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Hooah! It is a new day and more rage is a bubbling. Above is a video you must see. Rep. Alan Grayson in 2 and half minutes sums up why negotiating with the Republicans on health care any longer is a joke. Yes you might have a beer with the guy across the aisle, even go golfing, but one thing is for sure it doesn't change their motto "they want you to fail." Kudos for Grayson for telling it like it is, after the stupid logic of Max Fuggus, it is time to really push the public option. Again, THAT IS THE COMPROMISE . On another note this morning started off just lovely with the lady and I getting side swiped on our way to work. Brilliant drivers in Chicago, so needless to say my rage is LIKE OFF THE CHARTS PEOPLE! Here are your highlights: Abstinence Only: Throwing money at programs that don't work David Choi going on Tour Stacks and stacks and stacks of medical bills, more real stories from the Underinsured Passive Aggressive Notes Please someone make sure we don't...

I said this before and I will say it again, they just don't care. Via Huff Post : A coalition of Republicans and Democrats on the Senate Finance Committee joined together Tuesday to defeat a public health insurance option. Five Democrats joined with all the Republicans on the committee to reject an amendment by Sen. Jay Rockefeller (D-W.Va.) in a 15-8 vote. Three Democrats then joined the Republicans to defeat a second public-option proposal. By a vote of 13-10, the committee rejected an amendment by Sen. Charles Schumer (D-N.Y.). WHAT ARE THEY THERE FOR? What part of cost efficient and better for the American people don't they understand? And all this time wasted with Max "Insurance Cash" Baucus doing what's best with the Gang of Six, the fugger didn't even try. Didn't vote on principal, he says "we won't get the votes on the floor." Bob Cesca takes down this pile of horse poo : Senator Baucus voted against both the Rockefeller and the Schum...

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The Daily Show With Jon Stewart Mon - Thurs 11p / 10c America: Target America www.thedailyshow.com Daily Show Full Episodes Political Humor Healthcare Protests I can't stress this enough, there is a reason John Stewart and the Daily Show team are the most trusted in media. They call it like it is and not to mention they do have a thorough archive of proof of the stupidity. I actually had an argument last week about the kid's video over Twitter and it was like talking to a wall. Needless to say John Stewart sums it up better than I can in 140 characters. Yesterday was rough, but thank god I have family coming into to town for a couple of days. It will be nice to just rock out and forget how truly stupid homework, work and the health care debate among other things can be! Rock! Here are your highlights: Ben Nelson just might be the penultimate Wanksta Well, despite the fact that there is no "vast right wing conspiracy" , there are some certifiable right-wing nut jobs ...

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Well what can I say? The Redskins are on high alert of suckitude . I was going to tell you how I had a nice weekend and enjoyed the Lakeview Arts Festival, but NO the REDSKINS HAD TO LOSE TO THE FUGGIN LIONS! What the eff is Zorn doing? What the eff is Snyder going to do to Zorn? I honestly didn't get to watch the game, it was blacked out in Chicago unless you had DirectTV. So I had to follow on the lady's crackberry. Well all the shouting in the world couldn't save us from embarrassment. It will be do or die this coming Sunday as the Bucs are coming to town 0-3. If we can't make a statement, the Redskins are going to have a long long and I mean LOOONNG season. FML. What happened to the glory days? Here are your highlights: Chicago and inner city school violence , enough of the Daleympics, we need to fix this yesterday Here is a little tidbit about the public option, FACTS ARE STUPID, The Public option is cheaper and popular Iran Missile tests to show barrs This guy ha...

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Progress Illinois : Nearly a month after their multi-year contract expired and with no agreement in sight, 6,000 Chicago-based hotel workers represented by UNITE-HERE Local 1 decided yesterday it was time to raise their profile. In a dramatic and peaceful act of protest, 22nd Ward Ald. Ric Munoz (chief sponsor of the city's pending right-to-know notification law), union advocates, and roughly 200 hospitality workers blocked traffic near the Magnificent Mile at the height of rush hour to protest proposed wage and health coverage cuts. Another 700 workers and supporters cheered on as police slowly escorted the sit-in participants to police buses for processing. (Those arrested face minimum fines of $90 for failure to exercise due care by sitting in a roadway. While the location -- in front of the Park Hyatt, just steps from the Old Water Tower -- succeeded in attracting significant media attention, that was not the only motivating factor. Hyatt Regency is perhaps the largest and most...

