But they're poor and/or disabled, so they're expendable Just when you already thought the crapsack "American Health Care Act" was already one of the worst ideas ever celebrated by Republicans, here's some even more cheerful news about exactly how bad it is: Under the House bill passed Thursday, the AHCA's Medicaid cuts will have a devastating effect on
Hey, at least your senator answers the phone. Miss Lindsey has a recorded message, and Tim (the GOP's black friend) Scott just took his phone off the hook.
Okay, in a week I should have time to head down to DC. Can someone get me a list of representatives who passed this?
On a completely unrelated note, has anyone got any votes they aren't using? I suddenly need a large number of them. For reasons. That most certainly do not involve unspeakable cruelty.
You do realize that they do right? Most get it thru the DC exchange. Before you feel the urge to dump on Democrats, maybe a few facts would be in order? You do know Sanders gets his in the same place as the Democrats?
That is sadly very true. But I have friends in local government and various non-profits. . . I do not ask where they get the phone numbers they give out. I always follow up with real letters, which they have more trouble ignoring.
That full mailbox thing is sometimes real, and sometimes they deliberately fill it up with messages. This is why I always follow up phone calls with snail mail letters. People don't write letters much anymore, so when they get one, it usually gets read.
I'm certain all of us reading WONKETTE, except the densest trolls, have the imagination to guess what you mean and are now adding lurid savage maledictions of their own to what you're thinking. I'll stop there because I too have no wish to get banned for excessive cruelty.But power to you.
Then too the same man from Nazareth said, according to the Gospels anyway, "Ye cannot serve God and Mammon." Mammon being the deity of material wealth. But then we're now living in an age in which a television preacher whose name, no kidding, is Creflo A. Dollar, can thrive without getting laughed off the airwaves by gales of incredulous derisive laughter from left-wingers and right-wingers alike.I dunno. Maybe the fundamentalists do have something, to a degree. Maybe Armageddon and the Judgement ARE overdue. Just not for the reasons they tout.
My brother had cerebral palsy. My parents gave him the best life they could, taking him from one doctor to another for various treatments as his condition worsened. He spent his last days upstate in an institution.
My dad sold his half of the business to his partner (dad was the inventor, his partner had the money) to pay my brother's medical bills, then spent the rest of his short life working for corporations that owned his inventions. To join their ranks, he had to sign papers that they owned all patents based on his creations.
His partner sold out to Celanese in the 1960s for millions; we never saw a penny. The chemical companies dad worked for poisoned him. Resin dyes collapsed his circulatory system, and on top of diabetes, his body broke down. He died of his second heart attack about three months before what would have been his 52nd birthday, leaving mom a widow at 50. Of course, this was before OSHA and the ADA (dad spent his last few years in a wheelchair or on wooden legs, a victim of diabetic amputations).
One of his inventions was (he was a color engineer/color chemist in vinyl and other plastics) was a plastic surface that wouldn't show fingerprints. He called it Crackle. Its descendants are on virtually every appliance and other plastic surface in your home, from your toaster oven to your desktop. I, his daughter, am broke and struggling. Blame it on medical bills.
One good thing: Our insurance broker lived down the street; lovely woman. She sold dad a life insurance policy that paid off the mortgage when he died, so mom owned her home outright. She worked for the postal service, first as a clerk, then secretary to the postal services officer, then secretary to the postmaster, and finally as EEOC commissioner. She had to retire when Reagan broke the air traffic controllers strike, which had nothing to do with PATCO. He (well, his administration) wanted to prove to the postal workers that they could break a federal union.
I don't know if our country is going to survive this latest systematic attack on our freedoms. I do try to keep hope alive, but sometimes it feels illusory.
Hey, at least your senator answers the phone. Miss Lindsey has a recorded message, and Tim (the GOP's black friend) Scott just took his phone off the hook.
America has a surplus of teachers and sick babies.
~GOP
Okay, in a week I should have time to head down to DC. Can someone get me a list of representatives who passed this?
On a completely unrelated note, has anyone got any votes they aren't using? I suddenly need a large number of them. For reasons. That most certainly do not involve unspeakable cruelty.
I read somewhere that 20,000 people inquired about migrating to NZ after the election. I was surprised it was so few.
thanks everyone. yesterday was really rought for me.
How Trump's mocking should have gone:https://uploads.disquscdn.c...
That, and you look good with that hair color. Not everyone can rock that!
Superficial, I know, but it looks good...
I have close fam that have varying degrees of ADHD and/or Asperger's. Education/early intervention programs are really important.*
*They're all fucking bright as hell.
Dems aren't trying to keep their Cadillac health coverage while taking away your health coverage.
Marco Rubio, depending on which office either doesn't answer or tells you to leave a message but you can't because of full mail boxes.
You do realize that they do right? Most get it thru the DC exchange. Before you feel the urge to dump on Democrats, maybe a few facts would be in order? You do know Sanders gets his in the same place as the Democrats?
That is sadly very true. But I have friends in local government and various non-profits. . . I do not ask where they get the phone numbers they give out. I always follow up with real letters, which they have more trouble ignoring.
That full mailbox thing is sometimes real, and sometimes they deliberately fill it up with messages. This is why I always follow up phone calls with snail mail letters. People don't write letters much anymore, so when they get one, it usually gets read.
I'm certain all of us reading WONKETTE, except the densest trolls, have the imagination to guess what you mean and are now adding lurid savage maledictions of their own to what you're thinking. I'll stop there because I too have no wish to get banned for excessive cruelty.But power to you.
Then too the same man from Nazareth said, according to the Gospels anyway, "Ye cannot serve God and Mammon." Mammon being the deity of material wealth. But then we're now living in an age in which a television preacher whose name, no kidding, is Creflo A. Dollar, can thrive without getting laughed off the airwaves by gales of incredulous derisive laughter from left-wingers and right-wingers alike.I dunno. Maybe the fundamentalists do have something, to a degree. Maybe Armageddon and the Judgement ARE overdue. Just not for the reasons they tout.
My brother had cerebral palsy. My parents gave him the best life they could, taking him from one doctor to another for various treatments as his condition worsened. He spent his last days upstate in an institution.
My dad sold his half of the business to his partner (dad was the inventor, his partner had the money) to pay my brother's medical bills, then spent the rest of his short life working for corporations that owned his inventions. To join their ranks, he had to sign papers that they owned all patents based on his creations.
His partner sold out to Celanese in the 1960s for millions; we never saw a penny. The chemical companies dad worked for poisoned him. Resin dyes collapsed his circulatory system, and on top of diabetes, his body broke down. He died of his second heart attack about three months before what would have been his 52nd birthday, leaving mom a widow at 50. Of course, this was before OSHA and the ADA (dad spent his last few years in a wheelchair or on wooden legs, a victim of diabetic amputations).
One of his inventions was (he was a color engineer/color chemist in vinyl and other plastics) was a plastic surface that wouldn't show fingerprints. He called it Crackle. Its descendants are on virtually every appliance and other plastic surface in your home, from your toaster oven to your desktop. I, his daughter, am broke and struggling. Blame it on medical bills.
One good thing: Our insurance broker lived down the street; lovely woman. She sold dad a life insurance policy that paid off the mortgage when he died, so mom owned her home outright. She worked for the postal service, first as a clerk, then secretary to the postal services officer, then secretary to the postmaster, and finally as EEOC commissioner. She had to retire when Reagan broke the air traffic controllers strike, which had nothing to do with PATCO. He (well, his administration) wanted to prove to the postal workers that they could break a federal union.
I don't know if our country is going to survive this latest systematic attack on our freedoms. I do try to keep hope alive, but sometimes it feels illusory.