As I’ve said a few times before, private insurance in this country has every reason in the world to drag their feet on (or flat-out deny) requests for treatment. If they wait long enough, the people in desperate need of treatments will die, saving the insurers millions that they can then use as bonuses for [...]

Shark Fu gives Bob Kerrey a bitchslap that he well deserves..bless her-Dusty
Bob Kerrey has issue the now expected bullshit apology for the ignorant shit he meant to say exactly the way he said it exactly when he said it.
Next up in the How to Campaign Dirty and Keep Your Shirt Clean Rovian Playbook, attack [...]

When you travel in this beautiful country of ours, have you seen the signs? The marquees, the ones close to the ground, usually a yellow background, with the letters made of plastic so you can change the message? You know the kind I’m talking about, don’t you? Maybe you’ve seen them right in the town [...]

He is denying any involvement of course, but none the less, cretins are doing it in his name. From HuffPo:
Patrick Davis, the executive director of Common Sense Issues, confirmed to The Huffington Post that his group is behind the New Hampshire push-polling calls which are targeted at a broad group of voters statewide.
“Our group is [...]

Yes, another couple of ditty’s from the folks at Coalition For a Democratic America-Dusty
OH COME ALL YE STUDENTS
Based on “Oh Come Little Children”
by PraetorOne
Oh Come all you students, oh come one and all
To see a recruiter in high school halls.
There slickly they lie for the Bush war machine
So eager, so ready, so dishonestly
They say [...]

What would you think about a minister who worked for the death-peddlers of big tobacco? Would you think that perhaps the minister was being just a wee bit less than a messenger of God? And what if the minister then decided to lie about taking payoffs from big tobacco? Would you consider these to [...]

The Angry Black Bitch rips Governor Matt Blunt a new one, and Buddha knows this fuckwit deserves it! Please visit Shark Fu at her blog here-Dusty

Missouri’s nightmare, Governor Matt Blunt, has shown his natural ass…again.
Baby Blunt formed a…well, he’s calling it a task force on the impact of abortion on women.
My people call it [...]

Here’s another cross post. This one is one that’ll hit home with a lot of us. I have 2 daughters and a wife I love very much, and any opperssion of women anywhere bothers me. But as you will see, this goes way beyond just “oppression.”
It was pretty damned funny when they sent Pickles off [...]

Damn..if I hadn’t of seen this with my own eyes..I would of called someone a freaking liar! Its short, so let me print it here for you:
Connecticut High School Bans “Huckleberry Finn
“Huckleberry Finn” is regarded as one of the first great American novels.It’s often taught in high schools, and often criticized for what some [...]

Todays feature is from Jolly Roger’s blog. Its authored by Jim Burke who also writes for Yes, I do take it personally-Dusty

There are good men and bad men. Because of past sins and despite my attempts to correct them, I know where I stand. I have no doubt commenter Sauros and I will be [...]

We Welcome a new author to Sirens, Jolly Roger from Reconstitution. He doesn’t shy away from speaking his mind which is why I heart him so much-Dusty
Let me beat that dead horse once again, for those who may not have been here for any of my other beatings.The election of 2004 was framed around the [...]

The Christmas Wars:
How the Radical Christian Right Will Again Bastardize the Spirit of Christmas
By BibleBelted, PraetorOne and Matthew5
“I am not going to let aggressive totalitarian and anti-Christian forces in this country diminish, denigrate, the holiday and the celebration. I’m gonna use all the power that I have on radio and television to bring horror into [...]

This video is the first for a blogger that goes by the name of BlueMuse
I happened on her today by chance. She is a member of the OOIBC, as I am. We carry their blogroll here on Sirens. The music in this video about the Coal mining companies is performed by her Uncle Dave Parker. [...]

Well, not exactly, but when I read about organizations trying to encourage families to home school by using bigotry, it really pisses me off.
Of course, one of the main “selling points” when it comes to home schooling is the fact that each individual family can decide for themselves what is best to teach their children. [...]

HOW FAR RIGHT THEOCRATS DISTORT LANGUAGE, HISTORY, AND THE CONSTITUTION
The Redefinition of Equal Rights: Equality is Not a Matter of Special
Privileges-By SweetPea, BibleBelted, Thomas Paine, and PraetorOne
Whenever I hear people talk about gays and lesbians wanting to promote
the “homosexual life style” I don’t know if I want to laugh or cry.
In the [...]