Displaying 2,611 To 2,640 Of 3,333 Comments Welcome, welcome…a warm welcome, LABC! I don’t know what the administrators of this site have planned, but I would bet that it won’t be nipple slippage pix! LOL It may take you a little time to acclimate to the elevation in thought here, but hang in there! I can tell you from experience that the FREEDOM is exhilarating! The one thing that sets this site above the others is the fact that WE are the ones who control the content, and we do so without moderation. We manage ourselves, quite well, I believe. We will all look forward to your becoming an author on the Planet. 🙂 » Posted By Emerald1943 On January 14, 2010 @ 12:24 pm Good morning, KQ! Good to see you here! This would be a perfect example to save for Nellie’s “Project POV: Brainstorming”. If you didn’t have a chance to read it, I would encourage you to do so. She has a great idea about archiving items such as this and putting together articles calling out the MSM for their obvious skewing of the news. I didn’t read Grim’s entire article…I didn’t have to. It was apparent in the first several paragraphs. » Posted By Emerald1943 On January 14, 2010 @ 8:06 am Resolving Differences in House and Senate Health Bills Wow! Choice, This is the first I have heard of this about the anti-trust. Please, please…keep us posted. You seem to have some very good contacts to get information. Also, the rate increase thing. They should have to justify those increases just as the public utilities do. Maybe there’s light at the end of the tunnel…and it’s NOT an oncoming train! 🙂 » Posted By Emerald1943 On January 14, 2010 @ 4:17 pm Hey choice, do you mean Harry Potter’s cloak…or Harry Reid’s??? Harry Reid has not been very visible lately! LOL » Posted By Emerald1943 On January 14, 2010 @ 12:44 pm Someone wrote earlier that if we had regulation of the insurance industry, we would not need the public option or single payer either. And that’s a good point. But you know as well as I do that the insurance lobby is never going to allow that. They have what seems to be an unlimited amount of money to stuff into our lawmakers’ pockets! » Posted By Emerald1943 On January 14, 2010 @ 12:43 pm Choice, neither do I. 🙁 The problem, I believe, is that so many millions in this country have employer provided health care coverage and are happy with it. The public option, for instance, will not affect that many people, and many of those are the poor, the unemployed, some of which really don’t have access to let their voices be heard. They do have advocates but those advocates are drowned out by the lobbyists and the industry scare tactics. It’s hard to get the average American couch potato to get up, turn off the TV, and get involved, especially when they listen to Faux every day and believe the lies and distortions. » Posted By Emerald1943 On January 14, 2010 @ 12:38 pm I went to OpenSecrets.org and it looks like Rep. Fattah did not receive a large amount of health care lobbying money, so that blows that theory. He did have much more from Labor than other categories. » Posted By Emerald1943 On January 14, 2010 @ 12:01 pm Hey Choice and E-cat! I just found the Congressman’s name…Chaka Fattah, D-PA 2nd. He was reportedly the one who obtained the permit in the first place. I was told that it was his office that requested that it be revoked. I just looked at his campaign donations and will have to do a little more digging. The donations listed were not broken down into categories such as health care, etc. I’ll post more when I find it. » Posted By Emerald1943 On January 14, 2010 @ 11:55 am I was not among the organizers of the event. I sent several emails after I returned home, trying to get some answers, but I never got any reply. I really never thought of calling the Capitol police. Another march was to be held in October, but it never took off. There was some talk of a march scheduled for tomorrow in Washington..Jan.15th,but I have heard nothing about it from MoveOn or anyone else. I don’t know if it’s still being held. » Posted By Emerald1943 On January 14, 2010 @ 11:41 am I got really PO’d at how the President was being crucified for not getting into the fray earlier. I had written the same thing that he was a student of history and knew well what the Clintons went through. I just hope he will be very involved now. We need him to be! » Posted By Emerald1943 On January 14, 2010 @ 11:35 am Choice, yes it helps. It has been difficult to get much detail in the past couple of weeks, I guess, due to the closed door meetings. I don’t like it either, but I can understand. It has been nice not to see Mitch McConnell or John Boehner on TV everytime there is an open mic. Yesterday, I believe it was Chuck Todd of NBC that made the statement that the White House was “exhausted” from political battles…not his exact words but that’s the gist. I would imagine that they are! They are probably glad to take a little media break from all the hoopla on this subject. » Posted By Emerald1943 On January 14, 2010 @ 11:04 am Thanks choice! That makes sense, except that the tea baggers were there the day before, not on the same day. Some of them were still in town but were mostly doing the tourist bit, visiting museums, etc. I saw some of them in the Smithsonian while I was there. They were in