Taggles at Widdershins had an excellent account of yesterday’s “round table discussion” of health care reform at the Senate Finance Committee’s meeting. Today she has a great follow-up. Basically, her take on the whole infuriating farce is, WTF!?!?
WTF indeed, Taggles.
Watch as the pompous, clueless, and criminally condescending members of the Finance Committee (Democrats AND Republicans) make it painfully obvious that not only do they not give a flying FIG what real, live American citizens want them to do, they have lost ALL sense of WHY they were elected and WHOM they were elected to serve:
The heckler protesters who interrupted the Lords of the Senate were doctors who are outraged that single-payer advocates were not given even ONE seat at the so-called Round Table to discuss reforming our health care system.
Now, there are MANY views and interests and complexities to consider when discussing health care reform in our country. Candidate Hillary Clinton’s plan was NOT single payer, and lord knows there are cogent arguments as to why single payer may not be a perfect panacea. There is also some merit to the argument that it is quixotic to fight for single payer, universal health coverage since it is inconceivable that the current congress would pass it. Political realism and all that. But most agree that Clinton’s health care plan was the strongest one going and the one most likely to lead to real universal health coverage sooner rather than later.
So, I agree that the issue of health care reform, like immigration reform, is NOT simple. Neither of the ideological wings of the major parties has the RIGHT and EXCLUSIVE solution. But I ask you this: Do YOU trust the members of Congress to have an open discussion about reform, in which ALL of the possible options are considered and discussed? In which ALL of the major stakeholders have a seat at the table and a voice in the discussion?
What kind of a democracy are we living in when the ONE group that should be considered the PRIMARY stakeholder, the American PEOPLE, is not even allowed a seat at the table? Poll after poll shows that the majority of American citizens favor some sort of single-payer, public option health coverage. Small business owners want it. Families want it. Sick people who have been dropped from their insurance companies’ rolls want it. Grown children who are caring for parents who became ill before they reached the Medicare age want it. MILLIONS and MILLIONS of Americans want real, universal, affordable health coverage.
WHY does this Senate Finance Committee so smugly dismiss our concerns, our interests, and our voices?
Here’s some political realism for you: Because they have been bought and paid for by the for-profit industries that make BILLIONS of DOLLARS a year milking money from American citizens.
MEMBERS OF THE SENATE FINANCE COMMITTEE WHOSE TOP DONORS ARE THE HEALTH CARE INDUSTRY
- Max Baucus, Chair: $5 MILLION dollars in one election cycle
- Chuck Grassley, Ranking Republican: $1.8 MILLION dollars in one election cycle
- Orrin Hatch: $1 MILLION dollars in one election cycle
- Kent Conrad: $800,000 in one election cycle
- Blanche Lincoln: $800,000 in one election cycle
- Mike Enzi: $800,000 in one election cycle
- John Ensign: $700,000 in one election cycle
- Jim Bunning: $600,000 in one election cycle
- Mike Crapo (yes, that’s really his name): $600,000 in one election cycle
- Tom Carper: $500,000 in one election cycle
- Olympia Snowe: $375,000 in one election cycle
Add it up Girls and Boys. That’s $10.7 MILLION dollars paid DIRECTLY to eleven members of the Senate Finance Committee by the for-profit health care industry. Of the 23 members of the committee, fully HALF of them receive the lion’s share of their reelection camapign funds from corporations whose WORST FEAR is that any form of single-payer, public option health coverage is enacted in the United States.
Oh, and that $10.7 million was paid in just the latest election cycle ALONE. Over the course of their senate careers these jokers have received hundreds of millions of dollars from profit-seeking health industry firms. The list also does not include the millions that are funneled into the Senators’ campaign bank accounts by lobbying firms. It also does not include the millions of dollars donated to Senators on the committee like John Kerry, Jay Rockefeller, and John Cornyn. Those players are not included on the list because they happen to be more in the pocket of industries like oil and gas, real estate developers, and the banking industry. But they got big bucks from the health industry as well.
* * * * * * TODAY’S PROWL * * * * * *
Tell Senate Finance Committee Chair Max Baucus that the American people are SICK and TIRED of Pay to Play !
Call his office: (202) 224-2651
Send the FAX: (202) 224-9412
Copy and paste these email addresses into the BCC line of your email:
max@baucus.senate.gov, chuck@grassley.senate.gov, prowl@pumapac.org, gretawire@fox.com, Hannity@foxnews.com, cnn@cnn.com, Foxreport@foxnews.com,
Newswatch@foxnews.com, news@nbc24.com, newshour@pbs.org, info@moveon.org, dianne_feinstein@feinstein.senate.gov, senator@boxer.senate.gov, senator@stabenow.senate.gov, rachel@msnbc.com
Email and Fax this letter:
To: Senate Finance Committee
NO MORE PAY TO PLAY POLITICS!
