America's LEAST WANTED

Can You Identify All three of these...personalities?

And can anyone come up with JUST ONE plausible reason

as to why they would be

photographed together?

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This is more like it!!

This picture shows Longshoremen in New Jersey protesting the takeover of their port by the UAE firm. They are angry that the sale will compromise US port security.

IT'S ABOUT BLOODY TIME!!!!

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OUCH!

"George Bush in the flight suit on that carrier was Bode Miller in the Nike ads before the Olympics, all image and promise. No substance and sacrifice, no guts and inner fire."

http://tomwatson.typepad.com/tom_watson/2006/02/the_president_a.html

To be honest, I never thought about that comparisom....whew...this guy is brutal!

Health Care Initiative

At last night's forum on the Democrats State-Wide Health Initiative, the speakers in the audience got to vent their frustrations with a myriad of problems in the State's health care system.

When I checked the newspaper this morning, the story was focused on a couple of the more dramatic presentations. You can read the account here:

http://www.marshfieldnewsherald.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20060228/MNH0101/602280532/1732

One speaker told the legislators to "follow the money" a la the advice of Deepthroat if they wanted to solve the health care crisis.

Another speaker decried the lack of Dental Coverage in Badger Care, the State's low-income health care program.

And, of course, the Marshfield Clinic took the opportunity to make a presentation. Dr Phillips made at least one excellent point, in my opinion. He suggested that insurance, or at least some outside entity, should provide first dollar coverage for preventive medicine and deductibles or copays be reserved for treatment of actual medical procedures. The reason I found this appealing is because in a de facto manner, it is placing public or insurance money squarely into the PREVENTION side of the equation which, as a public official, you always instinctively gravitate toward.

I had the opportunity to talk to Julie, Amy-Sue and Louis afterward and I'm sorry I didn't get to meet Donna Seidel.

Will any of this amount to meaningful health care reform?

There weren't any Republican legislatiors in the room. They control both houses of the legislature.

What does that tell you?

Open thread...Health Care Comments?

I'll ry to get some pictures up as well as comments from some other members...probabl y tomorow.

In the meantime feel free to offer your impressions of the Health Care Forum

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I had almost forgotten!

Take a good look at the person on the right hand side of this picture. Looks like John Bolton doesn't it?

That's because IT IS JOHN BOLTON!

Bolton was sent to Florida in 2000 to make sure Bush won the election. Did you ever wonder just exactly WHY Bush has been so loyal to Bolton? Why Bush stubbornly gave him a "recess appointment" to become Ambassador to the United Nations when the Senate Foreign Relations Committee refused to confirm him?

Well this picture should explain it all.

Can you say Culture of Corruption?

Monday Morning Open Thread

Sorry, but this picture makes me think of the movie line:

I'll get you...and your little dog too!

Wizard of Oz

Hi everybody.

Hope you had a good weekend.

Need to catch up on a couple of things:

First don't forget the Health Care Roundtable this afternoon at the UW Center, Marshfield. It's from 4:30PM until 6:00PM.

Second, I've realized that I'm sort of hogging all the bandwidth here so I've reactivated my own blog and you're free to visit and argue with me whenever you feel like it...here's the "linky-thing".

http://mwprogressive.blogspot.com/

If you have the time, drop in at TBOGG and pick up on the antics of the 101st Fighting Keyboardists. (They brave carpal tunnel for Dubya) http://photos1.blogger.com/hello/145/1296/640/skippysdown.jpg

Maybe more tonight ...If I can get to the forum, I'll blog it for you...

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