over the last couple of weeks it seems like there has been a stream or Republicans marching onto PBS's Newshour to proclaim one Big Lie after another while Gwen Awful and Judy Woodruff just accept these fabrications without batting an eye and proceed onto the next question without ever a questiion being put to the GOPer Blowhards about the facts which totally contradict the GOPer Fantasies.. For some reason almost none of these ner-do-wells interviews can be found on PBS Newhour's webstie - but I know I saw them and heard them on the show -where could the tapes and transcripts have gone????

The recent interview of Mitch McConnell is there on the Newshours web-site and McConnell, not to be left out, repeats one of the favorite lies of the GOP re the ACA: That Pres Obama lied when he said people will be able to keep their health insurance if they like it. But now many insurers are cancelling plans and offering something very similar but for more money which people selected by the GOP say they cannot afford. Therefor President Obama lied.

The fact is... the insurance companies are not allowed by law to sell these fake insurance policies where they can terminate your coverage because of some "pre-existing" condition. Of course, this invariably happens just when people need it -- when they get sick! Now, if people want 'fake' insurance, because it's cheaper, ... I'm sorry if you are willling to pay for coverage that can be denied you just when you need it - because you think it's cheaper. The only thing is, that is now against the law. IF you are selling health insurance to somebody NOW, it has to be REAL health insurance.

And when the GOPer demagogues say people now have to pay more for the same coverage ..THEY ARE LIEING.. IT'S NOT THE SAME COVERAGE --- IT'S REAL COVERAGE - WITH NO 'PRE-EXISTING CONDITIONS' LOOP-HOLES, and no "life-time limits" for various kinds of medical treatments, and you can have your children on your family policy up the age of 26 now. These new policies are not the same as their old policies. Even if you wanted to be sold a 'fake' policy the insurance companies can't do that anymore.

Here's the link to McConnell's heaping the bovine fecal matter higher and higher...

http://www.pbs.org/newshour/bb/politics/july-dec13/mcconnell_10-30.html

MeConnell: "and the president's principal promise that, if you had your health insurance and you liked it, you would be able to keep it, none of that would happen."

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2013/10/30/house-republicans-obamacare-briefing_n_4178762.html?view=print

http://www.pressdisplay.com/pressdisplay/viewer.aspx

The budget standoff in Congress is over for now, but the economy is likely to feel the hangover for some time.

Two weeks after Washington’s latest showdown, more than half of economists surveyed by USA TODAY are less optimistic about growth prospects than they were three months ago.

The survey of 41 top economists was conducted Oct. 23-24.

What’s more, repeated budget battles in Washington the past few years are having a cumulative effect. Sixtythree percent of the economists say the recurring standoffs are hurting the economy “some” or “a lot.” The remainder cite “a little” damage.

...on PBS's American Experience they had a show about how Orson Welles 1938 dramatization of War of the Worlds making it sound like a news bulletin - without any provisos that it was a dramatization - caused panic all across the U.S. After the broadcast there was outrage that Welles would pull such a dangerous stunt and talk of legal action or legislation to preclude such actions in the future.

I was thinking how little general uproar there is about GOP tv (Fox) doing pretty much the same thing as what Welles did, every day. All you have to do is substitute "Obamacare" or "Obama the socialist/alien/Kenyan" for "Martian invasion" and it's pretty much a Fox Broadcast - or perhaps a Fox - Light (i.e. PBS) broadcast. Even Democrats just shrug their shoulders. There doesn't seem to be much offense taken these days at lies insinuated or delivered as a bald faced Big Lie. (John Stewart and Steven Colbert seem to be the only ones expressing disgust at the constant barrage of Big Lies from Fox, (even worse) aided and abetted by Corporate media for often repeating the Big Lie or slipping it into a sentence in an implied way)

Fox played a big role in promoting the Tea 'Party' early on, providing overplayed coverage of Tea Bag Sucker gatherings and incessant nearly daily discussions of the Tea Bag Sucker 'developments. Sure, GOP politicos were essential in organizing, hyping gatherings, writing press releases, and other 'professional' services, while being sure to not be seen at any of the soirées. But Fox's free airtime was also extremely important in whipping up the "grass roots" movement.


http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/americanexperience/films/worlds/player/

War of the Worlds

Shortly after 8 p.m. on the Halloween Eve, 1938, the voice of a panicked radio announcer broke in with a news bulletin reporting strange explosions taking place on the planet Mars, followed minutes later by a report that Martians had landed in the tiny town of Grovers Mill, New Jersey. Although most listeners understood that the program was a radio drama, the next day's headlines reported that thousands of others plunged into panic, convinced that America was under a deadly Martian attack. It turned out to be H.G. Wells' classic The War of the Worlds, performed by 23-year-old Orson Welles.

The Energy and Commerce committee has provided GOPers ample time to grill administration representatives involved in setting-up and or designing the beleagered ACA Federal web-site. GOPers who spent the last 3 years fighting the ACA and voting unsuccessfully to repeal it 48 times now seem to be overwhelmed with concern that people won't be able to get signed up for the program which Mitch MFer McConnell has called the ACA the "single-worst piece of legislation passed in the last 50 years.".

But, finally, somebody had enough. Last Thursday, Representative Frank Pallone, N.J., couldn't take the political theater anymore.... Rep Pallone unleashed his disgust on Rep. Joe Barton of Texas for pursuing a typically demagogic, (and hopefully headline grabbing) irrelevant line of cross examination of an administration representative before the committee. Praise the lord for honest talking men like Rep. Pallone of New Jersey.


http://www.theatlanticwire.com/politics/2013/10/congressman-lashes-out-about-healthcaregov-hearing-monkey-court/70896/


(more)

http://www.usatoday.com/story/news/nation/2013/10/24/from-bullied-to-bravery-one-girls-story/3184789/

http://talkingpointsmemo.com/livewire/hhs-half-of-young-americans-could-buy-insurance-for-50-or-less


Nearly half of young Americans eligible to buy insurance on HealthCare.gov could pay $50 or less a month for coverage, the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services said in a report released Monday. HHS is touting the affordability of insurance on the exchanges in part because young adults are crucial to making the health care reform law's finances work.


The conclusion was based on data from the 30-plus states where insurance is being sold through HealthCare.gov, for adults ages 18 to 34, who qualify for tax credits through the law. The analysis found that 46 percent could pay $50 or less for a bronze plan (which covers 60 percent of costs), and 66 percent could pay $100 or less.

“The health care law is making health insurance more affordable for young adults,” HHS Secretary Kathleen Sebelius said in a statement.

The administration has said it hopes to enroll 2.7 million age 18 to 34 (out of 7 million total) in the first year.

http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-srv/special/national/health-care-profiles/calculator/

http://mediamatters.org/blog/2013/10/24/nro-frantically-spinning-as-legal-rationale-for/196577

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2013/07/29/bakken-shale-flaring_n_3669649.html



R3 Sciences Begins Construction on Micro Plant Gas To Methanol Process
http://www.prweb.com/releases/gas_to_liquid/methanol/prweb3660304.htm
(emphases my own)


The methanol could be added to ethanol being blended with gasoline and reduce our imports of petroleum. In addition, of course, we should be making methanol from biomass sources to replace gasoline. We could make enough methanol to replace about ALL the gasoline we burn in cars and light trucks today.