Deep Thought

The racist is the President! The backwash from his using the race card has made many aware of he who is the racist……..

Oh but it gets worse folks! Have you seen the PSA “I Pledge”? All the stars got together and it ends with Demi Moore saying “I pledge to be a servant to the president”…Oh my goodness. Think *61 has forgotten he works for us, not the other way around. I think we need a prowl on this!

Question — HR 676 — thoughts ??? For ? Against ? Why ? Why not ?

Difference between that bill and the other one floating around – I can’t remember it’s number – the one Murphy read.

As Barack Obama prepares a nationwide broadcast to America’s students next Tuesday, it has been revealed that Democrats complained in 1991 when then President George H. W. Bush broadcast a speech from a Northwest Washington junior high school.

In fact, the House Majority leader at the time, Dick Gephardt (D-Mo.), said “The Department of Education should not be producing paid political advertising for the president, it should be helping us to produce smarter students.”

more:
http://newsbusters.org/blogs/noel-sheppard/2009/09/03/flashback-1991-gephardt-called-bushs-speech-students-paid-political-a

See I Pledge here:

http://www.sltrib.com/news/ci_13249171?_requestid=5883011

queen81, and others…they have already backpedaled on the “I pledge” to Obama. They’re supposedly removing that part…so far I’ve only seen NRO and Washtington Times as sources, but apparently the Dept. of Education is responding to the criticism of what should’ve been obvious.

Obama Census Windfall For Intifada Connected Woods Fund!

September 2, 2009

Illinois is receiving copious amounts of federal tax payer dollars to “boost awareness” for the upcoming census.

http://www.foundingbloggers.com/wordpress/2009/09/obama-census-windfall-for-intifada-connected-woods-fund/

persephone 09.03.09 at 1:00 pm
make patient dumping illegal
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Yes…

Think you’ve got health insurance? Rescission could leave you broke and sick

http://www.walletpop.com/blog/2009/09/02/think-youve-got-health-insurance-better-double-check-and-be/

Speculation rises that Supreme Court Justice Stevens will retire

John Paul Stevens, who will turn 90 next year, has hired only one clerk for the 2010 term. That could be a tipoff that he plans to retire before then, although he has not said he will.

http://www.latimes.com/news/nationworld/nation/la-na-stevens3-2009sep03,0,5471894.story?track=rss

More on the “Uniter.”

Zerobama promised to be a uniter.

Anyone think the Town Halls exude unity? In one town hall, a woman in a wheelchair pleads for health reform while thugs in the back jeer at her. In one street rally, a 65 year old man crossed the street to argue with the Obamacarebots, got in a fistfight, and had his finger bit off!

http://www.thedailybeast.com/video/
http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20090…_finger_severed

Is this the change we wanted? Looks like more of the same, on steroids.

re 676
not all docs are for it:
http://docs4patientcare.org/

scarlet 09.03.09 at 1:14 pm

Speculation rises that Supreme Court Justice Stevens will retire

———I hope he is just planning to take a light work load and coast his way thru the reign of that ONE!!! 93 is a real age group! Plus he has THE BEST HEALTH CARE INSURANCE!!!!

No doubt, persephone, but Dems who were trying to warn the Obot fools during the election that Hillary’s plan was better and that Zero was a liar would like a single payer system. Zero won’t be in the White House forever, and we’re not afraid of the “gummint” — just this misadministration. Privatization is a crock. Joseph Cannon does some hilarious spanking on these issues. Particularly on how the red states, who often hold the entire country hostage on these issues, are really welfare states supported by the productive blue states.

But I leave the spanking of these kinds of things to policy wonks…

FL Barbara…I would be more worried about the megachurches all over the US. Entire families go because they’re like malls, with frozen mocha drinks, and they fill entire stadiums with people attending for the purpose of handing their brains over.

I remember seeing pictures of these stadiums, filled with Bush supporters, who tied the Bush “sticks” (they were festive toys that make whooshing sounds, they’re like batons) into the shape of the cross.

Look up “Reconstructionalists” and see how they plan to take over the US and turn it into a “Christian” nation, complete with Old Testament rules.

And they enter politics. And under the radar, too.

All these disgusting religions are competing for power…here, and in South America, too.

