DEMS Kill Drug Re-Importation !! "DEAL" UPDATE

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Tuesday December 15, 2009 · 2:51 PM PST

2009/12/15 · 14:51

The final vote was 51-48 with 60 votes needed for passage.

Democrats who voted against Drug Re-Importation were:

akaka, baucus, burris, bayh, cantwell, carper, carden, casey, durbin, gillibrand, hagan, inouye, kauffman, kerry, kirk, landrieu, lautenberg, levin, lieberman, menendez, mikulski, murray, reed, reid, rockefeller, schumer, udall CO,tester, warner & whitehouse

An administration-backed "killer amendment" sponsored by Senator Lautenberg was voted on also but it is totally a sham. The Dorgan Amendment to HCR would allow drug-reimportation from a few certain western countries with verifiable chain-of-command similar to ours. Presently Americans pay the R&D costs for the entire world through drug prices that are often 10 times that in Europe or Canada.

Barrack Obama was a co-sponsor of the drug re-importation bill in the past. But now the phony concern is that "counterfeit" drugs may enter the US (which has nothing to do with a legal re-importation process).

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Support Dorgan's Legal, Regulated Re-Importation?

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Support Dorgan's Legal, Regulated Re-Importation?

Yes

1214 votes

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Poll- What's Our Main HCR Objective ?

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Friday December 04, 2009 · 3:39 PM PST

2009/12/04 · 15:39

While HCR will hopefully insure many uninsured, reduce premiums and enhance coverage for policy holders, and reduce the deficit, many of the diaries and comments seem to be confused as to which goal is most important to us.

As bargaining begins on a compromise HCR bill, this will be important to know so that we can bargain for the most important aspect while perhaps giving in on some other items.

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What's Our Main HCR Objective?

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What's Our Main HCR Objective?

Covering as many uninsured as possible

26 votes

Getting premiums reduced & coverage enhanced for policy holders

8 votes

Lowering the federal deficit

6 votes

All 3 objectives equally

34 votes

Trades to Make in HCR

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Wednesday December 02, 2009 · 2:51 PM PST

2009/12/02 · 14:51

It's time for us to start thinking about "outside the Public Option box" things to bargain for that would allow those on record as opposed to it to save face, get a much stronger HCR, get expansion sooner than 2014, and possibly even lower the cost.

Budget Director Peter Orzag has thrown down the gauntlet to show him a way to insure more people for the same amount of money.

This diary focuses on 2 critical things:

Expanding present single-payer government programs

Decreasing or eliminating the "risk factors" that make insurance prohibitive for many

(There are other things of course, like requiring that insurance companies pass on savings from HCR to policy holders, setting up an opt-in single-payer system for states, and Medicare-for-All).

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Monday November 23, 2009 · 2:38 PM PST

2009/11/23 · 14:38

While we're pondering whether to make health care affordable for moderate income Americans, how to keep Medicare and Social Security from bankruptcy, and the peasants are storming the government demanding jobs programs and denouncing the Wall Street bailouts, Tim Geithner is again worried about the incomes of day traders and Wall Street's worst gamblers.

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Tim Geithner is:

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Tim Geithner is:

Our Lord and Saviour and deserves unquestioned following

4 votes

OK, but not always right

27 votes

A Wall Street Tool who could care less about common people

125 votes

Trigger the Damn Mandate

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Sunday November 22, 2009 · 12:57 PM PST

2009/11/22 · 12:57

Of all the aspects of the HCR bills, the Mandate is the most politically destructive for the future of the Democratic party. While average Americans may understand the mandate to have auto insurance for the privilege of driving a car, they don't understand the fairness of mandating health insurance for the privilege of being alive. Repugs will grab hold of the impending 2014 mandate as justification for throwing out the Dems in 2010 and 2012. Worse, Obama campaigned against a mandate.

Even for auto insurance there's usually a state-run plan that drivers can buy into at cost. But the conservadems and Repugs want to "trigger" any such plan in HCR.

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Should any triggers apply equally to the mandate?

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Should any triggers apply equally to the mandate?

Yes

36 votes

6 votes

HCR talk is making me sick

8 votes

Marine Terrorist Priest Attacker in Gay Circuit (Photos!)

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Tuesday November 10, 2009 · 9:19 PM PST

2009/11/10 · 21:19

For those few who haven't heard yet a Marine reservist in Tampa attacked a visiting 5'6" Greek Priest with a tire iron, "assuming he was a Muslim terrorist". Not only did he attack him but actually phoned 911 to brag that he was "detaining" him for police. He was arrested and released on $7,500 bond.

