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Humble and Fred Fridays
Every Friday I try to post a little of my Humble and Fred collection, this is some of what the guys liked to call....Dateline Humble and Fred:
Dateline Humble and Fred - Humble and Fred
Category: Humble and Fred
Newt's Psycho Talk
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Category: healthcare
This Is Not What We Want
This is not the healtcare bill millions of Americans want to see. Apparently law makers think it would be fun to fine people in a new healthcare bill if they choose not to buy "affordable" health insurance.
Come on, if these clowns in Washington can't come up with something better than this the people need to march on Washington and demand a special election to get them all out and that includes Barack Obama, the republicans, democrats and every other crooked bastard in that city
What good is a fine going to do? If someone can't afford it now, what makes them think a fine is going to get them any closer to being able to afford healthcare?
Whats affordable according to our lawmakers in Washington? They all get healh insurance for free, so tell us what "affordable" is. This is not single payer and if you are defining affordable based on what private companies charge now, thats not affordable.
I just lost my health insurance because we got a COBRA bill for $987 per month. My employer was willing to pay $387 per month for my wife to have coverage, there is no way I can afford the remaining $600 per month to cover me so I declined it. Go ahead fine me for it and see what happens. I won't pay the fine because I couldn't afford the huge insurance premium.
Go back to the table and come back with something that doesn't punish people. I can see the reason for fining people for no auto insurance, we need it in case someone is hurt in an accident, liability, it makes sense, me not getting health insurance hurts no one, other than the fact that people who do have it have to pay more because I can't afford to pay my doctor bill, therefore, costs go up.
The private insurance companies got us here, they raised rates and denied coverage to people to the point where people either A) couldn't afford it or B) people can't get coverage due to pre-existing conditions. Where is the end? If this bill passes, Im moving to Canada.Category: healthcare
Single Payer Testimony
This is Dr Angell a senior lecturer on socialized medicine at Harvard Medical School. She puts a very sensible spin to the same ideas I have been posting about. If you are not going to listen to a Harvard Medical School professor who are you going to listen to if you are an opponent.
Notice the part where she gets into the fact that those countries that have single payer healthcare spend half as much as we do per person and health outcomes are better while offering more services.
Category: healthcare
Steve Montador, thats our free agent signing......I don't know. Yeah we got tougher, but we lost Spacek so we lost offense on the point. Not to mention Spacek goes in the division to of all teams...The Habs...damn.
So where does that leave us? Tougher, thats good, but again, please Darcy tell us you are not done, there are still names out there.
In the meantime, welcome to Buffalo Steve Montador! Sounds like he could be Zorro's enemy in the next Zorro movie. He and Craig Rivet are going to have to get along when they get to training camp.Category: Buffalo Sabres Hockey
Ed's Playbook
Ed Schultz is my new hero. This guy recently got his own show on MSNBC and all he has done since is give the middle class of this country a voice. In a political world where you have to be rich and a lobbyist willing to line the pockets of politicians to be heard, Big Eddie as we like to call him is becoming a big voice for the middle class.
His big thing is healthcare, which if you have been reading here lately, I have taken that on as well. this video though is from what he calls Ed's Playbook, he was once a college football star in this country. If Obama fails us, Im nominating Ed Schultz to lead a Middle Class party as a potential presidential candidate...I wonder if he'd accept?
In this clip he goes after Mark Sanford, who BTW still has not resigned. The delusional prick thinks that "god" is on his side...yeah....because if there is a god, he likes hanging out with those who have broken the bonds of marriage by cheating on their wife for a year..."god" really digs that sort of thing, he also digs lying and hippocrits as well according to Mr. Sandbag...oops Sanford....isn't there a commandment about they way he is holding god by his side?
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Category: Politics | Television
Damn Nixon
Category: healthcare
Chime in Canadian Readers
I found this video of Canadians commenting on their healthcare system:
Category: healthcare
Summing Up Single Payer
Okay, Republicans who read BBM, this is your chance, watch and listen and you will learn how and why single payer healthcare A) makes sense and B) works in other countries
The secret is, get ready....Private insurance sucks up all the money.
Take out the privatized insurance companies and you can reduce costs and create a Medicare for all system.
Category: healthcare
Enough of the Bible Thumping
I finally got some time to sit down and listen to this jackass Mark Sanford babble his way through his apology.
Both Democrats and Republicans do it to varying degrees, they all hold their religion up at their respective podiums when they speak regardless of what the situation is, but Republicans hold their religious and moral standards in front of them to try and justify their wrong doings.
Could Mark Sanford have used the Bible and his religion anymore and not sounded like a complete hippocrit? He completely justified his actions, thinking that because of this morals and faith that he will somehow be cleansed of his wrong doings. God's law? WTF was that? How about taking responsibility for your own actions, Religion is for those who can't take responsibility for their own actions.
The fact is, when you hold your religion up there for all of us to sit there and get sick over your outright lies, it means nothing. Stop thinking that just because you quote a few verses doesn't mean that you will be any more forgiven than if you just said Im a friggin idiot, I did what I did and it was a choice I made. It had nothing to do with religion.
The sad fact is that Sanford was one of the republicans who called for Bill Clinton's impeachment over a blow job. At least Clinton remained in office to get it. This guy left for Argentina and used government money and time to do it.
He should resign. He said it was a mistake, no a mistake is a one time thing, a momentary lapse of judgement, this was a conscience effort to repeatedly have sex with a woman outside of your marriage.
