Craig Crawford's Trail Mix

goo goo in lieu of woo hoo

patsi, according to this link, roland said that helen was harry's mistress, not his.

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2007/07/31/helen-thomas-amused-by-do_n_58550.html

patsy, here's wapo kurtz on roland

http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2009/11/02/AR2009110201292.html

Hilarious! Thanks for these links, Pat! The WaPo led me to a broken link at The Hill, which I then searched and found this, which just proves Helen is THE BEST!:

Helen Thomas: If only you got to pick the rumors about you

Longtime White House correspondent Helen Thomas is miffed at Garry Trudeau after he portrayed her as one tough broad in his Doonesbury cartoon strip last week.

But it’s not because he depicted the dean of the White House press corps telling self-important TV correspondent Roland Hedley to “Get the hell out of my face” when he brought two visitors to meet her in the White House briefing room.

No, it was because Hedley told the visitors the “legendary UPI reporter [has] been here since the Truman administration! Some say she was Truman’s lover.”

Truman’s lover? Puh-lease. Thomas likes to think she could do better than that.

“I wish he’d said I was Jack Kennedy’s lover,” said Thomas, who began covering the White House when President Kennedy took office in January, 1961.

Thomas, who will celebrate her 87th birthday next month, left UPI in 2000 and now writes a syndicated column for Hearst Newspapers.

In the White House Press Corps, Helen Thomas is a priceless GEM set among cheap Christmas trash.

the republicans and the AM radio schmuck-fest boys have my 90 yr old ma convinced that if obama's health bill passes they're going to kill her off.........her and her older sister too......

http://www.nytimes.com/2009/11/09/us/politics/09abortion.html?_r=1&th&emc=th

"For Opponents of Abortion, a Victory in Health Care Vote"

"Bishops implored their priests and parishioners to call lawmakers. Conservative Democrats negotiating over the issue with party leaders often expressed their desire to meet the bishops’ criteria, according to many people involved in the talks. On Oct. 8 three members of the bishops conference wrote on its behalf to lawmakers, “If the final legislation does not meet our principles, we will have no choice but to oppose the bill.”

On Sunday, some abortion rights advocates lashed out at the bishops. “It was an unconscionable power play,” said Cecile Richards, president of Planned Parenthood Federation of America, accusing the bishops of “interceding to put their own ideology in the national health care plan.”

sturge, might be some comfort to them to know the bill has an effective date of 2013 and no doubt allows exec agencies a few more years to come up with rules to implement it. they have at least a good 5 years to live it up.

Yup Mr Crawford - No big deal.. Just a Trillion dollar ++++ Tax increase on the American People. Now that is the way to build a big Big BIG Governement !!

And where do you think these TAX increases will reveal themselves.... Do not be a fool now.

And we will funnel the money away from the inovations that have driven the desire for this wonderful Healthcare system. Just Imagine if this happened in 1965 - You will still have exploratory Surgery instead of that MRI that many are so angry with...

What are we going to miss?

There is a better way - Innovation is the answer but Sadly the brain trust in Washington is Politcal lawyers and not bright enough to go beyond the imagination of control.

patd......good point....all i could think to tell her was that the gop and limbaugh are lying to her........

Ping, our utilization of MRIs is something like 100-times that of other industrial powers. Has it gained us greater life expectancies?

Hospitals and free standing imaging centers with captive radiologists in partnership with other physicians are under tremendous economic pressure to use these devices.

Separate sound diagnostic practices from economic malpractice.

Speaking of projections... what are we going to do with all that sweet, sweet profit from those bank bail-outs? Free health-care, maybe? No? Shucks.

Ping, I've lost the page showing the projected amounts of this year's Wall Street bonuses. For some dumb reason, I believe that amount, annualized, is in the same league as the healthcare bill.

From which expenditure do Americans gain more?

Flatus - Yes there needs to be regulation - and yes some abuse - But this is the expception and not the outright criminal behavor and moral abuse that is being presented by Obama and the Dems.
So Fix these elements- but do not Screw all those vast majority that are doing the right thing.
And TORT Reform will be a big help.

This clearly points to the issue with this process and bill. To general and creates horrible outcomes for our future.

The Washington Political groups ignorance or shear failure to address on the ground front line needs is just not there. They Suck... (a bold statement unusual for the ping - but could not come up with a better term in this venue)

Tort reform.......that has something to do with protecting large corporations against being sued? I'm not sure.....which and what torts would be reformed?

I don't care how many years. That's a lot of money. :)

Stan Laurel: Is 3 million more than a thousand?

Oliver Hardy: Man alive...that's TWICE as much!

"Ping, our utilization of MRIs is something like 100-times that of other industrial powers. Has it gained us greater life expectancies?"

Hear, hear, Flatus! Once again, you shoot and score!

How much of this trillion will be going to private & government run insurance company's? Government doesn't need to get into the insurance business they need to get into the health care business.

reforming tarts? you guys need another cuppa coffee.

love tortes.... hmmm chocolate

oh torts! hey won't that put a lot of pogos out of work?

wiki on tort reform:

Tort reform refers to proposed changes in the civil justice system that would reduce tort litigation or damages. Tort is a system for compensating wrongs and harm done by one party to another's person, property or other protected interests (e.g. reputation, under libel and slander laws). Tort reform advocates focus on personal injury in particular.

In the United States tort reform is a contentious political issue. US tort reform advocates propose, among other things, procedural limits on the ability to file claims, and capping the awards of damages. According to Forbes reporter Daniel Fisher, tort reform is "A catchall phrase for legislative measures designed to make it harder for individuals to sue businesses."

harder for individuals to sue businesses........
Ping, why would you be for something like that?

