Late Sunday brings/brought:
A disturbing (via Jezebel, sorry), call for assassination, which if tweeted by a Muslim, or female, probably would have already resulted in an arrest of some kind.
A great picture taken in Austin during SXSW, and posted at my Compulsion for your enjoyment.
And the wonderful news that Hugh Grant is supportive of Sandra Bullock during these trying times.
Late Sunday also brought health care to a crescendo — passing a behemoth full of compromises galore and benefits too little. A bill with no national health care or public option. Ugh.. I hope this turns out to be a mere stepping stone to national health care, and a much shorter piece of legislation. I hope it’s better than what came before. But hey I just got an email that says..
olivia
For the first time in our nation’s history, Congress has passed comprehensive health care reform. America waited a hundred years and fought for decades to reach this moment. Tonight, thanks to you, we are finally here.,,,, and so on and so forth… blah blah blah
signed
yours truly
Barack
My jury is still out. I’m glad it passed, but I never liked kool-aid. I don’t think I’ve ever tasted it.
And how about that Cornell? Upon winning their way into the Sweet Sixteen they gave a few cursory chest thumps they just kind of stood around, and some people complained the players seemed to have had no idea how to celebrate. I say they just need a few lessons from their “almost an Ivy” brethren at Duke.
peace
You forgot the most important thing…Tiger gave a couple of mini interviews. ;)
I’m with you on the health care bill..here it hope.
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The world laughs at us, and rightly so I’m afriad.
Go Big Red. I’m about as competent to to discuss health care as I am to stand trial – not very. But it does concern me,
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I have been blind to most of the Tiger stuff for quite some time now.
After the fact it seems like a massive effort spent trying to pass a bill that still requires lot of work. They might have better spent the time making it right but no…..
exactly
Like how you dropped Huge Grant’s name in there… gotta love them Big Red boys. They all live in the same house and still manage to win their 9th straight against a tough opponent.
Well, Wisconsin should have been tough. …
Some of those hoses are nice though….I mean really nice.
Well the Hugh grant thing was on some news site, I thought it pretty funny because of his romp with that prostitute and public apology on Jay Leno.
Forgot to ask… how’s the wrist?
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I’m glad the bill passed because otherwise healthcare would have been dead for years.
Dane is happy about Big Red..haha
That’s a good testament to what blogging is not.
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You mean the picture right?
I spent all day watching C-SPAN, imagining what’s going to happen when the Gregory Brothers auto-tune it. There was, I kid you not, a ranking Republican who said “I regret that I have but fifteen minutes to yield to my colleague”
I don’t think it’s drinking Kool-Aid to recognize the history of what’s happened here. When LBJ passed Medicare, there was a faction of the GOP that went along with him, and a wave of goodwill for a program that had been supported by the recently assassinated President. What’s happened here, as meager as it is, is significant policy and it’s historically significant. I’m willing to pour myself three fingers of middle-shelf whiskey over it.
I’ll break out the good stuff when Alan Grayson’s Medicare You Can Buy Into Act passes.
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I’m holding my breath until I actually see this in action and until I find out how much it is going to cost me personally and people who make half of what make and or will make. I’m still totally pissed at insurance companies being do damn happy… I kid you not they are glowing.
Oh, I know that they’re happy. But in some ways I think that passing this bill with no public option– which is what they’re happy about– may have been better in the long term than the garbage that they were calling a public option in the HELP bill.
The majority of the voters who wanted the PO aren’t being mollified, and with enough pressure from the grassroots, we could get something real later this year, or at least before 2014.
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I was torn. I have good health insurance right now. I think. I’ve used it only to get my teeth cleaned, and I had bronchitis last year and had to go on antibiotics. I didn’t pay much.
I think this should have at least had a public option.
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It’s hard for those of us with great insurance we rarely use to understand.
Go Cornell! Aka, Andy Bernard’s alma mater. I had them in my Sweet 16. No, seriously, I did!
Here’s to hope…
And who’s this Olivia?
You know I had them in my sweet sixteen , but you know me I’d have put NYU there if they had a D1 Team so that isn’t saying much for my critical ncaa bball picking skills.
The world laughs at us, and rightly so I’m afriad.
Go Big Red. I’m about as competent to to discuss health care as I am to stand trial — not very. But it does concern me,
joeg´s last blog ..Post Obamacarapocalypse
I want this line
“I’m about as competent to to discuss health care as I am to stand trial — not very’
damn you for using it first
:)
I got the same email from our mutual pal, Barack. And actual had almost the same response, except that I’m not hoping for anything bigger right away.
.-= Doug´s last blog ..Occident =-.
You mean I’m not special?
You are to me. To Barack Obama, you’re just another penpal.
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Darn
Oh you can’t be ripping my Dukies now can you???
You are absolutely right about assassination calls. If they were muslim or black, they would have been arrested already.
HCR is as good as it’s going to get for quite some time. I too would have loved a public option or just a flat single payer system for everyone. But our national discourse just can’t let that happen.
What we have done, though, is we have finally entered the 20th century here in America. Yes the 20th. Nearly every industrialized, modern nation had some form of national health care by mid century. We are just now getting there. Maybe in the next hundred years we can enter the 21st century and have true national health care. It’s a big maybe.
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I understand how huge this is historically though I imagine as time goes on it takes significantly more for legislation to be really influential when applied so my jury is out.
Watching some of the shenanigans on The Hill it often seems we’ve moved backwards.
Naw, in March Madness unless I always go for the underdog because I have nothing at stake.