Over 1/3 of Americans already in government-run health care

By on September 11, 2009 in Uncategorized

Yesterday, the US Census Bureau released a major report that outlines poverty and other issues in this country including health care coverage. The stats are for 2008. Looking through it today, one thing really stuck out:

Over one-third of Americans are already covered by “government health insurance”.

Over one-third. 255.1 million Americans have health insurance and 87.4 million are “covered by government health insurance”. That’s 34.3%!

And Republicans are worried that the federal government is “taking over” health care? Really?

And, actually, the number is probably higher than that. As pointed out in an article in the Detroit Free Press today:

…the numbers do not reflect the economic downturn in the first half of 2009 when hundreds of thousands of Americans lost their jobs and health insurance.…


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Of forests and trees and public options

By on September 10, 2009 in Democrats

Liberalism: Broad: showing or characterized by broad-mindedness; A political orientation that favors social progress by reform and by changing laws rather than by revolution. (WordNet)

Liberalism: The quality of being liberal; Any political movement founded on the autonomy and personal freedom of the individual, progress and reform, and government by law with the consent of the governed. (Wiktionary)

Liberal:: Broad: showing or characterized by broad-mindedness (WordNet)

That’s us, right? Liberals? Broadminded. Open to new ideas. Not fixed in dogma, tolerant of change.

But to read the words of many so-called liberals today, you’d think they were just the flip side of a coin with far-right wing conservatives on the other side.…


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Tea Baggeritus Sweeps Congress

By on September 9, 2009 in Republican-Fail

Like it or hate it, the President gave his much-anticipated speech tonight. It appears that after a summer of tea bagging screamers with not a shred of decency when it comes to public debate and dialog, the infection has grown beyond the confines of town halls, school gymnasiums, union halls and other public gathering places.

Tonight, during the President’s speech, the Republicans were noisy, rude and offensive. Eric Cantor was busily tweeting away. Others kept holding up copies of bills Republicans have put forward. There was generally a low tone of grumbling and almost-heckling.

But then Joe Wilson (Douchebag, SC) did this:

And finally the tea bagger, screamer tactics arrived in the halls of Congress.…


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R.E.M. and MoveOn.org get it right

By on September 9, 2009 in Uncategorized

We need health insurance reform. We need it NOW. We’re not rushing this through, it’s been sixty long, long years to get to this point. Saying we’re rushing is absurd.

We need reform NOW and we can’t afford to wait any longer.

Watch the vid:

I’m just sayin’…

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Government Porn: To regulate or to schtup? That is the question

By on September 9, 2009 in Republican-Fail, Republicans

I’m sure you’ve seen it by now but, in case you haven’t, this has to be one of the most over-the-top conservative Republican scandals to come along in awhile forever.
Michael Duvall is a conservative Republican state representative from Orange County, California. While waiting for the start of a legislative hearing in July, the 54-year-old married father of two and family values champion began describing, for the benefit of a colleague seated next to him, his ongoing affairs with two different women. In very graphic detail.

There’s the video from the California news station that broke the story HERE.

Over at TPM, they reveal some of the more graphic stuff.…


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Labor Day harvest

Garden Porn: Canning them maters, laboring on Labor Day

By on September 9, 2009 in Uncategorized

Here’s what I guess you could call a “time lapse” panoramic shot of our kitchen that has been flattened out. In other words the left side of the picture connects to the right side. It shows our kitchen from start to finish during the canning process.


Click the photo for a bigger version.

It shows the tomatoes on the cupboard ready to be blanched, tomatoes in the boiling water being blanched and the finished product in jars.

You might also spot a large basket of peppers and another one of onions along with some eggplants and other produce around the place.…


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The Tea Party Express Orgy of Anger

By on September 8, 2009 in Bwahahahahaha, Republican-Fail, Republicans

The Tea Party Express rolled its malevolent way through Michigan today.

Noon: Jackson!
3:30: Brighton!
6:00: Troy!

I was invited by Organizing for America to join a few of my closest Livingston County Democratic, pro-health reform friends to attend the Great D-Bag Tea Bag Extravaganza in Brighton. Why can’t they ever have these things when I don’t have to take fucking vacation time to go to them???!

I left work at 3:00, hit the Brighton exit at about 3:15 and then things got reeee-eeeally weird.

NOTE: Click the photo to pop open a new window with a larger version of the photo.…


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Understanding returning veterans who cry “NOBODY UNDERSTANDS!”

By on September 8, 2009 in Uncategorized

A year ago, a family member returned from Iraq. She was a Major there, involved in moving detainees around, usually at night with no lights on the vehicles. During her time there we believe she was raped by a superior officer though no charges were ever brought.

Conversations with her about the “War in Iraq” were difficult at best. Time and again she would tell us “there’s no way you could UNDERSTAND!” I believed that. How could I understand what she went through?

This past weekend, I watched the movie Taxi to the Dark Side. My inability to understand what she had gone through came sharply into focus as I watched this amazing film.…


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