"I was a Black Man Before The Election"

I'm sorry - how amazing is that that this man can take all the bile and the vitroil and underplay it and just get down to business to help the American People. What an amazing man. What a great leader. We are truly lucky to have this man as our President.

Hell Has Frozen Over! I Agree With Something Glenn Beck Said

Yes, Beck is a raging moron who's sole purpose on this planet is to insure that "normal" people see the raging wingnuts for what they really are - raging imbecile wingnuts! But in this little "coming attraction" to this evening's interview with Katie Couric, Glenn Beck says that John McCain would have been worse for this country than Barack Obama. OK - that's reasonable. Except now he goes back to his hometown of CRAZY and explains why - he says John McCain is a "weird Progressive, like Teddy Roosevelt". (sigh).

Insurance Companies are Getting a Bad Rap

Protect Insurance Companies PSA from Will Ferrell

You know, after seeing this public service message, I totally agree...

My Personal Take on the Healthcare Issue

I'm not a doctor person. I literally only go to a doctor when I self-diagnose on webmb.com and the diagnosis comes up "cancer" (actually every webmb diagnosis comes up cancer). I then go to a doctor for an assurance it's something that I really thought it was - like hives or a hangnail.

Seriously, I've never had a doctor do anything for me except to either cause me pain, discomfort or push some pill at me that will make me feel either like sleeping for two days or saying inappropriate things to coworkers.

So I'll tell you that the whole healthcare reform thing should be what I want to fight about least of all - but it's not. And here's why...

I never could understand that in the United States you can actually go bankrupt because you don't have healthcare. I could never understand why when in the rare instances when I do go to a doctor and I am covered by whatever insurance I have, the statement is some ridiculous amount - like $5,000 for tests run at an allergist or $2,000 for an emergency room visit on Thanksgiving for a lymph node infection (not including the antibiotics).

But then I do know why - it's precisely that little insurance card you have that your employer probably pays for. It's people like a coworker who goes to the podiatrist for a pedicure because the copay is cheaper than the salon. It's people who go to the dermatologist instead of the spa for a facial. It's people who go to the doctor for a cough when they really need Robitussin. This happens all the time. And it's the doctors who "upsell" their services. And they do - they medicate us, order an obscene number of tests and get indignant if you question them. They after all, are doctors. They have the final say. They are all-knowing.

It's the insurance companies who meter and dole out procedures. So easy to say no to everything because paying up brings their profits down. Insurance companies aren't on the side of the insured by their very nature.

So what do we do? Well, President Obama and President Clinton and Senator Kennedy have all fought for universal healthcare. President Obama's plan currently makes sense for the American people - have your current plan stay more or less status quo. Eliminate pre-existing condition clauses. Make catastrophic healthcare mandatory for all americans. Offer a public option. That's fair. That's actually free market enterprise at work. Have a public option that will force the private insurance companies to keep their rates fair. Make healthcare mandatory the same as car insurance or home insurance when you have a mortgage.

But some people want to see the President fail. These people say that there are Death Panels, that the DMV is going to give you a PAP smear and that you're going to have to wait on line for years, perhaps decades to get a checkup, a pacemaker, a broken bone set. These people don't even know what they're fighting against. They use buzzwords like - Socialism, Communism, Tax Hikes. They don't want to compromise and they will stop at nothing until this proposal is killed and our President defeated - even if it tears apart our country.

I stopped at the bank today near Mt. Sinai Hospital. I passed the Humana clinic. The doors opened as I walked by and I looked in. The conservatives' nightmare of healthcare's future was staring at me right now - lines and lines. People waiting in chairs looking like they had been there for hours. Elderly patients being bussed in from points West and North. Spending hours perhaps days to see a doctor to be told that they had a pre-existing condition or to just takes these painkillers. What I didn't see were any of those conservatives there to look at the broken system as it is right now.

I have friends, good friends that have chronic illnesses and I have friends that have children with chronic illnesses. I am willing to pay a few dollars more to see that they will never have to go bankrupt if their child needs chemo or a liver transplant. And I am willing to ask them to do the same for me. You want to call that socialism? Go right ahead. I call it society. And I back my President's plan. Do you?

I would love to know your thoughts.

Calling President Obama a Muslin is Going a Bit Too Far For This Fashionista.

Ahhh...yes friends. I know that we've all seen the hate speech about our President. And I've been attacked myself (but that's another entry in the blog). Maybe I shouldn't care so much. After all, I don't personally know President Obama and he's a big man. He's got staff, Secret Service....hell he's the Commander in Chief of the U.S. Military! He can take care of himself (and if he can't he's got someone to write a speech using harsh language, some CIA Operative to take them out secretly, the Army to blow them to pieces and two little girls to kick them in the shins)...He's covered.

