My small dog is a “teddy bear” dog. A hybrid of shih tzu and bichon. He was supposed to be 12 pounds. Well, he’s 9 months old and weighs 19 pounds so far. He’s built like a stocky little hog, his back curves down into hams and hocks. lol. but he’s little. I have a big labrador female (96 pounds) named Abbie. Their pix are listed under pets. Abbie has a cyst growing on the right cheek on her face. Its hard and loose there, and the vet is going to remove it soon. It doesn’t seem to hurt her, and she doesn’t mind if you hold it and move it around. Well, the little dog, when he wants to control her, jumps up and grabs onto that cyst, pulls her over and forces her to lay down on her side. Then he cleans out her ears. Its really kinda funny to watch. He will spend ten or fifteen minutes cleaning out her ear, and she lays there, loving it. Then she she gets up, he runs and dives on her trying to get her to lay down, whereas he begins to clean out her other ear. Dogs, they’re weird.
Max
Filed under: Politics
This is the Senate health reform bill introduced by Sen Sanders (I) in March. This is what I think would be best for this country.
American Health Security Act of 2009 – Establishes the State-Based American Health Security Program to provide every U.S. resident who is a U.S. citizen, national, or lawful resident alien with health care services. Requires each participating state to establish a state health security program. Eliminates benefits under: (1) titles XVIII (Medicare), XIX (Medicaid), and XXI (State Children’s Health Insurance) (SCHIP) of the Social Security Act; (2) the Federal Employees Health Benefits Program; and (3) the Civilian Health and Medical Program of the Uniformed Services (CHAMPUS). Requires each state health security program to prohibit the sale of health insurance in that state that duplicates benefits provided under the program. Establishes the American Health Security Standards Board to: (1) develop policies, procedures, guidelines and requirements to carry out this Act; (2) establish uniform reporting requirements; (3) provide for an American Health Security Advisory Council and an Advisory Committee on Health Professional Education; and (4) establish a national health security budget specifying the total federal and state expenditures to be made for covered health care services. Establishes the American Health Security Quality Council to: (1) review and evaluate practice guidelines, standards of quality, performance measures, and medical review criteria; and (2) develop minimum competence criteria. Establishes the Office of Primary Care and Prevention Research within the Office of the Director of the National Institutes of Health (NIH). Amends the Internal Revenue Code to create the American Health Security Trust Fund and appropriates to the Fund specified tax liabilities and current health program receipts.
S. 703 – Committee Assignments: American Health Security Act of 2009 (GovTrack.us).
Filed under: Politics | Tags: mandated insurance, Public Option, Republicans
I’ve had enough of the GOP Obstructionist party. Its as if they believe that they are the only people qualified to run this country. In an interview, John McCain, running for POTUS, said, “I don’t care what the people of this country want. I know what they need.” Now this GOP R-MS says that liberal tree huggers are what they love to hunt. But we are a waste of ammunition. Isn’t that a form of terrorism?
We don’t need any bipartisanship. We need a good solid health insurance reform with a good strong public option. No pre existing conditions, no insurance caps, no insurance denials, and mandatory insurance for everyone. Yes, mandatory. If we do not have mandatory insurance (like auto insurance), people would just wait til they came down with cancer, go down to the local insurance company office and sign up. There would be no well people on insurance, because everyone would wait until they really needed it, then they would sign up. In this country, if one has a car, one needs liability insurance. If we have a strong public option, competition (hey, isn’t that the American way? Competition?) would force down insurance costs, no CEO of an insurance company would be making $57,000 dollars an hour (that’s right AN HOUR).
I read today that over 200,000 people callled their Congressman today, over 80% of them demanded a public option. It seems as if that’s the only way we are going to get what the majority wants. Demanding the things we have a right to have.
Filed under: Politics
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2009/10/20/gregg-harper-we-hunt-libe_n_327092.html
A waste of ammunition?
There are a lot of bloggers that are announcing that Pres. Obama should give the Nobel Peace Prize back. That he should announce that he doesn’t deserve it. That there are many people more deserving than he is. No, he should not give it back!!!
The Nobel Peace Prize is not given for great works. It is not given to someone who has slaved through past years to achieve a great goal. It is given to someone with an idea for the future that could possibly achieve something wonderful for peace in the world. He received the Nobel Peace Prize because of his speeches everywhere in the world to decrease the amount of atomic weapons, to eventually have a world free of nuclear weapons. He advocates for discussion, compromise and understanding between different countries in the world. He does not advocate moving into a country and trying to change it into a fake United States. He believes we should be trying to understand other countries and their way of life. When the campaigning was in full force for the election, Hillary Clinton said he was naive and willing to talk to terrorists. McCain said Obama was going to appease our enemies. Cheney said Obama was going to make us unsafe.
I think that Obama got the Nobel Peace Prize because the world sees that we have a leader that finally “gets it.” That we do not need to shoot first and talk later. We need to talk first and in the words of JFK during the Cuban Missile Crisis, (paraphrased here), “We always need to give someone a way out. Never back them into a corner where they have to fight their way out.”
