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Fort Hood shooting suspect Major Malik Hasan picked off fellow soldiers with two handguns.   Twelve are dead.  31 people are injured.  Lt. Gen. Robert Cone explains one of the weapons was reported to be semi-automatic.  The first responder was a woman who stopped Hasan’s killing spree by shooting him.   She was specifically mentioned [...]

On the House floor, Rep. Alan Grayson (D-FL) read the number of people who would die due to no health insurance coverage in Republican districts around the nation.   Grayson refused to yield time when interrupted.  Eventually, Rep. Phil Gingrey (R-GA) asked the clerk to take down the words of the congressman from Florida.  This lead [...]

“I am them.”
No, it’s not some deep philosophical statement antithetical to existentialism.
It’s Mary Strey’s response to the 911 dispatcher when asked “Who is the drunk driver?”
At least Strey had enough of a conscience to realize the hazard she posed, but hells bells…drunk dialing 911?
Wisconsin deputies took her into custody with a blood alcohol level twice [...]

Johns Hopkins School of Medicine learns that children without health insurance are 60% more likely to die from serious illness than insured kids.  The information was gathered for a study that began in 1988 and wrapped up in 2005.  In the 37 states that participated in the research, 117 million children were hospitalized.  Six million [...]

Here’s a great big thank you from Veronica De La Cruz.  She pushed for a goal of 500 signatures by midnight last evening petitioning Congress to do Health Care Reform right.  That means a public option to guarantee competition.  Americans do not deserve to be left at the mercy of ruthless insurance companies.  And it [...]

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He has taken his turn hurting the tender feelings of sensitive Republicans who are just trying to save health insurance companies.  Now that crazy, mavericky, diarrhea-of-the-mouth congressman from Florida is going after the world’s oldest profession.  Whores.
Not to be confused with the Parliament of  Whores.
Representative Alan Grayson referred to a former lobbyist in the [...]

ht Think Progress & Taos News
Geezum Pete.  Don’t these Hispanic folks see the letters in WHITtEn Inn…which is obviously code talk for Brown Outt.
All the new owner Larry Whitten was trying to do was whiten up the atmosphere at his resort.   What’s wrong with Marcos going by Mark or Bill?  Is it really too [...]

Wow.  Rush Limbaugh is so remarkably stupid.  I’m sure he took enormous pleasure in calling Barack Obama “little boy” on the air Friday, but Limbaugh was SO wrong!  Limbaugh was duped by a satiric web piece about a fake undergraduate thesis supposedly written by Obama while at Columbia.  It’s easy to see how Limbaugh missed [...]

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Put down the partisanship, and step away from Brand Cheney.
Former Vice President Dick Cheney reminds everyone he’s older than Satan by whipping out the word “dithering” in an attempted criticism of his cousin President Barack Obama.
The five time Vietnam War draft dodger Cheney criticized Obama during a speech Wednesday to the 15 [...]

National Geographic tells the story of a girl born with a full extra set of limbs in India. Lakshmi Tatma is believed by the people in her village to be the reincarnation of the many-limbed Hindu goddess Lakshmi who the child is named for.

The child underwent an operation to remove the extra limbs because the condition is a life threatening one. Thirty surgeons assisted Dr Sharan Patil during the surgery.

Lakshmi was born on the day devoted to the celebration of the four-armed Hindu deity Lakshmi. Her mo

Bwa-ha-ha-ha-ha!!!  Projecting much????
After an eight year love affair with the Bush White House, the Fox News bed is now cold.  Chris Wallace of Fox News Sunday cried a good ten minutes over being a wallflower with analysts, former Bush senior advisor Karl Rove and former Clinton campaign advisor Terry McAuliffe.  The Obama administration won’t dance.
McAulliffe [...]

Cigna Insurance has more than the power to sentence patients to death.  CIGNA can also sentence premium paying customers to pain, excruciating pain.
Georgia resident Dawn Smith was diagnosed brain tumors in 2005 and 2007.   Smith fought every step of the way for CIGNA to cover her biospy and some medication payments, but as for treatment [...]

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The 700 Club's Pat Robertson is still nuts. During this segment devotees call in and ask Pat just about anything under the sun, I guess.

A caller inquires about the potential dangers of canola oil. First Pat is discombobulated the canola is made from RAPEseed. You drink it and you're being raped.

What's freakier? The rape reference or the drinking reference?

And everything that follows is false.

TV journalist Veronica de la Cruz mourns her brother who died on July 4th of this year, but grief only fuels her determination to help get meaningful health care reform for all Americans.  She appeared this week on Fox in Los Angeles to tell her brother’s story.  Eric was waiting for a heart transplant when [...]

A teacher of mine used to say, “Ideas without Examples are empty.  Examples without Ideas are blind.”    MSNBC’s Keith Olbermann applied the adage masterfully in his Special Comment on health care.  The idea was health care for all.  The example drew from stories in Olbermann’s own life, his father’s recent hospitalization, a woman being [...]

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The C-men of C Street BLEEEEEVED the dick is mightier than a subpoena.  Why else did Senator Tom Coburn (R-OK) unzip those doctoring and jesusing credentials for reporters asking questions about the Ensign sex scandal?
I was counseling him as a physician and as an ordained deacon.” Coburn asserted about his role. “That [...]

Musing on the current state of the health care debate–
There is an inherent conflict between the for-profit interest and the best quality patient care.
Medical insurance as part of the health care product generally detracts from the quality of the product, especially if the consumer becomes sick.
The insurance industry has written the current health care reform [...]

h/t Wonkette
I think we’ve found Sarah Palin’s running in 2012.  Meet conservative rising star: Skoal Rebel.  He enjoying a quasi-meteoric rise to fame on youtube. He’s young, and he’ll make Palin look experienced.  His grasp on the state of the world is similiar, but expressed differently, a tiny bit less refined.
What think ye?
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