Zee, you and Joe *should* be afraid of the “gummint,” as you call it.

they are giving us plenty of reasons to be afraid. just read the headlines.

brush off and marginalize the people of the red states all you like, but they are taxpaying citizens and have a right to their input.
the contribution they make to our democracy, economy, and military deserve the same respect as the blue states’ contribution.
Canon can just get over himself.

#28 – phone — exactly !! problem is – we have too many greedy son-a-bitches out there.

Seeing what those books were about makes me scared for my grade shool aged neices.

Has the Department of education has lost it’s frikkin mind? Or is the Democratic party TRYING to implode?

Geesh.

World Wildlife Fund – WWF Condemns ‘Offensive’ Ad With It’s Logo

The World Wildlife Fund is speaking out after bloggers and twitterers condemned the environmental group over a tasteless and unapproved ad exploiting the Sept. 11, 2001, attacks on New York’s World Trade Center.

The online ad shows a swarm of airplanes about to attack New York with a caption reading: “The tsunami killed 100 times more people than 9/11. The planet is brutally powerful. Respect it. Preserve it.”

The ad bears the WWF’s trademark panda logo.

http://www.nationalterroralert.com/updates/2009/09/02/world-wildlife-fund-wwf-condemns-offensive-ad-with-its-logo/

Zee,

You have every right to be worried about

(Zee 09.03.09 at 1:36 pm FL Barbara)…I would be more worried about the megachurches all over the US. Entire families go because they’re like malls, with frozen mocha drinks, and they fill entire stadiums with people attending for the purpose of handing their brains over. I remember seeing pictures of these stadiums, filled with Bush supporters, who tied the Bush “sticks” (they were festive toys that make whooshing sounds, they’re like batons) into the shape of the cross.
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My concern was for what I have been hearing about Sharia Law in Shelbyville and Nashville Tenn. Since I have seen firsthand the results of Sharia Law, in a stadium on women. Yes, batons in the shape of crosses making wooshing sounds carried by those drinking frozen Mocha coffee may worry some. But I am more worried about the Boy Scouts of America being told that the goals for America: “The Ikhwan must understand that their work in America, aimed at the youth, is a kind of grand jihad in eliminating and destroying the Western civilization from within and sabotaging its miserable house by their hands and the hands of the believers so that it is eliminated and God’s religion is made victorious over all other religions.”

And the girls scouts of America having ceremonies for girls taking up the wearing of veils.
Especially in light of the Obama school plans which sound a lot like how the intend to teach the Muslim youth with.

This process requires a “mastery of the art of ‘coalitions,’ the art of ‘absorption’ and the principles of ‘cooperation.’

So we can disagree and I will continue to worry about Muslims and their efforts to take over with Sharia Law and it’s barbaric treatment of women and you can worry about the
“Reconstructionalists” and how they plan to take over the US and turn it into a “Christian” nation, complete with Old Testament rules.

Legal actions in response to swine flu?

Massachusetts procedures for isolation and quarantine.

“Pandemic Response Bill” 2028 was passed by the Massachusetts state Senate on April 28 and is now awaiting approval in the House.

http://www.mass.gov/legis/bills/senate/186/st02pdf/st02028.pdf

And, if you don’t go along with it, this is what happens – Page 22 line 483
If citizens refuse to comply with isolation or quarantine orders in the event of a health emergency, they may be imprisoned for up to 30 days and fined $1,000 per day that the violation continues.

Yo! New Jerseyites.

Governors Race is a Referendum on Obama
By Riverdaughter at the Confluence:

http://riverdaughter.wordpress.com/2009/09/03/nj-governors-race-is-a-referendum-on-obama/

Support for Obama and his policies has eroded over the summer. The percentage of Americans who disapprove of his handling of health care has jumped to 50 percent from 29 percent in April, an ABC News/Washington Post poll conducted Aug. 13 to 17 found.

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So they thought no one would be paying attention this summer!
Well no one has money to vacation like the big wigs…so we are all reading, watching, thinking as we have not much money to count and we think you stink mr.potus..really really really stink.

Zee .. I did not like Cinies post… here is why..

http://hillarysworld.activeboard.com/index.spark?aBID=132683&p=3&topicID=30639269

CJ-love the Wilma Flintstone over there hee!

Swan, I knew that Carol Flowery was no one to mess with

prplevette85,
Good for her. That’s great!

sheila7 09.03.09 at 5:16 pm

prplevette85,
Good for her. That’s great!

