by Charley James
In so-called “public service” ads appearing on TV and radio, or in print and on the intertubes, many health insurance companies urge people to stay healthy by quitting smoking. The company that provides a supplemental policy to me that covers things not paid by Canada’s national health even e-mailed a helpful PDF brochure [...]
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Health Care Folly: Insurance Co’s Bet Big On You Smoking To Death
Posted on 08 June 2009 by Charley James | Comments (0) | Tags: big pharma, Canada, Danger Will Robinson, Harvard Medical School faculty, healthcare, healthcare industry, Lost in Space, Max Baucus, national healthcare, pharmaceutical companies, Sarah Palin, smoking, stockholders, Sun Life, Wesley Boyd
Where Was Sarah?
Posted on 11 May 2009 by Denis Campbell | Comments (0) | Tags: Al Gore, Alaska Governor Sarah Palin, clean coal, climate change, First Dude, Joe Camel, Sarah Palin, TED Talks, TED.com, Todd Palin
by Denis Campbell
“First Dude” Todd Palin busily made the party rounds as did many A list celebrities in Washington. Hollywood and Politics came together for one star-studded night at the annual White House Correspondent’s dinner. Sarah Palin though was forced to remain in Alaska and actually govern her way through a page-11 below the fold [...]
Darn That Obama!
Posted on 15 April 2009 by Denis Campbell | Comments (0) | Tags: Bill O'Reilly, Bobby (creepy Mr. Rogers) Jindal, demoralised right, Eric Cantor, Gingrich Revolution, Glen Beck, Philadelphia, President Obama, Republican Party, Rush Limbaugh, Sarah Palin, Tea Party, White House, White House Easter Egg Roll
President Obama is being blamed for causing then disrupting the USA far right Tea Party taxation protests (sponsored by Lipton, the only true winner today?). The protests harkened back to the Boston Tea Party of 1773 and appear to be massive duds thudding their way across the country. What was most funny were the fringe [...]
The 10 Worst People Of The Year; Wait, Actually There’s Only One
Posted on 31 December 2008 by Charley James | Comments (0) | Tags: (James) Dobson, Abdiqasim Salad Hassan, Abdullahi Yusuf Ahmed, Adan Mohamed Nuur Madobe, Bernie Madoff, Bill O’Reilly, Charley James, Dick Cheney destroyer of constitutional government and, Ehud Ohlmert, everyone responsible for creating i-anything, George W. Bush is both the worst person of the year and, George W. Bush The Worst Person of the Decade!, he wins the distinction by a landslide, I had to tear up the list, Ismail Haniyeh, it’s an honour he’s received every year since 2000, Karl Rove, Robert Mugabe the monster of Zimbabwe, Sarah Palin, Sean Hannity, The 10 Worst People Of The Year, the American Enterprise Institute, the last three presidents of Somalia, There’s only one worst person this year, Vin Diesel for still duping people into buying movie ti, Wait Actually There’s Only One
by Charley James
I detest the Top 10 lists sprouting up daily: Newspapers, magazines, television, cable, blogs, whatever. One acquaintance in New Mexico sent a mass e-mail to everyone in her Outlook directory asking each of us to submit our own Top 10 list of whatever we want to rank.
By December every year, these rankings appear [...]
