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Bluzmann57

(12,336 posts)
1. Happy 100th indeed!
Sat Jul 14, 2012, 06:18 PM
Jul 2012

And "This land is your land, this land is my land....This land was made for you and me".
Sigh...now if only we could get teahadists, er, tea partiers to believe it.

underpants

(182,279 posts)
2. I went to the Guthrie dinner (at the Plaza) on the company dime and Ani DiFranco LOCKED UP THE HOUSE
Sat Jul 14, 2012, 06:22 PM
Jul 2012
http://journals.democraticunderground.com/underpants/153


This was amazing to see. High level pharmaceutical types were there and they had to sit there and face Ani blasting them.
 

Ken Burch

(50,254 posts)
3. Great. I wonder if they would have let Woody IN the Plaza to attend that dinner.
Sat Jul 14, 2012, 06:29 PM
Jul 2012

They, of course, being the Plaza management, not the Guthrie Foundation, before anyone gets me wrong on that.

(that's based on the old observation that the radical wildman Scottish singer-poet Robbie Burns would probably get kicked out if he try to sneak in to a "Burns night" gathering anywhere in modern Scotland or the States).

I could even picture Woody getting a song out of it...might be something like this

I Showed up at the Plaza for some food
I showed up at the Plaza for some food
I showed up for some food, but the maitre'd was rude
He kicked me out that door, travelin' hard, travellin' hard

I snuck back through the kitchen, after that
I snuck back through the kitchen, after that
I made friends just like that, had some grub and tipped my hat,
We took over that hotel, travelin' hard, travelin' hard

(and so forth)



That was a great story about them opening the doors as they were singing "This Land Is Your Land" so that the Republicans next door could hear them.

underpants

(182,279 posts)
6. HUGE ----Social Security Announces Addition of Adult Onset Huntington's Disease
Sat Jul 14, 2012, 06:57 PM
Jul 2012

Social Security Announces Addition of Adult Onset Huntington's Disease To The Compassionate Allowance List

Social Security Commission Michael J. Astrue announced today that Adult Onset Huntington's disease will be added to the Compassionate Allowance List in December, 2012. This news follows the addition of Juvenile Huntington's disease to the Compassionate Allowance List effective in August, 2012.

Compassionate Allowances are a way of quickly identifying diseases and other medical conditions that invariably qualify under the statutory standard for disability. The Compassionate Allowances program fast-tracks disability decisions to ensure that Americans with the most serious disabilities receive their benefit decisions within days instead of months or years.

This is an important victory for our families, and HDSA is proud to have led this advocacy effort. HDSA has maintained a dialogue with SSA since 2004 to streamline the Disability process for HD. Since the inception of the Compassionate Allowances program in 2007, HDSA has been advocating for a CAL designation for HD through letters, testimony at hearings, and face-to-face meetings and most recently, in a November 2011 meeting with Commissioner Astrue and SSA senior officials.
http://www.hdsa.org/living-with-huntingtons/ssa-announced-addition-of-adult-onset-hd-to-compassionate-allowance-list.html

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