"Partisan Legislation" is congressional code for: Gifting the corporations at the
expense of constituents.

Every day of 2009 Stephen Helmsley,  the head of United Health Care has
earned over Eight Hundred Thousand Dollars.  Proposed healthcare reform legislation
touted as the partisan compromise means poor old Stephen Helmsley
might be getting a raise. The partisan legislation will make it compulsory for citizens,
backed by fines for non-compliance to purchase health insurance. The 14 million Americans
currently without insurance will be forced to buy  the same overpriced insurance they couldn't
afford in the first place, or to have taxpayers subsidize the difference.

        

 Prediction 2012

 

Republican Mitt Romney wins the Presidency. His campaign platform was healthcare reform. Romney told the nation God spoke to him and said “this is not a political issue, but a moral imperative.”  He explained to the nation how he instituted health care reform in his state when he was Governor. He explained how some mistakes were made. He learned from those mistakes. What he learned was the answer would be single payer insurance. Single Payer in fact would not only insure everybody, but would take the costly burden of health care away from business and they could become competitive again. He explained that while yes, it would be paid by taxes, in fact families would still have more money to spend, as they would no longer have that huge bill to pay each month with their health insurance company. He has conservative politicians from Great Britain, France and Canada make speeches in the U.S about how well the plans work in their countries. He explains that in fact this is not socialism, but a public service just like our police, libraries, fire departments and roads.  He explains the cost of transitioning will easily be covered by pulling out of “Obama’s Vietnam”.  The single payer advocates that campaigned and voted for President Obama will help Mr. Romney get in office. The fringe right that screamed about “socialized medicine” will not say a word, because they never cared about healthcare reform in the first place, they were either noisy racists, or noisy Republican team players.

 

Prediction 2014

Single Payer health insurance revitalizes the economy. Without the burdensome cost of health insurance for its workforce, the U.S. car industry comes roaring back. Nationwide corporations that sent jobs overseas such as customer service call centers and software programmers, bring those jobs back to the U.S. workforce. The Democrats lose majority in both the house and the senate.

 

More 2012 predictions

During the run up to the Republican convention, Dick Cheney also running for President (his platform is nuke all countries that have oil including Canada) in an effort to make the Mormons look bad, hangs Glen Beck using Mormon undergarments, first in effigy and then for real. Cheney blames the Mormon Mafia. Jon Stewart and the comedians from the Daily Show ferret out the truth and Romney wins the nomination and election by a landslide.

Bill O’Rielly becomes a Democrat.

Keith Olbermann becomes a Republican.

Nancy Pelosi and John Boehner check into the Betty Ford center together to address their addiction to plastic surgery.

Sarah Palin designs a video arcade game where the participants shoot at Comrade Putin and Arctic wolves  as they raise their commie heads up from behind a snow bank. The University of Idaho asks Ms. Palin to return her diploma.

Rachel Maddow becomes the head of the FCC resulting in Fox no longer being able to call themselves a “news” organization.

        

        

She states William Ayers is a terrorist, but those that bomb abortion clinics are not.
This woman is crazy dangerous.

        

http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=-9050474362583451279
Please Take 45 minutes and watch this documentary about money and how it is created. 

        

I don't understand economics. I am struggling to make sense of all the talking head chatter. It's probably wrong, but this is what I take away from it...The "bail out" means our taxes will create a well of money or "collateral" for the banks that loan money for small business loans and mortgage loans. Without credit for business expansion and housing our economy stalls.  OK...I understand the problem so far. But...these same banks that must issue credit to keep our economy going, made bad investment choices in the last few years. We have to have "faith" with these same poor money managers to take our money and invest it wisely this time around. While most of America is happy to have "faith" in something unproven, I am not one of them.

I find it ironic that that the same banks that due to loan regulations had to turn me down for a conventional  mortgage because I am self-employed and therefore "high risk", turned around and invested in "Packaged" Mortgage Securities made up from the "high risk" sub prime loans they are regulated against making.  I realize the mortgage department and the investment department in a bank are different people, but come on...what a bunch of hypocritical dummies!

Seems like we are in a "catch 22" situation,  The prices of homes on the West Coast and East Coast are still artificially inflated way beyond their actual value.  If the bubble these home values are floating around in bursts, millions more homes will go into forclosure. Why would anyone make payments on a million dollar home loan on a house valued at $200,000.00? At the same time, it will be very risky to make new mortgage loans on homes whose value is still  "artificially and unrealistically inflated".  I would resent my tax dollars being used to collaterize these risky loans.  Seems to me like the "bail out" would just be prolonging an inevitable housing market correction and putting good money after bad.  

