Just what is their fucking deal with Janeane Garofalo? I liked them better when they were obsessed with Ward Churchill. His name was much easier to spell.

The right wing is weird. Really weird.

…And who needs a snow cone machine when you can just put ice cubes in a Cuisinart?

Another way for me to feel deprived (besides not having Public Option) — not having a snow cone machine in my bedroom.

Oh, man. I remembered. Anybody else get a “tea party” robocall yesterday?

Serious sounding middle aged man. Professional voice & recording. No mention of who paid for the call. 10 or 15 second call.

“Have you heard about the tea parties sweeping the nation?” (At first I thought he said “teen parties”, which sounded pretty cool, but I wondered how my number was selected for THAT)

And then something about speaking your mind, but I lost interest when I realized it wasn’t about a “teen party.”

Big Ho’s Kurt Schlichter is pissed Alberto Gonzales didn’t fire Law & Order TV prosecutors when he had the chance.

Seriously, I kept thinking as I read that damn thing, “I wish my biggest problem was a broken Snow Cone machine”.

Janeane totally makes the wingnuts crazy. I luv her.

I love Janeane. She is teh hawtness. I’d totally teabag her. Wait, what?

That second link…um…yeah. Ok. Is that supposed to be what passes for whimsy these days?

You gotta love the L&O haters. The EP, Dick Wolf, is a staunch conservative, albeit a pragmatic one who has never let his politics stand in the way of telling a story. One of the most memorable was a CI episode in which an upstate NY prison was housing off-the-books prisoners who were either of middle-eastern descent or were thought to have “terrorist” sympathies.

Of course, Mr. Wolf did hire Fred Dalton Thompson but I’ll give him a pass. It’s fairly remarkable how liberal-leaning the show(s) have been.

I received one of these a couple of weeks ago. An unidentified caller, naming no sponsoring organization, breathlessly inquired if I valued freedom, and a bunch of other tea-baggish concepts that sounded suspiciously “librul” in derivation, then invited me to protest at the upcoming tea party.

Sound familiar?

Why, yes, the teabagging *was* too much. I’m too young for such explicit, tawdry behavior. Thanks for asking.

Every time there’s an environmentalist on an L & O show, he or she is definitely suspicious, sometimes the perp, and always a flake.

A majority of voters would rather have a Democrats only bill with a Public Option. Rather than a bipartisan bill without a Public Option.

ATTENTION!! Congress Has The Votes Needed To Pass A Public Option – TODAY http://bit.ly/TCq7O

Why A Strong Public Option Is Essential – By jacksmith – Working Class

Robert Reich explains the pubic option: http://bit.ly/dDYSJ http://robertreich.blogspot.com/

Hollywood Supports The Public Option http://bit.ly/3XLwPi

It’s not just because more than two thirds of the American people want a single payer health care system. And if they cant have a single payer system 77% of all Americans want a strong government-run public option on day one (86% of democrats, 75% of independents, and 72% republicans). Basically everyone.

It’s not just because according to a new AARP POLL: 86 percent of seniors want universal healthcare security for All, including 93% of Democrats, 87% of Independents, and 78% of Republicans. With 79% of seniors supporting creating a new strong Government-run public option plan, available immediately. Including 89% of Democrats, 80% of Independents, and 61% of Republicans, STUNNING!!

It’s not just because it will lower cost. Because a strong public option will dramatically lower cost for everyone. And dramatically improved the quality of care everyone receives in America and around the World. Rich, middle class, and poor a like.

It’s not just because it will save trillions of dollars and prevent the needless deaths of millions more of YOU, caused by a rush to profit by the DISGRACEFUL, GREED DRIVEN, PRIVATE FOR PROFIT MEDICAL INDUSTRIAL COMPLEX!

It’s not just because every expert in every field, including economist, and Nobel laureates all agree that free market based healthcare systems don’t work. Never have and never will. The US has the only truly free market based healthcare system in the World. And as you all know now, IT IS A DISASTER!

It’s not just because providing or denying medically necessary care for profit motivations is wrong. Because it is WRONG! It’s professionally, ethically, and morally REPUGNANT!, Animalistic, VILE and EVIL.

