Today is an annual holiday where we honor our military veterans with parades, ceremonies and discount sales. Woodrow Wilson first proclaimed Armistice Day on November 11, 1919 to celebrate the end of World War I, and it called that until it was changed by Congress to Veterans Day in 1954. There are approximately 25 million veterans in the United States.
Obama Receives New Afghan Option
‘Hybrid’ Compromise Would Combine Troops, Trainers to Hold Back Taliban and Boost Local Military
Blackwater Said to Pursue Bribes to Iraq After 17 Died
Top executives at Blackwater Worldwide authorized secret payments of about $1 million to Iraqi officials that were intended to silence their criticism and buy their support after a September 2007 episode in which Blackwater security guards fatally shot 17 Iraqi civilians in Baghdad, according to former company officials.
Executed: D.C. Sniper John Allen Muhammad Put to Death
Last minute appeals and pleas for clemency denied, no last words.
Marine reservist attacked Greek priest he mistook for terrorist
Marine reservist Jasen Bruce was getting clothes out of the trunk of his car Monday evening when a bearded man in a robe approached him.
That man, a Greek Orthodox priest named Father Alexios Marakis, speaks little English and was lost, police said. He wanted directions.
What the priest got instead, police say, was a tire iron to the head. Then he was chased for three blocks and pinned to the ground — as the Marine kept a 911 operator on the phone, saying he had captured a terrorist.
Al Gore crusades against global warming
He is promoting his new book, “Our Choice: A Plan to Solve the Climate Crisis.”
Pilot charged after UK airport arrest
British police said they stopped a United Airlines pilot from flying while intoxicated earlier this week, pulling him from a Boeing 767 aircraft at London’s Heathrow airport and charging him with being on duty while his blood-alcohol level was over the limit.
Former Nasa astronaut Lisa Nowak pleads guilty to attacking love rival
Nowak, who drove 1,000 miles to confront Colleen Shipman, pleads guilty to burglary and battery charges.
Pay caps make it tough to hire execs: GM chairman
(Boo-fucking-hoo)
Somali Pirates Seize Greek-Owned Cargo Ship
Bear Juror Says U.S. Case So Weak She’d Invest With Defendants
Prosecutors missed the mark so widely in the fraud trial of Bear Stearns Cos. hedge fund managers Ralph Cioffi and Matthew Tannin that a juror said after their acquittal she would invest with them if she had the money.
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I have no time for him.
Do you hate them all? cuz I do too.
{{virtual high fives indigogirl}}
Hate ‘em all, let God sort ‘em out.
yeah, count me in on that …
Yes, I do!
What did I miss? I thought Gore didn’t endorse anyone in the primaries
You’re right partly and I’m wrong.
If you’d like a lolsob this morning, go back and look at the NYT piece (June 17, 2008) on the endorsement:
http://www.nytimes.com/2008/06/17/us/politics/17campaign.html
“Gore Endorses Obama as Solver of Problems.”
Ha!
Wait, it needs to be re-written.
Gore has such a great sense of humor.
Good revision SOD.
Al Gore waited until Hillary suspended her campaign, unlike others cough *Kerry*cough who endorsed early in hope of a job.
He saw the handwriting on the wall. If they allowed Hillary a row call vote and she won the nomination the media would have been out there accusing the DNC of stealing it from a black man. They were stuck with Obama.
Oh and BTW CCX has been trading since 2003 well before anybody was aware of the direction the derivative market was going.
Is Al Gore perfect?
No, but then who is?
What? You think they don’t know how to lay a foundation? This has been in the works for a while, since at least 2000 if not earlier.
A friend of my is one of 4 partners in a venture capital firm that represents one of the wealthiest men in America, if not the world. She tells me that he is actively buying water rights all over the planet right now.
Water will be a huge issue, bigger than anything. We are made of it. Remember Dune?
The tea leaves are so obvious they’re beginning to leave stains.
Tis why all of my retirement funds have now been removed from the Stock Market. Never again will I let the vampire squid get their grubby hands on my personal safety net.
