After 9-11 I went seriously online for the first time in my life to find out what´s going on in this country. It didn´t long to find out - took a little longer to sink in. Finally I couldn´t stand the agitprop 24 hours a day: ¨Is al-queda recruiting in your high school?¨ I spent some time in a country that was not the US nor the UK and thought maybe this has played out. I came back to find the same people and family members I knew profoundly transformed, weak, incapable of listening for more than a few seconds to anyone who doesn´t reflect what they´ve heard for years by then. I found previous friendships trashed, professional relationships trivialized, and honesty as rare as orange roughy. A serious conversation can only go about a couple rounds before they lower their heads and shake them sadly. All that really excites them is to moan and whine about their private misfortunes. Obama can say the sky is blue and up blast a thousand rabid differing opinions screaming that no one knows what color the sky is and no government official should stay in office for another second if he is that delirious with power. And the whiners nod their heads. Americans don´t have a sense of self. They don´t have a community to fall back on - they have only the agitprop to keep them ¨in the loop.¨ We all need to bring Franklin, Whitman, Emerson, Thoreau back into our intellectual lives to get a sense of real independence and identity and how ridiculous the video heads are.

Well, schmuck, waht do you expect from our
schmuck from Chicago? We get the Chicago
shuffle , that's it. Want something different?
We need a new turn of the century progressive
upheaval to throw all the bastards out, but
first rupert, first and before all else, get rupert
kicked all the way back to some dust ridden
shit hole in Australia where he belongs.
Aussies! listen up! bring this bastard son of yours,
rupert, home and chastise him with 800 years
of outback!

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I really worry when there's no footnotes or competent analysis. I put forward 'stupid' as the biggest source of medical waste.
(see smoking, drinking, trauma centers have 68% uninsured in them) and...
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and look up term 'limited health literacy'

Sources say it's 40-50 billion a year on JUST stupid (factoring out smoking/drinking/preventable disease). That dwarfs all the waste in studies/tests.

Wonder why nobody is mentioning that ?... could it be that everyone INCLUDING THIS SITE is pandering to stupid ?

GOP members lying and whingeing with their talking points became bearable when accompanied by the Democratic responses and refutations. 7 hours listening to adulatory spin with the demagoguery and missing good bits of the exchanges? You, sir, are a glutton for punishment.

P.S. I hope that you have kicked the cigarette habit to the curb. Heartless Republicans, by their nature, avoid one of the hazards of smoking. They only risk their lungs, eyes, and manhood.

I remain impressed by Mr. Pitt's column of a few days ago (titled when it appeared Feb. 21 in the Seattle Times "Don't confuse them with the facts"). In part it read:

"Increasingly, we are a people estranged from critical thinking, divorced from logic, alienated from even objective truth. We admit no ideas that do not confirm us, hear no voices that do not echo us, sift out all information that does not validate what we wish to believe . . . any people thus handicapped sow the seeds of their own decline; they respond to the world as they wish it were rather than to the world as it is . . ."

I find this to apply particularly to Republicans, on matters such as health care, global warming, the economy . . . what have you.

It's all BS, this so-called health care debate. No one wants to confront the reality which is that people's health in this country HAS to be a for-profit industry which makes yet MORE money for the few at the expense of the many. Even the new "reform" bill does really nothing to get the profiteers out of the equation.
It might do a few things to correct certain injustices, but it leaves the money-grubbers in FULL control.
Why can't we learn something from other countries who insure EVERYONE at a much lower cost? Because in this God-forsaken country, the power and the money are the rulers of the game!

All this discussion is ridiculous. We should just extedn Medicare to everyone. For those under 65 who say this is Socialism, I say, will you turn down Medicare when you reach 65? and for those already 65 or older, I say, "have you turned down Medicare?" Why is Socilaism OK for those over 65 , but not for those under? And for those who say Medicare operates in the Red, let me remind you that if Medicare funds had not been raided for other government expenses, it would be in the black.

"Why didn't CSPAN cover the Health Care Summit . . ?" They did, on C-SPAN3, C-SPAN Radio and C-SPAN Live Streaming on-line. For future reference, bookmark http://www.c-span.org/Watch/C-SPAN3.aspx.

I watched, was bored, and quite angry about the half screens and talking heads interjected by the networks. Happily I did not come across Ben Stein. I adhered to MSNBC, in spite of knowing the G.E. connection, in view of the fact that I do watch their generally progressive news weekday evenings. Keith Olberman surely gave one of the most compelling statements for health care I have seen when discussing his father's terminal illness.

As you, who read my column on The rag Blog know, I am a member of PNHP and a single payer advocate. I fear that somekind of absurdity is going to pass the congress and I do not agree with Paul Krugman that anything will do--tho I am a great respecter of Dr. Krugman. Any bill must include anti-trust legislation, be financed by requiring the wealthy to pay their share,do away with Medicare Part D and Medicare Advantage, provide fair pricing and coverage for those with pre-existing conditions, include a Medicare for all provision, aqnd include provisions for training more primary care physicians and paying them a decent income.

CB - right on! They run the government at a ratio of 8 to 1. Eight lobbyists for every Congress person and Senator on the Hill.

Health insurance companies run the show! They decide what will be covered, how many and which treatments, where you will go for treatment, and which providers (doctors) are allowed to practice - through the credentialing process of their provider networks. They also decide who will die by dropping the sickest people from their rolls. Everything the Right says will happen with "socialized" medicine has already happened in the private market.

The Healthcare Summit and the whole Insane National Non-debate on HealthCare is just another indication of Obama's inability to Lead and his personal need for some Political CYA to cover his Fear of Being an actual Leader, and the fact that the Democrats, even when in control of the White House and a super dooper majority in Congress backed up by a huge voter mandate--- just can't govern and will always fear the Republicans and their huge, monopoly-like Cabal of CONservative Media Empires... Whatever happened to 'The Only Thing To Fear Is Fear Itself' ..?.. and 'Patriotism'..?.. and 'Doing The Right Thing'..?.. and 'Representing The People' (and not only Corporate Interests) and most of all---TRUE LEADERSHIP...??!!... AND---The Republicans practically destroyed this Nation and now, its obvious they are unfit to govern because apparently they also suffer from complete collective amnesia and can't remember a damn thing about what actually happened during the previous Dictatorial, War Mongering, Economy Destroying, Civil Rights Trampling, Historical Deficit Creating Administration.... So, I gotta ask ya--- If the Democrats can't govern and the Republicans only destroy government, what the hell does that mean for what little is left of our Republic and any concept of WE THE PEOPLE..?

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