9.30.2013
9.29.2013
By Robert Reich - The issue we are about to face as a nation has nothing to do with the Affordable Care Act or any of the other of the demands Republicans are making. It has to do with political extortion: Republicans' threats to close the government or default on the nation's debts if they don't get their way. The President and the Democrats must not negotiate. Once you start negotiating with extortionists, there is no end to it. Extortionists will hold the nation hostage again and again. Any law on the books they don't like, any tax their wealthy patrons detest, any regulation their corporate bank-rollers would like to do away with, any subsidy or bailout their Wall Street underwriters desire, will be fair game. Let Republicans carry out their threats. Let America see them do it and experience the consequences. And then let us send the Republican Party into the dust bin of history.
Status Update
By Robert Reich
The
issue we are about to face as a nation has nothing to do with the
Affordable Care Act or any of the other of the demands Republicans are
making. It has to do with political extortion: Republicans' threats to
close the government or default on the nation's debts if they don't get
their way. The President and the Democrats must not negotiate. Once you
start negotiating with extortionists, there is no end to it.
Extortionists will hold the nation hostage again and again. Any law on
the books they don't like, any tax their wealthy patrons detest, any
regulation their corporate bank-rollers would like to do away with, any
subsidy or bailout their Wall Street underwriters desire, will be fair
game.
Let Republicans carry out their threats. Let America see them do it and experience the consequences. And then let us send the Republican Party into the dust bin of history.
Let Republicans carry out their threats. Let America see them do it and experience the consequences. And then let us send the Republican Party into the dust bin of history.
***** vid. Retired Marine Capt. Wen Jones was savagely beaten when he defended a 14 year old black youth who was being bullied by 3 white males. Now 3 months later he said he would do it all over again to send the message that "you can stand up to bullies and it's ok to do the right thing!" Oorah Marine!
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Gene Roddenberry: "The strength of a civilization is not measured by its ability to fight wars, but rather by its ability to prevent them."
Rose Clark and Cale Holmes shared George Takei's photo.
Gene's
vision of the future wasn't just about science and technology, but
about how humans would interact not only fellow earthlings, but with
other races of
pic. NYTimes: "The party atmosphere was so boisterous, the cheers and laughter so loud, that it was easy to forget everyone in the room had just voted to keep tens of millions of people from getting health insurance." Editorial Board.
Storm is Coming added a new photo.
pic. NYTimes: "The party atmosphere was so boisterous, the cheers and laughter so loud, that it was easy to forget everyone in the room had just voted to keep tens of millions of people from getting health insurance." Editorial Board.
Cancer Update: Just found myself on the bathroom floor bathed in sweat.
Spoke to a doc on the phone, on call, related to my liver intervention of a week ago Friday. He suggested to be safe that I go into an ER for baseline blood work.
I told him I thought that instead I'd self-monitor, and if no further emergency events, I'd see my primary care doc 1st thing tomorrow morning.
He didn't push back too hard.
I told him I thought that instead I'd self-monitor, and if no further emergency events, I'd see my primary care doc 1st thing tomorrow morning.
He didn't push back too hard.
9.28.2013
link. Is 'Cruz' the only spelling of 'mean, vile, hateful, ignorant sh*t?' The Rutgers student, who was cited by Ted Cruz as proof of Obama's failure, is actually a beneficiary of the very health care law that Cruz was protesting during his speech. Student John Connelly: "A friend of mine called me the next morning as I was on the way to an optometrist appointment .... [and said], 'While Ted Cruz was talking about why the ACA's bad, he mentioned your name.' And I said, 'Well, that's funny. I'm heading to an appointment I can only go to because of Obamacare.'"
Is 'Cruz' the only spelling of 'mean, vile, hateful, ignorant sh*t?'
The Rutgers student, who was cited by Ted Cruz as proof of Obama's
failure, is actually a beneficiary of the very health care law that Cruz
was protesting during his speech.
Student John Connelly: "A friend of mine called me the next morning as I
was on the way to an optometrist appointment .... [and said], 'While
Ted Cruz was talking about why the ACA's bad, he mentioned your name.'
And I said, 'Well, that's funny. I'm heading to an appointment I can
only go to because of Obamacare.'"
The Rutgers student, who was cited by Ted Cruz as proof of Obama's failure, is actually a beneficiary of the very health care law that Cruz was protesting during his speech.
Student John Connelly: "A friend of mine called me the next morning as I was on the way to an optometrist appointment .... [and said], 'While Ted Cruz was talking about why the ACA's bad, he mentioned your name.' And I said, 'Well, that's funny. I'm heading to an appointment I can only go to because of Obamacare.'"
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