“ we put the Justice Department in a very difficult place if we’re telling them, “This is supposed to be against the law, but we want you to turn the other way.” That’s not something we’re going to do.
4.26.12
“ Capitalist models of healthcare are completely inefficient. My dad lost his job when he was diagnosed with cancer. He had to pay a thousand dollars per month to stay on his insurance. His new more expensive plan did not cover chemotherapy, so he had to pay out of pocket for that and close to $5000 for his surgery. He ended up spending well over half of his retirement savings during treatment and recovery. He was one of the lucky ones because he HAD savings to finance it. What would he have done if he did not have the money? Die or go bankrupt. GOD BLESS AMERICA. A guy i know was shot in the face by a stranger who knocked on his door then fled. he survived and now owes $40,000 to hospitals. I am 26 and cannot get a credit card or any loan at all because of bills from two ER visits at age 18 when i was sick with Crohn’s disease.
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Amber Eeeeeee reacts to England beginning to dismantle it’s NHS. Leaving this here so I have something to refer to next time I get into an argument with my Right Wing father over this crap. He’s a doctor too….
“ SPOILER ALERT: none of what’s happening in the headlines right now means anything at all. The Republicans will ultimately nominate Mitt Romney because that’s who the money guys who control the party have chosen as their nominee. All the batshit “social issues” now being anxiously nattered about in the media—meaning conservatives’ hatred and fear of women and sex, which is indeed infuriating, and is the whole reason I drew this cartoon (it’s all about panel 2)— will go back to being non-issues again as soon as Rick Santorum disappears back into whatever squeaky-clean hole he came out of and the dingbat fringe he represents turns their energies back to homeschooling their kids about the Antichrist. Romney will lose to Obama because nobody likes him. Obama, victorious, will continue to be a lameass Wall Street tool just like Romney. In other words we have another eight months of shrill media noise ahead of us—sound bytes, debates, attack ads, gaffes, scandals, setbacks and bounces and endless bloviating analysis—and it all might just as well not happen. My advice to you would be to pay attention to something that matters instead. Pick something: the struggle to establish democracies in the Middle East, the fate of the Euro, the efforts of Occupy Wall Street, the hunt for the Higgs Boson. Anything but this moronic reality show.
3.14.12
“ Did he say anything interesting? Jobs, mortgages, jobs, business, taxes. I seem to recall some generic bellicosity toward Iran and I definitely remember hearing that hoary Albrightism, “the indispensable nation.” I have always enjoyed that phrase. It suggests a single, sad bag of Cheetohs resting lazily between the coil and the glass, refusing to fall into the hopper, and a single, sad, very fat man banging a futile palm against the other side.
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Who Is IOZ - Straits of the Union.
I care for the liveblogging of the SOTU about as much as I do for that of the Republican debates, which is to say, I wish we didn’t pay so much aggravated attention to so much useless nonsense. I checked the text of the speech today, though. Was anyone surprised by the speech? The usual empty promises on that which he cannot control and the usual despicable threats on that which he can and will. Can you read/hear that speech and expect the nation’s trajectory* to change one iota?
*perhaps instead of “trajectory” we should instead call it a sad but much deserved destiny…