So maybe I should cool it when people call President Obama everything from a Socialist...to a Communist....to a Muslim. But this? This is inexcuseable. Because by the looks of it. President Obama is anything but cheap or tacky so to call President Obama MUSLIN is the worst offense of them all. Call our President silk, wool, even linen if you must. But call my President Muslin - you've got a fight on your hands Mr.! Cheap fabric.......come on!

Here's some Obama Fabric for ya! Bet it's pretty darn expensive, too!

Hilll-Arrrr-Reeee-Usss - Hitler Finds Out About Obama Speaking to Schoolkids

I'm sorry - this is funny. And I'm Jewish!

Would You Let Your Children Behave Like Joe Wilson (I hope not....)

"F**K you, Congress"



So here's the question - you have a child. You take said child out to some crappy place in a strip mall for dinner because you got home late and the last thing on your mind is to make dinner. So you and your husband (or wife or whatever) take little Timmy out with you to TGI Thursday's or Green Lobster or whatever. While there, the waitress comes over and says "Hi! We have drink specials today 2 for 1 margaritas" You say that sounds great and while the waitress gets your drink order, Little Timmy, seed of your loins, throws a tantrum at the table because he wants chicken fingers and you want him to have the steamed chicken and broccoli so he doesn't turn into an obese child (because you cant afford the medical bills if your angel gets diabetes at the age of 10). He screams at you and makes a scene - what do you do? Punish him or give him his favorite dessert as a reward?

If that child were mine - that better not happen, I'll tell you that. Because even a crappy restaurant is a restaurant and there is a sense of decorum in how you act when out in public. My parents threatened me once - if you act out we just wont take you anywhere - and that's all I needed.

So my question, dear readers is simply this.....why the hell would anyone Republicans, Conservatives, Space Aliens....let Rep. Joe Wilson get away with his behavior last night at the President's address to Congress? What kind of message does this send? To me it doesn't send a message of protest or disagreement for The President's bill and ideals - the way to show that is clearly in the sitting on the hands and looking a little perturbed that the Republicans (and Democrats) know how to do so well. That in itself speaks volumes to The President when he addresses Congress. I personally LOVE this bit of theatre - it reminds me of old movies of Parliament.

But this...this shouting of "You Lie" by Rep Wilson is just bad behavior. And it makes a mockery of Congress, his office, and the Republican Party. It shows that he has no taste and clearly no respect for his job or his party or his country. Forget about his not agreeing with The President - you do not shit where you eat! That's the first rule of having a job. For this alone to show respect for the hall of Congress and the Country that the Republicans say they love so much more than the Democrats do - they need to condemn this act by a crude man - not order him a hot fudge sundae!

Barack Obama - Coming for YOUR Rugrat at a school near you!

First of all - look at all the cool fun images that I found on the web of "concerned citizens" of the United States who just "care about their country"....Yeah - give me a f**king break!



What happens when a conspiracy theorist gets a hold of Adobe Illustrator


Hey - does this mean Michelle Obama is Eva Braun?

So now that I got your attention, President Barack Obama is going to speak to school children in a satellite feed on September 8th! Yes my friends - instead of our little angels watching mind-enriching programs like American Idol, Hannah Montana and Spongebob Squarepants (and truth be told, probably Real Housewives of Atlanta and Extreme cage Wrestling)...the will be exposed to....The President of the United States urging them to stay in school!

The audacity! The terror! Yeah, I know, I know...it sounds funny to think that this might be construed as a bad thing, but the nutters on the conservative front are making it out to be the formation of Hitler Youth!

First of all this isn't the first time this has happened. In 1991 Pres Bush addressed schoolchildren in much the same way - via satellite. As far as I know, no children were indoctrinated into the fold.


Psst...excuse me...Mr. President?....Uh....your book is upside down...And the World Trade Center is ON FIRE!

In 2001, The second President Bush was at a school class in Florida reading a book upside down when he was informed of the WTC attack. I suppose we didnt have to worry about Bush being a Marxist - I mean he thought a Marxist was someone who always got the bullseye to win the BIG PRIZE at the Crawford County Fair!


Napoleon Dynamite - Cute Indy Film or Communist Plot?

When I was a kid we had mock elections - We had the Carter/Ford election. I made up campaign buttons for Jimmy Carter with peanuts taped to each one. The boys wanted Ford. I guess we were all little commie bastards in 1976 Brooklyn. Back in the day it wasn't called indoctrinating children - IT WAS CALLED SOCIAL STUDIES OR CIVICS! In fact, several years of hypnosis will probably reveal the little chip the democrats implanted in my head that year that I was 9.


Goldwater Girl - or zombie bitch?

