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Thought on HCR vote, and Meme
Mar. 21st, 2010 10:53 pmFirst, a non-LYAN post.
Granted, I'm opposed to the current health insurance reform bill- on the grounds of the individual mandate, the lack of public option or significant competition or federal enforcement of regulations on insurance companies, and the total lack of anything which will actually guarantee lower prices on health care. So far, I've only seen three reasons to support the bill: (1) eliminate "pre-existing conditions" and recission (neither of which helps if the rates are just too damn high for you to pay for the insurance), (2) spite the Republicans, and (3) save the Democrats from their own internal bickering and incompetence.
But then Sen. Lindey Graham (R-SC) says this: "The Democrats may have won today in the House of Representatives, but the American people lost. ... The process used to pass it was sleazy."
They used the only process by which your party wouldn't be able to block even a vote, much less a passage, you arrogant hypocritical bastard.
Seriously, this could have been over and done with SIX MONTHS AGO if the Republicans hadn't made the deliberate decision to bring Washington as close to a halt as possible- and yet the Republicans are going to play it up as if the way things actually get done around their obstruction is all the DEMOCRATS' fault.
Well, I suppose it is. It's the Democrats' fault for not being Republicans.
Which, apparently to Republicans, ought to be a crime.
If we don't get more than two parties into the system- I mean really into the system- or else get rid of one or both of what we've got, then before long the whole government is simply going to collapse because nothing can be done.
Anyway, on to the meme, seen on![[livejournal.com profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/external/lj-userinfo.gif)
omorka's LJ:
1. Grab the nearest book.
2. Open the book to page 123.
3. Find the fifth sentence.
4. Post the text of the next 4 sentences on your LJ along with these instructions.
5. Don't you dare dig for that "cool" or "intellectual" book in your closet! I know you were thinking about it! Just pick up whatever is closest.
Not Quite Dead Enough, by Rex Stout, p. 123, fifth sentence (or thereabouts):
Not at all a gripping part of the narrative. The book is composed of two novellas- two of the three Nero Wolfe stories set during World War II. The novella the above is part of, "Booby Trap," is to my mind one of the lesser works, but the novella the volume is named after is a must-read for Wolfe fans- and not a bad third or fourth story for newcomers, once they've read, oh, The Doorbell Rang or The Golden Spiders or The League of Frightened Men for a good intro to Wolfe's world.
Granted, I'm opposed to the current health insurance reform bill- on the grounds of the individual mandate, the lack of public option or significant competition or federal enforcement of regulations on insurance companies, and the total lack of anything which will actually guarantee lower prices on health care. So far, I've only seen three reasons to support the bill: (1) eliminate "pre-existing conditions" and recission (neither of which helps if the rates are just too damn high for you to pay for the insurance), (2) spite the Republicans, and (3) save the Democrats from their own internal bickering and incompetence.
But then Sen. Lindey Graham (R-SC) says this: "The Democrats may have won today in the House of Representatives, but the American people lost. ... The process used to pass it was sleazy."
They used the only process by which your party wouldn't be able to block even a vote, much less a passage, you arrogant hypocritical bastard.
Seriously, this could have been over and done with SIX MONTHS AGO if the Republicans hadn't made the deliberate decision to bring Washington as close to a halt as possible- and yet the Republicans are going to play it up as if the way things actually get done around their obstruction is all the DEMOCRATS' fault.
Well, I suppose it is. It's the Democrats' fault for not being Republicans.
Which, apparently to Republicans, ought to be a crime.
If we don't get more than two parties into the system- I mean really into the system- or else get rid of one or both of what we've got, then before long the whole government is simply going to collapse because nothing can be done.
Anyway, on to the meme, seen on
omorka's LJ:1. Grab the nearest book.
2. Open the book to page 123.
3. Find the fifth sentence.
4. Post the text of the next 4 sentences on your LJ along with these instructions.
5. Don't you dare dig for that "cool" or "intellectual" book in your closet! I know you were thinking about it! Just pick up whatever is closest.
Not Quite Dead Enough, by Rex Stout, p. 123, fifth sentence (or thereabouts):
"You were his confidential secretary?"
"Well- I don't know how confidential I was. I have been here less than two weeks and had never met Colonel Ryder before. I suppose, really, that for that sort of job, I was still on trial. I only came up from Washington ten days ago."
Not at all a gripping part of the narrative. The book is composed of two novellas- two of the three Nero Wolfe stories set during World War II. The novella the above is part of, "Booby Trap," is to my mind one of the lesser works, but the novella the volume is named after is a must-read for Wolfe fans- and not a bad third or fourth story for newcomers, once they've read, oh, The Doorbell Rang or The Golden Spiders or The League of Frightened Men for a good intro to Wolfe's world.
