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

Athena - I echo your feelings on this false equivalency!  CNN goes to the ridiculous with it.   The blatent example, but not inconceivable for CNN, if someone said the earth was round, they'd have to do a segment on the earth is flat.  It carries into the Evolution argument - what argument?  Now we have to give equal time to Creative Design.

And, btw, where are those pesky questions for Romney "Do you believe in Evolution?"  Have they been thrown out because Williard woud have to lie again?

I don't have a problem with bias in news, but I do have a problem with the lack of facts in news.  MSNBC may be biased, but they count on facts.  Faux news is what it is....fraudulent. 

Sorry Alexandria - they couldn't have passed over a more talented woman.

Alexandria .. I'm sorry you got such a cold hearted letter.  I know how hard it is to drum up new business.  It can get so discouraging at times.  I'll keep my fingers crossed for you that you get lots of new clients.

hugs,

Bren

Remember what I said about the Christian Coalition? Well, Ralph Reed, mr casino helper and friend of Jack Abramoff himself, is now trying to help the Romney campaign:

Just six years ago, the man who turned the Christian Coalition into such a powerful political force that he was called "God's right-hand man" was all but written off, tarnished by his ties to the disgraced lobbyist Jack Abramoff, then trounced in his campaign to become Georgia's lieutenant governor.

But after several years in political purgatory, Mr. Reed has found his way back.

At the Republican convention in Tampa, Fla., he was sought after by party luminaries and afforded the ultimate status accommodation, a room in the same hotel as Mitt Romney. And soon he plans to unleash a sophisticated, microtargeted get-out-the-evangelical-vote operation that he believes could nudge open a margin of victory if Mr. Romney can keep the race close.

The other day, sitting in an office lined with framed photographs from back in the heyday - here with President George W. Bush at a White House Christmas party, there with Pope John Paul II at the Vatican - the preternaturally youthful evangelical operative, 51, propped his black ostrich cowboy boots on a coffee table and made what he admits seems an audacious prediction: that record numbers of socially conservative evangelical Protestants will turn out for the first presidential election in history without a Protestant on the Republican ticket.

"God," he said with a laugh, "has a sense of humor."

(GULP!)

More here: http://www.nytimes.com/2012/09/23/us/politics/ralph-reed-hopes-to-nudge-mitt-romney-to-a-victory.html?_r=1&pagewanted=all

Alexandria, I'm so sorry about the job. It may be the best thing in the end -- better for you than for them. It may have not been the best place for you now -- that has happened to me in the past.



As far as your question about medical care in the ER, you are correct. ERs are only required to stabilize you if you arrive with a life-threatening condition. Forget about getting routine or preventative care -- they just don't do that in ERs. And the care isn't free - they bill you. They send the bills to collection agencies if you don't pay. They can ruin your credit, garnishee your wages, or, in some states, arrest you for unpaid medical bills:


http://www.allvoices.com/contributed-news/12006617-breast-cancer-survivor-jailed-over-unpaid-medical-bill


http://www.wifr.com/news/headlines/241_People_Arrested_in_Illinois_in_2011_over_Debt_135696863.html





In some states, they have bill collectors dressed in scrubs in ERs to get you to pay up by implying that you have to pay to be treated, even in an emergency:



http://www.kaiserhealthnews.org/Stories/2012/June/01/minnesota-ER-al-franken.aspx





Or they just let you die:



http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/19207050/ns/health-health_care/t/woman-dies-er-lobby-refuses-help/



http://articles.cnn.com/2008-07-01/us/waiting.room.death_1_hospital-staff-hospital-employee-kings-county-hospital-center?_s=PM:US

Athena - That is from The Onion? Please?

There's such a heartlessness is so many of the positions taken by the far right.  I do find it hard to understand.

Anyway, thanks everyone for the sympathetic words.  I actually probably missed a bullet - in a lot of ways it's a bad place to be.  Still, feels lousy.   

Alexandria, I bet we all have job rejection stories that made us feel terrible but that we know say nothing about us.

I once got a letter saying something to the effect of "no, we would never hire someone like you."

( scratching head....is it the tuft on my tail??)

What I currently do is about 100 times better than what those people could have ever offered me.

43 days to go:http://www.slate.com/articles/news_and_politics/politics/2012/09/obama_leads_in_ohio_day_43_ray_of_hope_for_obama_.html

Today's Good News for Obama: Both the Obama and Romney campaigns continue to hit Ohio hard, crisscrossing the state this week. And for good reason: If Obama wins the Buckeye State, he can lose Virginia and Florida and still win the election. If Romney wins Ohio, his path to 270 electoral votes becomes much clearer. (No Republican president has moved into the White House without moving Ohio into the win column.) But as Election Day draws closer, Obama's lead there has remained small but consistent, standing today at about 5 points. It may not seem like much, but that 51 to 46 margin may be the one that matters most.

Courtesy of the LA Times:   

Romney’s wife, Ann, was in attendance, and the candidate spoke of the concern he had for her when her plane had to make an emergency landing Friday en route to Santa Monica because of an electrical malfunction. 

“I appreciate the fact that she is on the ground, safe and sound. And I don’t think she knows just how worried some of us were,” Romney said. “When you have a fire in an aircraft, there’s no place to go, exactly, there’s no — and you can’t find any oxygen from outside the aircraft to get in the aircraft, because the windows don’t open. I don’t know why they don’t do that. It’s a real problem. So it’s very dangerous. And she was choking and rubbing her eyes. Fortunately, there was enough oxygen for the pilot and copilot to make a safe landing in Denver. But she’s safe and sound.”

Or maybe it's simply that he just chatters away to the little people and pays no attention to what he's actually saying, as in "The trees are the right height".  

Was he joking? Sounds like he could be...like when he was joking about being unemployed.

BTW, just wanted to point out that the new research on breast cancer was funded by th U.S. Government: From the press release - "The study, a collaborative effort funded by the National Cancer Institute (NCI) and the National Human Genome Research Institute (NHGRI), both part of NIH, was published online Sept. 23, 2012, and in print Oct. 4, 2012, in the journal Nature."



http://www.cancer.gov/newscenter/newsfromnci/2012/TCGAbreast



Funded by the tax dollars that some do not want to pay.



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Totally unbelievable - why don't windows on a plane open???? How did he ever get picked to run. Also, which number wife was it that was on that plane?