I’m f*&^in pissed off, I’ve had enough and I’m done humoring the idiots I deal with daily who buy Gadsden flags (Dont tread on me) claiming some sort of connection to our revolution and our nations Christian roots, those who whale and scream about ‘socializing’ healthcare and try to bully us into backing down. Listen up you morons you cant have it both ways.
If you claim our nation was founded on christion ideals then woe unto you when you go to your christian reward and have to answer for your sins. Standing against healthcare for those who have no health care is tantamount to murder, a fine example of greed and selfishness. I dont believe Jesus would condone any of it. Each and every arguement against universal health care and health care reform in genral is IMHO an afront to the very Christ you claim to follow. You remember Sunday school ya know charity, compassion, Love one another v. greed,sloth, murder. To those assholes in the insurance industries, pharma, nursing homes, hospitals and related professions who are fighting to stop reform I hope theres a special place in hell for ya.
To the Teabaggers and related folk. You are a joke. Dont even think you have some sort of link to the founding fathers of our nation. Our revolution was founded on the idea that because we didnt have a voice in parliment we had no representation hence we lived under edicts. Here in the U.S. we have a vote. I’ll grant you our system isnt perfect by a long shot but we still have a vote which means a lot and fundamentally seperates both you and I from our forfathers.
So what it comes down to is this, GROW UP, STFU, and to qoute so many of you ‘if you dont like it leave’ this nation isn’t your’s it’s ours al of us and we the majority won. Your pathetic ‘I want my America back’ line of bull is, hopefully, the last gast of a shrinking white dominated holier than thow, my way or the lynch mob, have and have not master and serf culture thats being replaced by one of tolerance, acceptance, charity, equity, equinemity, equality and dare I say maybe some day the ultimate christian ideal LOVE.
Tag: health care reform
Aug 07 2009
IT’S CALLED MURDER
Aug 06 2009
Have you Hugged your Insurance Company Lately?
If you’re lucky enough to still have Insurance —
1 in 7 Americans Don’t have that Luxury, by the way —
Well you might not feel so Lucky, after learning how much more of the Insurance Premium tab, you have been picking up, over the last several years.
Health Insurance is a “Benefit” of Employment — yeah Right!
A Benefit to the Employer, to keep you locked in your lousy Job.
A Benefit to the Insurer, who has a guaranteed source of Income, every time you get a paycheck!
That “Lucky Insurance Policy” has been to costing you more and more, each year, while promising you less and less, in terms of coverage … this squeeze has been happening for years!
Something is seriously wrong with this Nation’s Broken Health Insurance system …
Aug 06 2009
The Beginning Of Political Violence Over Reform
The Dog is never one to encourage anger or rage in political discourse. There are a couple reasons for this. First anger while an effective short term movitator is not the kind of argument which wins elections. When you have a candidate who is angry and is not putting forth a positive vision, that candidate loses. It is true as well when we are working on policy. Too much anger in our tone allows those we are trying to influence to discount what we are saying as unserious. Can there be any doubt why the Right in the form of Boss Limbaugh and Sean Hannity are trying to hang the “angry black man” label around the president?
Aug 05 2009
Health Care Reform Town Hall Advice
The Dog has been talking to some of his friends in the thick of the fight for health care reform. We are doing a moderately good job of calling and e-mailing and faxing Reps and Senators, but now with the August recess about to be in full swing there is more we need to do. We have seen the Astroturf forces from the Insurance and Health Care lobbies working to disrupt Town Hall meetings, which show our next area where we need to put in some time.
“Originally posted at Squarestate.net“
Aug 04 2009
They’re only numbers … the Unemployed, the Uninsured, the Unnecessary Deaths
Medical bills prompt more than 60 percent of U.S. bankruptcies
By Theresa Tamkins — CNN, June 5, 2009
This year, an estimated 1.5 million Americans will declare bankruptcy. Many people may chalk up that misfortune to overspending or a lavish lifestyle, but a new study suggests that more than 60 percent of people who go bankrupt are actually capsized by medical bills.