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yes, she is quite the little politician in waiting! She informed me that Colorado has the highest rate of women in politics… a fact I just learned the other day!

prplevette85,
I have the same shirt! Love it! I’m not the one who sent it but I wish I would have. I would have loved to make your day!

Cool! I wore mine to a town hall and got LOTS of looks and had a lady ask me about it. She was a BO supporter but she said she still loved the shirt.

Childhood Obesity Report Calls For Government Regulations to Limit Access to ‘Unhealthy’ Restaurant Chains

http://www.cnsnews.com/news/article/53374

prplevette,
I don’t know, Scarlet posted them.

The Congressional Black Caucus warns Obama that he must include the public option in his health care bill.

Here’s an excerpt:

A strong public health option that will allow the nation’s more than 46 million uninsured Americans – more than half of whom are people of color – to finally have access to affordable, meaningful health care coverage no later than 2013. As you know and we have firmly noted throughout the health care reform debate, a robust public option not only will play a pivotal role in our collective efforts to eliminate uninsurance – a public health challenge that detrimentally affects millions of hardworking, innocent Americans – but also in our efforts to ensure that every American citizen, regardless of race, ethnicity, geography or gender, has affordable access to meaningful, reliable health care treatments and services when needed. Thus, we firmly believe that the extraordinary benefits of a robust public option to the health and strength of this nation should, and do, outweigh the immediate, upfront costs associated with creating it.

wow Pers! I used to live in Thousand Oaks. I miss all the good protests. Not sayin that what happened is good, but I have nothing going on near me. I am just itching to do some live Puma activities… I might make some signs and have my own little protest… see what activity I can drum up I could go stand on the corner where there is the Veteran’s Memorial wall. There are war protesters there every Saturday morning. They leave about 11 am. I could take over their corner…woot!

This is a terrifying piece of work.

Whites are channeling poisons into black communities!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

This is channeling Rev. Wright.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=I83p1HiKLdI

Van Jones is a very dangerous person who has a very powerful position in Obama’s scheme of things.

Policies are described as white policies??????????? This is so terrifying and so predicted by the Rev Wright. Obama’s true colors (pun intended) are really showing.

Jews are taking over the European banking industries so we are justified in nationalizing all of their assets, rounding them up and sending them to Auschwitz.

Whites are channeling poisons into black communities !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Can someone please direct me to what Whites are. Whites!!!!!!! What are Whites? White what? Me????? My grandchildren? What the hell is “whites”?

#52 – prp — I have the same shirt and bumper sticker — LOVE IT !!

lol pers, Nope there would have been no blood on my shirt, I would have tased him bro

ROFL!
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mamapuma

the van jones story needs to be told
another radical, appointed so he didn’t have to go through a senate confirmation process.

the link I should have posted at #62, oops:

http://www.politico.com/blogs/glennthrush/0909/Black_Caucus_warns_Obama_on_speech.html

is it me??

Now I have an i phone, so I can show the blog in real time! I love this! They can’t escape me now !

persephone 09.03.09 at 7:49 pm [edit]

that link did not work
can you send it again

What is going on here. There is no such thing as “whites”. That is as stupid a concept as “blacks”. In the Boston courts, the Gates (of the famous Harvard professor) spout about race. The fact of the matter is that black people in Boston are as diverse as any other group in the world.

It is useful to the Gates, Obama’s, Jessie Jackson’s, Van Jones of the world to pretend that there is such a thing as “black”. But the fact of the matter is that in MY COUNTRY, black, white, red, yellow, brown does not matter.

Not because this country, MY COUNTRY, is such a marvelous country. Not because this country, MY COUNTRY, is such a post race country. But because this country is so diverse that there is not such thing as the categories of “white” or “red” or “black”.

These is only the industry of race. And it is and industry that is as useful as the industry of “Jew.” Germany used that category to not only to create a Holocaust that shatters the soul, but also to create artificial groupings of people that have nothing to do with reality.

In Boston, black Haitians have nothing to do with black Dominicans. They disdain them as less than and barbarian. Cape Verdians consider all American blacks as thugs and losers.

Race has never been and will never be the line that divides the have’s from the have not’s. That color is green.

interesting comments.

sample:

Dear DEMS: Thanx for being stuck on STUPID!!!! Please don’t bite my finger off bro.