their charter buses all over town, but very few on foot as we were. You’re right about them being scary though! Thanks for the info. » Posted By Emerald1943 On January 14, 2010 @ 10:57 am Hi e-cat! Good to see you! It was really strange. I am going to try to find the name of the Congressman who got the permit…and then had it revoked. I wonder if he is on the lobbyists’ payroll! » Posted By Emerald1943 On January 14, 2010 @ 10:23 am Hey choice! Here is the quote from Cher’s article that I mentioned below: “Once it is enacted into law, some provisions would go into effect immediately, such as barring insurers from excluding coverage for children due to pre-existing conditions.” While this is most worthy of immediate passage, what about the rest of us? The devil is in the details. » Posted By Emerald1943 On January 14, 2010 @ 10:19 am Hi Choice! Good to see you here! Yes, I know that the incremental way is the way change will have to come. We don’t do too well with the pitchforks and torches in the streets like the French do! 🙂 I agree with you about the responsibility part. We all do need to participate to make sure that the least of us has decent medical care. But I fail to see how that is going to happen with this bill. Forcing people to buy expensive insurance from the same greedy bastards who have been ripping us off for years doesn’t seem like the best way. If I could see some serious cost controls or rate regulation, I might feel better about it. As I said, it will be interesting to see how much more is stripped out of the bill in committee. I noticed one item in Cher’s article about the denial of coverage for pre-existing conditions…it mentioned only children. Perhaps I read it the wrong way. » Posted By Emerald1943 On January 14, 2010 @ 10:12 am Hi javaz! I never learned of any reason for the permit to be revoked. It was apparently arranged some weeks in advance by a Democratic Congressman…can’t recall his name but will find it and let you know. Apparently, his office was responsible for pulling the permit too. ??????? We were originally supposed to gather on the National Mall at noon that day. If you have been there, you know it’s HUGE, stretching from the Washington Monument to the Capitol building. We were supposed to meet and march to the Capitol. The organizers attempted to contact everyone by email to let them know NOT to meet there, but instead to go to the park next to the Senate building up on the hill. I suspect that many people did not get the message and when arriving at the Mall, did not see the rest of us. It is a rather secluded spot, surrounded by large trees and out of sight of the Mall itself. I saw one local TV cameraman there, but no other coverage. If you remember, the teabaggers got PLENTY of coverage of their event. The circumstances were just too strange! I remember seeing a group of Jamaicans, perhaps 250 in number, demonstrating on the very steps of the Capitol Building at that same time. I guess that was more important than our little issue…snark, snark! » Posted By Emerald1943 On January 14, 2010 @ 7:42 am Good morning, Cher! Brilliant work! I haven’t seen anything like this comparison anywhere. Back during the heated debate over last summer, I fought long and hard for the public option to be included in the bill. I even traveled to Washington in September to attend a march in support of it, at some considerable personal expense. Our march was scheduled for the day AFTER the Glenn Beck/teabag demonstrations. It takes five days for a permit for any march or demonstration in the capitol. Mysteriously, our permit was canceled, with no reason given, four days prior to the march, while the teabaggers were allowed to go ahead with theirs. It was obvious that someone up there did not want us seen or heard that day. We were able to hold a small rally in the park adjacent to the Senate Office Building, out of sight and with no media…a tiny blip on the radar at best. I came back from that trip, discouraged and disillusioned. I wish I had a buck for every petition, letter, email and phone call I made in the belief that our Congress would do what is just and right for the American people. But that is exactly what they are NOT doing. This debacle may be viewed as “progress” by some, but in my opinion, this is nothing but a gold-plated give-away to the health insurance industry! And our representatives have been well paid to provide it for them! It looks like our government is totally under the control of the lobbyists and special interests, and there is not a damned thing we can do about it. They will pass this watered-down, bastardized bill mandating coverage without a public option. Never in the history of this country has there been a federal law passed requiring the purchase of a product from a private company. How can this pass the constitutionality smell test? I suppose you could mandate away homelessness by requiring that everyone buy a house… As the proceedings drag on, watch the insurance company stocks. You will be able to quickly tell who is winning this battle…and it ain’t the American people. It will be almost amusing to see what else they strip from the bill in committee…at least, it would be if it were not so deadly serious. I have written it before, and no doubt, I will write it again…until we demand sweeping campaign finance reform, we will not see any legislation passed by Congress that benefits the American working people over the big corporations! We do indeed have the best government money can buy! Sorry for the long rant, but this is a major sore spot with me! Thanks again for your hard work on this article. This is what I would call “REAL” journalism. I look forward to more from you! » Posted By Emerald1943 On January 14, 2010 @ 6:54 am The 7.0 Earthquake in Haiti will be absolutely devastating to the people of this country. You go, girl! Feel better now? 