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HR 615

On Tuesday, the Senate health committee voted 12-11 in favor of a two-page amendment, courtesy of Republican Tom Coburn which would require all Members of Congress and their staff members to enroll in any new government-run health plan.

Congressman John Fleming has proposed an amendment that would require Congressmen and Senators to take the same health care plan that they would force on us. (Under proposed legislation they are exempt.)

Congressman Fleming is encouraging people to go to his Website and sign his petition. The process is very simple. I have done just that at :


http://fleming.house.gov/index.cfm?sectionid=55§iontree=29,55


Senator Coburn and Congressman Fleming are both physicians.
Regardless of your political beliefs, it sure seems reasonable that Congress should have exactly the same medical coverage that they impose on the rest of us.
Please urge as many people as you can to do the same!

Mary L. Landrieu Sen - LA (U.S.A.)

Remember the discussion of Democrats filling their pockets with
insurance gold. Like the old saying goes in the business world,
if ya need to screw with the public, ya better get some well known
Senators in your back pocket. Yes this is another rant on the
“DEMOCRATIC” sons of bitches that vote with their bank account
and not the constituents that put them in office.


Mary L. Landrieu, D-La has been repeating many of the talking
points from the other side in defending her position NOT to vote for
Health Care Reform. This past Saturday there was a free clinic hosted
in New Orleans akin to the Dr. Oz clinic several weeks ago. Not only
did Mary L. Landrieu , refuse to show up, and support the good work being
done ..she is also refusing to appear on news outlets to defend not showing
up at all.

Many..Many extreme conditions were uncovered that day, many cancers, severe
heart ailments a few dozen undiscovered cases of advanced diabetes. and so
on and so on.

BTW, 80% had full time jobs, but no health insurance available and not possible
to purchase because of cost restraints. Makes you think of the $158,000.00 per
hour some insurance CEO's are raking in.

The following article is from Rich Stockwell MSNBC producer who attended the
free clinic.

New Orleans, La. — - It happened as I watched a 50-something woman walk out, after spending several hours being attended to by volunteer doctors. "She's decided against treatment. A reasonable decision under the circumstances," the doctor tells us as she heads for the next patient. The president of the board of the National Association of Free Health Clinics tells me why: "It's stage four breast cancer, her body is filled with tumors." I don't know when that woman last saw a doctor. But I do know that if she had health insurance, the odds she would have seen a doctor long ago are much higher, and her chances for an earlier diagnosis and treatment would have been far greater.

After watching for hours as the patients moved through the clinic, it was hard to believe that I was in America.

Eighty-three percent of the patients they see are employed, they are not accepting other government help on a large scale, not "welfare queens" as some would like to have us believe. They are tax-paying, good, upstanding citizens who are trying to make it and give their kids a better life just like you and me.

Ninety percent of the patients who came through Saturday's clinic had two or more diagnoses.
Eighty-two percent had a life-threatening condition such as cardiovascular disease, diabetes, or hypertension. They are victims of a system built with corporate profits at its center, which long ago forgot the moral imperative that should drive us to show compassion to our fellow men and women.

Health reform is not about Democrats or Republicans or who can score political points for the next election, it's about people. It's about fairness and justice in a system that knows none. I'd defy even the most hardened capitalist-loving-conservative to do what I did on Saturday and continue to pretend that the system in place right now is working.

Countdown chose to highlight and raise money for the Association of Free Clinics because we knew the work they do is so vitally important and we wanted to show in real terms how great the need is. We invited several politicians to attend so they could see first hand how critical the situation is. All declined. Some explained that they talk with constituents all the time and know very well of the need for reform.

I have news for them, these people didn't need to speak. Their actions spoke far louder than any words. Having to get a check up and diagnoses at a free clinic because they have no other option tells you all you need to know. There are no words that can accurately describe the quiet desperation on the faces of the patients. Every single one I spoke to, and every one I heard talking with doctors, expressed their gratitude for the event and wished that they were held more often.

They have been given the resources in their local communities with which they can get follow up care, but they are also the few. Over 700-thousand people in Louisiana alone have no health care, most of them with jobs that don't offer insurance.

Or, worse, they have to decide whether to pay for that or food and housing. Four patients were taken out on stretchers and admitted immediately to hospitals. One woman who didn't know why she was feeling bad had a blood pressure of 280 over 180, numbness in her right arm, and "a slight headache." She now has a shot at survival, but without her attendance at the clinic, it was a matter of time before the inevitable happened.