An Open Letter to Right Wing-Nut Racist Republicans
Posted on 18 December 2008 by Denis Campbell | Comments (1) | Tags: 1950’s Donna Reed Show view of the world, 2 wars, a cocktail joke, all that matters, always refute and dismiss anyone you disagree with, Argument over, attempts to portray our next President as a “lying Musl, Bill O‘Reilly, blind faith, blind pronouncements, born again, bust unions, campaign of fear and hate didn’t work, Caribou Sarah, cascade of boos, Clinton years, colin powell, could share a beer with, David Cameron in the UK during Prime Ministers Question, demand that God Bless America instead of offering a pra, Denis Campbell, deny gay marriages, do not exist, economic meltdown, every new scandal, everyone (but you) has to follow it, forgetting or dismissing as the devil’s work everything, four year olds in a schoolyard, grin and care not a whit what anyone else thinks, hide behind passages of the Bible you feel are relevant, His imperfections were known to all, his prime teachings by the way, I want my God and my country back, if engaged you go back to the standard line, jamming your thumbs in your ears welding your eyes shut, Joe the Plumber, John McCain, KILL HIM, narrow-minded xenophobia, News flash, Newt Gingrich, norm from this dogmatic place, offering hugs, Open Letter to Right Wing-nut Racist Republicans, pray together for the rapture you think is coming to sa, proclaiming access to some divine secret, put you further on the fringe than you already are, rail publicly against compassion, re-write the Bush legacy and history, rest of us allow doubt and uncertainty to actually be p, Rush Limbaugh, sad and deluded group, Sarah Palin, say the most hateful and despicable things about anothe, shoes being thrown at our Commander in Chief, sick, Sick and tired of your media mouthpieces claiming they, smarmy one-liners, somehow your salvation and absolution for the inconsist, southern Senators trying to bankrupt the Big Three, spiritual arrogance runs every aspect of your life, talk incessantly of God, TERRORIST, tolerance, true hatred of anyone not like you, understanding, unreal and untenable, wants nothing to do with you, we became a third world nation with nukes, We’ve had that for 8-years, will never share from where that ‘truth’ comes for fear, work of the uninformed, you become less than irrelevant, you don’t know the truth like I do, you know!, you left crazy a few weeks ago, you lost, you made it personal and a bloodsport, You want your President to be like you, yours bring out the ugliest sides of your constituency
By Denis Campbell
Your campaign of fear and hate? It didn’t work. Your attempts to portray our next President as a “lying Muslim socialist with no experience who hates our flag and Constitution and what this country was founded on.” It will put you further on the fringe than you already are. I’m really just sick [...]
Toxic Spill on Aisle 3, Bring Chlorine
Posted on 13 November 2008 by Denis Campbell | Comments (0) | Tags: 000 vote lead disappear, 000 votes to count, 3, 90, Alaska, banana republic with nukes, Bring Chlorine, Caribou Barbie, Chambliss ran adverts equating Cleland with Osama bin L, Cleland a war hero left three limbs on the battlefield, convicted felon for a Senator, D-Max Cleland, Denis Campbell, election, fear fear fear…, federal convict Ted Stevens, fivethirtyeight.com, Garrison Keillor’s state, Georgia, get final vote count correct in 49 other state with 4/1, getting out of hand, GOP mantra, great election, he now trails by 3 VOTES!, incumbent Republican Senator, irregularities, Keith Olbermann, Lake Woebegone, mandatory recount under Minnesota law, Minnesota, miss the Alaskan count by 20 percentage points?, Nate Silver, peace-keeping forces, R-Norm Coleman, Rachel Maddow, replay the NBC Decision ’08 theme song and graphics, Republicans despatching 120 lawyers to recount sites, Sarah Palin, Saxby Chambliss, sitting governor is on the ballot as a Vice Presidentia, still parts of the gene pool in need of chlorination, Toxic Spill, über statistician, UN inspectors to Alaska Minnesota and Georgia, voter turnout actually go DOWN, why an 84-year old felon even won this election?
By Denis Campbell
It was a great election (duh-dum) wasn’t it? A new Democratic President (duh-dum), bigger majorities in the House and Senate (duh-duh-duh-duh-duh-duh-duh… duhdadeeee) and nothing can go wrong… AEEIIIIIII!!!!! Apologies to John Williams, Peter Benchley and the cast of Jaws, what the heck is going on in the Senate?!?
OK, it was cute that both [...]
Let Get Ready to Ruummbblleee!
