It would seem that most of my regulars are on vacation. TPMtv is always there for us though. They seem to think we had a wee wee week.
Friday August 21, 2009, the Day in 100 seconds.
Damn it! I think I just had a little accident. Excuse me while I take care of that.
John posted this in another diary, but it is worth repeating. I only wish more politicians would deal with these idiots in the same way.
Way to go Barney!
What I don’t understand is how on earth these people are beating us?
Tuesday August 19, 2009 in 100 seconds.
We cannot lose this battle.
Wednesday August 20, 2009 in 100 seconds
Wee wee’d up? Heh, that is even better than the silly season.
It would appear that Tom Rigde is telling a few secrets about his tenure in the bush pseudo administration. To my absolute shock and horror (snark), Ridge states that he quit as Director of Homeland Security because he felt the bushies used terror levels to “win” the 2004 election. He said that he was pressured to raise the level after the Democratic Convention and just before the election.
There is more. Chris Matthews discussed it on his show today. Hopefully I can find a clip later and post it.
**Video Update** Not Matthews but KO covered it well enough.
This does not surprise me in the slightest. Can we count the ways that the bushies broke the law?
(Also at Nevada Progressive)
This fall, Maine will face a special election. And no, this isn’t just any special election. Once more, LGBT families are under attack. This time, the same H8ful forces that stripped millions of Californians of their Constitutional rights want to do the same evil thing in Maine.
This must stop. We must stop the radical right’s assault on LGBT families, and we have a chance to do so in Maine this year.
I’m sitting on the back porch of my house in Sarasota, Florida for among the last nights before we move to Raleigh, North Carolina. It’s a good move, the kids are looking forward to it and I’ve been flying there a couple times a month for the most of the two years we’ve lived here so I’m looking forward to driving to work
, it’s a Still it’s a melancholy Raleigh a great area with wonderful weather and forests and lakes
The lounge is open for business, and I am sitting back sipping some rum and juice coffee beer, reading teh interwebs, looking for something other than health care reform (blah blah blah) to entertain me…pull up a chair and kick it old skool with me, moosey peeps.
Please feel free to use the text below to let your representatives know your opinion on this issue. Select and copy the text below then click here to send a message to your congressional representative and senators.
I urge you to co-sponsor H.R. 676, the “Medicare For All” Bill introduced by Rep. John Conyers.
Our health care system is broken. We spend over $2.3 trillion, or $7,500 per capita, for healthcare in the US, yet 42% of people under 65 have inadequate or no insurance coverage. At least 18,000 of them die unnecessarily each year as a result.
Every other industrialized country in the world makes sure its population has access to basic healthcare. The United States is the only industrialized nation that does not guarantee access to health care as a human right.
28 industrialized nations have single payer universal health care systems like the type proposed in this bill – privately delivered health care, publicly financed – and none spend as much per capita on health care as the United States. The United States ranks near the bottom among industrial countries in indicators from life expectancy (20th) to infant mortality (23rd).
Under H.R. 676, a family of four making the median income of $56,200 would pay about $2,700 in payroll tax for all health care costs. No deductibles, no co-pays, no worrying about catastrophic coverage.
The services covered include primary care, inpatient, outpatient and emergency hospital care, prescription drugs, durable medical equipment, hearing, dental and vision care, chiropractic treatment, mental health services, and long-term care.
Physicians for a National Health Program estimates the nation could save over $286 billion dollars a year in total health care costs. That’s enough to cover all the uninsured and provide full prescription drug coverage for everyone in the United States.
60% of physicians now support a national, single-payer health insurance system for everyone. HR 676 has been endorsed by 463 union organizations in 49 states including 116 Central Labor Councils and Area Labor Federations and 39 state AFL-CIO’s.
No other issue so directly impacts Americans. Please sign on to co-sponsor this vital bill. I look forward to hearing your thoughts.
Headzup is back! Yay! Send them some love from the Moose.
Every so often I get an extreme case of the ‘wows’. This has been occurring with greater frequency lately.
In fact, here is another slack jaw, drool inducer right here.
Babababababababababababababababababababababababagagagagagagagagagagagagagagagagagagagabububububububububu. It sucks to be at a loss for words.
Why is bush bugging me less these days? It is as if I am giving him a Ronnie pass.