THE REASON THE PUBLIC OPTION IS ESSENTIAL:

The public option is ESSENTIAL because over 200 million of you are trapped in the forest of the wolves. Which is the forest of the DISGRACEFUL, GREED DRIVEN, PRIVATE FOR PROFIT MEDICAL INDUSTRIAL COMPLEX! With no way out except through needless inhumane suffering, and DEATH. While the wolves tear at your flesh, and rip you limb from lib. Then feast on your lifeless bodies like a dead carcase for transplant parts.

At the most vulnerable times of your lives (when you were sick and hurting), millions of you have had to fight and loose cruel, but heroic battles. Fighting against the big guns of the DISGRACEFUL, GREED DRIVEN, PRIVATE FOR PROFIT MEDICAL INDUSTRIAL COMPLEX! in the forest of the wolves. All because you have no place else to go. You have no other CHOICE!

But the PUBLIC OPTION will give you someplace safe to go. And it will give us someplace safe to take you. The public option will be your refugium (your refuge). Where the wolves cannot get at you when your down, hurting, and vulnerable. Where everyone who needs it can find rest, security, comfort and the care they need. Protected by the BIG GUNS of We The People Of The United States. THE MOST POWERFUL PEOPLE AND COUNTRY ON EARTH.

This is why it is so critical that we do not lead another 50 million vulnerable, uninsured Americans into the forest of the wolves, without the protections of a Strong Government-run MEDICARE like public option. We The People Of The United States MUST NOT LET THAT HAPPEN to any more of our fellow Americans. If healthcare reform does not contain a strong MEDICARE like public option on day one. YOU MUST! KILL IT. Or you will do far more harm than good. And millions more will die needlessly. Rich, middle class, and poor a like.

To those who would continue to obstruct good and true healthcare reform for the American people, and who seek to trap millions more vulnerable Americans in the forest of the wolves. We will continue to fight you. We are prepared to wage all out war against you, and will eagerly DESTROY! you. Time…is…UP! YOU HAVE BEEN WARNED! No Co-op’s! No Triggers! NO INDIVIDUAL MANDATES! without a Strong MEDICARE like public option on day one.

Healthcare reform can be the GREATEST! Accomplishment of our time and century. A time when future generations may say of us, that we were all, AMERICAS GREATEST GENERATIONS.

BUT WE MUST ACT!

I therefore call on all my fellow Americans and the peoples of the World. To join us in this fight so that we may finish becoming the better America that we aspire to be for everyone.

SPREAD THE WORD!

I have been privileged to be witness as many of you fought, and struggled to take your first breath, and your last breath on this earth. Rich, middle class, and poor a like. Life is precious.

Whatever the cost. WE! MUST SUCCEED.

God Bless You My Fellow Human Beings

jacksmith – Working Class

Things You Can Do To Help NOW! http://www.everydaycitizen.com…..die_n.html

No Triggers! http://www.huffingtonpost.com/…..77910.html

Triggers http://www.huffingtonpost.com/…..83583.html

Krugman on heathcare (http://krugman.blogs.nytimes.com/2009/07/25/why-markets-cant-cure-healthcare/)

Senator Bernie Sanders on healthcare (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RSM8t_cLZgk&feature=player_embedded)

John Garamendi on the Public Option and the Grassroots: http://bit.ly/TJMty

Howard Dean on the Public Option http://www.youtube.com/watch?v…..r_embedded

We’re Number 37! in quality of health care http://www.youtube.com/watch?v…..r_embedded

Twitter search (#welovethenhs #NHS #hc09 #hcr #healthcar #obama #p2 #topprog #) Check it out.

I heart The Bloggess. If you haven’t read her “Nancy W. Kappes, Paralegal” posts about the “Judy Garland Trail Mix” you are missing out on a milk-shooting-your-nose funny experience. Then there’s how she got blocked and then unblocked by William Shatner, which put her whole family in grave danger of spending too much on travel. Plus, there’s the clown porn and the stabbing. And the post where she first found out about the tea parties when the guy bagging her groceries asked if she’d like to come out teabagging that night. And then, there’s this, and I think it’s possible that post justified every dollar that was ever spent to put those tubes in series and make teh internets for all time infinity plus one no takebacks.

Like I said, love The Bloggess.