For your reading pleasure:
County Commissioner Brings Swastika Sign To US Rep. Schauer Health Care Rally
I think I made this guy’s life rather difficult starting a bit before lunch today.
Good.
I’m just sayin’…
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Bring on the Gay Loggers for Jesus
Thanks to my future sister-in-law Mel for this one.
Gay Loggers for Jesus to march in Bozeman
It looks like the Bozeman Tea Party will not be the only march down Bozeman’s Main Street this Fourth of July.
City officials have approved a parade request for the Green Coalition of Gay Loggers for Jesus.
The parade will happen an hour before the scheduled Tea Party march, extending the total time of Main Street closure from 9 a.m. to noon.
Gay Loggers for Jesus President Brian Leland said his group offers a more fiscally conservative Independence Day parade. Unlike the Tea Party, his group will pay for all costs incurred by the march, he said.…
OMFG! Funniest Teabagger Photo Evah!
Yet Another Huffington Post Piece
I have another Huffington Post piece up today. It’s about an amazingly douchey guy from St. Louis named Kenneth Gladney.
St. Louis Teabag Protester Lies about Medical Coverage to Solicit “Donations”
I’m just sayin’…
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Major Update re: Dingell and St. Louis Townhall Protesters
Cross-posted at the Daily Kos.
I have three major updates to my two Daily Kos Rec List diaries regarding last week’s Rep. John Dingell health care town hall meeting and about Kenneth Gladney, the protestor in St. Louis who claimed not to have health insurance.
Executive summary:
- Kenneth Gladney DOES have health insurance and he’s still collecting money anyway.
- Mike Sola, the man with the son in the wheelchair has refused to meet with Rep. John Dingell AND claims he’s being harrassed by liberal “thugs”.
- “Beret Guy” from my diary (I’ll tell you his name below) has a blog and he was ARRESTED at the Dingell rally and seems really proud of it.
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New Huffington Post Article Up
I have a new article up at the Huffington Post, a rewrite of my Daily Kos diary on John Dingell’s health care town hall meeting last week.
Raucous Politics — Rep. John Dingell Calmly Faces “The Screamers”
I’m just sayin’…
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Alleged St. Louis “attack victim” has no health insurance
Cross-posted at the Daily Kos.
(Updated twice below.)
There are already a couple other diaries up (at the Daily Kos) that talk about Kenneth Gladney, the African American man who claims he was attacked by SEIU “thugs” (HERE and HERE), so I won’t go into any detail on that. Those diarist have done a much better job than I could do on this.
But there’s an interesting twist to this story.
It turns out that Kenneth Gladney is a man without health insurance. And he’s asking for help with his medical bills.
In today’s St. Louis Post-Dispatch, Georgina Gustin reports this bit of pure and awesome irony:
Kenneth Gladney sat in a wheelchair on Pershing Avenue Saturday, his knee bandaged, holding a flag that read: “Don’t Tread on Me.”
Gladney, 38, was handing out the same flags after a town hall forum in Mehlville Thursday night, when, he says, he was attacked by members of the Service Employees International Union.
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Rep. Dingell Town Hall: A Teabagger Extravaganza (PHOTOS)
Heading into last night’s health care town hall meeting with U.S. Representative John Dingell, my wife and I anticipated that there would probably be a decent turnout of opposition from the tea bagger side of the tracks. I’ve been reading about how the Disrupticans (hat tip: Detroit Mark) have been shutting down any semblance of civil discourse at these events all around the country and there was little reason to think it would be any different here in Michigan.
And, of course, we were right.
Representative Dingell, bless his heart, did not shirk the crowd or the tough questions. There wasn’t a single softball lobbed at him the entire night.…
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