Wild Card/Monday — 8.17.09

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  JeanC on August 17 at 10:05 a.m.

  Ms Ella Phant had a very enjoyable weekend. On Saturday she attended Palouse Pride ‘90:

  http://msellasadventures.blogspot.com/2009/08/ms-ella-at-palouse-pride-09-8-15-09.html

  And Sunday she hung out at a friend’s pool:

  http://msellasadventures.blogspot.com/2009/08/ms-ella-goes-to-pool.html

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  hmoffsuite on August 17 at 10:08 a.m.

  Free concert also on Tuesdays from 6-8:30 at Sherman Square downtown. This week featuring Country Western/Country Rock. Also produced by Handshake Productions.

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  JeanieSpokane on August 17 at 10:30 a.m.

  JeanC - I had forgotten about Ms Ella. What a fun site!

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  Phaedrus on August 17 at 10:37 a.m.

  Welcome back hmo. ;-)

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  Joker on August 17 at 11:57 a.m.

  Good to see Obama pulled the plug on reporting people who disagree with his health care policies…

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  Joker on August 17 at 2:49 p.m.

  Interesting to see that Canada’s health care system is struggling.

  http://www.google.com/hostednews/canadianpress/article/ALeqM5jbjzPEY0Y3bvRD335rGu_Z3KXoQw

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  Phaedrus on August 17 at 2:54 p.m.

  Interesting to see that Canada’s health care system is struggling.

  Which makes it comforting to know that the proposed reforms for the American health care system are nothing like Canada’s.

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  Joker on August 17 at 2:58 p.m.

  What reform? Oh you’re reading from the Howard Dean talking points, which are outdated. Didn’t you hear, Obama raised the white flag. Insurance Companies 1, Obama 0.

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  Sisyphus on August 17 at 3:00 p.m.

  LMAO. And the countries they’re looking to for reform?

  “The pitch for change at the conference is to start with a presentation from Dr. Robert Ouellet, the current president of the CMA, who has said there’s a critical need to make Canada’s health-care system patient-centred. He will present details from his fact-finding trip to Europe in January, where he met with health groups in England, Denmark, Belgium, Netherlands and France.”

  We’re already fifty years behind Canada, which is fifty years behind the rest of the wealthy countries. What’s the Republican Plan again?

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  Joker on August 17 at 3:08 p.m.

  They don’t need a plan with Obama’s leadership, whoops, listening to Howard Dean.

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  Joker on August 17 at 3:12 p.m.

  I’d turn Sis in for sending out misinformation about health care but Obama shut down that email link. Why is the President not listening. What does Mr. Clinton think?

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  Phaedrus on August 17 at 3:20 p.m.

  They don’t need a plan…

  Now you sound like a strategist for Michael Steele.

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  Joker on August 17 at 3:36 p.m.

  Obama’s health care retreat is good for the economy.

  UnitedHealth Group Inc (UNH.N) shares rose 3.6 percent at mid-afternoon, WellPoint Inc (WLP.N) climbed 3.3 percent, Aetna Inc (AET.N) increased 5.2 percent, and Coventry Health Care (CVH.N) jumped 5.2 percent.

  My 401K is going up too. Thank you Mr. Obama.

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  wheels on August 17 at 4:37 p.m.

  Concert produced by ‘Handshake’ and kindly sponsored by HMOFF.Welcome back.

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  Transplanted_Texan on August 17 at 5:37 p.m.

  Finally, a national Republican smacks down those in the base who compare Democrats to Nazis - and it’s none other than Spokane’s own Cathy McMorris Rodgers!
  http://thehill.com/leading-the-news/gop-lawmaker-criticizes-nazi-talk-2009-08-13.html

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  Phaedrus on August 17 at 6:14 p.m.

  Funny Picture:

  http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2009/08/17/the-funniest-signs-from-t_n_260838.html

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  Kage_Mann on August 17 at 6:32 p.m.

  Apparently,there’s still a chance that Brett Favre will join the
  Minnesota Vikings, before the NFL season officially starts.As a Viking fan I’m excited by the prospect of Favre commandeering the team and winning a division crown.Hell, we just might even make it to the Super Bowl if he signs. ;-)

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  kamm on August 17 at 7:04 p.m.

  I wonder how many working people without affordable insurance are AGAINST healthcare reform and how many people with affordable health insurance are FOR it. Huh?

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  zelda on August 17 at 7:59 p.m.

  Just when I was about to turn off KXLY News tonight for the repeated offense of modeling their 6:30 p.m. newscast around the front page of Drudge Report, Jeff Humphrey reported this —
  http://www.kxly.com/global/story.asp?s=10945262

  It seems that the CDA police are continuing their investigation of the fall from the 14th floor at the CDA Resort and some interesting new details came to light because of a public records report — a ring found on the balconey, an Rx for Adderall, domestic violence report by ex-wife and more.

  It appears that homicide or manslaughter are directions the investigation could take.

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  spokelooneh on August 17 at 8:45 p.m.

  Canadians generally like their system of healthcare, and wouldn’t trade it for a US style system for all the greenbacks the Chinese have bought.

  Does it have problems? Yep.

