Why A Strong Public Option Is Essential – By jacksmith – Working Class (Guest Post)

A majority of voters would rather have a Democrats only bill with a Public Option. Rather than a bipartisan bill without a Public Option.

ATTENTION!! Congress Has The Votes Needed To Pass A Public Option – TODAY

Why A Strong Public Option Is Essential – By jacksmith – Working Class

Robert Reich explains the pubic option:  (His Blog)

Hollywood Supports The Public Option

It’s not just because more than two thirds of the American people want a single payer health care system. And if they cant have a single payer system 77% of all Americans want a strong government-run public option on day one (86% of democrats, 75% of independents, and 72% republicans). Basically everyone.

It’s not just because according to a new AARP POLL: 86 percent of seniors want universal healthcare security for All, including 93% of Democrats, 87% of Independents, and 78% of Republicans. With 79% of seniors supporting creating a new strong Government-run public option plan, available immediately. Including 89% of Democrats, 80% of Independents, and 61% of Republicans, STUNNING!!

It’s not just because it will lower cost. Because a strong public option will dramatically lower cost for everyone. And dramatically improved the quality of care everyone receives in America and around the World. Rich, middle class, and poor a like.

It’s not just because it will save trillions of dollars and prevent the needless deaths of millions more of YOU, caused by a rush to profit by the DISGRACEFUL, GREED DRIVEN, PRIVATE FOR PROFIT MEDICAL INDUSTRIAL COMPLEX!

It’s not just because every expert in every field, including economist, and Nobel laureates all agree that free market based healthcare systems don’t work. Never have and never will. The US has the only truly free market based healthcare system in the World. And as you all know now, IT IS A DISASTER!

It’s not just because providing or denying medically necessary care for profit motivations is wrong. Because it is WRONG! It’s professionally, ethically, and morally REPUGNANT!, Animalistic, VILE and EVIL.

THE REASON THE PUBLIC OPTION IS ESSENTIAL:

The public option is ESSENTIAL because over 200 million of you are trapped in the forest of the wolves. Which is the forest of the DISGRACEFUL, GREED DRIVEN, PRIVATE FOR PROFIT MEDICAL INDUSTRIAL COMPLEX! With no way out except through needless inhumane suffering, and DEATH. While the wolves tear at your flesh, and rip you limb from lib. Then feast on your lifeless bodies like a dead carcase for transplant parts.

At the most vulnerable times of your lives (when you were sick and hurting), millions of you have had to fight and loose cruel, but heroic battles. Fighting against the big guns of the DISGRACEFUL, GREED DRIVEN, PRIVATE FOR PROFIT MEDICAL INDUSTRIAL COMPLEX! in the forest of the wolves. All because you have no place else to go. You have no other CHOICE!

But the PUBLIC OPTION will give you someplace safe to go. And it will give us someplace safe to take you. The public option will be your refugium (your refuge). Where the wolves cannot get at you when your down, hurting, and vulnerable. Where everyone who needs it can find rest, security, comfort and the care they need. Protected by the BIG GUNS of We The People Of The United States. THE MOST POWERFUL PEOPLE AND COUNTRY ON EARTH.

This is why it is so critical that we do not lead another 50 million vulnerable, uninsured Americans into the forest of the wolves, without the protections of a Strong Government-run MEDICARE like public option. We The People Of The United States MUST NOT LET THAT HAPPEN to any more of our fellow Americans. If healthcare reform does not contain a strong MEDICARE like public option on day one. YOU MUST! KILL IT. Or you will do far more harm than good. And millions more will die needlessly. Rich, middle class, and poor a like.

To those who would continue to obstruct good and true healthcare reform for the American people, and who seek to trap millions more vulnerable Americans in the forest of the wolves. We will continue to fight you. We are prepared to wage all out war against you, and will eagerly DESTROY! you. Time…is…UP! YOU HAVE BEEN WARNED! No Co-op’s! No Triggers! NO INDIVIDUAL MANDATES! without a Strong MEDICARE like public option on day one.

