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(HatTip: DailyDish)
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A Health Care Plea…
September 29, 2009 By
Obama – Clearing The Bar
September 29, 2009 By
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I like this move.
In the final days of Chicago’s quest to host the 2016 Olympics, President Obama is making himself a central player in the effort to bring the Summer Games to his adopted home town, raising the political stakes for the White House with no assurance that the Windy City will win.
Obama announced Monday that he will fly to Denmark for a speaking part in Chicago’s final presentation to the International Olympic Committee, ending what has been a behind-the-scenes lobbying effort by the White House and Obama friends on behalf of their home town. First lady Michelle Obama, born and raised on the city’s South Side, will also address IOC members, who will make their decision Friday, choosing among Chicago, Madrid, Rio de Janeiro and Tokyo.
The President will undoubtedly pick up a ton of flack from the right. You can hear it now – “What?!!? He’s got time to fly to Denmark with a health care crisis on our hands?”
Well, yes he does actually. It’s called multitasking – a concept foreign to many of the wingnut variety.
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Something Ain’t Right
September 28, 2009 By
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Sorry, but here’s more stuff that should piss you off.
I am a volunteer abortion clinic escort.
This means I am there to walk with women coming into the abortion clinic. It’s usually no more than a minute’s walk from their cars to the front door of the clinic.
The highlight of my most recent Saturday morning was the offense taken by one of the regular protesters at the sight of me and a client talking and laughing together as we walked. This protester lifted her bullhorn and screeched into it, over all the other shouting from her compadres: “These ladies are not your friends! They’re your enemies! They want to sell your baby for parts AND MAKE THEM INTO SHAMPOO!”
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For some women, those sixty seconds are a nightmare. Well before they arrive in their cars, they’re afraid of that walk. They’ve been worrying about it, steeling themselves. They don’t know what they’re walking into, but they’re imagining a worst-case scenario.
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For a nation that claims to cherish its freedoms, America is pretty damned complacent about the harassment that goes on outside abortion clinics.
Bullying never won any hearts or minds, and harassment or intimidation of private citizens going about their private lives is never, never, never a tool for good. There is no place for such tactics of fear in civil discourse, and no one who employs them can be truly called a warrior for good, no matter what they tell themselves while they’re packing their bullhorn and their gore posters into the car every morning.
Does it ever feel as if you’re living in some alternate universe where up is down? Where common sense and decency have been replaced by craziness and thuggery? Where a country like the United States of America has a need to escort women who are doing what they feel is right for themselves within the boundaries of the law?
Why is this stuff permitted? Why do the rights of those protesting take precedence over the rights of women to not be harassed and terrified when they are breaking no laws?
How is any of this right? What the hell is going on?
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Health Care Reform – The Numbers
September 28, 2009 By
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Consider this:
A.) Obama’s health care reform package is projected to cost about $1 trillion over 10 years – $100 billion/year.
B.) The Iraq and Afghanistan wars are costing in the range of $16 billion/month – $192 billion/year.
C.) The two wars have cost, by the end of the Bush administration, $1 trillion – an amount equal to the cost of reforming health care.
Should we mention that the Iraq war was a completely unnecessary war sold to a frightened nation on a the basis of lies? Or that the Afghanistan war is no closer to meeting with success than it was when it began eight years ago?
Doesn’t all of this really piss you off?
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