Why are there no advocates for Single Payer or Universal Health Care included in your discussions of health care reform?
Could it be that the Finance Committee of the United States Senate is a Pay to Play system just like Rod Blagojevich’s Illinois?
- Max Baucus, Chair: $2.7 MILLION dollars in one election cycle
- Chuck Grassley, Ranking Republican: $1.8 MILLION dollars in one election cycle
- Orrin Hatch: $1 MILLION dollars in one election cycle
- Kent Conrad: $800,000 in one election cycle
- Blanche Lincoln: $800,000 in one election cycle
- Mike Enzi: $800,000 in one election cycle
- John Ensign: $700,000 in one election cycle
- Jim Bunning: $600,000 in one election cycle
- Mike Crapo : $600,000 in one election cycle
- Tom Carper: $500,000 in one election cycle
- Olympia Snowe: $375,000 in one election cycle
That’s $10.7 MILLION dollars paid DIRECTLY to eleven members of the Senate Finance Committee by the for-profit health care industry in just the last election cycle alone.
No more Pay to Play in the U.S. Senate! Real Health Care Reform NOW!
Sincerely,
Your Name
Puma PAC Member (http://pumapac.org)
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Zee 05.06.09 at 3:18 pm
Thanks for this prowl, Murphy…there is also a cybermarch on Washington regarding this on May 30.
More info at
http://www.1payer.net/
murphy 05.06.09 at 3:21 pm
oh thanks Zee, I meant to include that in the post.
good stuff there, and am thinking of how we might be able to tie into actions around that weekend.
PROWL done!
persephone 05.06.09 at 3:22 pm
prowl done. those pigs.
persephone 05.06.09 at 3:23 pm
delivery to grassley failed! damn!
KarenWI 05.06.09 at 3:23 pm
speaking of healthcare, this is an interesting article.. about how Obama’s changing many of his policies into ones Hillary had been for during the primaries:
http://www.politico.com/news/stories/0509/22136.html
persephone 05.06.09 at 3:24 pm
murphy!
did you mean for crapo(yes, that’s really his name) to be part of the prowl?
murphy 05.06.09 at 3:29 pm
oops! thanks persephone!
Deb55 05.06.09 at 3:31 pm
Will read shortly ..working!
Just got email to read news article at Druge, can’t bring over.
It appears Oklahoma has had enough of “O”. Has passed voting to bypass Govenor to claim State Sovereighty.
IT IS STARTING..Before long more will follow!
murphy 05.06.09 at 3:32 pm
that’s what I get for being snarky.
Deb55 05.06.09 at 3:32 pm
Sorry.. DRUDGE.. later
BillieJo 05.06.09 at 3:34 pm
Yeaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaa!
Prowl done and I added a few more people to the email if any of you are interested:
gretawire@fox.com, Hannity@foxnews.com, cnn@cnn.com, Foxreport@foxnews.com, Newswatch@foxnews.com, news@nbc24.com, newshour@pbs.org, info@moveon.org, senator@feinstein.senate.gov, senator@boxer.senate.gov, senator@stabenow.senate.gov
(This is a set up for Mac emails, swap out commas for semicolon for PC’s.)
BillieJo 05.06.09 at 3:36 pm
Too late, I sent the snark in all my emails.
persephone 05.06.09 at 3:37 pm
well, miss snarky-i sent it out like that oops! hehe
whats up with grassley’s email is he skeered of us?
Katiebird at the Confluence had a great post about Single Payer healthcare here:
http://riverdaughter.wordpress.com/2009/05/05/single-payer-what-is-it-good-for/
murphy 05.06.09 at 3:38 pm
somewhat OT, but interesting:
“WASHINGTON — Although President Obama has vowed that citizens will be able to track “every dime” of the $787 billion stimulus bill, a government website dedicated to the spending won’t have details on contracts and grants until October and may not be complete until next spring — halfway through the program, administration officials said.”
http://www.usatoday.com/tech/news/techpolicy/2009-05-06-stimulus_N.htm
Zee 05.06.09 at 3:38 pm
Grassley’s email failed for me, too…
murphy 05.06.09 at 3:39 pm
It looks like the correct email for Chuck Grassley is:
chuck@grassley.senate.gov
sorry about that.
Send it again if you have a minute.