My thought processes must be flawed though, because following my logic would mean the real estate market would have to collapse on both coasts and become more in sync with middle America real estate values before our economy can recover and the bail out is just another scheme to move money from the working poor to the rich.

        

It has become clear to me that the people in charge of trying to win the election for Obama really are not in touch with Evangelical America. It amazes me that they do not understand they are strengthening the appeal of Sarah Palin by belaboring the story of Palin's pastor being a witch hunter and driving demons out of of the possessed woman in a village in Kenya. Belief in angels and demons is very real and very strong in evangelicals.  When media and pundits try and paint this pastor as crazy, they are in essence calling all evangelicals crazy. I suppose this is where the idea stems with Evangelicals that  Democrats are elitist and the Media has a Liberal bias.

A friend of mine has suggested I should try and have a conversation with my evangelical neighbors. Of course she is correct, dialog is key. My problem is that while I can understand what their beliefs are, and even respect that they are very important to them, I also think they are nuts. I don't have a poker face. Truth be told many evangelicals have been insensitive and disprespectful to my beliefs as well. I am not good at having conversations with others when I feel I am coming into the conversation from a defensive postition. I am certain that Evangelicals feel the same.

I had dinner at a friends house a few years back. It was a table of teachers and professors. A professor of English told me that without religion a person would be lacking in morals. She said One cannot possibly have morals without being a Christian. Really? That hurt my feelings.  That begs the question...would a person without morals be capable of having feelings that can be hurt? That also begs the question...can we judge our own set of morals? I think my set of morals is pretty good...I attribute them to my parents, not to religion. 

What I would most like to tell the evangelicals is that you and your faith are being exploited by the Neocons to win an election. Can't tell them that though, because then they think you consider them stupid. My morals make it uncomfortable for me to see anyone being exploited for nefarious reasons. But wait...I can't have morals because I don't have religion...

        

God has a lobbyist organization working for him. The Family Research Council Action group Seems God is a racist. His Lobbyist arm held their annual get together in Washington and sold Obama Waffles Cereal to his army of "Values Voters" That might have been funny were it not for God's racist cartoon on the front of the box of cereal.

        

We have all seen the Sarah Palin interview and now we know why they kept her away from the press for two weeks. She is a moron.  Too bad that will not matter.

Pat Buchanon voiced what I suspected the other night on the Rachel Maddow show. It doesn't matter. Sarah Palin will be forgiven being a moron, they will forgive her lying, they will forgive her abuse of power, they will forgive her putting ambition ahead of family, they will forgive everything because she is "pro-life". He said nothing else matters. He meant it.

I don't understand this. The Christian nuts know Sarah Palin lied about the bridge and accepting earmarks, but they are certain she is not lying about being pro-life? What about their precious 10 commandments? Oh wait...I think Thous shall not tell a lie is 9 on the stone tablet of of religious imperatives authored by God. I think Thou shalt not have an abortion is number 6.  I totally get it now. God must have dictated his commandments in the order of importance, so we must vote for McCain/Palin!

        

An organization called the "Family Council Action Committee" spearheaded the effort to have an initiative added to November's Ballot in Arkansas to ban unmarried couples living together from fostering or adopting children. 
 
You can be single and foster or adopt children in Arkansas, and  if this initiative passes, single people will not be affected. You just cannot have two adults living in the same home that are not married. (heterosexual or homosexual)

Last March previous to the movement to have the initiative placed on the ballot Arkansas Advocates for Children and Families released a dismal report on foster care in Arkansas which stated "The state is not doing all it can to find permanent homes for children in foster care" and further noted that "Over the past five years, nearly 1,000 children in foster care reached the age of 18 and left the system without ever being adopted into a permanent home, The number of children "aging out" of the system in fiscal year 2006 was 216, up from 180 five years earlier, the study showed.

David Cox is Executive Director of The Family Council Action Committee and states that "God has called me into this line of service" If you read through his website (David is also the webmaster and admits he has no staff at the moment) he freely explains that he is of course targeting homosexuals, and that by not defining "couple" as homo or hetero the initiative will hold up under court scrutiny  because the wording does not discriminate (even though that is the initiative's intention)

WOW! This guy and his band of Christian Zealots think they are doing GOD's work by further limiting the number of available foster and adoptive homes in a state that already has a shortfall on foster and adoptive homes.

Religion is so mean. Use Jesus to Justify an action that both harms children and endorses intolerance.