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SICK IN AMERICA

For some Americans, life becomes a quest to find and keep health insurance. In 1994, Nikki White, a Bristol, Tenn., native with dreams of becoming a doctor, was diagnosed with lupus, a serious but treatable autoimmune disorder. Too ill to work, she lost her health insurance for several years, but then received coverage from the state's Medicaid program. Soon, budget cuts made her ineligible for the state program. A few months later, White was rushed to the ER with severe lupus complications and racked up nearly $1 million in medical bills. She finally secured insurance under the government HIPPA law, but her condition was too advanced, and in 2006, at the age of 32, she died. White's primary care physician, Amylyn Crawford, tells FRONTLINE: "Nikki didn't die from lupus. Nikki died secondary to the complications of a failing health care system."

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HE SAID WHAT? ? ?

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JON TAKES ON THE CRAZIES AGAIN

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ALWAYS THE BIG FAT JERK

Rush gets called to task for his comments about President Obama. It's a call from a republican and as ussual Rush doesn't like it. Below is the the last thing Rush says to the caller. To see the full interview click below.

WORST PERSON IN THE WORLD

Keith Olbermann picks the three worst persons in the world.

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DOGS RULE - YOU CAN SEE THE LOVE

THEY NEED YOUR HELP

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PRETTY GOOD JOKES

BUMPER STICKERS FOR LIFE

SIGN OF THE TIMES. . .

"If this is your first visit to the USSR, you are welcome to it." -- A sign on the door of a Moscow hotel room.

MY KIDS

My God I love dogs.

BTW, what good is a picnic table if you can't lay on it?

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April 07, 2009

SWEET SPRING

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Man oh man was it ever nice yesterday. Now I know that two days of sun shine does not a spring make. . . but it's a good start.

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My ProTime (blood test) was good so it another two week before I go back. I'm working for once a month.

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Today I'm spending some time cleaning up my Computer.

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If you watched the game there is nothing more to say.

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HAVE YOU HEARD THIS BEFORE?

William K. Black, author of The Best Way to Rob a Bank Is to Own One. Black argues that the current economic crisis is driven by fraud.

He tells Moyers:

Fraud is deceit, and the essence of fraud is 'I create trust in you, and then I betray that trust and get you to give me something of value.' And as a result, there is no more effective acid against trust than fraud, especially fraud by top elites. And that's what we have."

Now, going forward, get rid of the people that have caused the problems. That's a pretty straightforward thing, as well. Why would we keep CEOs and CFOs and other senior officers, that caused the problems?

It sounds like Black's not much for retention bonuses.

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SICK IN AMERICA

Across the U.S., FRONTLINE finds people making life decisions based on health insurance, stuck in jobs because of so-called job lock. One such person is 23-year-old Twin Cities, Minn., resident Matt Johnson, who put his career dreams on hold to get a job at Menards home improvement store because its benefits package covers his ulcerative colitis. Americans even stay in bad marriages, says Pollitz, "because they just can't afford to divorce their health insurance."

For those Americans who find health coverage in the private market, there's no guarantee it will protect them. In 2007, Palm Desert, Calif., realtor Jennifer Thompson received a letter from Blue Cross accepting her for coverage that read: "Congratulations! You have been approved for coverage with Blue Cross of California. ... The immediate value of your coverage is peace of mind." But then Thompson discovered she had a cancer that required surgery, and three days after leaving the hospital, she received a letter from Blue Cross saying that her insurance was "rescinded," leaving her uninsured and owing more than $160,000 in medical bills. Blue Cross cited Thompson's previous history of cancer and results from a recent doctor's visit as the reasons for the rescission. "Our system is not working," says Professor Pollitz. "It's designed to cut out on you right when you need it the most." When questioned about Thompson's case, Sam Nussbaum, chief medical officer of WellPoint, which owns Blue Cross of California, told FRONTLINE that because of legal considerations, "I can't speak to that circumstance ... but no one likes to see a situation like this. People are buying health security."

In the past, some states required insurance companies to cover everyone but found that many people waited to buy insurance until they fell ill, causing "adverse selection," or a higher ratio of unhealthy to healthy people in the insurance pool. As a result, insurance companies stopped doing business in those states. Today, only five states—New York, New Jersey, Massachusetts, Maine and Vermont—guarantee everyone insurance, a "privilege" reflected in premiums. "If we look at the average premium of those states," says WellPoint's Nussbaum, "that premium is three times higher on average—maybe $600 to $700 versus a [state] where the insurance market has allowed medical underwriting."

