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Feb 24th, 2010 by susie

You can reach me at: suburbanguerrilla AT comcast DOT net

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on 01 Mar 2010 at 12:39 am1dandy

Suze: Please tell me why I’m unable to to reach you at: suburbanguerrilla@ comcast.net? I need to discuss something with you. Thank you. Dan
on 16 Mar 2010 at 7:12 pm2Kwillow

Suze: would you be interested in some photos, forwarded to me by a friend in Australia, of koalas asking people for water on a hot day? Very hot: 120º. The pics are sweet, cute, but made me sad. The poor koalas must have been awfully thristy & hot to approach people. Australia is a good example of Global Warming horrors.
on 21 Mar 2010 at 12:46 am3Obvious answer

Suzie, what do you have left in physical problems that I can help with?

My blogger with cancer is on the final round and I should have free funds by May.

I live in Southern Peru and I can get you decent accommodations, internet hook up, hook you up with the best physicians and nurses that I have ever dealt with, a laundress that understands chemical allergies, a cook that is up to English standards.. It sounds like time is running out for you in the US.
on 02 Apr 2010 at 10:59 am4Anita

Suzie have you read Roger Eberts latest journal? Good Gracious – Just when I thought I could get away from Texas by moving……
http://blogs.suntimes.com/ebert/2010/04/the_texas_school_book_reposito.html
on 02 Apr 2010 at 11:47 am5Anita

Sore Losers

http://www.orlandosentinel.com/news/local/breakingnews/os-mount-dora-doctor-tells-patients-go-aw20100401,0,5593120.story

Suzie here another one for you.
on 24 Apr 2010 at 3:50 pm6Ron

This will make your head explode:
http://www.nytimes.com/2010/04/24/business/24deriv.html?ref=business

While people die for the lack of a proper health care system. While I can’t retire now because these guys are the ‘productive’ ones. Sons-a-bitches must pay.
on 30 May 2010 at 7:59 am7rose hunter

Susie, I’m very disappointed in your support for Hillary. You are an excellent writer and silly me, I gave you credit for intelligence. Hillary is no better than Bush/Obama. In 2000 the coup de etate annointed us with Fascism, and every WH CEO from now on will be the same. Heavily, I mean HEAVILY ‘committed’ to Israel, to corporations, to the 1%ers, as we see in O-bought-ma. Hillary was hand-holding with Israel in the take down of the legal gov. in Honduras, she doesn’t give a shit for Gaza or the non-jews in the area at all!! She would continue to ‘support’ BLOODYISRAEL and fight another war for them. I don’t see how domestic programs would have any chance/$$$$$$ to be funded no matter what the outcome. Willngness to trade domestic war for foreign war is nuts. They would say, ‘Where would we get the $$$$ for domestic problems when we’re fighting a war.’ Get a grip!!!, Susie. Hillary is another ‘Bait/switch’ just like O-bought-ma. At this very moment there are ‘cost cutters’ specially ordained by the resident to get rid of SS/medicaid to free up the $$$$$ for warforIsrael.
on 31 May 2010 at 1:44 pm8Gus diZerega

Susie-
I have been working on a corporate death penalty proposal modeled on “Three Strikes You’re Out” that would seize all property, sell it to the highest bidder, and use the proceeds to pay for damages the company caused, retraining of wage workers, and the remainder to retire a state debt. I plan to keep pushing it till I find someone interested in helping make it happen somewhere who has the connections I don’t.

You can find a moderately developed proposal here
http://blog.beliefnet.com/apagansblog/2010/04/the-case-for-the-corporate-death-penalty.html

And I would be delighted to share a more detailed discussion if you are interested.
on 21 Jul 2010 at 10:58 am9Marsha

So you have a PayPal link for your tip jar? I’ve been looking and can’t find one and would like to send a tip your way.
on 21 Jul 2010 at 12:40 pm10susie

It’s on the left-hand side of the page, right under the pictures at the top. One says “Donate,” the other one says “Subscribe.”
on 23 Jul 2010 at 11:24 am11Marsha

Ha! I always came to your site through Corrente and never got the Home Page on screen – otherwise I’m sure I would have seen Donate and Subscribe!!

Thanks.
on 09 Aug 2010 at 6:54 pm12Rick

I suppose that somebody may have mis-characterized this program:
U.S. To Train 3,000 Offshore IT Workers but it is something that makes you say: wtf?!
on 26 Sep 2010 at 12:46 pm13Hal Morris

This is a brief summary of some things I’ve been blogging on TheRealTruthProject.blogspot.com.

