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Posted on Sun Sep 06, 2009 at 10:23:02 PM EST
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New from Bon Jovi, Work for The Working Man.

Who's got the day off tomorrow? Who's got something to say? This is an open thread, all topics welcome.

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    NYT reports details of a draft of (5.00 / 1) (#6)
    by MO Blue on Mon Sep 07, 2009 at 01:27:56 AM EST
    the Baucus bill that is being circulated. NYT

    No public option, no triggers and no co-ops. Reduces the income range for subsidies. Increases the limits of out of pocket maximum  to $5,950 for an individual and  $11,900 for families. Reduces  the percentage of medical expenses paid by insurance to less than 70 percent.

    It would tax insurance companies on their most expensive health care policies and would cost $850 billion to $900 billion over 10 years.

    IMO no plan would be better than this piece of garbage.

    Someone in the media needs to ask Baucus (5.00 / 1) (#7)
    by shoephone on Mon Sep 07, 2009 at 01:33:07 AM EST
    how this piece of tripe masquerading as reform legislation would succeed in covering 47 million uninsured Americans.

    But who in the major media has that kind of integrity? Slim pickin's.

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    11-12 million illegals (none / 0) (#24)
    by Wile ECoyote on Tue Sep 08, 2009 at 01:58:25 PM EST
    then you have 20+ million 20 and thirty somethings who choose to buy iphones and nicer cars than get health coverage.  you are really talking about around 15-18 million.  

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    "Who is going with him?" (5.00 / 2) (#8)
    by Fabian on Mon Sep 07, 2009 at 05:42:52 AM EST
    ...and silence.

    Mom stepped up to ride in the ambulance with my brother who had an apparent seizure and passed out briefly at the holiday party.  No drugs were involved, just a healthy middle aged man with no prior health problems.  Everything checked out at the hospital (slow night in the ER, very fast service) except his heart rate had a tendency to slide below 50 bpm, so they are keeping him overnight.

    I was of two minds - yes, I want to get him to get medical treatment.  But I didn't want to sock medical bills on him - maybe it was nothing really, maybe I was over reacting.  It's the reality of health care in America.

    I know that dilemma (5.00 / 2) (#9)
    by gyrfalcon on Mon Sep 07, 2009 at 07:23:48 AM EST
    We're forced to play Russian roulette with not just our health but our survival.  Shameful.

    Fingers crossed for your brother.  I read somewhere to my surprise that it's not uncommon that perfectly healthy people will have a seizure once in their lives, cause unknown, no ill effects, and never repeated.

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    I hope everything is OK with your brother. (none / 0) (#18)
    by ChiTownDenny on Mon Sep 07, 2009 at 10:57:17 AM EST


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    Norm Podhoretz, (5.00 / 2) (#10)
    by andgarden on Mon Sep 07, 2009 at 08:14:41 AM EST
    idiot.

    Off today... (5.00 / 1) (#13)
    by kdog on Mon Sep 07, 2009 at 09:13:04 AM EST
    takin' it easy and giving thanks and praises to the sacrifices and hard fought gains of the labor movement that made it possible for a person to survive in America without toiling 24/7/365...sun god knows my life wouldn't so peachy creamy with out the sacrifices of those before me in blood, sweat, and tears...the men and women who faced down money, power, badges, guns, and impossible odds...armed only with righteousness.

    We are forever in their debt...and lets hope we find the stones to preserve their hard fought gains, and don't let their adversaries sneak all the gains out the back-door.

    Amen, kdog (5.00 / 2) (#19)
    by daring grace on Mon Sep 07, 2009 at 12:27:12 PM EST
    I often try and get people on Memorial Day and the 4th of July when we so often focus on the sacrifices of citizens in wars to remember also the hard work and sacrifices of other citizens in labor, civil rights, environmental, anti poverty, criminal justice and feminist campaigns who've had such powerful impacts on all our lives today.

    And many of whom also sacrificed their lives in our service.

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    More Labor Day listening.... (5.00 / 1) (#15)
    by kdog on Mon Sep 07, 2009 at 09:40:33 AM EST
    "John Henry", Mississippi Fred McDowell style.

