Monday, Funday Evening Reads
Posted: July 2, 2012 Filed under: 2012 elections, 2012 presidential campaign, Affordable Care Act (ACA), Barack Obama, birth control, Medicaid, Medicare, Mitt Romney, Political Affective Disorder, Rush Limbaugh, SDB Evening News Reads, U.S. Politics, War on Women, Women's Healthcare | Tags: Romney Care, test tube babies 26 Comments »
Good Evening!
Today I had to deal with the idiots who work at Walmart Pharmacy…they must follow the ideals of Rush Limbaugh when it comes to hormone “birth” control pills used to help patients with painful periods, ovarian cysts and other health concerns. These same folks who make snide remarks while filling prescriptions are the ones who sit in the big baptist churches while their kids (some as young as 12) are out having sex or send nude pictures via text messages and not feeling any emotional connection to it. Ignorance is the stuff that makes assholes become righteous bullies that spread the stupid to other idiots…
Sorry about the rant but I had to just get this out of my system.
So, what about those news headlines for tonight’s evening reads? The big news is really no news at all…Anderson Cooper: “The Fact Is, I’m Gay.” This is no surprise, but I am glad he finally said it.
Now that I have that bit of info out of the way, let us move on to the recent polls: Obama Now Leads Romney, 48% to 43%
Good news…I guess.
President Barack Obama has maintained at least a slight margin over Mitt Romney in each of the last six Gallup Daily tracking averages, including a 48% to 43% lead among registered voters in the July 2 report, spanning June 25-July 1.
This morning, Dakinikat mentioned she is sick of politics, I could not agree more. Even though I was off on vacation, and stayed away from the news for ten days…when I came back home and started reading the back and forth again, my PAD came back with a vengeance. This is the reason I will just post the rest of the political links in a dump format.
Romney and Obama Agree: Health Mandate Not a Tax -
Mitt Romney’s campaign is aligning itself with President Barack Obama—and breaking from other Republican Party leaders—by saying the government will be imposing a penalty, not a tax, on people who don’t buy insurance under the new health law.
The break from his Republican allies illustrates the difficulty the presumptive GOP presidential nominee faces in criticizing the president for a national health-care law that resembles the one Mr. Romney signed as Massachusetts governor. Both laws include a requirement that most individuals buy insurance coverage.
Why should he be against Obamacare? 7/3 Mike Luckovich cartoon: Mitt Romney | Mike Luckovich
Then there are the folks who are bound and determined to take the whole asshole thing to another level. Political Animal – Scott and Jindal Go Over the Brink on Medicaid Expansion
The reality is that pols like Scott and Jindal are using the supposed fiscal burden of the Medicaid expansion—or of any move towards covering the uninsured—as a fig leaf for their ideological opposition to the very idea. If the feds were offering to pay 100% of the cost, or 110% of the cost, the answer would be the same.
I know, I know, it’s widely thought to be incontrovertible that logic, pressure from providers, and the sheer idiocy of states with stingy Medicaid programs turning down a massive redistribution of resources in their favor, will all convince Republican governors to go along with the Medicaid expansion after they kick and scream for the benefit of “the base.” Perhaps that’s true, and that the rhetoric is the latter-day equivalent of the “massive resistance” southern lawmakers pledged to wage against the federally-imposed demise of Jim Crow.
But as the civil rights precedent showed, the competitive pressure of demagoguery is sometimes a lot more powerful than the “business logic” of going along with a more rational course of action. Now that Scott and Jindal have thrown down the gauntlet, can Nikki Haley or Scott Walker or Rick Perry or Sam Brownback be far behind?
I am too disgusted to answer that obvious rhetorical question, so I am going to skip the rest of the links gaining traction on Memeorandum and get to a few other news items that you may not have seen.
Wildfire-fighting C-130s grounded after deadly crash
The deadly crash of a military cargo plane fighting a South Dakota wildfire forced officials to ground seven other Air Force air tankers, removing critical firefighting aircraft from the skies during one of the busiest and most destructive wildfire seasons ever to hit the West.
The C-130 from an Air National Guard wing based in Charlotte, N.C., was carrying a crew of six and fighting a 6.5-square-mile blaze in the Black Hills of South Dakota when it crashed Sunday, killing at least one crew member and injuring others.
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The crash cut the number of large air tankers fighting this summer’s outbreak of wildfires by one-third.