You moved your funds in 2003?
{{back-at-ya}}
Chris Bowers:
They can’t govern now, so what’s the difference?
Yeah really.
My response to Bowers: How will you be able to tell?
ain’t that the truth
The drumbeat is starting to get us all in line. It won’t be hopenchangen for 2010, it will be “you are going to destroy our majority!”
So? I can’t see that they’ve done anything but harm with that much-vaunted majority. Why would I want to preserve it?
Apparently the pep talk was all about passing reform to benefit them politically.
Especially if it doesn’t take effect until 2013 – after Obama runs for reelection.
The Coat Hanger Party could have 95 seats and still not get anything done.
Ain’t that the truth.
I feel silly mentioning this, but didn’t the blogger boys used to defend the filibuster on principle (I amuse myself), and go crazy when the Repubs threatened to go nuclear?
To all the veterans
THANK YOU FOR YOUR SERVICE.
WOMEN WITH INTELLIGENCE AND EXPERIENCE,MEN WHO SUPPORT THEM AND COUNTRY BEFORE PARTY ALWAYS
PUMAS,BUBBAS,EQUALISTS AND THOSE PEOPLE RULE
http://www.boston.com/news/health/articles/2009/11/10/on_abortion_coakleys_stance_is_principled_but_self_defeating/
You women are so cute when you get mad!!
From the link:
The problem is that the legislative process is more of a “sausage-fest”
Easy for HIM to say – he not the one who decade after decade is the meat for the grinder in that “sausage-making process”.
Sausage making might be unpleasant for the spectators, but it’s death for the pig. Women are the pigs.
Now I like Coakley even more!
Let’s give Coakley some encouragement – tell her how glad that she’s being a leader and stepping up for the 51% of the population that Stupak and other’s forgot about.
Why are women being disappeared from the “anger” equation?
http://www.cbsnews.com/blogs/2009/11/10/politics/politicalhotsheet/entry5603617.shtml?tag=stack
From the link:
It was somewhat more complex than that. Remember Newt’s “Contract on America?”
That NAFTA bill was passed by equal bipartisanship and was based on the treaties negotiated by Bush Daddy and expand the existing Canadian trade agreements. That fight was over before Clinton even took office. He made an effort to inject worker protections before it was passed. I believe it was passed with a veto-proof majority. Refusing to sign it would have been theatrical and Clinton chose to bargain in some protections for workers in lieu of theatrics.
But of course HE was a traitor; just like in the DADT fight. He wanted to overturn it by Executive Order, but Congress took his ability to do that away. Instead of being theatrical, he choose to fall on his sword in return for the DADT which advanced gay rights as opposed to keeping the status quo of no gays allowed.
I want to spit when I hear these revisionists create history that ignores Clinton’s ability to advance the rights of the common man in the face of people that wanted to outright strip them.
Yep, 61 Senate Yays — veto proof.
http://www.citizen.org/print_article.cfm?ID=15960
Bill couldn’t get anything through Congress BEFORE the GOP took control.
That includes health care reform – it died in a Democratic Congress.
This is complicated when they actually have the power to do something.
Hate to say it but the pre-’94 Dems were a hell of a lot like the current crop. If there wasn’t some pork or another payoff in it, they wouldn’t pass squat. That’s why Bill had such problems with them.
I remember it being disgust with the corruption in the Democratic party after decades of dominance. Clinton hating Liberals love to blame the 94 loss on Clinton and NAFTA, but that is not the case.
I get really mad when Bill takes the full blame for NAFTA. Quite frankly, it was out of his hands and the only way he could have avoided blame was to “veto” instead of negotiating worker protections. He chose the latter and has been castigated for “NAFTA” ever since.
A lot of people have been rewriting history.
Some of them are rewriting what happened just last year.
Most of those people worked in the Obama campaign.
Remember how they blamed Bill Clinton for the repeal of Glass Steagall?
Funny how they never mention that he left office with the highest approval rating of ANY president in our history…68-70% based on poll variations.