Posted By: VANN JONES | September 03, 2009 at 05:47 PM

Thank all gods living and dead that my school district appears to NOT be requiring us to watch dumbass speak to/brainwash our children next week. I would have to wear my iPod that day if they were…and I would be self-mutilating while my students watched. Warning: you might puke a bit reading this: http://www.austinisd.org/newsmedia/releases/?more=1868&lang=

Hey Dances, try pronouncing it with your tongue out…

fphhuh pha fuhfuh

The Next New Plan for Bananastan

We’re going through Bananastan* war strategies like they’re Pez candies. As Jason Ditz of Antiwar.com has noted, General Stanley McChrystal’s new report on Afghanistan “admitted that the current strategy, which was itself a new strategy presented only five months ago to replace the previous new strategy, isn’t working and that yet another new strategy is needed.”

It seems certain that Stan the Man will ask for more troops, though, so we’re at least being consistent in our policy of sending more American soldiers to war without knowing why.

The only strategy that seems to be working so far is the propaganda effort to convince the American public to go along with another asinine war. Mr. Obama has called the Bananastan conflict a “war of necessity” (it isn’t).

Admiral Mullen says we’ll only have credibility with the Afghan people if we promise to stay there forever and then actually do it (we won’t have credibility then, either, nor is there a burning national security requirement for us to have credibility with the Afghan people).

Max Boot says Americans are only dissatisfied with the Afghanistan war “because they don’t see enough signs of progress” (they don’t see enough signs of progress because there is no progress).

http://original.antiwar.com/huber/2009/09/02/the-next-new-plan-for-bananastan/

scarlet 09.03.09 at 9:44 pm
The Next New Plan for Bananastan
We’re going through Bananastan* war ….
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*Bananastan (noun) 1. A banana-republic style regime in Central Asia ruled by a U.S. backed puppet government 2. Afghanistan and Pakistan 3. The Central Asian version of a banana republic, a bananaraq, or a United Banana Kingdom.

…

or maybe we had to move the intake away from the exhaust!

Then again, consider the Pirate* Fish… it defecates through it’s throat. Will they ever catch on?

*Some call it the Pilot Fish, but I prefer Pirate for it’s graphic attrivutes… dark patch near one eye and aaarrrrrrrrrrrrrgh, Nastey

nitey nite y’alls’

Mama #75 — Race has never been and will never be the line that divides the have’s from the have not’s. That color is green.

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If that isn’t the truth !!

P.S. Be prepared for the second one re FL’s Broward Public Schools Superpretendident…

Persephone #12

Make patient dumping illegal.
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Yes. And punish Michelle Obama, Valerie Jarret and David Axelrod for their patient dumping scheme called The Urban Health Initiative at University of Chicago Medical Center.

Hi Cinie

I am the only person awake, I think. Sweet dreams all. xo

I BELIEVE SISTA!!!! I belive for evry drop of rain that falls a flower grows……oh no….no sweetness and light here!
I am not a party member…they have forsaken me and all women and now plan to take over our children. A pox on all their houses…I have not now and have never been a member of the Republican party…I have been and will never be again a member of the Democratic party! I PLEDGE TO THROW THE BUMS OUT!!!!

Hey, kids are you ready to help Obama?
http://edgeoforever.wordpress.com/2009/09/04/hey-kids-how-can-you-help-obama-an-historical-speech/

Pers
Who is Arne Duncan?

I am glad to see that some
people are aware of this insidious creep obama.
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Listen carefully to what Obama tells our students
The Lowell Sun
Updated: 09/04/2009 06:35:52 AM EDT

I’m sorry but this is creepy propagandizing of putting thoughts of a perfect president that can do no wrong and wants to control the younger generation. The far left is trying to make the conservatives look like we are all right-wing cronies that are out of our minds. This can be far from the truth. I consider myself a middle-of-the-road conservative. I do not hold the ideology of the far right nor do I condone how they may at times try scare tactics to make us stray from the middle. With this being said, we must not overlook what has been going on in this administration. In fact, it is quite scary, and if we do not wake up we could be in control of something we will never recover from as a nation.

First, President Obama will be speaking directly to our children and youth on Sept. 8. The full text of the Obama’s school speech, from what I found, has not been made available completely to parents at this point. What we have seen is a full lineup of classroom activities for elementary-school students and older students to do before and after the speech. These workshops are available at the Department of Education Web site. President Obama will not broadcast on major network, but the speech can be viewed live online at the White House Web site. The broadcast begins at noon Eastern time.

http://www.lowellsun.com/letters/ci_13268895

MamaPuma 09.04.09 at 9:13 am

I sent your thoughts to the Lowell Sun…..why? B/C YOU ARE THE LAW!

