By Pat Racimora on Nov 19, 2009 in Gender Bias | 262 Comments
* Bumped up *
The Republican charges of “Death Panels” in the first House health care bill (a jumbled mess for the most part) was over-the-top dramatic. But as any reader could easily discern, the tide had shifted from “get a team OK before letting them go” towards “get a team to assess keeping them [...]
By Pat Racimora on Nov 16, 2009 in Current Affairs | 63 Comments
* Bumped Up *
Pretty exciting news, especially for us space buffs.
By Pat Racimora on Nov 10, 2009 in Current Affairs, Health Care | 83 Comments
I want to see true health care reform. And the House just passed something that lots of people seem to be very excited about. Hoping to be part of the celebration, I did the only thing any one of us should do before jumping on board with HR 3926 —read the damn thing!
I [...]
By Pat Racimora on Nov 8, 2009 in Current Affairs | 68 Comments
You no doubt remember Tina Fey’s Saturday Night Live classic line asserting why more and more women were saying they would vote for Barack Obama. It’s because, Fey opined, Hillary is a bitch. She then declares herself a bitch and gleefully adds, Bitch is the New Black!
Female bashing was disgustingly rampant during the [...]
By Pat Racimora on Nov 6, 2009 in Current Affairs, Health Care, Influenza Pandemic | 78 Comments
First the taxpayers’ treasure was raided to bail out Wall Street firms. Now it’s happening to 13 of them again, this time by putting their employees ahead of the highest risk groups among us ordinary folks to receive the H1N1 vaccine. Melanie Sloan, the Director of Citizens for Responsibility and Ethics in [...]
By Pat Racimora on Nov 4, 2009 in Current Affairs, President Barack Obama | 95 Comments
It’s been exactly a year since Barack Obama was elected President. In only one word, describe how you feel today.
By Pat Racimora on Nov 3, 2009 in Current Affairs | 66 Comments
A little quiz. Who recently compared President Obama to a chick just now pecking its way out of its egg? Your choices are:
Rush Limbaugh
Glenn Beck
Sarah Palin
Lou Dobbs
Chris Matthews
By Pat Racimora on Oct 31, 2009 in Current Affairs | 54 Comments
(Bumped up from October 22nd for today’s Halloween.)
By Pat Racimora on Oct 31, 2009 in Gender Bias, Women | 43 Comments
The World Economic Forum recently released the results of their study on the progress of attaining gender equity within countries, controlling for overall wealth disparities.
Whereas the United States may be proud of its advances in Civil Rights over the last 50 or so years, where do women stand now compared to men with [...]
By Pat Racimora on Oct 16, 2009 in Congress (House & Senate), Current Affairs | 31 Comments
I used to be against term limits. I thought the more experienced members of Congress would better understand our needs. But over the last few years it appears that instead they have become insulated from the people they are supposed to care about and represent.
Now the main motivation appears to be to just [...]
By Pat Racimora on Oct 10, 2009 in Current Affairs | 194 Comments
Remember when your teachers sternly admonished, “You don’t get an A for effort?” They never, ever once said, “You do get an A+ for just talking about it.”
By Pat Racimora on Oct 9, 2009 in Current Affairs, Health Care | 24 Comments
Never heard of him? Well, Wendell Potter Should be a Household Name!
By Pat Racimora on Oct 3, 2009 in Current Affairs | 129 Comments
Yep, really big eggs on these two faces. And, hey, I’m also embarrassed. We elected a President who thinks his campaign style that bamboozled over half the American voters will play forever all over the world.
Will this fall from grace, this “sacrifice” the First Couple endured to pimp for holding the [...]
By Pat Racimora on Sep 28, 2009 in Abuse, Women and Children | 17 Comments
We need good laws, but they lose all meaning unless they actually work. The situation for battered women in California provides a sobering case in point.
By Pat Racimora on Sep 27, 2009 in Current Affairs | 34 Comments
It never occurred to most of us that an artist as intense, insightful, brilliant, passionate, and brutal yet somehow graceful, could ever compete with Pablo Picasso’s La Guerinca when it comes to unveiling the horrors of war through artistic expression. Guernica, first displayed in 1937, depicted the human suffering experienced during the Spanish Civil [...]
By Pat Racimora on Sep 26, 2009 in Health Care, Insurance Policies & Industry | 37 Comments
Can you guess which health care costs are rising the fastest? I’ll even help you out by listing the top five (and portraying them in my toon).
Cancer
Asthma
Trauma (externally inflicted injuries)
Heart Conditions
Mental illness
Got your answer in mind?
By Pat Racimora on Sep 22, 2009 in Obama's Thugs, Racism | 47 Comments
(bumped up from Tuesday morning)
Funk & Wagnall’s Dictionary Definition of racism: A belief in or advocacy of the superiority or inferiority of a particular group on the basis of supposed racial differences.
Not so much anymore…
By Pat Racimora on Sep 21, 2009 in Current Affairs, President Barack Obama | 67 Comments
We did get a different kind of President. He’s a rock star and ran as someone to tag along behind cheering, “Yes we can.” So whether he likes it or not, he became the most visible role model on the planet.
I actually hoped that when Barack Obama became President he just might [...]
By Pat Racimora on Sep 19, 2009 in Current Affairs | 52 Comments
It seems like every time I turn on cable news, they are replaying an Obama speech. Oh, wait! It says “LIVE” in the corner.
By Pat Racimora on Sep 18, 2009 in President Barack Obama | 65 Comments
Czars. Bush appointed a galaxy of them. Obama appointed as many or more. Is this a big problem?
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