Volcano monitoring?

Pandemic flu preparedness?

Shall we start using the GOPs as reverse Cassandras? Whatever they criticize, start pouring money and resources into immediately, because we are going to need them right there within days or weeks.

Useless goddamned Republics!

I hope Collins catches this bug and really, really, suffers from it.

“[that page as now been scrubbed, but we saved it as a PDF -ed.]”

Oops…

Nice work, Teddy. Makes me wanna go out and grab a ham sandwich. Well…maybe not.

The virus isn’t transmitted in food products, so your ham sammy is safe.

Is that scrambled or over easy on your face Susan? That can happen while feeding the ego.

heh. i called her office about this and they totally lost their shit. they were literally screaming at me at the top of their lungs when i asked “why did the article disappear”. when i got to “i have a cached copy of it”, the shit REALLy hit the fan.

Now, 2 hours later, no one’s answering the phone at Sue’s DC office. Guess she’s only tough when she’s sending other people’s kids to Iraq.

Great post, Teddy. Thanks.

league oh my! ego…

Great job.

OH, man. That is RICH!

Seems to me that Reid might want to switch his schedule a bit today to confirm Sebelius.

Brendan, your calling makes my day. Thank you!

Breaking: swine flu preparedness pork chopped by GOP…

As Rahm says, when there is crisis there is opportunity. Not sure how long it might take Harry to figure that out, but your idea is great.

Nice. That’s really, really, nice Brendan.

lol!

GOP future’s belly-up

Prez announced 2 NLRB picks. How much ya wanna make a million dollar bet at least one gets a hard time from some doofus republican senator?

That’s assuming that Majority Leader Reid is conscious, Loo. I’m not sure of that in the least.

“when i got to “i have a cached copy of it”, the shit REALLy hit the fan.”

I like it…

Go to John Nichols’ blog about this same matter and see how the wingnutters are defending what Susan did. They are still saying that pandemic preparedness has nothing to do with a stimulus and that the CDC and the WHO have it covered anyway. It just makes you want to bang your head against a wall when faced with this kind of cognitive dissonance.

Who were the picks?

That’s just gotta be fryin’ their bacon…

GOP prospects: “Flu out the window.”

You mean the drool is not sufficient confirmation.

Here’s the link

http://www.thenation.com/blogs…..l=hp_picks

And just who do they think funds the CDC?

Time will tell.

Under Bushco, the budgets for both the CDCs and the NIH have been slashed. People have been laid off. People who quit (in response to hackery etc) were not replaced.

Yeah, they’ve got it covered alright.

Pffft!

How about double down and that both of them will get some ‘hold’ placed on them a la Tammy Duckworth for no reason…

I guess I don’t understand why they freaked when they found out a cached copy exists. Haven’t they heard of teh Google [sic]?

Craig Becker, Nominee for Board Member, National Labor Relations Board
Craig Becker currently serves as Associate General Counsel to both the Service Employees International Union and the American Federation of Labor & Congress of Industrial Organizations. He graduated summa cum laude from Yale College in 1978 and received his J.D. in 1981 from Yale Law School where he was an Editor of the Yale Law Journal. After law school he clerked for the Honorable Donald P. Lay, Chief Judge of the United States Court of Appeals for the Eighth Circuit. For the past 27 years, he has practiced and taught labor law. He was a Professor of Law at the UCLA School of Law between 1989 and 1994 and has also taught at the University of Chicago and Georgetown Law Schools. He has published numerous articles on labor and employment law in scholarly journals, including the Harvard Law Review and Chicago Law Review, and has argued labor and employment cases in virtually every federal court of appeals and before the United States Supreme Court.

Mark Pearce, Nominee for Board Member, National Labor Relations Board
Mark Gaston Pearce has been a labor lawyer for his entire career. He is one of the founding partners of the Buffalo, New York law firm of Creighton, Pearce, Johnsen & Giroux where he practices union side labor and employment law before state and federal courts and agencies including the N.Y.S. Public Employment Relations Board, Equal Employment Opportunity Commission, the U.S. Department of Labor, and the National Labor Relations Board. Pearce in 2008 was appointed by the NYS Governor to serve as a Board Member on the New York State Industrial Board of Appeals, an independent quasi-judicial agency responsible for review of certain rulings and compliance orders of the NYS Department of Labor in matters including wage and hour law. Pearce has taught several courses in the labor studies program at Cornell University’s School of Industrial Labor Relations Extension. He is a Fellow in the College of Labor and Employment Lawyers. Prior to 2002, Pearce practiced union side labor law and employment law at Lipsitz, Green, Fahringer, Roll, Salisbury & Cambria LLP. From 1979 to 1994, he was an attorney and District Trial Specialist for the NLRB in Buffalo, NY. Pearce received his J.D. from State University of New York, and his B.A. from Cornell University.

http://xkcd.com/574/

Teh Google? You mean like on Teh Worldwide InterToobs? And about the TV Box Machine… You mean they save the tapes? What?

could be. Orin Hatch is on the committee i think. forget who else for the R’s

Shouldn’t have checked in….one more whiner to add to the list. One more epidemic seems like.

OMG, two actual qualified labor-lawyer types. Oh well. They are both shills for the unions and cannot possibly be allowed to serve on the NLRB (even though one of them already did). They are bought and paid for by the unions! Shriek! Fall on the floor clutching throat.

/s

Hope we sure get more of that wonderful good-faith negotiation with the GOP soon!

great stuff teddy!

No bet, BfL. They both get long-term holds placed on them, probably by Coryn (Post-turtle, TX)

Teddy’s post is a great one to Spotlight to major dailies all over the US.

