Wednesday is “National Call In Day" to Oppose Cadillac Health Tax

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Saturday January 09, 2010 · 5:59 AM PST

2010/01/09 · 05:59

The A.F.L.-C.I.O., a federation of nine million union members, has declared next Wednesday "National Call-In Day" asking workers to call their lawmakers to urge them not to tax health benefits.

Reported in NYTimes: http://www.nytimes.com/...

Obama is to meet with Union leaders on Monday.

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Tuesday December 22, 2009 · 5:57 PM PST

2009/12/22 · 17:57

The following article from Huffington Post summarizes a lot of my angst, and it is truly angst.

Leadership, Obama Style, and the Looming Losses in 2010: Pretty Speeches, Compromised Values, and the Quest for the Lowest Common Denominator

By Drew Westen, who is both an academic and something of a expert on the middle ground in American politics as he has published The Political Brain: The Role of Emotion in Deciding the Fate of the Nation

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Saturday December 19, 2009 · 6:53 AM PST

2009/12/19 · 06:53

Bill Moyer's Journal hosted a discussion between Taibbi and Kuttner last night. The video and transcript are here: http://www.pbs.org/...

BILL MOYERS: Yes or no. If you were a senator, would you vote for this Senate health care bill?

MATT TAIBBI: No.

BILL MOYERS: Bob?

ROBERT KUTTNER: Yes.

Please watch this excellent segment which summarizes a great deal of the issues we are facing. Just brilliant.

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Did you watch the segment and did it make you think?

33 votes Vote Now!

Did you watch the segment and did it make you think?

Yes, and it changed my mind towards critiquing the bill itself.

2 votes

Yes, and I think the Senate bill should be passed, sacrificing the House Bill to it.

1 vote

Yes, and I think we should Kill the Senate Bill to save the Democratic Party.

25 votes

No, I don't want to watch those leftists on Moyers.

0 votes

No, just SFU all you Obama haters.

0 votes

Yes, and it scared me to death.

1 vote

No, and I commented below anyhow because that is the way I roll

2 votes

pie, pie and more pie

0 votes

Can't we all just get along?

0 votes

Merry Christmas to all and to all a good night.

2 votes

Poll: Tea Party Higher Approval than Dems and Repubs

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Wednesday December 16, 2009 · 4:15 PM PST

2009/12/16 · 16:15

This is the same poll that reports collapse in support for the health care bill/s which was released in full at 6:30 p.m.

Even more astounding:

More than four in 10, 41%, of respondents said they had a very or somewhat favorable view of the Tea Party movement, while 24% said they had a somewhat or very negative view of the group. The Tea Party movement gained notoriety over the summer following a series of protests in Washington, D.C. and other cities over government spending and other U.S. economic policies.

Meanwhile, the Democratic Party, which controls both the White House and Congress, has a 35% positive rating compared with a 45% negative rating.

The Republican Party identifies closest to the Tea Party movement’s ideology, but the group has also caused splits within the GOP. Republicans currently hold a 28% favorability rating compared with a 43% negative one.

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Are we witnessing a sea change in support for Obama and Dems?

108 votes Vote Now!

Are we witnessing a sea change in support for Obama and Dems?

Yes

51 votes

14 votes

The teabagger result is an anamoly

21 votes

Fascism takes hold in the USA

16 votes

tea and pie

1 vote

just pie

5 votes

Kill Bill

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Monday December 14, 2009 · 6:41 PM PST

2009/12/14 · 18:41

Is there any reason to continue with this charade called health care reform? After working steadily since May as a local leader around this issue, I have had enough. My troops have lost heart and are turning away from Obama in utter bafflement that we could have been this badly punked.

Mandates without a strong public option.
Mandates without a Medicare buy in.

= the final looting of the American middle class

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Sunday November 29, 2009 · 7:52 AM PST

2009/11/29 · 07:52

The Obama Administration's Making Home Affordable program is a dismal failure and administration officials are not moving forward on creating a new program, preferring to tinker with the failed one.

Unless Congress gets in the act, we are all facing a long, long period of decline home values, foreclosures and the general disruption and damage this will do to the overall economy and our communities.

