Medicare for Families: Town Hall Meme

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Monday August 03, 2009 · 10:09 AM PDT

2009/08/03 · 10:09

The August recess is upon us, and Congresspeople will be having town hall meetings to sound out their constituents' feelings on healthcare reform. Of course, the insurance industry will be astroturfing these meetings with people scared of..... well, they're not really sure what they're scared of, but they know it's scary and from the government.

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Mirror, mirror on the wall, which is the most American of them all?

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Mirror, mirror on the wall, which is the most American of them all?

Working families

9 votes

Social Security

0 votes

Medicare

3 votes

[apple] Pie

10 votes

Keep it Simple: Medicare for All

2ajpuu

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Friday July 31, 2009 · 4:26 PM PDT

2009/07/31 · 16:26

I get the feeling that a lot of people are distrustful of health care reform because they don't understand it, which is exactly what the insurance industry wants. When the debate gets painted as the devil you know vs. the devil you don't know, the former almost always wins. When a public option gets painted as something "new", people are understandably wary. New things have bugs and kinks that need to be worked out, and may fail completely. This is why healthcare reform and a public option could profit from being referred to as expanding Medicare or Medicare you can buy.

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My fan has a rotating-spiral thingy on its front that both acts as a hypnosis machine and makes the air blow in different directions. Does yours?

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My fan has a rotating-spiral thingy on its front that both acts as a hypnosis machine and makes the air blow in different directions. Does yours?

Yes

3 votes

2 votes

I use an air conditioner

4 votes

I don't even have a fan, much less an air conditioner

1 vote

Random, disorganized thoughts on the future of Iran

2ajpuu

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Sunday June 21, 2009 · 12:37 PM PDT

2009/06/21 · 12:37

As in every revolution, the sentiments of the lower ranks of the security forces will decide the battle when things get violent. If they do not mow the protesters down, the government is finished. The feelings of the army (the Artesh, not the IRGC or its Basij militia) are especially important. Although the IRGC and the Basij may crush protesters in the streets, if the Artesh thinks they have gone too far they will be no match for the Artesh’s armored divisions.

The main upshot of all of this is not that the Iranian government has become weak. It has been weak for some time, which is why the conservative faction went to such lengths to steal the election. The main upshot, if the current government keeps power by force through a Tiananmen-style crackdown, is that the entire world knows that the Iranian government is weak, and that the government knows that the world knows.

2ajpuu

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Monday March 30, 2009 · 6:56 PM PDT

2009/03/30 · 18:56

This is ridiculous. Some people believe in the TALF, and other people don't. Still other people both do and don't at the same time! This is all making my head hurt. Please stop all the confusion about economics or whatever and tell me what to believe.

I think we should all decide what to think about Obama and Krugman, and stick to it. No dithering. No wavering.

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Which one would win on the field of honor?

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Which one would win on the field of honor?

Beards

35 votes

Beady eyes

18 votes

Views on this Election

2ajpuu

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Friday September 12, 2008 · 2:20 PM PDT

2008/09/12 · 14:20

Although in various comment threads I have been criticized for my overly lengthy and haughty style of writing, I will proceed to talk about myself in that same style of writing throughout most of this diary in the hope that it will make me seem intelligent. I have a great many views on this election, and I intend to make them all known in this diary. By the way, these views of mine are very intelligent and insightful, in addition to being novel and creative. Barack Obama would do well to read this diary and take note of my views, and then proceed to adopt them as his own, as it is the only way he can win.

2ajpuu

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Wednesday August 20, 2008 · 1:00 PM PDT

2008/08/20 · 13:00

Vice-Presidents are usually picked on the basis of what they can do before election day: make up for a candidate's percieved weaknesses (a specious argument I won't get into), carry their home state (It's happened before, but hard to prove in a lab setting), and adding balance to the ticket (same as the first reason).

I personally think that a VP should accentuate the positive instead of trying to eliminate the negative on a ticket. After all, if something goes wrong, this is the person who will lead us for the rest of the next four years. Which brings me to my main point....

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So, would he have?

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So, would he have?

Yes

5 votes

1 vote

Moot point

9 votes

2ajpuu, this diary is tasteless and your handle is overly strange

13 votes

Demoralize and discombobulate the GOP with insidious memes

2ajpuu

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Monday June 09, 2008 · 7:46 PM PDT

2008/06/09 · 19:46

Okay, it's really only one meme I've got here, but I think it's worth spreading on the far right in the hopes that they stay home in November. In a nutshell, it is:

John McKerry.

