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

Wow - "selfish" just might be the correct word for the root of all their evil. And hatred for anyone that isn't like me - perfect and white. (Though in their world, that might be redundant LOL.) After all, this guy was ok with government when it supplied him roads to hunt on (believe me, the cost effectiveness for the public $$ is not in this activity on a road) and ok for his brother to get help for being in a wheelchair. But the rest of them are freeloaders and somebody is misspending tax money on those freeloaders.

I'm sure if he's not already, he's collecting SS and Medicare. Sick puppy.

Mods - my 2 attempts at uploads have failed. What is the file size limitation?

Probably in the neighborhood of 3.2 MB. These are the size that get off my Nikon SLR. I can run them through photoshop and downsize, but it would be good to know the limitations. Maybe it's just a timeout error?

Yay! Thanks Mods, very nice being able to upload directly without having to host it somewhere else.

Beautiful, R_R!!

I AM STEALING THAT FOR MY SIGNATURE LINE

From Alan Colmes:

It's outrageous that Republican-controlled states are doing everything they can to thwart implementation of the Affordable Care Act, AKA Obamacare. Many of these are Southern states with a large number of poor and minority residents. The New York Times has noted that many residents of red states are getting royally screwed because their elected officials refuse to participate. As I previously noted in the link to that article, two-thirds of poor blacks and single mothers and more than half of low-wage workers who don't have insurance are being left in the cold.

Scott Maxwell in the Orlando Sentinel has it right about the shameful behavior of Republican Florida legislators who are rejecting $51 billion in federal dollars that would help the needy in their state. Florida House Speaker Will Weatherford said he was "proud"to reject expansion of Medicaid. To do a little PR on their ill-begotten behavior, Sunshine State lawmakers increased the cost of their own benefits, instead of doing what they should have done: take the free money offered by the federal government to provide benefits for all. Miley Cyrus is currently making better decisions than these people. Even presidential chest-poker Jan Brewer, Arizona's governor, is taking the dough, saying, "It's pro-life, it's saving lives, it is creating jobs, it is saving hospitals."

Republican states have purposely and vindictively put up roadblocks to prevent its citizens from easy access to health care information as the Affordable Care Act was rolled out. They've either ignored the roll-out or encouraged people not to sign up. Missouri's lieutenant governor Peter Kinder, urged "active resistance" to the new law. This is why we have low information voters and why, according to two polls, 7% or 8% favor the Affordable Care Act over Obamacare, even though they are one and the same.

Rachel Grob, Scholar-in-Residence at the University of Wisconsin-Madison, has studied how different states are handling the law's implementation and says, "Without the shared planning and the cooperation of the state government, it's much harder for them to be ready to implement this complicated law." Conservatives usually clamor for more local control, and yet many conservative-run states have ceded the running of exchanges to the federal government because of their unreasonable antipathy to the new law and to the president.

As childish and petulant as House Republicans are behaving, the actions of these Republican state legislators is even worse, as they have the power to immediately improve millions of lives, but are stuck in their ideology and hatred. But shame on all of them for destroying what was once known as the "Grand Old Party."

http://www.addictinginfo.org/2013/10/04/petition-for-congress-no-pay/

How I wish this could work, but it won't. Still, in a case like this one, so clearly for taking our government for hostage the people who perpetrate these actions should be the first to lose all pay and benefits until there is some decent resolution.

As each day passes I keep finding myself thinking there was very little trust going on for the GOP and they have used a wrecking ball on what is left. Brave people can be brainless. I think a bit of karma could un-fold starting in 2014.

Jackie

This is a link to an interview with a Republican who chose to use the tactic of flattery so as to deflect the hard questions the female reporter was asking and look suave. In MHO and book, a total loser and a creep besides. Weasels just have a difficult time hiding their true colors.

http://thinkprogress.org/media/2013/10/03/2725901/todd-rokita-mansplains-to-carol-costello/

Jackie

Here again not much surprise other than the architect of the shutdown is brought forward. It is about time the right people have great pressure brought to bear on them for this complete fiasco which has already caused such harm to the American people. They can rant all they want about "the other side and the Pres." but people are worn weary from the antics of the Tea Party who are destroying the people who took them in.

http://www.addictinginfo.org/2013/10/05/tea-party-senator-ted-cruz-grilled/

Jackie

If there was ever someone who was funny farm material, this guy is IT. He should be given his nice white suit, with mittens securely in back and taken where he can get the rest and treatment he deserves. Time to certify this one. http://www.addictinginfo.org/2013/10/05/glenn-beck-obamas-next-step-after-government-shutdown-is-to-murder-americans/

Jackie

I watched Bren.....I'm sure if those who say that most were "walking' in different shoes, it would be a lot harder to say it and maybe easier to get a heavy-duty push on to find much betters answers.

I am full of gratitude daily that I am NED and so far, so good. Sometimes you feel a bit down, for the many who don't get to use those three little letters.

So far, I haven't run out of hope, and I pray I never do, but the balance tips heavily at times.

Jackie