Some actual Health Care facts.

pleon1967

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Saturday August 22, 2009 · 3:14 PM PDT

2009/08/22 · 15:14

I thought I'd share a few thoughts from someone who has lived on both sides of the National Healthcare divide. As a frame of reference, I was born with a cleft palate in Glasgow, Scotland in 1967, and that is where my story starts.

pleon1967

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Tuesday January 20, 2009 · 9:37 PM PST

2009/01/20 · 21:37

A few of you may have read previous posts I have made regarding my two young sons. I am a 41 year old white man who 15 years ago married a beautiful, intelligent black woman who changed my life. Before our wedding my father in his characteristically twisted way asked a horrid but at the same time profound question. "If you have kids, will I need to show our relatives the negatives?" I'll never forget that question. My father asked it without malice, but he wanted my wife and I to be prepared for the possible animosity we may experience being a mixed couple in America.

pleon1967

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Wednesday August 27, 2008 · 11:04 PM PDT

2008/08/27 · 23:04

It's been an exciting week for me. Last October, I moved back to Denver from the San Francisco Bay Area. I did so to give my two small boys a better chance at a quality education and to provide a safer environment for my two mixed race sons to grow up in. Please understand, as you parents out there surely do, they are my reason for being.

pleon1967

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Tuesday March 18, 2008 · 9:25 PM PDT

2008/03/18 · 21:25

Today was a special day for me. I got up this morning, and played with my kids. A few of you have read my diaries and know that they are two beautiful, mixed race kids that shine in every moment of their existence. They smile, they play, and yes, they dream.

pleon1967

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Tuesday March 11, 2008 · 9:13 PM PDT

2008/03/11 · 21:13

A few of you may remember some personal diaries I've posted over the last couple years. I'm not one of the big guns on this site, and I don't have the time to pull in and collate many of the stats I see and read online. Mostly, I'm just a dad who uses this site to vent a little about the frustrations that living in the U.S. sometimes causes.

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How do you feel about Clinton's tactics?

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How do you feel about Clinton's tactics?

Fair game: This is politics after all

5 votes

A sad but necessary part of today's politics

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Almost out of bounds, but when you're behind you do what you have to.

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Should be called out on ever front. This is unacceptable in Democratic party politics.

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The Agony and the Ecstasy

pleon1967

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Wednesday January 09, 2008 · 12:06 AM PST

2008/01/09 · 00:06

My how things have changed in the last 5 days. My story begins on last Thursday night as I watched Barack Obama's victory speech after his win in Iowa. While I was thoroughly moved by what Obama was saying, I was distracted by a sound from behind me.

pleon1967

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Friday July 20, 2007 · 9:45 PM PDT

2007/07/20 · 21:45

About 2 months ago, I posted to Daily Kos regarding a workplace issue I was having. I got such great responses and such helpful advice, that I decided to follow up as things at my employer began to unravel.

A couple months back, my employer instituted a new automated hiring system that assisted in processing new hire paperwork from the application to the point of hire. One of the final steps in the process was to identify the race of an applicant. We, as managers, were told that we would be required to enter the race of the applicant if the applicant "neglected" or refused to enter their race themselves. However, we were told that we should not inform the applicant that we were doing this.

pleon1967

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Monday May 14, 2007 · 11:00 PM PDT

2007/05/14 · 23:00

Late last week, I was told by my employer, as part of a new Human Resources computer program rollout, that I would be required to review the race identification on New Hires. If the new employee decided not to identify their race, I will be required to do it for them without their knowledge.

When I questioned this, I was told that this had been reviewed by our legal department and was perfectly legal. Moreover, because this information was required by the federal government, there was no better way to achieve the required results without doing this.

I am a white man married to a black woman. I have two beautiful sons who, my wife and I have agreed, will get as open a dialogue about race in our household as we can possibly achieve. More importantly, it is important for my wife and I to teach our children that they are the only ones who will get to categorize or identify who they are. The choice is and should always be their's.

Because of this dilemma, I am up late trying to figure out how to proceed. I have pretty much decided that categorizing another human being without their consent is not something I am comfortable doing. Does anyone out there have any knowledge on the legality of this practice or any advice on where I should go to find out?

What would you do for $100... or what does Bill Frist think you'll do?

pleon1967

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Monday May 01, 2006 · 2:25 PM PDT

2006/05/01 · 14:25

I was looking at a New York Times article here [http://www.nytimes.com/... New York Times and it got me to thinking. How could these guys really be so lame as to think that a $100 rebate plan would fly with the American public? Read More

Karl Rove Describes Meeting with Grand Jury as "Hell"

pleon1967

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Thursday April 27, 2006 · 2:37 PM PDT

2006/04/27 · 14:37

According to Raw Story it looks like MSNBC's David Schuster has more on Rove today. There is actual speculation that Rove could be indicted as early as tomorrow. While it is all a little abstract at this point, there should be more at 7 pm EST on MSNBC. For those of you capable of giving this the proper treatment, I would be happy to delete once this thread is up and running. I know I'll be watching. Read More

Raw Story Reports that Rove Received a "Target Letter"

pleon1967

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Wednesday April 26, 2006 · 12:39 PM PDT

2006/04/26 · 12:39

I know it sounds a little like alliteration, but I don't think that's the only thing that makes it poetic. Read More

I feel a change in the wind

pleon1967

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Tuesday January 17, 2006 · 2:30 PM PST

2006/01/17 · 14:30

I've actually felt good the last few days, because I feel like a shift is taking place. It feels to me that Democrats are finally starting to find a voice again, and I think a new Leadership is in the making.

Pelosi feels nervous as evidenced by her speech the other day in SF. Her responses to the wire tapping issues seemed uncomfortable because the Bushies made her complicit and she knows it. Read More

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