skippy the bush kangaroo

Sunday, December 20, 2009

rip brittany murphy

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brittany murphy, the bright, peppy star whose career was in its early stages, died tragically today at the young age of 32.

her mother discovered her unconscious in the shower this morning and called 911. paramedics took her to cedar-sinai hospital where she was pronounced dead on arrival.

brittany was a pleasant screen presence who was always believable and bright in her comedies, such as her break-out role in the alicia silverstone vehicle clueless. she was also known for her dramatic turn opposite marshall mather, aka eminem (and boyfriend at the time), in 8 mile.

it's always especially disheartening when someone so young is taken from us. latest reports from the la coroner say that she died of natural causes, and no foul play is suspected. an autopsy will be performed tomorrow.

we were especially taken with her work w/dakota fanning in the frothy comedy uptown girls. she also worked w/ashton kutcher in just married. the two dated briefly after meeting on the set.

god rest your soul, brittany murphy.
posted by skippy at 10:25 PM | 0 comments

environmental news stories sunday

yes, virginia, there were other stories other than copenhagen this week.

the santa cruz looks healthier, but is it really? - one of the first things newcomers learn about tucson is that the santa cruz river here is no rio grande, let alone a mississippi. it's basically on life support, carrying no water except during increasingly rare storms.- tuscon daily star

louisiana tells epa that it should let congress handle greenhouse gas regulation. - the state department of environmental quality has demanded that the federal dpa rescind its recent finding that greenhouse gases endanger present and future generations, and take no action to require industries and small businesses to reduce greenhouse gas emissions - washington post

city of cyclists. - bicycles are everywhere in copenhagen. the city invests heavily in this low-tech mode of transportation – with wide bicycle lanes, car-free streets, and special traffic lights, to make cycling safe, easy and fun - living on earth

biggest private funder of amazon conservation teams with google and scientists to develop earth monitoring platform. - the platform, which was officially unveiled at climate talks in in copenhagen, promises to enable near real-time monitoring of the world's forests and carbon at high resolution at selected sites before cop-16 in mexico - mongabay

residents of area say nosebleeds, breathing problems part of life now. - some 140 families took the tva buyout of their homes and land and relocated after the ash spill at the kingston fossil plant, but others remained. nearly a year later, living near the ash spill disaster zone remains a horror story - knoxville sentinel

pines residents still not certain of coal ash’s effects. - year after year, toxic chemicals from coal ash dumped in the town of pines spread under residents' feet. what it has done to their surroundings, their children, themselves, the residents of pines are still unsure. all they can do is wait. - michigan city news dispatch

drinking problems. - like many water utilities across the u.s, disinfectants like chlorine are added to the supply to remove life-threatening microbes. but when the disinfectants interact with organic material that seeps into drinking water, new chemicals are formed that could be a potential health hazard. - glens falls post star

dry coffers can mean that fires burn longer. - the budget-challenged city of sacramento has instituted rolling brownouts at fire stations to save money, at the risk of precious seconds during fires. - nytimes

oceans becoming nosier thanks to pollution. - the world’s oceans are becoming noisier thanks to pollution, with potentially harmful effects for whales, dolphins and other marine life, us scientists said in a study published sunday. the concentration of chemicals that absorb sound has declined from ocean acidification - afp

in industrial thailand, health and business concerns collide. - villagers in map ta phut avoid walking in the rain because it burns their skin and causes their hair to fall out. they have trouble breathing at night when factories release toxic fumes, they say. and the community is terrified by what studies show are unusually high cancer rates - nytimes

high lead levels found on soup can reopen mystery of doomed franklin expedition. - lead levels that are “off the scale” have been confirmed after tests were done this morning on the lid of a soup can dating back more than 150 years. the findings reopen the mystery surrounding the cause of death of sir john franklin and his doomed crew as they searched for the northwest passage- exchange magazine

un left hundreds of kosovo kids to die of lead poisoning. - sara jahirovic is dying a slow, painful death. sara is just one of hundreds of forgotten children abandoned to suffer brain damage and await death in an international scandal exposed today by the sun. - london sun

and, regarding copenhagen...not everyone walked away with the idea that it was a winning accord.

