GBCW

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Monday June 01, 2015 · 8:15 AM PDT

2015/06/01 · 08:15

but not just yet.

As a very few of you know, I was diagnosed with Stage 3 lung cancer in late 2012 and treated with radiation in 2013. The treatment appeared to have beaten the disease into remission, and I was hopeful I'd be around another few years.

Well, it was discovered last month that the cancer has come back with a vengeance, and it's now Stage 4. The consensus of my treating physicians is that I have 4 - 6 months left on this mortal coil.

I've been posting at the GOS since 2005. I'd like to think some of you will miss my commentary here. (I ask those of you who won't miss it to please keep that to yourselves - in the context of this diary, hearing that would be a total bummer.)

So, I'm writing this post this morning to let you all know that I will not have just disappeared from the site for no reason, and I want to make clear, for the record, despite strong differences with many of you about what it will take to get our Democratic party back on track, I greatly value this community. We are a group of people intensely committed to making this country work better for all its residents. We are a group that strives to find ways to share the pie, not hoard it just for our political, religious and sociological BFFs.

Now, please follow me below the metastasized hair follicle for the balance of this diary...

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People with terminal disease should be able to choose the time and manner of their death.

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Suicide should never be enabled, no matter the circumstances.

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Hey, Greg, I'm free on the 26th. Can I come watch?

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Public Option back in? Here's how...

WisePiper

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Wednesday December 23, 2009 · 7:13 PM PST

2009/12/23 · 19:13

It's gut check time. Obama, Reid and Pelosi have the power to pass HCR with a public option or expanded Medicare, IF the following statements are true:

* Obama would not veto a bill that has a public option or expanded Medicare. * Reid would prefer a bill with a public option or expanded Medicare. * Pelosi would prefer a bill with a public option or expanded Medicare.

If you doubt any of the above, then this diary is not for you. OTH, if you agree with these statements, it's time to let go of the notion that Lieberman and Nelson are an insurmountable hurdle to the passage of real reform. They are not. They are irrelevant.

Those of you who've read my previous diary may be shaking your heads, muttering, "Not this shit again," but I ask you not to spoil it for the others who may wish to follow me below the fold...

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Saturday November 28, 2009 · 6:26 PM PST

2009/11/28 · 18:26

The Obama agenda (at least the one we thought we were voting for) does not seem at this point to have any chance of passing through the Senate unless and until the filibuster rule is amended or abolished. A lockstep Republican caucus, allied with a handful of complicit Conservadems, guarantees that any major legislative initiative has to be premasticated to pablum before it will go to the floor for a vote.

Given that there certainly aren't 67 votes to change the filibuster rule before the next session, and given that Give 'em Hell Harry is, shall we say, unlikely to push for a major rule change in the organizing resolution of the next session, wouldn't it make sense to go nuke now, before possible GOP gains in the upcoming midterms make things even more difficult.

The nuclear option is currently under discussion at FDL, as well as elsewhere, and I think it would be useful to get the input of the DKos community too.

Don your radiation hazard suit and follow me below.

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Public Option back in? Here's how...

So, why NOT go nuclear? Seriously.