BillieJo 05.06.09 at 3:40 pm
Murph, could you please release my post from the dungeon?
murphy 05.06.09 at 3:40 pm
thanx persephone,
yep kaitebird has been covering this issue like a hawk (or a puma!) for ages now.
BillieJo 05.06.09 at 3:42 pm
Grassley’s didn’t bounce back for me yet, but I sent another copy to the second email address anyway.
persephone 05.06.09 at 3:43 pm
#13 big fat f-ing surprise the stim bill is not so *transparent* after all.
They don’t want people to see who got the contracts.
Maybe some Obots could volunteer to put those stim bill details up as they become available.
They don’t want people to see who got the contracts
murphy 05.06.09 at 3:44 pm
from billie jo:
“Yeaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaa!
Prowl done and I added a few more people to the email if any of you are interested:
gretawire@fox.com, Hannity@foxnews.com, cnn@cnn.com, Foxreport@foxnews.com, Newswatch@foxnews.com, news@nbc24.com, newshour@pbs.org, info@moveon.org, senator@feinstein.senate.gov, senator@boxer.senate.gov, senator@stabenow.senate.gov
(This is a set up for Mac emails, swap out commas for semicolon for PC’s.)”
nice one Billie,
so if everyone would resend with the correct grassley address AND Billie Jo’s excellent additions, that would be great!
copy and paste into the BCC line:
gretawire@fox.com, Hannity@foxnews.com, cnn@cnn.com, Foxreport@foxnews.com, Newswatch@foxnews.com, news@nbc24.com, newshour@pbs.org, info@moveon.org, senator@feinstein.senate.gov, senator@boxer.senate.gov, senator@stabenow.senate.gov, chuck@grassley.senate.gov, prowl@pumapac.org
BillieJo 05.06.09 at 3:45 pm
murphy 05.06.09 at 3:38 pm
somewhat OT, but interesting:
“WASHINGTON — Although President Obama has vowed that citizens will be able to track “every dime” of the $787 billion stimulus bill, a government website dedicated to the spending won’t have details on contracts and grants until October and may not be complete until next spring — halfway through the program, administration officials said.”
http://www.usatoday.com/tech/news/techpolicy/2009-05-06-stimulus_N.htm
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We should post Obama’s top 10 lies on the left side of the blog menu, and replace a lie when a bigger lie comes up.
Love to see it there every day, a reminder to obots.
murphy 05.06.09 at 3:48 pm
PROWL re-done!
looks like feinstein’s email is incorrect as well.
I’m going to try dianne@feinstein.senate.gov
I’ll gather up all the correct emails so we can do this again tomorrow.
Zee 05.06.09 at 3:49 pm
I like the idea of Obama’s top ten lies, but it’s tricky…because some of the “lies” were false beliefs that only in the demented imaginations of his followers…ie, that he was “antiwar.”
We should therefor also consider having a “myth-busting” list.
Zee 05.06.09 at 3:51 pm
that only *existed* in the demented imaginations…sheesh, I left out “existed.”
Deb55 05.06.09 at 3:54 pm
GREAT..Just Breaking! FOX
Computer hachers are demanding $10 million dollars for Medical records they have stole..Yes, we want all of our medical records out thier. NOT MINE
murphy 05.06.09 at 3:54 pm
how existential of you Zee.
Deb55 05.06.09 at 3:55 pm
Going to do email prowl..
Will be back later..working..right!!
persephone 05.06.09 at 3:57 pm
yup feinstein bounced again
persephone 05.06.09 at 3:58 pm
Deb55 05.06.09 at 3:54 pm
GREAT..Just Breaking! FOX
Computer hachers are demanding $10 million dollars for Medical records they have stole..Yes, we want all of our medical records out thier. NOT MINE
_______________________________________________________
I’m shocked. NOT
Zee 05.06.09 at 3:58 pm
ok, I have to run….HP, if you’re lurking or coming back later, I replied to your “why bother.” I’m not less disgusted than you are by this last election—I’m for pitching ALL the bastards out, every last one. I think that’s a campaign call that would be heeded by fed up voters of all parties.
antifish 05.06.09 at 3:58 pm
Prowls sent to Murphy’s and BillieJo’s addresses!
HP Boston 05.06.09 at 3:59 pm
MURPHY YOU HAVE MAIL!!!
Zee 05.06.09 at 3:59 pm
#27
…or… anti-existential?
HP Boston 05.06.09 at 4:00 pm
Zee 05.06.09 at 3:58 pm
ok, I have to run….HP, if you’re lurking or coming back later, I replied to your “why bother.” I’m not less disgusted than you are by this last election—I’m for pitching ALL the bastards out, every last one. I think that’s a campaign call that would be heeded by fed up voters of all parties.
