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ClosetLuddite recommended My Thoughts About Teddy and How to Honor His Memory by Deep Brain Diarist

2009-08-26T13:32:30Z

ClosetLuddite recommended Ted Kennedy by Robert Reich

2009-08-26T06:15:00Z

ClosetLuddite Commented on Obama Statement on Death of Sen. Kennedy by Josh Marshall

2009-08-26T12:38:44Z

The Kennedys always seemed to me to be a political dynasty even though outside of Massachusetts it was really only a single generation, just Bobby, Jack and Ted. Larger than life.

ClosetLuddite Commented on Sen. Edward Kennedy R.I.P. by MrSmith1

2009-08-26T12:29:36Z

I can't come up with any Hallmark-y glib pithyness so I'll just say ":-(".

ClosetLuddite recommended Sen. Edward Kennedy R.I.P. by MrSmith1

2009-08-26T05:30:44Z

ClosetLuddite recommended The Low Spark of High Heeled Boys by dickday

2009-08-24T18:32:05Z

ClosetLuddite Commented on Please Don't Bury the Woodstock Generation Yet (down in the cold, cold ground)! by wendy davis

2009-08-24T19:21:31Z

h/t DD:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pF8mrlBX9Wg

ClosetLuddite Commented on TPMDC Sunday Roundup by Eric Kleefeld

2009-08-23T18:25:29Z

Wow.
Grassley: Of course it scares the shit out of people, you saw to that personally.

Hatch: Why the fuck didn't you want to work with Ted Kennedy when he was well enough to work with you? Could it be because you would have (or did) refuse? Could it be that you are using his medical situation to shine your own reputation, you prick?

Towey: You don't have a leg to stand on in a conversation with Duckworth. Of course she doesn't either, but that would be due to her bravery in service to your former boss' fuck-up! I think I'll believe her version of the truth when it comes to military and VA benefits issues since SHE RUNS THE PROGRAM (not to mention she's a beneficiary of it).

Lugar: STFU! Like Bush's "leadership" in Afganistan got us anything but pain. Why weren't you screaming about leadership last year and the year before and the year before and...

And Lieberman (via CNN): ...AND THE HORSE YOU RODE IN ON! You have insurance (government health care even) so I guess you can tell me and everyone like me to "wait a few years" for coverage. (summons his best whiney snivelling voice) "It's toooo harrrd, toooo coooostly....". Bitch, shut up!

BTW the link thingy isn't working so the CNN article is http://politicalticker.blogs.cnn.com/2009/08/23/lieberman-obama-should-delay-trying-to-cover-the-uninsured/

ClosetLuddite recommended THE SUNDAY QUIZ by dickday

2009-08-23T17:26:28Z

ClosetLuddite recommended Double (Blue) Crossing the River Styx by stratofrog

2009-08-22T17:52:38Z

ClosetLuddite Commented on Gun Control & the town hall nuts: a question by Fried Chicken Lover

2009-08-22T23:59:24Z

I'm armed. I'm a leftie. I leave my guns at home though (unless there's a rabbit trespassing in my garden). I think the idea of being able to shoot back is OK but first we have to conceed that all civil order is lost. I'm not there yet. If it comes to pass that armed conflict is necessary, I'll wait until the civil authorities are all beaten and the Guard are defeated before I start shooting folks. Then again at that point you have to consider that if the guys we're worried about can beat the cops and the army what the fuyck chance do I have with my stinkin 30-06?

Leave the guns at home.

ClosetLuddite Commented on TPMDC Saturday Roundup by Eric Kleefeld

2009-08-22T23:11:21Z

Price prattles on about some kind of "patient driven" model for HCR. WTF is that? Has anyone ever gotten more detail than the title for this proposal?

ClosetLuddite recommended Mr. President... What the Fuck? Where did that "steel in your spine" Biden talked about run off to? I am about to lose my house and you are about to lose yours! I/We Need your help. by O¿O in the crowd

2009-08-21T17:52:00Z

ClosetLuddite recommended "Fox 'Lies R Us' 'News?' With An Agenda" Is Actually Liberal... by synchronicity

2009-08-21T20:44:46Z

ClosetLuddite Commented on Why the Gang of Six is Deciding Health Care for Three Hundred Million of Us by Robert Reich

2009-08-21T18:40:03Z

My sweet life IS bet on it! I have no health coverage for my pre-existing condition even though I have "health insurance" and have been paying premiums to Blue Cross for 9 months now ($460.00 per month). I still have three months of premiums to pay before they will begin to cover treatment. It seems as though I will make it over the finish line before I expire although it's in no part thanks to my "insurance". I have paid out of pocket over $10,000.00 in the intervening months to get the medications I require to survive until I get covered by Blue Cross.

Who knows how deliterious the effects of dimished care will prove to be.

I NEED this bill!

ClosetLuddite Commented on The Sunday Show Line-Ups by Eric Kleefeld

2009-08-21T18:29:50Z

No doubt! We've been asking for his lineup to be included for a while now.

Eric?!?

ClosetLuddite recommended For those that gave all by William K. Wolfrum

2009-08-18T13:00:13Z

ClosetLuddite Commented on The Conrad-Grassley Coop Boondoggle by Dean Baker

2009-08-18T13:28:00Z

Not to be a dick but when you say:

It's a pretty safe call that most of these cooperatives will not prove successful and will at best be small actors in the market. (We have evidence on which to base this assessment.)

it would be helpful to provide said evidence or links to same. Not only that but since the coop idea is not defined in anything other than generalities how can you say it won't work?

Maybe I just need to take a pill. I think single payer is the only real solution.

ClosetLuddite Commented on Bachmann: I'll Run For President -- If God Calls Me To Do It by Eric Kleefeld

2009-08-17T14:58:56Z

Awesome! I needed a good dose of crazy to start my week...

ClosetLuddite Commented on Weekend Pop Ethics Quiz (Cheezeburgers for all correct answers) by Obey

2009-08-15T13:19:33Z

By "birdie" I of course mean the extended middle finger I salute you and all your bleeding heart commie-socialist nazi terrorist secret-Muslim Kenyan friends with.

PS Do I get another cheeseburger for splitting an infinitive and using a preposition at the end of the same sentense?