BTW: As a fan of paranormal activity 1, 2, and 3... #4 sucks!

Turns out to be a wager, he will give $5M to Obama's charity if he releases his college and passport documents.

In the future, Medicare will pay for the services if they are needed to maintain the patient's current condition or to prevent or slow further deterioration and help patients to take advantage of new treatments as they are developed.   The new rule could help patients with Alzheimer's, Parkinson's, multiple sclerosis, strokes, spinal cord injuries and brain trauma.  

The new rule could add substantial costs, or, perhaps, actually result in economies if patients are able to get medical and physical therapy services in their homes.  However, in my view, controlling costs needs to take an avenue other than  savings based on denying needed care.

The new rule will impact Medicare/ACA considerations including  ending Medicare and replacing it with  the already inadequate Romney/Ryan coupon option.   Long term care insurance providers  will be affected, although they have been anxious to  limit the benefits of their policies.

The chair of the parole board, Erika Tindill,.. said it was an odd situation for him (Skakel) to ask for early release while proclaiming innocence of the crime.

It is odd that a requirement for parole would be admitting guilt.

I don't have a clue about Skakel's guilt or innocence, although the material posted by Jeralyn moved me to the side of reasonable doubt.

But for a person who has been convicted of something of which they are truly innocent - as happens all too often - to have to declare themselves guilty of something they didn't do in order to be considered for parole is really twisted imo.

And what if they declare themselves guilty, and then are denied parole anyway? What then? One would think that a parole board would be more inclined to keep a guilty person incarcerated than an innocent one.

Do me a favor, save that for over there.

You don't think that the fact that millions are unemployed...
that people are losing their homes...
that the gap between the very wealthy and the rest of the country continues to grow exponentially... to name a few...

And - I must say, I can't believe that you called Obama a"black guy named Hussein".

Nothing could be farther from the truth;

I don't care about the democratic party. I don't wish anything for it or about it.

I also think that what you said about a democratic party that "can't exist anymore" is self-serving crap.

If the democratic party were fielding a candidate who actually stood for something, this election wouldn't be even be close.
As it is, it appears to be becoming a squeaker against a transparent imbecile.

That's because, imo, people are truly desperate.
No matter who is at fault, people are losing their homes. People can't find employment. And the candidates can't find time to discuss these matters with depth and candor.

So the dems are putting up a guy who will sell people out against a repub guy who will sell people out. Ergo - a close contest.

I'm instituting a policy right now =- don;t comment in ANY post I write, open thread or otherwise.

You are banned from my posts.

All you r comment will be deleted from my threads.

With you, it's always been about settling, compromising, shutting up and taking the path of least resistance, which is anathema to those of us who came of age at a time when we felt it our responsibility to speak up and fight for the rights and issues that mattered to us.  As an alleged "Angry Black Guy," it's always been a mystery to me why the only thing you seem to be angry about is that we're not being sheep-like enough.

There are many people who post here who disagree with each other, but I don't know of any who are so consistently dishonest and disingenuous as you are.  I can respect a difference of opinion, but I have no respect for the kinds of rhetorical games you play and the straw-man arguments you make.

After getting all the silver taken out of my mouth, the dentist gave me perfect front teeth.  Filled in little chips, fixed em all up.  What to do with perfect teeth?

A few years ago I let a friend talk me into doing a peel, they burnt my face off.  My daughter's friend is an esthetician though now and they talked me into a 14% TCA and she showed me how to do it myself so I don't pay huge money either.  I don't ever "frost".  Apparently that is too much for me, and I am now peeling and I sort of kind of like it.  And Anne Coulter talking about the ugly girls being Democrats can KMA.

Now that I know what a peel looks like though when peeling, I did see Andrea Mitchell on the tube with her face falling off this weekend.  Wow, can't you get a few days off Andrea? That was freakin scary :)

Link

It really showed the impact of what happened I think.  On one side you had PUMAs, Edwards folks and  those further left and on the other side you had the Obama folks.

When Obama won and the PUMAs and other wouldn't let go, a number of things happened.  Many became republicans (writers who left the Confluence, for example). Many became stridently anti-Obama/anti moderate dem.  That is really where the netroots lost power.  Obama (and hatred of Bush) awoke a power beast on the left, but the netroots was confused as to where that power rested.  It was not in the far left but in the moderate left, particularly with Obama occupying office. So when many sites began spending as much time attacking obama for moderate policies as they did attacking republicans, many of us were turned off of netroots blogs and fled to more moderate pastures.   That's what happened to me, which is why the article resonated.  I would come fired up to Susie's site to talk about the latest republican craziness and find myself defending Pelosi and Reid all day. Or pointing out the limits of Obama's ability to get things done.

We could have learned from the right.  Yeah they don't agree with everything Romney says, but they are unified around us being the enemy.  That allows for a more comfortable discussion among people who disagree internally.

It's one of the reasons that Obama = Mitt concept is so frustrating.  

ABG: "When FDR was blasted for providing a SS program that wasn't liberal enough, the same things were said.  It's what happens when you have strong 15% very conservative, 15% very progressive/liberal, 30% moderate conservative and 30% moderate progressive/liberal. The 15% on each end is always threatening to take their cookies and leave or what have you."

When it comes to lawmaking and political deliberations, I've always been a proponent of the "three yards and a cloud of dust" approach. The most profound and lasting changes in progressive policy development are often best achieved incrementally.

Why not be willing to grab half a loaf when it's offered, with the idea that I'm going to come back later at the first opportunity and grab the rest? A portion of something is often better than lots of nothing.

The "my way or the highway" approach in politics may be pleasing aesthetically to the firebrands amongst us, but it's also a sure-fired way to ensure that you're eventually stranded on the side of the road, and left to wonder why and how the bus departed the scene without you.