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

Hi all,

Glad to report that I was able to bring my husband home from the hospital today and he is doing very well after his quadruple by-pass!

Scuttlers glad you are able to post again!!

Glenna, very happy for you and your DH!!

I had two cats - well, my children had two cats, then the children grew up and left home and the cats. We were going to make the first one an inside cat but he was about 6 months old when we got him and he really really wanted to be outside. The next one went outside too.

The first one lasted 18 years and the second one 20. We live near a very busy street and somehow they learned traffic safety (and luck). The first one once disappeared once for about three days. It wasn't til he returned looking extremely bedraggled that we figured out he had jumped into a service truck and found his way home from the other side of town.

Glenna - healing thoughts to your husband. To a speedy recovery!

Our first snow of the year should arrive Tuesday. We have just finished our 2nd year of a drought, which I have selfishly enjoyed with a long season of hiking in the woods (without any dire fire consequences, amazingly). Now it will all come to an end and I can no longer have my 7 miles hikes on dirt, but painful 3-5 miles hikes on county roads (CIPN). Of course, we could get a snow or two and then stop in January and have a 3rd year of drought. The huge dam to the south of me (feeds all the Central Valley farmers and Southern California) is as low as I've ever seen it.

I need some advice from you guys on a second cat. I will explain more in an upcoming post. Stay tuned.

Jackie - love your post above about the Republican's "obsessive Reagan disorder." They've totally lost how in reality, he would be too liberal for their current views of governing. They can't preach undying love for RR, then be subsequently challenged on how their current policies don't even match.

Here is something else on the ACA.  Due to my work schedule I had not been able to keep much of an eye on the current news situations......and if one believes the snippets they hear, now and then it could seem dire.  I did not believe, but still didn't know too much.  It is comforting to read this article then.

Recent polling shows that Americans still do not want to repeal Obamacare

I have to admit, the Affordable Care Act (Obamacare) has been taking some huge PR hits lately. A negative onslaught had been unleashed on the healthcare law by the media, especially networks like Fox and CNN. Day and night there were negative roundabout attacks against the ACA, more than just an occasional critique here or there. What I find interesting though, is the fact that in spite of all the negative press the American people have still not resolved to abandon healthcare reform.

In the aftermath of the media blitz, the public has yet to shift their attitude toward repealing the law. Conservatives and corporatist media heads have tried and tried to shift public opinion toward repealing or severely crippling the law. I couldn’t turn on CNN for more than ten minutes without hearing some negative story about Obamacare and CNN is supposed to be a more “liberal” network. Yeah right.

A recent poll done by CNN/ORC has shown that attitudes have not shifted much following the negative press due to the ACA website glitches and botched rollout. In fact the opinion on the law is actually quite entrenched and doesn’t seem to be moving much. It would seem CNN’s own audience isn’t buying their story.

The poll has shown that 40% of respondents support the healthcare law, while some 58% say they oppose the law. However, this article by Think Progress breaks down a rather different fact. At first glance it seems that the public is overwhelmingly opposed to the law, but looks can be deceiving.

As Think Progress breaks down, 14% of the 58% that opposed the law were opposed because they thought the law wasn’t liberal enough. Basically if you put it in context, 54% of the entire respondents either support the law as it stands or think it should go even further. That means a majority of Americans are in support of healthcare reform from the pre-2010 status-quo.

In some ways this poll doesn’t signify a big change. What it reveals is the fact that the American people have not abandoned healthcare reform, even though the ACA has been bombarded with negative press.

I wrote an earlier article questioning whether or not the ACA was in trouble. In the aftermath of all this negative press, the law still stands strong. Almost every challenge to the law has been smacked down in the courts and Congress, and it appears even the negative corporatist media blitz has not made much headway in public opinion. Numbers haven’t shifted much, which means that the right-wing onslaught against healthcare reform is still not making any headway despite all of its veracity.

I feel that the ACA is here to stay, and if anything the law will be expanded upon. Based on the polling breakdown, the American people are mostly in support of the efforts the ACA has undertaken, though some believe it should go farther in its endeavor. I am among those who agree it should go farther. Progressive should push harder to amend it and make it stronger. The only way the ACA fight is going away is to make it work.

So sorry you're not doing well, Blue. Sending hugs and good thoughts.

Good Afternoon Buddies!

It's so quiet here today. My family left yesterday and Tim left this morning. Glad I had some work to do to pass the time this morning. Feeling a little at loose ends with everyone gone.

Blue ... I am so sorry you're feeling the PD symptoms getting worse. Breaks my heart. I hope you can reach your doctors tomorrow and get the stimulator adjusted. Love you a bunch.

hugs to all,

Bren

Adding what healing vibes I can that your Dr. can help you compensate with your stimulator, Blue.  I am sorry to hear that it is kicking up. 

Jackie

Was thinking about Athena and other losses of very loved people and in some cases as well....very loved pets.  I seem to run into things when it will do me good to see them.  Just thought I'd share.

Sort of sums him up pretty good. 

Going to be away from the computer most of the day.  I forgot that tomorrow I have to go to Carbondale for a mammogram.  That was the clinic where I was originally diagnosed in 2007.....so even though it is 75 miles south, I keep going.  They know me and they also do digital mammo's which I think show just a tiny bit more.  Got my fingers crossed, but I really do feel I'll sail through.

Jackie