I spoke with a nurse who was there not as a volunteer, but as a patient. He works two part time jobs at hospitals providing quality care to those who have the one thing he doesn't. Many of his patients share his condition of high blood pressure, but they are fortunate to have insurance to pay for him to care for them while he goes without.

His situation is not uncommon, he has tried for years to get more hours at one of his jobs so he will be eligible for benefits, but it hasn't happened yet. Our system of for-profit health care can't afford to give him and others benefits - might make the stock price drop a penny or two.
The last time the media gathered at that convention center, it was for a natural disaster in which our government was rendered useless due to incompetence.

This time we were there to cover a man-made disaster of even larger proportions. This is a disaster that goes largely unseen by most Americans. It is not too late for our current government to show that they are competent, and can do what the vast majority of Americans are asking them to. The incredibly dedicated people at the Association of Free Clinics told me the clinic would change me and I knew it would. None but the most hardened and heartless among us could watch that event and not be moved to action.

I have changed. I am gratified that just over one thousand people were able to get the minimal amount of care and resources for follow up. But, I am heart-sick for the many more like them who didn't have the time or didn't know that they could get care on Saturday.

They walk through their lives not knowing when the ticking time bomb might go off.
Politicians continue to tell us we are the most compassionate and caring people, and clearly we have done much good in the world. I left the event overwhelmed by the hard work and dedication of the volunteers, doctors, nurses, other medical professionals, as well as ordinary citizens who came to help. I am left with one overwhelming question: what does it say about us as a nation of people who can live in a country so rich and yet allow this to continue?

If your Daughter was Gang-Raped ? ( The Universe)

Your Daughter gets a great job that pays well and at the same time
this job offers the opportunity (she believes) will serve her nation
both in security and the well being of her nations Servicemen and Women.

She gets a job with KBR and travels to the middle east to do her
duty. However, she is Gang Raped by numerous KBR employees,
locked in a storage area and not permitted to leave for days.
When she does get out, her ONLY chance is arbitration which
would have 0% chance of any positive outcome

Minnesota Senator Al Franken offers an amendment that would
allow this women to take her case to U.S. court to sue KBR for
this abhor ant treatment. The amendment would allow for the
U.S. Government to withhold funding from any corporation that
does not adequately protect its employees from this type of
behavior. Each and every employee would be granted the right
to be heard in a Court Of Law.

Believe it or not .. 30 members STRONGLY disagreed
with the Franken amendment and voted against.

Now we all know Republicans support Corporate Greed, (as
we are witnessing in the health debate) but this brings the game to
a new LOW !!!!!!!!

This is a case of:
BELIEVE IT OR NOT

Franken's amendment ended up passing, 68-30. Here's a list of the Senators who showed broad support for Roman Polanski by voting against it:

Alexander (R-TN)
Barrasso (R-WY)
Bond (R-MO)
Brownback (R-KS)
Bunning (R-KY)
Burr (R-NC)
Chambliss (R-GA)
Coburn (R-OK)
Cochran (R-MS)
Corker (R-TN)
Cornyn (R-TX)
Crapo (R-ID)
DeMint (R-SC)
Ensign (R-NV)
Enzi (R-WY)
Graham (R-SC)
Gregg (R-NH)
Inhofe (R-OK)
Isakson (R-GA)
Johanns (R-NE)
Kyl (R-AZ)
McCain (R-AZ)
McConnell (R-KY)
Risch (R-ID)
Roberts (R-KS)
Sessions (R-AL)
Shelby (R-AL)
Thune (R-SD)
Vitter (R-LA)
Wicker (R-MS)

The Great American Tea Baggers (America)

The following letter supporting Bader found in my inbox ... (Oh what a misguided bunch)

Oh, I see. Liberals are free to make any assertions they feel would insult conservatives. How about Pelosi calling us Nazis and that is from a public official who works for us the American people. Badder is a talk show host who opinions are well documented. He also stated the past accuracy of his source and who is to say that it might be right. I must remind you that this is a D controlled state and the power of spin is in those hands. So take your bloated ego and concentrate in the viscous lies coming from the left and attacking us conservatives with no merrit.

• Pelosi never said that, she mentioned the signs brought by teabaggers. (point Loss)

• Yes Baders opinions are documented - They all slant one direction, jeez I wonder which way. (point Loss)

• Now you (somehow agree) that the Lt. Gov is having a lesbian affair because the Dems slant news ..

Sorry but now your agreeing to defame a poitical figure for political gain. (Point Loss)

• you say your being defamed by Dems for your behavior, Sorry fella ... You bring the devisive signs, you yell at

meetings so they cannot function, you make the comparisons to communist leaders, you don't bother to be
fully informed. (Point Loss)


You all have one thing in common - Either you want to help to spread lies to support whats left of your party or option two,
your just plain stupid. One thing though .. you did manage to bring the KKK out of the closet and back into mainstream life.