Nerd Alert: Halo Ultimate Legends, the new anime series! Now I am more of a Playstation guy, but anytime a video game goes into anime, it gives me a warm and fuzzy feeling. This looks like it has potential and could be fun to watch. Especially with major Pew Pew action, h/t to Geekologie , who once spent five hours playing Halo is his mom's basement while making out with a hot ex-cheerleader of the Dallas Cowboys. In other news show tonight and rocking out all weekend, the lady and I also got to watch Flash Forward last night, the new show on ABC. Let me tell you something WOAH! COOOOLL!! For a first episode lots to work with, some cheese, but overall I dig it. Here are your highlights: The Daleympics keeps getting more and more clear , he wants to make money for him and his friends and Daley isn't even subtle about it New Jimmy Eat World Muslim Americans will be marching for a day of prayer on Capitol Hill today , the Right is going nuts, that a) they are Muslim and b) know ...

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From Huffington Post: Michael Moore called out ABC on "Good Morning America" Wednesday for employing "permalancers," permanent freelancers who are effectively full-time employees but hired on a contract basis, and thus not extended any benefits. "I'm talking to employees, people backstage here, they don't get to be real employees here because they don't get the benefits, so they're freelancers," Moore told Chris Cuomo. "And I said 'Guy, I was here two years ago and you were a freelancer' — right backstage here at ABC — he said, 'We call ourselves permalancers now. They don't get to share in just the basic benefits that an employee used to have who worked here. What's wrong with that? What is wrong with just giving people basic things for their hard work?" I know that Michael Moore is a villain and evil leftist to the Right and even some in the middle, but having known family in the industry this was great to s...

By God, it's Thursday already...BIG FUGGIN PHEW. I have been exhausted all week and staying up late to photoshop, the awesomeness below didn't help either. BUT THAT IS ART! Speaking of art Tom Tomorrow sums up pretty much how I have felt during this faux race debate. I know I will be raging soon and breaking desks over the next moronic thing out of Beck's, Limbaugh or even a a Senator mouth about the uppity, terrorist, boy President, but *sigh. Nothing will surprise me, I say just let out all hang out. This weekend I will be performing again the Chicago, so check your local listings aka the Reader . Here are your highlights: The Jobless , it would be nice if the MSM started caring Putting things in perspective, Victory on Preventive Detention One huge baby! Protests are being held today at California schools against the REAL bankrupting of our future Sen. Jim Inhofe TREASONOUS! Is this cool or sad waste of time? R2-D2 game station Ted Kennedy's replacement to be named...

Because nothing says "we care about brown and yellow people" like starting an outreach program and giving a speech on socialist soil! Random Brown Guy Interviewee: Thanks so much Newt now I know what real Americano is about, I just have to speak perfect English, lighten my skin and go accept a great minimum wage without health care! Random Yellow Guy Interviewee: Thanks so much Sarah us Chinese love your humor and hatred for the black President. You have so much to teach us about business and ferner policy and missiles from Russia. By the way thanks doubly for patting all us "short guys" on the head, we just love your affection. It is this disingenuous slop that turns off minority voters from the dying cesspool known as the Republican Party. Two fire breathing wing nuts completely incensed and driven by an underlining entitlement to everything. They are infamous for spreading lies, rumors and constantly distorting facts while never "cow-towing" to the mi...

Michelle Malkin still trying to hock here failed book about "fearing the brown people" is in a fuss about 9/10 (without one mention of who was in office). Yes she thinks we are back to scary days when racial profiling was consider bad practices. A. Sewer administers the take down: ...it's impossible to get good human intelligence if people see you as the enemy. Were the government to adopt a policy of racial profiling as Malkin suggests, it would alienate the population we're depending on to feed us information about potential attacks. Also, if you're worrying about ethnicity rather than evidence, you're going to waste a lot of resources chasing innocent people. So not only is racial profiling morally reprehensible, it's also just a bad policy. Unless of course, you see all Muslims as the enemy and you want to punish them for simply existing. At any rate, what's with conservatives using potential terrorist attacks to argue for their own terrible poli...

Protect Insurance Companies PSA from Will Ferrell Thank Jebus for Hump Day! I had Monday off and I still want the heck out of this week. Everyone is posting this video, but more should and that is why I share it with you. Here are comedians and actors putting all the NO of the Republican party to waste in two minutes. It is amazing how comedy can really point out how silly our political discourse has gotten these past months. Comedians do have the ability to tell it like it is and our forum is quite larger than the Right would like to give credit to...John Stewart ring a bell? The public option is far from being dead. Here are your highlights: Afghanistan as Therapy Timmeh attempts to do some good, Consumer Protection Agency is a start - you can't get more common sense than that Beason, IL "In Cold Blood" Single Payer to be scored by the CBO? WHAT LOGIC? WHAT SINGLE PAYER? THANK JEBUS!!!! This will be interesting to see how the CBO scores this plan... All right next ti...