AGREE!
DancesWithPumas 05.06.09 at 4:01 pm
OT
Maine Governor Signs Same-Sex Marriage Bill
By ABBY GOODNOUGH 2:38 PM ET
Gov. John Baldacci said the measure was a matter of equal protection under the state’s Constitution.
Zee 05.06.09 at 4:02 pm
Ah….there you are, HP!
murphy 05.06.09 at 4:03 pm
OT, but just got this in email from the Courage Campaign.
they are planning a “Meet in the Middle” rally for right after the California SC decision regarding Prop Hate.
looks really good. for all you cali pumas:
http://www.couragecampaign.org/page/s/meetinmiddleLA
(the courage campaign has been my favorite grass-roots org on this topic.)
MKfromLA 05.06.09 at 4:03 pm
prowl done & redone
I also added Rachel Maddow rachel@msnbc.com
antifish 05.06.09 at 4:04 pm
Don’t know how many of you are aware of this website, but it exists solely to track the disposition of campaign promises made by Obama. It has a wealth of information!
http://www.politifact.com/truth-o-meter/promises/
murphy 05.06.09 at 4:05 pm
thanx HP, got it.
I purposefully left the party affiliations off the list of senators who do Pay to Play for Health Care reform because by this point it is OBVIOUS that party affiliation means NADA, zip, zilch anymore.
Zee 05.06.09 at 4:05 pm
Instead of pitting the states against one another as blue or red, if we can get the pitchfork campaign going, states can be watched as “another pitchfork state” known for booting out incumbents…
murphy 05.06.09 at 4:07 pm
ooh, thanks mk — adding that to my growing list,
here is the so far so good email for feinstein:
dianne_feinstein@feinstein.senate.gov
murphy 05.06.09 at 4:08 pm
awesome antifish, thanks — adding it to the sidebar now.
Zee 05.06.09 at 4:08 pm
#38 Murphy…
nice rally concept, thanks for posting! I’ll be sharing that link elsewhere..!
taggles1 05.06.09 at 4:10 pm
great prowl murphy!
Did you know there are approximately 650,000 registered voters in Montana. That’s a lot of dough Max Baucus collects to bribe his way into office and entrench himself into the senate every six years.
what a farce our system is!
persephone 05.06.09 at 4:10 pm
Repost with revisions
Fundraising email for Mimi, please feel free to copy any/all and send to friends on her behalf. (and send her a few bucks if you haven’t already?)
A personal message to my friends and family in Florida-please pass this on:
______________________________________________________
Dear Friends,
Can you spare just a moment?
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Please forward this email to your friends and family.
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Stop in and meet Mimi if you’re in the area. You’ll be glad you did.
Let’s take back our government, one office at a time.
Thanks to all.
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antifish 05.06.09 at 4:13 pm
Liar, Liar!!!
Freedom of Choice Act is far from passage
Updated: Monday, May 4th, 2009 | By Angie Drobnic Holan
At a press conference marking his first 100 days in office, President Obama answered a question about the Freedom of Choice Act, a law that affirms abortion rights.
“As a candidate, you vowed that one of the very first things you wanted to do was sign the Freedom of Choice Act,” the reporter said. “Do you still hope that Congress quickly sends you the Freedom of Choice Act so you can sign it?”
Obama reiterated his support of abortion rights as well as his sympathy for those who oppose it.
“Now, the Freedom of Choice Act is not my highest legislative priority,” Obama concluded. “I believe that women should have the right to choose, but I think that the most important thing we can do to tamp down some of the anger surrounding this issue is to focus on those areas that we can agree on. And that’s where I’m going to focus.”
Our research indicates that the Freedom of Choice Act has not been introduced in the current Congress.
http://www.politifact.com/truth-o-meter/promises/promise/501/sign-the-freedom-of-choice-act/
DancesWithPumas 05.06.09 at 4:15 pm
MK
We’ll TAKE IT!!
http://www.nytimes.com/2009/05/06/greathomesanddestinations/06gh-costarica.html?_r=1
persephone 05.06.09 at 4:15 pm
Our research indicates that the Freedom of Choice Act has not been introduced in the current Congress.
_________________
wow!
and the excuse is that it doesn’t have the support to pass! what BS
persephone 05.06.09 at 4:16 pm
49 danceswithpools can i visit?
DancesWithPumas 05.06.09 at 4:16 pm
“Now, the Freedom of Choice Act is not my highest legislative priority,” Obama concluded. “I believe that women should have the right to choose, but I think that the most important thing we can do to tamp down some of the anger surrounding this issue is to focus on those areas that we can agree on. And that’s where I’m going to focus.”– Barf Obastid
theamericanway 05.06.09 at 4:17 pm
Prowl done. Thanks to all who worked to make it happen.