The military put the remaining seven C-130s on an “operational hold,” keeping them on the ground indefinitely. That left 14 federally contracted heavy tankers available until investigators gain a better understanding of what caused the crash.
Five millionth ‘test tube baby’
Five million “test tube babies” have now been born around the world, according to research presented at a conference of fertility experts.
Delegates hailed it as a “remarkable milestone” for fertility treatments.
The first test tube baby, Louise Brown, was born in the UK in July 1978. Her mother Leslie Brown died last month.
However, delegates at the conference in Turkey warned couples not to use fertility treatment as an “insurance policy” if they delayed parenthood.
The International Committee for Monitoring Assisted Reproductive Technologies (Icmart) presented its latest data on children born to infertile parents at the European Society of Human Reproduction and Embryology conference.
It said official figures up to 2008, plus three years of estimates, put the total number of test tube babies born at five million.
And lastly, there is good news out of Georgia: The Associated Press: Ga. woman with flesh-eating bug leaves hospital
Since it is an AP article, I’ll refrain from quoting, so please head on over and check it out!
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Wow, that is good news about the woman with the flesh eating disease. I hope she will be able to recover from her horrible experience. I haven’t followed the story closely, but I think she had several amputations. What a courageous person she must be!
What exactly happened at the pharmacy, JJ? Did someone make rude remarks to you? If so, maybe you should complain to the bosses?
The ignorant just feel empowered these days and they are mean and angry. Did you at least give them the what for, JJ?
Speaking of which, our Romney trolls really helped pad our numbers on what could have been a slow day.
I am still trying to figure out how these folks were Hillary supporters. They are full metal tea party now. Just reminds me of why I retreated to here and decided to not fight the perpetual anger.
Oh yeah, you know I did!
I don’t know what kind of personality cult those “Hillary supporters” were in but they sure can’t care one bit about any Clinton policy and be tea party. That’s just not possible. The Obots were horrid but they seem to be pretty well gone now. Of course, you see a lot of things we don’t
We’ve been relatively calm until recently. It appears to be coming from a well known troll site.
I said something to the pharmacist, but even now after a few hours it still makes me mad.
Glad you said something. Unfortunately the cure for their kind of stupid probably isn’t available.
ACA may hold benefits for Louisiana residents
Our stupid governor is acting against our best interests and in his professional political interest as usual.
http://www.shreveporttimes.com/article/20120701/ELECTION01/120701017/ACA-may-hold-benefits-Louisiana-residents?odyssey=tab|topnews|text|FRONTPAGE
And Shreveport isn’t exactly enlightenment central either
and another one of his plantation policies:
Vouchergate expands. #Jindal ed. scandal. In line for vouchers, DeRidder school linked to financial woes http://www.thetowntalk.com/article/20120702/NEWS01/307020006/In-line-vouchers-DeRidder-school-linked-
Help! We’ve had a unnatural disaster!!!
http://gbitchspot.com/gbitchspot/?p=3039
“Muddying up the Narrative” on Throwing Public Money at Private Schools
even Monroe gets it and the are they are the KKK side of the state
Jindal loses Monroe, he’s pretty well lost the state I imagine.
He wants to be president now. He’s term limited on governor so I think he could care less at this point.
Interestingly TX has large and very good medical complexes which will not be kind to Perry if he turns down the Medicaid expansion. He may have his first real fight on his hands if he takes that route.
Our Mayor was on Andrea Mitchell today. He was talking about it being bad for NOLA. We have huge medical complexes too including one he’s building to be a tech center. It’s nothing but his next stop on his professional political ladder for him.
Ambitions for the next office suck in these cases. I’m hoping Perry isn’t delusional enough to think he has another chance but who knows.
All I can say about the wild fires, and resources: Pathetic, 14 air craft to fight all these fires. Jasus.
That’s what you get when you defund governments.
Violet Socks could use some help if any one has anything to spare:
http://www.reclusiveleftist.com/2012/07/02/emergency-bill-blegging/
Wow, this asshat just steps further over the edge all the time.
Rep. West: Obama Wants Americans To ‘Be His Slave’
He should be in a mental ward.
Speaking of mental wards, that was a heck of a troll crew in BB’s post on Rmoney’s vacation. I hate to think what didn’t get through!
more tea party republicans …
Balloon Juice has arrived.