If you’ve seen some of the “Obama wants to off your granny” BS being spread by some of the wingiest of wingnuts, you need to read Twenty-six Lies About H.R. 3200 at FactCheck.org. Subhead: “A notorious analysis of the House health care bill contains 48 claims. Twenty-six of them are false and the rest mostly [...]

Let’s postulate a Democratic Party success; that in honor of the late Senator Kennedy or for some other reason Congress passes a government-backed, single-payer health care plan. Yay! Even though we will pay higher taxes to support it, we’ll make up for that by relieving individuals and businesses of their current health insurance worries (and [...]

“This article provides a perspective on the Canadian healthcare system and what it has meant to a small business consultant and entrepreneur and his family.”

You gotta love these “conservatives.” Check this Dick Armey quote: “During my 18-year career in public office I campaigned tirelessly for less government intrusion in the lives of Americans. Telling seniors they must accept Medicare coverage or lose their Social Security benefits is the ultimate intrusion.”

Anonymous blogger One-Eyed Dick’s “About” page says, “I relocated to Sarasota several years ago. They said it was the promised land; paradise, if you will. But, like Rick Blaine observed when he was told that Casablanca was in the desert and had no water, “I was misinformed.” Oh, there’s water here, all right. It’s just [...]

The topic was health care, with hatred for Obama and them damn socialists and atheists and all other non-Republican human garbage as a sub-topic.
Compared to most of the people in the chock-full 600-seat* Braden River High School auditorium, Congressman Buchanan (R-Rich People) was a true liberal. Why, when a (gasp) black man actually got [...]

Video brought to you by internetvideopromotion.com - Wednesday, August 19, 2009 Organized by Bonnie Gray Productions - dance performances, free food and beverages, see local merchants and their wares. This is not to first time Bonnie has put on something like this, and hopefully it won’t be the last time. Please see bonniegray.com/ for more [...]

Aug. 18, 2009. You were either there or you were square. Or both.

A North Port man was arrested Friday night after he exposed his genitals during a road rage incident.
Read the complete Sarasota Herald-Tribune story.
Now think: if Randy Merklinger had been home, cooling out with a joint instead of driving around getting all raged up, the cops wouldn’t have had to bust him, and his victims wouldn’t [...]

Some Republicans have threatened to make health reform Obama’s “Waterloo,” as Senator Jim DeMint of South Carolina has put it. The President has fired back at what he considers GOP obstructionism. Meanwhile, big insurance companies have quietly focused on what they see as their central challenge: shaping the views of moderate Democrats.
Please read the August [...]