I’m going to go too, I have wait until I get paid again though.

Faster/cheaper/better. This is so faster/cheaper/better, it’s hilarious. The Popular Mechanics article on this “mission” goes into more detail.

I eventually watched Sean Hannity’s interview with Michael Moore on Fixed “news” last night. Michael Moore did an excellent job presenting his views, and Hannity almost reigned in his crazy.

Hannity interviewing Michael Moore on ClusterFox at the same time that Rachel Maddow interviewed Rick Berman on MSNBC made for some interesting primetime tv.

Looking forward to seeing the Love Story that is Capitalism at least two or three times in the next few weeks!

You will not have to pay for your bypass. My younger brother who drinks, gambles and is generally unemployed, never paid a dime for health insurance got a quadruple by pass two years ago and has not paid one cent on it. He most recently had a heart attack in Pensacola and was treated, given medication and released.

I hope you get help with your medical condition. They can be emotionally draining as well. I have been treated for two kinds of cancer since 2005. The chemo for the first was very rough on my body but thank God for MD Anderson. I am retired and pay over 20% of my adjusted gross income for medical care. The thing that scares me the most is having to go on Medicare in three years. They will not pay for some of the tests and procedures that I have had.

O My..well. Good Morning, anyway.

Huh?

Oh, gawd, here we go…the welfare queen story reincarnated.

I have the answer. DON’T GO ON MEDICARE. Just keep paying those premiums and you will be all set. As a matter of fact, it’s your patriotic duty NOT to accept socialized insurance.

Well played, good sir. Well played.

My younger brother who drinks, gambles and is generally unemployed, never paid a dime for health insurance got a quadruple by pass two years ago and has not paid one cent on it. He most recently had a heart attack in Pensacola and was treated, given medication and released.

I’m not sure I get your point here. Are you saying that the story of your younger brother is evidence that our current health care system is just fine and that everyone and anyone can get “free” care?

We pay far too much and get far too little, as more and more of the dollars spent on health care go into the pockets of corporate executives, or are spent by private health insurance companies to lobby politicians to make sure that more and more of the dollars spent on health care will continue to go into the pockets of corporate executives, or are spent on advertising, for the same ultimate goal.

Your younger brother’s surgery wasn’t free. The costs got passed on to others as the costs of health care continue to rise.

When you’re asking yourself in a few years why Medicare can’t cover all of the expenses of the tests and procedures that you have had, remember the reasons why health care costs continue to rise:

1) excessive corporate profits, and

2) a system that doesn’t cover everyone.

What a coincidence! I also think that everyone but me is a freeloader and I worked for my private insurance and I don’t want to go on socialized Medicare. (Wait, that’s all a lie. The truth is that Medicare is #1 in the world in keeping older folks alive–so you’ll be in good hands, TR)

Good morning, pups. It’s MoDo and The Moustache of Wisdom today. In “Men Behaving Madly” MoDo says sexual harassment entails pressuring or penalizing a staffer or making the office atmosphere hostile, and there’s no evidence yet that David Letterman was guilty of that. In “Our Three Bombs” The Moustache of Wisdom says today’s youth are growing up in the shadow of three bombs — the nuclear, debt and climate bombs — any one of which could go off and set in motion a radical change in their lives.

Here they are.

The coffee and tea are ready, and I’ve got a selection of bagels with cream cheese this morning. I’ve been reminded that it’s time for me to be cat staff (a piteous mew at the window from one of the outside kittehs) so I’m off to feed tigers. Have a great day.

But harder than stone is the flesh and bone
Of a troll that sits in Mom’s basement alone.
As well set your boot to the mountain’s root,
For the seat of a troll don’t feel it.
Peel it! Heal it!
Old Troll laughed, when he heard Tom groan,
And he knew his toes could feel it.

It’s a pretty emotional ride. You’ll find yourself mad as hell at one moment and literally driven to tears the next. And I don’t really see how it’s possible to leave the theatre without realizing we have a real problem here in the so-called best country in the world.
He doesn’t say we need to totally destroy capitalism, just retool it. A good example, and one I fully support, is creating more employee owned companies. Everyone loves it (watch the interviews) until some Faux News guy starts throwing around the S word in an attempt to unnecessarily scare everyone to death.
It seems obvious that large scale capitalism is not only inegalitarian, but non-sustainable and therefore doomed in the long run. A more sensible alternative, and Moore touches on this, is small scale capitalism (local mom and pop operations like a bakery) combined with employee owned companies and cooperatives (socialism).
But Wall Street must go. Big banks must go. And we also need a firewall built between lobbyists and Congress critters.
Good flick….everyone should see it!

What we really need right about now, to start the bipartisan healing process in America,
is another round of tax cuts. Speaking of which, let’s talk about the death tax.

According to the fascist capitalists of America, homeless people are those who gave up on the idea of becoming a millionaire by the time they turned 28 years old. See?