I think a good case can be made that a very high volume of political emails — those that say “Forward to 10 friends if you care anything about this country” are (1) being churned out en masse, and constantly recycled by a small group of activists, (2) are highly reliant on carefully devised deception, and (3) are having a very large impact on public opinion in the U.S. — enough to have a major impact on elections.

I also have in mind strategies for learning more about them, so as to get some objective factual data on (1) how widely they really are read and believed, and (2) their possible origins.

I believe much of the appeal of “New Media” in which I include these emails, comes from the belief that it is a sort of “people’s media” and hence more trustworthy than what is put out by mainstream institutions. That might make these emails, which never reveal who wrote them, particularly vulnerable to exposure, especially when it is show that they are full of deliberate cleverly devised deceptions and lies.

This seems to me very urgent. If interested in pursuing this, or knowing more of my rationalle for these conclusions, or even referring me to someone likely to take an interest, write to me: hal@panix.com.
on 26 Sep 2010 at 6:28 pm14susie

You’re preaching to the converted. I’ve been talking about this for years, and no one listens.
on 04 Oct 2010 at 7:57 am15Rick

This is great: Vote Republican
on 06 Oct 2010 at 10:14 am16rcm

There is a story up at Raw Story about how the blue-collar whites favor Republicans over Dems by about 22 points. Some of the comments so far put this down to the the stupidity of less-educated people.
There’s some real educated stupidity in forgetting how Clinton won important primaries by getting these working class votes.

Here is part of a Huffpo post (Thomas Edsall, 5/26/08)
” All the focus of late has been on the white working class. Hillary Clinton’s decisive victories in OH, PA, West VA, and KY have pointed to her strength and to Barack Obama’s weaknesses among these

once-Reagan Democrats, many of whom in 2006 returned to the Democratic fold.

But if you take a look at Huffington Post’s Fundrace site to check out who the nation’s corporate honchos – CEOs – are putting their money on, you’ll find that Clinton is simultaneously the darling of blue collar whites and of their bosses, the folks at the top of the heap.”
______________________________________________________
You’ve written so well on this so often, and I’d like to see YOUR comment up at Raw Story.
on 31 Oct 2010 at 11:57 pm17Sometimes I wonder

This stunned me. Is it true?

http://sistersagesmusings.ca/2010/10/30/holy-shit-one-third-of-american-female-soldiers-raped/
on 01 Nov 2010 at 12:00 am18susie

As as I know, yes. It’s been going on for a long time.
on 07 Nov 2010 at 2:08 am19P Joseph

Nice post suzie and C&L on pro-corporate Roberts & Alito. Moral? Until progressives start playing the long game, they will be Greek chorus to a generational tragedy. Answer? Recognize that the tide of Transnational Corporate takeover of American politics via radical right Constitutional revisionism will only be turned by Constitutional Amendment–Amendment which will require perhaps decades of popular consciousness foundation building (think Luntz, think the twenty year “death tax” long game of the billionaires–should progressives expect to short-cut the immutable dynamics of popular they have BILLIONS to accelerate?) The answer is below. The Constitutional Amendment which will fix the corporate civil rights, political corruption (excuse me, spending) is constitutionally protected castle moot erected by the Roberts, Scalia gang. It may be twenty or thirty years before we might have a Democratic supermajority necessary to forward it to the states, and it could exist for a briefly as two years. We need to have as widely developed the popular receptiveness for the following Amendment by then. Now is the time to up our sleeves and get to work. …Grab some popcorn and keep watching the slow motion train wreck.

The next Amendment to the U.S. Constitution:

“Only a mortal human being shall have any constitutional right, privilege or immunity of a person, citizen, or part of the people.

Each citizen’s voice being equal notwithstanding wealth, the Congress and several states shall regulate political gifts and spending to discourage corruption and the undue influence of wealth upon elected representatives.” [nextamendment.us]
on 30 Nov 2010 at 5:36 pm20mary

please send an address so that i can send a check.
on 18 Jan 2011 at 6:32 pm21Will Lovsmith

Hello Suze, If you’re serious about helping the 99ers & any other honest folk who’ve been screwed over, then I think I’d like to speak with you.. My jobs proposal will even stimulate our economy, while generating well-over a million jobs rapidly as qualifying folks retrain their brain easily, developing an income all along the way. They as well, will be able to teach their family & friends this easy to do project, that ultimately, will regenerate 10 million other jobs that have been stifled because of the big corporations sending their jobs overseas. This will assist the many millions, who are presently facing mortgage problems & quite conceivably could re-write the whole mortgage arrangement fiasco to favor the buyers & not the corrupted lenders. It’ll also assist in the healthcare reform system & boost the transfer from our dependence of oil rapidly to other sources of energy, as well. I am sure this must sound, extremely farfetched, but I have a proto-type, & some folks to assist & show you how this rejuvenation works. You may even be familar with the venue, of which I would refer you too, I believe.
I’ve been working on this concept for close to 40 years, my research has actually stemmed over 40 years.. By communating with me & establishing some trust bonds, as we show you the ways & means you could easily establish & recognize a couple of values that those who would rather destroy our country have overlooked. Thank you for your consideration.. My # is 712-587-0176 if only for one initial confirmation. Where there’s a Will, there’s a way.. Sincerely, Will Lovsmith
on 07 Feb 2011 at 8:36 am22Rick