Oh, baloney. Clinton signing NAFTA did not cause the loss of that majority. Several high-profile scandals among Dems, and Newt’s savvy campaigning did that. And NAFTA was actually very popular when it passed. It wasn’t until much later that everyone decided they were against it.
I love how Bill is held responsible for every Democratic loss that ever happened while he was president, but the governorships in NJ and VA had nothing to do with Obama.
They avoided Bill like the plague in 1998 while his approval rating was sky-high. Gore ran away from him too, and we saw how that turned out.
Gore wouldn’t give Bill the OK to campaign in Arkansas for him! Dumb since if Gore won Ark, he would have been president. Gore just threw the presidency away over a bit of personal anger. What a dumbass!
I left the Dem party after that loss. It wasn’t worth it anymore.
Newt Gingrich figured that while republicans would be ousted because of the House banking scandal more Democrats would lose their seats. His gamble paid off.
Yup. The public was disgusted and ready to clean house. Newt figured that “cleaning house” would hurt the Dems the worst, so he campaigned on it. It worked.
That’s why the Obama adoring crowd believed all the negative Clinton B S. They weren’t around or were in diapers watching Sesame Street when this stuff was happening.
As long as they are waking from their kool-ade induced stupor it’s all good.
I went shopping for a car once, I found one I wanted and fell in love. Hey, I’m a guy and had hormones back then. Anyway as I was walking around admiring its buffed and waxed whiteness I noticed a tape stripe was torn and crudely patched. I started looking closer, seeing all the dents, scratches, and repaired and painted panels I missed the first time.
Aravosis has noticed the torn tape stripe, soon he and other will notice the overall shabbiness of this administration and its leader.
Sounds like Big Dawg is pushing a stand down on the Stupak amendment too. The whole abortion thing really screws up our political rationality. I do not see how Republicans who are into no government interference can be so blind to how government interference with a woman’s reproductive health is like a giant contradiction. Rights of the unborn? It is a conundrum wrapped in a riddle. We are trapped by our bodies and god stuff.
If I heard Big Dawg say publicly that he thinks women should stand down I’d be shocked.
SOD the report I heard was that Big Dawg told a closed session of the Dem caucus that they should get a health care bill passed, no matter what. It was reported on Bloomberg, Fox and MSNBC. (Don’t know about others). It was a no press event but the report out was the priority of passing hc and fixing it later. So the report out may be wrong. I would hope he told the mods as you say.
“Feinstein added the issue of abortion did not specifically come up during the meeting. ”
http://www.cbsnews.com/blogs/2009/11/10/politics/politicalhotsheet/entry5605352.shtml?tag=cbsnewsLeadStoriesAreaMain;cbsnewsLeadStoriesHeadlines
Frankly, I don’t trust MSNBO.
I wouldn’t believe anything Fox, Bloomberg, or MSNBC says to smear Bill.
Imagine what would happen if the Big Dawg said “This is a bad bill – don’t pass it. Start over and do it right.”
He would be blamed for killing health care reform.
And by “blamed” I mean “crucified.”
MSNBO is reporting right now that Bill told them to take the abortion issue off the table and focus on cost containment.
does not compute — what does “off the table” mean? If I were an optimistic person I would interpret that as “kill the Stupak amendment.” But realistically it sounds like, “oh, quit bickering and just pass the bill already.” Which would be disappointing. (Then again, who hasn’t been disappointed by Bill — who I generally love — before?)
SOD: What do you think that means—take the abortion issue off the table? Does it mean let the Stupak amendment ride and don’t fight it—focus on cost containment? Or does it mean, delete it and focus on cost containment? It is not clear, for sure.
No, off the table means out of consideration.
When parties take an issue “off the table” it is withdrawn.
Hell, me either. I wouldn’t even believe a video on a “news” channel of him, since it’s so not beyond a single one of them to edit a tape to make the sound bites fit their spin of the day.
Only if he said it standing right in front of me. And then I’d probably ask him to repeat it to make sure I heard correctly.