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Watch CBS Videos Online Well helloooo America! I was off yesterday to perform in an awesome read through of a play last night. It was truly exciting and an amazing experience. More to come on that as I am certain the play is to go in full effect next year (cross fingers). What did I miss? Anybody? The President was on Letterman and apparently funny, yet if you read this morning's slab , he WAS THE ANTI-CHRIST! I love opening up my local slab that plays itself off as a paper and then gives audience to right wing memes like "he doesn't want to answer HARD questions", "Obama is desperate," and something aching to to "Obama is struggling to get majority support." When 72% became not a majority I don't know, but the local slab thinks it is a heck of a critique. And some wonder why health care reform has taken so long to get done in America... Here are your highlights: The Cubs get stupid at the end of the season and blame Milton Bradley for everyth...

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Dude I am so Angry I am being played by some kid from Disney RAAGE! So us Asians have good ideas, cool characters, and nice stories that are better translated to the main stream with white actors? Angry Asian Man caught this gem : white guy stars as asian comic book hero More white people playing Asians! Hey, it's the Hollywood way. According to the Hollywood Reporter, the very Caucasian star of the Disney Channel series Wizards of Waverly Place, will star in The Weapon, based on the Platinum Studios comic series: 'Waverly' star joins 'Weapon' adaptation . David Henrie will star as martial arts enthusiast and inventor Tommy Zhou, "who has developed a ground-breaking portable innovation that an evil order will stop at nothing to steal." Evil orders tend to do that. I am not familiar with The Weapon, but from what I've read about it, Tommy Zhou is indeed an Asian character. David Henrie, who I had never even heard of before reading this news item, is no...

IT IS FRIDAY!! Yes start your engines, get your booze, do whatever it is you do because Fall is here. This is great because football is in full effect and the leaves start changing to those Virginia oranges, yellows and reds. Us in Chicago know that this might only last a week or two, so we will cherish this season as long as we have it. Fall also brings bang up stand-up comedy as shows pop up everywhere and comedians start hitting the college circuit. Above is a video of C.J. Sullivan who has been in the comedy scene in Chicago since I relocated here from D.C. He also is host on the much touted Visitors Locker Room , a hilarious take on sports, life and comedy. Here are your highlights: Selective Deficit Disorder , our politicians have got it up to the ear Media Matters has been keeping the blowhards in check , especially about this "post-racial" America pile of turd Obama is the Anti-Christ in NJ Oh this is funny, so funny 75% of Oklahoma high school students can't nam...

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Visit msnbc.com for Breaking News , World News , and News about the Economy Let's just be honest, in context Jimmy Carter didn't say much, but this also plays back to Eric Holder and what he said in earlier in the year. We tend to not call out deep seeded racism heck it is almost taboo to do so , we are "cowardly" when it comes to the conversation. And if you look at Congress, the Senate, past President's, the very foundation of America... it's a white out. It is safe to say that it itself plays to why Obama has to walk on egg shells . I forgot my "Race Card" at home today by the way. I am Frank Chow and I approved this message

It is Thursday and WOOHOO, the lady is coming back from a short business trip. Can't wait to be back to normal land, yes she keeps me normal...insert sappy music above...In other news RIOT comedy is tonight at Chicago Joe's . If you are in Chicago and want some laughter hit it up. It will be funny and the women who run that room are legit. So what's the big deal about ACORN ? What is so new that the Right has to HATE them even more than they did during the election, well only right wing Republicans can love prostitutes that is what pisses them off. Can we please just stop giving these nutjobs the time of day? It is 1997 alllll over again . Here are your highlights: Dancing with the Czars more political games and less time spent actually getting stuff done, WINGNUTTIA!!! The murder of Annie Le, Yale Student, Cops now have a suspect in custody Obama is using the force to combat Darth Cheney? Daily Awesome, new METAL \m/ Converge 5 Ways to improve the shitty Max Baucus sup...

It is a Wednesday which means most of my time will be spent doing super cool awesomeness at work...I have come to the conclusion that the Right is just plain batshit wingnut racist crazy . Nothing else can explain them trying to run with a Matt Drudge story about a "white kid getting beaten by black kids" and it is all Obama's fault. You don't have to go too far back in memory to see how race plays a part in American politics and divides our country . And since the election of Barack Obama, heck since he was nominated, the crazies , nativists and extremists have come out of the bunkas screaming "gubbament takeover!" These aren't your garden variety racists , no hoods or burning crosses (yet) they are your 2000 racists and they are openly being coddled by the Republican Party . Here are your highlights: Max Baucus come on down , you are next contestant on the Republican Party of No! In Chicago 2016 there WILL BE A DALEYMPICS or else and btw taking ...

