Come on, America — Insurance company CEOs have a right to their American Dream, too. Their 5-home lifestyle should NOT be up for negotiation.

Let’s come together and help protect their million-dollar salaries, their private jets, and their working Cayman Island vacations. Don’t be so selfish just because you’re sick; think about somebody else for a change :-)

Watch: Protect Insurance Companies.

Chris Wallace gets this week’s Crybaby Award for, well, acting like the biggest crybaby in the world.

Let’s review:
In July, the Fox network was the only major television network to pass on airing President Obama’s prime-time news conference.

Then, earlier this month, the Fox network again was the only major television network to pass on broadcasting President Obama’s prime-time address to a joint session of Congress.

That’s all well and fine, given that Fox Entertainment Group’s Faux News Channel amounts to little more than a propaganda mouthpiece for the rightwinger-nut subculture that’s hijacked the Republican party. That’s well and fine because the United States IS still a free country, and Faux News has the prerogative of ignoring the president and spreading lies and their brand of president-hate on shows featuring nutjobs like Sean Hannity, Bill O’Reilly, and that bipolar crybaby of crybabies, Glenn Beck.

But can Faux News take what it dishes?

Apparently not.

This is what happens when the president plays fair and returns the favor by appearing on every major network’s news shows and ignoring Faux News: Crybaby Chris Wallace whines, whines, whines, and ironies of ironies, calls the gang at the White House “the biggest bunch of crybabies I have dealt with in my 30 years in Washington.”

Poor, poor, Chris Wallace…nobody wants to play with him anymore. Guess that’s what happens when you make friends with bullies, Chris. Guess that’s what happens when your previous softball-throwing interview with Dick Cheney seems, as Andrew Sullivan puts it, like a teenage girl interviewing the Jonas Brothers. Guess that’s how you lose all journalistic integrity and, unlike your father, have your name get listed in the ranks of gas-filled talking heads, all full of sound and fury, signifying nothing.

Guess that’s a little old-fashioned karma coming down.

Guess that’s why people are calling YOU the crybaby, Chrissy. Good luck with it!

If CNN can twist a headline, so can I :-)

This morning’s front-page online edition of CNN has the following headline:

Guatemalan army stole kids for adoption, report says

For the majority of Americans who only scan the headlines, the seed has been planted: Brown-skinned babies adopted by foreigners are stolen.

As the parent of an adopted Guatemalan-born child, I know firsthand the many safeguards required today to adopt a child from Guatemala, inluding multiple DNA tests verified by labs in the USA, and sometimes years-long verification processes after which the DNA-certified mother of the child has to sign off on the adoption four times throughout the process.

Nevertheless, there are those who don’t want Americans adopting foreigners, or whites adopting brown-skinned children, or foreign-born supposedly less-human savages gaining American citizenship and growing up to vote the good-ol boys out of office.

Today CNN played to the good-ol boy mentality with their propaganda-like headline, only mentioning in the fine print that these “stolen kids” were taken during the Guatemalan civil war, and that the 333 cases of stolen children occurred over a period of 36 years:

A presidential ministry has determined that about 45,000 people disappeared during the nation’s civil war, which lasted from 1960 to 1996. About 5,000 of those were children, the ministry said. Another 200,000 people died in the conflict between the leftist guerrillas and right-wing governments.

So, given that sometime last century 200,000 people were murdered, 45,000 disappeared, and 5,000 children disappeared, CNN emphasizes the fact that foreign-adopted Guatemalan children are stolen?

That’s why I say CNN is being irresponsible, surreptitiously racist, and along with most of the Main Stream Media in America, a proud practicing proponent of the worst type of yellow journalism.

As long as CNN is going to headline a 30-year-old issue, the bigger truth advertised in the headline should be that 200,000 parents of these “stolen” children were killed during a civil war whose roots began when the USA overthrew the democratically-elected president of Guatemala in 1954 and replaced him with a dictator.

Why did the USA replace a democratic representative government with a dictator? Because the democratically-elected President of Guatemala took unused farm land owned by corporations and gave it to peasants to farm, and this pissed off the United Fruit Company. So the USA media spread propaganda that the Guatemalan democracy was turning communist and wiped him out.

God bless the people in other countries who adopted these war orphans whose parents were murdered because of the paranoid corporate-owned CIA.

More about the USA overthrowing the Guatemalan democracy here: 1954 Guatemalan Coup d’état.

It’s so fun to send a note to a Congressman. Here’s a recent one I sent:

Less Honorable Mr. Wilson:

Fact Check: You’re the liar.

You’re also a few other things I won’t mention.

Congrats for showing your backside on national TV :-) Good luck with it!

Without Respect (as it’s apparently no longer called for in this country),
Joseph W. Crubaugh

Try it; it’s fun! Send your own regards: Contact Heckling GOP Rep Joe Wilson.

What if fire departments had never been socialized in America? It’d probably work a lot like our current health care:

Link: Why We Need Government-Run Universal Socialized Health Insurance

P.S. If you think socialized fire departments aren’t a good idea, you might want to join this Facebook group: 1 Million Strong Against our SOCIALIST Fire Departments:

For too long now, fire departments across the United States have been SOCIALIST organizations, resulting in TAXES on the American people.

FACT: Most Americans never use the socialized services of the fire department. The Obama administration has been very clear about keeping the status quo when it comes to taxpayer-funded fire departments.

It is time to open the fire department up to private industry. We have the best fire departments in the world in the US, but that doesn’t mean that anyone (even non-US citizens) should be able to dial up and have fires put out, etc. There are private companies (Halliburtion, Etc.) who could step in tomorrow and take over every fire department in America and charge the consumer directly.

This is AMERICA. NO FREE FIRE SAFETY.

“When fascism comes to America, it will be wrapped in asbestos and carrying a fire hose.”

This is THE new political movement in America. The Birther movement and The Teabagger movement have FAILED. We are The Flamer movement, and we are succeeding at tearing down ALL forms Socialism - starting with our Fire Departments.

By the way, that nasty rumor I heard from my right-wing-nutter buddies — the one about Obama’s socialized fire departments never arriving at your grandmother’s house — NOT true. :-)