Money Changes Everything – Cyndi Lauper

Zed said put it n the shed Fred. Tie me Kangaroo down sport.

How’s things?

Good evening

Good evening ES…. how are you doing?

It is the ten o’clock Late Night post with master of ceremonies Eureka Springs. What’s on your mind ES? Stayin cool?

Good old Glenn Greenwald had a great post today:

http://www.salon.com/opinion/g…..index.html

”Obama and transparency: judge for yourself”

a scorecard for how well the new administration is matching its policies with its campaign rhetoric.

its a good starting point for what will be a long, long, long list of betrayals and repudiations.

Hope-n-Change!®

Hi katymine.. feel like someone took me out and the middle of a hot cotton field and gave me a whoopping…

Nothing a good nights rest and another hard day of work wont cure.

THE question is how are you?

Cool is out until October… time to stock up on pink lemonade and ginger ale…)

I give O an F.

He smells like Lieberman more and more with each passing day.

Doing ok…. still have slight vertigo with nausea around noon everyday that started last Thursday….. that day it was a doozy but the doctors put me back on the steroids twice a day. But have been cooking, cleaning, driving and shopping but avoid the noon hour…

The antibiotics cleared up the sinus infection thankfully

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Hey ES!

Somebody send that man a link to google earth! /s

Here is part of a comment on Greenwalds article:

“Obama is a weak, unprincipled and cowardly Democrat with mildy liberal leanings that he easily and conveniently abandons whenever it becomes inconvenient to have them, i.e. when they get in the way of his path of least resistance to wherever it is that he’s taking on.”

Pretty much sums it up for me.

Well I am glad to hear you are able to have some life along with this round. Bless your heart.

Ha

cheers to that.

ES – I also, do not love the smell of Lieberman in the morning.

I was prematurely anti-Lieberman, though – I always thought he was the (D)’s Jesse Helms.

I am really doing well…. either getting paper work done which should of been done months ago or mucking out the house….. my dust bunnies have bunnies in specific places…….

at a time when Democrats have the greatest opportunities with the repugs totally in disarray and out of step with the American people……. the Dems self destruct… they just fail ……

because many of the dems are secret repugs. There is no honor in d.c.

At least it’s perfectly clear why Obama chose Rahm Emanuel as his Chief of Staff.

He did less than nothing for Gore.. that’s for sure. Worst VP pick evah.

When will Americans have had enough of betrayal and do what the Iranians are doing. What courage and class. Iran has 40% unemployment. Maybe that is what it will take here.

Here’s part of a letter my senator Blanche Lincoln sent out this week.

Military Funding Bill Supports Troops in Afghanistan and Iraq

Our troops fighting in Afghanistan and Iraq, including over 1,000 activated reservists from Arkansas in addition to those serving on active duty, deserve every resource we can provide to keep them safe and ensure they are prepared to meet the demands of their missions.
That’s why I’m calling on my Senate colleagues to pass legislation that will provide critical resources to protect our troops fighting overseas.
Funds will support additional troops in Afghanistan and will replace worn-out or damaged equipment so that our forces fighting overseas have the most effective and protective equipment to complete their missions safely and successfully.

After all these years.. she sounds more republican than ever before. I just want to reply with please tell me what kind of prescription you are taking?

yeah, Rahm is good at what he does.

his appointment was a rude gesture towards those who supported Howard Dean’s vision for the Party.

so much for ’reforming’ the mule, or giving it a spine, or what have you.

time to look for a new steed, or grow one from a petri dish, because the Donkey Party will never take us anywhere worth going.

Ooops, I’m tired, messed up the cut and paste.. but you all know the denial.

I mentioned it in scarecrows thread earlier this evening, but i have a feeling we may wish these folks never touched healthcare.

With each passing day I prepare myself to start calling and saying …just don’t do anything. I do not want to be forced by law to purchase private health insurance.

I still secretly like Gore, or want to like him.

but yeah, a VP pick like that did not bode well.

I would like him a lot more if he would step up and call out Obama on any number of issues right now.

