This is why Glen Beck, and all the others like him are dangerous. They a spoon feeding people with lies and limited information. Being a citizen of this country takes real responsibility. Sadly, all too many of our citizens can not, or more to the point will not read. They got out of school and stopped learning.

If you are going to pick up a sign and march in defense of anything, you should at least know what it is. Otherwise you look like these people, and how can anyone take your message seriously if you can’t even explain it?

The government’s previous filing in the case angered gay rights activists who supported Obama’s candidacy in part because of his pledge to move forward on repealing the law and the “don’t ask, don’t tell” policy that prevents gays from serving openly in the military.

…Monday’s court filing was in response to a lawsuit by Arthur Smelt and Christopher Hammer, who are challenging the federal law, which prevents couples in states that recognize same-sex unions from securing Social Security spousal benefits, filing joint taxes and benefiting from other federal rights connected to marriage.

Justice lawyers have argued that the law is constitutional and contend that awarding federal marriage benefits to gays would infringe on the rights of taxpayers in the 30 states that specifically prohibit same-sex marriages.

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Glen Beck, what a sell out loser!

Has anyone even read this healthcare bill? No, I am not talking about what someone in your church sent you in a email, or a friend cc’d you on a email from you don’t know who it came from originally. Have YOU, actually sat down and READ it? Do you know what it says? If you answered no, then shut the hell up and read the damn thing. Stop this domestic terror of acting like mindless, lazy, followers and grow a pair and read it for yourself. If you can not do that, turn in your voter registration card, just do mankind the service of shutting up.

You can’t fix stupid!

What are we teaching our children? Call it being an American, how can you when you are screaming about something you have not even read? That isn’t American, that is just plain stupid. Allowing Glen Beck, Rush, MSNBC, Fox, your “minister”, to tell you what something says without reading it and knowing for yourself is criminal. Citizenship is not easy people, you actually need to do something about it. You need to earn it and protect it everyday, and going to a town meeting and screaming, chanting what you have been told to say is not being a citizen, it is being a cheap vinyl recording. If that is your definition of being a citizen, do the right thing and please keep your stupidity to yourself. You should have no rights, no get your ass back into the field and pick something.

Read it! Healthcare bill

Sarah Palin addressed a local (Alaska) NRA dinner the other night. The NRA peeps were so excited and stirred by her comments that they have decided not to share what the quitter said.

Seems they are (or the quitter herself) feel inclusion is the way to go now days. Reporters were not invited to observe. The quitter has gone media silent since leaving office. She has not twittered, and backing out of appearances. When she quits, she QUITS!

Granted, she is now deflecting rumors about her marriage to Todd isn’t going as planned. Sure she has enough on her plate.

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This whole healthcare reform issue is getting so out of hand, and to be perfectly honest, this is bullshit from all sides. This is an issue that is about our lives and everyone has turned it into a political debate. To such a point, people are screaming at each other in the aisles of our local meeting halls. So many people just need help, they need medications. Is it anyones responsibility to make sure this mothers child lives or dies, or if that senior gets the medication to extend their life? Not even going to touch on the hopeless thought of comfort.

Healthcare has become the latest whipping boy from both the right and the left. What is our (all of us as in society) responsibility to the person next to us? Do we have a responsibility? Or is it our “God-given, inalienable right” to be responsible for no one other then ourselves? This is an issue that is rapidly reaching the normal conclusion we usually find ourselves in. It is not how loud you scream, but how much money you throw at it. Because the simple fact of voting in this country is measured in Benjamin’s not a ballot.

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Philadelphia, PA — August 2 – This afternoon, at the National Constitution Center in Philadelphia, I saw the face of ignorance and hate–and it wasn’t pretty.

When Health and Human Services Secretary, Kathleen Sebelius and Senator Arlen Specter (D-PA) came to the National Constitution Center to answer questions about health care reform, they were greeted by an overflow crowd of approximately 400 people, the majority of whom were supporters with legitimate questions.

Unfortunately, though, a well-organized, belligerent and loud group of right-wingers stood in the aisles and across the back and disrupted the town meeting throughout. They yelled, shouted and jeered, and it was clear that they were not there to participate, but instead to try to disrupt the meeting and make it difficult as possible for anyone else to ask questions. They jeered from the moment the director of the Constitution Center stood to welcome everyone. For a few days leading up to the town meeting, e-mails circulated around Philadelphia warning that the ‘tea-baggers’ were planning to protest the meeting and, although there were fewer of them than there were supporters–they made more noise shouting about ’socialism,’ ‘abortion,’ and ‘assisted suicide.’

