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[ebonlock]

Ok funniest thing I've seen on tv in ages - NewsMax magazine schilling for subscribers by attempting to drum up fear of terrorists and offering a free emergency radio to all new subscribers. You'd think they'd have updated and now be threatening people with dire warnings of the civil war to come now that the US is starting its inevitable (and horrifying!) slide towards Socialism. C'mon, people, keep up!

Of course why I was able to see said commercial is because I decided a mental health day was in order. Why you might ask?

1. Hachi is now pooping worms. Dozens of them. I had a minor freak out yesterday when I discovered it, photo-documented it and then got in touch with Sharon regarding her suggestions for treatment. Poor little kitty, she's really won the parasite lottery. Though this time it's just tapeworms and without fleas to act as an intermediary for their eggs they can't be spread. If I can clear her that should do the trick.

2. Tweaked my back doing a ton of yard work this weekend. On the plus side it's done! The far side of the house that borders my neighbor's driveway is now completely trimmed, edged and re-mulched so all it should require in future is a bit of trimming to keep it in shape.

3. Master bath toilet backed up and nearly overflowed last night. So off I went to OSH today for a toilet auger. Thankfully it did the trick but was unbelievably gross to do and managed to scratch up the porcelain pretty badly. Cheap toilet *sigh* add replacing that to the list of things to do I guess.

4. Monitoring my main credit card as it didn't work at the gas station when I filled the car up yesterday. Twice. I switched credit cards and the other one worked. Weird. I checked the account online and I don't see anything odd yet, but I'm on high alert right now.

5. So stressed out by the above that I didn't get much sleep and woke up a zombie.

It was just one of those days where going back to bed seemed the wiser course of action so I did. And now I'm better rested, still in a bit of back pain but I'll do some loosening up exercises for that. The toilet is cleared out and cleaned up. The cats are fed and resting and have cleaned out litterboxes.

On the plus side it's official, HCR made it through the House and it looks like the Dems have succeeded pretty much in spite of themselves. Is it everything we progressives wanted? No. Is it going to make the lives of millions of people, myself, friends and family included, a whole lot better? Yes indeed. I'm having trouble imagining life without the terror of one relatively bad illness completely decimating me financially, and/or losing any future health coverage because of it. I can't quite wrap my brain around it yet but I look forward to doing so.

The other plus side, of course, is the massive freak-out the wingnuts are currently engaging in. You've got everything from David Frum's morose declaration that the loss on the HCR front is the GOP's Waterloo to commenters over at Confederate Yankee declaring Civil War:

We have a war now, should this become law. The little liberal weenies who have been crying about illegal wars over seas are about to have a real reason to cry. This shall not stand in my land.

Never.

Posted by: Odins Acolyte at March 22, 2010 09:47 AM

D. Aristophanes at Sadly, No! labels this "Excellence in the Field of Impotent Rage" and ends his post with "Ragnarok, bitchez! Indeed.

Apparently the preferred method of Righty-y resistance is stamping their little feet and tossing out their census forms:

Right now my census is on top the fridge not filled out. After losing our liberty today it's staying there.

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I was thinking the same thing when it became clear this was going to pass.

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I too was on the fence. No longer. This made my choice easy.

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Me too!

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...I threw mine in the trash last week. F-EM!

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... The census form I "never got" is sitting on the bottom of my trash can.


To which Steve M. at No More Mister Nice Blog replies:

Wow -- maybe the recorded population of every red state in the union will plummet. If so, thanks! More federal dollars and seats in Congress for us up in here in Commie Land!

So I expect we can look forward to Rush Limbaugh leaving the country any day now, right?

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[pikabot]

So I expect we can look forward to Rush Limbaugh leaving the country any day now, right?

I think he may reevaluate his travel plans when he realizes that pretty much anywhere he goes in the world is either ~socialist~, run by 'furriners', or both.

[ebonlock.livejournal.com]

I think he may reevaluate his travel plans when he realizes that pretty much anywhere he goes in the world is either ~socialist~, run by 'furriners', or both.

There's still Costa Rica with the lax drug laws and beautiful doe-eyd boys...

[cyranocyrano.livejournal.com]

He did promise that he'd go to Costa Rica, where the US dollar might be worth something and they have decent national health care. Although I don't know if anybody told him that.

[ebonlock.livejournal.com]

I predict a complete reversal where he'll bellow obstinately about staying to fight the good fight against the evil Socialist Overlords. On the other hand I hear the Oxy and prostitutes are both cheap and plentiful down there, so...

[rexluscus.livejournal.com]

I was just reading about this Costa Rica thing - apparently medical tourism to Costa Rica is popular these days, because they have fancy private hospitals that do expensive procedures for way less than ours. The majority of the population depends on the national health care system, though, which is supposed to be pretty good. So basically they have boutique private sector medical services that are possible because of the universal and efficient public services that care for most of the country - that is what Limbaugh would be going down to exploit. He couldn't actually move there, though, because all residents are required to pay into the public system, even if they have private insurance.

[ebonlock.livejournal.com]

Assuming a lack of hypocrisy on his part (a stretch, but bear with me) the only place where he could move in good conscience would seem to be Somalia. I suggest he invest in an eye patch and stuffed parrot.

[rexluscus.livejournal.com]

Yeah, he's going to have a hell of a time finding a place to live that makes no demands that he contribute anything to society, and is not also a hell hole.

[kirylyn.livejournal.com]

I confess that I haven't been following the health care debate too closely because I figure I'm still screwed no matter *who* wins.

aside from the GOP saber rattling that its yet another "welfare entitlement" program that comes out of their *rolls eyes* I can't figure out WHY they're having such a hissy fit over it.

hey, if all those poor people DIE due to lack of health care, who's gonna clean your house, pool, take care of your kids, do the lawn, etc and so on?

/shakes head

glad to hear kitty is doing better

[ebonlock.livejournal.com]

I can't figure out WHY they're having such a hissy fit over it.

The thing is they'd have a hissy fit if Obama suggested kids should brush their teeth. No matter what the man does or doesn't do the GOP and their noise machine will gin up outrage over it, it's all they've got. And now that reality and truth are no longer important to an astonishing number of US citizens, they have no reason not to flat out lie. Who's going to call them on it?

[pikabot]

The thing is they'd have a hissy fit if Obama suggested kids should brush their teeth.

Well, of course. Everyone knows Fluoride is a mind-control agent!

[tavella.livejournal.com]

The census stuff makes me laugh. Oh, *please* erase yourself and lose your representation! We'll take your congresscritters!

[ebonlock.livejournal.com]

The census stuff makes me laugh. Oh, *please* erase yourself and lose your representation! We'll take your congresscritters!

I think the best thing we can do is to encourage their temper tantrum. By all means take your collective balls and go home. Let the rest of us be counted and represented, you all just go and pout in your corner.

[phillipalden.livejournal.com]

I hope your back (and the cat) both feel better.

[elenderel.livejournal.com]

There is no logical connection between passage of the health care reform bill, "losing your liberty" and refusing to be part of the national census to determine your state's representation in Congress. Those nutjobs are welcome to initiate their exodus and leave America to the rest of us.

I was going to fill out my census form later this week but I think I'll go ahead and do it tomorrow when I get home from work. I'll have the thing in the mail by Friday because I, for one, support this inexorable slide into *gasp* socialism. ::runs away after saying Teh Bad Word::

[murdoch.livejournal.com]

I'm much happier about the Census forms than the variant of "Dems are stupid. Throw rocks at them.".

http://www.cnn.com/2010/POLITICS/03/22/pols.dems.vandalized/ (and http://sipseystreetirregulars.blogspot.com/ )