Rational thought has gone to the dogs!
From the category archives:
On the first of April, my health insurance company will start taking a 21.8% increase in premiums out of my butt. They have not increased services nor do I feel more comfortable that my coverage is any more secure. I know that I am one heart attack away from being dropped and two heart attacks [...]
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I’m all for a good parody like the next puppy and although the assumption here is that a large percentage of the working, white middle class probably watched the Super Bowl Big Game and may have seen the Google ad (it ran once), the GOP may have been smarter to parody a Budweiser commercial instead. [...]
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Just a quick bark out to Robert Gibbs, White House Press Secretary, who joined us on Twitter a mere 55 minutes ago. Now, we’re just waiting for Bo to get here. Big fans, especially with the “hopey-changey” retort press conference.
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Yesterday, we had a guest speaker – Sarah – come into the DogWalk to motivate us to get out there and walk regularly, even if there is two feet of snow outside, kids home from school everywhere and cars zipping by us as we walk in the street. Then, Charlie noticed that Sarah had some [...]
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“Greed is good” Gordon Gecko, Wall Street, 1987 And now apparently stupid is in. Stupid is good. At least that is what Diesel wants you to believe. In 2008, we wanted really smart people to be in power. Judging from the current political winds, 2012 may be the year stupid is cool again. I understand [...]
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The first thing my driver’s education teacher taught me, after he showed me the volume knob also clicked the radio off, was that in all situations, at all times, always know where your safety zone was. If someone was behind you and couldn’t stop, where were you going to pull into to get out of [...]
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With all the news media chattering on about this latest round of terrorism with flight 253 and the guy with a bad stomach in the restroom, we are seeing the latest group of pundits advocating for more technology, full-body scans, etc, etc. Oh, brother. Real airport security is far more low-tech than that. Here is [...]
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If you haven’t already seen the “one more moment” video between Lieberman and Franken, here it is. At first, I just laughed. Funny people, Senators. “Let him talk, he wasn’t saying anything anyway.” But then I got to thinking. If Joe Lieberman had to deal with real life the way we all out here in [...]
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Not a day goes by when the cable news doesn’t announce a new poll on this or that, mostly having to do with the approval rating of President Obama, whether the country is headed in the right direction* or if they support this or that program. A daily poll? Why? And who are they polling? [...]
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I bolted straight up in bed last night and asked myself the most obvious question most folks in the media should be asking themselves about the health care reform debate. “Where is the bell-shaped curve in the GOP dissent?” Think about this. When was the last time you had forty supposedly independent-minded people agree on [...]
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The two-week climate change conference in Copenhagen began Monday. Only another ten days or so of being lectured by Danes on how we are screwing up everything. It’s ok, its a very Danish thing to do. Ask any Dane. And the conservative talk shows are all up in a tizzy over the emails that were [...]
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In August, 2008, John McCain was looking for a quick fix to turn his campaign around. He saw Barack Obama was black, Hilary Clinton was a woman and a woman almost beat the black man to the brass ring. But, in his assessment, Hilary was too much of a man to be a woman candidate, [...]
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Yesterday, the US Senate tabled the Nelson amendment which would have limited access to abortions for people who had insurance subsidized by the US government. As part of the compromise, Medicare will be opened up to people 55-64 who have trouble being covered by their employer. In addition, nobody is challenging the “right” of anyone [...]
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The photo above in the Wall Street Journal caught my eye this morning and sent me into a tizzy. For the record, I am a bit upset at the direction the health care reform bill is taking. It favors the preservation of the insurance company system by forcing us to buy the same crap that [...]
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