Hey - I think we need to keep this trend and go after the excessive profits of ATT, Verizon, Sprint.... Look at the waste on advertisement.
After that - Professional Sports - My God how can these guys make so much money.

Come on we can turn this thing around and be able to buy houses for everyone.. Now they must be the same block style - all equal

How much is the current system costing?

"reforming tarts? you guys need another cuppa coffee."

HA!

when the next Hugo the Hurricane comes and wipes out all these new beachfront grandstyle mansions does some kind of insurance pay the owners for them to be re-built?

I love the throwing out that Heck we spent a Billion Trillion here and a trillion there - as justifiaction..

Deep - Real Deep

http://blogs.cqpolitics.com/trailmix/2009/11/baby-talk-politics.html#comment-270095

but Mr Ping......it was "you guys" (the gop) who spent and spent and spent and spentspentspent WITHOUT A WORD OF PROTEST.

eh?

and now it's "Hey......just because WE spent a trillion zillion, that doesnt mean YOU GUYS get to spend that much also."

right?

Sturg.

Bush Complacent - Go back in time - Those Fat Cats got it in 2006.

I agree but this does not make it right going forward.
So if they are wrong how does this make todays agenda correct?

Now off to the world that goes beyond imagination and delivers real change with innovation.

Best to all

Ping.......they were wrong because of on what and of how they were spending it.......and to whom it went........now it will be spent on Health care for americans.......you can see the difference, right?

and when you get a chance, I'd like to know about this Tort Reform you recommend.........what is it and who benefits from it?

and tell your gop compadres to quit scarin' my mama........

lol

good morning gang

Playing computer assist here. Bethy wants to show you all why almost no one had an obesity problem in the 50s

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=m8fqmENeDfQ

http://blogs.cqpolitics.com/trailmix/2009/11/baby-talk-politics.html#comment-270091

Ping

I can choose whether or not I use phone service, see a movie, watch television, drive a car, enjoy a game etc. How much those things cost and how they compensate their employees is their business. I may think some are insane but if it is too much and I don't have them it won't affect my survival.

I cannot choose whether or not I get sick. Come up with better metaphors.

http://blogs.cqpolitics.com/trailmix/2009/11/baby-talk-politics.html#comment-270101

that song was more rockin' by little richard, by the way........

could only find it with richard and tom jones, but tom jones aint no drag to NObody.......

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=k_w9E0snp9g&feature=PlayList&p=0A9C64AFFD6A51D8&playnext=1&playnext_from=PL&index=27

Also Ping

Tort Reform has been enacted in 37 states and since most suits are brought on the state level that is where the reform should be. Only in the military and Veterans hospitals employ doctors directly.

As it is, tort reform in the above states have had virtually no effect on medical costs in those states.
This is just another I've got mine screw you Republican talking point.

When it comes to running up the deficit I saw scads of variations on:

Republicans spend money to kill people and Democrats spend money to save people.

Sometimes the first is necessary but not as often as the latter.

Re: Tort Reform-

You own a business, have a few employees with company vans, they hit someone in the company van, the injured party sues YOU because you own the van. Sure stinks to be you if you're just covering overhead, and now you might have to lay-off an employee or two. Not every "business" is a international billion-dollar operation.

http://blogs.cqpolitics.com/trailmix/2009/11/baby-talk-politics.html#comment-270103

Sturgeone

Back then most of us had to hid the Little Richard versions and wait for the white covers. :-) The Brits got them direct so people like Jones and members of the great British bands heard the originals more than we did.

Speaking of which, did anyone see Pirate Radio this weekend. Deciding whether it is worth going for the big screen or waiting for the DVD

http://blogs.cqpolitics.com/trailmix/2009/11/baby-talk-politics.html#comment-270106

DL

And most businesses carry insurance for just such purposes and states have those "tort reform" laws to decrease liability unless you say kept on a driver with a drunk driving record.

Again, this would have no effect at the FEDERAL level so why scream for making it part of a health care bill.

Good Slate article: The Bitter Tears of Johnny Cash

http://www.salon.com/news/feature/2009/11/08/johnny_cash/index.html

jamie......ha......when i was a kid, there was this huge department store (GEX....gov't employees exchange) where we went and while the parents were roaming around i would go to the record and music department and plug in a guitar and bang on it awhile and people would come around to see what the ruckus was.......after which they would give me an LP album..........after receiving several Hank Williams albums and a Duane Eddy over a period of time, one night I opted for a Chuck Berry album......me mom says "You know all that money goes straight to the NAACP." I said, "What money? I got it free." which didn't please her much either........but anyway, after the Chuck Berry album the deal was shut down somehow........word came from above to cut that out.....lol

LorBlog.......you mean that small company of mine where it sucks to be me doesnt have any damn insurance?

The United States GDP (low estimate) is something like 12,000 billion dollars per year. Our expenditure on health care is 16-pct of the GDP, or 1,920 billion dollars per year.

If healthcare reform can eliminate waste, abuse and fraud to the extent that we can halve the difference between our healthcare expenditures and those of the rest of the world's industrialized powers, we can save 633 thousand million dollars per year.

Ten year savings will be 6,330 thousand million dollars.

