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stillidealistic Commented on THE EXPERT AS THE DANGEROUS WHORE by dickday

2009-11-23T03:37:19Z

Good work, as always, Arthur. Thank you.

stillidealistic Commented on I Call Bullshit. by barefooted

2009-11-23T03:17:23Z

No new posts are showing up except on our dashboards...not on the reader page. So if you don't follow someone, you won't see their new post.
Wonder how long that will last?

stillidealistic Commented on How Long Do You Think We'll Be Able To Keep Deluding Ourselves? by stillidealistic

2009-11-23T02:58:27Z

Good to see you Mikey!

Yeah, I've been trying to pinpoint when I should have noticed that we went off track, but haven't come to any conclusions. I paid so little attention for so long, I can't blame anyone but myself for not seeing it. Sorta like riding in the back seat and having no idea where the driver has taken you.

stillidealistic Commented on Against the Everyman appeal by ProfessorB

2009-11-23T02:47:40Z

Yup...'nuff said.

stillidealistic Commented on How Long Do You Think We'll Be Able To Keep Deluding Ourselves? by stillidealistic

2009-11-23T02:44:31Z

Part of the problem is that everyone likes their rep and hates everyone else's. Doesn't make for much turnover.

stillidealistic Commented on I Call Bullshit. by barefooted

2009-11-23T02:06:22Z

I'm glad it is showing up on yours...it isn't on mine. I show it under recent posts w/ 1 comment, 1 rec. I don't care about going to #1...I just want it to be on the most rec'd list so some discussion can be had. I think the articles are important and thought producing and want to make sure people see them.

Thanks for letting me know what you see, Chicken. This is weird...

stillidealistic Commented on Is Everybody Disappointed In Obama? by M.J. Rosenberg

2009-11-23T01:33:03Z

I'd like this to be a stand alone post...

I very much agree w/ what you are saying.

I am not disappointed in Obama as much as I am disappointed the dems have been unable to pull together to push the left's agenda ahead better.

I am horrified to see my new party be so utterly w/o conscience.

I am disappointed to see that the dems are unwilling to confront lobbyists, especially the trial lawyers association, that appears to be untouchable. THAT probably pisses me off more than anything.

One man cannot do a complete overhaul of Washington in one year. Anyone who thought he could, deserves to be disappointed.

stillidealistic recommended BLOGSTRIKE by barefooted

2009-11-22T19:30:58Z

stillidealistic Commented on I Call Bullshit. by barefooted

2009-11-23T01:06:36Z

I hate this...I feel so isolated! I know how much I appreciate having you guys around, but even more so when I stop to think how much I DEPEND on my TPM time...

stillidealistic Commented on I Call Bullshit. by barefooted

2009-11-23T00:52:39Z

Oooops, I guess I crossed the picket line w/o realizing what y'all are trying to do. Does that make me a scab?

I think I will be reposting my blog in a couple of days...so please don't be offended it when it reappears. This has turned out to be a bad weekend to put up a real post. :-(

stillidealistic Commented on I Call Bullshit. by barefooted

2009-11-23T00:24:29Z

Something whacko is going on...the recs and comments aren't keeping up...

I actually posted a real blog that I put quite a bit of effort into and it is sitting saying it has 1 rec when it really has 7...what's going on? This sucks.

stillidealistic Commented on One True Course is Left for Health Care Reform by Obama1st

2009-11-22T16:36:54Z

You know, you could go into edit and remove the other 4 copies of this...

stillidealistic recommended Is the "Tea Party" Really An Appropriate Name? by Rowan Wolf

2009-11-20T22:39:02Z

stillidealistic Commented on All about the 60 by WOODY

2009-11-22T01:08:30Z

All the compromises wouldn't make me so crazy if the damn repubs would vote for it once the compromises were made. The fact that they insist on watering it down to the point where it won't do what it was supposed to do, then vote against it (so when it fails they can say, hey, I voted against it)makes me spit nails...There is something very wrong with a system that permits it.

