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The Supreme Court just made Corporations even happier, by giving them unlimited opportunity to pour money into politicians coffers.
“With its ruling today,” he said, “the Supreme Court has given a green light to a new stampede of special interest money in our politics. It is a major victory for big oil, Wall Street banks, health insurance companies and the other powerful interests that marshal their power every day in Washington to drown out the voices of everyday Americans.”
- Justices Overturn Key Term Limits, NYT, 1/21/10
Look. If you haven’t figured it out already, Obama’s Health Care scam is yet another bailout to corporations. We believe the Obama presidency is the Re-branding of the corrupt American political system in which the Corporate Whores win again and again at the expense of schmucks like us. The worst excesses of the Bush administration have become codified as business as usual and the Big Corporations continue to suck Americans dry.We are glad the filibuster proof do-nothing Democratic Senate faces the fact that their moment of hegemony is gone. We prefer gridlock to the type of Obama Change we DON’T want to see.
From the NYT:
BOSTON — Scott Brown, a little-known Republican state senator, rode an old pickup truck and a growing sense of unease among independent voters to an extraordinary upset Tuesday night when he was elected to fill the Senate seat that was long held by Edward M. Kennedy in the overwhelmingly Democratic state of Massachusetts.
You’re not going to believe what you’ve been eating the last few years (thanks, Bush! thanks meat industry lobbyists!) when you eat a McDonald’s burger (or the hamburger patties in kids’ school lunches) or buy conventional ground meat at your supermarket:
According to today’s New York Times, The “majority of hamburger” now sold in the U.S. now contains fatty slaughterhouse trimmings “the industry once relegated to pet food and cooking oil,” “typically including most of the material from the outer surfaces of the carcass” that contains “larger microbiological populations.”
This “nasty pink slime,” as one FDA microbiologist called it, is now wrung in a centrifuge to remove the fat, and then treated with AMMONIA to “retard spoilage,” and turned into “a mashlike substance frozen into blocks or chips”.
