Hey, Republicans! "My friends" what color is the sky in your world?

Speaking of alternate worlds, you idiots had the opportunity to shape the health care overhaul in ways that might have made it more to your liking, but now that you've proven that, like Dudley Dursley, all you can do is stamp your feet and shout "No!, No!, No!," you will relinquish yourselves to the dustbin of history as those who did everything in your power to stop the US from catching up to where the rest of the civilized world has been since the middle of the LAST CENTURY!

You almost sound, and certainly look like Uncle Vernon Dursley blustering, "We swore we'd put a stop to this whole thing when we took him in!" Referring, of course to the uninitiated muggles out there, to "Harry Potter and the Sorcer's Stone."

Now the "Hagrid" in the form of the American Public, followed, hopefully, by the Democrats in Congress, with Barney Frank in the lead, have arrived to wrest our nation from your grasp and begin to "train us up" and back into being a civilized society, again.

You bluster that this would be socialism? Fine, go ahead and bluster! Some of the rest of us realize that it's the kind of magic that will mean people's basic healthcare needs are taken care of, freeing them up to go as far as they're naturally capable of going with a few less worries to hold them back.

All you "entrepreneurs" out there, take note! It was the Democrats that freed you up to become more prosperous and the Republicans who, despite all their lip service to "free enterprise" meant only freedom for themselves. Meanwhile, they were doing their best to hold you back because you might be able to give their favorite old moldy, musty, rusty enterprises and flim-flams, a run for their money.

Vaht ve cahn't see...

is Nurse Diesel just off to the side, in her skin tight, black leather nurse's uniform and her riding crop waiting to strap General Beck to an examining table and show him what a naughty boy he's been. (apologies to Mel Brooks)

You see, Glenn's problem is that he has "High Anxiety" because he's been a VERY naughty boy and he knows he's gonna get it.

Please, please, Nurse Diesel, tell him he has to give up his TV gig or at least do a 180 on all his attitudes or he'll get it even worse next time. That will humiliate him in the way he is so longing for.

Rubaugh has been complaining for months about having to bend over... let's just fulfill his wildest, most feverishly desired dreams.

When congress comes back into session, nail down the details, pass the bill, get it signed, then, IMMEDIATELY start the campaign against all those who were already killing grandma and grandpa and brothers and sisters and children - all those who were dying for lack of medical care who will now be covered...,

all those whose small businesses were saved because they could finally afford health care for their workers, a whole series of testimonial commercials from regular folks telling how the new health care reforms saved them, reminding folks who were the ones responsible for saving them, and who were the ones opposed. Be sure to feature Jim Bob and Mary Sue from somewhere down south in the commercials that air in that area.

Let the Repubs. respond with their typical red-faced bluster and blow. They'll just look like the selfish, angry, rich old (mostly white) men they are.

In it's original context, has nothing to do with taking care of other people, rather, it is Cain's rebellious, adolescent, mouthy response to God when God challenged Cain immediately after Cain had murdered his brother Abel.

A quick thumbnail sketch: Cain and Abel were Adam and Eve's first two children (traditionally the first two human children to be born in history). Cain was a grain farmer, while Abel was a shepherd. When the two brought offerings to God, God accepted Abel's offering of the fat from the first lambs born of his flock, bur rejected Cain's offering of grain (for reasons not made clear in the story).

Cain, who grew angry at God's slight, invited Abel out into a field and murdered him. God (knowing what happened of course), found Cain and asked him where his brother was.

It was at this point that Cain responded rebelliously, "Am I my brother's keeper?"

God responded "What have you done? Listen; your brother's blood is crying out to me from the ground!"

Then Cain was cursed by God... his crops would become much harder to grow because the soil will not cooperate with him. He must then leave his family behind and wander the earth.

When Cain complained that, if he was forced to wander the earth as a fugitive and stranger, people would want to kill him wherever he went, God put a mark on Cain so that everyone he met would know who he was and that God had forbidden anyone to kill him.

So the very ironic point of the story when applied to the right wingers who seem to want to ask the same rebellious, sarcastic, adolescent question of the rest of us (and God) is that Cain, whom they seem to admire?, was mouthing off to God to try to cover his backside because he had just MURDERED his brother.

Perhaps they don't realize it, but in asking derisively, "Am I my brother's keeper?", they are claiming the honor, the mantle, and the tradition of the first murderer recorded in the history of the Judeo/Christian tradition, and perhaps in some kind of Freudian slip, revealing their true nature, a nature which is no more pleasing to God than was Cain's.

But I smell Orly

I definitely smell Orly.