To show their support, the audience stood and applauded Secretary Sebelius and Senator Specter numerous times. There were people in the crowd wearing purple t-shirts with gold and white lettering that said ‘Health Care Now We Can’t Wait.’

Local members of Health Care for America, a non-partisan, nationwide coalition of volunteers were a strong presence at the event. According to Antoinette Kraus, a Pennsylvania Eastern Organizer for the Philadelphia Unemployment Project, one of Health Care for America’s member organizations, ‘Two people a day die in Pennsylvania from illnesses that could have been prevented if they’d had access to affordable health care.

‘We advocate for quality health care for all through a public option,’ she said, ‘and we encouraged all advocates of health care to come out today and support Sect. Sebelius and Senator Specter.’
In spite of the chaos, questions were asked and answers given. In response to one question, Specter said, ‘I believe the single-payer system should be on the table,’ and was enthusiastically applauded. A retired nurse then prefaced her question by saying, ‘If single-payer passes, I’ll come out of retirement!’

When asked why the Community Choice Act (which would cover patients who can be treated at home) wasn’t included in the proposed plan, both Sebelius and Specter explained that they are an effort to put it in the final Senate bill.

When an angry woman approached the microphone and complained that health care reform would lead to ‘rationed care,’ Secretary Sebelius said emphatically, ‘Rationed care is absolutely not something we condone,’ and explained that today health care is ‘rationed everyday for people who do not have coverage.’

To emotionally charged questions about abortion and assisted suicide, Sebelius calmly answered, ‘Abortion and assisted suicide are not a part of the legislation.’

impassioned and frustrated man asked why–if sixty-three percent of the American people favor health care reform–can’t sixty-three percent of the Congress pass the legislation. Specter replied, ‘We are going about it in a democratic way.’

One person described seeing people ‘falling through the cracks everyday’ and asked what can be done about ‘getting insurance for people with serious illnesses.’ Sebelius explained that the proposed health care reform would require ‘no more pre-existing barriers, no more being dropped by insurers when you’re seriously ill, and no more losing coverage when you lose your job.’

Frances Conwell, Philadelphia, was in the audience and supports health care reform and she explained, ‘People say they don’t want to pay for other people, but I say they’re going to pay anyway–they can choose to pay for prevention or for how much it costs us now when people have to go to the emergency room for care.’ She added, ‘I have health care, but I can’t watch other people suffer just because I have coverage. You have to think outside yourself and think about other people.’

Maureen Benzig, retired, who formerly worked at the Medical College of Pennsylvania, said, ‘I would like to see a single-payer system and I was happy to hear Senator Specter say he like it on the table, but I support a public option if we can’t get single payer.’ Benzig described a family member who is a physician and took a year off in order to support single payer. Her own doctors, at the Hospital of the University of Pennsylvania also support single payer.

When I asked one of the belligerents why he and his companions wouldn’t stop shouting so others could speak and be heard, he shouted that it was his right to yell under ‘the first amendment.’ I then asked why he couldn’t respect the first amendment rights of others and he answered by glaring at me and walking away.

After the question and answer segment ended, I asked three of the boisterous opponents of health care why they do not support it and one of them pulled a copy of the Constitution from his hand and waving it, said, ‘Health care is not covered in the Constitution.’ Their arguments were illogical and based on lack of knowledge and an abundance of fear. I commented to them that they were being had, that they were working against their own best interests and they kept waving the Constitution.

The fury and rancor in the faces of the right wingers at the town meeting made it clear that this was not about health care only. It is about fear and raw anger, already inside them, now directed toward the health care debate. They see defeating health care legislation as their opportunity to re-visit the Presidential election.

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Lot of talk by Sen., John McCain this morning. Seems he has something to say on everything from how Sarah Palin is being treated, to slamming the “Blue Dog Dems.” Granted, the dems have not handle the issue of healthcare very well at all. The dems are doing exactly what they cried foul on the republicans during the Bush years. But, isn’t that the circle we have been in for decades? It has only gotten worse with each passing election.

Both parties are wrong on this. The real issue is Mr. McCain, you and every other Senator need to stop talking on TV and talk to each other. We are tired of your (everyone’s) personal issues with this person or that person. You have a job, that we hired you for and to be honest the expectation is for the job to be done, and done right. So far, most of you are failing, miserably.