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IS GLEN BECK NUTS???

Beck: Obama Is A ‘Manchurian Candidate’ Because He Uses A Teleprompter — But I Use One Too

If there are two things Fox News’ Glenn Beck loves, it’s conspiracy theories and a good right-wing attack line on President Obama. So it’s no surprise that he embraced the conservatives’ current outrage over Obama’s use of a teleprompter, spending the first 10 minutes of his radio show today railing about it.

Beck being Beck, he took it a step beyond others’ complaints, declaring that Obama’s use of a teleprompter is evidence that he’s a “Manchurian candidate”:

So I mean, it really bothers me, this teleprompter. ... It bothers me that this man doesn’t — this man is always on prompter. You want to talk about a Manchurian candidate — that’s it! Who’s writing every word for this man? [...]

Is it bothering anyone else but me? We have a fraud in office, at least that’s the way it feels to me.

WORST PERSON IN THE WORLD

Keith Olbermann picks the three worst persons in the world.

No SNL love for Beck.

Fox News' Glenn Beck revealed to "New York Magazine" that he thought by now Saturday Night Live would have parodied him. Watch in Worst Persons in the World.

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BUMPER STICKERS FOR LIFE

SIGN OF THE TIMES. . .

"The flattening of underwear with pleasure is the job of the chambermaid." -- A sign in a Yugoslavian hotel.

MY KIDS

My God I love dogs.

BTW, what good is a picnic table if you can't lay on it?

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April 06, 2009

PUSHING FORWARD

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GUN Violence is going up in America.

What is the cause? Hate talk from the left, hate talk radio. . . Rush, Hannity, O'Reily, Salvage and all the rest. Hate talk comes from congress Michelle Bachman is a prime example.

There are connections between the Pittsburgh rampage on Saturday, which left three policemen dead, and the kind of wing-nuttery as represented by the NRA and Glenn Beck. Sure, the man responsible is clearly a fruitcake, but he was worried about the false and rabid rumor spread by the NRA that Obama was going to take his guns.

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Man it was a great day yesterday. The sun was out and I was able to mow my lawn.

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Busy day today. Get my blood checked (ProTime) this morning. House cleaning at noon. Making some headway with getting my house in order. Hope to have some photos this week.

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SICK IN AMERICA

Micheal Moore was right when he made his documentry SICKO a couple of years ago. The sad thing is that with the economy in such sad shape Health Care has gotten even worse.

As the worsening economy leads to massive job losses—potentially forcing millions more Americans to go without health insurance—FRONTLINE travels the country examining the nation's broken health care system and explores the need for a fundamental overhaul. Veteran FRONTLINE producer Jon Palfreman dissects the private insurance system, a system that not only fails to cover 46 million Americans but also leaves millions more underinsured and at risk of bankruptcy.

At its best, American health care can be very good. For Microsoft employee Mark Murray and his wife, Melinda, their employee health plan paid for eight years of fertility treatments and covered all the costs of a very complicated pregnancy. "If it wasn't for our health insurance," Murray says, "we wouldn't have a baby boy right now." The Murrays' medical bills totaled between $500,000 and $1 million, and their plan covered every penny.

But beyond large, high-wage employers like Microsoft, FRONTLINE learns that available, affordable, adequate insurance is becoming hard to find. Small businesses face a very bleak outlook for finding and keeping coverage. Coverage is becoming more expensive and less comprehensive, with high deductibles, co-pays and coverage limits. Georgetown University Research Professor Karen Pollitz explains that for many people, the current system is "like having an airbag in your car that's made out of tissue paper: I'm so glad that it's there, but if I ever get in a crash, it's not going to protect me."

Outside of employer-based health care plans, matters are even worse. Americans seeking insurance in the individual market must submit to "medical underwriting," and if they have a pre-existing condition, they will likely be denied. Kaiser Permanente Chairman and CEO George Halverson says frankly: "I could not get insurance. I've had heart surgery, and so I am completely uninsurable in the private market. So it's important that I keep my job."

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OBAMA'S AND THE QUEEN

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SIGN OF THE TIMES. . .

"You are invited to take advantage of the chambermaid." -- A sign in a Japanese hotel.

MY KIDS

My God I love dogs.

BTW, what good is a picnic table if you can't lay on it?

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April 05, 2009

I THINK WE'LL SEE THE SUN TODAY

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THE WORLDS CHEAPEST CAR $2000.00 . . .

