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Mount Mansfield, Vermont's highest peak, on Election Day 2010
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Mount Mansfield, Vermont's highest peak, on Election Day 2010
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Howard's first!
ReplyDeleteAnd the snow pic is beautiful, listener.
Thanks, puddle! :-)
ReplyDeleteSusan, I like President Obama in much the same way I liked President Carter.
I think they are both totally decent people who are true statesmen.
And I suspect that when Obama's presidency is done he will continue do good things for the world as Carter has done.
One significant place they differ is that Carter thought he could govern without getting consensus in Congress (and he couldn't) and Obama thinks he must have consensus in Congress (which he does not always need).
Too bad we couldn't shake the two of them up in a bag. Yanno?
It is that.
ReplyDeleteAnd who was it said, "We have to contest every race?" Applies to the Republicans, too.
ReplyDeleteLOL Bill. Well now, there's contesting every race and there's contesting every race.
Glad to hear the good news from various places; here's a headline from the Los Angeles Times:
ReplyDeleteGOP 'run over by a truck' in down-ticket races
http://www.latimes.com/news/local/la-me-downballot-20101104,0,6489150.story
And they don't even mention the HUGE GOP loss of power from the voters' decision (55%/45%) to reduce the vote to pass a budget from two thirds to 50% plus one. THAT IS HUGE!! Democratic majorities in both houses of the legislature, plus a Democratic governor = gettin' things done, decently. Damn shame the Republicans have lost the knack of doing that. But credit where credit is due: we owe Gov. Schwartzenegger for some good things.
If the Republican candidate should become Attorney General I won't mind; I think he has shown a better character than the Democratic candidate.
Love it....
To follow up on the discussion: Much of what I did this election cycle was at the direct urging of Obama. Or if you want to get technical, of the organization he founded and that continues to operate under his direction. You can't both recognize the value of what I did and claim that Obama did nothing.
ReplyDeleteIndeed, Obama himself was heavily involved. I didn't go to the Hyde Park rally because I was getting literature ready to distribute on election day. But he was here, and urging 35,000 Democrats to get to the polls -- that very day -- and bring their friends with them. I don't think it's too much to say that his appearance is why the people of Illinois were saved from having Bill Brady as governor.
Alina Treiger to become Germany's first female rabbi since before war
ReplyDeleteAlina Treiger's ordination prompts renewed interest in story of first female rabbi, Regina Jonas
http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/2010/nov/03/alina-treiger-germany-female-rabbi
I don't remember ever saying Obama did nothing. Instead I said I don't like what he *did* do. Health insurance, okay, but the provisions don't kick in for another four years for the most part. And Personal Mandate? That does nothing but hand Americans, bound and gagged over to the insurance companies to pluck at will. There is nothing to stop them from raising insurance premiums and some have told me their premiums have *already* gone up by 20%. Neither am I happy that we in the U.S. continue to pay vastly inflated sums for prescribed drugs when some of them cost mere pennies to create.
ReplyDeleteI'm sure Obama did work hard to get Democrats elected, but he most definitely did not work hard to keep his campaign promises. We're still in two wars, Gitmo is still open, black ops prisons are still torturing captives, and he let Dubya and Cheney off the hook entirely for their war crimes. "Look forward not back" .... if the courts took that stance nobody would ever go to prison. What the heck happened to accountability for one's actions?
No matter how many concessions he made to the Republicans they always, ALWAYS, voted NO. And he hasn't figured that out after two years.
He's a one-termer, and it's his own fault.
I worked to the point of exhaustion for Howard Dean, but I won't waste my life on someone who cares only for their own image, who gives inspiring speeches - the content of which he seems to forget within minutes.
Nope, I'm done with Obama. If he cuts Social Security, or stands by "helplessly" while the Republicans do it, I'll actively work to make sure he doesn't get another term.
No matter how many concessions he made to the Republicans they always, ALWAYS, voted NO. And he hasn't figured that out after two years.
ReplyDeleteThat's my chief concern too.
No matter how many concessions he made to the Republicans they always, ALWAYS, voted NO. And he hasn't figured that out after two years.