More and more, the issue of term limits is raising its head. Our chosen system of government does not support career politicians. How things are now, politicians are more focused on keeping their job, then ever doing their job. Does anyone really believe we are getting our moneys worth out of anyone in Washington? Its not like much you do up there isn’t changed every four to eight years. This is one serious problem, it makes most the things you “do” only a band-aid. One President signs that land must be protected for the citizens of the future, and then the next guy comes in the office and changes it. No doubt both can and do justify what they change. So, when we hear about something you wave in the air as an accomplishment, we don’t really get excited. It is temporary at best.

Know you ladies and gentlemen think we are stupid, (and in many cases your right) some of us can and do remember what and why you said we needed this or that. You get whatever it is you said we needed and then a few years later, opps, did a little “rethink on that” and you change it. And you can’t figure out why your approval ratings are the lowest in history. Course, you have learned, who cares? You people are sub 30% and it hasn’t changed a thing in your daily life.

Mr. McCain, if you want to make a positive change for the American people … institute term limits. We have heard the argument about how term limits would shorten us of those individuals that are good. I am sure there must be some good people in Washington, but human nature has proved that no matter how “good of a person” you are, corruption and worse, lethargy always sets in. Having a limited time to get things done is good. It pushes the person to get done what they came to get done.

Term limits also solves the campaign finance problem. Reduces the influence of big money, because they won’t be shelling out as much for someone that has a limited window of opportunity to give them what they want. Not to mention how much of a checks and balance this would install. (Makes you wonder how this would have impacted the recent Wall Street meltdown.) Encourages the person running for office to get in there and do some good without having the monkey of paying this group or that corporation’s “favors” back. For us citizens, it would be like watching Michael Phelps. Get it done, or go home. We can get behind someone who is working hard, check with NBC they will back me up on this.

America, take back your future, take back your government, lets get term limits in acted!

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Hey Mr. President,

Know your busy and all, but from down here …. we are a bit more concerned about putting gas in our cars and keeping the Madoff bankers on the other side of our front doors.

See, we don’t have helicopters, planes, private resorts at our disposal. I don’t have anyone walking my dog, or a staff making burgers not good enough for me so I take my ride, (all 26 of them) down to “Five Guys” and get some grease for the staff. I live in a very small rental, no car, and fighting to survive. Those crazies up the hospital only want cash for my medications and well, I just don’t have it right now.

Healthcare is a problem, no doubt and one that you and I both know will never be fixed. It just how it is. Hospitals will fail, funding and care for those of us down here will continue to be cut. Now, the minute an insurance company is facing bankruptcy I think the lesson from AIG should ring loud and clear. Just tell’em no. Don’t worry, they will file with the court, because George made sure they would get more protections then us, they will get through it, I promise. (Now that is my free advice to you, see, we didn’t need a lobbyist at all.)

All I am saying is, drop this hopeless fight. You aren’t gonna win, and we down here have already lost. Pick your battles better, do something that will bring a change to us down here.

Thank you

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President Obama’s ability to shape the debate on health care appears to be eroding as opponents aggressively portray the effort as a government takeover that could limit Americans’ ability to chose their doctors and course of treatment, according to the latest New York Times/CBS News poll.

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The politics for mayor is heating up.  James Donaldson, who is running for mayor is “looking out” for us.  Not really, but in politics that is what it is called.

Jorge Carrasco, was hired to turn Seattle City Light around.  They laid out his goals and a bonus schedule for meeting those goals.  Mr. Carrasco has meet the goals, and 18% of his base pay is the bonus and he is owed $40,000.  Its a car people, this isn’t AIG dollars we are talking about, get a grip.  If he was getting this for doing nothing, yea I would be all uppity about it too.  But the man did his job and more, hence the bonus.

Donaldson, made sure that his being a former Sonic player, (not sure that is something to be bragging about) he understands contracts and incentives.  Tell me the last time a NBA player was called out for making a bonus.  How out of touch are you Mr. Donaldson?  We “regular” people do understand how bonuses work, and we very much understand that when someone earns their bonus, they deserve to be paid, in or out of the public sector.  You want to impress me Mr. Donaldson, do me a Steve Jobs, and be mayor for $1 a year.  Your an ex-sonic I am sure you can afford it.

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If this shakes out to be true, we have serious problems! With the current administration as well as the old.

Wonder how Fox News and its faithful will spin this one.

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