From the Huff Post : With the White House zeroing in on the insurance-industry practice of discriminating against clients based on pre-existing conditions, administration allies are calling attention to how broadly insurers interpret the term to maximize profits. It turns out that in eight states, plus the District of Columbia, getting beaten up by your spouse is a pre-existing condition. Under the cold logic of the insurance industry, it makes perfect sense: If you are in a marriage with someone who has beaten you in the past, you're more likely to get beaten again than the average person and are therefore more expensive to insure. In human terms, it's a second punishment for a victim of domestic violence. In 2006, Democrats tried to end the practice. An amendment introduced by Sen. Patty Murray (D-Wash.), now a member of leadership, split the Health Education Labor & Pensions Committee 10-10. The tie meant that the measure failed. All ten no votes were Republicans, includ...

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The Daily Show With Jon Stewart Mon - Thurs 11p / 10c Mad Men www.thedailyshow.com Daily Show Full Episodes Political Humor Healthcare Protests It is time to buckle down people. It is Tuesday, get a big whopping cup of Dunkin and buckle down because health care reform is just around the corner and the RAGE is a comin! The gloves have been off since last week, but now the gloves are coming doubly off of offness officity . Don't get it? Max Douchus is readying to unleash his floppy and flacid finance committee bill and then it is moving time. Frank will be staying up in the wee late hours to make art that best describes the bill (most likely a big pile of poop.) Other than that Mike Vick is one week closer to starting for the Eagles, the Bears are not as screwed as people think and new Death Cab for Cutie song . Here are your highlights: The Economic Recovery will not be televised as much as some might think Glenn Beck gets Mythbusted Animals fighting with Lightsabers , I will start...

There were millions at the 9-12 Tax Tea Party , millions! And if you don't believe that, you aren't a patriot and the terrorists win I am Frank Chow and I approved this message

I am speechless and befuddled by the amount of stupid that occurred over the weekend. (h/t to the Humanity Critic ) I am Frank Chow and I approved this message

It was a wild and crazy weekend in sports and politics. Overall I was relaxed and enjoyed a nice time doing basic things I normally don't get to do, like hanging out with the lady and watching football. Alas others had a little crazier weekend covered in freedom flags and holding signs more disgusting than their discourse. I am talking about the right wing extremists known as the Tea Baggers *eliminationists. I caught some of the slop on CSPAN, but they never panned out to show the entire "two million" that attended. I am from DC and I know what a crowd looks like there when it reaches "two million" NOT EVEN CLOSE ! Amongst all the fail there was one brave man who with the help from local socialist police force members made a quiet yet poignant statement, had those cops not been there I am sure he would have been eaten alive. God Bless America and thank Jebus we have a President who is now realizing , these teabaggers want nothing to do with anything remotely...

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Via Media Matters : Today, on the eighth anniversary of 9-11, one day before Glenn Beck's "9-12 Project" descends on Washington, Media Matters for America calls attention to what has become a familiar, disturbing pattern on the purportedly "fair and balanced" news network. Fox News now routinely engages in political advocacy against the Obama administration and the Democratic Congress, and Beck's promotion of a September 12 march on Washington is the latest example. Network executives have made little effort to hide Fox News' agenda, with one referring to the network as the "voice of opposition." "There is little difference between being the 'voice of opposition' and just being the opposition," said Eric Burns, president of Media Matters. "Since the president's election, Fox News has become nothing more than the 24/7 media wing of the Republican Party. No political party in American history has had such an enormous me...

There will be a lot of different tributes today as we all remember Sept 11th . Many will show videos of the actual tragic events or do personal accounts, yet I am not sure anyone knows what it all means anymore. I have posted this song before with simply an acoustic version, Thrice is simply amazing in this performance and they accomplish what I always try to do myself when I write songs. It makes me think of the past eight years and wonder what are we doing? The White House is asking for a day of service while others want us to remember only the evil . I have been rather adamant that I feel we should move forward and that using 9/11 as a product has been to our detrimant, regardless we will never forget. And most likely we will always be divided on how to remember. Here are you highlights: Then and Now with Goofus and Gallant , Tom Tomorrow might be the best there is... If you recall the Republic Windows sit in then this CEO is real EVIL Dems Heckling Bush much different the Joe KKK...

They hate and hate and hate . It is nothing new and all they want to do is fly their hateful flag . I am Frank Chow and I approved this message

Great little snippet by CNN. Franken has been doing this for quite some and it really is an awesome human trick. I am Frank Chow and I approved this message