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Thanks, Jacksmith. I really

Oxy Mora — Sun, 19 Aug 2012 13:17:36 +0000

In reply to i dont know which of ryans

Thanks, Jacksmith. I really do wonder how his visit to the Villages played, down there, and on the national stage. Obviously I think his entire week was a process of reverse engineering his mythical purist resume, and, I want to believe that his general disingenuousness will rub off on his Medicare arguments. But I don't know, and have a concern that the linking of Medicare "cuts" to the dreaded Obamacare is cutting some ice with Seniors.

i dont know which of ryans

jacksmith — Sun, 19 Aug 2012 05:03:13 +0000

In reply to I promise my fellow

i dont know which of ryans situatioins i like best 1) i was against the stimulus, before i covertly took the money, while i railed against the stimulus. 2) my tax returns needed a lil touch up, retroactively, another failure to disclose to the IRS, sound familiar, romneyesque? 3) mommy, obama made me put the 700B takeaway from medicare, and it is his fault, he did it first! damn, this dude has some issues, and they are all of his own making. and, o yes: hey, girl, love your body, but i dont trust you with it. is that how to make smaller government?

There is an article about

Oxy Mora — Sat, 18 Aug 2012 15:03:38 +0000

In reply to Paul Ryan runs home to Mommy

There is an article about Ryan's visit to the Villages today in Daily Kos, "Paul Ryan hunts for votes in Republican utopia--or dystopia---".

Thanks. You may be right

Oxy Mora — Sat, 18 Aug 2012 11:15:29 +0000

In reply to JFK brought his mother Rose

Thanks. You may be right about JFK and President Obama. And I'm o.k. with comparing Ryan's Mom to Rose Kennedy, even though Rose perhaps would be in a separate category, having had two sons in combat fighting for the country's freedoms in WWII. Another difference might be that Rose and her son fought to keep our freedoms whereas Ryan and his ilk are attempting to remove freedoms, as in the attempt to block minorities and the elderly from voting through Voter ID laws. I don't know if Ryan's Mom is involved in charitable work trying to help the poor or prevent peoples freedoms from being trampled. If you have any information along that line please mention it.

The real point of my piece was the duplicity of Ryan using his Mom as a prop in his underlying effort to end Medicare, a program from which his Mom is benefiting- --and turn the program over to a healthcare company. I suppose if you agree with Ryan's underlying agenda to destroy Medicare as a government program because you, like him, are philosophically opposed to government programs, even a good one with 3% administrative costs---then you would be more agreeable than I am with Ryan using his mother as a prop for such a purpose. And perhaps you, like the Ryans, are wealthy enough not to have to depend upon Medicare, or---don't know your age---will be able to afford the additional $6400 in costs through a voucher program with a private company.

Also, Ryan intends to end a large chunk of Medicaid which is used to care for old folks in nursing homes, but neither he nor his mother will mention nursing home care cuts during their visit to the Villages---pobably because with the Ryan's wealth, they've got nursing home care of $3000 per month factored into their investnment income.

Thanks for commenting, that's what makes the world go around. If my Mom were still around I would gladly be on stage with her although the purpose would probably be to highlight her wonderful art pieces and her many charitable acts towards others rather than to promote my own agenda of destroying the benefits of others for my own political gain.

JFK brought his mother Rose

Anonymous — Sat, 18 Aug 2012 09:49:16 +0000

In reply to Paul Ryan runs home to Mommy

JFK brought his mother Rose EVERYWHERE on the campaign trail.

Obama would have, had his mother lived. He talked about her not having health insurance when she was ill. We learned that was not quite true.

Lovely. Had no knowledge of

artappraiser — Sat, 18 Aug 2012 08:20:09 +0000

In reply to Oh yeah the fetal personhood

Lovely. Had no knowledge of this law; now suspect that the culture of the country of origin of many of my neighbors is partly to blame for one of my nabe's major problems.

Thanks, Moat. Very well put.

Oxy Mora — Sat, 18 Aug 2012 02:13:57 +0000

In reply to When one surveys the

Thanks, Moat. Very well put. But is Ryan a sunk cost?

Oh yeah the fetal personhood

ocean-kat — Sat, 18 Aug 2012 00:03:39 +0000

In reply to Thanks, Kat. Hadn't heard

Oh yeah the fetal personhood bill. A fetus becomes a citizen at the moment of fertilization. Let's see how that works in other countries that have it.

http://jezebel.com/5935734/the-pregnant-teen-cancer-patient-who-couldnt-...

The pregnant Dominican teenager who had to wait twenty days to start receiving chemotherapy for her acute leukemia because of her country's draconian anti-abortion laws has died.

The anonymous teen was 16 years old and only nine weeks pregnant when the controversy began. Her plight gained attention over the last few weeks as doctors debated whether it was morally correct to start treating her cancer, given as Article 37 of the Dominican Constitution states that "the right to life is inviolable from the moment of conception and until death." It took doctors and the Dominican government a full 20 days to decide that God and Country might care about the actually living mother's life, too, not just the fetus inside of her, and allow the treatment. By then, it was too late.

When one surveys the

moat — Fri, 17 Aug 2012 22:07:55 +0000

In reply to First time reading your blog

When one surveys the complaints about unspent stimulus money in different states, the common cry is that the money will go away if not used as specified within a certain amount of time. That dilemma implies the very opposite of a "sunk cost" where the money has already been spent.

Thanks, Kat. Hadn't heard

Oxy Mora — Fri, 17 Aug 2012 21:30:57 +0000

In reply to Allegiance to the truth is

Thanks, Kat. Hadn't heard about the retraction. How was such a bold intellectual caught up in such a memory lapse? Now we can move on to his extreme positions, on for example, Personhood.