HP,
I think a lot of people saw this one. I’ve talked to several non-political people (for lack of a better word) and they are appalled by this. They all agree this is going to far. I have hope that America will awaken from their kool-aid stupor. And for the first time I have faith that they might. I think people are starting to realize that something is fishy in Denmark.

sheila7 09.04.09 at 10:01 am

Shelia I am not as optimistic as you…Obama and thugs have been going at the speed of light and have done great damage!

September 4, 2009
White House to release logs after settlement interest group

WASHINGTON (CNN) — President Obama plans to announce Friday that the White House will release its future visitor logs on a regular basis, two administration officials said.

The announcement follows a legal settlement with the group Citizens for Responsibility and Ethics in Washington (CREW), which had sued the administration for release of visitor logs, the group announced on its Web site.

Since taking office, the president has been criticized for refusing to release some of the logs, including those relating to health care and coal company executives.

The new policy will apply to visitor logs created after September 15 —not to previous visitor logs, according to an administration statement outlining the policy that CREW posted on its Web site. The future logs will be released 90 to 120 days after the meetings, and there are some exceptions.
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Why does any american / organization have to sue the transparency president to view visitor logs?? oh, because the sack o’ crap is a lowdown lyin’ freak, that’s why.

Biden: Stimulus right thing ‘morally’

Vice President Joe Biden tried to blunt lingering skepticism of the Obama administration’s $787 billion stimulus plan Thursday.
“I believe this was the right thing to do morally,” Biden said in a speech the White House billed as a major address. “It was also the smart thing to do economically.”

http://www.politico.com/news/stories/0909/26725.html

well, i dont know about but this is what we need to do
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Sixteen years ago, in the spring of 1993, then-First Lady Hillary Clinton came to me to talk about health care reform. I told her then what I would tell President Obama today: It’s impossible to write a comprehensive health care reform bill and get it passed. Politicians aren’t that smart, Americans aren’t that trusting, and special interests aren’t that lazy.

Instead of trying to pass a single bill that attempts to remake one-sixth of the American economy, Obama could use his speech to announce a series of four or five bills to reform our health care system, each written in a bipartisan way and debated in open hearings with open rules.

A step-by-step approach would make both sides more accountable. It would eliminate the opportunity for Democrats to bury bad programs in a mammoth, unreadable bill, and it would obligate Republicans to come to the table with their own reform ideas.

One set of hearings and one bill could focus on improving the delivery and administration of health care, including tort reform and rewarding providers for individual health and wellness.

Another bill could address creating real competition and choice in the insurance market by creating a nationwide market for insurance.

A separate bill could focus on saving Medicare and Medicaid from bankruptcy by finding ways to eliminate what the Center for Health Transformation estimates is $70-120 billion in fraud and abuse each year.

And a fourth bill could explore ways of investing in science and innovation, like reforming the FDA’s hopelessly long and needlessly complicated approval process for new medicines.

Each of these bills is more understandable, more doable, and more democratic than the take-it-or-leave-it strategy that has been employed so far.

So Obama has a choice to make Wednesday night.

He can listen to us.

Or he can demand we listen to him.

my point is this, when you have done these things you are helping the american people, it would be then possible yo have real reform thay could cover everone

THUGS SHAKING DOWN FAMILIES WHO CARE FOR THEIR DISABLED FAMILY MEMBERS

Organized labor recruits in-home caregivers

3,000 who receive Illinois stipends are targeted

Kathy Keith has cared for a son with Down syndrome for 23 years and never dreamed that one day organized labor would consider her a prime candidate for a union card.

So she was skeptical when representatives from two of the nation’s largest unions began competing for her attention over the last few weeks with unannounced visits to her home, mailings and phone messages promising to fatten her state stipend.

The Bartlett resident is among about 3,000 people who receive state funding to assist someone at home with a developmental disability. As a result of an executive order signed by Gov. Pat Quinn in June that allows collective bargaining by “individual providers of home-based support services,” unions are now trying to sign them up in an unusual effort to boost membership.

The move has left some care providers angry and confused. Many are mothers, fathers or close relatives who are caring for loved ones, advocates say.

“Are you saying I can go on strike and not wipe my son’s rear end?” Keith said, questioning if union membership would pit her interests against her son’s.