stillidealistic Commented on I Don't Have a Time Share by LisB

2009-11-18T14:59:55Z

I have one thing to say..."firefox" ahhhhh....blessed white space.

stillidealistic recommended Our Greatest Triumph - amended by barefooted

2009-11-17T22:59:04Z

stillidealistic Commented on Our Greatest Triumph - amended by barefooted

2009-11-18T04:06:53Z

Especially poignant was the interview with the male nurse who was working two part time jobs, had no health care insurance and was being treated at the free clinic...How absolutely bizarre is that? A health care professional who has no access to affordable health care. It is appalling.

stillidealistic Commented on I Wonder ... by barefooted

2009-11-18T04:01:58Z

I love you, Missy.

stillidealistic Commented on Beginning a blog by warbaby

2009-11-16T22:32:11Z

Thanks for the introduction. I like knowing who I'm talking to! I'm looking forward to reading your blogs.

stillidealistic Commented on CREDO To Send Coat Hangers To Pro-Choice Dems Who Voted For Abortion Restriction Amendment by Brian Beutler

2009-11-16T19:47:02Z

Normally I am not in favor of such "in your face" tactics, but this is serious business...I came of age just as abortions became available, but I remember all the stories of botched back room abortions. The very idea of returning to them is unthinkable, and if these people either DON'T remember, or chose not to, a graphic reminder is in order.

stillidealistic Commented on America's Innovative edge...is it heading off a cliff ?? by cmaukonen

2009-11-16T18:47:12Z

C, you are in a moooooood today! Is there someone around in case you decide to do yourself in?

Unfortunately, I can't disagree with much of what you are saying, but jeez...where's the valium? I'm making a mad dash for my happy place now. :-)

stillidealistic Commented on The painful end of the American Dream. by cmaukonen

2009-11-16T18:36:50Z

In researching "fracking" I found this article:

http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=104565793

Unintended consequences...

stillidealistic Commented on MORE MUSINGS ON HEALTH CARE by dickday

2009-11-12T08:15:18Z

Good info, Rowan...I didn't know it applied to those who don't get the subsidy. Sometimes I hate politics.

stillidealistic recommended They Need Home by barefooted

2009-11-12T03:00:31Z

stillidealistic Commented on They Need Home by barefooted

2009-11-12T04:42:19Z

Yep...we need to get the hell outta there. Now.

stillidealistic Commented on MORE MUSINGS ON HEALTH CARE by dickday

2009-11-11T16:26:04Z

Just as we have the right to bear arms, that doesn't mean the government will provide you a gun. We have the right to "choice" but not to the financial means to have the abortion if that is our choice. The Hyde Amendment says that federal money may not be used for abortions, and some are extending that out to mean that if federal subsidies are used to provide insurance, then that insurance cannot cover abortions, because it would indirectly be using federal money for abortions.

I don't like the language because it appears to do an end run around our right to choose, but does it really? These women were already not insured, so they would have to pay for their own abortion. Nothing changes. EXCEPT for the potential argument that now many of them are paying out money for insurance premiums which COULD have been used for the abortion, but now that money is not available.

Nothing is simple.

stillidealistic Commented on MORE MUSINGS ON HEALTH CARE by dickday

2009-11-11T03:52:06Z

They say making laws and sausage are equally disgusting processes. I gotta tell you...I wish I didn't know all this. I hesitate to get too upset in advance of need, but there are things in this bill so far that give me the willies...I sure hope that once the compromises and dirty deals are done and we know what it actually says we'll have time to digest it before the vote.

As much as I hate to come away empty handed, if this is little more than a windfall for the insurance industry (because they start jacking up rates now, before the bill takes effect, then screws over people afterward)we may wish it never passed...

stillidealistic recommended MORE MUSINGS ON HEALTH CARE by dickday

2009-11-11T02:05:39Z