Filed under: Uncategorized
Finally we have someone stating exactly what is going on. I wrote him an email last night, thanking him. He may have had a bad choice of words. But I think its wonderful what he said and the way he said it. And once I learn how to download video into these blogs, I will do so. LOL
Chloe
My daughter calls her “Psychokitty” because every time she picks her up, Psychokitty tries to bite her. She does appear a bit standoffish to people she doesn’t see very often, but when my two oldest grandchildren come to visit, she will always come out and say “hello” to them. My oldest grandson teases her and she always comes out and wanders around him, hoping, I think, that he will tease her some more.
Her name is Chloe and she is about 18 months old. She likes big dogs (was raised around my older dog before he died.). She doesn’t like little dogs much, and I think its because Max has picked on her for months now. However, she keeps coming back for more.
If I’m on the couch watching TV, covered up with a blanket, she jumps up, lays down, starts purring, kneading on my and the blankie, and doesn’t swallow her saliva, allows it to run out of her mouth and all over the blankie. Wonder what’s up with that?
She is an inside cat, never goes outside and is afraid that somehow I am going to grab her and throw her outside, so she runs away from the door when I let the dogs out.
She was one of four kitties found abandoned and taken to the vet when she was about 4 weeks old. So she was handfed by the vet and assistants for 4 weeks before I got her. So she likes to suck on the blankie while she’s kneading and drooling. lol.
In the middle of the night, she will come up on the bed and tap, tap, tap. I lift the covers and she runs under them, and lays down. She then expects me to rub her from the nose to her tail, over and over again, while she turns side to side and back to tummy, so I rub her all over. Then when I’ve gotten all sides completely rubbed, she jumps up and runs away. I originally put her under the covers, thinking she was cold on winter nights. But she does it summer and winter and I think she just wants to be petted, but doesn’t want to admit it.
The big dog is very respectful of her . She very carefully walks around her, expecting her to jump up and kill her. The little dog is very pushy and picks at her, teasing her a lot. Yet if I save her and remove her, she jumps back down and he picks on her again. So I think she secretly loves the attention.
So I have two dogs and one cat. And all of them are full of personality and quite eccentric. Hm, I guess they fit into this family quite well.
Filed under: Politics | Tags: corporate America, lobbyists, Sen. Sanders
Politics has gotten so weird lately. Politicians are making the most outlandish claims, stating obvious lies, and people actually listen to them. I guess the old saying is true: “If you say something enough times, someone is going to believe you.”
I agree with Sen. Sanders. There are so many lobbyists, paying so many politicians, that corporate America is probably the owner of our legislative branch.
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/rep-bernie-sanders/who-owns-congress_b_300104.html
A New York Times/CBS poll found that 65% of respondents want a public health care option, while only 26% opposed such a plan.
However, respondents said that President Obama had not been clear on health care reform. Fifty-five percent said he had not explained his plan clearly, and many felt under-informed about the policies under discussion.
The Senate Finance Committee will vote on a government-run health insurance option Tuesday.
“We’re going to have a full blown debate in the Finance Committee,” said Sen. Chuck Schumer (D-N.Y.), a backer of the public option. While it may be an “underdog,” Schumer said, “don’t count it out.”
Read more at: http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2009/09/25/poll-public-option-favore_n_299669.html
For all of the hoopla the Conservatives have been putting out there, its rewarding to know that a good majority of Americans favor a public option. I wonder if all Americans were polled, and educated beforehand about all of the possibilities, what percentage would go for a single payer health plan, similar to medicare for all. I bet it would be a majority too. It would be easier to get everyone on a medicare-type plan than it would be to reform and have a public option. We would just expand medicare to 50 year olds, then 40 year olds, on down, while keeping all children on a CHIP (similar to Colorado Health insurance Program).
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2009/09/25/poll-public-option-favore_n_299669.html
I have a lot of them. I’ll eventually add them all to my bio. Ranging from road rage in 3/4 ton pickups with a big dog in the back, to who never empties their trash at work.
One pet peeve I have is people who use Religion to base their moralistic ideals on when debating anything from Kosher eating to marriage equality. And you just can’t get them to discuss anything without using religion as the basis for their answers. I have asked people to puhleeez debate a subject using no religion, no Bible verses, no Church sermons. And they just cannot do it.
For example, I believe in marriage equality for everyone in this country. The rights of the minority sometimes have to be protected from the majority that thinks they rule this country. Leaving their religion out of it, they cannot answer subjectively any questions about why they do not accept marriage equality. Yet they continue to go back to “God’s will”, and “Adam and Eve, not Adam and Steve.” (give me a break). They truly believe that because THEY say the Bible agrees with them, that of course, we all should concede and agree . Where in the New Testament, where Jesus supposedly walked and talked does it say women must marry man and man must marry woman? It doesn’t.
Of course, in their Religious zeal, they quote the Old Testament, yet they continue to eat pork, play football with a pigskin, etc.
Religion is important to a lot of people. I think of myself as a spiritual person, not necessarily believing in a bearded man on a throne. But even I, as a spiritual person do not force my beliefs on others. And I definitely think that we should live and let live, and not force our beliefs on anyone else. We cannot change anyone else, and we do not want anyone else pushing their Religion on us. Life is too short. We need to live and love and enjoy this world.