Susie,
I was listening to Sunday nights Virtually Speaking and I was reminded of something that I wanted to pass on to Jay but I don’t see an email address for him on their site. (It’s probably there somewhere and I just didn’t see it.)

Just have him google “cough button” – ’nuff said?
on 23 Feb 2011 at 9:44 pm23Cay

Hi Susie,

I was listening to you on a Virtually Speaking podcast recorded Sunday 2-20. You’re despondent about how f***ed up our country is – you live with it every day. I am not a blogger but I am a news/media/good government/liberal/economics/environment/… obsessive who reads and listens this stuff incessantly. And as someone who does use your blog and others to soften the news from the gone-insane world we live in, I say thank you.

Secondly, you may think you are preaching to the choir, but you aren’t exactly. My understanding of class in America has evolved a great deal since 2008 – due in large part to the education I have gotten from bloggers.

I am not poor. I’ve never belonged to a union. I have plenty of money, a college education and live in a wealthy community. I have limited interaction with people who really work for a living. But I get it much more than I ever did.

Thanks for the education. I will do something with it.
on 23 Feb 2011 at 10:34 pm24susie

Wow, nice to hear, Cay! Thanks, I needed that.
on 22 Apr 2011 at 5:51 pm25James Pilant

I wrote about one of your posts. Best wishes!
James Pilant
http://southwerk.wordpress.com/2011/04/22/tepco-the-cats-on-the-roof-via-crooks-and-liars/
on 22 Apr 2011 at 5:52 pm26James Pilant

Would you mind having a look at my web site and telling me what you think?
I would appreciate it.
James Pilant
on 28 May 2011 at 1:45 pm27SK

Susie –Please can you help me find:
http://susiemadrak.com/
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2009/08/21/AR2009082103033
Letter from Germany
Aug 26th, 2009 at 10:17 am by Susie

In the Washington Post comments this morning:
on 28 May 2011 at 2:58 pm28susie

Can’t find in the archives. What is it?
on 29 May 2011 at 1:23 pm29Sk

OMG Susie –I found the letter –it was from the comments section in the WP.
This truly was a great letter –It deserves to be posted again.
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2009/08/21/AR2009082103033
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ds14 wrote: 08/24/2009, 2:42:45 AM
As a US citizen, a medical doctor currently living in Germany, a country where health care is universally available for its residents at affordable rates, I might have some perspectives on this debate you haven’t yet run across.

What I find most astounding about our US health care system is not only how many people don’t have coverage (some 46 million, and going up). But rather, how fragile and precarious health care coverage is for so many people who think they are well insured.

How does our US health care system compare? Let’s go through some important points in the universal health care system in Germany, which I’m very familiar with:

Here in Germany you are mandated to have standard comprehensive health insurance:
your employer pays half the monthly family premium, you pay the other half,
* you don’t get rejected because of any previous condition,
* you don’t pay more or less working for a large or small business,
* you don’t pay more or less if you are male or female, black or white, German or foreign born, gay or straight,
* the rates don’t go up if someone in the small (or large) business gets sick,
* health insurance is not a consideration when changing jobs or careers because you take the policy with you,
* you don’t lose your policy if you get sick, if you become unemployed, or even if your employer goes out of business,
* you won’t be billed for “out of network” services in hospitals or elsewhere – these services are part of your coverage, no matter which hospital or team of doctors treats you,
* you don’t have annual, lifetime, disease-related, or disease-recurrence caps,
* you won’t be billed at 20%, 30% or more for expensive medications (“price-tiered” pharmaceuticals), because there is no “tiering”, legally approved pharmaceuticals are fully covered when you need them, even if they’re very expensive,
* nor will you ever go bankrupt due to unpaid and unaffordable medical bills piling up, – that simply doesn’t happen – you enjoy completely comprehensive coverage.
* Also, forget expensive copays ($40/year max. for doctor visits @$10 per quarter, a few dollars per prescription, a minimal meals expense during a hospital stay.
* Forget too the denials, the constant slog of endless 0800 calls (yours and your doctor’s) to your insurance company for requests for coverage or adjustments, wasting huge amounts of people’s time, energy, and productive capacity every business day – this doesn’t happen in Germany, because this is a comprehensive coverage system (which is an important reason why it’s so efficient).

