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sheshe2's JournalMichelle Obama
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She is so beautiful. In everyway.
Thank you to our First Lady!
Everyone needs to take that "chill pill" the doctor ordered.
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But here's one thing that I DO know. If the Randians in their ranks really are serious about privatizing the big three - Medicare, Medicaid, and Social Security - their window of opportunity is getting smaller by the day.
That's because the one thing they've used to convince the lunatic base to screw themselves over with these programs is to scare the shit out of them by saying they are going broke and need "reform." Since doing that with Social Security went nowhere for Bush (and was further doomed with the economic collapse of 2008), they've focused mostly on Medicare and Medicaid. But as I've been saying here...that is looking like a bridge too far as well.
Along with greater coverage of low-income folks through the Medicaid expansion, these initiatives [cost controls] are what “Obamacare” is about. They’re wonky, technical fixes and incentives designed to squeeze the fat out of a system that is uniquely wasteful compared to those in other advanced economies. That’s a lot less sexy than death panels and socialist command-and-control fantasies, but there it is…
So my guess is there’s something lasting going on here, and that means the doctor has just prescribed a very large chill pill for those who want to whack away at Medicare and Medicaid and CHIP because “they’re going bankrupt…bankrupt I tell you!” They’re not, and our energies would be much better spent on careful research on the factors behind these recent cost trends and how we can build on them. The goal is not to diminish these extremely valuable programs. It’s to enhance their efficiency so as to ensure that they remain a solid part of American social policy.
My guess would be that at least the Republican leadership (perhaps not the actual members of the lunatic caucus) is aware that this is happening. They've got one last shot at taking a whack at these programs before having to face the fact that they'll need come up with a whole other rationale for doing so.
http://immasmartypants.blogspot.com/2013/03/because-of-obamacare-republicans-are.html
Linked Article:
Are Health Costs Really Slowing? And What Does it Mean If They Are?
The fact shown in the first chart below—a decline in the rate of health spending per person—is becoming pretty widely known. What’s not known is whether this trend will stick. As I suggest below, based on the new ERP chapter, I think at least some of it will, and if it does, it signals one of the more important economic developments of our time, with far reaching implications for fiscal policy (and for jobs and growth too, but I’ll speak to that in a different post).
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MORE HERE:
http://jaredbernsteinblog.com/are-health-costs-really-slowing-and-what-does-it-mean-if-they-are/
This good it really is!
Ask Not
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The Words of JFK
My fellow citizens of the world: ask not what America will do for you, but what together we can do for the freedom of man.
Finally, whether you are citizens of America or citizens of the world, ask of us the same high standards of strength and sacrifice which we ask of you. With a good conscience our only sure reward, with history the final judge of our deeds, let us go forth to lead the land we love, asking His blessing and His help, but knowing that here on earth God's work must truly be our own.
It is time for all of us to stand up and be heard, to "Organize for Action". It is time to stand up, to make our voices heard, so that the most Important thing in our lives is preserved, our FUTURE!
http://www.famousquotes.me.uk/speeches/John_F_Kennedy/5.htm
See why it is important here!
http://www.democraticunderground.com/11028350
Barack Obama: A Great Father and Husband
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By ALL accounts Barack Obama is a great father and a great husband. And it is wonderful to see such a fine man, who is grounded in his family, ascending to the presidency.
You see, Barack Obama has his priorities in order: he works diligently as a politician, but always ensures that there is adequate quality time for his children and wife.
So, Barack Obama is not only an intelligent man, a great politician, a great leader, and a great American; but he is also a great family man.
And he is EXACTLY the type of person we need as president!
http://www.barackobama.net/barack-obama-father-and-husband.html
The portraits are amazing!
Seriously?
Leave it to RapistFans of classic TV will remember Eddie Haskell from “Leave It To Beaver”. Making mischief, getting his friends in trouble, sucking up to their parents as if he were the nicest boy who ever lived.
If the writers had cast Eddie as the bad guy in a crime show instead of a sitcom, he might have resembled Trent Mays. He’s one of two teenagers convicted in juvenile court Sunday of digital penetration (which in Ohio constitutes rape) of an intoxicated 16-year-old girl in Steubenville last August.
So a helpful way to understand how this boy raped a girl, we should consider a late-50s fictional television personality who modeled mischievous boyhood?
And Happy Birthday to the Affordable Care Act! According to Michelle Bachmann, it’s old enough to kill all the women, children, and old people.
You can't make this stuff up!
http://angryblackladychronicles.com/2013/03/21/leave-it-to-rapist/
Hmm, are things starting to heat up in Mass?
Tom Steyer, a former hedge fund manager and clean energy evangelist, has spent more than $37 million to pass and defend climate and energy initiatives in California. Now he's forming a super-PAC to spend on the April 30 Democratic primary for the special election to fill Massachusetts' empty Senate seat.