Remember all the news reports of Bill going “ballistic?” and then the video showed him merely setting a stupidass straight.
To hear them talk you would’ve thought his eyes were bulging out of his skull and smoke was pouring out of his ears.
…about Hillary whacking him upside the head with a frying pan
LOL. Yea, and this time the secret service wouldn’t stop her since he’s not president. Oops, did I say that.
Big Dawg is playing the loyal good Dem as he always does. He knows the politics all too well. I assume he’s hoping that Stupak insanity will be fixed. At least I hope he does.
Bill knows if this P.O.S.passes it is the end of bo.
he can see beyond the forest
http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/2009/nov/10/iraq-court-ruling-guardian-media
Yesterday on the thread where Dakinikat originally posted that link, some commenters attributed the DOJ threat to be against FOX. If you read the story, the bullying was against a LIBERAL site, and the woman was smart enough to get representation and fight it. They also threatened her to talk about it, trying to impose a gag order. Once she mounted a defense and started talking about it, they dropped it and immediately claimed the DOJ lawyer was “rogue” and once again, Holder knew nothing about it.
Meet the new boss, same as the old boss.
Here’s my link of the day: http://jonathanturley.org/2009/11/11/form-follows-function-columbia-professor-arrested-for-punching-female-university-employee/.
I eagerly await our “national conversation on not punching the ladies,” followed by Beer Summit II.
Waiting.
Waiting.
Be careful. If you hold your breath too long you’ll turn blue.
I’m already a little down, periodically. (Well, that might be an exaggeration, because I am pregnant! So no periods for a while hopefully.)
BTW, congrats on the pregnancy!!
Thank you! I am nervous because the docs have deemed me a person of “advanced maternal age” (ie, over 35) and I’m not feeling “sick enough.”
I’ll keep you in my thoughts! Hey, if Madonna can do it, so can you.
Yeah – Congrats!
TY! I am crossing my fingers for a girl, because I am seriously outnumbered in this house. (3 boys + husband. Even our dearly departed kitty was a boy.) On the other hand, the way things are now, I get to be The Queen.
Congrats! If you have a daughter, you’ll never be less than the Queen Mother and that’s a pretty good spot.
Congrats on your pregnancy also, indulge in all the cravings you want. Rest when you can, Dream of the fun you will have with the little one. Even at 2AM .
WOMEN WITH INTELLIGENCE AND EXPERIENCE,MEN WHO SUPPORT THEM AND COUNTRY BEFORE PARTY ALWAYS
PUMAS,BUBBAS,EQUALISTS AND THOSE PEOPLE RULE
Congrats! And fooey on “the advanced maternal age” label (having been born just fine by an “advanced” mother myself!).
Standing back — worried about Jadzia’ “claws coming out.”
Congrats! Giving birth to another little rebel? We can use the numbers
Yes, we need more moms like Jadzia, full of spunk, spirit, and love. I will send you good thoughts and lots of (((cyber hugs))).
About the marine: we are going to have more and more of these incidents I sadly think as we have so many military people returning from multiple tours to war zones. Very troubling for them and for us.
It’s not just the guys who have done multiple tours and wigged out. PTSD isn’t an excuse, but it is an explanation.
The larger probelm, in my view, is the growing number of keyboard warriors who have swallowed the anti-Muslim hype coming out of various wingnut media and have succumbed to the fantasy of oh-my-god-every-man-with-a-beard/Arabic name/bathrobe-is-a-jihadi-terrorist-ANDTHEY’REGOINGTOKILLUSALL!!!!!!! There’s not only a growing anti-Muslim bigotry in this country, but a growing acceptance of it. Black men used to be the embodiment of the shadow in the American psyche. Now that overt racism is no longer socially acceptable, the fear and projection have simply transferred themselves to another “other,” who also just happen to be (mostly) dark-skinned men.
