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Yes!
I'd like to see the insurance companies go away. Don't expect it, but...
Got the most ridiculous email from a friend yesterday, delineating all the horrible things "Obama" wants to do to you with this healthcare reform, including killing off your grandma. As if! Desparate people do desparate things and say ridicuous stuff.
"Courtesy is owed. Respect is earned. Love is given." --Unknown author, found in Guide to Texas Etiquette by Kinky Friedman
I on the other hand feel that single payer is a compromise from full national health.
statusquObama, change you can only pretend in
in New York City this past Tuesday.
They presented ABC with 12,500 petitions protesting the fact that ABC has excluded any guests who represent Single-Payer Health Care from the debate, especially from the "Town Hall Forum On Health Care: Prescription for America" where President Obama's personal physician, Dr. David Scheiner, was "disinvited" after they discovered he supports a "Medicare for All" health care system in the U.S.
Here are the links:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9gN4cc0XvIk
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=C2BSvfyoI9Y
There were several excellent speakers at this event, including Isabel Macdonald from F.A.I.R., Katie Robbins from Healthcare Now! who was recently arrested in D.C. with doctors and nurses at a Congressional Hearing and a doctor from Physicians for a National Health Program.
Thanks for watching and sharing...
"The US has an army of 90,000 soldiers in Afghanistan and is spending $100bn a year, but has still been unable to defeat 20,000-25,000 Taliban who receive no pay at all." - Patrick Cockburn
national health is better than no health that we have with ALL PROFIT we now have.
I saw the first show ever on Hockey Night in Canada. I nominate Bluegal for the US ambassador to Canada. Bob and Doug are so Canadian and the good kind of rednecks too. Stubby bottles oh how I miss you.
I like their beer case furniture. I did that at university, until I needed the deposit money. Back then, each ssquare was worth $1.20. Student Gold.
Mac and cheese was 4 boxes for $0.99. Student Food.
far left loon >.<
Way back in the cupboard is a box of KD and thats what I'll have tonight. Remember how empty the place looked after cashing in all the 24's of empties and how fast they filled up again. We should remember that lots of places are just getting started with recycling cans/bottles and we've been doing it for decades up here. In the Yukon its 5 cents/can 10 cents/beer bottle, 25 cents/hard booze 26oz. Gonna guess at 80%+ gets recycled.
I wish we still did our pop bottles (that's soda to Americans), and got rid of cans and plastic. Kids made a living making sure all those glass bottles returned to the corner stores (and re-used.)
far left loon >.<
Wisconsin, too, I think. And we wear tennis shoes, not sneakers.
As for the deposit law, I think it works great here. I remember what the shoulders of the highways used to look like before we passed ours. I don't think enterprising young'ns working the shoulder of the interstates is a good idea.
Don't try to confuse the issue with half-truths and gorilla dust.
I call 'em running shoes. I thought sneakers was American. Guess it depends which state you hale from.
When I worked at the A&P, in high school, some Americans came in asking for cold soda. I didn't know what the hell they were talking about so I sent them to the baking aisle (cold soda/baking soda). When they found me again, they thought I had rocks in my head.
Back when we had our pop-bottle desposti laws, Canada was clean as a whistle. People were horrified to see even a scrap of paper on the ground. Total NO NO!!! The highways were clean. (It's not so clean anymore.)
far left loon >.<
Its pop, soda, soda pop and coke(for all kinds) ie I'd like a coke. What flavor?
Shoes. Sneakers, tennis shoes, gym shoes. Those are the ones I remember anyway.
The part of the country that calls all of it coke, sounds kinda strange to me. Pop is CORRECT ;), but I can dig soda and soda pop. I never drink the stuff (any flavour) so I guess I shouldn't care.
I'm not a health freak, it's just simple natural foods taste best to me. And I know how to cook. My drink of choice is water, and always has been, even as a kid.
[Except for whe it was beer (wobbly pop), whiskey, and gin, but those days are long over.]
far left loon >.<
I didn't forget them, but that term was reserved for a specific type of shoes. Unlike tennis shoes :) or gym shoes. Sorta like work boots, there is the basic type, then there is the steel toe and the metatarsal. Running shoes are a bit more specific.
