content and strategy development (or leading projects if they're good at it). Again, it really comes down to whatever this person can make of it all that's possible.

 

We will soon be advertising this position far and wide, but ya'll are getting a sneak preview.

 

And also, you should know that Sunlight has EXCELLENT benefits.

 

Please, email me resumes at brad@sunlightfoundation.com, as I would like to help start vetting people immediately.

 

Thank you all for your love and friendship, see ya in the fight.

You Don’t Know Jack (Kevorkian), But You Will

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Jack_Kevorkian is an American pathologist, right-to-die activist, painter, composer, and instrumentalist. He is most noted for publicly championing a terminal patient's right to die via physician-assisted suicide; he claims to have assisted at least 130 patients to that end. He famously said that "dying is not a crime." 

I've Waiting Years 20 Years For This Film

And I am overjoyed that a director as gifted as Barry Levinson Levinson has done it. It's just one more depressing reminder of the social regression that has hit America's shores in the 15 years since Fox News joined the Culture War. Kevorkian did eight long years in prison, all throughout the pathetic Terri Schiavo  case, and we STILL don't really discuss Right to Die issues in any way that would ever bring forth legislation. We're too busy discussing Sarah Palin's palm notes, how Sue Lowden's family once paid doctors with chickens, or whether Glenn back is a character or psycho neurotic. Conservatives found out how to rule our body politik and America lost her soul.

Mazer's script follows the doctor from his earliest, quietest cases in Michigan through his first blushes of local and then national publicity, including his portrait on the cover of Time. Kevorkian must do battle not only with overzealous politicians but also with fellow doctors who denounce him as a killer quack; with his own lawyer, who eventually decides to run for political office; and with America's ever-ready nut fringe, members of which show up at his home in states of pietistic imbecility. 

Read: "You Don't Know Jack" (Review by Tom Shales, Washington Post)

 

My father wasted away in a slow, wretched death spiral

Since then, I have always been sensitive to the misery that our archaic attitudes are toward life, and what should be our right to leave it when we're good and ready.  It should not be up to anyone else to tell us when that is. I think conservatives who rile against this basic right are simply addicted to controlling other people's lives as compensation for no real control over their own.

Here are some basics on this basic human right:

Background

  About "You Don't Know Jack"

  Jack Kevorkian

  Al Pacino

    Right To Die Issues

  Experts & Organizations

  Tutorials & Guides

  • The Suicide_bag — Make no mistake. Taking one's life is harder than it sounds, if one wants to minimize pain, risk of failure, and a myriad of other common consequences of suicide.  This article concerns the so called Exit bag method of personal self-determination. It is considered the only fast, painless and untraceable way that a family can help you, a friend, or a family member to end their life with dignity, and without the risks or legal implications of other methods.