    Lee Dorsey with "Working in the Coalmine".

    Sick version of "Kings Harvest" by you all better know who:)

    How About Dylan's (5.00 / 1) (#17)
    by Peter G on Mon Sep 07, 2009 at 10:25:39 AM EST
    great song against mindless and oppressive jobs, "Maggie's Farm," as performed in 1965 and in 1978 at Budokan (my personal favorite round of his many reimaginings of his earlier work).

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    Or this one (5.00 / 1) (#20)
    by Peter G on Mon Sep 07, 2009 at 01:36:37 PM EST
    "White Collar Holler" (by Nigel Russell), in the style of a traditional southern field "holler," performed here by the McCalmans.  "Ho boys, can you code it (huh!), program it right ...."

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    link mixed up (5.00 / 1) (#21)
    by Peter G on Mon Sep 07, 2009 at 01:58:42 PM EST
    KDog - your link on "Kings [sic] Harvest" is actually to Lee Dorsey singing "Coalmine," and I can't figure you what you meant to link for "Kings Harvest." Is it some version of "King Harvest"? Or something else?  Meanwhile, here's another Labor Day nominee:  Hedy West performing her "Hard Times, Cotton Mill Girls" with Pete Seeger in 1965.  Was there ever a better banjoist?

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    My bad... (none / 0) (#22)
    by kdog on Mon Sep 07, 2009 at 07:19:01 PM EST
    here's the King Harvest I was referring...had too much fun this Labor Day I guess:)

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    I just saw a new movie called Extract (none / 0) (#1)
    by andgarden on Sun Sep 06, 2009 at 10:28:03 PM EST
    It was a fun distraction for the evening. Worth keeping your eyes peeled for when it shows up on HBO.

    Mike Judge's flick.... (5.00 / 1) (#11)
    by kdog on Mon Sep 07, 2009 at 08:58:56 AM EST
    Saw the trailer and it looks funny as hell...one reviewer called it "like Office Space, only portaying the woe of managegement instead of cubicle drones."

    The guy is one helluva comedic social commentator....I'll be checkin' it out for sure.

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    find this movie, k-dog (none / 0) (#12)
    by Dadler on Mon Sep 07, 2009 at 09:07:34 AM EST
    A no-budget Belgian film called MAN BITES DOG.  A black comedy to surpass all.  You will never see anything so twisted and actue and funny in ways things shouldn't be funny.

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    Thanks D... (none / 0) (#14)
    by kdog on Mon Sep 07, 2009 at 09:18:11 AM EST
    duly mentally noted my good man.

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    I watched "Secret Life of Bees" (none / 0) (#2)
    by Jeralyn on Sun Sep 06, 2009 at 10:32:44 PM EST
    on HBO, really sad but a good movie.

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    Yes, it was good. But, for me (5.00 / 1) (#16)
    by KeysDan on Mon Sep 07, 2009 at 09:55:11 AM EST
    as often is the case, "Bees" was a little disappointing after reading the book.

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    I saw "Serpahine" yesterday (none / 0) (#3)
    by shoephone on Sun Sep 06, 2009 at 10:51:06 PM EST
    It was very beautiful and very depressing. I recommend it!

    Oh, spell check of the brain, where are you? (none / 0) (#4)
    by shoephone on Sun Sep 06, 2009 at 10:52:21 PM EST
    "Seraphine". As in "Seraphine de Senlis".

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    Comments are not a place (none / 0) (#5)
    by Jeralyn on Sun Sep 06, 2009 at 11:04:40 PM EST
    for readers to post their own articles. An overly long one was just deleted.

    Norman Podhoretz redux (none / 0) (#23)
    by mcl on Mon Sep 07, 2009 at 11:17:08 PM EST
    Lots of people commenting on Podhoretz's article today, which suggests that conservatives should move to the rural midwest so they can raise their children with "rural values" which would presumably make the kids more likely to vote conservative when they grow up.

    In reality, "rural values" today are a little different from the Reaganite fantasy entertained by neocons. Why Midwestern Small Towns Have Been Ravaged By Meth Addiction.

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