President Obama’s Health Care Reform Speech

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The much awaited health care speech is over.  According to CNN, President Obama got a double digit boost in approval rating from those who watched the speech.  How did he do?  Did he clarify his position?  What assurances does he have that the Democrats will pass his version of health care reform?  Did he compromise?   Was he forceful? 

Now that everyone has had time to digest the speech, does the Obama plan seem like something that will improve American lives?

Highlights of the Obama Plan  

 

Text of the speech: 

REMARKS BY THE PRESIDENT
TO A JOINT SESSION OF CONGRESS
ON HEALTH CARE

Oooops! I Thought that Damn Thing was Off

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It seems that 09/09/09 wasn’t such a lucky day for a California assemblyman. Mike Duvall, known as a darling of the family values folks of Orange County, resigned today because he was blowing and bragging about having sex with 2 women, neither of which were Mrs. Duvall. It seems that the microphone was on, unbeknownst to Duvall.

Duvall was giving graphic descriptions of his sexual encounters with 2 different women, including a spanking session to some other assemblyman while waiting for a legislative session to begin. The incident was eventually linked to a CBS affiliate in the area.

Check out these family values:

WATCH (copyright rules prevent me from embedding) [apparently video was released since last night]

 

Picture of Heidi Barsuglia 

Both of the women Duvall was speaking of were lobbyists so now, in addition to losing his assembly seat and probably his wife, he now faces ethics charges. Why is it always the family values people who get caught with their pants down like this? Why is it never some old known reprobate? The list just gets longer and longer.

That’s it for the smut of the week.

More Bad Manners: You Lie

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Bad manners continue to be a problem.

Huffingtonpost reports:

During President Obama’s speech to a joint session of Congress tonight regarding health care reform, Republican Congressman Joe Wilson (R-S.C.) yelled out “you lie” when the President said his health care bill would not mandate coverage for illegal immigrants

WATCH   (Best I can do)

Senator McCain, in his interview with Larry King, said that Congressman Wilson was totally out of line and should apologize immediately.  This is not acceptable behavior.

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Jon Henke Crusades Against the ‘Fevered Swamp’ Mentality

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Jon Henke feels that much of what is reported in the WorldNetDaily is just hideously embarrassing to the Right and is calling on Conservatives with a brain to reject this mentality, which he calls the ‘fevered swamps.’

Jon Henke of The Next Right takes up this crusade and challenges Republicans to veer away from the cyber-tabloid and its fringe lunacy thinking.   Henke calls on Conservatives with a brain to reject this mentality.

An example from WND of what Henke feels is extremely embarrassing can be found at The Next Right:

[T]he Web site Worldnetdaily.com says that the government is considering Nazi-like concentration camps for dissidents. Jerome Corsi, the author of “The Obama Nation,” an anti-Obama book, says that a proposal in Congress “appears designed to create the type of detention center that those concerned about use of the military in domestic affairs fear could be used as concentration camps for political dissidents, such as occurred in Nazi Germany

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Jon Henke has some impressive credentials. According to Lowell over at Blue Virginia:

Jon Henke was George Allen’s netroots coordinator, New Media Director for the Republican Communications Office in the U.S. Senate, Online Brand Manager for Fred Thompson’s presidential campaign, and is co-founder of The Next Right.

I welcome Henke’s attempts to bring normalcy back to the Republican Party. Right now, all I can do is laugh. There are many people out there who, like me, aren’t really comfortable with the Democrats but who can’t stop laughing at the fringe lunatics.

It is time for all Republicans and Democrats to engage in honest debate of issues and leave behind conspiracy theories and other wing nut theories if either party is to have any credibility with people of reason.

Mirror, Mirror on the Wall…Who’s the Worst, of Them All?

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Keith Olbermann does the worst person in the world award. Birther Orly Tate gets the bronze. She has dragged out yet another fake Obama birth certificate. The silver goes to Michelle Bachmann, probably just for being Michelle Bachmann. The gold goes to….taaaa daaaahhhh…

Sean Hannity. Keith Olbermann tells us why the dubious honor:

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Do I personally think Sean Hannity is the worst person in the world? Nahhh. He’s just your basic political pit bull, and a might tenacious one at that. He just got caught up in hate mongering. I don’t even think this is real hate. Pretending makes him a great deal of money, probably more than bartending did. After all the hype about Obama talking to the school kids, I needed a laugh about something else. At this point, if I took it seriously, I would go into incurable depression.