climate scientists underwhelmed by copenhagen accord. - top climate scientists said saturday that the eleventh-hour political deal hammered out at un talks in copenhagen falls perilously short of what is needed to stave off catastrophic global warming- afp

copenhagen summit ends in blood, sweat and recrimination. - gordon brown and barack obama did their best to put a positive spin on it, but copenhagen was a disaster- london daily telegraph

'toothless' climate deal struck by superpowers. - president barack obama said that an "unprecedented breakthrough" to curb greenhouse gas emissions – including a mechanism to verify compliance – was achieved, after a frenzied day of diplomacy at the un climate talks. - edinburough scotsman

climate leaders: the rhetoric vs. the reality. - they had been urged to side with the angels but ultimately, base political instinct seems to have prevailed among the world's most powerful leaders as they sealed a climate pact among themselves, sparking fury elsewhere. - afp

one planet, different worlds. - all eyes in copenhagen were on china and president barack obama friday night, but no event captured the discord, mistrust and distance separating all sides at these climate talks than a pair of press conferences held simultaneously at the bella center earlier in the afternoon. - daily climate

poorest of the poor ask why copenhagen failed to listen. - it's hard to see how the copenhagen accord delivers justice to people in poor countries that are least responsible for climate change but suffer its impacts right now. - sydney morning herald

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posted by Cookie Jill at 2:29 PM | 0 comments

always to play

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posted by mahakal at 10:00 AM | 0 comments

sunday satsang

why?

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Saturday, December 19, 2009

it's the feel-good post-apocalyptic cannibal movie of the year!

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posted by skippy at 10:33 PM | 0 comments

it has been snowing here for about thirty hours now...

frankly, it's starting to piss me off. i can deal with this type of snowstorm, don't get me wrong. but one of the big reasons i moved from massachusetts to virginia was to get the hell away from the snowstorms. i don't need them. they're cold. they're biting. they irritate me. they look lovely on a postcard, but i don't live on a damn postcard.

how far south do i have to move? southerners are crazy enough for my tastes where i'm currently at.

good lord...

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posted by Jim Yeager at 7:08 PM | 7 comments

rahm it up your ass

as the health care reform bill approaches the finish line, we are reminded of our discussion yesterday the insulting position of ron brownstein (and, by extension, rove emanuel), whose central premise in his rant against those opposing the current sans lubricant ass-fucking health care bill seems to be

the broad mass of college-educated white voters are an increasingly central component of the democratic coalition. but it remains a challenge for the party to manage the expectations of that community's most liberal segments because they tend to see politics less as a means of tangibly improving their own lives than as an opportunity to make a statement about the kind of society they want america to be.


they think that progressives who dislike the bill are spoiled middle-class trust fund babies who don't have to worry about healt insurance.

well, for both of those gentlemen, we have four words:

steve gilliard and jim capozzola

(yes, techncially, that's 5 words, but we're not counting the conjunction.)

both steve and jim were incredibly astute progressive bloggers who were not only keenly analytical about the problems facing this country, but also incredibly generous with their time and attention.

(and, surprise surprise, steve was not a "middle-class white voter.")

both of those wonderful gentlemen passed off this earth this last decade, because they didn't have health insurance that could adequately cover their illnesses.

both of these enormously gifted writers were special friends to this blog...both gave early encouragement to skippy's efforts in the beginning, and jim even secrety bought away the blogger banner ad at the top of this blog back in the paleozoic period of blogging, as gesture of kindness to us.

for blogtopia and yes, we coined that phrase, to have lost two such dynamic and important voices due to lack of affordable insurance is the large, gaping wound into which brownstein and emanuel rub their inside-the-beltway salt when they disparage progressives as being out of touch with this issue.

so, ron and rahm...kindly go f^ck yourselves.
posted by skippy at 12:28 PM | 3 comments

happy zappadan!

frank zappa at age 22 on the steve allen show, playing the bicycle:





happy zappadan!
posted by skippy at 10:27 AM | 2 comments

ben nelson held his healthcare vote for ransom

and his asking price? nebraska gets extra medicaid funds. s**w the rest of the country.


under the current merged legislation (the version unveiled on november 18th), the federal government fully finances care for the expanded population for two years and increases its matching funds (known as fmap) thereafter. page 98 of the managers amendment specifically identifies nebraska for higher federal matching funds, fully funding its expansion for an additional year: - think progress wonk room


as part of the deal to win nelson's support, the federal government will pay for nebraska's new medicaid recipients. it's a provision worth about $45 million over the first decade.

medicaid is usually paid for with a mix of federal and state funding, but nelson's carve out means that any medicaid beneficiaries who join the program after the bill passes will be paid for in full by the federal government. - politico
yeah...he "understands" what christmas has become all about...."gimme gimme gimme"

i thought it was supposed to be about caring for mankind...showing generosity and kindness...treating others like you want to be treated yourself.

