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My friend, Chris, has an unbelievable collection of the Day of the Dead figures and other Halloween trinkets.  Collections of such items tend to be dull and commercialized.  Yet, she manages to pick beautiful pieces and she creates quite a… Read full post »

Nothing, nothing will change in this country if we do not change campaign financing laws.  

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Take the Mayor's race in New York yesterday,  100 million, the most expensive race in US History.   Here I am looking for headline/… Read full post »

Although this is indirectly about the healthcare debate, I want to step back and ask my friends on the right about their ideas on "government" and the Reagan cry that you hold dear: "government is the problem, not the solution" 

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I am conf… Read full post »

A friend in Egypt Twittered it.  It is from a blog that I read regularly, South/South.  

Tell me what you think.  

How to Prevent Sexual Assault

1. Don’t put drugs in people’s drinks in order to control their behavior.

2. When you see someone walking by themselv… Read full post »

I did not want the first summer in this garden to end, I don't think my cat did either, but it did and we both love it.  

Figs release a little white milk when they are not completely ripe, my mother warned me:  "don't eat figs… Read full post »

Watch the video of Nancy Pelosi announcing the House Bill with Public Option.  

Here is the actual Affordable Healthcare Act  .  

The work is not done.  There are still negotiations and deals that will be made.  We… Read full post »

Remember AIG?  AIG the big insurer that we bailed out?  Bloomberg did a bit of investigating using the Freedom of Information Act.  Yes, folks, journalists can still do investigative work.  

Let's break it down cause the way people write about this stuff, it sounds like us m… Read full post »

Michael Moore has done more to give Americans class consciousness than all the socialist and communist parties in America combined.  Why?  Cause he lays it out in a simple and very clear way for people to see the political and economic situation. 

Moore has put together a letter spell… Read full post »

Back to Healthcare. Where are we? 

The Senate Finance Committee (the Baucus Plan) released the proposed bill on October 19th with official name and everything: America's Healthy Future Act, AHFC, all 1,252 pages.  This will not be the final version because remember there is a version i… Read full post »

Fox News pundits , bloggers and commenters across America are dumbfounded as to why people are offended with the illegal alien costume.  After all it's all in the spirit of fun and Halloween, with a wink a giggle and nod.    It's that enemy of America " Political correctness" they scre… Read full post »

To all the young women with ticking biological clocks, let me tell you what you have coming.  When your kids get into their mid twenties, and you start looking at their baby pictures and videos you start thinking about being a grandma, or in my case a yiayia.  It's the other… Read full post »

_{(Let those who can swim, swim, and whoever is too weak sinks) Georg Grosz : "Greed"}

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Sophistry always fascinated me.   Here is a definition of sophistry from the  Internet Encyclopedia of Philosophy : 

By Arist… Read full post »

 As a rule I do not watch cable news.  Cable news is a useless exercise filled with distortions and a drive to create fear and sensation.   Here is a brilliant example of the lunacy that poses as news.  

Three-quarters of Americans say there is more crime in… Read full post »

The Senate Finance Committee yesterday voted for the Baucus plan with one lone Republican, Princess  Olympia Snowe, aka President Snowe of Main.  Does this lone Republican vote make this a bipartisan bill?  Have we achieved bipartisanship yet?  

Once again each of the Republicans… Read full post »

In trying to understand the Republican resistance to healthcare reform, I have been looking at some of the arguments and or solutions that are offered by the Republicans and some of their Democratic collaborators.  Tort reform and competition seem to be two big areas of contention. &… Read full post »

Gotcha, no, not Obama.  My people the Greeks yesterday overwhelmingly voted for George Papandreou as Prime Minister.  Papandreou is the head of the Panhellenic Socialist Party(PASOK).   Papandrou's mother is American and he, was born in St. Paul, Minnesota.  Imagine that, electing… Read full post »

After a grueling marathon session on Thursday night, the Senate Finance committee --where the Republicans showed their concern for the American people by introducing amendment after amendment that they claimed would help Obama keep his promise to not increase taxes on the middle class-- a version of… Read full post »

There is a certain kind of humor that I could not explain why it reaches my soul and makes me bubble all day long.   I was  led to this from a commenter at Talk Left and I keep reading it and laughing all day long.  I cannot explain why it has… Read full post »

I would like to first start by saying how much I respect Senator John Rockefeller, Democrat, from West Virginia for bringing up a robust  Public Option, amendment to the Baucus plan.  I would like to follow up on a part of the Senator's discussion and follow his rationale for his amendment.… Read full post »

In about 45 minutes you can join the fun at C-span 3.  Senator Rockefeller and Senator Schumer are offering a Public Option amendment to the Baucus plan. 

I watched in rapture.  These are the take aways for me, from this morning session:  

1.  A man called Rockefeller is arg… Read full post »

Current standings:  The House, led by Nancy Pelosi, pushing for a clear public option.  Nancy is trying to manage the Blue Dogs, while Rahm and the White House are coddling them.  The Baucus plan, backed it seems by the White House and Reid, that offers a number of maneuvers that coddl… Read full post »