Another good option might be

Maine newspapers

Yeah, if this is what Bipartisanship gets us, let’s discard it. No need to negotiate with people who would leave us defenseless to pandemic flu in an economic downturn. Because the two are, like, totally unrelated.

As the EU Health Minister says she, personally, would not travel to affected areas.

Oh no, ratfood and punaise in the same room! Mind your keyboards and computer screens, please.

thanks Teddy !

just e mailed Managing Editors of Bangor and Portland Newspapers

y’all can use the Spotlight under Teddy’s post to contact Portland

Thanks for making that call. My guess is others are too. Can you give us a small example of what they were saying? I kind of know what shit hitting the fan sounds like, but it would be nice to hear the words. :)
Pretty please?

BT’s upstairs
Kit Bond: Prosecution of “Enhanced Techniques” Would be a “Stab in the Back”

excellent !

and your beverage of choice today ?

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Thanks.

I did the editor and a bunch of people at the Portland Press Herald too.

They’re not just receiving it from you.

I hope the Dems/Obama introduces an ‘emergency spending bill” to fund this – and make it exactly the same amount as what was cut out of the stimulus bill. Then I dare them to vote against it.

Good one, but let’s add that the money has to come out of someone else’s budget, specifically. But, who? What’s that little creep Virgina Fox asked for lately?

Every single Rethug who voted against the original stim got something in there anyway. Take it away from all of them. I’m sure Ms. Collins got something too. Axe it now!

Video is a wonderous thing. It enables us to go back and prove to one and all exactly what was said. Works esp. well when said subject(billo the clown and shamedy) says that “I never said that”, when confroned with the tape they always claim that they were “taken out of context”
Kind of like what faux news does when they crop what any dem says to insure that it fits their point of the day.
Unfortunately for all of us the faux way has spread, it now infects all the networks. Corporate “journalism” at work. News? What news? Nothing to see here
I find that even during the current health scare I am getting much more(accurate) information-even about the US-from foreign news programs. In addition, I get better and more complete national news from my local CBS affiliate than I do from the millioniare “anchors”
The suspected source in Mexico is not being given out on any US network. BUT, it was listed on Korean TV at 9am today. This from both WHO and from the Mexican Health Agency-according to the news reader-source is found at a massive pig factory operation owned by company named (I thought about naming the company, but find that I am somewhat chicken, you can find the name of the company on Mexican news web sites). Village nearby has complained repeatedly but apparently factory farm paid off people. Note, same company also operates hog factory farms in US. Could be that is why name of company is not being outed. Censorship is alive and well in the US. Just not run by the govt but by corporate america.

I called Sen. Collins Washington office at about 1:30, and got an ARTFUL DODGE. I asked if it was true that Sen Collins had stripped the funding for pandemic flu prevention/control out of the Stim Bill. The aide (female) said yes, she stripped it because the Stim Bill was an “emergency” spending bill, and therefore not appropriate for pandemic flu prevention/control funding. BUT, the aide quickly added, I should rest assured that the funding for this program was passed in the omnibus spending bill that passed a month later. Therefore, the aide assured me, the funding was indeed there, and the president had signed it into law. I asked if Senator Collins had voted for that omnibus spending bill, and the aide said (without skipping a beat) that the omnibus bill had indeed passed, and the funds indeed were included in that bill. I asked again if Senator Collins had voted for the omnibus spending bill containing the pandemic flu funds, and after an awkward silence the aide said that Collins had voted against the omnibus bill. I responded by saying that Senator Collins “leadership” was not appreciated, and said good bye. From the artfulness of this dodge, I think it is clear that Sen. Collin’s office understands that they have no solid ground for defending Collins. They explain Collin’s stripping out of the pandemic flu funding from the Stim Bill by saying that it just wasn’t the correct spending bill for this funding, and then they imply that Collins supports the funding by stating that the funding was included in the subsequent omnibus funding bill, which passed and was signed into law by Pres Obama. But when pressed, Collin’s office has to admit that Collin’s voted AGAINST the bill that contained the funding. It probably took them several hours of not answering the phone before they came up with this dodge, but I hope it doesn’t fool any of her constituents. There is intelligence in Maine, I know there is.

Gee… heh… this makes me hope the Republicans didn’t also make fun of or slash budgets for near-Earth asteroid monitoring.

*peers nervously at the sky*

Susan Collins needs to get a grippe.

LOL. it could set off an incident intestinal.

guess sh’e really not a flu-zy, that Susie.

Hugh to punaise, SCORE!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Great job, thank you.

Thanks, Teddy – great post on the politics of life, illness, death and republican obstructionism.

At first I thought this Swine Flu Emergency was just a rebranding the Wall Street/D.C. financial deregulatory epidemic.

It’s called a Cytokine Storm, and the parallels here here & here, are startling.

Let’s hope the H1N1 virus is suspectible to large infusions of taxpayer funded bailouts.

“When your only tool is a hammer, all of your problems look like nails.” Mark Twain

Well, it’s official! Sen. Suzie-Q is more concerned with the Military Industrial Complex and their well being rather than the well being of American citizens!

This is one more reason WHY I HAVE NEVER VOTED FOR THIS LYING STINKING NO GOOD FOR NOTHING FRAUD!

Maybe now she will see more purpose to supporting health care reform.

Ditto!

Sen. Suzie-Q’s office has put out a statement:

http://collins.senate.gov/publ…..N=69007386

According to her, she’s done nothing wrong. She’s all about pandemic flues! See? All good. Now leave her alone! LOL

Interesting….

http://collins.senate.gov/publ…..N=69007386

Nothing is listed for March 2009 articles on Sen. Suzie-Q’s site! Say wha? You had nothing to say in the month of March, you know, the month you voted against the Omnibus bill that included funding for pandemic flu?

http://collins.senate.gov/publ…..N=69007386