Healthcare reform can be the GREATEST! Accomplishment of our time and century. A time when future generations may say of us, that we were all, AMERICAS GREATEST GENERATIONS.

BUT WE MUST ACT!

I therefore call on all my fellow Americans and the peoples of the World. To join us in this fight so that we may finish becoming the better America that we aspire to be for everyone.

SPREAD THE WORD!

I have been privileged to be witness as many of you fought, and struggled to take your first breath, and your last breath on this earth. Rich, middle class, and poor a like. Life is precious.

Whatever the cost. WE! MUST SUCCEED.

God Bless You My Fellow Human Beings

jacksmith – Working Class

Things You Can Do To Help NOW!

No Triggers!

Triggers

Krugman on heathcare

Senator Bernie Sanders on healthcare

John Garamendi on the Public Option and the Grassroots

Howard Dean on the Public Option

We’re Number 37! in quality of health care

Twitter search (#welovethenhs #NHS #hc09 #hcr #healthcar #obama #p2 #topprog #) Check it out.

B’Man’s Hypocrite Watch: Senator Lamar Alexander

I received my regular newsletter chock full of bullshit from Alexander. Guess what he wants to do now?

He wants to “re-earn the trust of the American people“.

How wonderful!

The question that sprinted to the front of my mind was, “Why now?” I mean, you have been lying and cheating us for so long at this point, why the change of heart? Why would you worthless, kowtowing, Corporately-owned shills want our trust after the immense screwing that you have given us for decades?

Let’s see: from this graphic, it appears that your biggest contributors are found (SURPRISE) in Insurance and Finance. Isn’t that an amazing coincidence? But there is nothing to see here Sheople. Just go back to the polls and select the man that is heavily responsible for the Tennessee mindset of idiocy.

Read what the pawn of Big Insurance wrote and how he titled his speech to the Senate (I know you will flock to his magnetic lying personality):

Alexander: “The Era of the 1,000-Page Bill Is Over”
Calls for Step-by-Step Approach to Re-Earn the Trust of the American People

Yes, Sir. After all these years in the Senate, playing the game by supporting such large bills that you and your sister party, the demoRATs, have repeatedly tried to pull the wool over our eyes with; bills you know that hardly no one will read, much less comprehend, are ready to be the populist choice and make it easier for the citizenry to understand the issue. Is that your purpose, Lamar?

Let me explain how late you are to the dance.

I have already picked up your date, danced the night away, took her home and bedded with her and told her (your Mama) “so long”. You are just showing up to get your tux.

We ain’t as stupid as you think.

Here, let me give you something that you may be able to read and it fits easily in your “less than 1,000 pages”.

HR 676

or even this pdf (you may want to have your assistant download this for you and print it out as to avoid the embarrassment of your lack of skill set).

Now, I do want to move on to the gist of his bullshit:

September 15th, 2009 – WASHINGTON – U.S. Senator Lamar Alexander (R-Tenn.) today made the following remarks on the floor of the Senate (a full transcript of Senator Alexander’s remarks is available upon request):

• “It’s time for Congress to admit that we don’t do comprehensive well. It’s time for us to admit that the era of the 1,000-page bill is over.”

Wonder why there is always 1,000 pages? Could it have to do with all the bullshit fluff that is added either to water down or taint the initiative? Wonder why you couldn’t do a concise 30 page bill like HR 676?

• “I think it’s obvious that we in Congress have been biting off more than we can chew on immigration, health care, and other issues. We’ve been producing 1,000-page bills which most members of Congress haven’t even read, in which voters have no confidence, and out of which will come unintended consequences and results that are bad for our country . . . it inevitably adds to the debt—the national debt, the government’s debt, our taxpayer debt—at a time when we’re adding $9 trillion to the debt in just ten years and everyone is worried about how we’re going to pay that back. And at a time, fairly or unfairly, where the American people are seeing a new administration propose, it seems like, a new Washington takeover every other day—the banks, insurance companies, student loans, and now health care.”

