Dear Senator Cardin,
I have emailed you before about health care reform. Please continue to stand firm on enacting the eight health insurance consumer protections as outlined by the President (http://www.whitehouse.gov/health-insurance-consumer-protections/). Please stand firm on the inclusion of a public option, with the ultimate goal being ( Read more... )

Just registered my opinion via email with Senators Cardin and Mikulski:

Dear Senator,

Please continue to support health care reform legislation that includes a public option. Please ensure that this option is not watered down or dropped. Please do your utmost to move our country to single-payer coverage.

Thank you for all your hard work on this and ( Read more... )

Update, 01/22/06. According to the folks at Moveon.org, Congress has passed the following legislation in accordance with Speaker Pelosi's "100-hour plan":

The '100 Hours Agenda'
Already Done:

* Restricting lobbyists
* No new deficit spending
* 9/11 Commission security recommendations
* Increase the minimum wage
* Support stem cell research
* Lower- ( Read more... )

At least it's not Monday. Today was a slow day at work. Being in-between quarters, there are not a lot of new orders coming in to be requested, nor electronic documents to be sent. One of my colleagues seems to have spent the better part of the afternoon wrangling with the IRS. I think he said they received his payment but not his tax forms. Yes, ( Read more... )

A Letter to my State SenatorsPlease vote "no" on any proposed constitutional amendment to permanently deny marriage equality to same-sex couples. Sexual orientation is a private, personal matter and same-sex marriage is a civil rights issue. Denying marriage equality to same-sex couples is an outrageous attack upon human dignity and an unspeakable ( Read more... )

Rat Fink

Main Entry: miscreant
Part of Speech: noun
Definition: evildoer
Synonyms: bad egg, bastard, black sheep, blackguard, bootlegger, bully, caitiff, convict, criminal, culprit, delinquent, drunkard, evildoer, felon, fink, heel, hoodlum, jailbird, knave, loafer, louse, lowlife, malefactor, outcast, outlaw, pickpocket, racketeer, rapscallion, ( Read more... )