Does the "healthcare reform" that finally passed actually give anyone improved access to health care, or reform anything other than the lining of the pockets of Insurance Corporazi?

Trying to read about this on the news sites - even the liberal ones - is giving me a fucking headache. 

On the grounds that it's pretty nice to have a person leading the USA who is smart instead of dog-stupid, and who is named 'Barack Hussein Obama'...OK, I know BHO is not a Messiah for peaceniks but I'm amazed - and glad - a black person named Barack Hussein Obama can become president of the USA.  And I DO like having my country represented and led ( Read more... )

Shamelessly grab-and-slapped from a page of comments to an editorial in the Sacramento Bee.

I sincerely hope that if the bigots and lunatic wingnuts in this state get an anti-gay-marriage amendment passed, that the Legislature turns right around and passes the following law:

"The practice of marriage in California shall henceforth be a ( Read more... )

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2008 will be the year PNAC either gets really aggro or dies. By really aggro I mean nukes and that could get the United States of America get real, no-kidding war declared on its ass by any number of allied nations ( Read more... )

Great link from xi_o_teas; whose username still makes me go, what is that and where did it come from, is it a word or a symbol and is it xenogenic or from a specific earthlevel culture or mythopoeia?

What Would Jesus Do, if Christians paid attention to reality ( Read more... )

Congratulations Democrats ! NOW DO YOUR JOB !!

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Putting together some propaganda to hand out at the strike tomorrow.

There's a 24-hour event here in Frisco.  I will be at Justin Hermann Plaza (the ferry area at the end of Market Street) handing out slightly Choronzonically flavoured materia, hopefully not too didactic.

(Particular attention to the following is called to Flickad (even though she's fortunate enough not to live in the States) for reasons she'll know immediately; ditto to any other uncompromisingly pro-choice women, particularly those who, unlike her, DO live here...especially if unlucky enough to be in South Dakota.)

A romance-novel review bloggista has ( Read more... )