Just another devastating fact about the health status of women:
AIDS is the world’s top killer of younger women
http://health.usnews.com/articles/health/infectious-diseases/2009/11/10/health-buzz-aids-is-worlds-top-killer-of-younger-women-and-other-health-news.html
Of speeches and representation
http://edgeoforever.wordpress.com/2009/11/11/while-obama-gave-new-tingles-up-the-leg/
Violet Socks:
There’s more – Go read it
Should be cross-posted to every “not your mother’s feminism” blog on the Internet.
Guys like the above think it’s funny to slip a date rape drug into a girl’s drink at a frat party. They also think that what ever happens afterward the girl deserves.
I know so called liberal guys who can’t even say the word Alaska without snorting through their noses, that’s how much they hated Palin.
Congrats Jazdia! I hope you have a lovely little girl, for that extra estrogen boost around the house, or a lovely little boy to maintain your Queenly status.
WARNING: Do not read this piece after eating breakfast, unless you want to wear it:
Pelosi’s victory for women
Sure, her healthcare bill is a mess, but her gritty maneuvering shows her mettle. Plus: Gainsbourg and Gaga
By Camille Paglia
Speaker of the House Nancy Pelosi scored a giant gain for feminism last weekend. In shoving her controversy-plagued healthcare reform bill to victory by a paper-thin margin, she conclusively demonstrated that a woman can be just as gritty, ruthless and arm-twisting in pursuing her agenda as anyone in the long line of fabled male speakers before her. Even a basic feminist shibboleth like abortion rights became just another card for Pelosi to deal and swap.
Whether or not her bill survives in the Senate is immaterial: Pelosi’s hard-won, trench-warfare win sets a new standard for U.S. women politicians and is certainly well beyond anything the posturing but ineffectual Hillary Clinton has ever achieved.
http://salon.com/news/opinion/camille_paglia/2009/11/10/pelosi/index.html
another Gender Traitor
You put it so nicely.
My first thought reading that line about Clinton: Camille, you ignorant slut. Whoring with the powers that be again.
I guess she missed the part about Hillary winning 18 million votes, more than any other primary candidate. If Pelosi left her district, she’d be toast. And she dares to say that she “scored a giant gain for feminism?!” I bet she liked the MS. cover of Obama too–real paragons of feminism those two.
Whenever Camille Paglia is mentioned I have to bring out my standard Molly Ivins quote:
RIP Molly
Only the good die young.
My disdain for Paglia can’t even be put into words. Piece of shit comes to mind, but that’s to gentile and is insulting to shit.
“Posturing and ineffectual” fits Paglia pretty well. “Hopeless idiot” works, too.
I tried to read her once. When I got to the bit where she called the famous bust of Nefertiti–womanpower if there ever was–”supremely phallic,” I tossed the book into the recycle bag.
Why punish yourself by reading the ravings of Ms. Camille Paglia? She is like a crazy aunt kept in the attic (back when people kept crazy aunts in the attic). I can’t believe anyone would publish such swill, but I dropped my Salon subscription when they stopped being liberal.
djmm
“hard-won”?
What’s the point of winning if it’s really losing?
That piece is so illogical it makes my head hurt.
I love the fact that Chris Dodd has come out with a 1,136 page financial regulation reform plan that promises, among other things, more ” transparency”.
The length of the plan alone makes one wonder WTH is really in it???
The WSJ is referring to it as, not too big to fail, but ” too long to read “. LOL
unbelievable … why are these acts so purposefully daunting before they even go anywhere?
Simple answer:
If a piece of legislation is unnecessarily complicated or seems to lack common sense. it’s because the author took special interest money to make it so.
The House health – care bill is 1,990 pages long!
And stamped with a special interest money seal of approval.
The Democrats keep using the word “transparency.”
I don’t think they really know what it means.
Well, their hypocrisy is transparent–maybe that’s it.
This is what happens when you screw your base:
Independents prefer the GOP 52% to 30%
The sad part about this is the Coat Hangers will look at this as proof they must move more to the right, not that they are losing their Liberal base.
