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

Hee hee - he doesn't like Prince Charles??  A form letter, I suppose.  Thanks lassie for the info.

Just a thought:

RL, love the book facts poster. Sad, but probably true!



IllinoisLady, I got a kick out of the new Medicare program.



So, do these impeach Obama nuts think Biden will be different? Or is it just that they want a white president? Sometimes I'm embarrassed to be an American ....



On the other hand, we have made progress towards MLK's dream and I'm sure we all see evidence of this everyday. Today I took my grandson to a local park/playground. He was one of 3 white children there and happily played with Hispanic, African American and mixed race kids for several hours. He didn't notice that he was in the minority, he just had fun playing with other kids!

I'm so sick of Middle East military adventures, especially when there is not one real shred of evidence that our national security is at risk. What happened to the Syrians is terrible, but we should handle issues like this with diplomacy and sanctions, NOT bombs! Arrrrrgh!!

Sunny -- That little Vietnamese girl and her little brother eventually emigrated to Canada, and she lives in Toronto and speaks to various groups about the horrors of war.

notself -- I agree, but I've been reading about the monetary influence from AIPAC to U.S. Senators' campaign coffers.......and now that the U.S. is becoming more and more self-sufficient oil-wise, I expect that influence to only increase.

AIPAC - ugh.  I hate that lobby.

My question is if the US (or anyone else) decides to bomb something in Syria, how do they decide what to bomb and how do they know it is going to make things better rather than worse? 

This whole Syria thing is one big mess. It's horrendous that Assad did that to his own people. Just like SunflowersMA said - we didn't do anything (right away) when Saddam Hussein gassed the Kurds. crazy4carrot's cartoon just nailed it. Some of the atrocities that are happening in Africa are worse (IMO) than what Assad did. And it's happening daily.

Sooner rather than later, we should turn in our badge as world police.  It's neither our place nor our responsibility.

I'm in agreement......we should do a lot more to take care of ourselves and put others on notice that they will have to likewise.  War makes money....but nearly always for the wrong people....those who already have plenty. 

Not to get too far off the subject but ran across this article just now.  Hope I don't get all the weird lines in it.

Georgia governor gets paid through secret PAC to obstruct Obamacare

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Georgia Gov. Nathan Deal (R)’s family and business partner have been receiving payments from a secret Political Action Committee called Real PAC. Half a million dollars of the money donated to the PAC has come from corporate health care interests which — like the governor and Georgia state Insurance Commissioner Ralph Hudgens — oppose the implementation of the Affordable Care Act (ACA), also known as “Obamacare.”

According to investigative reporter Jim Walls of Atlanta Unfiltered, the PAC hasn’t filed taxes or the required financial disclosures in two years, and the information it did file for 2011 was incorrect.

Contributors to Real PAC include Aetna, Humana, Blue Cross, United Health care and other interests that want to keep health insurance premiums and other costs as high as possible. Bryan Long of activist group Better Georgia told Raw Story that the list of donors shows who Gov. Deal really works for.

“He goes out and he does their bidding,” Long said, “He’s working for them instead of working for the 650,000 Georgians who don’t have insurance at all or access to the Medicaid expansion.”

“What’s remarkable about this isn’t that there’s money in politics,” he continued. “We all know there’s money in politics. He knew that this was so wrong that he didn’t want to tell anyone. He tried to keep it a secret for two years.”

Deal’s office made financial records publicly available on the Friday before Labor Day weekend, hoping, Long said, that no one would pay attention. The AP reported Friday that among its outgoing costs, the PAC “paid $30,000 to Southern Magnolia Capital, a fundraising firm founded by Deal’s daughter-in-law, Denise Deal. It also paid Ken Cronan, who co-owned a Gainesville salvage yard with Deal, more than $10,000 in December for pilot and plane expenses.”

All of the companies that pay into the PAC are doing business with the state of Georgia on some level. The PAC’s treasurer, former state ethics chairman Rick Thompson, protested that the PAC money is not just for Deal’s re-election, but for “Republican causes.”

Last week, state insurance commissioner Ralph Hudgens was caught on tape boasting to a crowd of supporters that his office is deliberately obstructing the implementation of the Affordable Care Act. As Floyd County Republicans called out “Amen!” and applauded, Hudgens said that his office is interfering with the certification of the ACA’s insurance policy “navigators,” individuals hired to help consumers choose policies on the open market.

“Let me tell you what we’re doing (about Obamacare),” he said. “Everything in our power to be an obstructionist.”

Seems like he has been taking lessons from Congress.....shame on him.  If I live to be a hundred......I'll never TOTALLY understand greed.  I mean....bad stuff runs downhill.....and one way or other, sooner or later, it is going to end up somewhere that it will HURT you.  Of course, maybe ---- like some of our sports figures, some of these yo-yo's start to feel invincible.......and funds, aren't they always great.  At some point you have to look at you in the mirror and wonder --- is that really a nice guy there or someone who sold out.  Well, better him than me......but the day will come and  the fiddler will be there to be paid.  Good Luck to this guy. 

Jackie

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No doubt the sad victims of Republican controlled-states will blame the President for the raise in their rates. But actually, Republicans are about to raise rates by 8-10% on their constituents by rejecting a key part of ObamaCare.

The Dallas Morning News (subscriber only link) reported, “Study Says Texas Premiums Will Rise With Medicaid Expansion Opposition”:

Texas’ refusal to expand Medicaid will cause private health insurance premiums to rise by an average of 9.3 percent for people who buy their own coverage, a new study finds. GOP lawmakers, strongly encouraged by Gov. Rick Perry, decided not to add poor adults to Medicaid’s rolls. That means about 1.3 million fewer Texans will have health coverage by 2016 than if the federal Affordable Care Act were fully implemented in the state, according to the study by the nonprofit research organization Rand Corp.