That seems like a pretty good argument for healthcare reform, especially if we will be adding 10s of millions of people to the healthcare roles.

i saved my nickels and dimes for months to save up the $3.98 for my first LP album of Hank's greatest hits......and then to be given an LP for noodling on a geetar for 10 or 15 minutes in a store was an eye-opener.........lol

Sturg, here's something that will save you money--USAA has opened their doors to honorably discharged vets.
usaa.com

Hey Miss Jamie, you've got mail. I have a bit of time and am trying to work on a petition to Obama to recognize the 94th- would be nice to get it done on Vet's Day.

OSH

Write and let me know the news you've received from officialdom. Time constraints this week as my daughter that I haven't seen for almost five years is coming to town and we will be running around a lot.

Have my latest "Take This Tune" post up to be totally off the topic of politics

http://jdurward.blogspot.com

one thousand million dollars is one billion dollars
one million million dollars is one trillion dollars

spend $1,000 per day and it will take you about three years to go through $1,000,000 dollars.

spend $1,000 per day and it will take about 3,000 years to go through a billion.

spend $1,000,000 per day and it will take about 3,000 years to go through a trillion

this year, we'll spend about 2,000 million million dollars on healthcare. For lazy people, it's the easy to say $2-trillion.

My father has had hospice workers helping him in his home for 14 months. But now he's stabilizing and he may lose the hospice help come January. My 82 yr old mother can't help him. So my brother and I have had several meetings with hospice going over what kind of help is available here in NH if they have to stop taking care of him for a spell.

One of the hospice aides we are meeting with is from France. She has a 92yr old father that gets all the help he needs. As the realization hit my brother that if hospice goes away it means my father's free medications goes away too.... he started railing about how unfair this all is. I looked over at Genevieve and thought.... "my god... she must think us Americans are stupid and barbaric."

Jamie- I sent the final petition? to you, let me know and I will post on soapbox and care2 will send emails to anyone who subscribes.

Craig- am looking around for the soapbox feature on CQ. Did they drop it?

RR- sure she does, but then again they always have.

OSH....
if it weren't for the help the French gave us in the American Revolution....
you and I wouldn't be hearing "Hail to the Chief".... we'd be singing "Hail to the Queen"....

and with healthcare in this country..... we are barbaric....

You're preaching to the choir RR. I'm a francophile, use to be a french teacher. I still don't figure they think much of us.

OSH...
that's funny.... you're Irish and can speak French.... I'm French and can't speak a word....

Jamie.... I hope you and your daughter have an excellent time catching up with each other...

"she must think us Americans are stupid and barbaric."

and she would be right....

when did the phrases "back in the day" and "going forward"come into the American lexicon? I really don't like them at all.

"stupid and barbaric"

sounds like cartoon animators who produce stuff called "dumb and dumber"

which, btw, the american public loved

Doots, do you think they might be verbal short hand? Like, back in the days when, and going forward from today?

I kind of view them as well worn transitional phrases. But, I don't yet find them irksome. That may change now that you've highlighted them.

solar, this article sounds like what you posted yesterday:

"The Iraq War costs almost $700 billion since 2001 according to the National Priorities Project, and that cost is still climbing. There have been an estimated 1,033,000 violent deaths because of that war.

During that time Senator Joe Lieberman (I - Connecticut) never once expressed a concern for war spending and the national debt. In fact, he was at odds with Democrats on the Iraq War and never mentioned a concern for spending on it."

http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/blogs/abraham/detail??blogid=95&entry_id=51264

Flatus,

yeah, verbal shorthand. Still irksome as you say.

Actually, Pat, over that long a period, $700B is a trivial amount for a war. The mortality looks much too high.

"Between 2005 and 2009, more than $567 million was spent on one contract in Iraq to build up the logistical capabilities of the Iraq security forces, with almost no oversight whatsoever. When an audit was finally done on the invoices, it found that 14 percent of the money examined in sampling -- that's more than $4.2 million -- was completely unaccounted for."

http://thecable.foreignpolicy.com/

Horse,

Just got back from my V A appointment: It was at nine am; I arrived at 8:45; and registered in; at 8:55 I was called to do my blood test. It was pleasant , and fast. At 9:10 I was on my way home already.

Now That is a well run Government Health Program that we should all have: If it's good enough, or not good enough for the world best soldiers; that have the best of everything. the same ins program that the President; the senate, the Congress, and all government employees, state and city employees; than it's good enough for all of us-no??

My BP, was 129/70 I can live with that. Youre's was a little better. You must not be overwhieght and watch the salt, good job. I didn't eat since yesterday early evening...so I had a double order of ...Patsi...French toast; with crunchy peanut butter, and honey on top...and a cup of coffee.

Sea,

I used to go out, and almost got married to a Lithuanian gal named Biruta: She was a French and German teacher at a high school. she used to drive me nuts when she spoke French, just like the Munsters......no not Fester, the Vampire Woman........Sea can you whisper a little Frances, I promise not to...............maybe.!!!

yeah, one can have a lot of fun with the french language!

Pat,

http://blogs.cqpolitics.com/trailmix/2009/11/baby-talk-politics.html#comment-270130

Thanks for that article. Yes that part of what I get angry about; I don't think that is high number at all. We don't even know how much has been lost in the mix of greasing hands in the war areas.

I saw that flea-head Joe L. on some talk show this weekend..as soon as I saw him, I switched the channel...I can repeat what he say's in my sleep.....but I don't b/c the way he speaks would keep me up all night...Him and Peggy Noonan..just goes right thru me...

How about the 9 bill that was lost over in Iraq; and the 2 trillion that the Rumsfeld's defense department lost, and is still missing..find that and we can par cash up front for U H and a little pocket money left over; for the greedy shits to steal...both of em the R';s and the D's thanks you always think of others :-))

Pogo,

Wake up Compadre....Brunch...

