I’m sicker than a dog

15 Comments

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   billjpa on June 18, 2009 at 12:23 pm

   don’t play games with this flu steven. It is one really nasty monstor!!
    What’s going on? Don’t bother with the goopers. It’s the dems that need to be checked out. Daschle just came out against the single payer option. Hows that for supporting the O man! I gotta tell ya. With friends like that, can anyone not except the simple fact that the dems are a bunch of worthless pieces of shite!
    We are going to have to march and march and march and if we can’t count on the bastards then we have to vote them out!
    

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   boran2 on June 18, 2009 at 12:26 pm

   I just finished with my cold/allergy/slight fever problems, but thankfully very quickly this time.  I hope that’s true for you as well, Steven.

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   Phil Perspective on June 18, 2009 at 12:26 pm

   Crazee Eddie?  I remember that loony guy!!   😉  He made memorable commercials, even if he was a crook.

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   BooMan on June 18, 2009 at 12:29 pm

   Daschle shafted us.

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     dada on June 18, 2009 at 12:48 pm

     l guess we should be glad he’s not HHS sec, eh.

     and what the hell are baker and dole, two has beens, doing running off at the mouth. they’re not going to be voting on it.

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       americanforliberty on June 18, 2009 at 4:26 pm

       Who is he lobbying for these days?

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   Phil Perspective on June 18, 2009 at 12:29 pm

   And since this is an open thread … can Tom Daschle ever stop being a Wanker?

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   Man Eegee on June 18, 2009 at 12:54 pm

   FYI, you get more jail time in Arizona for an Extreme DUI (30 Days), than if you tie a noose around someone’s neck in an attempt to “Get the Mexican” in America’s Most Livable City.  The one person charged (there were several attackers) was sentenced to only 10 days behind bars and avoided an ethnic intimidation charge.  God Bless America™

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   MikeInOhio on June 18, 2009 at 1:24 pm

   Tough times here in the Buckeye State

   TOLEDO, Ohio — Residents of Toledo are complaining that they received $25 tickets for parking their vehicles in their own driveways.

   Mayor Carty Finkbeiner said he stands by the citations handed out last week by the Division of Streets, Bridges and Harbor. He said the tickets were issued under a city law against parking on unpaved surfaces, including gravel driveways.

   During a news conference Monday, Finkbeiner ignored a reporter’s question of whether the crackdown and fines were related to the city’s budget crisis.

   The three-term mayor faces a recall vote in November. Critics have claimed he’s wasted city money.

   City Councilman D. Michael Collins called the ticketing “Mickey Mouse nonsense.” He has told residents he’ll try to have the citations rescinded.

   Makes me so proud to be a Buckeye.

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     Steven D on June 18, 2009 at 1:38 pm

     That really sucks.  What douche bags.

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       americanforliberty on June 18, 2009 at 4:29 pm

       I Wonder how many homes with “jumbo Loans” got a ticket. It is obvious the ordinance is directed towards poor people without the means to lay a concrete driveway or park their car in the backyard.

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   MikeInOhio on June 18, 2009 at 1:36 pm

   Digby, bringing me down with what I fear is a heavy dose of reality on the direction of the health care debate.

   On health care, arguably the most important Democratic initiative of our lifetimes, they are bargaining away any hope of real success because basically it cannot fit into the Reagan governance program. They took single payer off the table years ago and the presidential candidates kicked it completely out the door. Today, as dday lays out in all its ugly detail below, they are bargaining away the public option, the only hope of keping the insurance companies from irrevocably corrupting the reform efforts.

   Read it all here.  It is not a pleasant read, but I am afraid the likelihood is high that it hits the nail squarely on the head.

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     dada on June 18, 2009 at 2:59 pm

     but, but, but…all the insurance and big healthcare providers are such upfront people…sho nuff.

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       MikeInOhio on June 18, 2009 at 3:18 pm

       Aaaahhh yes….the Scrushy dude.

       But I’m sure he’s just a “lone wolf” among the healthcare crowd.  Most certainly an aberration.

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   SFHawkguy on June 18, 2009 at 3:55 pm

   To better understand what’s going on in Iran, as well as in other parts of the world, it’s important to consider bigger geopolitical/economic issues currently hitting the fan:

   China, Russia and countries like Iran will not sit quietly by and allow America to devalue it’s currency and government debt without a fight.  We are (or have been) in economic war and the sheeple don’t yet realize it.  Baaaaah.

   The truth will be hard to decipher in this brave new world.  Who knows what’s going on in Iran right now and in Georgia last year, and indeed, all over the world.  I know enough not to trust anyone right now. All of our cherished belief-systems are under attack as economic forces bigger than anything in human history are being unleashed.

   I expect the spooks to be busy.

   Speaking of that, interesting games going on with the “fake” U.S. bonds that were smuggled into Switzerland.

   With the U.S. spending at least $100MM in clandestine activities in Iran last year and with government propaganda machines all over the world working on hyperdrive who knows what the truth is and what is going on in the world.