Thought on HCR vote, and Meme
Mar. 21st, 2010 10:53 pmFirst, a non-LYAN post.
Granted, I'm opposed to the current health insurance reform bill- on the grounds of the individual mandate, the lack of public option or significant competition or federal enforcement of regulations on insurance companies, and the total lack of anything which will actually guarantee lower prices on health care. So far, I've only seen three reasons to support the bill: (1) eliminate "pre-existing conditions" and recission (neither of which helps if the rates are just too damn high for you to pay for the insurance), (2) spite the Republicans, and (3) save the Democrats from their own internal bickering and incompetence.
But then Sen. Lindey Graham (R-SC) says this: "The Democrats may have won today in the House of Representatives, but the American people lost. ... The process used to pass it was sleazy."
They used the only process by which your party wouldn't be able to block even a vote, much less a passage, you arrogant hypocritical bastard.
Seriously, this could have been over and done with SIX MONTHS AGO if the Republicans hadn't made the deliberate decision to bring Washington as close to a halt as possible- and yet the Republicans are going to play it up as if the way things actually get done around their obstruction is all the DEMOCRATS' fault.
Well, I suppose it is. It's the Democrats' fault for not being Republicans.
Which, apparently to Republicans, ought to be a crime.
If we don't get more than two parties into the system- I mean really into the system- or else get rid of one or both of what we've got, then before long the whole government is simply going to collapse because nothing can be done.
Anyway, on to the meme, seen onomorka's LJ:
1. Grab the nearest book.
2. Open the book to page 123.
3. Find the fifth sentence.
4. Post the text of the next 4 sentences on your LJ along with these instructions.
5. Don't you dare dig for that "cool" or "intellectual" book in your closet! I know you were thinking about it! Just pick up whatever is closest.
Not Quite Dead Enough, by Rex Stout, p. 123, fifth sentence (or thereabouts):
Not at all a gripping part of the narrative. The book is composed of two novellas- two of the three Nero Wolfe stories set during World War II. The novella the above is part of, "Booby Trap," is to my mind one of the lesser works, but the novella the volume is named after is a must-read for Wolfe fans- and not a bad third or fourth story for newcomers, once they've read, oh, The Doorbell Rang or The Golden Spiders or The League of Frightened Men for a good intro to Wolfe's world.
Granted, I'm opposed to the current health insurance reform bill- on the grounds of the individual mandate, the lack of public option or significant competition or federal enforcement of regulations on insurance companies, and the total lack of anything which will actually guarantee lower prices on health care. So far, I've only seen three reasons to support the bill: (1) eliminate "pre-existing conditions" and recission (neither of which helps if the rates are just too damn high for you to pay for the insurance), (2) spite the Republicans, and (3) save the Democrats from their own internal bickering and incompetence.
But then Sen. Lindey Graham (R-SC) says this: "The Democrats may have won today in the House of Representatives, but the American people lost. ... The process used to pass it was sleazy."
They used the only process by which your party wouldn't be able to block even a vote, much less a passage, you arrogant hypocritical bastard.
Seriously, this could have been over and done with SIX MONTHS AGO if the Republicans hadn't made the deliberate decision to bring Washington as close to a halt as possible- and yet the Republicans are going to play it up as if the way things actually get done around their obstruction is all the DEMOCRATS' fault.
Well, I suppose it is. It's the Democrats' fault for not being Republicans.
Which, apparently to Republicans, ought to be a crime.
If we don't get more than two parties into the system- I mean really into the system- or else get rid of one or both of what we've got, then before long the whole government is simply going to collapse because nothing can be done.
Anyway, on to the meme, seen on
omorka's LJ:1. Grab the nearest book.
2. Open the book to page 123.
3. Find the fifth sentence.
4. Post the text of the next 4 sentences on your LJ along with these instructions.
5. Don't you dare dig for that "cool" or "intellectual" book in your closet! I know you were thinking about it! Just pick up whatever is closest.
Not Quite Dead Enough, by Rex Stout, p. 123, fifth sentence (or thereabouts):
"You were his confidential secretary?"
"Well- I don't know how confidential I was. I have been here less than two weeks and had never met Colonel Ryder before. I suppose, really, that for that sort of job, I was still on trial. I only came up from Washington ten days ago."
Not at all a gripping part of the narrative. The book is composed of two novellas- two of the three Nero Wolfe stories set during World War II. The novella the above is part of, "Booby Trap," is to my mind one of the lesser works, but the novella the volume is named after is a must-read for Wolfe fans- and not a bad third or fourth story for newcomers, once they've read, oh, The Doorbell Rang or The Golden Spiders or The League of Frightened Men for a good intro to Wolfe's world.