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Those of you who read me or know me, know that I’m so far left as to almost be a socialist…but this “health care” bill has to be defeated…as much as I hate to suggest siding with the loonies and the birthers and the teabaggers.

This bill will cost most consumers another 27% of their income in MANDATED fees to the insurance company.  On top of your income tax, that means that almost 60% of your income will be sucked away.  Considering that it doesn’t do anything to actually provide health care, it doesn’t stop deductibles, it doesn’t stop premium increases…this is just a pure giveaway to the insurance companies.  It must be stopped.

Wall Street is celebrating “Health Care Reform.” According to an industry insider report yesterday by MarketWatch (Gibson and Britt) health care stocks rallied as the bill moved through the Senate, particularly since there is no public option in the bill to compete or compare with insurance company rate-making.

“Health care investors find themselves having confronted their greatest fear, and, while there will be legislation, it will be significantly watered down …” said Mike O’Rourke, chief market strategist at BTIG LLC. As a result, shares of Aetna gained 4.7%, while Cigna rose 3.9%. United Health and Wellpoint “rallied to 52-week highs.”

Once the bill becomes law, insurance companies will gain at least 26 million new customers and as much as $50 billion in new annual revenue from private-pay and from government subsidies as people will be required by law to purchase private insurance. While certain expenses are capped in the bill, it appears that premium costs are not.

The Senate’s move prompted Gregory Nersessian of Credit Suisse to raise his price targets [predicting greater strength of stock performance] on seven insurers: Aetna, Cigna, Amerigroup Corp., Humana Inc., Molina Healthcare Inc., UnitedHealth Group Inc. and Wellcare Health Plans Inc.

” … the [bill] is a positive first step” Nersessian said in a note to clients. “The heavy lifting will come when Congress is forced to slow the rate of medical cost growth through more aggressive payment restrictions and utilization controls down the road,” he said – meaning that this particular industry insider is predicting limitations on benefits.

Marketwatch also wrote that none of the new standards on how much the industry must spend on medical expenses will “impose great hardship on any insurers.”

So Sarah Palin resigned from her first term as Governor. Nobody knows why she would do something this insane…but, ya know, it is Sarah we’re talking about here. You betcha.

Regarding the initial Palin speech, Sean Cockerham, of the Anchorage Daily News, wrote a concise article that put a lot of the rambling nonsense into context, in that what had previously seemed like Jabberwocky levels of street-rat crazy, now just seemed like normal Sarah Palin street-rat crazy.

So, the fun part begins! Get your tin foil hats on kids, it’s time to “Find The Conspiracy”.

Has anyone noticed all the press that John Coale is getting out of all of this…and how almost none of it mentions that he’s a muckity muck in Scientology?

Ok, so…here’s my new theory:

Scientology uses their incredibly well honed psyops to convince her that she’s under attack from opponents she can’t possibly defeat on her own. But..CoS can help her, they tell her. All she needs to do is spend a few weeks in a resort…say in Clearwater, Florida…and they’ll get her feeling back up to par, and then, they’ll help her get ready to run for the presidential election.

They turn her into the same unstoppable android force that is Tom Cruise. She gets polished up, trained on how to think before speaking, and using the cash and people of the CoS, she rockets to the top of the Republican charts. She’ll explain away the CoS as being “not at all opposed to our true faith beliefs in blah, blah, blah” and she’ll be believed by the ones who want to believe, and accepted by those who would do anything to get the “nigger out of the white house”.

I’m telling you, if the economy doesn’t get better, if more Americans go homeless and hungry, if old people start dying because they can’t get medicines, if the cost of foods rise and the buying power of wages continue to go in opposite directions…if people are hungry, and hot, and angry, and poor…Scientology Sarah Palin would wipe the floor with any candidate facing her.

So…there’s your scary thought for the day.

Planned Parenthood has just learned that Sen. David Vitter (R-LA) is expected to attack Planned Parenthood again today. He will offer an amendment to the Appropriations Act this afternoon that would block Planned Parenthood health centers from receiving federal funds from Title X, the nation’s family planning program.

This move is an unconstitutional, completely unfounded attack on the nation’s leading source of reproductive health care information and services. In these difficult economic times, we need to make reproductive health care services more available for low-income, uninsured, and underinsured women — not less.

We need you to call your senators and tell them to stand up and oppose the Vitter amendment.

The appropriations bill is being voted on this afternoon, so we need you to call today. Ask your senators to speak out on the floor and oppose Sen. David Vitter’s Amendment No. 601 to the Omnibus Appropriations Act of 2009 (H.R.1105).

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  “Planned Parenthood’s health center is my community’s women’s health center, and I oppose Sen. David Vitter’s  Amendment No. 601 to the Omnibus Appropriations Act of 2009 (H.R.1105). It is an unconstitutional, completely unfounded attack.”
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Shoes thrown at President Bush in Iraq. As America prepares to give him the boot, President Bush was forced to do some atypical sole searching during a press conference in Iraq when an Iraqi television reporter flung both shoes at him.

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