The Treasury is going to "pressure" banks to move forward within the context of the original program. A failed strategy will be tinkered with rather than creating something that could actually help people now, before they go under.

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Sunday November 08, 2009 · 7:07 AM PST

2009/11/08 · 07:07

Okay, I am co-chair of Mid-Michigan Coalition for Health Care Reform and today on the steps of the Michigan Capitol building Move-On is holding a rally.

I am to read a letter from Senator Debbie Stabenow as to her current position on the health care bills passing through Congress. I will have a few minutes to give my perspective. My segment comes at the very end of the 3 hour rally.

Our coalition has held many events since last May, notably a teach-in at Michigan State University.

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Friday October 30, 2009 · 7:46 AM PDT

2009/10/30 · 07:46

My email today informs me that 115 committed health care reform activists have been arrested around the country.

No real time to write a diary, but this is important information.

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Wednesday October 07, 2009 · 10:27 AM PDT

2009/10/07 · 10:27

I have known for a long time that aspartame is a dangerous substance to put in your body. Nevertheless, I succumb far, far too often to it.

What I didn't know is that THE Donald Rumsfeld was key to getting this poison in our foods.

In fact, in a 1996 report compiled from 10,000 consumer complaints obtained during the pre-marketing testing period, the FDA listed 92 aspartame-related symptoms, ranging from seizures to death! Still, the tenacious Searle, led by its cunning management team, refused to give up its effort to obtain FDA approval and denied that they had a sweet poison on their hands.

Interestingly, Searle's CEO at the time was Donald Rumsfeld (which is why some prefer to call Aspartame Disease Rumsfeld's Disease).

Duty to Warn: Diet Coke is Poison By Gary G. Kohls MD, Posted by Stephen Fox

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182 votes Show Results

My Cola Product of Choice Is

182 votes Vote Now!

My Cola Product of Choice Is

Classic Coke and I will never give it up

19 votes

Pepsi all the way, even if it isn't The Real Thing

8 votes

Hopelessly addicted to Diet Coke

33 votes

Hopelessly addicted to Diet Pepsi

9 votes

Diet off brand poison

5 votes

Regular sugar off brand poison

2 votes

I am pure, without any cola addictions

53 votes

Classic Coke with sub-addiction to Diet Coke for Weight Issues

3 votes

Milk with pie

6 votes

Pie with Pie

0 votes

Coffe with Pie

19 votes

Tea with Pie

12 votes

I now pledge to lay off the Rumsfeld Poison!!!

10 votes

Some variation of the above which I will detail in comments.

3 votes

National Guard Combat Battalion Deployed to Pittsburgh

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Wednesday September 23, 2009 · 7:08 AM PDT

2009/09/23 · 07:08

Chris Hedges at TrugDig Reports: http://www.truthdig.com/...

This Thursday and Friday,

The delegates to the G-20, the gathering of the world’s wealthiest nations, will consequently be protected by a National Guard combat battalion, recently returned from Iraq. The battalion will shut down the area around the city center, man checkpoints and patrol the streets in combat gear. Pittsburgh has augmented the city’s police force of 1,000 with an additional 3,000 officers. Helicopters have begun to buzz gatherings in city parks, buses driven to Pittsburgh to provide food to protesters have been impounded, activists have been detained, and permits to camp in the city parks have been denied. Web sites belonging to resistance groups have been hacked and trashed, and many groups suspect that they have been infiltrated and that their phones and e-mail accounts are being monitored.

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Tuesday August 18, 2009 · 6:14 PM PDT

2009/08/18 · 18:14

Coming up after the break.

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Friday August 14, 2009 · 2:21 PM PDT

2009/08/14 · 14:21

This is to report on a tremendous success for our side yesterday, August 13th. Rep. Mark Schauer (D) had planned a conference call health care town hall for that evening which went on as scheduled. Anyone who wished could participate in that town hall. Teabaggers planned a protest rally outside his office in Jackson for 4:30 p.m. Even Schauer's office is not clear who called for a counter rally, but OFA leaders were there and our local health care reform group was contacted to come at 3:30 p.m.

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