Wow, so you are saying we should streamline the process and do something that will save the country money regarding healthcare (and the other issues you list)? I wonder, Mr Conservative, did you read that HR 676 bill yet? Did you happen to glance at it while visiting your attending physician on staff for $503/year just 1 floor below you?

I wonder if your goal is to streamline it down to what is available to you? Somehow, I doubt it because you are a cheat and liar.

• “I suggest we change course—that we follow rule 259 from my ‘Little Plaid Book’ and we begin to work on major issues facing our country step by step to re-earn the trust of the American people, to begin to solve the big challenges of this country. We bite off what we can swallow. We make sure we get it right. And after we’ve taken the first steps, then we can take another series of steps until we eventually resolve the problem. A few steps in the right direction are a good way to get where you want to go.”

I don’t want to know any of your pygmy pony prostitutes from your little plaid book, Alexander. Or maybe you meant this rule number 259? I suppose for once, I can agree, but I miss your point unless you all want us to pull a Beck.

Look, let me explain that the bullshit that you have frothed at us is old news, dude. Are you so far gone down the path of corruption that you believe the shit you say and it just isn’t the regular old lying talking points? Is your goal to “take back the Whitehouse”, so you reTHUGlicans now want to act as if your care, after decades of proving you don’t?

No, sir. Most of us are not quite that stupid.

Let me give you a hint about how to win back the Whitehouse and a majority in Congress (write this down before your little mind forgets it). Take the reigns and implement Single Payer Not-For-Profit Health Care for each and every American (that’s probably enough for you to take it back, but if not…)

Bring each and every one of our Troops home NOW, Stop the boondoggle that you and your cronies began with lies and deceit. Bring them home and take that money and FIX our helath care.

To ensure your next win  reTHUGlicans in a landslide, deny all monies coming from Health Insurance and Big Money, in general. Change the rules of campaign finance.

Want to know how to keep the leadership forever?

Instill term limits and Preferential Voting across the USA and eliminate Corporate Personhood.

You would be guaranteed victory across the board for decades to come. (I’ll address why they will NEVER do any such thing in a moment)

• “In the end, we need results, and I’ve concluded that the best way to get results on health care, on immigration, on other major issues facing our country is to put aside the 1,000-page bills and re-earn the trust of the American people by working step by step to begin to solve the challenges facing our country.”

Immigration issues do not even blip the screen like Health Care is dominating the screen, Lamar. Our biggest two issues in this country right now are the Empire you support (which is breaking us, just like it did the Roman Empire) and health care. The money saved by a comprehensive Single Payer system (or something derived from evaluating every Universal system in the world, picking and choosing the best practices and implementing that) will save Billions of dollars and give us much better care and longer, healthier lives.

Mr Alexander, when you get back from your tax payer provided medical services just under your feet, please consider that it is the very voters that put you where you are that is paying for that service you and your selfish, “bought and paid for”  fellow criminals in Congress use. We knew you had it good on our nickel, but the magnitude is just coming out.

And we WILL be pissed, Lamar (I am already). I just tend to be ahead of the curve.

I intend to inform as many people as humanly possible about your lies, deceit and thievery off the backs of your constituency. This, I promise.

You don’t fool us all, Lamar. We aren’t all oblivious rednecks who can’t think beyond your friends at Fox or the Trilateral Commission or the Zionist owners/controllers.

We also know that the “Public Option” is a diversion. It has been working pretty well because you have the Big Guns of the MSM and the gullible Sheople that suck off Barack Obama. But more and more information is arising that will tear down your mountain of lies and sleight of hand tricks set to fool us. Thing is, you folks are no David Copperfield. Your “magic” is bad and the tricks are easy to see. The problem thus far is that the Sheople haven’t even been watching the show (shit, we can’t miss American Idol or the 140 consecutive hours of Michael Jackson’s untimely death, etc, etc, etc)

I believe we are paying much closer attention lately. We are keeping our eyes on the hand that isn’t flashy… the one really doing the illusion.

