A Plea for Health Care Truth

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Friday November 16, 2012 · 3:18 PM PST

2012/11/16 · 15:18

A good friend and military wife stationed in Germany sent me a message asking for help in discussing the effect of health care reform on businesses. She, like me in Alabama, is a blue dot awash in red rhetoric, and also like me, needs help in clarifying the truth about whether health care reform forces business to fire people. Her plea for informational help is quoted below...

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Thursday March 25, 2010 · 11:34 PM PDT

2010/03/25 · 23:34

At the end of a totally unrelated old video tape I was watching tonight is video of CNN on election night 2000, at approximately 3:30am, just as they began to realize there would be a recount, and that Gore might actually beat Bush.

And you know what? My heart rate is up all over again. Wow. I remember pacing around all night that night, and quietly (and rudely) interrupting my sleeping girlfriend each time the winner changed. I still remember how hard it was to fall asleep at 4 am.

Finding this bit of tape really put a fine point on what a sweet political victory our health care reform legislation is. I think I'm just now realizing--and so are Democratic politicians!--that our long national political disintegration really is over. 2008 was a real election with real results. Things actually can go our way. Really. Maybe just maybe, Dems are waking up. They should all watch my tape.

Just wanted to share this quick late night stream of consciousness to a crowd who would understand the emotion.

Obama already saved me four dollars.

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Sunday August 31, 2008 · 9:42 PM PDT

2008/08/31 · 21:42

Subtitle: My t-shirt totally rocks the state of Alabama.

I got my Obama t-shirt in the mail about a week ago. I toyed with sending it back because apparently, if you order a Barack Obama t-shirt, it is shaped like Barack Obama himself. The t-shirt is unusually long for a medium, with longish short sleeves. However, my girlfriend convinced me people are wearing longer t-shirts with the front tucked in a bit to show your belt buckle--sure, whatever--and I really wanted to wear it out and about. So off we went for an afternoon of consumerism in Birmingham.

I'm getting to the four dollars...

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Thursday May 29, 2008 · 11:48 PM PDT

2008/05/29 · 23:48

Back in the olden days (that is, up until 2004), when you got ready to make a political ad about your opponent, you found the least flattering footage of him/her, made sure it was blurry, put it in slow motion, and faded it to black and white.

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Which of the following should be used in ads against McSame?

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Which of the following should be used in ads against McSame?

McCain walking out of a Bush fundraiser in night vision

0 votes

McCain being corrected on Iraq war facts by Lieberturd with time counters

4 votes

McCain admitting ignorance of the economy in blurry black and white

4 votes

McCain firing lobbyists on his team in slo-mo

1 vote

All of the above uploaded, downloaded, and zoomed in on, with the movie preview guy narrating

21 votes

So what's a "good" conservative blog?

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Friday March 14, 2008 · 5:34 PM PDT

2008/03/14 · 17:34

And by "good" conservative blog I mean what's a blog I could read to interact with and learn more about those strange and confused creatures we call conservatives? From what I gather and have seen of conservatives here in Alabama, I can guess right away that there's no real equivalent to our lovely Kosmos. Daily Con? Hmmm. Is there a Republican blog you know of (and is this substantially different than a conservative blog)?

Basically, I'm hoping to sharpen my political discussion skills for the fall. Where would you recommend I go to jump in with the elephants?

"How many Idahos equal one California?"

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Monday March 10, 2008 · 10:22 PM PDT

2008/03/10 · 22:22

Tonight on Larry King Live (with John King filling in), James Carville tried to pooh-pooh the value of Obama's ability to win small red states. Carville smugly asked "how many Idahos equal one California?" Adding, "I mean, ya know, come on." OK Captain Smirky Pants, let's see... Obama won Idaho by a margin of 12 delegates, and Clinton won California by a margin of 36 delegates. Now I'm no professional mathematician, but methinks the answer is a-one... a-two.... a-three. Three.

Three Idahos equals on California, Mr. Carville. That's why Obama is WINNING.

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My state is...

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My state is...

Less important than California

7 votes

WAY less important than California

16 votes

Is California

45 votes

Is, like California, allowed to vote for the nominee

54 votes

Clinton on the tracks, hears the train whistle...

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Wednesday February 13, 2008 · 1:45 AM PST

2008/02/13 · 01:45

She knows what's coming, and she's in mild denial. Like Fonzie being unable to say he was wrrr... wrrrww... wwwro... wrong, she can no longer congratulate Obama after another of his big wins. Sorry to mix metaphors.

I just traveled here from the future, and I thought everyone would like to know how this all plays out.

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Monday January 14, 2008 · 12:44 PM PST

2008/01/14 · 12:44

Maybe someone with obsessively detailed knowledge of the national party convention can answer something I've been wondering (and am sorta too lazy to research alone)...

If Edwards stays in this race to the bitter end, and we get to the convention with the delegates distributed 47% Clinton, 39% Obama, and 14% Edwards, could Edwards ask his delegates to vote for Obama, giving Obama the nomination? And could Obama promise Edwards the VP spot in exchange for that? Nothing really preventing such a deal, right? I hear this referred to as a "brokered convention," and I understand this was the way of things way back in the day.

As an Obama supporter, and a 2nd choice supporter of Edwards, obviously I'd be thrilled with such an outcome, and I think the country at large would like this ticket as well.

So if my first diary flung randomly into the Kosmos gets read by someone in the know, please respond/discuss/snark/etc.!

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A Plea for Health Care Truth

What an old VHS can do to you

Obama already saved me four dollars.

YouTube is the new slo-mo black & white

So what's a "good" conservative blog?

"How many Idahos equal one California?"

Clinton on the tracks, hears the train whistle...

Question re: Edwards' delegates at the Convention