MY KIDS

My God I love dogs.

BTW, what good is a picnic table if you can't lay on it?

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April 04, 2009

WEEKEND FREE 04/04/2009

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Weekly Address: The Challenges of Our Time

In this week’s address, filmed aboard Air Force One between vital diplomatic engagements abroad, the President discusses the breadth and depth of the global challenges we face. Recapping his trip, though, it is clear just how much opportunity lies in reshaping America’s relationships around the world. On everything from turning our economy around -- which shed hundreds of thousands more jobs last month -- to ending the threat of nuclear arms, "The only way forward is through shared and persistent efforts to combat fear and want wherever they exist."

WHILE YOU SLEPT. . .

While you selpt last night NOTHING HAPPENED. . .

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CAN DO . . . . .

MY KIDS

My God I love dogs.

BTW, what good is a picnic table if you can't lay on it?

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April 03, 2009

NO SUN YESTERDAY

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Starting next week I'm doing a series from FRONTLINE called SICK IN AMERICA.

This is an outstanding program and points out the major problems with the current state of health care in America. Michael Moore had it right in his documentary SICKO just as this FRONTLINE program points out.

I'm one of the lucky ones in America I have good health care just like the members of congress. You see I worked for the Government for 36 years and was able to take my health care into retirement. . . just like members in congress.

Now it's time to provide this same level of Health Care for all Americans.

PS: In the last 3 years I've had open heart surgery and a hip replacement. Both fully covered. I'm 72 years old and don't know what I'd do without my health insurance.

It's time America catches up with the rest of the world.

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Today, we draw a line in the sand. A public health insurance option is the only way to guarantee health care for all Americans. And to show that we mean business, we all need to tell Congress we won't settle for less.

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Here's our message to Congress: "Give America a choice. We support health care reform that allows individual Americans to choose either a universally available public health care option like Medicare or for-profit private insurance. A public option is the only way to guarantee health care for all Americans and its inclusion is non-negotiable. Any legislation without the choice of a public option is only insurance reform and not the health care reform America needs."

The fight is heating up over whether or not to include the public health insurance option. This is going to be the biggest fight in the debate over health care reform. It would take the power away from the private insurance companies that have driven up costs and denied coverage for years-and they're dead set against it.

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I'm back working on my house cleaning, but it's slow. I hope by Monday I'll have some pictures to post.

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A jury ruled Thursday that the University of Colorado wrongly fired the professor who compared some Sept. 11 victims to a Nazi, a verdict that gives the professor $1 and a chance to get his job back. "What was asked for and what was delivered was justice," Ward Churchill said outside the courtroom.

Then-Gov. Bill Owens was among the officials who had called on the university to fire Churchill after his essay touched off a national firestorm, but the tenured professor of ethnic studies was ultimately terminated on charges of research misconduct.

Churchill said claims including plagiarism were just a cover and that he never would have been fired if it weren't for the essay in which he called World Trade Center victims "little Eichmanns," a reference to Adolf Eichmann, a Nazi leader who helped orchestrate the Holocaust. Jurors agreed.

BILL-O is going to be pissed. (ha, ha, he, he)

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COUNTDOWN SAYS BILL-O LIES. . .

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STEWART TELLS RUSHBO TO GET THE F*** OUT

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LETTERMAN STILL SLAMING BILL-O

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OPEN WIDE AND SAY AHHHHHH . . .

SIGN OF THE TIMES. . .

* "Please waste." -- Signs on trash cans in an amusement park in Osaka, Japan.

MY KIDS

My God I love dogs.

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April 02, 2009

MORE RAIN TODAY

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Rain, Rain go away. . . come again some other day. I need my SPRING BACK. Hell it's almost summer and the sun has been out only a couple of days.

I got a yard to mow. I need to have my dogs be able to go outside and play and not come back into the house with muddy paws.

I'm not asking for 90 to 100 degree weather just maybe 60-65 degrees.

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I don't use MicroSoft Internet Explorer much, I like and use FireFox. But my copy of IE reminds me of my TV screen on some channels.

You know we all like these big 50 inch screens but when some of these news channels get done with their graphics there isn't much screen space left.

That's what's happened to my IE.

See the image. My IE has about half the screen space left just like my TV.

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Well I finally got my accounting done yesterday so today I'm going to really concentrate on cleaning out my stuff.