Bankruptcies due to medical bills increased by nearly 50 percent in a six-year period, from 46 percent in 2001 to 62 percent in 2007, and most of those who filed for bankruptcy were middle-class, well-educated homeowners, according to a report that will be published in the August issue of The American Journal of Medicine.
1.5 million Americans x 60% = 900,000 Americans
that’s about 2500 more people per day
… going bankrupt from medical bills, which were NOT covered by our broken Health Insurance system
Aug 02 2009
Insurance Industry Exec admits Michael Moore was RIGHT about Health Care
Former CIGNA Exec Wendell Potter, says Michael Moore was right!
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v…
WENDELL POTTER: I thought that he hit the nail on the head with his movie.
But the [Insurance] Industry, from the moment that the Industry learned that Michael Moore was taking on the health care industry, it was really concerned.
BILL MOYERS: What were they afraid of?
WENDELL POTTER: They were afraid that people would believe Michael Moore.
Aug 02 2009
Pelosi to Insurance Giants: your “Glory Days” are over!
The Speaker of the House, took a break from serious legislation, to spell out their plan for Messaging …
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v…
Nancy Pelosi:
You see CEOs of these Industries making millions of dollars a year — indeed many of them a million dollars a month — for their ‘Leadership’ in withholding benefits, to people in NEED of Health.
let the Drum beating, begin …
Jul 31 2009
Tell Us All Why
For far too long, I’ve heard progressives say we have to be polite when we contact the politicians who keep betraying us. For years, I’ve heard them say we can’t be “rude”, we have to be civil, we have to be respectful. Although they’ve acknowledged that war criminals and their enablers in Congress don’t deserve any respect, they insist that we have to be respectful anyway. That’s what we’ve been told, that’s what we’re still being told.
I’ve had my fill of that. This isn’t complicated. We can either be progressives, or we can be hypocrites. From what I’ve seen, being respectful hypocrites hasn’t accomplished a whole lot. Except for Kos, he has a Newsweek column now, and respectful hypocrite traffic at that Democratic Fan Club of his is at an all time high. This has been presented as an encouraging development, and who can possibly disagree, for as the graph below clearly demonstrates, there’s a direct correlation between higher Daily Kos traffic and spectacular Democratic triumphs in Washington . . .
Yet somehow, many Democrats still feel an extremely compelling urge to betray us. Bush and Cheney went on a crime rampage for 8 years, but Democrats won’t hold them accountable. They won’t prosecute Wall Street criminals for gutting our economy, they’re rewarding them for it. Our health care system is a travesty, the corporate media is a propaganda shithole, the Fed is a Machiavellian nightmare, rightwing madness is escalating, the fuse of economic collapse is still burning, and Congress is still a snakepit of corruption.
Whether the President wants to admit it or not,
You can see it in the paper, read it on the wall,
Hear it on the wind, if you’re listening at all.
Jul 29 2009
Obama’s health care counterrevolution
Original article, by Kate Randall and Barry Grey, via World Socialist Web Site:
The New York Times is spearheading the campaign for President Obama’s health care proposals. His drive for an overhaul of the health care system, far from representing a reform designed to provide universal coverage and increased access to quality care, marks an unprecedented attack on health care for the working population. It is an effort to roll back social gains associated with the enactment of Medicare in 1965.
Jul 26 2009
Congressional Recess Action – It Is A Good Thing They Are Coming Home!
Okay, so there is a lot of consternation about the apparent willingness of the Congress to recess prior to having a health care reform bill from each house finished. The usual doom and gloom birds have been circling and crying that the public option is doomed, we have lost just because the Congress is going to miss a very tight deadline put forth by the president. The Dog would like to point out a couple of things and suggest a course of action.
Jul 26 2009
The Media gladly enables Canadian Strawmen, while silencing Real Doctors
The President gave a compelling prime time Press Conference last week mostly about Health Care Reform — the most pressing Issue of our time, and what was the lead story for the next several days?
The merits of Public Option competition?
The plight of 14,000 citizens losing their Health Insurance each day?
No, the lead story was the President’s take on the arrest of his friend — on the emotionally charged “wedge issue” of Racial Profiling. A worthy discussion, no doubt —
But what about the issues of Health Care Reform? What about that Debate?