Soon, she and others expect to receive ballots by mail that ask them to join the American Federation of State, County and Municipal Employees (AFSCME).

Caregivers were told that union dues could be up to 2 percent of the monthly stipend, about $2,000 for Keith before taxes and fees. A SEIU spokeswoman said dues would cost no more than $25 per month.

http://www.chicagotribune.com/news/local/chi-caregivers-unionsep03,0,4172799.story

Who is Van Jones?
The following text comes from a comment on an article August 5 I believe at Politico>>>
“Politico neglected to mention a few facts about Mr. Jones!

A few short years ago Anthony (Van) Jones was a Bay Area radical agitator-a committed Marxist-Leninist-Maoist, waging war on the police and capitalist system.

Today Van Jones holds a key position in the US government and has the ear of President Barack Obama.

Today Van Jones mixes not with street level militants, but with the cream of the left “establishment”.

But who is Van Jones? Has he really abandoned his communist beliefs?

Van Jones first moved to San Francisco in the spring of 1992, while studying law at Yale, when the leftist Lawyers Committee for Human Rights hired several law students to act as legal observers during the trial of policemen charged with assaulting Rodney King.

Not guilty verdicts in the King case led to mass rioting-which Jones joined in.

Arrested and jailed, Van Jones met a whole new circle of friends.

From the East Bay Express November 2nd 2005:……

“I met all these young radical people of color – I mean really radical, communists and anarchists. And it was, like, ‘This is what I need to be a part of… I spent the next ten years of my life working with a lot of those people I met in jail, trying to be a revolutionary…I was a rowdy nationalist on April 28th, and then the verdicts came down on April 29th..By August, I was a communist.”

The violent communist organisation Van jones went on to lead was called Standing Together to Organize a Revolutionary Movement (STORM).

Read more: http://www.politico.com/news/stories/0809/25718.html#ixzz0Q9iumlK6

Who is Van Jones? Mama Puma?
Beyond terrifying…he is a new Obama CZAR.

A very small handful of states will not be broadcasting the speech. I applaud them. 1) I don’t think it is right that children should be forced into politics. 2) One should have a choice in viewing/listening to said speech. 3) The potential content of the speech in general bothers me(When you play with the minds of kids, you have gone way too far.) More states should follow suit but will they?

Is he the Messiah or is his head getting ready to explode?

FROM THE WHITE HOUSE BLOG:

http://www.whitehouse.gov/blog/Photostream-Business-and-Pleasure-in-August/

Hey, do you think, Van Jones is not the man I knew
will work this time?

sistermoon3 09.04.09 at 11:55 am

my point is this, when you have done these things you are helping the american people, it would be then possible yo have real reform thay could cover everone
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One set of hearings and one bill could focus on improving the delivery and administration of health care, including tort reform and rewarding providers for individual health and wellness.
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Tort reform to help the doctors.
Rewards for providers??? or well people but punishment for old and genetically predisposed unwell people.

Another bill could address creating real competition and choice in the insurance market by creating a nationwide market for insurance
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This is a biggie with the insurance industry who want to be able to market everywhere. Benefits insurance companies.

A separate bill could focus on saving Medicare and Medicaid from bankruptcy by finding ways to eliminate what the Center for Health Transformation estimates is $70-120 billion in fraud and abuse each year.
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Implying that a huge number of people on Medicare and Medicaid commit fraud and abuse. Enough to save billions.

And a fourth bill could explore ways of investing in science and innovation, like reforming the FDA’s hopelessly long and needlessly complicated approval process for new medicines.
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This is a not very thinly disguised attempt to help the drug companies avoid those pesky long trials before they can get their latest drugs on the maket. Benefits drug companies.

So where is the benefit to the citizens or will that trickle down from the benefits to all the industries. Having said that, breaking hc reform into more than one bill may have some merit. I’ll deciee when I see the bills.

WASHINGTON – The unemployment rate jumped almost half a point to 9.7 percent in August, the highest since 1983, reflecting a poor job market that will make it hard for the economy to begin a sustained recovery.

While the jobless rate rose more than expected, the economy shed a net total of 216,000 jobs, less than July’s revised 276,000 and the fewest monthly losses in a year, according to Labor Department data released Friday. Economists expected the unemployment rate to rise to 9.5 percent from July’s 9.4 percent and job reductions to total 225,000.
More at:
http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20090904/ap_on_bi_ge/us_economy

One set of hearings and one bill could focus on improving the delivery and administration of health care, including tort reform and rewarding providers for individual health and wellness.
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Tort reform to help the doctors.
Rewards for providers??? or well people but punishment for old and genetically predisposed unwell people.