But getting back to President Obama and next week - the wacky conservatives are starting a campaign to pull their kids out of school that day. And many are threatening home schooling their precious little cargo. (Home school kindergarten classes include Why Jesus hates Muslim terrorists, Why Liberals are the Devil's spawn, and The proper ways to clean your rifle) So what kind of message do these hate mongers send to their children? That the President and the Government is bad? What next? Don't listen to the police? Learn to shoot a rifle for the new militia uprising?

And these crazies are forgetting one point that makes all this craziness obsolete - politics, to most kids, is boring! It's not World Cage Wrestling or Real Housewives of The Pittsburg Steelers. It's not American Idol or Spongebob. And the surest way of getting kids to be totally uninterested in something is to have it taught in school. So get over it you freaks! Your little rugrats won't even listen to Barack Obama at school - now if he went on The Simpsons or something - that's different!


Maybe President Obama IS out to take over kids' minds, after all......


What's your opinion?

Sen Edward Moore Kennedy - The End of An Era

I grew up with the Kennedys. I was born in the late 60's - during the turmoil of Bobby Kennedy's assassination, war protests and the wonders of space rockets and men on the moon. I think that everyone in NYC is a bit of a political wonk, but I surpassed my parents and everyone in the neighborhood.

I remember taking my father's JFK memorial record of his speeches and listening to them over and over. I remember at the age of 9 having my parents drive me to Manhattan to stuff envelopes for Jimmy Carter's campaign - the littlest volunteer (but I was taken seriously and allowed to help every Sunday). I remember getting my first cassette tape recorder - a red panasonic - and making a parody of Richard Nixon getting implummed and impolkadotted instead of impeached. But most of all, I remember the Kennedys.

I remember looking at this family with perfect teeth, wealthy but working so hard for kids, poor people and minorities. I remember discovering that little Jon Jon had grown up real good and my best friend giving me a calendar of JFK with a card - here are pictures of the father in law that you never got to meet. I remember in my early 20's buying ballgowns from Saks Fifth Avenue that I couldn't afford, tucking in the tags and crashing Kennedy Foundation parties at the Met, hoping for a sighting of a Kennedy and being rewarded by meeting Rory, Patrick, Caroline and seeing Ted at some of them - the Patriarch! I remember being a salesperson in NYC and working so hard to get the Hachette Filipachi account so I could have an excuse to be in the building that George Magazine was in, hoping to get a glimpse.

I remember all the Kennedy deaths and tragedies and taking them to heart like they were my family - Jackie, then the heartbreaking news of John Kennedy. I remember being riveted to my TV that sunny July afternoon hoping for good news, knowing it wouldn't come. I remember seeing Ted on the boat to pick up the bodies of his nephew - everyone's father - a role he was thrust into out of necessity, but one that he took to.

And I remember his speech at the Democratic National Convention where he passed the torch to Barack Obama. Practically calling him a Kennedy - the pride of Barack shining in his eyes - you would think there would have been some sadness, some irony - after all, Ted's own push to the White House failed and the new generation of Kennedys don't seem like the highest call is in the cards. But there was no irony. There was only pride. I do believe Ted Kennedy loved his country more than anything including his pride and the Family.

I know there will be people who will mock Ted Kennedy - there are people who have brought up Chappaquiddick (and you don't want to go there because in 1963 Laura Bush was in a vehicular homicide, too). There are people who will bring up his drinking and his womanizing. I agree - and his nephew, John Kennedy Jr. wrote that some of his family were posterboys for bad behavior. We all know that. Ted would have been the first to agree. But he without sin cast the first stone.

Teddy was born into great wealth - he could have given in to those baser emotions and temptations but instead devoted his life to making his country better. With all his flaws he managed to write over 300 bills that were passed. And not bills like putting treehouses in public parks or having poodles groomed within 50 feet of an elementary school. I'm talking about serious bills that changed the landscape of this country for the better, including The Minimum Wage Increase Act, Americans with Disabilities Act, Matthew Shepherd Hate Crimes Act, The No Child Left Behind Act, the Medicare Act, The Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act, The Mental health Parity Act, The Immigration Reform Act, The Individuals with disabilities Education Act and so many more.

Ted Kennedy will forever be known as a great American. The Liberal Lion who befriended people in both parties and often crossed the aisle to work with Republicans to get the job done. Let the record show that this was a man who truly loved America. He will be missed.

OMG! According to Glen Beck Cash for Clunkers Evil Plot to hack your computers!!!

Thank you Glen Beck for sharing this insight with us - because I am now so frightened that the Obama Administration can now find all my vacation pictures, the one picture that Jack took of me with food poisoning where my hair is messy and I have no makeup (the horror) and how I screw off on Facebook more than I should!

If Big Brother is watching me, I'm truly sorry I'm so boring!