DancesWithPumas 05.06.09 at 4:18 pm
persephone 05.06.09 at 4:16 pm
49 danceswithpools can i visit?
—————-
You’re a PUMA, of course you can!
Stay as long as you like… we prefer our dinners served at 7 (and serve from the right, remove from the left).
HP Boston 05.06.09 at 4:18 pm
PROWL done….twice
GOOD ONE!!
persephone 05.06.09 at 4:19 pm
hmmm..I’m a really good cook…wouldn’t that be a waste of skilled labor?
murphy 05.06.09 at 4:22 pm
ok, the latest greatest email list is:
max@baucus.senate.gov, chuck@grassley.senate.gov, prowl@pumapac.org, gretawire@fox.com, Hannity@foxnews.com, cnn@cnn.com, Foxreport@foxnews.com,
Newswatch@foxnews.com, news@nbc24.com, newshour@pbs.org, info@moveon.org, dianne_feinstein@feinstein.senate.gov, senator@boxer.senate.gov, senator@stabenow.senate.gov, rachel@msnbc.com
we’ll be prowling this all week, so dont fret.
HP Boston 05.06.09 at 4:23 pm
DancesWithPumas 05.06.09 at 4:16 pm
“Now, the Freedom of Choice Act is not my highest legislative priority,” Obama concluded. “I believe that women should have the right to choose, but I think that the most important thing we can do to tamp down some of the anger surrounding this issue is to focus on those areas that we can agree on. And that’s where I’m going to focus.”– Barf Obastid
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Hey you slime ball it will be lonely as you tamp about…you can not begin to know what anger is and howlittle we give a shit about your focus..
murphy 05.06.09 at 4:25 pm
tamp down some of THIS barack obama!
http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_J5gZCL3KZX8/SUsGZiMfouI/AAAAAAAAAAQ/oHeYmqMrl2c/s1600-R/fuck_you.jpg
not sure what the Italian means — pardon me if it’s wicked rude.
BillieJo 05.06.09 at 4:26 pm
Max Baucus, now I know why his name seems so familiar….
Baracus Hubris Maximus (Hail, Ceasar!) – Cinie
michelina 05.06.09 at 4:27 pm
Prowl Done, OnCE and TWICE and tomorrow, AGAIN.
((((((PUMA LAND))))))))
until tomorrow.
murphy 05.06.09 at 4:28 pm
and this too, ya jackass.
http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_J3MC3sX7BIg/SZV8uG4jJaI/AAAAAAAABus/xOVP0Ys_c6U/s400/FuckOFF.jpg
DancesWithPumas 05.06.09 at 4:28 pm
http://translation2.paralink.com/
Impress your friends and Pumas…
You can even hit the text to speech horn
and it says the word or phrase for you.
HP Boston 05.06.09 at 4:29 pm
persephone 05.06.09 at 4:30 pm
Italian means:
“Thank you, we don’t want to be…”curati”
and I have no idea what “curati” means.
do i need to call my grandmother??
TLCPUMA 05.06.09 at 4:30 pm
Prowl Done!!!
webfoot 05.06.09 at 4:30 pm
The Pay for Play U.S. Senate
by murphy on May 6, 2009
What kind of a democracy are we living in when the ONE group that should be considered the PRIMARY stakeholder, the American PEOPLE, is not even allowed a seat at the table?
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I think we are living under the start of what history will label “Obamaism.” Different writers, analysts, and bloggers compare BO to various governmental styles such as oligarchy, fasism, socialism, etc. I see BO taking the worst of collectivism, communism, democracy, despotism, facism, machiavellianism, marxism, oligarchy, and socialism. Our republic is being turned into a country with an “Obamaism” form of government. I expect to see him listed, in the future, with Karl Marx and Niccolo Machiavelli; another leader who created such upheaval that their leadership style is named after them.
A reading of the Declaration of Independence right now, thinking of BO instead of the King of Great Britain shows how history is repeating itself.
http://www.ushistory.org/declaration/document/index.htm
BillieJo 05.06.09 at 4:32 pm
Translation from back in the old days that we cursed in all languages on the blog…..
Thanks, we do not want, to be “cures to you”
http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_J5gZCL3KZX8/SUsGZiMfouI/AAAAAAAAAAQ/oHeYmqMrl2c/s1600-R/fuck_you.jpg
not sure what the Italian means — pardon me if it’s wicked rude.