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when doctors have astronomical insurance coverage cost for malpractice, guess who pays the difference, the patients however they pay. This does not mean no one can sue, it means caps on what one can sue for.

OT from Normita’s mailbag:
Congress` Approval Rating at Lowest Point for Year
Wed Sep 2, 2009 5:00am EDT

Hillary Clinton only Administration official with positive ratings

ROCHESTER, N.Y.–(Business Wire)–
As the fall season begins, the focus moves away from town hall meetings and what
is going on around the country back to how people in Washington are dealing with
issues, especially health care reform. Unfortunately, many in Washington are not
dealing from strong positions, including the president himself, in terms of
approval ratings. In fact, when it comes to many of the leaders of Congress as
well as those handling economic issues, majorities of Americans are not even
familiar enough with these people to have an opinion regarding them.

These are some of the results of The Harris Poll® of 2,498 U.S. adults surveyed
online between August 10 and 18, 2009 by Harris Interactive®.

Administration Leaders` Ratings

The rating of individual leaders in government varies greatly:

* Secretary of State Hillary Clinton is the only member of the administration to
have a positive job rating. Just over half of Americans (51%) give her positive
marks, while 31% give her negative ratings and 18% are not familiar enough with
her to have an opinion;
READ FULL ARTICLE:
http://www.reuters.com/article/pressRelease/idUS95973+02-Sep-2009+BW20090902

Health Bill Will Hike Medicare Drug Coverage Premiums 20 Percent, Says CBO

(CNSNews.com) – If the health-care reform bill under consideration in the House of Representatives becomes law, seniors will pay Medicare prescription drug program premiums that are 20-percent higher than they would be under current law, says the Congressional Budget Office.

The increase in premiums will start with an average 5-percent hike in 2011 and reach 20 percent by 2019.

http://www.cnsnews.com/news/article/53521

re Cat in NJ at 3:15.
I just downloaded an email which discusses slavery/reparations. It has a perspective I appreciate. In part, it says:

…How about you guys paying whites reparations for current expenses caused by blacks? Not long ago blacks burned down half of Los Angeles , a city in my country. Cities are expensive, Hank [Gates]. Build one sometime and you’ll see what I mean Whites had to pay taxes to repair Los Angeles for you. You can send me a check.

Now, yes, I know you burned LA because you didn’t like the verdict in the trial of those police officers. Well, I didn’t like the verdict in the Simpson trial. But I didn’t burn my house and loot Korean grocers, or burn down a city….

Health care reform means more power for the IRS
By: Byron York
Chief Political Correspondent
September 2, 2009

Under the various proposals now on the table, the IRS would become the main agency for determining who has an “acceptable” health insurance plan; for finding and punishing those who don’t have such a plan; for subsidizing individual health insurance costs through the issuance of a tax credits; and for enforcing the rules on those who attempt to opt out, abuse, or game the system.

A substantial portion of H.R. 3200, the House health care bill, is devoted to amending the Internal Revenue Code of 1986 in order to give the IRS the authority to perform these new duties.

The Democrats’ plan would require all Americans to have “acceptable” insurance coverage (the legislation includes long and complex definitions of “acceptable”) and would designate the IRS as the agency charged with enforcing that requirement.

On your yearly 1040 tax return, you would be required to attest that you have “acceptable” coverage. Of course, you might be lying, or simply confused about whether or not you are covered, so the IRS would need a way to check your claim for accuracy.

Under current plans, insurers would be required to submit to the IRS something like the 1099 form in which taxpayers report outside income. The IRS would then check the information it receives from the insurers against what you have submitted on your tax form.

If it all matches up, you’re fine. If it doesn’t, you will hear from the IRS. And if you don’t have “acceptable” coverage, you will be subject to substantial fines — fines that will be administered by the IRS.

http://www.washingtonexaminer.com/politics/Health-care-reform-means-more-power-for-the-IRS-56781377.html

Does Obama Face a 2012 Challenge In His Own Party?
Leading liberals are already thinking the unthinkable: Challenging President Obama for the Democratic nomination in 2012.

