An interesting discussion on American Healthcare will be taking place momentarily on BlogTalkRadio. The voices are those of fellow bloggers that got involved in politics in their own special way. The topics covered will include:
Personal stories from nyceve's professional experiences in medicine
nyceve's panel at YearlyKos 2007 in Chicago
Michael Moore's Sicko
recent actions by the American Cancer Society
SCHIP
the benefits and drawbacks of various solutions to the growing healthcare crisis in America
bernardpliers over at DailyKos takes a look at why the GOP has been so successful in steering the political debate in America. The discussion that follows his posting is a good one and should be mandatory reading for all democratic campaign officials.
This is a prime example of where truth doesn't matter. The human brain simply recognizes if it is heard a story before, not necessarily if it was a true or false story. Anyone who has taken Logic 101 in college can probably relate to this discrepency.
Last night Barry Welsh announced at YearlyKos that he is running to represent the 6th Congressional District of Indiana. Many of us found out too late about his last campaign to help. I talked about him on a few other sites and left links around the web. But that was just weeks before the election. This time he has taken full advantage of what the blogoshpere can offer him.
Read what his wife has to say about his announcement here.
For those of you reading this blog from afar I thought you'd like a little update on events. The Democrats are looking strong, the Republicans are pathetically weak, Home Depot likes to support people that support terrorism (Bill O'Reilly) and view a customer expressing his concerns about their advertising expenditures as a waste of their time, YearlyKos is this week, I've been camping once and will be going again soon, cleaned the house from top to bottom and am getting ready to move, Colbert still rocks, VS sucks, Derek Trucks still rocks, Roger Waters still sucks, it was a wet July, hoping for an average August, the moon is a little bit further from earth than it was yesterday, Gonzalez is ... well I won't even go there.
Here in the USA it looks as if our fearless leader is about to lower the axe on all of our troops in Iraq. Buhdydharma over at KOS posts an excellent summation of where Bush stands on the Iraq Funding Issue. It is in stark contrast to the way the issue has been portrayed in the Corporate Media. By rewriting the corporate spin in such a way he allows the reader to truely see the issue for the first time.
I personally cannot understand how George Bush can be considered competent and responsible if he does this. If you start a war and then refuse to fund our brave troops in the field, is that not an incredibly heinous offense to decency and responsibility? Yet George Bush is about to abandon our troops in the desert by vetoing their funding.