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STEWART GOSE ON A RANT ABOUT REBRANDING

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LETTERMAN TAKES ON THE GOON (BILL-O)

David Letterman, who infamously told Bill O'Reilly in 2006 that "about 60 percent of what you say is crap," had his old bête noire back on his show on Tuesday night. At the start of the show, Letterman couldn't help lashing into the Fox News host, saying "I wish I was smart enough to make him look ridiculous... He's going to come out here all puffed up."

From practically the moment O'Reilly sat down, the sparks flew along with some surprising topics upon which they agreed.

"I think of you as a goon," Letterman point-blank told O'Reilly. Then, holding up the cover of O'Reilly's book, "A Bold Fresh Piece of Humanity," which has a photo of O'Reilly as a boy, Letterman quipped, "I look at that and I see this sweet, adorable kid... I have a sweet adorable kid and I wonder, 'What if he too becomes a goon?'"

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WORST PERSON IN THE WORLD

Keith Olbermann picks the three worst persons in the world.

Republican math: $31 = $3,100.

Countdown's Keith Olbermann names Rep. John Boehner, R-Ohio, Worst Person in the World for saying that according to the new tax increase American families may pay up to $3,100 a year in energy prices. The correct number was $31 per person which won't start until 2015.

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WHY DID THE CHICKEN CROSS THE ROAD?

DR. PHIL: The problem we have here is that this chicken won't realize that he must first deal with the problem on 'THIS' side of the road before it goes after the problem on the 'OTHER SIDE' of the road. What we need to do is help him realize how stupid he's acting by not taking on his 'CURRENT' problems before adding 'NEW' problems.

MY KIDS

My God I love dogs.

BTW, what good is a picnic table if you can't lay on it?

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April 01, 2009

IT'S BACK TO WORK FOR ME

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EARTH QUAKE?

Did we have an earth quake yesterday. I was setting in my recliner watching a little TV, admittedly I was laying back and almost dozing. But I swear I felt a bit of a tremor.

Jada was outside and acting a little strange in that she was motionless but seemed very intense. Sweet was inside standing at the door and like Jada standing very still. Buddy was sleeping!

I'll check the paper when it comes an see if they have any info.

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I watched a little LOU DOBBS yesterday. He had a panel of 3-4 radio host on to discuss the Obama administration. All these guys had nothing good to say about Obama or his administration.

What was strange to me is they didn't have one voice for the other side. But I stopped watching Dobbs sometime ago because he seems so one sided about many things that I disagree with him on.

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ANOTHER COURT BATTLE? ? ?

After a short, tense campaign, the two candidates in a New York congressional special election that focused on President Barack Obama's popularity and his economic policy were separated by just 65 votes Tuesday, meaning the race will be decided by absentee ballots.

With all 610 voting precincts in the 20th Congressional District reporting, Democrat Scott Murphy barely led Republican Jim Tedisco in the race to replace Democrat Kirsten Gillibrand, who was appointed to succeed Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton in the Senate.

Murphy had 77,344 votes; Tedisco had 77,279 votes.

There were more than 10,000 absentee ballots sent to voters who were registered in the district but were unable to vote at their polling places. By Tuesday, nearly 6,000 had been returned, but none of them was to be counted Tuesday night, according to state elections officials. New York agreed to count overseas absentee ballots until April 13 _ instead of the initial April 7 cutoff _ after the U.S. Department of Justice sued the state for not giving overseas absentee voters enough time to return ballots.

WHEN YOU HAVE LEMONS, MAKE LEMON-AID. . .

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STILL BUSHED

Keith Olbermann has listed the various scandles in the Bush administration. Here are three more.

Another Bush accomplishment - legalized rape.

In hopes of winning over religious factions before the August elections, Hamid Karzai, installed by former President George Bush as president of Afghanistan to help stabilize democracy in the country, gave his support to the Shia Family Law which effectively legalizes the rape of a wife by her husband.

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WORST PERSON IN THE WORLD

Keith Olbermann picks the three worst persons in the world.

Global warming doesn't matter?

Countdown's Keith Olbermann names Rep. John Shimkus, R-Ill., Worst Person in the World for his explanation of why global warming really doesn't exist and if it did - it shouldn't matter.

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This is just what I need, I got mine on order.

SIGN OF THE TIMES. . .

"This shop has been moved to the present place for 35 years." -- From an advertisement for an antique shop in Tokyo.

MY KIDS

My God I love dogs.

BTW, what good is a picnic table if you can't lay on it?

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