We know now, at least the smartest of us (which basically means the ones who don’t watch the TV and listen to Beck, Limpballs and the like).

Lamar, in a nutshell, dude, you are a day late and a dollar short. You and every one of you worthless money grubbing American hating traitors need to go. I will do my part to educate the others to make sure they see you for what you are. A cheat and a scoundrel.

You can watch this wretched liar and cheat vomit his bogus bullshit below (Grab your barf bag):

Everything is OK Montage

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Everything Is OK

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B’Man’s Hypocrite Watch: $503 Per Year Health Care

Just ask your congressperson ripoff about it.

I dare you to click that link, watch the video and NOT get pissed off.

Bastards!

Single Payer, Not-For-Profit Health Care for Each and Every American is the ONLY Way Now.

Hey Beck: Cry Me A River

A true Patriot if you ever knew one, huh?

This must be extremely embarrasing for all you fruitcakes who think of this guy as a Patriot.

Wake up, Sheople!

h/t PrisonPlanet

DISPATCH FROM THE GAMBLING FRONT OF THE WAR ON TERROR

Let´s get it started with bit of venting. This is how I feel about BOTH Larry Summers and his head salesman, Barack Obama.

Pertinent news pieces:

Six More Bank Accounts Seized by Maryland Feds- Related to Bodog

Robert M. Morgenthau: Venezuela and Iran Form an Axis of Evil …

Good. I´m warmed-up and can play the Olivetti again (Dan Jenkins line). Some voices of the non-mafia vox populi, friends of mine indicted or named on federal gambling charges yesterday:

23-year old Woman, indicted on felony gambling charges facing life for being a cocktail waitress (not a “service professional,” a cocktail waitress at a V2oo9 speak-easy, fuck the preferred nomenclature) carrying two previous cocktail-waitress felony guilty pleas into this for yes being a cocktail waitress :

mentally and actually preparing for what may very well be the most difficult day ive had to face. i need love

32-year old Woman, highish up at NYC Legal Aid Society and representative of woman above
see you there–you are the strongest 23 yr old ever. love you! so-and-so is not having her annual Halloween party this year. I know, im depressed about it too

27-year old woman, so far un-dicted co-conspirator

love you __H__I im sorry for the loss. If you need anything just call♥ sad day for NY poker

Another friend with regard to woman indicted under terror-related federal gambling statutes in PATRIOT ACT, so far still unindicted co-conspirator:

Love from me to you its all I got

28-year old Man, currently getting M.S. in engineering at Columbia University, indicting facing life for gambling USA PATRIOT tangent means he´s facing life in prison, no parole:

Thank you Jayme and Voltaire for sharing this special occasion with you both. It was amazing as are you both. ps ironic day to be dress as a gangster type.

35-year old Man:

rikers island to visit joey, im gonna try to get plaxicos autograph [The joey he refers to is also a good friend as is everyone who used Facebook gingerly to reach out...Joe is currently a kindergarten teacher...I´m not joking, man, there is no SOL on these charges.]

A friend of 40-year old Man who spent a week in April with Magda and me. He took all the beautiful pictures of Madga. The dude is one of my closest friends in the states. Cellphone doesn´t respond. Everyone´s worried sick about him and everyone who was or still “in the life”.

Hey what’s up.. Call me.. Wanna catch up. Where u been my friend.. X ~ DL

Twin brother of engineering student (not indicted):

yes.XXXX is that XXXX…a bunch of people were indicted by the US attorney general. So its now federal. I think the minimum is twenty years but I could be wrong
Another friend and unindicted co-conspirator in response to something the brother had said in reference to the whole tits-up: word
Kelso, still oblivious of his own status and who thought he wouldn´t would never have to deal with this ever again: I didn´t LIKE IT. I was disgusted by it, but wanted to acknowledge $$$ for bringing it to my attention

Another friend and unindicted co-conspirator in response to something the brother had said in reference to the whole tits-up One of the NYC people who helped get me re-entree to LaCdP with the champagne room treatment

Atoning...

