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Tennessee families need the security of guaranteed, affordable, quality health insurance now. Health care reform must happen now. The time for playing politics is over!
“America’s Affordable Health Choices” Act is not perfect, but what bill is? Tennesseans and Americans are hurting. We need national reform now, yet I hear that some in Congress are stalling.
We’ve had too many years of doing nothing. Doing nothing is an option we cannot afford.
One in three Tennesseans are uninsured for all or part of the year. Those with insurance are paying more and getting less, and could lose what they have at any time. Tennesseans are going into financial hardship because of medical debt. And, small businesses are collapsing trying to do right by their workers and help with medical benefits.
We now have the best chance in a generation for our country to move in a positive direction toward fixing our ailing health care system. Let’s not squander this chance. I urge other Tennesseans, who are fed up with paying more and getting less for their health insurance, or who cannot afford decent health care, or who have medical debt, to speak up.
Join with me and call Congress to do what is right for Tennessee’s working families and for Americans.
Lorrinda Mabry, 37013
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Special message to Mr. Paul D'argent: The Executive Committee has received and logged your formal complaint against a fellow board member. It states that she attempted to usurp your authority as official Chief MOP (Monitor Of Posts). Our preliminary investigation reveals that she is an intern, and just learning the ropes. If she is certified, you will be her manager, and responsible for furthering her advancement. If you have any questions, please submit them in writing to the Top MOP. Sincerely, The Director
bnakat: 10-4. Our own internal investigation uncovered a particularly vile way of expressing the pandemic opinion that the posts to this board are so infantile, a "special needs" board is currently being designed. The "intern" is currently attemding "Charm School" and based on preliminary test results and confrences with teams of psychiatrists in Vienna, we feel she'll be ready in or around 2029.
Top MOP, over and out.
Freaky Friday at the NCP: d7's favorite day. This should be a good one.
Staying on-topic with health insurance on the menu again?
Not bloody likely here at 'Short Attention Span Theatre'.
d'pain: How long before Chief starts up about Obama's birth certificate? I got 5 bucks before 9:00am, Hawaiian Time.
Good morning.
Verbal Cartoon
With in days of her arrival to the island paradise the freindly natives had enough Palin trying to change them into her image and drove her from the island. The First Dude made a valiant attempt to stay, but Sara's grip was strong and unyeilding.
Speaking of health issues.
I have finally got my doctor paid off. I can see the end of my hospital bill now. By the the end of the year I can start spending more money on the economy.
I would not take that bet, house.
chief is running on a program and that program is at best fickle.
Good deal, Nemo. I was worried that your Doc would send a couple of goons over to break your legs, which would cause more medical bills.
d7, I can't afford to lose that kind of scratch.
What do you guy's (and girlie men) think about this Harvard Prof. Gates, Obama, Sgt. Crowley, Cambridge Police arrest flap?
Hear me now and understand me later:
can't we all just get along?
D'argent specifically what is it that makes you think you're the smartest guy in the room (board)? The fact that you were born in the North? Really?
to MOP
Any intern should NOT be married & have a boyfriend & be banging a third person. There must be a "one person, one adultery" rule.
Wasn't Hawai'i a foreign country when Obama was born? (just getting it out of the way)
Obama was born on Pluto, which is now the 51st state.
We need Universal coverage for all citizens--now.
I'd prefer a single-payer system but will take what we can get and make it better later.
IMHO everyone, and that means YOU Lame-ar and Dorker, should be put in Medicare, we should abolish all the other gov't health care: Medicaid, VA, Railroad etc.
Medicare should be modified to be more like an HMO, and have good pharmacy and LTC components.
Now I am not trying to curtain health care for veterans, but I think it should be all one system for efficiency. For instance, the VA hospital by Vandy can still operate as a hospital emphasizing veteran health, in much the way that St T. emphasizes cardiac care, and veteran health should be a specialty just like the others. But we need the efficiency of ONE system.
Is the Panama Canal not a foreign country to be born in?
Lorrinda, Lorrinda... What are you thinking?
