I say yes, you say no, OR People are Strange

Blue:

For once we missed the storms but had the most incredible sunset - I think I may just move in next door to you so I can eat italian food - it is hands down my favourite as long as it is homemade.  (I'll bring wine........)

Sandy

A lot of wind here last night and today is not as hot as the last few days.

 Sizzler steaks baked potatoes and salad for dinner.

You guys are making me hungry again!

Shirley .. I agree, the debates should be interesting.

Bren

PS .. Shirley, I think it's okay for you and WW to talk about anything you want on this thread.  BTW .. Gas prices dropped 30 cents a gallon in my area.

Shirley

I'm well aware of the tactics used on this thread.  Censorship via brussel sprouts, LOL. 

I choose to turn my feelings of hatred against the real enemy on this breast cancer forum...breast cancer...not a real live person who happens to ALSO have two titties like the rest of us.  She unfortunately doesn't fit the template for deserving respect solely because she is a woman and of the wrong political bent.  Obama has made as many gaffes as she has, and I wonder why no one is taking him to task for the problems we are facing.  He has squandered the power of the office and the country is in dire straits while he golfs.

I went through the ERA times, and have busted my butt for decades to try and see that ALL women are treated equally...it grieves me to see the loss of sisterhood here, HERE where it should be paramount...all because a woman who to my knowledge has never harmed anyone, is a wife, and mother of a special-needs child is in the process of the having the press and others put her "in her place" the way minorities and women were put in their places for decades and not allowed to reach for the stars.

Why are the NYT and Washington post doing this?

http://www.washingtonpost.com/blogs/the-fix/post/help-analyze-the-palin-emails/2011/06/08/AGZAaHNH_blog.html

"Over 24,000 e-mail messages to and from former Alaska governor Sarah Palin during her tenure as Alaska's governor will be released Friday. That's a lot of e-mail for us to review so we're looking for some help from Fix readers to analyze, contextualize, and research those e-mails right alongside Post reporters over the days following the release".  What is acceptable about this?

Hillary was treated the same way by the same forces and unfortunately her decision to not fight back for fear of being seen as "racist" has emboldened them.  I believe she would have made a much better president. They are trying to make damned sure that no other woman will have the guts to try that reach for the stars.  I think that in the future, today's woman will have cause to rue their disdain for Palin.

Just to be totally clear, the gutless republicans who are watching this and not defending her in any way are unworthy of any respect from me. I believe that Mitt Romney and his aides instigated a great deal of this back in '08, and I implore any woman here..do not vote for him!  I have no idea who I will vote for yet, except it will NOT be Romney OR Obama. 

So, ladies, you may see me as a deluded tea partier, but I'm here to say, loud and proud, I'm an old-style feminist and have been for a long time.  I spent a good deal of my working life being underpaid, overworked and passed over for promotion because of my sex...my daughters are faring better as I hope all of you are....our goal was "equality".  Are we allowing every sister in our country that? 

Gotta say worldwatcher, I am with you on underpaid and overworked. Been that way all my life. Just had a 20k pay cut cause guess: I HAVE to have insurance and they know it. So I am screwed and looking for another job. Stinks but living in a " right to work" state I have no recourse. Still working cause gotta have insurance. Sucks wieners. Pun intended.

98 In Philly today......................oh for my shore home and the pool.............thank heavens for a/c.

I think that law was the best they could do in the political climate they had to work around. 

It is not anything close to single payer.  Because I believe that single payer is the most efficient way to get the most out of our healthcare dollars I am conflicted about this one.  I think it will help some people but without at least a public option it still leaves the private insurance companies as the main players.  They have shown nothing but a willingness to increase rates and decrease services every chance they get and for any excuse they can come up with.  Do you suppose that they will cancel all those recent rate increases they have been blaming on the new healthcare law if the courts strike it down and they don't have to abide by any new regulations afterall?  No ... me neither. 

Edited to add:  It is not the people who favor single payer who would be hurt by this.  It's the people with pre-existing conditions who can't get private insurance or who are being held hostage by their current company and forced to pay outrageous rates because they know they can't find anything else ... or the people who lose their job sponsored insurance for any reason who will be left up sh*t creek without a paddle.

You know who loses here don't you - EVERYBODY - if they strike down the healthcare law it'll be back to normal - people who are under insured or not insured will still need medical care and it will happen - just every single taxpayer in the U.S. will pay for it - sadly, the bloated insurance companies will not - I don't get that Americans by and large don't "get it" - I was down there for 25 years and it was the one thing that I just couldn't fathom - no one seemed to understand who the enemy was - it was and is THE INSURANCE COMPANIES!!!!!

Sandy

Good luck on the job hunt Barbara!  What they did to you sucks

My daughter's old employer did the same to their long time employees ... cut pay and did away with their health benefits both actually.  She and the others have now all found other ... and better ... jobs.  The last one to leave was actually told "We really count on you now and don't know what we would do without you here doing the work of 5 people ... oh and by the way we are paying you way too much so you will have to take a pay cut".   Need I say that she really enjoyed walking out on them ... as did they all truthfully.   

Sending out (((hugs))) and love and feel better wishes to Elizabeth ... and wishing with all my heart that I could do more than that.  I want magical 'make it all better' powers dammit.

Elizabeth

I think we alll want those magic make it all better powers WR talked about. We love you girl .

Adding my MISS YOU to Elizabeth!

Going home to help kids get ready for 40th anniversary party their Dad decided they should throw for us. When they asked if it could be at our house he said that was okay as long as they did all the work. So why have I been doing yard work every sunny day? So now I go home to see what still needs to be done after my girls cleaned with 4 little ones under foot. Oh and my sons are supposed to come out in the morning to help me becuse my daughters will be at a Mom to Mom Sale until 3 hours before the party starts and they have to go home change and then each drive half an hour to my house.(Need I add that the daughters are much better at throwing parties than the sons?)

"The kids will do all the work" Ha. Has he met his own children?

I am grumpy because I am always tired. I think that"s from Femara. The pulmonologist thinks it could be sleep apnea or fibromyalgia because I am also sore all over. I say Femara again.

And now I have to have more tests and I was really enjoying a break from medical bills.

Go single payer!

Please forgive the rant. Fatigue makes me grouchy.I know a lot of you struggle every day with problems bigger than mine.

I really am amazed we made it forty years. But I can not think of a better way to spend my life.  

Congrats, Rosemary!! It is perfectly OK to be grumpy. I am pretty grumpy today also.