LA Times

“Executives of three of the nation’s largest health insurers told federal lawmakers in Washington on Tuesday that they would continue canceling medical coverage for some sick policyholders, despite withering criticism from Republican and Democratic members of Congress who decried the practice as unfair and abusive.”

replying to ES @27:

http://www.counterpunch.org/ccr02212007.html

”Woolhandler called the universal health care law passed in Massachusetts by Governor Mitt Romney ”a hoax.”

”The core idea is the individual mandate forcing uninsured people to go out and buy insurance,” Woolhandler said. ”And if they don’t buy insurance, we are going to fine them. The first year it is an $80 fine. The second year, it’s half the value of the lowest priced policy we’re talking about a $2,000 fine. So, they are saying anyone who earns more than three times poverty has to bear the entire price of a private insurance policy.”

yeah, they could very well make things worse, much worse, by confusing ’coverage for all’ with ’mandatory coverage.’ yikes!

Yup. That’s where this is heading, imo.

just sick and tired of all the crap….. Elmore called Ron Wydan about single payer insurance and was told by a staffer that there are not enough votes in the Senate….. well get that coat off and GET the votes…… someone I thought was a good guy and he betrays us…..

Imagine being just below the trigger line in income… and having an opportunity to earn a few thousand a year more in raises or promotion.. But knowing you shouldn’t improve because of the trigger implications.

Unless that trigger moves way up the income scale.. way way up…It’s going to keep millions of people in some sort of lower income bracket / indentured servitude.

had an amnesia event on this story ….. this one scares the shit out me….. Last year from Sept to the end of December I inured almost a million dollars in billed charges. Thankfully the insurance paid it as the contracted rate but I would have to file for bankruptcy if I was dropped.

Can you imagine dealing with your illness and all the crap associated with a bankruptcy?

Dick Durbin – A No On The Public Option
by Fossil [Subscribe]

Wed Jun 17, 2009 at 03:52:48 PM PDT

I finally got a response from Mr. Durbin after a series of emails and calls where I’ve asked him to support a strong, competitive, public option, and asked what steps he is taking to make that a reality for me and his constituents. From this meager missive, I can only interpret the response as a solid NO for the public option.

Yes.. was nothing short of a miracle my broken arm didn’t cause me to lose everything this year.

Health care
Oversight/Transparancy
Rule of Law
Exit strategy timeline
Equal rights
Bailing out domestic and foriegn banks that made billions destroying the economy
Alternative energy
Climate change
Getting people back to work

Maybe next administration

Maybe the next generation…… oh probably not….. they can’t seem to know or do anything but text each other and party…..

going to head off to bed…. I wish everyone pleasant dreams….. good night everyone

In the meantime, I just go to the ER and pay what I can, when I can. I’m not gonna go untreated because this system is fucked up.

g’ nite katymine..

Need to turn in a bit early myself

good night firedogs

Obama is a bullshitter. Read his books…he finds the easy way. If there are hits to take count him out. I sensed that during the campaign and predicted it in comments here.
But I am shocked that he makes a stunning speech in Cairo while supporting terrorism against Muslim nations with rendition, black hell holes, torture, Military tribunals and no habeous and spying on the citizens of the democracy he so proudly hails.
And Lieberman. his mentor, gets to hide the proof of torture. (obstruction of justice hidden in the cloak of national defense).
Wrong guy wrong job.

I treat myself…I find prevention like eating right staying fit with healty exercise gtowing my omn food that have no poisons. And staying away from the toxins. The veterans poisoned me with Resperidone. The local hospital nuked me…all for mental health. I am not paranoid and I know the life styles of the HMO exec…it’s the money not the Hippocratic oath.

the Donkey Party will never take us anywhere worth going.

Yes, but it’s slow too. Heh.

There’s always a problem like that with any kind of gov’t assistance program. I suggest using a percentage of income instead of fixed dollar amounts, so that if you earn $100 more, then 11% would still be 11% (for example). If you move over the line, then, as you said, it should be high enough that you would be likely to pay for your policy without too many headaches.

Any gov’t assistance is going to have some effect like that. It’s inevitable.

Where to set the limit must (obviously) relate to whether set dollars or percentages are used and what the cost of available insurance plans is for that person. I don’t envy the politicians who would have to figure that out and balance it against overall program cost (to the public).

But, without something like that you’re condemning millions to never having insurance (beyond the ER). Choose.