- Where is your underlying data to support "Those with insurance are paying more and getting less," I'd be interested in seeing it.
- The CBO has said, after analyzing the health care proposal, that the costs will go up and the quality of care will go down if this plan is enacted.
- "small businesses are collapsing trying to do right by their workers". Other than anecdotal evidence, how do you reach this conclution? I'd like to see those supporting documents also. Editorily, I'll add this; any small business that collapses because of trying to provide perks for their employees, is being run by someone who doesn't understand basic economics. You cannot give away or subsidize that for which you cannot afford to pay.
- If you want to see what we'll all be getting with the O'bama plan, go visit a local VA hospital, talk to the patients, look at the facilities. The VA is a government run health care organization offering rationed, mediocre care. Or, go to Canada where the waiting time to see a OB/GYN is longer than the gestation period and where, if you're a 60+ year old person with lung cancer, they send you home with enough narcotics to keep you pain free until you die. Sure, that's certainly what I want for my healthcare plan... not!
- Use your head, when the snake oil salesman says he can cover 40 million additional people for less money, do you really, deep down believe it? I hope not. If you do, I have some swamp land I'd like you to invest in.
From Yesterday
I was graced by two post from the Arrogant Ms. sidneyames. It was hard to follow her rants, because she would drift one one subject to another then back.
In her first post she said that I was wrong about her being government waste. Well maybe she is not government waste, but...... I will leave it at that.
Then she says that my interpretion(sic) of arrogant is not fair and balanced. This is a glue to where she gets her rants. It also explains why she is confuse as to Obama's job title. she thinks he is the son of a truck driver, when the whole world knows that he is The President of The United States of America.
In post two she rants about Gates being an A$$. I suppose she thinks he is made of money. Anyway she thinks Gates was wrong for not showing proof that he was the home owner. I think he did but was still arrested. But then we know where she gets her fair and balanced information.
house I am one step and one pay check of the goons.
Seriously I have good doctor and hospital that have let me pay installments/
Off topic, but it needs to be said.
The poll on the other page is just plain stupid. "Are there too many cupcake shops in Nashville?"
It's the rule of supply and demand. If a shop is making money, the question doesn't apply. If the shop is losing money, they need to close.
Simple.
D7, in response to your Gates question. De Prez said he didn't have all the facts but then said the Police acted stupidly. Without all the facts, he was stupid in making the comment.
I hear Obama's new surgeon general, is gonna do a Nutrisystem commercial with Larry the cable guy.
I noticed that 50% say there are too many cupcake shops around here. WTF?
I don't understand the concept of 'too many cupcakes'.
Are they spilling out into the streets?
Cupcake is my favorite word. In fact, I wake up in the morning thinking about them.
Good to hear that, Nemo. If they broke your legs, you may never fulfill your dream:
dancing in a Ming Wang commercial.
"- If you want to see what we'll all be getting with the O'bama plan, go visit a local VA hospital, talk to the patients, look at the facilities. "
Hmmmm, let me tell you about an incident with my neighbor a couple of years ago.
He's a vet, he gets care thru VA in Mboro.
He asked me to take him to the VA ER. It was about 8pm on a Sunday, the day before a Monday holiday(Memorial Day)
I drove him to the Mboro facility.
He was checked in, seen by a physician, treated, give a prescription which was filled.
He was in and out in ONE HOUR.
Would that happen at Skyline ER? Doubtful.
I wonder if Gates was born in the U.S.A.?
Blanket will be here soon, advocating cupcake abortions.
or how tasty cupcakes are with beer!
By: house_of_pain on 7/24/09 at 8:26
Blanket will be here soon, advocating cupcake abortions.
Yep, you betcha little frosted a$$!
Funditto, I'll abort the cupcakes and go straight to the beer. LOL!
TGIF, everyone!
btw, Funditto. chief solved all of your healthcare delimmas yesterday by posting a few links. whew, that was a close one, aye?
Kosh III: Obama, on his forged birth cert., says he was born in 1962, making him 47.
Hawaii became a state in 1959. Doing the math, carrying the 1, he's in the ballpark.