Pat, Flatus,

Real time cost of war. Chart, and a cost ticker...play around in it:

http://www.nationalpriorities.org/

About The Cost of War:

To date, $915.1 billion dollars have been allocated to the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan. The national, state, and local numbers we provide are based on the total approved amounts through the end of Fiscal Year 2009.

In addition to this approved amount, the FY2010 budget shows a $130 billion request for more war spending. This would bring total war spending in Iraq and Afghanistan to more than $1 trillion. When all FY2010 war-related amounts are approved, we will adjust the counter so that it reaches the new total at the end of FY2010.

Maybe this one is better.

http://www.nationalpriorities.org/

I cannot accept the spin Craig because there is NO CBO report on the effect of this bill on premium rates nor does the Bill show exactly who will be taxed. If lower costs is the central goal, then by what logic should we endorse a plan that does not vet the projected results?

When has there ever been a bill of such scope that didn't wandered far from projected savings? I talked this morning with representitives of Empire Blue who said for the public to prepare for increase rates for both small business plans and single pay plans. I don't know how people can hype the savings or the actual costs reform will advance without taking a serious look at what this proposal will do with both cost and responsiveness, let alone coverage.

Dems promised to cover all as a way for insurers to keep a lid on premiums and lift restrictions on pre-existing conditions. Dems broke their word when they couldn't figure out how to pay for such a promise. They promoted profit margins the insurers get as the great evil when fact check shows these claims were false. Let's stop the false projections. It only makes matter worse when reality bites....

In other news. Iran will try Americans as spies with no word on Iran response to nuclear deal. And see this gem below as Iran prepares for the worst...

http://www2.debka.com/headline.php?hid=6362

Yemeni Iranian-supplied militants down a Saudi fighter..

More terror blasts in Pakistan....

Chavez tells his people to prepare for war with Columbia and US forces......

What? And let me get this right. The BBC had this video of members who attended the Mosque where the shooter attended and some said they had no sympathy for the victims. Did the BBC then pull the video?

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=npAvM-VWwhc

It sure looks that way...

Also Fact Check while debunking the most serious claims made by Republicans regarding Medicare solvency and the savings from real defensive medicine reform, show huge problems regarding both issues. Just because one side exaggerates, doesn't mean the other side gets a free pass. I note that Fact Check in the past has supported the idea that this reform will jack up rates for many, just not the 100% some Republican attack ads claim.

Patd, I'm sure the Stimulus and Tarp deals have far more "missing" money. Also the Iraqi's own recently released study showed far fewer deaths, mostly at the hands of Muslims killing Muslims. The number quoted above is BS. How much spent in Iraq and "war" led to revenue or job growth? I love how some say the Stimulus money will create savings down the road thus reducing the cost per job, but when looking at the DOD, context is limited to what fits talking points the best.

Your bp Solar is in ok range. Mine is what it is because the pills for high bp the VA gave are doing their job. No I am not in good shape as I am diabetic and overweight. The VA is great care in my opinion. When I broke my ankle a year ago, I was treated as good as any private medical care in the world. Better than most. The operation to put screws in my ankle cost $50. It cost about $50 for each subsquient visit also so I think it was a total of $200. I got a wheel chair and crutches and a walker for that $50 on the day of my operation also.

Still not the right page:

Scroll down a little, and to the right; click on the cost of war. There is also a tax chart, and other usefull tools there...the front page gives the latest new about it every day.

What I don't think that anyone takes into account very often: Is the cost of maintaining all of the un-needed military bases that we have around the world...we don't need multiple bases in some of the countries , threy are just a drag on our finances????

http://blogs.cqpolitics.com/trailmix/2009/11/baby-talk-politics.html#comment-270141

I charged my client Friday $50 to hang a large mirror. He was thrilled as he thought that a fantastic price considering the laibility I had to produce. You had surgery for the same price. Now tell me why the surgery was the same as hanging a mirror?

Oh, I know. I should have paid my client $500 to hang his picture and then your surgery price would make more sense.......

I click on the tax chart that this site has about the cost of war. I entered 32,000 that someone might have paid on their taxs..here is the way that this $ is spent.....notice the very last entry of transportation.!!

Income Tax Chart - 2009
Enter the amount of Federal Income Tax you paid during 2008 and see how the government spent the money. Note: Totals may not add up to 100% due to rounding.
Your 2008 Federal Income Taxes:
Example: 5000 - No Commas or Dollar Signs
Of the $32,000 you paid in Federal Income Taxes:
$9,408 goes to Military
$6,816 goes to Health
$2,528 goes to Interest on Military Debt
$3,808 goes to Interest on Non-Military Debt
$2,304 goes to Income Security and Labor
$1,216 goes to Housing and Community
$1,216 goes to Veterans' Benefits
$1,152 goes to Food
$992 goes to Government
$960 goes to Education
$896 goes to Environment Energy and Science
$384 goes to International Affairs
$320 goes to Transportation

Tax chart on the right.

http://www.nationalpriorities.org/

Pat,

Just realized that I was linking the same site that you gave me: I did not pay to much attention to it, but had the same site bookmarked, and started linking it...sorry.!

Max said this, "I charged my client Friday $50 to hang a large mirror. He was thrilled as he thought that a fantastic price considering the laibility I had to produce. You had surgery for the same price. Now tell me why the surgery was the same as hanging a mirror?