I have always envisioned our country as all companies being employee owned. Even the small companies. What better way for everyone to share in the wealth and health of their company when they know they will all be getting equal portions of the pie, rather than what we have now, which is the CEO’s/investors getting all the slices except one (which is the one the rest of us fight over as Michael Moore points out). Socialism has it’s good side and this is one of them! If the company has a good year, all of the employees also have a good year. If the company is having a bad year, then the employees as a whole will hash out together what needs to be done to keep it going or will just take a hit that year. Very simple. Under capitalism, there are no bad years. Not allowed. Employees are fired or laid off to keep the profit margin large (or the company will sue the state of Maine to make sure they make a profit to feed the CEO’s and investors!). :-)

LA Times:

Obama mulls middle ground in Afghanistan war strategy

… Instead, he suggested he is looking at the middle range of the spectrum, somewhere between a major increase in forces and a large drawdown.

The sensible middle ground is clearly a recipe for success.
Because it worked so well with the stimulus.

And some sort of exchanges in the health care bill..who knows what that means?

One nice “tax cut” would be to revoke the tax exempt status, pervasive in the health services. You see when the IRS determines that Blue Cross Blue Shield or its ilk may operate as a tax exempt corporation at the state level, alleviating a burden of government, the taxpayer subsidizes this service industry. Now in addition to a death tax we will pay life tax.

The death tax was to crush perpetual aristocracies in the United state that Jefferson knew would usurp constitutional law in the lust for endless profit! Now the corporate-aristocrats are proposing a perpetual “life tax” on the governed to address the failure of policy makers to control corporate behavior, excising discrimination at the state level, to secure profit. Corporations capitalize on the ignorance of law and utilize influence and power to craft law which lines their pockets. In this instance much like the emancipated slaves of the south, the American people are having their rights usurped under the color of law by corporations, enabled by aristocrats “CAPITALIZING” by using discrimination as the basis to make profit. Capitalism and Fuckhead mentalities go together. This is Jefferson’s worst fear for America…… A “Life Tax” to bail out insolvent corporations who have raped the governed for decades is just like forced servitude to a KING! Meanwhile the rightS of Americans are OBLITERATED!

Why not use the tax code to control corporate health insurer’s behaviors???? What a deal for America? Protect the very corporations which UNDERMINE OUR LIBERTIES AND kill US!

Now the quit “smoking vaccine” will be marketed at considerable profit to address the instilled addiction of America to tobacco. Health care cost driven up by smoking related diseases that where cause by a product marketed to addict a nation to a product for profit! Now Americans pay for the health cost of people intentionally addicted to a drug by corporations, for profit. Now America picks up the tab for the disgusting deleterious effects of corporate instilled addictions……

This is one messed up situation we the American people are being tag teamed by corporations like some Bangko0k whore…………….

Let’s see; we’re not supposed to listen to Michael Moore because he’s fat? If “because he’s fat” is a good reason not to listen to someone, then why are people still listening to Limpballs and Beck?

“…insurer’s segregate risk…” “Bobby J” A republican used the word “segregation!” When one segregates risk in health insurance one discriminates against people!!!!!!! WTF!!!!!!!!!!

Silence, is the operative word? Silence is cancer!

I agree. But we’re talking about baby steps here. Real wealth and security is created through equity, and as you point out, that’s the only way workers every really have any security. Unions can’t do that, but equity can. And there’s all sorts of examples where this works very, very well.

What’s happening now is a parallel system of businesses, employee owned operations, are springing up creating a new way of doing things. The only way to get the top down businesses to convert would be for the majority stake holders to sell their equity to the company and then have those shares equally redistributed to the workers. Or, a revolution where the equity is taken at the point of a bayonet.
;)

Are we bombing the moon with taxpayer $$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$ so we can shoot an asteroid out of the sky? Or are we doing it to feel macho again? What? Is it a message to Russia or China? Have they figured out what will happen if they throw the moon out of orbit?
What KIND of “bomb”. Is this some anti-feminist thing going on here?
I don’t get it!
Another great post, atta-boy

PS: any one notice “Texasreader” was a hit and run????

Why are we bombing the moon? Between wingnuts rewriting the Bible and scientists blowing up celestial bodies, I don’t know what the fuck the country is doing anymore.

The moon deserves to be bombed. That shifty-eyed man up there has been staring at us for quite some time and he can’t be trusted. He needs to be put in his place.

Wait,wait-HOLD-UP! Is the moon to be bombed? Can I be jailed for refusing healthcare and fines? Friends tell me these things and I don’t believe them!

WHY isn’t my response submitted?

OH; this is how it works!! Am I given a voice? FINALLY! Why is so much information requested though?

Are you referring to comment 28?

The thing that scares me the most is having to go on Medicare in three years.

As someone who just went ON Medicare, I can tell you it’s a bitch. Very hard to find a doctor who will take Medicare patients, particularly here, where there are few doctors anyway, none in some specialties. My own situation was made worse by the fact that we moved, so I had to find a new doctor. I think my old one would have [reluctantly] kept me, but finding a new one is a real problem.

Makes me wonder about the “Medicare for all” route. I know it will be better that the current “die in the streets” alternative, but it’s got a lot of holes.

Re Michael Moore’s latest [and I love him]: I’ll be interested to hear folks’ reactions. I saw it this past weekend and was disappointed. It doesn’t hit Obama hard at all; in fact suggests that he’s an “agent of change.” [Unless Moore was being so deeply ironic that it passed me by.]

Michael Moore will make a huge profit on a movie that bashes capitalism… Ironic or Hypocritical???