So who is the worst political human being who is not in an elected position? We can’t have Olbermann getting the final say on this.

2 Perspectives on Obama addressing school kids

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This guy out of Florida, Jim Greer, led the charge. His kids got to see President Obama’s address to students. Many of ours didn’t. Consider this one a dis-info-mercial.

And now this guy has to get in the act. When will it end! He must fear socialism also.

Which dude is the joke and which isn’t? I can’t tell.

Credits: Thanks to Casual Observer for the top video and her ‘Dick Cheney contribution.’
Thanks to my brother in Loudoun County for his Hitler contribution.

Creigh Deeds Office in Sudley

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Despite rumors (read lies) to the contrary, the Creigh Deeds Campaign in opening another branch office in the Sudley area in the K-Mart Shopping Center.

The Deeds campaign is alive and well in Prince William County. Don’t think otherwise. Antibvbl.net has not been endorsing candidates. However, we do attempt to correct errors that are floating about when no one else steps up to the plate.

The address is 7835 Sudley Road, Suite 102, Manassas, Virginia.

Call the main Prince William Democrat Office for further information:

Prince William
4326 Dale Blvd.
Woodbridge, VA 22193
Phone: (703) 462-1415
[email protected]

The Dreaded Obamaphobia

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Lots of kids have come down with the dreaded obamaphobia today.  They caught it from their parents.  Where are the truant officers?  The schools probably can not afford them. 

Isn’t it Virginia state law that kids go to school?  Compulsary attendance laws specifically list what constitutes an excused absense and what the attendance laws are.  I don’t think Obamaphobia is on the list of excused absenses–at least I didn’t see it. 

 

 

What I find amusing is that most of the people who are keeping little Johnny and Jane home today are the very people who have been stridently going around screaming RULE OF LAW any time the subject of illegal immigration comes up or if they see someone they think might be illegally in the United States.  Funny how rule of law suddenly becomes a convenience.  Maybe this one time, on the first day of school, rule of law can be wink wink nudge nudged away…for a greater cause. 

Video of the President’s speech will be posted as soon as it is available.

Here’s to a Good Education…from another perspective

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Life would not be complete without good friends to send me jokes.

Here’s wishing all the kids a great first day, regardless of their parentage.

The poor principal in the following video is between a rock and a hard place. Perhaps he needs to find a job in a different place. The tinfoil hats are looming in the background. More Indoctrinators…

Coach Lures Students Away for Baptism

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Michelle Ammons is furious.  Her 16 year old son, a student at Breckinridge County High School in Kentucky,  was taken to a church on a school bus by the head football coach,  and he was baptised, without her permission or knowledge.  About 20 players were on this field trip and about half were baptised. 

 

The school superintendent  Janet Meeks was there at the service (it was her church) and did not object to school property being used or the field trip.  Supposedly, it was ok because another coach paid for the gas. 

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President Obama’s Address to Students on the First Day of School

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President Obama’s text from the speech he is giving to America’s school children, from Wakefield High School in Arlington, VA has been posted at whitehouse.gov. The entire speech can be found HERE.

Here is an excerpt from his speech:

But at the end of the day, we can have the most dedicated teachers, the most supportive parents, and the best schools in the world – and none of it will matter unless all of you fulfill your responsibilities. Unless you show up to those schools; pay attention to those teachers; listen to your parents, grandparents and other adults; and put in the hard work it takes to succeed.
And that’s what I want to focus on today: the responsibility each of you has for your education. I want to start with the responsibility you have to yourself.

Every single one of you has something you’re good at. Every single one of you has something to offer. And you have a responsibility to yourself to discover what that is. That’s the opportunity an education can provide.

Maybe you could be a good writer – maybe even good enough to write a book or articles in a newspaper – but you might not know it until you write a paper for your English class. Maybe you could be an innovator or an inventor – maybe even good enough to come up with the next iPhone or a new medicine or vaccine – but you might not know it until you do a project for your science class. Maybe you could be a mayor or a Senator or a Supreme Court Justice, but you might not know that until you join student government or the debate team.