Oh, I know. I should have paid my client $500 to hang his picture and then your surgery price would make more sense......."

maybe it is one of the benefits of serving your country in the military Max. You could have been eligible if you had made that same choice.

oh, Max it is also some of that dreaded Socialist Medicine!

There should be the right blend of the two ism's , capital; and social.

46684877 world service captial 466 Worldwide poll: Vast majority say capitalism not working

Worldwide poll: Vast majority say capitalism not working

dollars cents Worldwide poll: Vast majority say capitalism not workingDissatisfaction with capitalism is widespread around the globe 20 years after the fall of the Berlin Wall that heralded the demise of European communism, a poll released Monday showed.

Only 11 percent of people surveyed across 27 countries thought free market capitalism is working well, while nearly a quarter -- 23 percent -- said the system is "fatally flawed." A bare majority, 51 percent, believed its problems can be solved with more regulation and reform, the poll said.

In only the United States (25 percent) and Pakistan (21 percent), did more than one in five people agree that capitalism works well in its current form, the poll conducted for BBC World said.

The survey of 29,033 adults comes after the worst global financial crisis since the 1930s Great Depression and amid celebrations of the anniversary of the fall of the Berlin Wall, which abruptly ended the Cold War. More charts at:

http://rawstory.com/

"saw that flea-head Joe L."

I just love that description.

When is the mass media going to call "facts not in evidence" or even bul-sh-t on the Republicans for their gross distortion of facts.

http://blogs.cqpolitics.com/trailmix/2009/11/baby-talk-politics.html#comment-270150

Not in our lifetime, KGC.

As long as the owners and editors are republicans and members of in good standing of the republican noise machine, it won't happen.

It's time to pass a UK style libel law.

http://blogs.cqpolitics.com/trailmix/2009/11/baby-talk-politics.html#comment-270123

So we can blame the French that we don't have decent health care?

Just received an email with pictures of Queen Elizabeth with every President since Harry Truman. She was only a princess for Roosevelt. Maybe she and Helen can compare notes.

There's never a dull moment in South Carolina:

http://www.jennysanford.com/

http://blogs.cqpolitics.com/trailmix/2009/11/baby-talk-politics.html#comment-270153

When she was crowned, there was no such thing as trans-Atlantic television much less color TV.

So a couple of days after the event, movie theaters across our country were jammed by Americans who came to watch technicolor films of the coronation. It was very impressive.

http://blogs.cqpolitics.com/trailmix/2009/11/baby-talk-politics.html#comment-270136

"...that flea-head Joe L...I can repeat what he say's in my sleep.....but I don't b/c the way he speaks would keep me up all night...Him and Peggy Noonan..just goes right thru me..."

Solar --

The word "smarmy" comes to mind with both of them.

http://blogs.cqpolitics.com/trailmix/2009/11/baby-talk-politics.html#comment-270155

Flatus --

I was just somewhere not long where they still play those images on big screens...in the Tower of London while queuing up to see the Crown Jewels.

That tour was de rigueur, but what we really found fascinating were the Churchill War Rooms, preserved with their original artifacts.

http://cwr.iwm.org.uk/

Ivy,

Hello. I hate to call him that. It just came out of my finger tips..I hate when that happens..can't check them in time..and gets me in trouble sometimes. That is a name that I have teased little kids, and friends for many, many years. The kids 5 years old up till around 10-11 laugh when I call them that..they now call their kids that, when they are goofing with them..it sorta struck...the wives of my freinds don't like it so much tho...guess what I call them... " smarmy" is just about right. (~_ *)

"So we can blame the French that we don't have decent health care?"

Jamie.... sorry.... but I can't figure out how you came to that conclusion from reading my statement....

the only people I blame for our healthcare is we Americans.....

There is no good reason that a Medicare-like option could not be made available in a matter of months.

Solar -- gee, don't worry about using flea-head....we used the term "flea-bag" for as long as I can remember out on the flatlands....

http://blogs.cqpolitics.com/trailmix/2009/11/baby-talk-politics.html#comment-270155

Thanks, Ivy, for the tour report and the link. In London, I found the crypt of St Paul's the most interesting visit"

http://www.stpauls.co.uk/Cathedral-History/Discover-the-Crypt

http://blogs.cqpolitics.com/trailmix/2009/11/baby-talk-politics.html#comment-270154

flatus, was wondering about the end of that link that reads
"Mrs. Sanford is enjoying spending more time in her most important role as mother of her four sons Marshall, Landon, Bolton and Blake and is separated from her husband. For more information on the First Lady, including her organizations and initiatives, please visit www.scgovernor.com."

shouldn't that be 1st lady estranged or 1st estrangette?

and wonder if seniorita argentina could be called the 1st mistress of sc and have a home page too on taxpayer money?

http://www.taylormarsh.com/

Dem Women Threaten Health Care Passage Over Stupak Amendment

"Not even George W. Bush and the Republican Congress tried to do what the Democratic majority under Speaker Pelosi, the first woman in history to hold that position, did this weekend. That’s how bad the betrayal is.

I’m hearing that Pres. Obama evidently made pledges to certain House members that the Stupak amendment would not be in the final bill. He needs to keep that promise. But in the end, it’s up to us to make sure that with or without the President, women do not lose their full civil rights under the law.

Oh, and by the way, Sen. Claire McCaskill doesn’t know what she’s talking about (brief thoughts here, with more to come on the podcast). And since she’s so close to the President there is reason to worry.

None of us are taking any chances.