As an Independent I seek the truth and do investigate each allegation brought forth by either party.... why would I do that? I
want the truth, it is purely as simple as that. If you liken Obama to the Joker, make signs comparing health care to piles of
Jewish corpses and then deny the comparison as Boehner did ... well thats just your bag and I have to accept that your
just not that bright or inquisitive.

I do appreciate the laughter that you teabags bring into my life, but I fear that since your group is mainly comprised of
all white, mostly racist, incurious folk .. there is the chance of another race war on the horizon

Now for the Democratic cancer on our society .... There are a number (probably 40) Democratic WHORES who are taking
hundreds of millions from the Insurance Companies. whats that mean? That means they no longer represent the constituents
that put them in office and in effect has branded them as WHORES and should be filtered out at the next round of elections.
and mister teabag, I hope they get the message and get beat by a Republican who doesn't whore themselves.

You could ask the most simplest of questions regarding our job losses to foreign countries .. "What is the second most
expence that hinders its competivness? I won't say here, I have faith that the reader will automatically know. What if that
800 pound gorilla was tamed, or removed from the backs of our American manufactures?

If your going to teabag, thats OK with me .. REALLY. but in this day and age with all the cellphone cameras and
what not .... your images may appear not only in local and national newspapers and magazines .. but in all
probability could end up in History books .... so for the sake of your kids and grandkids, please mask your face as not to
shame them ... ya know ...... like the KKK

A new brew for us Teabaggers

We Teabaggers have been attacked by every arm of the left in an attempt to shut us down. The sneaky arm twisting of the Obama Administration late Saturday to force the house to pass the healthcare bill is a calling card to us Teabaggers to start a new brew against the socialist left. Let us get out every day and expose this administration and their attempts to control every aspect of our lives. One or two major protests are not enough as the White House controlled media will not cover it justly. We must stage local protests throughout the country at our media offices, congressional offices and high public traffic areas. People must be informed by us what is going on as the propaganda assault by this administration is in full force. We must protest and demonstrate EVERY DAY to make clear that our liberties are under attack! The time is now for a new brew to emerge.

This is pure LOL email (America)

I absolutely Love my Republican friends !!! Its those anti-Obama emails that keep me in stitches.
Did you guys get this latest from our far out righties?

Its a message telling us ALL the rights and privileges OBAMA plans on giving illegal
immigrants. It even has a WMP video of John Boehner saying "this is a piece of shit"
And get this ..... because its not Fox news but our most beloved hate monger "Lou
Dobbs" it MUST be true.

Well after 30 seconds of investigating .. I found this filed by "the Daily Kos"

Mr. Boehner actually made that statement in May of 2007, yes ladies and gentleman,
in essence he was pissed at George W. Bush .... Jesus help us all ..... LOL

Here is the Kos Link and the "Big News Email pasted below"

http://www.dailykos.com/story/2009/10/19/794976/-Embarrased-Herd-of-Pachyderms-


EVEN CNN IS GETTING UPSET ABOUT THIS!!!!!!!!!!
Pass this on after you watch it. NOTICE THAT THIS IS FROM CNN, NOT FOX!!!
This from CNN news: http://d.yimg.com/kq/groups/17260182/1610997888/name/ftc-vi26.wmv


This 2-minute video should be mandatory viewing for every US citizen. If you have never passed anything on before, pass this on! Every American should be outraged!

The Comedy of the right (shell casings) (America)

The link below is from factcheck.org - however please read latest email
sent to me first before checking the link.

(I get dozens of these a month from my Republican friends)

The email is pasted below the link -- To my fellow CL readers ......
don't forward stuff you have not made the effort to check ... if I were to
forward this I would look like a damn fool.


http://www.factcheck.org/2009/06/georgia-arms/

Here is the bogus email:

MORE PROOF THAT WE HAVE SENT MOST OF OUR IDIOTS TO WASHINGTON, DC

I saw a great bumper sticker this morning. It said: "Trust Obama?
I'd rather go hunting with Dick Cheney!"


This is totally crazy, and it should make you want to slap the hell out of the idiots in Washington DC from Obama all the way down.

Georgia Arms is the 5th largest retailer of .223 Ammo in America. They sell 9mm, .45, ..223 ammunition. They normally buy spent brass from the US Department of Defense. Spent brass is "one time used" shell cases used by our Military for training purposes.