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posted by Cookie Jill at 8:43 AM | 1 comments

oh, please...

no matter what you think about what should be done with the senate health care bill as it now stands, or who deserves the blame for it, john mccain using the word "comity" to describe the nature of the senate in defense of joe lieberman is utterly ridiculous.

and... isn't it ironic that it took a comedian to inject just a little bit of seriousness into these proceedings? go figure...

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posted by Jim Yeager at 1:35 AM | 0 comments

within you without you

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posted by mahakal at 1:33 AM | 1 comments

大麻 ( マリファナ ) を吸うとこうなる！

just enjoy the show.

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posted by mahakal at 1:23 AM | 4 comments

Friday, December 18, 2009

rahm: a lot of ding dong

who needs progressives? apparently not rahm emanuel:

turn off msnbc. tune out howard dean and keith olbermann. the white house has its liberal wing in hand on health care, says white house chief of staff rahm emanuel.

“there are no liberals left to get” in the senate, emanuel said in an interview, shrugging off some noise from the likes of sen. bernie sanders (i., vt.) that a few liberals might bolt over the compromises made with conservative democrats.

nor ron brownstein, either:

maybe one reason former vermont gov. howard dean and so much of the digital left can so casually dismiss the senate health care reform bill is that they operate in an environment where so few people need to worry about access to insurance.

the 2004 presidential campaign that propelled dean to national prominence was fueled predominantly by "wine track" democratic activists-generally college-educated white liberals. (in the virtually all-white 2004 iowa caucus, for instance, exit polls showed that two-thirds of dean's votes came from voters with a college degree.) those are the same folks, all evidence suggests, who provide the core support for online activist groups like moveon.org or dean's democracy for america and congregate most enthusiastically on liberal websites. (according to studies by the pew internet & american life project, college graduates are more than twice as likely as those with only a high-school degree to communicate about politics online.) along with dean, those digital democratic activists are generating the loudest demands to derail the senate bill.

some individuals in these overlapping political networks undoubtedly face challenges with access to health care, but as a group college-educated whites are much less likely than any other segment of the population to lack health insurance.

uh, that's right. ron thinks that we're objecting the hcr bill not because of policy or agenda, or substantive differences we have with the idea of corporate giveaways. no, it's because we're some kind of 'liberal elites.' wait, where have we heard that before?

well, we suppose the white house and the dnc don't need those votes. not the vote of the blogger formerly known as armando:

certainly expanding health insurance premium assistance for the less well off is a very good thing, but no one can seriously argue it is reform. oh btw, 200 billion dollars annually? where'd that number come from? and what congress is going to approve it? i'd like to hear more about that number. finally, health insurance premium assistance can be done via reconciliation, as dean has called for. so the senate bill is really not critical to what brownstein is arguing is the key provision of "health care reform." the more they write, the more nonsensical the very serious people are becoming.

or the vote of john aravosis

as for brownstein's argument that none of us have problems with our insurance, i've talked about my health insurance problems before on this blog. about the fact that i could have lost sight in my right eye this summer when my retina suddenly detached while on travel. about how carefirst blue cross blue shield couldn't even figure out if my imminent visit to the emergency room was covered or not under my policy. they still aren't sure if my $2,800 surgical bill is going to be covered (and i'm lucky, had i had the same emergency surgery in the states, it would have been well over $20,000.)

then there's my asthma. the asthma that my doctor tells me i need to get under control or i'll be carrying an oxygen tank around with me in 20 years. carefirst cut me off my asthma drugs november of last year because i'd reached my annual limit. you see, the same drug companies sell the same drugs in the states at three to five times the prices they charge in europe. so my asthma medicine, the only one there is for my condition, there are no alternatives, broke the bank. why did it break the bank? because my insurance company only gives me $1500 a year in prescription drug coverage. and that's the same amount they gave me in 1999 when i began on this plan. my premiums have nearly tripled in ten years, while my prescription benefits remain the same - meaning, with inflation/rising drug prices, my benefits are going down.

