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John Stossel: Repeal private business section of Civil Rights Act

22 May

Action alert: Tell Fox to fire John Stossel

This nation cannot abide the foolish belief that it is OK for private businesses to discriminate in how they provide public accomodations.

Please join me in telling Fox that John Stossel’s attitude is NOT acceptable. It is not acceptable for providers of public accomodations to discriminate for any reason.

Watch Stossel’s comments here.

What is Barbara having done?

21 May

Barbara is in surgery now. Continue reading

Off to surgery

21 May

Today’s the day. Barbara goes for her follow up surgery now.

Surgery postponed

19 May

Surgery canceled for today. Surgeon sick. Will be rescheduled for tomorrow.

Update: Barbara follow up surgery

18 May

Barbara will be having a follow up surgery tomorrow morning. It should be relatively minor. Continue reading

Followup surgery

18 May

Barbara will be having a followup surgery tomorrow or the next day. Should be relatively minor. It is to drain the abscess in her incision.

COBRA Subsidies End. So What Now For Unemployed?

18 May

Daily Kos: Icebergs loom: COBRA subsidies end, high risk pools begin

Over the coming two months, Americans will begin to really feel the effects of our bold new 21st century healthcare system.

The first event (not connected to the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act) is that the first round of COBRA subsidies will begin to expire.

The largest single group of people set to collectively roll-off of the COBRA subsidy could be the group that loses their subsidies in June. Anyone qualifying for the subsidy between September 2008 and March 2009 — a six month period when unemployment increased from 6.2% to 8.4%(2) — will have reached the end of their 15 subsidized months of COBRA in June 2010.

What will happen to these people? Many will join the ranks of the uninsured.

In the rest of the industrialized world, if you lose your job, you don’t lose you right to healthcare.

My only comment: Eve is right. Go read it.

When Politicians Set Curriculum Standards …

15 May

Everyone loses when politicians set the curriculm standards, especially when those politicians are far right wing ideologues from deep East Texas. And when I say everyone, I don’t just mean everyone in Texas. Continue reading

Time for a Barbara update

14 May

It’s been a few days, and a couple of people have asked, so I guess I need to update. Continue reading

I thought the Tea Party were racists …

13 May

Then I read this article about neo-Nazi parents in the U.S.

Nazi nightmare: The U.S. parents who teach their children to idolise Hitler | Mail Online.
Smiling proudly as she wraps her arms around her two children, Cynthia Keene’s family paint a happy picture.

But as they roll up their sleeves to reveal dozens of swastika tattoos it’s clear there is nothing average about their lifestyle.

Because the Keenes are just one of a growing number of Nazi families who have joined the racist group, the NSM (National Socialist Movement).

The group in question is sadly misnamed. There is nothing at all socialist about Nazi beliefs. The NSM is actually neo-Fascist in nature. Continue reading