ReplyDeleteThat's my chief concern too.
Cold and rainy here today.
ReplyDeleteThat's wonderful news, Alan!
ReplyDeleteMy favourite woman rabbi is Sandy Eisenberg Sasso, who has written quite a few excellent children's books.
From Wikipedia:
The first ordained female Reconstructionist female rabbi, Sandy Eisenberg Sasso, gained a pulpit in 1977at Indianapolis’s Beth El Zadok, a synagogue which was affiliated with both the Reconstructionist and Conservative movements. She thus became the first female rabbi in a Conservative-affiliated congregation.
http://www.jewishvirtuallibrary.org/jsource/Judaism/femalerabbi.html
That's wonderful news, Alan!
ReplyDeleteMy favourite woman rabbi is Sandy Eisenberg Sasso, who has written quite a few excellent children's books.
From Wikipedia:
The first ordained female Reconstructionist female rabbi, Sandy Eisenberg Sasso, gained a pulpit in 1977at Indianapolis’s Beth El Zadok, a synagogue which was affiliated with both the Reconstructionist and Conservative movements. She thus became the first female rabbi in a Conservative-affiliated congregation.
http://www.jewishvirtuallibrary.org/jsource/Judaism/femalerabbi.html
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It's rainy here today, but warmer than it's been all week. We're way up to 43 degrees! :-)
ReplyDeleteYa. Been raining solid for almost 24 hours. Which is good, been dry. Temps stayed up last night, too. Snow predicted for tonight. Just small pigs though.
ReplyDeleteOoh, heat wave!
ReplyDeleteThe personal mandate is an essential component of any healthcare reform. You simply cannot allow people to freeload so long as they are healthy, then show up at the hospital with a policy they perchased an hour before.
ReplyDeleteAnd there are controls on what the insurance companies can charge. Open, transparent competition, plus the rule that 85% of all premiums have to go for health care, *should* keep premiums down. But if they don't the government can step in.
If they're healthy how can they be freeloading? They wouldn't be using services. And if they had a policy at the hospital, they'd still have a policy. Freeloading shouldn't even enter the equation unless you believe health care is a privilege. I happen to believe it's a right. The supposed greatest country shouldn't allow it's citizens to suffer. We shouldn't have to pay to live. Otherwise we're like those firefighters that come to a fire and watch the house burn down because the family didn't pay the $75 fee.
ReplyDeleteCold and heartless.
puddle, what's a small pig?
ReplyDeleteReference to listener's Sow, but only a little bit from last weekend, lol!
ReplyDeleteReference to listener's Sow, but only a little bit from last weekend, lol!
ReplyDeleteROFLMLPEO!
ReplyDeleteWe have some systems in our country that are too large and fat and which need to become organised.
ReplyDeleteA very simple way to keep costs down is to give heathcare cost breaks to people who work at their own preventative measures like maintaining a good diet and doing some exercise (in accordance with their ability). If you're "doing the work" you should be rewarded with lower premiums. There would be a lot of incentive in that and this nation would become more healthy.
Susan ~
ReplyDeleteI want to see everyone receive the health care they need without having to worry about where the money is coming from. But that can only happen if the cost is spread out across the entire population. You can't even say, "across those at risk" because anybody can need health care at any moment. If you let people only purchase insurance at the moment they need care, the cost has to equal or exceed the cost of care. That's the same as no insurnace at all.
Some people favor single-payer -- having the government as the only insurance provider. That's one way to accomplish the basic goal. But it's the personal mandate in spades -- you're paying for your insurance coverage before you even see the money!
Penny tells me that the predicted low for tonight is 28 deg. Luckily she got all the green tomatoes in the garden picked -- they can ripen in the house. As she says, we should have fresh tomatoes through Thanksgiving or beyond.
ReplyDeleteI used to not particularly care for tomatoes, but our home-grown tomatoes have completely changed my mind.
Ah. They will do *that* ~~ My frost was about 10 days ago. But it's been wonderfully warm since, till the past couple of days.
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