That dude has a dry sense of humor, I´ll say that alright.

Am not discussing my personal shit because no conceivable way I get pull into this because I was a player not in the club poker business. But you never know with BushBama. I´m not answering my calls because Plan Colombia took everything out of me. I can´t shoulder any more peoples´ weight.

Instead, I´ll fantasize about some revenge. By Mario Irguran upon Eric Holder for Chiquita/Drummond anti-union massacre. By an unleashed Jim McGovern and Mike Delahunt to follow the links of SCHOOL OF THE AMERICAS-WHINSEC without Barack Obama inviting John Negroponte and Otto Reich as “neutral” observers of Delahunt´s hearings earlier this summer.

Nothing soothes the soul like Jonathan Richman and Alex Chilton, though.

Time to leave the COWARDLY SALESMEN-IN-CHIEF BILDERBEREGERS be, though, to their vacuuity and rampant narcissism. I want to find out how Bible School Girlish the still AUSA Bible Girls are now having been kept over by Barack Obama, the lecturing preeing edition of his sloppy inarticulate predecessor. Twins: former prefers sit-ups to common-sense, current throws away common-sense away for a good pec workout. Both are ignorant Gringo clods, however.

I´m looking at a 0 in comments which let the zen of the thing register in context. I´`m likely to get only imbecilic comments about my misplacement of a semi-colon and/or how this proves Black inferiority to Whites. Problem is that they people whose Facebook comments I cited are: White Jewish, White Italian, White Irish and Asian-American. The droning tedious comment will follow “Kelso you said…” and the argument will be a hodge-podge about LBJ, how the CRA was a license to steal, how Plessy v Ferguson needs a new test case to affirm!…and on on and on….” like a pesty mosquito or sand fly. On one point I will agree with Slappsie, however. Being jammed up in the system over total bullshit is no damned fun for WHITES EITHER.

This is a cry for Ass-Whole Foods liberals and the Radical Christianist right all inclusive just shut the fuck up right now. Yes, Radical Christianists in politics or home town life are a cancer. Yes, Ass-Whole Food Liberals are also tyrants but a knack for Rainbow “themes” and on cultural issues and are as racist and indifferent as the radical whites are. Both groups have already thrown all their rights liberties and money away to war criminals. I´m with Torrance, Jay, B´Man and Cindy Sheehan on this. Most Americans are blockheads. Wingnuts suck most of the time. AWFLs suck worst of all when money is involved.

There´s no American partisan crap to any to any of this. Bush started it. Obama´s worse of course but he is really just on the post-Jerry Ford trend line line of fascism. I just don´t need prudery right now. Like the woman said just “love”.

On what planet are smoking pot and playing cards in a private club felonies, but prosecuting imperials wars such that the sun never sets on American fascism.

Kelso´s Nuts love you.

5 Amazing Things About The Sticky That You Are Not Allowed To Know

I have touched on many of the following 5 points (and more) over the past couple of years. I addressed the issue of the non-affect it has on brain function;  how it may help with Alzheimer’s patients (and actually IMPROVE memory function);  I have compared booze to weed; and how the most dangerous thing about marijuana is getting arrested. No matter how aggressive we become with the scourge of society pot smokers, we are still Number 1 in consumption.

In addition, I addressed the study that shows that pot does NOT cause cancer, and may very well STOP it.

From Alternet (h/t DisInfo):

1. Marijuana Use Is Not Associated With a Rise in Incidences of Schizophrenia

Over the past few years, the worldwide media, as well as federal officials in the United Kingdom, Canada and the U.S. have earnestly promoted the notion that smoking pot induces mental illness.

Perhaps most notably, in 2007 the MSM reported that cannabis “could boost the risk of developing a psychotic illness later in life by about 40 percent” — a talking point that was also actively promoted by U.S. anti-drug officials.