ron brownstein needs to graduate beyond schoolyard journalism. as for the white house, i'm glad to see that they're finally learning how to fight. now if they could only channel their nascent backbone towards taking on republicans, conservative democrats and other people who didn't help put them in office - rather than crapping on people who put them in office - then their education would be complete.

or the vote of taylor marsh:

if we listen to mr. krugman, rep. wasserman-schultz, and mr. axelrod and others like sen. harkin, a tireless champion on the public option, painfully defend the current action by democrats, we’re going to be in even bigger trouble than we are today going forward. for krugman, it’s absolutely unconscionable to run around saying “pass the bill,” suggesting the american people should be forced to buy insurance from an industry without any competition included to keep costs down.

i’ve been uninsured many times in my life and it was for a reason. as a self-employed person i couldn’t afford it. i see this plan to force people to buy insurance, looking at those un-insured times in my life and thinking about paying a penalty, and i just want to scream at the top of my lungs.

this is a free country last time i looked.

democrats have absolutely no right and no moral authority to tell me or anyone else they must buy anything, least of all inside a rigged market that sends me further into debt or maybe worse.

my inner libertarian is on fire, and i’m a die hard liberal. if that isn’t a warning sign nothing is.

or, apparently, the votes of 63% of democrats in america:

conducted by research 2000 for the progressive change campaign committee (pccc) and democracy for america (dfa), the survey finds only 33 percent of likely voters favor a health care bill that does not include a public health insurance option and does not expand medicare, but does require all americans to get health insurance. slightly more democrats -- 37 percent -- favor the idea, while only 30 percent of republicans and 31 percent of independents do.

meanwhile, if the public option and medicare buy-in are added, 58 percent of people support the idea. the number of republican supporters drops to 22 percent, but independent support rises to 57 percent and democratic support to a whopping 88 percent.

nah. who needs those votes anyway?
posted by skippy at 10:59 PM | 3 comments

mad about dressing down the president

mad kane, that is!
posted by skippy at 5:46 PM | 2 comments

how the democrats can still win with meaningful health care reform

30,000 people have died as sen. reid has raised the votes from 55 to 59.5. he should use the nuclear option instead.

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posted by George at 3:01 PM | 1 comments

well, it's here...

i just went out for a beer run, since i have the night off, and they're calling for a big snowstorm along the east coast tonight, so no going anywhere other than the supermarket for me. when i got there, it was snowing very lightly. a trip to this store and back takes around ten minutes. when i left, it was snowing for real.

this ought to be interesting. typically, the richmond/henrico area doesn't get too much snow, but when we do get so much as half an inch, people start freaking out. it's understandable, though. the main concern is ice on the roads, not the snow. i'm from massachusetts, so i have seen a few good blizzards in my time. up there, the city and state plow trucks line up ready to go before the storm hits, and private truck owners with plows are making phone calls to relatives and friends whose driveways they intend to clear for them. call it life during winter in new england 101. the idea is to keep the roads open (and sanded).

richmond/henrico has nothing comparable in place because it's very unusual for that much snow to accumulate here in one setting. half an inch of snow hardly justifies plows going up and down all the roads. but half an inch of snow can turn into a layer of ice pretty quick. so schools announce they're closing for the day, businesses do the same, and everyone hopes the afternoon sun will melt the ice and run off to the sides of the roads before sundown when it can potentially freeze up again.

i don't know about this one, though. it's coming down noticeably harder than it was when i started writing this post. looks like we're going to need a few plows in the morning...

