Jeff Swanson, a medical sociologist, offers personal reflections on the health care reform debate, set to a photo essay of American places and faces (not all of whom are related to him.) The video also spoofs political rhetoric with interviews with "real Americans" (including a dog--a rare liberal at a loss for words), and urges people to get involved.
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Jeff Swanson recounts the tale of his egregious arrest by Norwegian-American police officer Sgt. Sigurd Bjornstad. He calls upon President Obama to hold a Scandinavian-American beer summit at the White House. "If this happened to me right here in my home town, while I was breaking in to my own minivan, it could happen to any other Swedish-American academic in the United States," Swanson says. www.blindinginsights.blogspot.com
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Jeff Swanson's April 1st appeal for help in defending a class-action lawsuit against his blog at: blindinginsights.blogspot.com Plaintiffs include: the estate of former Pres. Richard M. Nixon; Mr. Bill O'Reilly of Fox News; a retired warehouse foreman from California named in the complaint only as "Floyd"; the living heirs of a group of individuals who purchased frozen food contracts in the Minneapolis-St. Paul area in 1975; Mr. Joe the Plumber; Mr. Bud Selig, Commissioner of Major League ...
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