Cannucks, eh? Someone here called us hockey pucks, today. Ha ha ha. I love it. Can't wait to use it.
far left loon >.<
Must be a Midwestern thing.
you are taking me back 60+ years to Wisconsin where I grew up.
I had lots of popsicles for empty coke bottles returned. (Pepsi bottles also.)
I also recall 2 pieces of Double Bubble gum, per bottle.
Gum $.01
pop sicle $.05
THOSE WERE THE DAYS, MY FRIEND.
Love those guys!!!
The Red Green Show is also amongst my favorite Canuck programs!
Haven't seen it in like, ya know...a million years.
I just saw him last week on KUID. I think he is in reruns, tho. Love that Bob and Doug; and their movie "Hamlet", excuse me, "Strange Brew." Some classic scenes in that thing.
I like Bob and Doug -- it's a guilty pleasure. I can't stomach Red Green though. I mean, how many K-Cars can you duct tape together? The guy that plays his nephew on the show has actually shown to be a decent actor in other roles...
Full National Health!
The Saga of Abbybwood, l'il Al and Nancy Pelosi here
statusquObama, change you can only pretend in
Great posts by us with Pelosi, eh??!
Did you watch the video I shot in NYC yet?
Isabel Macdonald was on fire! Come to think about it...ALL the speakers were GREAT!!!
"The US has an army of 90,000 soldiers in Afghanistan and is spending $100bn a year, but has still been unable to defeat 20,000-25,000 Taliban who receive no pay at all." - Patrick Cockburn
Thanks for the link!
It's always heartening to see the blogosphere (us, right?) actually having an impact.
Congrats to Abbybwood, l'il Al .. and Nancy Pelosi ;)
When will government of the people, by the politicians, for the corporations perish from this Earth?
Not soon enough!
http://therealnews.com/t/index.php?option=com...
we can't forget the Employee Free Choice Act......BIG business and corporations are taking advantage of this recession to lower wages/benefits. the cuts can't always be put on workers.
not a business owner, and I've worked union and non union jobs. And have a couple of very pro-union family members. All of them and myself are against card check for several reasons.
In that video she says 70-80% signs the cards the unions in. From what I've read its 51% and I've heard proposals for as low as 40%. That will lead to unions pressuring employees to sign, with the secret ballot they have no idea who voted for what so there can be no pressure. I've a buddy that went through that, just to get enough signatures to get a vote, they wen't to the local bars and harassed the employees, and even showed up at his door 3 times, last time was with 3 large union members. He told them they were trespassing and forbid them from returning. Then sent a letter to the union stating they were not welcome on his property and any further visits would be trespassing and he would prosecute.
Same with the company, they don't know how the individual employees voted. So there can be no recriminations.
She also states it should be up to the workers to have a vote. Under proposals that I've heard its the union that decides.
Trilateral Member Hormats nominated to State Department
By Patrick Wood, Editor
On July 18, 2009, another Trilateral Commission member has been nominated to a strategic post in the Obama administration, bringing the total number of Obama's Trilateral appointees to twelve.
http://www.augustreview.com/news_commentary/t...
the dude also works for Goldman Sachs!!! (shocking)..
audit-prosecute-incarcerate
.........forgot Geither, Summers, Paulson. The largest profiteer/gangster on F**KINGWALLSTREET! BLOODYISRAEL's 'change regimes specialist' ......Zionists every single one!!!!! God did not 'choose' the Jews, He fingered them as the single worst threat to humanity's survival on the planet.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=l2oPio60mK4
Diabolus est Deus Inversus
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ItkQd675H0s&fe...
audit-prosecute-incarcerate
By BETSY MCKAY
The medical costs of treating obesity-related diseases may have soared as high as $147 billion in 2008, the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention said Monday, as its new director set a fresh tone in favor of more aggressively attacking obesity.
The cost of treating obesity doubled over a decade, signaling the rising prevalence of excess weight and the toll it is taking on the health-care system. The medical costs of obesity were estimated to be $74 billion in 1998, according to a study by federal government researchers and RTI International, a nonprofit research institute in Research Triangle Park, N.C.
The findings were released at a conference on obesity held by the CDC in Washington, D.C. The prevalence of obesity rose 37% between 1998 and 2006, and medical costs climbed to about 9.1% of all U.S. medical costs, the researchers said.