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posted by Jim Yeager at 1:59 PM | 1 comments

without within

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posted by mahakal at 12:13 AM | 2 comments

Thursday, December 17, 2009

according to russ feingold...

when it comes to how real health care reform died a slow, painful death this year, it's all obama's fault:

many progressives have painted the obama administration as powerless to stand up to the will of congress, blaming sen. joe lieberman (i-ct) for single-handedly forcing sen. harry reid (d-nv) to drop the public option and medicare expansion from the bill. it may not be realistic, however, to believe that one senator has that much power and influence. on the other hand, it may be more practical to believe that the white house, with presidential directives, veto and other means does have the power to force or mold legislation...


i agree with feingold. and you know what? it's too easy to go after liebermann for this -- he proved to all the world that he's nothing but a self-serving @$$#0!e three years ago. and harry reid? we all knew he was a natural-born tool to begin with -- what's the point in slamming him?

thing is, on principle, it's obama we ought to be slamming. but if we do that, we pretty much forfeit whatever claim we have to the moral high ground, because obama has been remarkably consistent in his statements and his actions on health care over the last few years. we're the ones who have been swaying back and forth in the wind.

in spite of my feelings on this issue, i have to tip my hat to obama over the way he keeps making us underestimate him -- i've never seen anything like this before.

we all need to re-examine the way we approach political blogging, and we need to do so soon...

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posted by Jim Yeager at 7:01 PM | 6 comments

did you ever try to prise away the mask?

i can tell you, it's a herculean task...

posted by Jim Yeager at 2:23 PM | 0 comments

health care q & a - holes

in response to your question, jim, no, we can't just pass the stupid damn bill now and work on its f&%k@#g flaws later already.

and smarter, more erudite bloggers than we have explained why:

firstly, nate silver @ 538 expressed much the same feelings as you did, jim, only with less keyboard symbology substituting for profanity. he asked 20 questions for bill killers.

jon walker @ firedoglake gave him 20 answers, as did markos moulitsas. our own alumnus, rj eskow, mulled over the same ground @ huffpo.

to his credit, nate responded to the jon and markos. but sometimes he still actively misses the point:

2. would a bill that contained $50 billion in additional subsidies for people making less than 250% of poverty be acceptable?

mm: this betrays a simplistic view of liberals, as if our answer is to merely shovel money at a problem. what we're looking for is good policy, which in this case, would also be good politics. so no, throwing money at the insurance companies doesn't change a thing. the insurance industry would simply absorb the new subsidies just like universities have raised tuition to shovel up any increases in financial aid.

jw: that money will help a few people in the short term, but, in the long run, our system built on private insurance companies is unsustainable, and will ruin our entire economy. i have zero confidence that the subsidies promised today will remain the same in the future. they might be increased by future democrats or reduced in 2016 by a republican congress. without cost controls, that money will quickly be eaten up by the ever-growing cost of health care. this reform is about trying to fix the system, not patch it with more money.
here's one of the bits that i find disingenuous. "that money will help a few people in the short term"? that framing doesn't seem proportionate to the good that this bill would do. as i wrote earlier tonight the bill is and always was "a big bleeping social welfare program". indeed, it's almost without doubt the biggest bleeping social welfare program that liberals have had an opportunity to pass in a generation. i don't know how you can just brush off providing $900 billion in subsidies, or helping 30 million people to become insured. that's not some side effect of the bill; it's the whole point of the bill.

markos' point that this represents a "simplistic view of liberals" is intriguing -- certainly, it is interesting to me how some of the liberal and conservative critiques against the bill have started to coalesce -- but we'll address this at another time.
here nate completely ignores the main point jon makes, by objecting to jon's qualifying of the time frame that the subsidies would be relevant to. jon basically says yes, the money will be good, but without major overhaul of the system, the system will collapse. nate counters with "oh, the money will only be 'good?' why not 'great?' huh? not great enough for you? geez, you liberals are so whiny! and i'll address markos's point some other time, too!'

and as to nate's counter that he doesn't "know you can just brush off...helping 30 million people to become insured":

howard dean's democracy for america points out:

what they are actually talking about is something called the "individual mandate." that's a section of the law that requires every single american buy health insurance or break the law and face penalties and fines. so, the bill doesn't actually "cover" 30 million more americans - instead it makes them criminals if they don't buy insurance from the same companies that got us into this mess.
there are more flaws in nate's response to other's response to his response to the health care bill, but we don't have time to innumerate all of them.

basically we are of the opinion that without a public option (or, at the very least, a medicare buy-in), this bill is simply another bail out of yet another multi-billion dollar industry, with no help for the middle class, let alone poverty level americans.

does that answer your question, jim?
posted by skippy at 1:48 PM | 7 comments

jack bauer interrogates santa



via huffpo.
posted by skippy at 10:45 AM | 0 comments

the health care debate...