I might add that Germany is a democratic country with a freely elected government; its residents are free people – this is not “Russia”. In fact, this is the country with long stretches of Autobahn without speed limits, right? (Here, it’s your responsibility to drive safely, and most do.) People here freely change jobs, careers, and locations without any regard for health insurance, and they are free of the fear of going bankrupt or losing their homes or life’s savings if they were to get seriously ill, because their comprehensive insurance protects them from that!

Germany and its residents are not going broke paying for this, either. On the contrary, this fair, efficiently run health care system costs roughly a third less per person that the US system – that’s right, about 1/3 less per capita – despite (or because?) everyone being on board and receiving comprehensive health care.

That figure doesn’t come from rationing, long waits to see a doctor, or long waiting lists to get an operation, either – that doesn’t happen here. What that figure does reflect, however, is just how much waste, duplication, and gouging of consumers must be taking place in the US health care system every day.

My point in describing the German health care system is not to encourage you all to move to Germany, but to prove to you, that for one-third less money than you currently already spend, you should be getting comprehensive, universal health care, like every resident of Germany does (yes, including all immigrants!). But you’re not.

May I humbly suggest: advocate, and work with your friends and neighbors for health care reform now, absolutely including a strong public plan, which is the lynchpin for any meaningful reform.

Don’t let the lobbyists, their surrogates on TV, or their gun-toting mobs and pre-organized advocates at town hall meetings, scare you, confuse you, or drown out your voices yet again.

It is time to face up to this national challenge as adults, and finally join the peoples of the 17 (seventeen!) other advanced democracies (not “Russia”, but, yes indeed, Germany, Switzerland, the Netherlands, Norway, Australia, Japan, S. Korea and even Taiwan!) around the world, who already enjoy the benefits of universal, comprehensive, and affordable health care.

We absolutely can grab this bull by the horns, and get this job done this year!!!

Dr. med. Frederick B. Lacey Jr.
Frankfurt am Main, Germany
8/24/2009 2:42:45 AM
on 31 May 2011 at 9:57 am30Rick

While it’s far from being the most important subject that you’ve ever blogged about. Since you did post a link to Roseanne’s article in New Your Magazine, I thought you might be interested in the back-and-forth between Rosanne and Ken Levine (writer for MASH, Frazier, Cheers and others).

http://kenlevine.blogspot.com/2011/05/roseannes-latest-insane-rant.html

http://www.roseanneworld.com/blog/2011/05/the-grotesque-sexism-that-i-wr.php

http://kenlevine.blogspot.com/2011/05/my-response-to-roseanne.html
on 26 Sep 2011 at 12:53 pm31Larrymod

I enjoy your site!

What can you tell me about the masthead photo of women shooting rifles, looks like from the 1920s or so?

I’d like to share this photo with the forum of the Liberal Gun Club ( http://www.theliberalgunclub.com ), but I’d like to know the backstory if possible.
on 26 Sep 2011 at 2:07 pm32susie

I don’t really know. I found it online years ago, it looks like a women’s rifle club.
on 26 Sep 2011 at 2:19 pm33Larrymod

Thanks.

It looks like they are shooting bolt action .22s.

They appear to be experienced, possibly expert shooters, based on the way they are holding and sighting their rifles, and especially given how they use their slings to brace and steady their rifles. This technique was taught in the early to mid-20th century U.S. military, and indicates a well trained marks(wo)man.
on 29 Sep 2011 at 3:06 pm34Neicie

There was no reply from you as to your opinion on this topic:

http://field-negro.blogspot.com/2011/09/silence-of-ewes.html
on 02 Oct 2011 at 3:37 pm35Fer Villafaina

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=B_GZG20dLIA
on 27 Oct 2011 at 4:34 pm36Smart Grandma

The Pa Voucher Bill passed the Senate! What makes me so angry is that these Republicans have no plan for educating students who don’t meet the academic requirement of voucher schools or children with behavior problems, learning deficits and physical disabilities.
When the Pa Public School System is destroyed where will these children be educated?
on 24 Mar 2013 at 5:24 pm37mrtmbrnmn

susie
i like your new clean blog site… just sayin’…
on 04 Apr 2013 at 4:55 pm38Matt

https://petitions.whitehouse.gov/petition/we-request-doj-refuse-grant-any-form-sentence-reduction-jeffrey-skilling-enron-criminal/41GJCNfk

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