  Here’s their incoming CMA President:

  “That being said, Dr. Doig says patients, politicians and policy makers need to understand the fundamental commitment that physicians have in ensuring that care is available and accessible to all.

  “Canada’s doctors are not opposed to medicare, [and neither of my predecessors was opposed to medicare by the way.] ***We don’t want a health system where people can be beggared, crippled and bankrupted by medical expenses. That is anathema to Canadian physicians.***”

  http://www.theglobeandmail.com/news/national/we-have-to-improve-patient-care-period/article1253871/

  Medicare is the Canadian name for their Provincial-based universal single payer healthcare plan.

  And btw, Canada typically rates in numerous studies as ranking in the top 5 countries for standard of living. The US doesn’t even make the top 10.

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  Phaedrus on August 17 at 9:21 p.m.

  we just might even make it to the Super Bowl

  Yeah, but it’s not like the Vikings would actually win it!

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  JIMMYMAC on August 17 at 10:39 p.m.

  Kage,
  As much as I’d like to see the Vikings in the Super Bowl for my grandmother, they have a few obstacles:
  1. Cards
  2. Eagles
  3. Carolina

  I hope you will be saying me “I told you so come February”.

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  LarrySpencer on August 17 at 11:45 p.m.

  I heard an interesting radio ad this afternoon. It was sponsored by the ad council and thinkB4youspeak and spent thirty seconds telling people that using the word gay when not referring to a homosexually oriented person is offensive, evidently because they adopted the word and they are trying to keep it from becoming slang for something demeaning. It reminded me of when Xerox ran a campaign to keep people from using their brand name to refer to a copy machine. I hate to break it to them, but I think this one got away from them. That ad was so gay. Or lame. Or whatever.

  /duck back down into the foxhole, thinks about how I should not instigate these things, but how much fun it is

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  LarrySpencer on August 18 at 12:09 a.m.

  “We all agree that the system is imploding, we all agree that things are more precarious than perhaps Canadians realize,” Doing said in an interview with The Canadian Press.

  Who is Dr. Doing? Why, that would be the incoming president of the Canadian Medical Association. But don’t worry, folks, they have a crazy idea that they think will work- they are looking at trying to add private health-care delivery within the public system.

  Why aren’t we looking at the problems in the other systems before we reinvent our own? Oh, right, we are to busy trying to figure out how “change” everything, because everybody else has it better, according to the Democrat Underground.

  With Democrat politics, it is all about MOMENTUM, before people figure out change isn’t always for the better.

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  spokelooneh on August 18 at 1:02 a.m.

  Take your pills today? Good boy, good girl.

  “When the insurance ran out, or Medicare stopped paying, patients and their families gave the hospital liens on their homes to pay for this care. Families spent their entire savings so Grandma could make yet another trip to the surgical suite on the slim-to-none chance that bypass surgery, a thoracotomy, an endoscopy or kidney dialysis might get her off the ventilator and out of the hospital in time for her 88th birthday.
  …
  Somebody would surely expose the ruse for what it was: an enormous transfer of wealth based on the pretense that getting old and dying is a medical emergency requiring high-tech intensive-care intervention and armies of specialists, which could cost $10,000 or more per day. (Europeans have so far resisted this delusion, one reason they spend much less than we do on health care, with far better results.)
  …

  Perhaps the second duty should be to administer an ounce of prevention instead of a pound of cure.”
  http://www.nytimes.com/2009/08/17/opinion/17dooling.html?em

  If we’re all such good Christians, and believe that upon our death, we’ll go to heaven and our great reward, and be reunited with our dead loved ones, why in the world do we spend so much money trying to defeat the inevitable?

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  OrangeTV on August 18 at 7:33 a.m.

  I quit being offended by inconsiderate lame-o’s using the word “gay” to describe something they don’t like in about 1994. It wasn’t worth my effort to have to explain it to the morons who habitually used it, so I just chose to ignore it. I know some folks for whom it is just a habit, and they truly mean no offense.

  However, I have to admit, I still gets my feathers ruffled up a bit and I know some people that will bite your head off for using the term in a negative way. As amusing as Spencer and his ilk continue to find “Oh, how gay” to be, it reveals a lot about the true nature person speaking it. It just boils down to being disrespectful and unnecessary.

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  sue on August 18 at 7:56 a.m.

  Don’t worry, OTV. We all know Mr. Spencer quite well. Even w/ your clearly spelled out feelings, he doesn’t get it, and never will. And don’t forget, the rules never apply to him.

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  Joker on August 18 at 8:24 a.m.

  What a gay morning.

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  Cabbage Boy on August 18 at 8:32 a.m.

  Kage, glad to hear you are a fellow Viking fan. Sad to hear you want a former packer QB.

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  BethB on August 18 at 8:33 a.m.

  Quote from a blogger/columnist Matt Taibbi:

  “I’ll say this for George Bush: you’d never have caught him frantically negotiating against himself to take the meat out of a signature legislative initiative just because his approval ratings had a bad summer. Can you imagine Bush and Karl Rove allowing themselves to be paraded through Washington on a leash by some dimwit Republican Senator of a state with six people in it the way the Obama White House this summer is allowing Max Baucus (favorite son of the mighty state of Montana) to frog-march them to a one-term presidency?”

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