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Simi-annual Doctor's appoint today.

I love going to my Dr. because he jumps all over me because of my weight. I'm about 40 lbls more than he would like me to be.

Thank god I only have to do this twice a year. . .

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Krugman: i'm pretty close to giving up on Obama

Krugman: Im pretty close to giving up on Obama "Health care reform” which is crucial for millions of Americans ” hangs in the balance," NYT columnist Paul Krugman opined Thursday. "Progressives are desperately in need of leadership; more specifically, House Democrats need to be told to pass the Senate bill, which isn't what they wanted but is vastly better than nothing. And what we get from the great progressive hope, the man who was offering hope and change, is this:

I would advise that we try to move quickly to coalesce around those elements of the package that people agree on. We know that we need insurance reform, that the health insurance companies are taking advantage of people. We know that we have to have some form of cost containment because if we don't, then our budgets are going to blow up and we know that small businesses are going to need help so that they can provide health insurance to their families. Those are the core, some of the core elements of, to this bill. Now I think there's some things in there that people don't like and legitimately don't like.

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R.I.P. Air America Radio -- by Goldy, 01/21/2010, 2:35 PM (THE HORSES ASS)

Air America Radio shut off its microphones today and filed for Chapter 7 bankruptcy. It will continue to provide affiliates with "encore" programming through 9PM Monday, January 25, at which time its programming will end for good.

I suppose you could call Air America a failure, and from a business perspective it certainly was. It never operated in the black, and seemed to be in the midst of financial and management turmoil since before it launched in April of 2004.

But it helped catapult Al Franken into the U.S. Senate, and launched a then unknown Rachel Maddow on the path toward her own show on MSNBC, and will leave behind dozens of thriving progressive talk stations nationwide. And without the ecosystem that Air America spawned, Ed Schultz and other successful progressive talkers might never have had the opportunity to reach a national audience.

That's a pretty impressive legacy, and one for which I at least am grateful.

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