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By: meileen

meileen — Sat, 20 Jun 2009 22:22:06 +0000

Thanks for this info. I’m on their site now and will watch the clip.

By: sarainitaly

sarainitaly — Sat, 20 Jun 2009 09:29:25 +0000

Excellent!!

You know the thing that stuns me, is these guys act all shocked that Obama is letting the gay community down. WHY?? The signs and actions, and language were all there duing the primary.

They all just THOUGHT he would change, and support them. But WHY?? he didn’t before he was President?

I posted this on an earlier thread, but I think the thread was too old at the time. I thought it kind of felt like a way to *out* government employees…

Rights should be granted to all Americans, and it shouldn’t feel like a special thing they are granted, because they are different. As long as they are treated differently, they might be afraid to come *out*. And if they are afraid to come out, they can’t get the benefits…?

By: JozefAL

JozefAL — Sat, 20 Jun 2009 03:19:28 +0000

Sorry, but the PRIVATE health care industry has had its own (more than fair) share of dangerous actions when it comes to the public.
How many hospitals have had such shoddy working conditions that led to rapid increases in staph infections (leading to many, especially elderly, patients dying after fairly routine surgeries)?
What about the many nursing home facilities, all over the country, that have been shut down after state investigations into sub-standard treatment of residents?
Hell, even the site you linked has an article condemning a major drugstore chain for keeping condoms under lock and key. It should be noted that is NOT a government-run company, but rather a FOR-PROFIT business. The site also posts a note concerning the condemnation of CA’s Governor Schwarzenegger’s decision to, not just cut, but severely slash the state’s HIV/AIDS budget because of the state’s budget crisis.
But, keep harping about the “socialist health care” system. While we have tens of millions of people who have NO insurance at all, and tens of millions more with very little insurance, or otherwise inadequate, coverage, yeah, let’s all worry about the “creeping socialized medicine”. We’ve just been dealing with a pretty unusual flu crisis (wherein the most seriously affected were otherwise healthy young adults, unlike typical flu strains which hit the elderly and very young the hardest), but, no let’s worry about the conservative canard of “socialized medicine”.
I’ll tell you this much–I’ve been in private doctors’ offices WITH an appointment, and have been forced to wait up to an hour after my scheduled appointment. That was a PRIVATE practice. And you really think that it’s really all that much worse under “socialized medicine”? Many Americans are currently told to put off serious, and necessary, surgery while the fucking insurance companies keep saying they won’t cover the procedure. And speaking of the insurance companies, what about some that require you to get pre-approval before you can be rushed to the hospital in an ambulance because that’s what the insurance policy demands? (”Yes, I’m lying here in a pool of blood, but you can’t take me in that ambulance until my Blue Cross agent approves it.”) What about women who are being pushed out of the hospital within a day or two of delivering a baby, because the insurance company has decided that IT knows that woman’s condition far better than her doctor or the hospital itself?
Take a true unbiased look at the health care industry in the UK or Canada or France (one that doesn’t come from a US health care concern or insurance company). Every one of those systems does have a series of checks and balances, but ultimately the patients’ well-being is put ahead of some insurance company that’s only interested in making money for NOT providing service (because, don’t you know, when the insurance comany pays a covered service, that’s money that the company isn’t keeping, and THAT is a BIG no-no).

By: Cindy

Cindy — Sat, 20 Jun 2009 02:55:59 +0000

Rev. Amy,
Your post is excellent, but I really didn’t need to read passed the wonderfully-worded title! A masterpiece!

By: Diana L. C.

Diana L. C. — Sat, 20 Jun 2009 01:00:20 +0000

RRRA,

It’s Friday evening here. I’ve just watched a really good detailed discussion of the DOMA issue and the Don’t Ask/Don’t Tell on Democracy Now. I hope you were able to watch it–very good information was discussed. The panelists were not really very kind to Obama.

By: Rabble Rouser Reverend Amy

Rabble Rouser Reverend Amy — Sat, 20 Jun 2009 00:33:29 +0000

Glen – I’m with you – won’t go to Daily Kos. Thanks for the comment.

And SHV, point well taken. I mean, I didn’t think anything he said was abt the benefits meant anything ANYWAY, but especially what he CLAIMED to be giving was a whole lot of not much…

Great comments, folks…

By: Rabble Rouser Reverend Amy

Rabble Rouser Reverend Amy — Sat, 20 Jun 2009 00:28:04 +0000

Texas, well said – you are exactly right!!

By: Ladydawnelle

Ladydawnelle — Fri, 19 Jun 2009 22:45:05 +0000

roflol Candyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyy!

Hey I think perhaps the LGBT community better get in line with the rest of the country that BAMBI is dumping all over!!

Where were they when this blog and a few others that are friends to DOROTHY were crying out HYPOCRITE all over the DEMS this go round?

I always gave them (as a whole) much more credit for being intelligent perhaps than I should have?

I admit I only (personally) have a handful of GLBT friends and all but ONE is no longer emailing me since I crossed over for Palin.

I’ve heard from ONE. He’s not admitted yet he made a huge ass mistake but the fact he’s emailing me again must mean something. I guess I’ll have to ask him one of these days. I hope he doesn’t get upset when I tell him “i told you so” ya brat!

oh and THANKS for TRUSTING ME!! NOT

By: trixta

trixta — Fri, 19 Jun 2009 22:36:39 +0000

Didn’t BO resurrect the notorious Harry-and-Louise adds during the primaries against Clinton?

Shame on you, Barrack Obama!

By: trixta

trixta — Fri, 19 Jun 2009 22:33:24 +0000

Me thinks Obama is very afraid of looking like he supports gays for some reason. We’ve all read the studies on why that may be (Oprah did a show on it). If you know what I mean.

Glen, I believe you are right. That BO may very well be a closeted-gay man is perhaps the most likely reason why he is so reluctant to fight the good fight for LGBT civil rights.

By: candymarl

candymarl — Fri, 19 Jun 2009 22:26:31 +0000

The MSM, that never fails to show it’s worship of all things Obama, strikes again.

Obama has a history of doing little or nothing and taking credit for the work of those before him.
Obama has made much of his career out of this type of behavior.

MSM: Hoodwinked, bamboozled, and falling for the same old Okey Dokey!

Thanks for the info SHV.

By: felizarte

felizarte — Fri, 19 Jun 2009 22:23:17 +0000

I wonder how long before he starts cannibalizing Hillary’s Healthcare Plan?

By: foxyladi14

foxyladi14 — Fri, 19 Jun 2009 22:20:42 +0000

scary.really it is.

By: Hg

Hg — Fri, 19 Jun 2009 22:03:40 +0000

Obama’s Government Health Care? You may not want it at all after reading what the Government run VA Health Care does for it’s people.

http://www.aegis.com/news/mh/2009/MH090310.html

Seems the VA is guilty of not following simple sterile procedures which have put veterans across the nation at risk of contracting HIV AIDS and Hepatitis. This is what American citizens will have to look forward to under Obama’s Government Controlled Socialized Health Care.