🙂 » Posted By Emerald1943 On January 14, 2010 @ 4:08 pm Hi Jan! Shocked, I tell ya!! Shocked!! 🙂 Did you really expect the MSM to do anything else? They just have to have their drama to get those ratings! Why ignore a juicy story about some right-wing loony and the outrage that he is causing? Fodder for the unplugged brains! » Posted By Emerald1943 On January 14, 2010 @ 4:07 pm I kinda’ agree, Cher. But I honestly didn’t even notice. » Posted By Emerald1943 On January 14, 2010 @ 4:03 pm Hi Javaz! Thanks for the link! I needed something to get my blood pressure up today! The fact that this ignorant man gets up and makes statements like this is bad enough. But the worst part is the fact that he has thousands of people who listen to him, believe him, agree with him, and continue to send him money! If there is a hell, I hope Robertson has a special place in the deepest, hottest part! » Posted By Emerald1943 On January 13, 2010 @ 12:39 pm As the pictures stream in, the news is worse and worse. The President has called for all-out relief from the United States. My god, how much worse can it get? Donate what you can…I am and I urge everyone to do the same. » Posted By Emerald1943 On January 13, 2010 @ 10:19 am Rashomon 5: Eight Views of Tonight’s Headlines HP must have been waiting for “that special picture” and I believe they got it! Here are the headlines under the picture: “7.0 Quake Is Caribbean’s Largest In 200 Years… ‘Haitians Piled Bodies Along The Devastated Streets Of Their Capital Wednesday’… Death Toll Could Reach Thousands… UN Peacekeeping Headquarters Collapses… Follow Breaking Updates On Twitter… At least they were decent enough to post a donation site. » Posted By Emerald1943 On January 13, 2010 @ 6:42 am Things that make you go HMMMMMM! I wonder if they have a “lurker” over here in our midst! 🙂 » Posted By Emerald1943 On January 13, 2010 @ 6:37 am I’ve just been reading your article, “Project POV: Brainstorming”. I would love to see more media emphasis placed on the President’s accomplishments during the first year. Last night, Rachel did a very good piece with large graphs showing the job losses that have been steadily going in the right direction, as well as another graph showing the gains in the stock market. OT for this thread…sorry! 🙂 » Posted By Emerald1943 On January 13, 2010 @ 6:35 am I agree with you. It is a disgrace…but it’s a much worse disgrace to have poverty, hunger, and homelessness in our own country! I don’t understand why so few have so much…and so many have so little! » Posted By Emerald1943 On January 13, 2010 @ 6:07 am Hi Nellie! Thanks! I overlooked it. I can’t give a lot but if there was ever a worthy cause, this is surely one. The poverty there is grinding…some 80% live below the poverty level. I wondered last night when this news broke why it is that the poorest on the planet seem to be hit the hardest by these disasters. Just another note…I saw the pictures that Kalima posted the link to a few minutes ago. What struck me was the poverty shown in so many of them. My god, we are so incredibly fortunate in this country! What is that old adage…”There but for the grace of God go I”? I hope you are well. I’ve been AWOL for a few days with other obligations and have missed you and everyone here. » Posted By Emerald1943 On January 13, 2010 @ 6:04 am Good morning everyone! I just cruised over to HP to take a look, and sure enough, there was the HUGE headline about the bankers. At least, Haiti got a mention in another article. This is disgusting! In case anyone didn’t see it, last night Rachel gave a very nice synopsis of President Obama’s accomplishments during his first year in office. He really has done an outstanding job with the awful mess he was left with. I just wish our “liberal media” would give him some credit. I’m sure, if he sends help to Haiti, somebody will criticize him for not doing enough, or not coming out earlier, or not saying the “right” words, or some other crap! Does anyone have a good link to donate to the relief efforts? » Posted By Emerald1943 On January 13, 2010 @ 5:48 am I don’t have a box. I’m using Mozilla Firefox if that matters. Have I missed something here? » Posted By Emerald1943 On January 13, 2010 @ 6:53 am PlanetPOV’s Top Posts of 2009 – The Winners! Yep! I know how this thing worked! There are HANGING CHADS all over the place!! LMAO Congrats, Adlib! Fantastic job! The voters have spoken! » Posted By Emerald1943 On January 12, 2010 @ 3:02 pmComments Posted By Emerald1943
How You Can Help… Text ‘HAITI’ To 90999 To Donate $10 To American Red Cross ”
I remember the Bangladesh people years ago, as well as the tsunami over there that killed so many.
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