Obese people spent 42% more than people of normal weight on medical costs in 2006, a difference of $1,429, the study found. Prescription drugs accounted for much of the increase.
http://online.wsj.com/article/SB1000142405297...
Salt, sugar- worse, high fructose corn syrup- and fats are used to cheaply flavor cheap food. You want healthy food, you're going to pay more for it. There's a reason that the poorer an American is, the more likely it is that s/he's obese.
You want to fight obesity, you can start by getting rid of corn subsidies. Then you can regulate portion sizes at restaurants.
Don't try to confuse the issue with half-truths and gorilla dust.
Man your portions are HUMUNGOUS down there. It always freaks me out. (Maybe they're big in Canada now, too? Been a while.)
far left loon >.<
My stomach has NEVER been as big as my eyes...Well, except when I was playing high school soccer. I could eat a horse and still lose weight. I was 5'9 1/2", weighed 125 lbs. in the winter, but I would get down to about 110-115 lbs. during the season. All of my weight was in my legs, and it was all muscle.
Don't try to confuse the issue with half-truths and gorilla dust.
I never stopped eating in high school.
I am the same height (but I say 5' 10"), and I was a svelte 160 lbs. That was a 30" waist (or maybe less). 110 lbs. is quite thin.
PS No one has ever challenged me on that extra 1/2" I added to my height ;)
PPS It does tell me you are a very honest person
far left loon >.<
There are people who eat at AYCE buffet's that have no business being there.
Sweets, carbohydrates,and starch, and for the most part the preparation and presentation would get a grade F.
I have a permanent boycott on all buffet's. Yes, some are damned good, but if you don't stuff yourself you feel cheated.........burph*!
'Talk to the hand'
hell with that. One of the local Chinese buffet is great. I get to eat a large variety of very tasty different dishes. Although they are small portions.The Chinese buffet I don't over stuff myself (usually). And mainly high in vegetables and grains(love their fried rice). A good Brazilian steakhouse, yes I overstuff, hell I train for that. But sweets, carbs and starch are at a very minimum there(virtually nonexistent for me).
http://www.fogodechao.com
For the price yes I'm going to try to get my moneys worth.
also adds to weight gain.
Cheap corn is used to feed cattle. With artificially cheap corn, you can fatten up a head of cattle more and more quickly. That translates to more beef on the plate or bun. Also translates to more fat rendered into flavoring additives.
Don't try to confuse the issue with half-truths and gorilla dust.
a heavy corn/corn product diet and corn fed stock equate to a inflammatory process. heart conditions and type II diabetes
Europeans did not evolve with corn. I have a feeling indigenous people from the areas where corn was first cultivated have a much easier time with it.
me-oww!
You mean like my friend always says, "Corn is for pigs and cows and even they can't digest it?"
I had no idea about all this corn stuff, but I eat very little processed food or meat.
far left loon >.<
get it right. Its "veggies aren't food, its what you feed to food" :)
Although grilled corn does make a nice side on a plate of bambi.
do have a point there.
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I avoid both `taters and corn. I sweeten my own diluted fruit juice drinks with stevia, no need for sugared waters. After the economic depression hit, I bought a bunch of staples to see how well I could live on them, grains and beans, and I've thickened up in the middle. Controlled carbohydrate diet isn't the end of all joy. Back onto meats, eggs and whey powder for me.
I tried them staples. My tongue would either stick to the roof of my mouth or my lower jaw, and they hurt like hell.
and when the staples make contact between two metal fillings, you get that weird little muscle spasm in yer jaw.
Africa and Asia?
Don't try to confuse the issue with half-truths and gorilla dust.
i've been told that cheap u.s. subsidized corn went into mexico and put farmers and associated community businesses out of business. the strategy send people to mexico city to work in factories owned by world corporations. "cheap labor"
when the labor costs went to high, they moved the jobs to China or other 3rd world countries. Now they can't compete with the price of subsidized corn.
it permitted agrarian society. For that I'm glad. I'm glad I don't have to eat it.
Edible fruit cracked the door. Pre-neolithic/agrarian humans probably discovered the secret of agriculture via something like apple trees.: Plant the seed, and when we wander back in a few years, we'll have food, ready to eat off the branch.