From what I’m hearing from average-Joe on the street, it’s not so much a right/left thing as it is an accountability and arrogance and cluelessness thing – from both parties. Both the honest right and the honest left voter want some damn honest REPRESENTATION. Everyone of every political stripe is sick to death of insular Washington and their reindeer games that leave the PEOPLE out of the loop.
If a strong populist emerges, whether Right or Left, then look out establishment – it’s curtains for the PTB.
And the party that has learned to bounce back from this kind of adversity (Watergate, Iran-Contra) isn’t the one I used to support.
Say what you will about Fox, Limbaugh and Savage but their listeners will be out in force to vote 2010.
On our side you have the media fools blowing Obama’s horn when we all know this emporor has no clothes.
We can only pray that a strong populist movement emerges. My greatest fear is continuing this vicious cycle of repub-dem-repub-dem control where the only winners are the elite friends of the PTB.
Praying won’t help much, you need to be out there sowing the seeds.
You have to get people to start changing the way they look at the political landscape.
They are conditioned to think that only the two major parties have any chance and that third parties are composed of mostly loons.
Get them asking themselves the question, ” Am I getting what I really want from the current political system?”
I think the word is paradigm.
But when we warned them that Obama and his “new DNC” would destroy the Democratic brand, we were called Republican rat-fuckers.
Sucks to be right.
Ayup
They knew, don’t for one minute think they didn’t. They could read and saw Obama for what he was but still supported him anyway because they weren’t thinking past last November.
they weren’t thinking past their own stock portfolios
http://www.rasmussenreports.com/public_content/politics/general_politics/november_2009/58_say_next_president_likely_to_be_republican
So we gotta wait until at least 2016 or 2020 before we get a real Democrat in the White House.
Fucking Obama
what is a “real democrat?”
aren’t they extinct?
Endangered, but there are a few left.
Dennis Kucinich, Jerry Brown, Hillary
When Brown gets geared up for the governors race I am going to volunteer for him, assuming he doesn’t transform into another Dem weakling. When Hillary runs again (that’s my hope and change), I’ll be right there again.
Gotta go find the link, I think it was a video.
If it means we get rid of Obama sooner. Fine with me.
I wish he would have lost 08 so that right now me and all of you would be discussing how we are re-building Liberalism in this country and preparing HRC’s 2012 war chest instead of mourning the loss of our democracy.
That was why I voted the way I did.
me too
me three
I voted the way I did because I didn’t reward my childrens’ bad behavior and I wasn’t about to reward the grow ups, I use that term loosely.
Yep; same here.
Honor the troops for all they have done for our country by hearing their stories through free documentaries – http://bit.ly/27d6Kd
David “m-m-m-my” Sirota wakes up and smells coffee:
This part is just precious:
WE TOLD YOU SO!
That is BO’s MO. He sells just about everyone down the river, except for special interests like Wall Street, Insurance industry, pharmaceutical companies, etc.
And the old men in pink dresses.
Hey Sirota, you’re a fucking idiot. Can I say that here.
Someday in the not so far off future I, the lone sane person of voting age in my house, will have the utmost satisfaction of the tastiest “I . Fucking. Told. Y’all.” rolling of my tongue into the ears of my beloved family of Obot/Demapologists when they too start complaining.
It’s a comin’ I jez know it!!!!
And I will NOT be silently taking the high road.
WCMB – If you still there may I ask you a general question about a social worker(!) telling me that her decision takes precedence over the surgeons opinion on whether my Mom can stay under hospital care or has to go to nursing home care.
I”m new to all this and don’t want to hijack this mornings discussion. But this is the first place I come in the am and the last in the pm.
Many thanks to all who offered good thoughts, prayers and energy for Mom. Guilt kicked (she had me well trained), I asked for a second opinion after sitting a 9 day death watch and things have really turned around. I thinks having the collective positive energy sent this compassionate, kind new surgeon my way. The other surgeon will be reported. Just so happens my personal doc is also the administrator of both the hospital and clinic.
If anyone has experience with such a situation and has anything to add, please do.