So, is there any truth to the claim that pot smoking is sparking a dramatic rise in mental illness? Not at all, according to the findings of a study published in July in the journal Schizophrenia Research.

Investigators at the Keele University Medical School in Britain compared trends in marijuana use and incidences of schizophrenia in the United Kingdom from 1996 to 2005. Researchers reported that the “incidence and prevalence of schizophrenia and psychoses were either stable or declining” during this period, even the use of cannabis among the general population was rising.

“[T]he expected rise in diagnoses of schizophrenia and psychoses did not occur over a 10-year period,” the authors concluded. “This study does not therefore support the specific causal link between cannabis use and incidence of psychotic disorders. … This concurs with other reports indicating that increases in population cannabis use have not been followed by increases in psychotic incidence.”

As of this writing, a handful of news wire reports in Australia, Canada, and the U.K. have reported on the Keele University study. Notably, no American media outlets covered the story.

2. Marijuana Smoke Doesn’t Damage the Lungs Like Tobacco

Everyone knows that smoking pot is as damaging, if not more damaging, to the lungs than puffing cigarettes, right?

Wrong, according to a team of New Zealand investigators writing in the European Respiratory Journal in August.

Researchers at the University of Otago in New Zealand compared the effects of cannabis and tobacco smoke on lung function in over 1,000 adults.

They reported: “Cumulative cannabis use was associated with higher forced vital capacity [the volume of air that can forcibly be blown out after full inspiration], total lung capacity, functional residual capacity [the volume of air present in the lungs at the end of passive expiration] and residual volume.

“Cannabis was also associated with higher airways resistance but not with forced expiratory volume in one second [the maximum volume of air that can be forcibly blown out in the first second during the FVC test], forced expiratory ratio, or transfer factor. These findings were similar amongst those who did not smoke tobacco. … By contrast, tobacco use was associated with lower forced expiratory volume in one second, lower forced expiratory ratio, lower transfer factor and higher static lung volumes, but not with airways resistance.”

They concluded, “Cannabis appears to have different effects on lung function to those of tobacco.”

Predictably, the scientists’ “inconvenient truth” was not reported in a single media outlet.

3. Cannabis Use Potentially Protects, Rather Than Harms, the Brain

Does smoking pot kill brain cells? Drinking alcohol most certainly does, and many opponents of marijuana-law reform claim that marijuana’s adverse effects on the brain are even worse. Are they correct?

Not according to recent findings published this summer in the journal Neurotoxicology and Teratology.

Investigators at the University of California at San Diego examined white matter integrity in adolescents with histories of binge drinking and marijuana use. They reported that binge drinkers (defined as boys who consumed five or more drinks in one sitting, or girls who consumed four or more drinks at one time) showed signs of white matter damage in eight regions of the brain.

By contrast, the binge drinkers who also used marijuana experienced less damage in 7 out of the 8 brain regions.

“Binge drinkers who also use marijuana did not show as consistent a divergence from non-users as did the binge drink-only group,” authors concluded. “[It is] possible that marijuana may have some neuroprotective properties in mitigating alcohol-related oxidative stress or excitotoxic cell death.”

To date, only a handful of U.S. media outlets — almost exclusively college newspapers — have reported the story.

4. Marijuana Is a Terminus, Not a ‘Gateway,’ to Hard Drug Use

Alarmist claims that experimenting with cannabis will inevitably lead to the use of other illicit drugs persist in the media despite statistical data indicating that the overwhelming majority of those who try pot never go on to use cocaine or heroin.

Moreover, recent research is emerging that indicates that pot may also suppress one’s desire to use so-called hard drugs.

In June, Paris researchers writing in the journal Neuropsychopharmacology concluded that the administration of oral THC in animals suppressed sensitivity to opiate dependence.

Also this summer, investigators at the New York State Psychiatric Institute reported in the American Journal on Addictions that drug-treatment subjects who use cannabis intermittently were more likely to adhere to treatment for opioid dependence.