According to a report on the left-leaning Huffington Post website, MSNBC host Keith Olbermann and Eugene Robinson, an African-American national columnist for The Washington Post, discussed just such a possibility Thursday night. Robinson said Obama needs to be careful how he handles the health care reform issue and the continuing wars in Afghanistan and Iraq.

Olbermann said the president has “compromised on everything so far and as self-defeating as it may be, the progressive caucus and progressives would abandon him if necessary, if this was to be the policy of this administration into 2012. If it’s necessary to find somebody to run against him, I think they’d do it, no matter how destructive that may seem.”

But just over a month ago, before the president signaled a willingness to give up on the so-called public option element of his health care reform plan, voters were evenly divided over whether Hillary Rodham Clinton would challenge Obama for the Democratic Party’s presidential nomination in 2012 . Clinton, after all, was a very close second for the party’s nomination last year.

(Want afree daily e-mail update? If it’s in the news, it’s in our polls). Rasmussen Reports updates are also available on Twitter or Facebook .

In a Rasmussen Reports national telephone survey taken the nights of July 30 and 31, 44% of voters said Clinton was at least somewhat likely to challenge Obama in 2012. Eighteen percent (18%) said she was very likely to do so.

Forty-six percent (46%) thought a Clinton challenge in the next presidential election cycle was unlikely, with 30% saying it was not very likely and 16% viewing it as not at all likely.

Interestingly, the numbers were almost identical among just Democratic voters alone, including 17% who said a Clinton challenge in 2012 was very likely and 16% who said it was not at all likely.

This was before Obama, in the face of substantial national protest, appeared to abandon the idea of a government-run health insurance company to compete with private insurers. But support among Democrats for the president’s health care plan collapses when the public option is removed.

In the late July survey, liberal voters, who are the most outraged by the potential elimination of the public option, also were already evenly divided over the possibility of an Obama-Clinton match-up in 2012.

Forty-eight percent (48%) saw it as a possibility, while 49% did not. Just three percent (3%) had no opinion. But again 16% said it was very likely, and 17% said it was not at all likely.

Rasmussen
sorry can’t seem to capture the link

goandersen 09.04.09 at 2:29 pm

OMG is it true?? Did we actually have a dittogo sighting today???

Once you grow tired of the taste of Kool-aid, you never drink from the cup again.
I never imagined that so many obots would consider Him as a one term President………this soon.

Yeeeeeeeeehaw!

Hello all.
Just peeking in to see what is boiling here.
BO is getting his little Brown Shirts indoctrinated.
I think the general public ought to threaten to have their kids boycott classes if he goes through with his little speech at school.

China’s national flag to go up in White House on Sept 20
By Hou Lei (chinadaily.com.cn)
Updated: 2009-07-13 16:45
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I do not see a problem with this.

The U.S. is still formalizing our (national) relations.

I grew up with Chinese around, they are my neighbors, landlords, patrons, etc. and this will be an extremely symbolically, hopefully auspicious, gesture for them. Not many people are aware that in 2001, we were in a very hot potential Kilauea/Katrina with China – I witnessed the activity. Net warfare was going on then. I cannot express what the actual importance this has to us, other than a ‘patriotic’ mass foaming of the mouth.

I am trying to strategize how to be an informal citizen-diplomat, understanding world citizen and improve our be a part of the ground game of honest neutral people-group interactions. It is our similarities with our co-worlders. If you understand the pan-Asian concept of honor, and if most people here in our land do as well, then you will do the honorable thing and beat your opponent, if you can. The relations between our two countries are unavoidable.

Being emotional/oppositional is not going to get Americans ahead in the situation right now. Until we make laws restricting imported goods from foreign labor exploited by extraterritorial governments, or Multinational corporations, (in effect both of the foregoing are both) whether totalitarian, fascistic, evil, whatnot, and movement of goods, money, and the decimation of the middle class and exploitation of the poor, and services within our borders, net, etc. We lose.

#160 Persephone
And what about the science czar and reproductive rights? I am pro-choice, no forced pregnancies OR abortions. These strange people don’t bode well for feminists.

http://www.washingtonexaminer.com/opinion/blogs/beltway-confidential/Obamas-science-czar-suggested-compulsory-abortion-sterilization-50783612.html

y’all’s gotta put up with my deeeeeeeeepppppp thououuuuuuggggghhhhhhtttts until Murphy changes the thread

my current status deep thoughticous inspired me to find a novel smilie (and make up fake words)