Posted on 12 November 2008 by Denis Campbell | Comments (2) | Tags: 04 November electoral finish line was known for years i, 22-month campaign cycle, a man with the rumpled but somewhat pitiable if not lov, both parties, British politics are even bloodier than in the US, Brits think he is the steadier hand, called out, Cambridge, Conservative Party, could reverse this tide and win, David Cameron, David Cameron already has a transition team together fo, day after elections, Denis Campbell, element of surprise, Eton, Gordon Brown, have tea with Her Majesty, heavy underdog, highly entertaining, House of Parliament’s Prime Minister’s Question Time, I love my job, If you liked the US election, Joe Biden, keep his mouth shut, leading us capably through the credit crisis, least photogenic man on the Isles, Les Miserables, Let Get Ready to Rumble, London Mayor Boris Johnson, London’s West End, May 2010, McCain, Missouri, my Electoral Vote prediction in the US general election, not this 75-day transition period, not yet ready to make a prediction, obama, only one state missed, Palin went from front-runner to cocktail joke faster th, PM Brown can dissolve Parliament at any moment, PM Brown turns the economy around, polls favour Mr. Cameron, pre-measuring the White House drapes, pride of British public schools, Prime Minister, Sarah Palin, seize the spotlight, she calls for elections, the man you would least likely want to have a pint with, The Mousetrap, the once and future PM in waiting, Tony Blair's Chancellor, Tories Leader, unfortunately following a legend in his own mind, viewed as a steady hand on the tiller, who never met a camera he didn’t like or a group he cou, whose one great speech 4-years ago he hopes will lead h, Wicked, with possibly the most distractingly smarmy and sing-so, you’re gonna love the upcoming steel cage PPV match in
By Denis Campbell
If you liked the US election, you’re gonna love the upcoming PPV steel cage match in the planet’s greatest political theatre. Steps away from London’s West End houses offering titles: Wicked, Les Miserables and The Mousetrap, the House of Parliament’s Prime Minister’s Question Time should be highly entertaining as both parties attempt to [...]
The Maverick Wears Prada
Posted on 29 October 2008 by Denis Campbell | Comments (0) | Tags: diva, Maureen Dowd, New York Times Op-Ed columnist Maureen Dowd, Op-Ed columnist, Sarah Palin, The New York Times
New York Times Op-Ed
Screenplay by
Maureen Dowd
Revised third draft
© Oct. 29, 2008
FADE IN:
INT. A HOTEL SUITE — in the middle of the day in the middle of Ohio.
NICOLLE WALLACE, a slender, preppie-looking blonde wearing a string of pearls is pacing and frantically thumbing her BlackBerry. She is a top McCain adviser under STEVE SCHMIDT who has [...]
Ted Got Caught Is That The Moral?
Posted on 29 October 2008 by Denis Campbell | Comments (0) | Tags: 000 Ted Stevens gave to her campaign when he was indict, 13% of her time in North Carolina since being elected s, Alaska Governor and Vice Presidential candidate, Alaska Senator Ted Stevens, and only 20 days in the state in 2005, attacked via her spokeswoman, blood in the water, Communications Director Colleen Flanagan, conspicuously silent on the matter, Denis Campbell, Elizabeth Dole returned only a portion of the $21, Elizabeth ‘Libby’ Dole, launched for North Carolina Senate as a Kansan. America, McCain, Mitch McConnell, oh well, one of their own is in big trouble, opponent Kay Hagan, poor Ted just got caught, reported Dole spent 13-days in North Carolina in 2006, Sarah Palin, Senator Dole currently resides at the Watergate Hotel i, Ted Got Caught, threw Stevens under the bus, was registered to vote in Kansas for over 25 years, Winston-Salem Journal, ‘Country First’, ‘Save Me First’
by Denis Campbell
Look how the self-righteous are coming out of the woodwork to save their collective endangered backsides now that one of their own is in big trouble. John McCain led the charge calling on Alaska Senator Ted Stevens to resign from his Senate seat. Was that ‘Country First’ or ‘Save Me First,’ Senator?
The message [...]
What Happened To GOP Outrage Over $400 Haircuts?
Posted on 26 October 2008 by Charley James | Comments (0) | Tags: $400 haircut, 1st dude, Atelier, campaign wardrobe, GOP outrage, John Edwards, Manhattan, Nieman Marcus, RNC, Sarah Palin, Todd Palin, Young Turks
by Charley James
I suppose when the Republican vice presidential candidate is discovered spending $150,000 on a campaign wardrobe, it’s hard for the GOP to remember being shocked – Shocked, I tell you! – over John Edwards’ $400 haircut.
It’s even harder to be publicly outraged over the price of haircuts when the party can’t really figure [...]
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