Although a press release for the former study appeared on the Web site physorg.com on July 7, neither study ever gained any traction in the mainstream media.

5. Government’s Anti-Pot Ads Encourage, Rather Than Discourage, Marijuana Use

Sure, many of us already knew that the federal government’s $2 billion ad campaign targeting pot was failing to dissuade viewers from toking up, but who knew it was this bad?

According to a new study posted online in the journal Health Communication, survey data published by investigators at the Annenberg School for Communication at the University of Pennsylvania found that many of the government’s public-service announcements actually encouraged pot use.

Researchers assessed the attitudes of over 600 adolescents, age 12 to 18, after viewing 60 government-funded anti-marijuana television spots.

Specifically, researchers evaluated whether the presence of marijuana-related imagery in the ads (e.g., the handling of marijuana cigarettes or the depiction of marijuana-smoking behavior) were more likely or less likely to discourage viewers’ use of cannabis.

Messages that depict teens associating with cannabis are “significantly less effective than others,” the researchers found.

“This negative impact of marijuana scenes is not reversed in the presence of strong anti-marijuana arguments in the ads and is mainly present for the group of adolescents who are often targets of such anti-marijuana ads (i.e., high-risk adolescents),” the authors determined. “For this segment of adolescents, including marijuana scenes in anti-marijuana (public-service announcements) may not be a good strategy.”

Needless to say, no outlets in the mainstream media — many of which donated air time to several of the beleaguered ads in question — have yet to report on the story.

But this is just old BuelahMan, stupid redneck in charge here. A guy who knows nothing except what he reads and studies (as opposed to those of you that all you know is what you “hear” from Drug War Lords who MUST continue the charade and coverup due to PROFITS). Its funny that an old redneck is far more educated on this topic than even the most highly elected officials in this country.

So let us break down the numbers, a bit:

We have a drug war budget over $40 billion/year. If we legalize marijuana, Big Prison and many anti-marijuana organizations will  lose Big Money. ONDCP and many other anti-marijuana campaigns and organizations would cease to exist and would lose all of their funding. Add Big Meds to the ones that are likely to lose the most (since they squash any relevant news related to the health benefits of marijuana). If marijuana were to be legalized, then it would be used for so many medicinal purposes that much of Big Meds money will disappear.

Think about it. There are no cancer blocking medicines that Big Meds have developed, however, I have just linked you to studies that suggest marijuana can do just what Big Meds can’t.

Let’s put it into perspective. Here, in America,we have a 1 in 3 chance of getting cancer. Big Meds offer no cancer blocking medicines: just treatments. Do you think it just coincidence that our cancer level increase follows the ban? Compare us to other places in the world as far as cancer is concerned. The citizens of India have 1 chance in 10 chance of getting cancer.

Could the difference be marijuana?

The culture uses it as food, medicine and recreation. It has since the dawn of time.

Or will you believe the no_slappz of the world and suggest that there is such a vast difference between them and us that we can’t compare (which really is the simplest and most cowardly debate imaginable).

It boils down to this: our own government (which IS aware of all the above since they funded a study, but refused to publicize the results) has decided that people deserve cancer, rather than lose any of their funding, or dismantle the bogus Big Prison (and anti-drug propagandists).

Bottom Line: It Is All About Big Money

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When Did The Insane Right Wing Decide Using The Word “Holocaust” Was A Bad Thing?

Rachel handled this petty well:

The first part of the clip (which he correctly said that the reTHUGlicans’ plan is simply to not get sick: if you have another plan they offer, share it, for I haven’t seen or read it yet) is dead on correct. They have not offered anything and all they are capable of is saying “no”. I know that you ignorant rednecks are thinking, “Did you hear what that liberal, socialist-loving holocaust denier said about our beloved and amazingly sufficient health care situation we have in this country. He called it a “holocaust”. Damn him for using that word that can only be used by us when we are trying to make a political statement of radicalness.”

