IT'S UGLY – REALLY UGLY

"I wouldn't be here today if it were not for the NHS. I have received a large amount of high-quality treatment without which I would not have survived."

The most serious goons in the right-wing renta-mob are now arriving armed. Insurance companies may be channelling covert funds to neo-Nazi militia groups for the option of disrupting healthcare debates with escalating violence. Unscrupulous media whores like Glenn Beck and Limbaugh hardly stop short of calling for political assassination and “don’t let the sun set on you, Obama.” Our pal Aeswiren writes “Proctor and Gamble just pulled their ads. Why are these other companies (Bowlfex, Nutrisystem, Gerber, UPS, Orbitz, Geico, Vonage, Ameritrade, and Verizon wireless) still subsidizing Glen Beck’s hate rants on Faux News?” Stephen Hawking is obliged to defend the UK National Health Service after a rabid capitalist editorial in the equally rabid Investor's Business Daily extended the Palin death panel fantasy and the propagated big-lie that socialized medicine is a Final Solution to Old People, with the statement "Scientist Stephen Hawking wouldn't have a chance in the UK, where the National Health Service would say the life of this brilliant man, because of his physical handicaps, is essentially worthless." But IBD appeared ignorant of the fact that Hawking is British born, educated, and cared for.

The insurance and pharm lobbyists, who are deliberately orchestrating the insanely accelerating fear-fest, seem to be working straight out of some old CIA manual for destabilizing small South American nations. This time, however, America is destabilizing itself, all in the name of corporate profits. Although, as I write this, Geico and some other advertisers have dumped Glenn Beck, the mainstream media are still playing to dark and dangerous demographics, and I have to constantly remind myself of the stupidity of the enemy to stop smelling coup d’etat on the air.

The secret word is Scary