News Story:
http://www.tampabay.com/...

Follow-up Story:
Evidently the assailant also claimed that the suspected terrorist made a sexual approach in plain English and grabbed his genitals. (The assailant is recently married and "straight")

http://www.tampabay.com/...

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Do brains and good looks ever go together?

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Do brains and good looks ever go together?

No, intellegence makes someone less sexual

3 votes

Yes, but not in this case

63 votes

Billions for New US/Afghan Bases

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Monday November 09, 2009 · 9:06 PM PST

2009/11/09 · 21:06

Anyone doubting that the major US escalation in Afghanistan is coming needs to read up on the stimulus-size amounts being put into base improvements there. This is a story the MSM has totally ignored and shows the US is planning on a very long-term and expensive stay.

In the last 3 years the US has spent $2.7 billion on base enlargements and this year plans $1.3 billion more. At the same time the US Agency for International Development is spending only $20 million in Afghanistan !

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Which will be the next Vietnam?

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Which will be the next Vietnam?

Iraq

2 votes

Afghanistan

34 votes

Males Routinely Ground Up Alive Video

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Wednesday September 02, 2009 · 7:32 AM PDT

2009/09/02 · 07:32

I realize animal cruelty is part of human life and sympathy for animals risks provoking the GOP and the Republican wing of the Democratic Party. But still....

AP and HuffPo have gotten hold of video showing how the hundreds of millions of male baby chicks are disposed of each year in the poultry/egg business. They are ground up alive.

Somehow my grilled chicken won't taste the same anymore. Growing up I thought I learned that pointed vs. rounded eggs determined sex and always assumed male eggs were discarded. I wish I had always at least known of this practice to modify my diet.

This strikes me as a cruelty vs. cost thing. I'm sure a tiny amount of research money could be spent to find a way to produce only female chicks.

Recs much appreciated so more people will at least know of the problem.

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Tuesday September 01, 2009 · 4:51 PM PDT

2009/09/01 · 16:51

POGO, the Project On Government Oversight, today exposed that employees of Wackenhut who guard the US Embassy in Kabul routinely have been having naked drunk-fests where potato chips are eaten out of each others ass cracks, vodka drank off ass cracks and over-the-top frat boy antics performed on station.

More serious, the guards one night stole all night vision goggles from the compound and ventured out into Kabul dressed as natives, leaving the embassy "night blind". For this they received a phoney letter of commendation forged on State Department stationary.

450 Wackenhut employees guard the embassy and the turn-over rate is nearly 100% annually as so many complain about the drunken fests.

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Wednesday August 26, 2009 · 9:40 AM PDT

2009/08/26 · 09:40

Steven Pearlstein has a great tongue-in-cheek article in today's Washington Post about what doing nothing about health care costs would mean for America.

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Saturday August 22, 2009 · 7:30 AM PDT

2009/08/22 · 07:30

Travel guru Arthur Frommer is suggesting that tourists may want to boycott Arizona after the legal carrying of assault rifles to Obama's speech there. He notes a new law also allows anyone with a concealed weapons permit to carry a gun into a cafe or bar.

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Boycott States Allowing Guns in Public?

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Boycott States Allowing Guns in Public?

Yes

49 votes

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Report: US Soldiers Executing Gay Iraqis

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Thursday July 30, 2009 · 5:55 PM PDT

2009/07/30 · 17:55

I searched and haven't found this posted yet.

The Washington Blade is reporting today on a story coming out of a LGBT event in Lebanon in which a speaker has photos of many gays being tortured and beheaded by US soldiers. Evidently "Fuck Off Fags" signs are prevalent at US bases. The so-far unsubstantiated report is by an informant known as "Hussam" who works to resettle Iraqi gays in Lebanon. His credibility seems pretty high:

D’Arcy Kemnitz, executive director of the National LGBT Bar Association, attended the event and said she didn’t know about Hussam’s photos before he showed them. She also said that she didn’t hear Hussam’s allegation that the U.S. military was involved in atrocities and has no copies of the photos he showed.

Still, she vouched for Hussam’s credibility.

“Based upon everything that I know, having worked with him in this kind of volunteer capacity, his credibility is beyond reproach,” she said. “He’s worked with international human rights groups since the time I’ve known him and before that.”

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