“I am confident that when it comes back from the conference committee that that language won’t be there,” Wasserman Schultz said during an appearance on MSNBC. “And I think we’re all going to be working very hard, particularly the pro-choice members, to make sure that’s the case.” – The Hill"

http://www.nytimes.com/2009/11/09/opinion/09krugman.html?th&emc=th

"Paranoia Strikes Deep"

"In fact, the party of Limbaugh and Beck could well make major gains in the midterm elections. The Obama administration’s job-creation efforts have fallen short, so that unemployment is likely to stay disastrously high through next year and beyond. The banker-friendly bailout of Wall Street has angered voters, and might even let Republicans claim the mantle of economic populism. Conservatives may not have better ideas, but voters might support them out of sheer frustration.

And if Tea Party Republicans do win big next year, what has already happened in California could happen at the national level. In California, the G.O.P. has essentially shrunk down to a rump party with no interest in actually governing — but that rump remains big enough to prevent anyone else from dealing with the state’s fiscal crisis. If this happens to America as a whole, as it all too easily could, the country could become effectively ungovernable in the midst of an ongoing economic disaster.

The point is that the takeover of the Republican Party by the irrational right is no laughing matter. Something unprecedented is happening here — and it’s very bad for America."

A trillion dollars, but at least we get something for the money. We lost $4TR!LL!ON in the reagan/republican engineered S & L collapse, another $5 to 6 TR!LL!ON in the babybush/republican engineered mortgage and wall street collapses, and another $4 TR!LL!ON peed away in bushchenyrumdum/rapeuplican engineered Iraq Fiasco II. That's $$$14 -15 TR!LL!ON frittered away for nothing by republicans.

Then they weep, gnash their teeth, pull out their hair, and slit their wrists, because some destitute kid might get a free tonsilectomy.

2,600 Floridians die annually because of a lack of health care coverage. I don't know how that awful pong can sleep at night, working as he does to increase the body count just to save himself a few bucks.

casey at odds with sen joe's comments on ft hood

http://thecable.foreignpolicy.com/

http://blogs.cqpolitics.com/trailmix/2009/11/baby-talk-politics.html#comment-270167

Hit 'em again, XR, hit 'em again!!

Patsi,

No, I use that all of the time...Joe Lieberman = Flea-Head from now on. Try it on kids they laugh their butts off.!!

XR,

It's all been engineered as far as im concerned..the S & L fiasco, was just a model of how to do more damage is all...hey get off your duff and paint, or do something..that what retirement is all about no?

Just posted a petition for Liberator Status for Patton's Army. Please sign if you will and pass along. Please Let me know if you see any glaring typos I overlooked! Thanks,
http://www.thepetitionsite.com/1/Liberator-Status-For-Pattons-Army

Sea,

Done.!

Merci Monsieur de Soleil!

Solei.!!

U had to do that Huh.! now what ?

OSH...
I just signed too... good luck!

OSH,

I don't know how this works, but I signed it too.

Good luck.

Solar,

flea head = cabaza de la pulgas ¿Verdad?

Si. ~
_

500 Citizens of Connecticutt will die this year from the lack of health care coverage. Joe Lieberman wants to increase body count.

Pass it on.

Thanks all! Once we have enough signatures the petition will be sent to Obama. I am in the progress of doing one of Craig's soapbox now. Stay tuned!

The people supporting the Stupak amendment (sounds like a political action committee for stupid people) keep saying they are morally opposed to abortion and therefore no federal money can be used for the public option insurance.

Well I am morally opposed to overpopulation, how about eliminating all medical coverage that goes toward women having litters? And absolutely no support money or tax deductions for them once they arrive.

As ist Mistress of SC, does the Argy-bimbo get a stipend ?

Or, does the Guv-bimbo get the stipend ?

EnQuiring minds want to know.

http://blogs.cqpolitics.com/trailmix/2009/11/baby-talk-politics.html#comment-270159

Reb,

It was a joke. Since the French supported us in the Revolution we became Americans instead of staying British.

If we were still British we would have health care for everyone as they do in all the countries that were British colonies and Britain itself.

Therefore: We don't have healthcare because of the French.

how many non-union SC workers does it take to attach a wing to a Boeing airplane?

Five......and a dog.

http://www.seattlepi.com/horsey/viewbydate.asp?id=2008

http://blogs.cqpolitics.com/trailmix/2009/11/baby-talk-politics.html#comment-270182

No matter what the issue in these legislative battles, it seems we always revert to debating abortion.

And we always will as long as wingnuts and Bishops control congress.

http://blogs.cqpolitics.com/trailmix/2009/11/baby-talk-politics.html#comment-270187

Patsi,
So true! How will we ever break the strangle hold organized religion has on our political system?

http://tpmlivewire.talkingpointsmemo.com/2009/11/westboro-baptist-church-protests-outside-obama-girls-school.php

"Westboro Baptist Church Protests Outside Obama Girls' School"

"Westboro Baptist Church, the fringe-of-the-fringe anti-gay group famous for protesting at military funerals and claiming that God is punishing the country for its tolerance of homosexuality, was spotted this morning protesting outside Sidwell Friends, the school attended by Sasha and Malia Obama.

Protesters were carrying signs with anti-gay, anti-abortion and anti-Obama slogans, slowing down traffic all along Wisconsin Avenue this morning.

One member, Megan Phelps-Roper, posted a picture on Twitter of the protest.

Westboro Baptist Church, founded by Fred Phelps and made up mostly of Phelps family members, has garnered national attention for carrying signs such as "Thank God for 9/11" and protesting at funerals, including that of Matthew Shepard, the student who was killed in 1998 because he was gay."