BillieJo 05.06.09 at 4:33 pm
murphy 05.06.09 at 4:28 pm
and this too, ya jackass.
http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_J3MC3sX7BIg/SZV8uG4jJaI/AAAAAAAABus/xOVP0Ys_c6U/s400/FuckOFF.jpg
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Yo Kitty, Good one Murph!
persephone 05.06.09 at 4:33 pm
lets just say “curati” means “obots”
DancesWithPumas 05.06.09 at 4:34 pm
Better translator:
http://translator.imtranslator.net/
The first translator said: We do not want to be “treated” (cured).
DancesWithPumas 05.06.09 at 4:35 pm
persephone 05.06.09 at 4:30 pm
Italian means:
“Thank you, we don’t want to be…”curati”
and I have no idea what “curati” means.
do i need to call my grandmother??
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Curati = ‘cured”. —Nonna
persephone 05.06.09 at 4:36 pm
The first translator said: We do not want to be “treated” (cured).
yes, from verb curare.. LOL!
BillieJo 05.06.09 at 4:36 pm
I guess having a photoshop version of the Jackass with his pants on fire wouldn’t offend anyone but obots.
HP Boston 05.06.09 at 4:36 pm
bbl gotta pull out the vacuum and pretend I got out of this chair today!
BillieJo 05.06.09 at 4:37 pm
persephone
Hell yes!
lets just say “curati” means “obots”
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persephone 05.06.09 at 4:37 pm
I think “curati” can also mean priests. that lady doesn’t look like she wants to be a priest either..
BillieJo 05.06.09 at 4:38 pm
Having to be politically correct while we trash Obama is more difficult than we thought.
DancesWithPumas 05.06.09 at 4:38 pm
HP Boston 05.06.09 at 4:36 pm
bbl gotta pull out the vacuum and pretend I got out of this chair today!
———–
Buy a pie and sprinkle some flour around your kitchen counter, and a bit in your hair.
persephone 05.06.09 at 4:41 pm
Buy a pie and sprinkle some flour around your kitchen counter, and a bit in your hair.
never, ever clean-just throw some toys on the floor and if anyone shows up just sigh and say “damned kids..”
murphy 05.06.09 at 4:43 pm
was just organizing the Prowl mailbox and can I just say that PUMAS RULE!?
wow!
we are GOOD.
DancesWithPumas 05.06.09 at 4:45 pm
Never clean. If anyone shows up, just tell them you’re a Jain, and are afraid you might kill some microscopic living thing.
BillieJo 05.06.09 at 4:46 pm
http://img.dailymail.co.uk/i/pix/2008/02_01/obamaMOS0202_468×558.jpg
I think this is the REAL Barack Obama.
HP Boston 05.06.09 at 4:48 pm
Buy a pie and sprinkle some flour around your kitchen counter, and a bit in your hair.
—
Oh dam gotta comb my hair…put some blue stuff in the toilet.
WHEW!!!
persephone 05.06.09 at 4:49 pm
81 what next
who else needs their ass kicked?
BillieJo 05.06.09 at 4:50 pm
http://images.nymag.com/images/2/daily/2008/11/20081110_obama_560×375.jpg
Here’s another real photo of Obama.
TLCPUMA 05.06.09 at 4:50 pm
UPDATED PROWL DONE !!!! The only one i couldnt get to go through is my Senator Fienstein!!
HP Boston 05.06.09 at 4:52 pm
BillieJo 05.06.09 at 4:46 pm
http://img.dailymail.co.uk/i/pix/2008/02_01/obamaMOS0202_468×558.jpg
I think this is the REAL Barack Obama.
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Oh god now I won’t be able to eat dinner…oh well then I don’t have to cook it, thanks!
TLCPUMA 05.06.09 at 4:53 pm
EWWWE YUCK!!!! #83 BillieJo
The real BHO is so darn ugly!!
DancesWithPumas 05.06.09 at 4:53 pm
BillieJo 05.06.09 at 4:46 pm
http://img.dailymail.co.uk/i/pix/2008/02_01/obamaMOS0202_468×558.jpg
I think this is the REAL Barack Obama.
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Yes indeedy!!
BillieJo 05.06.09 at 4:57 pm
Obot messiah photo on the cover of Rolling Stone
http://www.therazor.org/images/rolling_stone-obamassaiah.jpg
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All these photos were under google images, Obama pants on fire.
freddiebrown 05.06.09 at 5:03 pm
Hellllooo – We survived NY !! Its good to be back. It was a good trip overall – hard work but not as stressful as I had imagined. In fact we set up and took down the show in less time than we normally did. IT was a relief.
