More politicians hear about single payer!

I find it to be very funny whenever I see certain politicians think that single payer health care advocates are going to let the issue go. Check out these two videos. By the way, the single payer option has been taken off the table by those in charge of health care reform, so what Senator Chris Dodd said in the second video in this post is a flat out lie. Either that, or he just doesn’t know what he’s talking about.

We want real health care reform!

I said before that the push for single payer health care isn’t going away, and I meant it. You just have to love Single Payer Action, an organization that ambushes officials, and videotapes their responses when asked about single payer health care. Real health care reform is what I’m talking about. Not the sham that President Obama, Senator Baucus, and their cohorts, are going to pass off on us. House Resolution 676 is a great bill, and would provide us with single payer health care if passed. Below are a couple of videos put together by Single Payer Action. The video on top is of Rahm Emanuel (the current White House Chief of Staff), and the one below is of Gus Bilirakis (a Congressman from Florida). I am very tempted to send some money off to that organization one day to show my support.

Ed McMahon will be missed!

Ed McMahon, the legendary sidekick of the late Johnny Carson, has passed away. He will definitely be missed. I will always remember his time on the Tonight Show, as well as his time on those shows about bloopers and practical jokes. He was such a nice man. Below you will find a Cash4Gold commercial that he and MC Hammer starred in.

As if evident from the commercial, McMahon recently had some financial troubles, and I find it hard to forget about the role Countrywide Home Loans had to play. You can read an interesting piece that I found online titled “Ed McMahon faces Countrywide foreclosure” by clicking on http://www.bloggingstocks.com/2008/06/04/ed-mcmahon-faces-countrywide-foreclosure/

Bank of America has since dropped the “Countrywide” name, but if there is anything you feel like telling them, their contact information is at http://my.countrywide.com/ContactUs.aspx

Privacy Digest

Anybody who is interested in the right to privacy should check out http://www.privacydigest.com/

First Amendment Center

Everybody who cares about the right to free speech should check out http://www.firstamendmentcenter.org/

The Innocence Project

How many innocent people have been put on death row and have been executed? We will probably never know. There is an organization called “The Innocence Project” that works to use DNA evidence to prove the innocence of some inmates on death row. The main address for their website is http://www.innocenceproject.org/

Obama appointees like speed cameras!

I was recently reading an informative article titled “Obama Transportation Appointees Like Speed Cameras, Tolls” over at http://www.thenewspaper.com/news/28/2802.asp

Aristotle’s “On the Generation of Animals”

Aristotle, who lived from 384 BC through 322 BC, was a Greek philosopher, a student of Plato, and teacher of Alexander the Great. If any of you would like to read some of his writing titled “On the Generation of Animals” (as translated by Arthur Platt), then click on http://ebooks.adelaide.edu.au/a/aristotle/generation/

Do you ever get nostalgic for the 1980s?

Do you miss the 1980s? Do you ever wonder what your favorite celebrities from that decade are doing now? If you answered “yes” to either one of those questions, then you should check out “Stuck in the ‘80s” by clicking on http://blogs.tampabay.com/80s/

Get used to us! We aren’t going to drop it!

Advocates of a single payer health care system are not going anywhere. I wish the politicians and insurance companies would figure that out. Don’t worry. It’s only a matter of time, because eventually they will. Ha. Below you will find a great video clip in which a UnitedHealth conference was interrupted to ask about single payer. But first, if you would like to read a recent article from the National Nurses Movement (titled “Inside the Baucus Single-Payer Meeting--What Was Said, What's Next”), then click on http://www.dailykos.com/storyonly/2009/6/3/738531/-Inside-the-Baucus-Single-Payer-MeetingWhat-Was-Said,-Whats-Next

“Oil Watchdog” website

If you’re as fed up with the cost of gasoline as I am, then you should definitely check out http://www.oilwatchdog.org/

“Raging Grannies” demand single payer!

Here is an entertaining video of some “Raging Grannies” outside of Nancy Pelosi’s office on May 29 demanding a single payer health care system. We should not accept anything less. It’s time to give health insurance companies the boot.

Workers comp laws need to be reformed!

I have been calling for the laws regarding workers compensation to be reformed so that injured employees hurt on the job will have more rights. Up on top is a video from 2008 of Ralph Nader answering my question about that during one of his presidential campaign rallies. Below that is a news clip from a couple of months ago covering an incident in which an employee of McDonald’s was being denied worker’s compensation coverage for his medical bills after being shot at work. It is disgusting what some claimants have to go through!