This is fascinating. It's a ten minute travelogue in color of London in 1927

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TwahIQz0o-M

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2009/11/09/republicans-giving-women_n_351237.html

"Republicans Giving Women 'Back Of The Hand Treatment': Wasserman-Schultz"

"The Republicans who shouted down and continuously interrupted female members of the House testifying in favor of the health care bill on Saturday were giving women what amounted to the "back of the hand treatment," Rep. Debbie Wasserman-Schultz (D-Fla.) said Monday.

The abortion-rights champion and senior Democrat criticized House Republicans in a conference call with reporters and called the behavior the most disrespectful she has seen during her 17 years in elected office.

"We already had a clear sense that Republicans were opposed to our efforts to advance women's health," Wasserman-Schultz said. "Now we know they're opposed to letting women voice their opinions on health care as well."

As members of the Democratic Women's Caucus tried to list from the House floor how the health care reform bill would offer women important protections they currently lack, Republicans -- led by Georgia Rep. Tom Price -- constantly interrupted them.

"I object!" the Republicans shouted over and over while Reps. Lois Capps (D-Calif.) and Mary Jo Kilroy (D-Ohio) spoke. Acting speaker Rep. John Dingell (D-Mich.) couldn't get the Republicans to stop."

http://blogs.cqpolitics.com/trailmix/2009/11/baby-talk-politics.html#comment-270185

Boy, Sturg, is that Horsey stoopid. Even I know that airplane doors aren't on the write side.

Here's the Twitter page for the Phelps clan. don't look at the pictures linked if you have eaten recently

http://twitter.com/meganphelps

http://blogs.cqpolitics.com/trailmix/2009/11/baby-talk-politics.html#comment-270184

Jamie.... aaaaahhhhh..... yep.... you have a point.... it's all the fault of those damn French and their toast & fries.... :0)

So, ware iz thay, if thay ain't on the write side ? On the wrung side ?

Btw, Rep Dingell could have ordered the Minority Leader to quell the scumbags, and failing that, he could have ordered the Sgt at Arms to have r Caucus' mics turned off. Failing that he could have had the offenders removed.

Tony,

Every thing is about the abortion issue-every thing.!!! just keep listening and reading between the lines...everything else is just camouflage. The way to end it..and it will end.!! maybe 50-75 years, is b/c of education of the sciences...evolution, and the ability of all sciences to work together;

Anthropology, and Archeology, and Geologist, the genetic sciences, etc, etc. are coming up everyday with new proof of the real universe, and what is in it..including us.......would you believe that one of these are on the trail of how we came about...it might have been the we were acids on meteors that came to earth, and then it was the primordial soup that they talk about......there is so much info out there....

That's why Im against Baptism, and any indoctrination of innocents..they are brain washed from the start...but more , and more are finding out the truth.

I believe that there is a thinning out of Religion ; that is going on right now....there is so mamny new ones that they are fragmented..the last ones to go will be the organized mob families, like the Catholic Church, and the other big ones

Im going to have to sa y that the Pope is also a flea-head..gonna start a little club list of these not so rare animals...

http://blogs.cqpolitics.com/trailmix/2009/11/baby-talk-politics.html#comment-270193

Jamie,
Its really hard to believe this people even exist..The pictures are horrific,little kids indoctrinated into hate...Child abuse...

http://blogs.cqpolitics.com/trailmix/2009/11/baby-talk-politics.html#comment-270196

Yep,Solar,

I think the passage of time, along with science, will do the trick....

http://blogs.cqpolitics.com/trailmix/2009/11/baby-talk-politics.html#comment-270195

XR

But then we wouldn't have had the fun of the Republicans confirming the old adage:

It is better to keep your mouth shut and be thought an idiot than to open your mouth and prove it.

I'm opposed to overpopulation, and am doing my best to keep from spawning. Please find below the 8 top tips for evading fructive events.
1. take cold showers,
2. think about either michele bachmann or mao's bowel movements,
3. eat a clove of raw garlic clove or two before bed (also good for warding off vampires and nematodes)
4. drink 12 cups of coffee every day,
5. listen to a recording of sarah palin's voice,
6. Instead of #1, never bathe at all.
7. if all else fails : wear a 4 mil 45 gallon Industrial trash bag (kinduva tight fit for me, but it might work for you other guys)
8. If you keep breaking the bag, you could try Origen's solution. BTW, Origen was condemned by the RC church for heresy for a thousand years, but now he's been rehabilitated and drafted into being a Father of the Church.

It just shows, there is hope that someday there will be a St. SolarCrete and a St. tonyb39.

http://blogs.cqpolitics.com/trailmix/2009/11/baby-talk-politics.html#comment-270195

Ya X,
I don't get it??

"It just shows, there is hope that someday there will be a St. SolarCrete and a St. tonyb39."

Oh, now you FUNNY X!!

I used to be an optimist. But, seeing how Congress acts, and the Administrations ineptitude, I've reached a different conclusion.

We're totally ferkakdeh.

XR,

# -7 Is that the way that u practice safe sex...garbage bag size...special order??

Lay off that St. solarcrete stuff.......take a look at Sea's 5: pm post, thats the way for you to address me from now on......