This is not to mention the glaring hypocrisy from that “side” of imbeciles who barely are holding on to their seats on the right.

Talking Points Memo has a great clip up that shows the fringe freaks riling up the airheads (a term he used) by using the same sort of rhetoric; using Hitler, Stalin and Pol Pot and then scaring the piss out of the gullible Sheople.

Just what do you think a holocaust is? Are you going to insist that the word ONLY denotes the occurrences of the middle 20th century atrocities conducted by the Nazis? Have you not the mind (I know, a stupid question for we know they don’t think about the idiotic nothingness that they spew) to realize that the word does represent other killings.

And, yes, what the Health Insurance Companies do is KILL people. Plain and simple. Health Insurance Companies have NEVER, EVER saved a life. Heath Insurance Companies are a middle man who’s entire thrust is to take as much of your healthcare dollar as possible. PERIOD!

So, let’s see which of these descriptions best address the situation in America’s health care.

The annihilation or near-annihilation of a group of animals or people, whether by natural or deliberate agency

Getting close with that one. Big Insurance OWNS our government. Any sane person paying attention understands this very sad, but true fact. The Insurance Companies pay for these people’s votes. Just go to OpenSecrets.org and type the name in of your favorite reTHUGlican or demoRAT and follow the money trail.

It appears that we DO have an intentional murder spree going on by those that are the ones who claim to be caring for us. Yet, when it comes down to it, we aren’t really insured, are we? Not when they can cancel at any moment or deny a service or tell someone that they did not get the correct authorization or deny coverage for cancer over an acne they had as a kid.

It is clearly MURDER when these bastards allow the people who have paid them to die… all the while they are making record profit amounts and CEO pay schemes. Yes, it is a holocaust and our government, the Big Insurance and Big Meds and the idiotic fools on the right like Redstate or any of the punditry on the right, Plus all the Big Insurance owned demoRATs (which are many) ARE the cause for it. You stupid bastards are acting like Nazis but are too stupid to realize it. You may not be putting the people in the gas chambers, but you might as well be since you are denying them the coverage that we ALL need.

Or maybe this one is slightly more apt:

The state-sponsored mass murder of an ethnic group.

The “ethnic” group here are poor people. But, please consider what the new “poor” is. The new “poor” is now inclusive of the Middle Class (who are taking the biggest hit in dropped claims and losses of insurance). The previous poor people never had it to begin with.

Since Big Insurance is running the show in the Senate, I believe this particular description is a bit more apt. Our own government is controlled by the money that they receive from these killers, so one could easily call this a state sponsored killing of 45,000 each year (one every12 MINUTES).

As the Harvard Medical School points out in a recent report:

Nearly 45,000 people die in the United States each year — one every 12 minutes — in large part because they lack health insurance and can not get good care, Harvard Medical School researchers found in an analysis released on Thursday.

“We’re losing more Americans every day because of inaction … than drunk driving and homicide combined,” Dr. David Himmelstein, a co-author of the study and an associate professor of medicine at Harvard, said in an interview with Reuters.

Overall, researchers said American adults age 64 and younger who lack health insurance have a 40 percent higher risk of death than those who have coverage.

Remember when the “Maverick” was flirting with the Holocaust denying religious fruitcake, John “Snapper” Hagee (may he rest is horrific torment)? Notice in the video all the wonderfully respected freaks that are a part of that whole sickening and Godless organization (including “The Hammer” who “lives” for the Rapture to happen at any moment. It IS what they “live for”. It is also why these fruitcakes were calling for a pre-emptive strike on Iran, irregardless of the fact that untold thousands, if not millions would be killed (and it would have nothing whatsoever to do with the rapture).

In other words, these God Loving (read as human hating) want to reign down untold death and carnage on people even though the Rapture hasn’t taken place (well, except for the taking away of their teeny tiny brains).

Do you rednecks actually subscribe to such a foolish and evil mentality?

I wonder if you might consider such a thing a “Holocaust”?

Ignorant Right-Wing reTHUGlicanTwit