Flu Vaccine Bribe? Safeway Offering 10 Percent Off To Customers Who Take The Flu Shot

The full blown propaganda campaign to get the American people to roll up their sleeves and take flu vaccines has hit a new level of insanity. Now Safeway grocery stores are offering 10 percent off groceries to customers who take a flu vaccine in their stores. So why is Safeway so interested in promoting flu vaccines? It might be because Steve Burd, the Chairman of Safeway Supermarkets, is also the founder of the Coalition to Advance Healthcare Reform - a major promoter of Barack Obama's healt

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Paul Abrams: Mr. President: Time to Issue a Direct ‘Call to Action’ to Your Grassroots Supporters

Great pitching will always beat great hitting, and vice versa .--Casey Stengel Two months ago President Obama was strongly urged to get concrete about the healthcare reform package he wanted, to campaign actively and on television for support, to remind Democratic members of Congress that they face far more political danger in passing nothing or not much of anything than they do by banding together, to keep asking why Congress gets better healthcare more cheaply than the American people and..

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The time to act is now: Pass the healthcare bill

Print This Post by Alex SelfSeptember 11, 2009 ILLUSTRATION BY Ida Chelengar/The HootEvery day’s news begins with another ominous update on the free-falling healthcare reform legislation. After months of furious debates, angry town hall meetings, and more name calling than anyone cares to remember, there is less of a chance for real reform than there was before. The old joke is that Congress is the oppo

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Brain UFO Obama Depression WGA and Brad Pitt’s Gerbils

Mass brain training study begins It’s called television…. Chinese Say UFO Filmed For 40 Minutes During Eclipse Nothing to see here, folks… it never happened… Brad Pitt Spends More Than $80K On His Kids’ Gerbils But it’s a green house… Obama says “time to act” for healthcare reform It’s a shame he has only one idea and it sucks… Will Kraft Swallow British Chocolate-Maker Cadbury? Finally - some relevant, important news. Obama administration seek

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Shameless self-promotion: Joy on Issues, Sept 4

I was on “ Issues ” this week with Sean Foreman (poli-sci professor at Barry Univeristy) and Daniel Ricker of the Watchdog Report, and of course, our host, the wonderful Helen Ferre. We discussed the Miami-Dade Mayor and Commission’s balancing act: slashing the budget while shelling out money to senior staffers and rich baseball team owners. Watch: Next up was Rep. Debbie Wasserman Schultz, who did a great job defending the idea of healthcare reform, and tackled the idiocy over President Oba

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