Saw very little sign of swine concern , just two people with masks at the hotel and one at the airport. Had a customer from Mexico city – I kept my distance when speaking to her. A buyer from UK said she wasn’t too concerned, life goes on, there’s just too many scares in the world to live in fear… So that was the report from NY. A few people thought about not coming to a crowded trade show but decided to do it anyway. So perhaps there was a lot of hype afterall.
Delle 05.06.09 at 5:05 pm
#65
curati means cured or healed, as of an illness.
Delle
admin 05.06.09 at 5:07 pm
this is your admin robot breaking in to tell you not to be alarmed when you see this:
at the bottom of all new posts. pumapac is trying different methods for expanding our reach in the pumasphere and beyond.
If you like a post and want to share it with your circle of friends, family, obot-coworkers and what have you, just click on the Share This button and you can share the post via email, text, twitter, digg, or any other of the fabulous new distribution channels available for free on this big, giant internet.
thank you.
persephone 05.06.09 at 5:09 pm
Thanks, Delle! I suppose I ought to give nonna a call anyway..
Flasunshiner 05.06.09 at 5:29 pm
Prowl done. Spoke with SFC…they were taking a poll…they wanted to know if I was for or against universal health care…their phones were ringing off the hook, and the girl who answered sounded frightened and frazzled.
admin 05.06.09 at 5:33 pm
EGGSELLENT flasunshiner!
KerryLINY 05.06.09 at 5:38 pm
This is exactly what we should do since those pay-to-play goons in DC do not properly represent our interests.
Prowl done twice! With original and greatest email list. BBL after work.
Puma-SF 05.06.09 at 5:44 pm
Thanks, admin. I used it to share the post with my Facebook account.
admin 05.06.09 at 5:47 pm
puma Sf , Yay!
it’s easy isnt it?
i tested the email function it worked like a charm!
BillieJo 05.06.09 at 5:50 pm
admin 05.06.09 at 5:07 pm
this is your admin robot breaking in to tell you not to be alarmed when you see this:
ShareThis
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Too bad there isn’t a way to make this thing link to all our prowl emails, like all the superdelegates that were bought by the Jackass away from supporting Hillary, or to the entire congress, to the entire news media online, etc.
That way we could prowl all day long and fill up their email boxes until they exploded. PUMAspam.
BillieJo 05.06.09 at 5:52 pm
What’s up with that…I only see the little green left pointing arrow in your post Admin Sockpuppet…is that were it is being tested from?
Does it send the whole blog page or can we highlight?
BillieJo 05.06.09 at 5:57 pm
Okay, it worked emailing it to myself…the full page of the blog.
simofish 05.06.09 at 5:58 pm
doing a drive by as I gotta get my butt to the store. I have been voyeur all day – just didn’t feel like participating.
http://sensuouscurmudgeon.wordpress.com/2009/05/04/open-letter-to-the-republican-party/
I am not promoting the republicans — just found this letter interesting.
BillieJo 05.06.09 at 5:59 pm
I have a great idea, we open up puma email addresses on gmail (if you don’t already have one) and start sending the link to different parts of the blog, like Passing the ERA info, Women’s lynching stuff….
honora 05.06.09 at 5:59 pm
Neilsen just left a door hanger at my house, they want us to be wired. I am tempted to sign up and then leave the tv on fox news 24/7.
BillieJo 05.06.09 at 5:59 pm
simofish
Drive by scuds………. I like it!!!
admin 05.06.09 at 6:00 pm
if you click on the little green “Share This” icon in the left sidebar, just above Mimi’s bumpersticker, you’ll be sending a link to the whole blog or main page, ie http://www.pumapac.org.
If you click on the little green “Share This” icon at the bottom of each post or prowl then you’ll be sending a link for that particular post or prowl.
capiche?
admin 05.06.09 at 6:01 pm
honora, do it!
admin 05.06.09 at 6:04 pm
oops, forgot to remind everyone to read Cinie today:
“There are many reasons I didn’t want Barack Obama to win the Democratic nomination for president last year, other than the fact that he’s a lying, cheating, race-baiting, race-traitorous, unqualified, inexperienced, corporate shill, whose only reason for running was to be a front man for the Money Mafia. However, the main reason is that it was patently clear from the beginning that if he were to be elected, the closest we would get to comprehensive health care reform would be a long-winded, TelePrompTer read, apologetic, “what a good boy am I,” insurance company-favoring, less-than-nothing, “compromise was the very best we could do” speech about why we won’t get it. There was only one candidate in the entire field who was likely to fight for true health care for all, and that’s exactly why she’s not president right now.”
http://cinie.wordpress.com/2009/05/06/the-myth-of-affordable-health-care/
Puma-SF 05.06.09 at 6:09 pm
Yeah, it was super easy – I love it!