Yeah, I know it's dishonest and undeservedly cruel to John Kerry, but the right hates John Kerry, and I think it'll work. Learn how and why below the fold....

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Tuna?

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Tuna?

Ahi

2 votes

Albacore

8 votes

Tongol

0 votes

Yellowfin

2 votes

Bluefin

3 votes

Anything, as long as it's not dolphin safe: those terrible creatures killed and ate my pet shark

0 votes

BREAKING: John McCain is French!!!

2ajpuu

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Monday June 02, 2008 · 10:20 AM PDT

2008/06/02 · 10:20

Apparently the 'conservative' "American" John McCain idolizes those effete effeminates across the Pond, according to Salon.com:

Sen. McCain keeps saying, "If France can produce 80 percent of its electricity with nuclear power, why can't we?" Wrong question, Senator. The right question is: Why would we? Energy efficiency and renewables are the key to affordable, carbon-free electricity. They should be a focus of national energy and climate policy. Not nukes.

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How French is John McCain

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How French is John McCain

Completely French

12 votes

Very French

1 vote

Somewhat French

1 vote

A little French

1 vote

Not French at all

2 votes

As I am French, I find being compared to John McCain insulting

15 votes

Thanks for all your good work, Mr. Bush

2ajpuu

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Saturday May 17, 2008 · 12:11 AM PDT

2008/05/17 · 00:11

Dear Mister President,

Thank you for attacking Barack Obama. Although he is a weak, appeasing liberal and possibly of terrorist descent, he is also a cunning and ruthless adversary of good, old-fashioned, red-blooded American conservatives like John McCain. However, I am sure you understand that Johnny-boy (That's what you call him at Republican barbecues, right? Seriously, do you guys ever barbecue pork or chicken?) can't take on this threat alone.

2ajpuu

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Monday May 12, 2008 · 3:08 PM PDT

2008/05/12 · 15:08

It feels like the end of an era. The dollar and the geopolitical economic system that has backed it up since Nixon is in free fall, commodity prices are skyrocketing, and all we know about the current economic crisis is that we know nothing. Obama has redefined politicking, with every contrived scandal from madrassas to Bittergate falling flat. The pundits, highly-paid consultants, and sound-bite spin doctors, once masters of the political universe, are fading into ineffectuality and irrelevance. The old system is dead.

I am not a historian. I took few history classes in college, and in the ones that I did I focused on Byzantine history, not American (nor do I wear a flag lapel pin....). Thus, my historical thinking has not really been rigorously trained, nor have any theories of mine been exposed to the harsh light of questioning. I have not been vetted, so to speak.

This might be the first part of a series. In the next part I will try to put together a political economy of the various party systems in U.S. history, and maybe how they match up with generational cycles. If I feel like it. Anyway, more after the fold....

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What will be the defining feature of the next party system?

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What will be the defining feature of the next party system?

Conversion to a new energy infrastructure

29 votes

A golden utopia for all

1 vote

War (hot or cold) with China

4 votes

Biotech rendering humanity obsolescent

2 votes

The collapse of civilization (you might see this as essentially the same as #2, but please just humor me.)

7 votes

The Penguins. After being evicted from their polar home by global warming, they will use their sharp outfits and disarming manners to rise to the top of human society.

11 votes

Krugman for Treasury

2ajpuu

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Friday January 18, 2008 · 10:43 AM PST

2008/01/18 · 10:43

Truth be told, I've stopped caring about the primaries. Whoever will win will win, and I will gladly support them in the general election. My California primary vote is still undecided. Whomever the nominee picks for VP won't matter than much, because our candidates all strong-minded (unlike Bush) and unlikely to die in office (unlike McCain, or Giuliani).

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Who is the best pick for the next Secretary of the Treasury?

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Who is the best pick for the next Secretary of the Treasury?

Paul Krugman

19 votes

Robert Rubin (or someone like him)

3 votes

A cute little pootie!

2 votes

Someone else; I will mention them in a comment below

0 votes

2ajpuu, your handle is silly. Please change it.

2 votes

I just saw a terrifying commercial

2ajpuu

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Monday August 06, 2007 · 12:20 AM PDT

2007/08/06 · 00:20

I just saw a terrifying commercial for Miraplex™. It eases "restless legs syndrome", but apparently it causes "gambling, sexual and other intense urges." What the fuck? What is wrong with us? What the hell are "intense urges"? Is this Ecstasy that makes you want to gamble? Or do these intense urges get violent? Why do we need drugs to cure us of NOT WALKING ENOUGH?

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BREAKING: John McCain is French!!!

Thanks for all your good work, Mr. Bush

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I just saw a terrifying commercial