Steyer and young environmentalists are targeting Dem Rep. Steve Lynch for his support of the Keystone XL pipeline. Lynch voted for a House bill last year that called for the Obama administration to approve the controversial pipeline. Lynch's opponent in the primary, Rep. Ed Markey, has the support of a number of environmental groups and opposes the pipeline.
Steyer joined with Craig S. Altemose of the Better Future Project and three other Massachusetts college students to write a open letter to Lynch on Monday demanding he change his position on the pipeline:
Because climate change is such a serious issue, and because it is on the ballot as never before, we are asking you, Congressman Lynch, today to do one of two things by high noon on Friday, March 22. Either act like a real Democrat and oppose Keystone’s dirty energy. Or, get a sworn, binding statement – with securities law enforcement – from TransCanada and the refiners that all of the Keystone-shipped oil will stay here.
More:
http://www.motherjones.com/blue-marble/2013/03/billionaire-clean-energy-advocate-pledges-spend-big-mass
First Lady~
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First lady Michelle Obama talks with Jorge Ortiz during her visit to the Fisher House, located at Walter Reed National Military Medical Center in Bethesda, Md., Wednesday, March 20, 2013, for a pre-Easter celebration with military families and children. (AP Photo/Susan Walsh)
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Anthony Robinson gets close to the Obama family dog, Bo, as first lady Michelle Obama watches during her visit to the Fisher House, located at Walter Reed National Military Medical Center in Bethesda, Md., Wednesday, March 20, 2013, for a pre-Easter celebration with military families and children. (AP Photo/Susan Walsh)
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First lady Michelle Obama shares a laugh with, from left, Sanae Bright, Kerry Bright and Ashanti Ferguson, during her visit to the Fisher House, located at Walter Reed National Military Medical Center in Bethesda, Md., Wednesday, March 20, 2013, for a pre-Easter celebration with military families and children. (AP Photo/Susan Walsh)
http://theobamadiary.com/2013/03/21/rise-and-shine-463/
From Henry Healy
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From Henry Healy to TOD:
I got to meet with the President yesterday and I wanted to share with you this drawing that I presented him with. It’s a pencil drawing of the president in front of his ancestral home and the White House. It was by Brian Fogarty a school teacher from Co Tipperary now living in Galway.
Kind Regards,
Henry Healy
http://theobamadiary.com/2013/03/20/a-brief-this-and-that/
Steubenville, but so much more.
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Someone was raped down the street from where you live that very same night. Someone was raped down the street last night. Someone is being raped right this minute. Possibly many someones. On average, someone is sexually assaulted in America every two minutes of every day.
Like in the Steubenville case, where the survivor left a party with one of her rapists “because she trusted him,” about two-thirds of all rapes are committed by people the survivor knows. According to RAINN (Rape, Abuse, & Incest National Network), 38% of rapists “are a friend or an acquaintance.” And 97% of rapists “will never spend a day in jail.”
Steubenville will have its writers. The people in that story — the rapists, the abusers, their accomplices, the parents who failed to raise their boys to respect the humanity and dignity of women, the parents working to help their daughter heal — all of them will get more coverage than any of them will ever want. America will know them and talk about them for the rest of their natural lives.
http://angryblackladychronicles.com/2013/03/19/i-dont-want-to-write-about-steubenville/#more-83563
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http://www.rainn.org/statistics
An exhaustive government survey of rape and domestic violence released on Wednesday affirmed that sexual violence against women remains endemic in the United States and in some instances may be far more common than previously thought.
Nearly one in five women surveyed said they had been raped or had experienced an attempted rape at some point, and one in four reported having been beaten by an intimate partner. One in six women have been stalked, according to the report.
This is extraordinarily upsetting to read. Frightening. Exhausting.
But not surprising.
Because every single woman lives with these facts in her skin, in her veins. They shape the arc of our lives and the contour of our days.
http://emilylhauserinmyhead.wordpress.com/2011/12/15/rape-as-a-defining-characteristic-of-american-society/
Tosh’s comment to an audience member was the instigator for a discussion about rape jokes, the First Amendment, comedy, and feminism that is still roiling.
To recap: in July, the comedian was mid-set at the Laugh Factory during a joke about rape jokes when he heckled a female audience member who shouted out “Actually, rape jokes are never funny!” Tosh’s response was to encourage people to rape her. “Wouldn’t it be funny if that girl got raped by like, five guys right now? Like right now? What if a bunch of guys just raped her…”
Actually, Tosh found out, it wouldn’t be funny. A mass Twitter campaign against the comedian ended with a Tosh apology tour on Twitter: “all the out of context misquotes aside, i’d like to sincerely apologize.”
http://www.thedailybeast.com/articles/2012/12/17/daniel-tosh-two-broke-girls-and-the-oatmeal-the-year-of-the-rape-joke.html
Women's History Month
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http://theobamadiary.com/2013/03/20/rise-and-shine-462/
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