Of course the Media has been failing to have a Real Health Care Debate for some time now …
ABC Censors Obama’s Longtime Doctor, Dr. Scheiner
Jul 24 2009
Impossible Things, Things Like Health Care
Jorge Luis Borges (photo by Diane Arbus)
Some of Jorge Luis Borges’s stories seem to be mined from that deep dream filled gap between being awake and being asleep. It’s a magical space: vivid events occur that are at once as real as they are impossible. If the sleeper wakes, sometimes the impossibilities are revealed. And then there’s wondering: how could anything that defies physical reality appear to be so real.
In “The Disk,” a story from The Book of Sand (El Libro de Arena)(1975), the impossible object is the “disk of Odin”:
“It is the disk of Odin,” the old man said in a patient voice, as though he were speaking to a child. “It has but one side. There is not another thing on earh that has but one side. So long as I hold it in my hand I shall be king.”
Ordinarily, objects are in three dimensions. Here one appears that has only a single side. Of course, it would be more or less invisible. And physically impossible on earth.
This, of course, is not entirely correct. The Moebius strip, discovered in 1858, has only one side and one boundary component. But that’s not important to the story.
The person with the disk eventually “opened his hand, and [the narrator] saw the gleam of the disk in the air.” But when he returned to where the disk was released, he couldn’t find it. And he’s been looking for it for years. In other words, the disk of Odin vanishes like a dream.
This kind of impossibility sometimes possesses far larger objects.
Italo Calvino
Italo Calvino tells us of this “Invisible City”:
When you have forded the river, when you have crossed the mountain pass, you suddenly find before you the city of Moriana, its alabaster gates transparent in the sunlight, its coral columns supporting pediments encrusted with serpentine, its villas all of glass like aquariums where the shadows of dancing girls with silvery scales swim beneath the Medusa-shaped chandeliers. If this is not your first journey, you already know that cities like this have an obverse: you have only to walk a semi-circle and you will come into view of Moriana’s hidden face, an expanse of rusting sheet metal, sack cloths, planks bristling with spikes, pipes black with soot, piles of tins, behind walls with fading signs, frames of staved-in straw chairs, ropes good only for hanging oneself from a rotten beam.
From one part to the other, the city seems to continue, in perspective, multiplying its repertory of images: but instead it has no thickness, it consists only of a face and an obverse, like a sheet of paper, with a figure on either side, which can neither be separated nor look at each other.
Alas, the city is a two dimensional solid, another escapee from the chasm between waking and dreaming.
In the moments between sleep and wakefulness these objects seem tangible to me. The city is flat, but it’s a city. The disk glimmers. I know I’m dreaming, but I try to remember to hold onto the dream so that I will be able to examine it more fully when I am awake. But as I awake, as my sleep falls away, the fallacy arises, and the object I am clenching so tightly in my fist, disappears. What was it? I wonder, how could that be? What was that? But it’s gone.
All of this is so reminiscent of the Lankavatara Sutra, “Things are not as they appear, nor are they otherwise.”
Which brings me ever so reluctantly to the elusive dream of a national, single payer health care system. In the dream, I am drinking rum and playing dominoes. Somehow, my empty glass falls off the table, lands on the cement walkway, and shatters. Somehow, probably because of the drinking and the kidding around, I cut my hand deeply on the glass when I try to pick up the shards. My hand hurts and it is bleeding badly. My friends are surprised that there’s so much blood, so they wrap my hand in a bandage, and we head on foot for the emergency room which is luckily only two blocks away. When we enter, a man sitting at a desk says to me and my friends, “I see you’ve cut your hand. Please come with me so we can take care of it.” And then, mirabile dictu, he does. Just like that. I’m out of the hospital in 20 minutes with 3 stitches and a nice, white bandage. It seems strange to me. Nobody asks me questions about insurance or citizenship. They don’t ask me to pay for anything. When I wake up, I realize it was a dream. It was impossible. I must have been in Cuba.
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cross-posted from The Dream Antilles