Here are the video links to the event F.A.I.R. had this past Tuesday at ABC in NYC.

They presented ABC with 12,500 petitions protesting the fact that ABC has excluded any guests who represent Single-Payer Health Care from the debate, especially from the "Town Hall Forum On Health Care: Prescription for America" where President Obama's personal physician, Dr. David Scheiner, was "disinvited" after they discovered he supports a "Medicare for All" health care system in the U.S.

Here are the links:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9gN4cc0XvIk

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=C2BSvfyoI9Y

There were several excellent speakers at this event, including Isabel Macdonald from F.A.I.R., Katie Robbins from Healthcare Now! who was recently arrested in D.C. with doctors and nurses at a Congressional Hearing and a doctor from Physicians for a National Health Program.

Thanks for watching and sharing,

Abbybwood, R.N., Member - Physicians for a National Health Program

Just in case Salon readers missed this doozie, Obama's personal physician was invited to be a participant in ABC's "Town Hall Forum on Health Care" and then a few days prior to the telecast he was "disinvited" because he supports "Single Payer". Here's the clip:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=biTdTvg6K7w

And here is President Obama in 2003 supporting "Single Payer":

http://buelahman.wordpress.com/2009/06/15/obama-on-single-payer-healthcare-program/

For those of you who support "Single Payer"..."Medicare for All"...Conyers H.R. 676 and Sen. Sanders bill for "Single Payer" in the Senate, if you can, please join me and many others in NYC next Tuesday to present all the petitions F.A.I.R. (Fairness and Accuracy in Reporting) has gathered to ABC executives. Here's the information about what's happening:

Help FAIR, Healthcare Now!, Physicians for a National Health Program and the Raging Grannies deliver a message to the media.

"Include Single-Payer in Healthcare Debate"

Petition delivery

Tues. July 28, noon - 1 pm

ABC News

77 West 66th St.,

(between Central Pk West and Columbus Ave.)

NYC

Please, help spread the word.

The only hope we have at this point to "tear the corporate health insurance corporations into a thousand pieces and scatter them to the wind" is to become publicly visible.

Abbybwood, R.N. (Ohio, Florida, California and New York)

Member of Physicians for a National Health Program

I was very surprised to see President Obama's choice of Surgeon General.

She is supposed to be "the nation's doctor".

I would hope she would tell us the proper diet we should all be eating ("stay out of the middle of the grocery store"), get at least a 45 minute "rigorous" walk every day, minimize the intake of alcohol, eliminate sugar and high fructose corn syrup products from your diet, do NOT smoke cigarettes, meditate and keep your stress as low as possible, get yearly physical examinations (if you can afford to!) etc.

Another poster suggested that she is in a perfect position (if confirmed...I'm assuming she'll have to be confirmed?), to lose those extra pounds, start a daily walking program and get down to a weight that is HEART HEALTHY.

She should be leading all of us to a healthy lifestyle.

We should NOT have to be leading her!!!!

But there I have.

Abbybwood, R.N.

Before I get into the recipe, for the record, I generally come on to Salon and check the headlines and go directly to Greenwald.

AND...I agree that Obama should appoint an independent prosector to investigate past (and present!!) war crimes related to torture. This body must have subpoena power...

(There's an article in The New Yorker on the Obama Administrations CURRENT torture by Jane Mayer...).

That having been said, this article on the potato salad caught my eye. I read all the various ideas/recipes and I'd like to share a different slant on the subject with everyone.

First, I get about 6 nice sized Idaho baking potatoes and I BAKE THEM!!! Early in the day. This way ALL the flavor is there. Let them cool a few hours then cube them up, skin and all on a cutting board and throw them in a giant bowl.

Next, chop up a nice purple onion (to taste) and throw that in.

Next, chop up 5 stalks of celery and throw that in.

Then I make the dressing: I take a bottle of CAPERS (the bottle that is about an inch in diameter and maybe 6" tall). I drain the juice into a bowl and toss ALL the capers into the bigger bowl with the other veggies.

Then I juice one lemon and add the juice to the caper juice. I then toss in about a half a cup or more of Veganaise or Hellman's mayonaisse (check out the Veganaise at the Health Food Store!), and I whisk that together.

Toss all the stuff in the big bowl, pour the dressing over and toss again. Salt and pepper to taste.

If you want to hard boil a few eggs and slice them around the top with a "Happy Face", that's cool. Then finish with paprika.

It's the CAPERS baby, yeah!!!