Very little of the mainstream reporting I’ve seen on this event makes the crucial point that it is not illegal to tell a police officer that he is a jerk, or that he has done something wrong, or that you are going to file charges against him. And yet too many commentators, journalists and ordinary people seem to accept that if a citizen “mouths off” to a cop, or criticizes a cop, or threatens legal action against a cop, it’s okay for that cop to cuff the person and charge him with “disorderly conduct.” Worse yet, if a cop makes such a bogus arrest, and the person gets upset, he’s liable to get an added charge of “resisting arrest” or worse.
We have, as a nation, sunk to the level of a police state, when we grant our police the unfettered power to arrest honest, law-abiding citizens for simply stating their minds. And it’s no consolation that someone like Gates can count on having such charges tossed out. It’s the arrest, the cuffing, and the humiliating ride in the back of a cop squad car to be booked and held until bailed out that is the outrage.
http://blog.populistamerica.com/2009/07/living-in-a-police-state/
CAH: I don't know what news conferrence you and Chief were watching, but Obama CLEARLY said, "once he showed his ID, to arrest him after that, was acting stupidly". I agree. Cops are insulted every day.
I saw those when I got home from work yesterday. Can't blame a guy for trying.
If it were simply a matter of runnin' out and findin' another six figure job or just calling up Blue Cross and signing up, we'd have done that by now... it's all hard to come by and not something I'd wish on anyone. Including Syd.
Funditto: No, being born in the North doesn't make me smarter than anyone, but it doesn't hurt, either.
Indeed, Funditto.
I do have to concur that public schools in the north are so much better than they are down here. I know that first hand.
nazi, what is your definition of disorderly conduct? Should we have a disorderly conduct law? If so who should it appy to, and who should enforce it.
slacker, asking for a cops badge number and name is not disorderly conduct. public intoxication is disorderly conduct.
Blanket: Don't kid yourself. The good Professor loved every minute of it. It fulfilled his boyhood dream of getting harassed by the "Tha' Police".
The cops, once he was belligerent, should of cuffed him in the house, "for our protection, sir", and call his drivers license in to see any W & W and verify his address. Once it all checked out, end of story. NOT arrest him further. The cops fed right into his "bull baiting", and they will pay if only in the court of public opinion.
By: dargent7 on 7/24/09 at 9:04
Blanket: Don't kid yourself. The good Professor loved every minute of it. It fulfilled his boyhood dream of getting harassed by the "Tha' Police".
Yep, I'll agree that he was making an example of them and that they played right into it. No doubt about it. However, it does make the point that people of color in particular are subject to police harassment.
nazi, the guy is a prick, he cursed the officer, ran his mouth until he got his arse locked up. He has an inferiority complex about his race.
You can be intoxicated in public, and not be disorderly. Public drunk.
dargent:
I am not sure what all went on, but what I ahve heard so far that it was apasser by that saw two Black men breaking a house in a White neighborhood. Another report it was a neighbor who reported it to police, which does not make sense. A neighbor should have recgonized Gates, unless the neighbor wanted to cause trouble.
As for Gates I can only speculate. Maybe he has been stopped once to many time by the police for some infraction and just went off.
I think Obama spoke too soon. However the subject of race is up front once again. It is this country's dirty little passtime that need to be aired.
He was in his own house not in public dumbo.
slacker, i also agree that Gates was being a jerk. however, being a jerk doesn't get one arrested. if that were the case we'd really have a problem housing everyone. when you choose to be a cop being talked to by jerks is just part of it. don't like it? don't choose to be a cop.
Blanket, talk like that will get you a job as a handcuff warmer.
i'm sure Gates saw this as an opportunity to raise issues regarding race that nobody wants to talk about. we still have the tendancy to sweep it under the rug or makes excuses. dialog is a good thing.
By: house_of_pain on 7/24/09 at 9:11
Blanket, talk like that will get you a job as a handcuff warmer.
Nah, i'm white so it's all good - lol!
nazi, it got him arrested. They shouldn't have dropped the charges.
nazi, so Gates deliberately showed is arse to raise issues involving race. lol