Myiq: Great morning report! I know it’s supposed to be an open thread but I still feel funny about interrupting.
I know you’ll all forgive the mispelling etc.
This is, I think, a good comment on current health practices. When did social workers go off the rails?
G-cat, I don’t know about your hospitals protocols, but I do know a good lawyer trumps a social worker. You might want to have one handy.
More good thoughts your way. Keep strong as you deal with your mother.
My understanding is that no, the social worker’s decision doesn’t trump the surgeon for the simple reason that the social workers decision doesn’t trump yours and your mothers. The social worker can certainly make trouble, but you will win in the end.
If this is a person that needs to feel power by saying no or by having some control, one way to handle them if you can’t immediately have them replaced as the assigned person to this case is to act as if their opinion is very important and to be taken into consideration. But have a talk with a lawyer at the same time.
G-cat:
Don’t know if this will be helpful but when my mother was near- death in the hospital a few years ago with a severe infection following hip surgery, the unit social worker at the hospital decided my mother was well enough to be discharged. She informed Medicare of her decision. I disagreed with it as did her doctor.
The social worker said that if I wanted to keep my mother in the hospital, I would have to agree to pay out of pocket for her care and that I could appeal Medicare. She told me in all the years she had worked at the hospital, Medicare had NEVER reversed any of her decisions.
Well, I signed the paper agreeing to assume responsibility for my mother’s bill and my mother remained in the hospital until HER DOCTOR said she was well enough to be released. The happy ending is that Medicare overruled the social worker’s decision within 24 hours and covered the entire cost of my mother’s hospital stay.
You have to do what you and your mother’s doctor feel is in your mother’s best interest. The social worker should STFU.
Be willing to fight the system HARD because in my experience only those who fight triumph in the end. Good luck to you and your mother.
Now, back to regular programming….
And, no, I did not consult a lawyer. I did it on my own, trusting my gut instincts.
I am so glad your mom is feeling better. The doctor and the patient are more important than the social worker. Just do what is best for your mom. She rules.
WOMEN WITH INTELLIGENCE AND EXPERIENCE,MEN WHO SUPPORT THEM AND COUNTRY BEFORE PARTY ALWAYS
PUMAS,BUBBAS,EQUALISTS AND THOSE PEOPLE RULE
Sounds like the social worker is a case manager. They usually pull a lot of weight, especially when they are monitoring length of hospital stay, or what is called ‘utilization.’
But they do not trump the physician, who can justify the continuing stay one way or another. If a doc makes a hard enough case for the patient remaining in the hospital, then the case manager backs down. But the utilization review process will be ongoing and you can expect to have to keep talking about it on a daily basis. That’s how it is these days.
Thanks all, just came from the good lawyers office re: my poa. If my family wasn’t all batshit insane and sneaky in the extreme it would all be so much easier.
I so miss the old medical days, nothing was ever this hard then.
Whatever comes out of the proposed clusterf&*k of health care may make my experience seem like a walk in the park.
Well, I’m disgusted. I’ve been told I fought for everyone’s freedom. Apparently, they meant every MAN’S freedom. Women, not so much.
http://www.time.com/time/nation/article/0,8599,1937701,00.html
has anyone identified how much ‘Pork’ is in the proposed Men’s Health Care Bill?
I think the entire bill is pork for the insurance industry. Though I’m sure some unrelated pork will be slipped in as well. It’s a real porker of a bill. Oink. Hey, wonder if Obama will put some lipstick on it.
hello all posted this on Dakinikats thread: didnt see it would be more appropiate here:
total off topic but I am posting this on all my bloggs!
As a former Naval Officer that served from 1985-1992 I would like to say it was both an honor and a priviledge to serve and protect succh fine and true Americans as you.
The Myth that the right(read Republicans) is a friend of the military has been shown to be what it really is. The right supports the military only in as much as it sends our soldiers marines airman and naval personnel off to die and/or be maimed for life in needless wars in places far from home.