I did a soapbox alert that Craig wrote about. You can find it at
http://www.congress.org/soapbox/alert/14326421

They provide the emails but unfortunately you can't just sign a letter and send. Each must write their own message. Sorry, I know it is much easier to sign and click.

http://blogs.cqpolitics.com/trailmix/2009/11/baby-talk-politics.html#comment-270203

Yep

http://blogs.cqpolitics.com/trailmix/2009/11/baby-talk-politics.html#comment-270206

Yep.

http://blogs.cqpolitics.com/trailmix/2009/11/baby-talk-politics.html#comment-270200

XR And don't take Viagra even if the government pays for it because the women's birth control isn't covered.

Let's see. If the republican are correct with their $$$TRILL!ON figure for the Health Care Reform Bill, and if this figure is ove 10 years, my math tells me that that makes the cost a suspiciously round, if not morbidly obese, $$100 B!LL!ON per year. Divided by a population of 320 M!LL!ON Americans and babybush/walmart -imported illegal aliens (the latter paying $$ in, but not getting $$ out), we arrive at a rough figure of $310 per year, per person. $310 per year is roughly 80c/day/per person. That is, if the highly suspicious $$100B!LL!ON per year is accurate.

pong, you are breaking my heart with your fog keng bleats about the cost. So, you won't be able to afford the Mercedes Benz with the platinum dashboard buttons. I guess it's better that people die, so you can buy the Lamborghini with the russian sable head rests, and the diamond encrusted caviar cup holders.

80 cents is gonna break your ass. Cheezewhiz Kreitz, the your suffering is killing me.

wadda selfish merde.

P.S. That is NOT a cajun term.

"I guess it's better that people die, so you can buy the Lamborghini with the russian sable head rests, and the diamond encrusted caviar cup holders."

Posted by: xrepublican Author Profile Page | November 9, 2009 8:07 PM

That sounds like an awesome car. I want one, too.

D-L

I think that is General Motors car of the future. They're banking on it.

Comeon Joe....I know coonass talk when I hear it. (And I am an honorary coonass, named by a gater hunter Little Russell)

http://s2.desktopmachine.com/pics/Lambo_Reventon_191_1024x768.jpg

Wow.

Sea,

Done. Burris, and Durbin; both received my request.

XR

Flaw in your math is that the public option in the bill only covers about 12 million people.

Sea,

I just received confirmation to the liberty site; by email.

Okay, St. SoleilCrete, it is.

Wooden wanna makeya cringe. Trillions of Romans like Mr. Bloggington will light petro-parafin candles to you, keeping you awake all night, constantly whining in your eaqr that they need this or that, and you, being the Patron Saint of Gunnite would have to get outa bed and answer them. Even if you were, at that magic moment. making more saints with uh.... Who's your honey this week ?

Yes, 4 mil is the minimum strength for a big mega-macho fella like me. I think it's the thickest and least uhhhh, comfy that they make.

Jamie, enormously studly guys never need Viagra. We need titanium steel and Kevlar codpieces. ( :>D))<

Tu es fantastique, merci mon ami!

Joe
make no difference the language,
We is sure as hell screwed.
and you can put that in any language or dialect and I'll say
"Yep"
But where did a good cajun boy like you learn Yiddish?
And not even polite Yiddish.

Kinda reminds me of my command of Spanish.

Jack

Oh poo !

I ruined a perfectly good trashbag conceit by bringing up the titanium.

Ah Jamie, right you are, but this wasd promised during the campaign and the republicans had their chance to make up lies about it then. They instead chose to rant that the candidate was an Indonesian from Kenya who didn't have a Hawaiian birth certificate. The American people decisively rejected the skrooball republican alarms and tocsins, and chose the Obama team.

I have NO sympathy. If republicans don't like what Americans want, they can move to Viet Nam.

Well I don't even have time to read all the back comments.
Damn, Bin Laden and our cowardly reaction to him.
If I'm going to have morning coffee with the wife, I'm going to have to get up at quarter to 4 in the morning. She flys out at 6 so leaves the house at 4:30.

early bed time tonight
Night all

Jack

The anti-Semitic, anti-Black AZ viper militia, the racist tbaggerattacks on Blacks, Hispanics, and Jews, the repeated vilent talk, the pushing, shoving ath the town hall meetings, the shouting down at town hall meetings and in Congress. leads me to think that it is about time for Congress' police, the Secret Service and the FBI to decapitate the organizations that are causing the trouble. These republican creeps are just children of the klan committing hate crimes, and plotting the overthrow of the US by force of arms.

re phelps : let the republican westgas church people keep ranting at military funerals until some mourners rise and take them out. No prosecutor in the country would be foolish enough to prosecute the people who blow these scumbags away. Where is the Ohio NG when we need them ?

Good night, Jack.

Thanks for the pic of the Lambo, Mr. Bloggingham. Imagine it with sable and ermine trimmings.

Sweetie wants to read a trial to me, now.

Goodnight, all.

Sea,

There you go again; Im going to perch on top of the refrig, and pounce on the first thing that I sea...oops escuse me...see. HA.!

Sea,

When I changed my e-mail address; i lost yours. I wouldn't mind having it again..send to.....pnsolarcrete@gmail.com

I know u have been very busy: That's why I haven't asked before. Thanks.

FYI.....

Stupak bunked with Ensign at C Street. That's who were dealing with. Another low life piece of scum who didn't want Ensign stoned for Adultery even though the Bible calls for stoning of Adulterers.

That's just one part of the Bible the Right Wing Christians don't want to apply to them, but for everyone else they have no problem with stoning them.

One more false D that needs to be removed from office.

Psuedo-dems!

I am at war with my congressman, Harry Teague. The one term congressman sided with the republicans and voted against the house health care bill. My husband's cancer is thrilled!