Sunday, November 8, 2009

Headlines - Sunday

House passes health care bill 220-215.
1 Republican voted yes, so it's bipartisan.
39 Dems voted no. Mine was one of them:
 
Jim Matheson
 
Ed Markey (D-MA) said GOP now stands for Grandstand, Oppose, and Pretend. 
 
The legislation would require most Americans to carry insurance and provide federal subsidies to those who otherwise could not afford it. Which of course means they'll get it for free but I'll have to keep paying thru the nose. Large companies would have to offer coverage to their employees. Both consumers and companies would be slapped with penalties if they defied the government's mandates. And if it's cheaper to pay the fines than to buy the coverage, what then?

Insurance industry practices such as denying coverage because of pre-existing medical conditions would be banned, and insurers would no longer be able to charge higher premiums on the basis of gender or medical history. The industry would also lose its exemption from federal antitrust restrictions on price fixing and market allocation.

At its core, the measure would create a federally regulated marketplace where consumers could shop for coverage. In the bill's most controversial provision, the government would sell insurance, although the Congressional Budget Office forecasts that premiums for it would be more expensive than for policies sold by private companies. Oh great. So there's a public option, but it will cost more than I'm paying now? Where can I sign up?

Pelosi

"That was easy," the speaker said with a smile." Yes, easy to be in the majority and get one Republican vote.

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epic fail pictures
 
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No wonder they don't care about us: 237 millionaires in Congress.
 
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NATO kills at least 8 in Afghan 'friendly fire' incident. 
 
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The Obama administration is talking tough to (illegitimate) Afghan President Hamid Karzai about the need for decisive action on corruption and governance reform, but its main objective is to prevent particularly corrupt and incompetent warlords from getting plum ministries as rewards for helping clinch his fraudulent reelection.
 
Read that again. 
 
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Robert Fisk: America is Performing Its Familiar Role of Propping Up a Dictator
 
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This picture isn't photoshopped. It's a shot of a retreating glacier taken in Norway.
 
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Unemployment up dramatically! Stocks rise! Huh?
 
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Really? You'd rather be waterboarded?

 

Sadly, people like her reproduce.

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Outrageous GOP Health Care Grandstanding Includes A Baby As A prop

"Mattie believes in freedom! She says, 'If you want health care, pay for it yourself!'" Sickening grandstanding from the GOP. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qC9lWoI43Qo&feature=player_embedded

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Back in 2006, a wise man said this:

It's time to admit that no amount of American lives can resolve the political disagreement that lies at the heart of someone else's civil war.

And yet, three years and a rather precipitous political ascent later, that same person - now President Barack Obama - is contemplating just how many more troops to add to Afghanistan's roiling civil war - that would be on top of the 21,000 additional troops already deployed by Obama. Nader Mousavizadeh is right about the nature of the conflict in Afghanistan, and our ability to impose a solution through enduring military occupation.

Keep reading: http://obsidianwings.blogs.com/obsidian_wings/2009/11/you-understand-less-as-the-pages-turn.html

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Religious crazies

There's a bus driver in Atlanta who decided he wouldn't let passengers off his bus if they wouldn't pray with him,  and a schoolteacher who thinks the Book of Revelation has warned her about fingerprints.

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Equine etiquette: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XIHwA7bwRzc&feature=player_embedded

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In all, more than one out of every six workers — 17.5 percent — were unemployed or underemployed in October. The previous recorded high was 17.1 percent, in December 1982.

This includes the officially unemployed, who have looked for work in the last four weeks. It also includes discouraged workers, who have looked in the past year, as well as millions of part-time workers who want to be working full time.

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Every American should watch this: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vm-tFt3Itoc

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