I know each of you here is committed to stopping the carnage and bringing our fine women and men home safely thank you all it has been an honor to serve you the citizens here who believe in this constitutional republic.
In your capable civilian hands I am sure our rule of law will endure.
Thank you
Michael P Varvel LT,SC,USNR-R
now back to our regularly scheduled thread!
Thank You.
Today I was at a wonderful Veteran’s Day presentation at my daughter’s school where they had around a dozen vets and active duty walk in the colors and make comments. The kids sang and the band played, so touching and beautifully done. A 6th grader with the voice of an angel sang the national anthem.
I, of course, blubbered thru the whole thing. (And sat in the back as to not totally embarass my 10 yr old)
To all vets reading this, thank you!
How many veterans are there here at TC?
I’m a former Navy corpsman. I served from 1986- 1997 actively and was delayed entry for a year prior.
My thanks to you. Happy Veterans’ Day!
corpsman are your best friends at sea or inport LOL
I loved my job while I was in the service. I loved the traveling and experiencing different places and I loved helping people. I’m very proud that my field had the most Congressional Medal of Honor recipients too. It was an honor to share a profession with people who were willing to make the ultimate sacrifice on behalf of their fellow soldiers.
sure ED treatments are covered in the healthecare reform bill!
This blog entry about the HC bill is well written and concise and doesn’t pull any punches:
http://www.blackagendareport.com/?q=content/played-betrayed-health-care-delayed-house-passes-bailout-private-insurance-companies
I got an error message when clicking on that link
http://www.blackagendareport.com/?q=content/played-betrayed-health-care-delayed-house-passes-bailout-private-insurance-companies
there shouldn’t be a problem but you can get there from the homepage link from the blogroll
weird it isn’t working
http://www.blackagendareport.com/
thanks indigogirl….
http://pumasunleashed.wordpress.com/2009/11/10/obama%e2%80%99s-godfather-chapter-6-the-devil%e2%80%99s-coup-d%e2%80%99-etat/
since it is veterans day and millions have fought to have the people’s voice heard in elections, i thought this was a great post showing what is happening to our election system.
WOMEN WITH INTELLIGENCE AND EXPERIENCE,MEN WHO SUPPORT THEM AND COUNTRY BEFORE PARTY ALWAYS
PUMAS,BUBBAS,EQUALISTS AND THOSE PEOPLE RULE
http://www.theonion.com/content/video/paleontologists_discover_skeleton
here’s for the folks at rump-o-router … they’ve discovered your missing link/ancestor !!!
LOL, that was funny. I especially like the description of how it stakes it’s feces in heat piles.
I get all my news from ONN. The only news source you need.
Also nice to see Bobbie Battista again.
Big Thank you to Veterans everywhere. And especially our own right here. You rock.
As for the marine that captured the greek orthodox “terrorists”, I hope someone kicks his ass adequately. Just because you have a uniform doesn’t mean you can’t be a complete idiot. But maybe he’s done great things too, so let’s reserve judgement as with anyone. But kick his ass just the same.
http://www.google.com/hostednews/ap/article/ALeqM5gY3Mc-UkDg8T_N4-grLkpDtjvHJQD9BSTC0O0
this is from No Quarter about some veterans we should never forget. The Code Talkers
WOMEN WITH INTELLIGENCE AND EXPERIENCE,MEN WHO SUPPORT THEM AND COUNTRY BEFORE PARTY ALWAYS
PUMAS,BUBBAS,EQUALISTS AND THOSE PEOPLE RULE
Even less well – known is the role of the Choctaw Code Talkers in WWI.
I remember my Choctaw grandmother telling me about her brother’s service during ” The Great War “.
Tell us about it …
Freedom is not Free.
to everyone that has ever served and those now in harms way.
a very humble sincere heartfelt
THANK YOU. Americas Heroes
Wow, long thread. Thank you to all the veterans on their day. Here’s a nice diversion for lovers of our soldiers and their family dogs.
http://www.mentalfloss.com/blogs/archives/40324
TY to everyone for the good wishes!
cheers to the vets!