BillieJo 05.06.09 at 6:13 pm
Welcome home Freddie, I missed you and glad the trip was better than you expected.
The Swine Flu is not as dangerous in the US as it was in Mexico.
No idea what the cause for this is or if the flu returns – will it mutate into something stronger or die out.
No one knows yet.
BillieJo 05.06.09 at 6:41 pm
Posted on Drudge…
NYT: OBAMA UNDER ‘INCREASING PRESSURE TO ENGAGE’ ON GAY ISSUES
Wed May 06 2009 18:36:06 ET
President Obama was noticeably silent last month when the Iowa Supreme Court overturned the state’s ban on same-sex marriage.
But the days when the president can keep quiet on an issue that gays view as central to their civil rights may soon be coming to an end, the NY TIMES is set to Page One on Thursday, newsroom sources tell DRUDGE.
“Just four weeks after the Iowa ruling, Obama — who opposes gay marriage but campaigned as a self-described ‘fierce advocate’ of gay rights — is under increasing pressure to engage on a variety of gay issues that are coming to the fore amid a dizzying pace of social, political and legislative change,’ reports the paper’s Sheryl Gay Stolberg.
Developing…
BillieJo 05.06.09 at 6:46 pm
Gack….
RIYADH, Saudi Arabia (AP) – Sukaina al-Zayer is an unlikely beauty queen hopeful. She covers her face and body in black robes and an Islamic veil, so no one can tell what she looks like. She also admits she’s a little on the plump side.
But at Saudi Arabia’s only beauty pageant, the judges don’t care about a perfect figure or face. What they’re looking for in the quest for “Miss Beautiful Morals” is the contestant who shows the most devotion and respect for her parents.
Most devotion to keeping her body covered in black from head to toe so the pervs in her country, commonly known as ‘men’ won’t reach out and grab, rape, stone or behead her.
Islam sucks on it’s own lack of morals.
BillieJo 05.06.09 at 6:47 pm
Here’s the link.
http://www.breitbart.com/article.php?id=D980U07G0&show_article=1
BillieJo 05.06.09 at 6:52 pm
Another tiny flip flop from the Whitehouse:
White House to Release Photo From New York Flyover
The White House plans to release a photo from the controversial New York City flyover of an Air Force One backup plane, despite earlier claims that there was no need to release any images.
BillieJo 05.06.09 at 6:53 pm
Okay, that’s enough news for now.
BBL
DancesWithPumas 05.06.09 at 6:57 pm
Prowl done.
HP Boston 05.06.09 at 7:03 pm
Prowl done again……….Finstien does not compute!
DancesWithPumas 05.06.09 at 7:07 pm
HP
Did you use this address?
dianne_feinstein@feinstein.senate.gov,
Mine seems to have gone through
admin 05.06.09 at 7:08 pm
shoot!
i gotta get the right one for feinstein!
Puma Radio and Profound Question of the Night posted,
take it upstairs!
BigCatLover 05.06.09 at 7:10 pm
Arlen Specter complaining that the Democrats lied to him and stripped him of all his seniority on the Senate committees (on the Lou Dobbs show). Welcome under the bus, Arlen Specter.
DancesWithPumas 05.06.09 at 7:13 pm
::: GASP ::: “the Democrats lied” ???
Say it ain’t so, Joe.
Hasn’t Specter been paying attention?
DancesWithPumas 05.06.09 at 7:15 pm
Here’s Feinstein form contact, if you want to cut and paste the prowl to her:
http://feinstein.senate.gov/public/index.cfm?FuseAction=ContactUs.EmailMe
HP Boston 05.06.09 at 7:15 pm
dianne_feinstein@feinstein.senate.gov,
This is an automatically generated Delivery Status Notification.
Delivery to the following recipients was aborted after 0 second(s):
* dianne_feinstein@feinstein.senate.gov
HP Boston 05.06.09 at 7:23 pm
BigCatLover 05.06.09 at 7:10 pm
Arlen Specter complaining that the Democrats lied to him and stripped him of all his seniority on the Senate committees (on the Lou Dobbs show). Welcome under the bus, Arlen Specter.
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Ah poor baby
goofsmom 05.06.09 at 7:27 pm
Prowl done!
snowtigerredux 05.06.09 at 7:52 pm
HI all. Just popping by looking for webfoot.
Webbie, if you are here I can’t get into messenger for some damn reason.
e-mail me.
(clam chowder)
Gee, no health care reform? Who would’ve thought?
(((PUMAS)))
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