i'm sick and tired of it. the politicians' dithering and posturing, the liberals' jumping and hollering, the progressives' threats of taking their ball home and staying there in november (yeah, all right, progressives -- you do that if you don't like what you've wound up with now, and see what you wind up with then), the health care reform opponents' playing with people's emotions and repeating lies, not to mention the shameless natures of the insurance companies and their lobbyists... all of this going on day after day, week after week, month after month...

can we just pass the stupid damn bill now and work on its f&%k@#g flaws later already? it isn't a great bill, i know. it's a typical one, considering who's assembling it and the sausage-factory way they're doing it. and like it or not, this is what we voted for last year, whether we knew it at the time or not. apparently, this is the best we can come up with.

pass the stupid damn bill...


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posted by Jim Yeager at 3:08 AM | 4 comments

games without end

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posted by mahakal at 2:59 AM | 0 comments

Wednesday, December 16, 2009

if the senate version of "reform" becomes law can we please not call it historic?

histrionic maybe but not historic. from the death panel nonsense to the medicare buy-in whiplash this has been poorly stage managed. i hope i am wrong but it appears obama has bungled this to the point where there will be enough republicants elected next year to extend the bush tax giveaways to the rich in the name of balancing the budget.

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posted by George at 9:37 PM | 0 comments

sick health care

firedoglake has a great run down on today's headlines in health care ass-fucking reform.

also via fdl, here's glenn greenwald on msnbc explaining why this whole thing sucks:



msnbc! it's like nbc, with ms!
posted by skippy at 5:50 PM | 0 comments

uk-ular option

via steve benen



oddly enough, that's just how we sing that song, too.
posted by skippy at 5:31 PM | 1 comments

united congress of big pharma

re-importing (or importing) drugs from canada isn't dangerous to our health...it's dangerous to big pharma's profits.


there’s no legitimate reason to bar re-importation, except one: to preserve a subsidy for the pharmaceutical industry and, by extension, preserve the flow of campaign contributions to the democratic party. that is why president obama is now opposing the sensible measures he endorsed as a candidate. he is pursuing this year’s expedient goal of getting a campaign war chest now that he’s already achieved last year’s expedient goal of getting elected. - matt taibbi
might i remind those morons in d.c. that they are siding with criminal corporations over americans?

pfizer pleaded guilty in 2009 to the largest health care fraud in u.s. history and received the largest criminal penalty ever levied for illegal marketing of four of its drugs. called a repeat offender, this was pfizer's fourth such settlement with the u.s. department of justice in the previous ten years - wikipedia
oh...and lets see...since all those "foreign countries are so unreliable in safety", guess we shouldn't buy any drugs from bayer (germany), novartis (switzerland), glaxo-smith kline (united kingdom), hoffman laroche (switzerland), astrazeneka (uk/sweden). and the "big secret"...

the implication in that warning is that drugs purchased in the united states are therefore safer, correct? what the fda didn't tell anyone, however, is that most pharmaceuticals purchased in the united states are manufactured outside the u.s.; many from china or puerto rico. - natural news.com

i think that anyone who voted against giving americans the ability to save their lives with affordable drugs should line up for one, huge suppository. cuz that's what they gave the rest of the country.

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posted by Cookie Jill at 3:28 PM | 1 comments

don't let the light go out...

let it shine through our love and our tears...

(credit: a kindred fur affinity spirit named maxgoof...)

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posted by Jim Yeager at 1:50 PM | 0 comments

it may not amount to much...

but until last night, i never stood to receive this sort of recognition at all...



and it's just a piece of paper.

funny, though, how a piece of paper can alter you outlook in a lot of ways...

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postscript: i just thought of this...

in light of all the raw emotional turmoil i have expressed here over the last couple of years, all of which was very real and played genuine hell with me in every aspect of my life, it's amazing to me that i somehow managed to hold onto my job through all of it. what you read here was virtually identical to what my co-workers have had to suffer through once i got to ranting -- and yet, i'm still employed. go figure...

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posted by Jim Yeager at 1:24 PM | 5 comments

math

forty republicans plus joe lieberman control the filibuster, and no good health care reform can pass the senate. there isn't and was never any possibility of it, except under reconciliation rules.

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posted by mahakal at 10:01 AM | 3 comments

nothin's gonna change my world

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posted by mahakal at 12:00 AM | 1 comments