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Wednesday January 06, 2010 · 4:24 PM PST

2010/01/06 · 16:24

In anticipation of the BCS National Championship game to be played at the Rose Bowl in Pasadena, I offer these words of wisdom:

Hook 'em Horns!

Yes, I realize that in doing so, I invite all the Texas haters to spew their venom my way. And, really, who could blame them? I know we shamed ourselves by palming George Bush off as someone who could govern a state, let alone the United States, but when he ran for president in 2000, we really didn't think the voters of America would actually elect him. Oh, wait, they didn't!

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Monday September 14, 2009 · 4:09 AM PDT

2009/09/14 · 04:09

Imagine my surprise on Sunday morning when I received an e-mail from the Conservative Republicans of Texas. I guess one of my esteemed Senators must have passed along my e-mail address even though my correspondence with their offices should have clued them in that I am not of their ideological ilk.

As you might suspect, said e-mail was a despicable screed filled with lies, fear mongering and grammatical errors. It is titled, "More Government Is No Solution for Healthcare." It begins like this:

No amount of speech making can hide the fact that Obama believes that federal government is the solution to America's healthcare problems. Common sense tells you that adding trillions of dollars to the deficit will not reduce federal health spending, but since when has common sense been used by those who want to dramatically expand the role of government.

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Sunday August 30, 2009 · 9:03 AM PDT

2009/08/30 · 09:03

Crossposted at Texas Kaos

Yesterday in Austin, Texas, under the hot, blazing sun, I was certainly proud to stand with like-minded citizens in favor of health care for all.

As you might expect, there was a counter rally of people who do not wish to show compassion to their fellow human beings. According to some on that side, somehow people who insurance companies REFUSE to cover are to blame for the fact that they do not have health insurance.

So much ignorance and hate, so little time. More below.

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Sunday August 16, 2009 · 3:19 PM PDT

2009/08/16 · 15:19

My health care horror story, like others, involves my entire family. I am the lucky one in that I worked for the federal government and had health insurance when my doctor determined that I should consider retiring on disability. This was after several surgeries due to a severe whiplash injury suffered many years earlier.

Oddly enough, in my case if we had a public option for health insurance, the American taxpayer would have been saving money for the past 6 years since I retired and the next 7 years until I turn 65. You see, my husband and I were both covered under my federal health insurance plan, and when the doctor suggested I retire, we looked into me just quitting my job (if we could get private health insurance), and I would have waited until normal retirement age to begin receiving retirement benefits. Of course, after having had surgery on my cervical spine and on both my shoulders and continuing to have spine issues, we could not find a private company willing to cover me.

So, I retired on disability, at the taxpayer's expense, because I could not get health insurance otherwise.

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