And no matter what you want to do with your life – I guarantee that you’ll need an education to do it. You want to be a doctor, or a teacher, or a police officer? You want to be a nurse or an architect, a lawyer or a member of our military? You’re going to need a good education for every single one of those careers. You can’t drop out of school and just drop into a good job. You’ve got to work for it and train for it and learn for it.

I orginially posted the speech. It was just too long, so I went back and linked to it. Please take the time to read it, especially if you have children in school. I can’t think of a better message to give to any kid on that first day.

It is the first day of school that really sets the stage for those other 180 days. If you miss the first day, its like buttoning up your shirt not matching the right button with the right button hole. You have missed the beginning.

I applaud President Obama for taking the time to welcome the kids back to school and for acknowledging the importance of doing well. The first day of school is the best time for such an address. In my opinion, he hit a homerun with this one.

ENTIRE SPEECH

The speech reportly lasts around 18 minutes.

All the Great White Sharks aren’t at Cape Cod

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It seems that Fox News just had a little treat for us.  While gloating that the mainstream media hadn’t covered the Van Jones ‘scandal’ a picture was flashed of all the Obama czars, the National Anthem of the Soviet Union was played.  Fox News has hit a new low. 

In the first place, I would hardly describe the Van Jones situation as a scandal.  He had some questionable ideas, hardly unique,  that most people aren’t comfortable with.  Secondly, he is gone from government service.  He will probably be more problem to those who considered him a problem as a free agent.  He isn’t exactly a rabbity little government worker who will take his wrist slapping and go away.  I expect we will hear a great deal more out of Mr. Van Jones.

And finally, does Fox News have no shame?  The National Anthem of the Soviet Union?  How not so subtle. 

Fox needs to remember that the term ‘czar’ was first trotted (there’s that rascally word again)
out to refer to an appointed government official in a Time Magazine article in December 1973. It referred to William E. Simon who was appointment as the head of the Federal Energy Administration. William Bennett was also appointed as a Drug Czar under President George Bush 41.
 
I didn’t hear rhe National Anthem of the Soviet Union being played for William Bennett. The ‘Czars’ are special advisors. Nothing more nothing less. No music is needed.

Getting riled up over Fox News is just a waste of time. It is what it is. Back to that scorpion and fox parable again. This week though, the theme is Great White Sharks. They just do what they do.

 

Truthers or Birthers? Which are Worse?

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We have had all sorts of ‘ers’ this summer.  We have had lots  of different birthers, including Lou Dobbs.   They continue to beat the drum that President Obama is not an American citizen.  Ridiculous!

Then we dealt with a truther, Van Jones, who somehow managed to get his name on a petition suggesting the Bush administration had some prior knowledge of the attacks on the Pentagon and the twin towers.  Ridiculous!

So what’s worse?  Truther or birther?  Which takes the greatest fugue from reality?

Van Jones used potty mouthy directed at Republicans before he was brought into the administration.  Oh well–so did President Bush when he thought the mic was off.  So did Vice President Cheney when he dropped the F bomb on the Senate Floor.  I didn’t want their heads though.  So what. 

Van Jones had some associations most of us would prefer not to be part of our government.  It was time for him to go because of these associations and because of the truther petition.  He was over the top and was causing too much negative attention regardless of any positive qualifications he might have brought to this administraton. 

And finally, when are the right wingers going to quit?  Never.  Not until the last person in the Obama administration has been brought down, if they have their way.  Jones was just the appetizer. 

 

Carne más roja, por favor.

 

 

Fox Trots Out More Freak-Out Lies @5 PM Tuesday

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Glenn Beck should be baying at the moon by 5 pm on Tuesday, September 8. Apparently he plans an hour long show dedicated to the endoctrination of America’s school children. He feels our republic is under attack:

 

 

To help us interpret all this insanity, perhaps its time for a good laugh from Keith Olbermann, who I rarely watch. The only thing left to do is laugh. There is no chance of reason here.

 

 

 

 

The sad thing is, too many people cannot think for themselves and rely on Beck, Hannity, and Limbaugh for their political foundation. Perhaps they would be better off with O’Reilly. He at least is a scholar and on occassion make sense. The others are third rate actors.