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Cam/ron
09/18/09

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Todd, do what the damn Muppet says.
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feministabroad
09/18/09

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So snot on the sleeve is okay but washed hands after sneezing is not? What? I don't get it.
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Maritsa
09/18/09

@feministabroad: I think the problem is people don't always wash their hands after sneezing.
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otherginger
09/18/09

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So I have been sneezing incorrectly for 47 years?
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Lymed
09/18/09

@otherginger: No. Sneezing changed with the swine flu.
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otherginger
09/18/09

@Lymed: I am not sure I can retrain to sneeze into my elbow. I still prefer Kleenix.
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clevernamehere
09/18/09

@Lymed: Its older than that. Preschools and kindergartens started teaching this method about 10 years ago.
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Lymed
09/18/09

@clevernamehere: I was joking
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Lymed
09/18/09

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Can we have Sesame Street characters write the health reform bill? Sometimes I think they will do a better job.
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Maritsa
09/18/09

@Lymed: Elmo wants the public option!
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Lymed
09/18/09

@Maritsa: Of course Elmo does. Because Elmo cares about people.
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EndangeredRed
09/18/09

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Oh my God, my mother is the Health and Human Services Secretary.
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Zombie Ms. Skittles
09/18/09

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This video is more awesome with the sound off. Can we get a .gif of her doing the "sneeze into your elbow" thing with the wide eyes and the pointing?
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Le Kangourou de Kataroo
09/18/09

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I would watch Elmo give an H1N1 briefing in a heart beat.
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futuremouse
09/18/09

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Anyone else think 'Sebelius' sounds like a spell from Harry Potter?
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Ailatan
09/18/09

@futuremouse: Yes! It's an awesome name. She could be a character in HP.

Also I love her sincere laughter.
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elysium_kitschen
09/18/09

@futuremouse: Sebelius is the charm to banish unwanted germs. I believe you learn it in your third year. The house elves cast it best, though they hate to get pigeonholed as only disinfectors.
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Maritsa
09/18/09

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This was awesome. Even moreso because I find Chuck Todd fairly insufferable.
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Ruby_de_la_Booby
09/18/09

@Maritsa: I imagine he sneezes into his hand and then wipes the mess off with his goatee. Man, I hate The Todd.
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Jack_Burton
09/14/09

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People who oppose abortion have a deficit of attention (except for scripture study), so they must be reminded of things often, lest they become confused and vociferous.
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socktree
09/14/09

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Sorry, as a pediatric cancer survivor who has been denied private insurance because I am a pediatric cancer survivor ("pre-existing condition: osteosarcoma" is what was on the rejection letter, so it was specifically for the cancer, though other cited my depression or BMI) - I say SCREW PRIVATE INSURANCE COMPANIES.
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Ultraprison!
09/14/09

@socktree: I was rejected from every single insurance company I applied to in the last two months because I take medication for depression. They'll use any excuse. It's criminal - or at least, it should be.
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MissyMcCLung
09/14/09

@Ultraprison!: Hopefully Obama's bill will get passed somewhat intact and it will be illegal.
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applejuice
09/14/09

@socktree: My brother is a pediatric cancer survivor too. The experience of BOTH my parents insurance companies being so horrible during his treatment (trying to say that the treatments the doctors said he needed to save his life were not what he needed, etc etc) as well as the fact that my brother is now pretty much un-insurable as an adult has all informed my current feelings on healthcare.

What are thos feelings? We can't get the public option quickly enough.
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applejuice
09/14/09

@applejuice: Oh, and for the record - I live in the UK now where we have the NHS and, contrary to what the right wing crazies are saying, if the doctor says you need a treatment you get a treatment. I know people who waited for longer on lists in the US for treatments paid for by their private insurance than I have ever waited here.
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socktree
09/14/09

@applejuice: Interestngly enough, I was under Tricare, which is the military insurance and treated in a military/VA hospital (more or less "socialized" health care) and the only thing my parents paid for during my year in the hospital? Not the 10 surgeries, not the constant painkillers - the food. The food is the only thing they paid for, and never once was I denied or delayed treatment.

I know that the reform won't give us a NHS-type system but it's a damn good step forward.
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didntmeanto
09/14/09

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I dont understand the argument over the public option. Some say you cant have it becuase it would compete with private insurance and put them out of business? Good, f them! Make your business better and then you wont go out of business but I really resent that the argument has come down to how can we reform health care and still keep health insurance companies in business?
As i said before, want to see a death panel, look at an insurance company. They have a legal fiduciary duty to their shareholders first, not the policy holder! Their main purpose in being is to make a profit, not exactly the people I want holding the strings on my health care.
We already pay for uninsured people, lets do it in a way that makes sense!
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youbehim
09/14/09

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This whole health care debate makes our country look weak and stupid.

I hate reading about this everyday.
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Alys Brangwin can't stop the beat
09/14/09

@youbehim: Yeah, I have found that I have to turn off the news to make myself feel better. Also I might just move to another country if it doesn't happen soon.
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Jack_Burton
09/14/09

@youbehim: Sadly, it doesn't just look that way. It isn't a debate, it's a circus.

Free speech, to far too many folks, means shouting down your opponent, not expressing your sentiments via civil dialogue, and evaluation based on reason.
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youbehim
09/14/09

@Jack_Burton: That is what infuriates me about Fox news, they scream their way to the top of an arugment. Then gloat about how they won.
I am also so sick of everyone defending their views by saying, "Well, they're the number 1 most listened to talk radio show in the country." You know why? Because it's the only thing on in the morning, their competition is 1010Winds.

This whole health care fiasco just shows people how ill informed the majority of our country is.
WE were ready for change...we just have to wait until the rest of America is too. Sadly, I know this won't happen until the baby boomers go away along with our current school system.
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sheleftyouasong
09/14/09

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you know, i was sitting about the other day just absolutely baffled by the opposition to american health care reform.
i can't imagine anywhere else in the world where the following could take place:
"hey! you want some free or at the very least affordable and useful health care?!"
"Hell no, asshole!"

baffles the mind.
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SomeAuthorGirl
09/14/09

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Latoya, I love the title of this post.

I hate that the administration is allowing abstract speculation about abortion to distract from the much wider issue of things like, oh I don't know, people with cancer.

Not that I don't think abortion should be covered, because I do. But this is fundamentally a stupid, irrelevant argument and the news networks are doing what they usually do: serving themselves rather than the American people.
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Ailatan
09/14/09

@SomeAuthorGirl: Abortion + Illegal Immigrants, the 2 things the right loves to hate.

It would be silly to cover this for what it is: Health Care, that's way too reasonable.
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SomeAuthorGirl
09/14/09

@Ailatan: I think I was listening yesterday to NPR when an attendee of a rally in MN said that Obama needed to re-mobilize the base that got him elected (i.e. us). I couldn't agree more. Give us a plan, give us an agenda, we'll get it done.
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WashingMyHair
09/14/09

@Ailatan: Ironically, I'm sure they'd have no problem w/aborting illegal immigrants. Seriously, hypocrisy is the main fiber of their being.
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SomeAuthorGirl
09/14/09

@WashingMyHair: How true is that. But I guess letting undocumented immigrants die untreated in the parking lots of our hospitals is something they're willing to settle for.

I hope I never understand how people like this are able to sleep at night.
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Ailatan
09/14/09

@SomeAuthorGirl: Well said, if the ideas and the plan are explained it's easier to refute all this nonsense that's been spewed.
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Flackette Goes Retro
09/14/09

@Ailatan: Unless you are aborting illegal immigrant fetii - that's okay, right?
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