They buy the brass, recondition it, and then reload the brass for resale to Law Enforcement, Gun Clubs, Gun Shops, and stores like Wal-Mart. They normally buy 30,000 lbs of spent brass at a time.

This week the DoD wrote a letter to the owner of Georgia Arms and informed him that from now on the DoD will be destroying the spent brass... shredding it. It will no longer be available to the ammo makers, unless they buy it in a scrap shredded condition (which they have no use for).

The shredded brass is now going to be sold by the DoD to China as scrap metal, after the DoD pays for it to be shredded. The DoD is selling the brass to China for less money than the ammo makers have been paying, plus the DoD has to pay to have the brass shredded and do the accounting paperwork.

This sure helps the economy now doesn't it? Sell cheaper to China, and do not sell at all to a proven US business. Any hidden agenda working here? Obama going after the Firearms Industry and our ammunition!!

The Georgia Arms owner even related a story that one of his competitors had already purchased a load of brass last week. The DoD contacted him this week and said they were sending someone over to make sure it was destroyed. Shell cases he had already bought!

The brass has no value to the ammo maker if it is destroyed/shredded/melted.

The ammo manufacturer only uses the empty brass cases to reload different calibers, mainly .223 bullets.

The owner of Georgia Arms says that he will have to lay off at least half of his 60 workers, within 2-3 months if the DoD will no longer sell spent brass cases to the industry. Georgia Arms has 2-3 months of inventory to use, by summer they're out.

If the Reloading Industry has to purchase new manufacture brass cases, then the cost of ammunition will double or even triple, plus Obama wants to add a 500% tax on each shell.

You can read the information and see the DoD letter to Georgia Arms here:
The Shootist Site http://www.theshootist.net/2009/03/dod-ends-sale-of-expended-military..html

If you're not outraged at what this administration is doing you
should be! Be afraid! Be very very afraid! Get involved! It's your freedom and our country they're stealing! If you fail to act now, there may not be a free United States tomorrow!

I implore you to get involved and forward this to as many people
you can. Contact your legislators and put them on notice. We're fed up with what's going on! This is a call to action.. Act now while you still can, or stay silent, roll over, and watch our country die!

Bader & WTAQ-- a set-up? (Wisc.)

Just a thought.....After listening to Lawton's comments about Jerry Bader's suspension i.e. "a first step", etc, I'm wondering if he was fed bad info. from his source to get him & the station in trouble... Pretty thin-skinned for someone who wanted to be Gov. (Fairness Doctrine, again?)
That said...Bader should have double, double-checked everything before running with that grenade. He's been in that boat already & knew how big a target he was. Wonder who will be in his place if it becomes permanent.

support Jerry Bader ??????????????? (Oshkosh)

If your Daughter or Wife showed Liberal concerns - It would be just a
matter of seconds before this bloated wing nut buffoon would make
false demeaning accusations against them.

One women devoted to public service, called out as a soon to be
divorce' cheating with another woman. and you don't see the
viciousness in that action, it is just plain SICK !!!!! a SICK mind !!!!!!

Keep in mind, he made the vicious attack from only one source.
let me restate that, one rumour.

And by you condoning his actions and statements, that just
ain't right Fred.

Support Jerry Bader (Appleton)

I have listened to the Jerry Bader show since he replaced Bill Lumaye. Jerry has always acted with integrity and responsibility, he made a mistake and now those that disagree with him, and wish to silence him rush to pile on. His show is one of the best local shows in the state. WTAQ is a better station because of him and his show. WTAQ, don't throw him under the bus. Rob

Jerry Bader = Slimy Mother F@@ker (Green Bay)

Any good conservative talk show host knows he only survives by
telling lies, omiting the truth, twisting facts, and spinning like a lunatic.

But thats just fine and dandy, as limbough admitted to ABC news
it all about the money baby.

But when Jerry Bader of WTAQ 1360 in Green Bay Wisconsin accuses
the Lt. Govener of marital infidelity, (a lesbian affair at that) then this is
the moment citizens need to take a stand and boycot this station ....
.. its advertisers, its on air personalities and anyone or any corporation
that has financial ties to this abortion of a radio station.

When I saw this women crying on a television interview tonight I thought
enough is enough. its time to take action and make my call tomorrow.

If you consider yourself decent or Christian or both .. pass this along to
each and every friend. Tell the folks at Church as well as at work
tomorrow. Lets nip this in the bud. His link below with phone #s
email etc.

http://www.wtaq.com/stationfiles/shows/bader/index.asp

Obama the anti-christ?

He promises peace but his actions and ridicule are to gain control of you!