I'm surprised that hasn't been said yet by the wingnuts and teabaggers. But maybe it has.

The class war goes on.

From the limited analysis of his proposal I've read so far, it seems one couldn't get a better bill reflecting the interests and needs of the health insurance corporations. Forcing people to buy health insurance from these for-profit behemoths, with no alternative like a public option? Is he insane or just completely bought and paid for? I'm glad he's not my senator. At least I can still pretend my senators would listen to me, but it's not clear the people of Montana can count on anything like that.

We live in a corporate state; by, for and of the corporations.

... then don't force people to buy health insurance for the corporations. It would just be one more giant corporate subsidy.

If Congress forces people to buy insurance without a reasonable alternative like the public option, then it's probably gettin' to be rebellion time.

Let them buy it as individuals on the open private insurance market. They should get a taste of the same bitter medicine they are going to force on millions of Americans by requiring them to get health insurance from the big insurance corporations, with no public option available. What a screw job that will be.

Without the public option, there can be no real HC reform.

I supported Obama, I even gave money to his campaign. But here is where we may part ways: Without his strong support the public option, he's finished with me. With out it, what was this about change that was he talking about a year ago?

Many people look at what happened to the American buffalo on the western plains in the 19th century and wonder how people then could have been so shortsighted. But apparently nothing has changed. In fact, the greed, mindlessness and stupidity has gotten worse.

Maybe it's time to develop an international body to strictly protect threatened species. Otherwise, animals like the Bluefin will soon be gone.

We have laws to protect people from Crimes Against Humanity. It's time to protect threatened species and develop a new concept of Crimes Against Nature. Otherwise we are just going to gobble up everything in the ocean and on the land.

People may laugh and say this is a crazy idea. But don't you want to leave anything for your children and their children? Does the Earth, the creatures on it and the future mean nothing?

"Palin spokeswoman Meg Stapleton, who shot back: "It is interesting to learn Levi is working on a piece of fiction while honing his acting skills.""

Wow, the governor's office is publicly battling with an eighteen year old! I can't stop laughing. Don't they have more important things to do, such as running a state?

Hopefully Meg will work on getting a life after she loses her job in a few weeks.

Never have. Don't want one. Sure, having one would have been helpful and useful, maybe five times in my life. I suppose this makes me old fashioned. Not that I lack other hi tech electronic devices, which I have plenty of. You should see my GPS.

O'Reilly should be arrest as an accessory to murder for whipping up hatred towards Tiller on his TV show over the last few years.

"Change you can believe in."

"The more things change the more they stay the same."

Cary Tennis is a woman.

As long as you are there for him, unconditionally it appears, he has little incentive to change or stop. You are his main enabler. Probably the best thing you could do for yourself is to leave him. You can't fix him, he can only do it himself.

From the sound of it, he still has at least a few more confusing years of drugging and drinking to do before he sees the light, assuming he does. Is that how you want to spend the next few years, and possibly the rest of your life, propping him up?

Obviously, you love him, so leaving would be a tough thing to do, but you should. There's a chance doing so would be the kick in the butt he needs to make him stop. You could always go back with him if he does. Otherwise you run the risk of spending your life with an alcoholic and drug addict. Save yourself. Run.

Walking is for youngsters? But I'm almost 60.

Especially in the woods. Recently, I joined a group walking across Rhode Island from south to north, a distance of 75 miles. We do a section every second Saturday. This past weekend's walk was 17 miles long. I feel good.

If only we were able to attach tiny video cameras and mics to the extended Palin clan, including the in laws and associated unmarried dads! What a reality show that would be. Think of the ratings. It would a great benefit to the millions of newly unemployed and underemployed, something they could watch to take their minds of their wows and lift their sagging spirits.

I use to run into people like DeSantis when I worked in NYC years ago. He's insufferable. Sure, he's probably smart, but connections and family status were probably more important in getting him where he is today. He has a negative attitude.

The anger and exasperation expressed in these posts, while for the most part justified as far as I'm concerned, are part of a growing trend I see on the net and out in the world. It's going to become a bad trend if things don't improve. If I were Obama, I would be concerned, because it's the kind of anger that could derail whatever he hopes to accomplish. But unfortunately, he appears to live in a bubble now and may not notice it, surrounded as he is by his Wall Street people.