It had to have taken a long time after that to realize that if you ground up edible grasses that it was highly nutritious. Then came the realization that you can grow grasses much more quickly than you can grow a fruit-bearing tree. Then it was a matter of learning how to irrigate.
Don't try to confuse the issue with half-truths and gorilla dust.
It's recently come to light that corn sweeteners contain high concentrations of mercury.
Evidently one step of the process of making the corn sweeteners involves floating one of the reagents atop a pool of mercury, and that reagent carries the mercury into the final product.
It's also apparently not necessary to use the mercury flotation technique but it is nonetheless widespread in the industry.
When will government of the people, by the politicians, for the corporations perish from this Earth?
Not soon enough!
What an eye opener THAT was!
"The US has an army of 90,000 soldiers in Afghanistan and is spending $100bn a year, but has still been unable to defeat 20,000-25,000 Taliban who receive no pay at all." - Patrick Cockburn
yeah, but Beck thinks its the right of every American to eat all the Doritos he wants to.
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Opening the Caroline County Virginia Family Practice Community Health Center, Michelle Obama promotes Health Care Reform.
From YouTube, the WhiteHouse Channel.
The First Lady Visits Caroline Family Practice
When will government of the people, by the politicians, for the corporations perish from this Earth?
Not soon enough!
Good one BlueGal. I remember staying up late and watching SCTV back in the 80's while I was in Jr. High.
Bill Maher discusses The Family with Jeff Sharlet.
"Morality Is For The Little People" Says The Family To Members Of Congress
When will government of the people, by the politicians, for the corporations perish from this Earth?
Not soon enough!
That discussion was as mesmerizing as it was disturbing (very)
That book is a must read. When I heard about these guys being behind the construction of mega churches on army bases it was like........shit. It wouldnt take much, maybe a few well timed terrorist attacks and these players could consolidate with a group of insiders in the House and Senate there to "take control" and "keep us safe from terrorists", with the army to lock down martial law. It's no longer a matter of if to me, it is more like when.
Radix Omnium Malorum Avaritia
instead of separation of church and state, separation of state and church.
I say separate these guys' heads from their shoulders (non-violently, of course.)
far left loon >.<
I've been following Rachel Maddow's interviews with Sharlet too.
Another singularly disturbing activity of The Family is their dual role in American Foreign Policy - representing as American foreign policy their own brand of Christian Totalitarianism.
VERY dangerous people.
When will government of the people, by the politicians, for the corporations perish from this Earth?
Not soon enough!
they use/sell religion in the battle field also. for some it may have good intentions but for others it helps justify the war. remember BUSH had religious messages on covers of briefings/reports.
it's propoganda to justify killing. some become modern day onward Christian Soldiers.
They have no guilt when it comes to sending other peoples children to die on foreign soil.
With the growing income disparity they grow stronger every year, as our ability to check their power grows weaker.
'Talk to the hand'
Well, not really, but I alway dug these two. I still have their album in my record collection (it's been about 20 years since it was last played but it's in there).
12 days of Christmas
On the first day of Christmas, my true love got for me...a beer.
Unless Pelosi backs down again, and/or the Senate Blue Dogs call it "socialistic", the House goes after exec bonuses. You'd really be helping by taxing them retroactively, though. The RIAA manages to shake down $675,000 from a student downloading a few songs, probably more money than it actually pays artists directly for those songs. Franken's the only Senator who stands up to the engineer behind the Swift Boat ads. Unsurprisingly, Kerry just runs for cover. R.I.P. the anti-shoe lady. How many illegals can you fit in a freezer? How 'bout 96? A Hawaii coach has to apologize for an anti-gay slur. One of our advisors is ready to cut and run and call it a victory. I guess he didn't learn anything from "Mission Accomplished". Our health care system doesn't support the troops.
T nose Pickens, that was the best
I used to watch that all the time...There was one episode that slayed me. I went out one night with my brother and his wife and told them about the episode and when we got home, it was the one that was on. We were pretty high too.
Here it is, the SCTV version of The Cisco Kid Part 1 and The Cisco Kid Part 2
me-oww!
miss_kitty...that was over the top hilarious!!!! Thank you so much for posting that.
As much as I watched SCTV, as any true blue Canadian should, I never saw these...and growing up watching & loving 'The Cisco Kid'...this is just perfect!!
What wonderful relief from the issues of the day. :)
http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?...
a good interview to listen to over the weekend.......if it rains. it's on NPR. maggie mahar author of
Money Driven Medicine-The Real Reason Health Care Cost So Much
of churches feell that torture can be justified while a majority of those that don't attend are against torture.
http://www.consortiumnews.com/2009/073109b.html
F#ck those "morals."
interesting article. i remember when adm. mullen said he was appalled by the torture pictures and info.were shown to him. you know it has to be pretty bad. this is part of the reason this was/is a difficult issue for obama. there's a play by moliere called "Tartuffe" it has some different messages but one is the hypocrisy of some of the self-acclaimed religious types. anyways thanks for the article.
The rumor that a public option would require elderly persons be visited to discuss euthenization. A new low for the republicans.
Thom's Mailbag
From: Viral email
Subject: Obama Health Bill: Those on Social Security - Mandatory Counseling on Asst. Suicide
On Page 425 of Obama's health care bill, the Federal Government will require EVERYONE who is on Social Security to undergo a counseling session every 5 years with the objective being that they will explain to them just how to end their own life earlier. Yes...They are going to push SUICIDE to cut medicare spending!!! And no, I am NOT SH-ing YOU! So those of you who voted for Obama have now put your own parents in dire straights...Congratulations!
Also, planned denial of medical care for seniors.
From: Thom
Yes, you ARE SH-ing us! Not even close. Suicide is not even mentioned.
This is a great example of how the conservatives take a small truth and turn it into a big lie. Section 1233 of the Obama Health Care Plan, called "Advanced Care Planning" should have been in place when my dad was diagnosed with a fatal illness in his late sixties because it assists doctors on how to talk to seniors about end of life issues. Do you have a living will? Do you know about having consent forms if you become incapable of making medical decisions for yourself? Do you have a power of attorney for health care (health care proxy)? Do you know what a "do not resuscitate" order is and is that what you want? Do you know what hospice care is? Do you know what palliative care is? Etc.
"Advanced Care Planning" explains what we will all confront as we reach the end of our lives, what the options are and how to do it. It is not how to end your life, but how to deal with end of life issues in a way that doesn't financially destroy you, doesn't wipe out your money you can give to your children and has options that help you avoid being in great pain. It advises you how to optimize the end of life experience.
Section 1233 looks entirely reasonable and appropriate to me.
bioethics.gov
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...when you breed Sarah Palin with Joe the Plumber.
"Do you realize that fluoridation is the most monstrously conceived and dangerous Communist plot we have ever had to face?" - General Jack D. Ripper
these two characters are true blue Canadian hosers...
The other two mentioned are, well, just 'attention whores'.
More civilian deaths.
This is ObombA and not Bush, so it's ok if he kills innocent people. Don't you know that all those brown people are terrorists? Oh and those evil Taliban now number millions and millions. Al Qaeda? Heck, that's just another name for Taliban. They are a grave threat to global security ya know. Gonna take over the world. Why they are invading nations, and terrorizing millions the world over. /snark off
Guess it's ok for ObombA to kill these people. Afterall, he isn't white like Bush.
Over working conditions for farm workers.
A lost classic!
Powdered doughnuts and beer, hockey, Brewmeister Smith (Max von Sydow!) and Hosehead the flying dog.
Do NOT, under NO circumstances, wolf down 6 chicken sliders after drinkin too much beer...
ugh...
My innards are in open revolt this morning.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uc3SEBA-9nU
As this BBC article asks then, why are French women putting on bikinis again?
Is it the 21st century yet?
I think, can't remember who posted about homebirths.
Anywho, I haven't been commenting for a while because I gave birth at home last Sunday to a very healthy little boy. I have to say, compared to the birth of my eldest in the hospital, it was an incredible experience, very relaxed and calm, despite me hollerin' a bit. I just wanted to say that your post about homebirths was spot on. Six days on from giving birth, I feel relaxed and well; I remember being very tearful with the "baby blues" after my first was born and that just hasn't happened with #2.
My dad and I had a laugh about Sarah Palin and my son being out on the same day!
Ah, sweet memories of SCTV!
What a bunch of Hosers!!!!!
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