WTF is up with Republicans and Health Care Reform?
Let me set the record straight and perhaps afford a new perspective on the whole issue.
- The bill signed by President Obama this week is A REPUBLICAN BILL. It is actually more conservative than the health bill brought forward by the Republicans in 1996. The bill as signed firmly entrenches the for-profit health insurance companies. My side wanted single-payer system, like every other industrialized nation.
- John McCain said, on the floor of the Senate, (I am paraphrasing) that single-payer was a step toward Socialism and a non-starter. Similar statements were made by his Republican colleagues in reference to the public option. Meanwhile, John McCain had his stage 2A melanoma, an invasive form of skin cancer, treated in 2000 using the Congressional Public Option. My own representative, Mike “Pocket Change” Castle had his prostate procedure using the same Public Option. Dick Cheney, 5 heart attacks, public option. And not to single out Republican (although it’s more fun) every member of congress has the same health benefits, that includes everyone in the photo above.
- The US has the finest health care system in the world! Ugh, that is, for 35% of the population, while another 51% have inadequate health insurance and 14% have no insurance at all. After this Health Care Initiative becomes fully effective, there will still be just under 10% of the population with no health care insurance.
Lindsey Vonn "gives the finger" to those who said she was faking.

In one of the most stirring descents in Olympic downhill skiing history, Linsey Vonn ignored the pain in her injured shin, chased down Julia Mancuso and caught up to nearly a lifetime of expectations to become the first American woman to win an Olympic downhill gold medal. The American Olympics machine (NBC) has been pumping out stories of Lindsey Vonn’s courage to compete with a bruised shin which, if nothing else, will increase her marketability. We were also treated late last week to a story of Lindsey’s alternative therapy for her bruised shin, CHEESE. She wraps her shin in cheese. My questions are these; If you were an executive with Visa, Red Bull, Audi, Head, Haus, Spyder Thinsulate, Sprint, Reusch, Telus, Lieka, or Uvex, wouldn’t you want to protect your sponsorship investment and object to this therapy? How did her Wikipedia entry get updated within 3 minutes of her victory without the requisite 24 hours clearing time? How did she shoot the Sports Illustrated Vancouver Swimsuit video with a bruised shin? Just asking.
"Blizzaster" A blizzard of neologisms bury the U.S. East Coast

The storm proved a major disruption, with trolleys and buses in the Dover area shutting down and stores closing en masse in the face of a storm destined to go down as one of the major snowfalls in the area's history.
But perhaps the greatest damage has been done to the English language. Weathermen, with really nothing to report other than, “It’s snowing”, have turned to coining terms to describe the storm. Snowmageddon, snowpocalypse, snowtastrophe, snowclysm, snowlocaust, snowlamity, and snowzaster (which would be an excellent name for a religous cult) were just some of the neologistic offerings used to assault the mother tongue this weekend. Move over Bennifer, Bragelina, and Billary!
Fox News Rip Off!



A terse email sent to the webmaster at the website elicited no response, but the photo was removed within minutes! More outrageous than the blatant rip-off is the crappy editing job they did on the photo. Notice how they left the text at the top of the picture! The GOOGLE Analytics data suggest that the photo was lift from the Nuclear Family Times sometime on August 5, less that 24 hours after it was originally posted.
The Nuclear Family Times website has received above average number of hits since mid-June when we confirmed the Mark Sanford infidelity story, and the numbers have continued to climb. Unfortunately, very few of our visitors are clicking on the “ad-sense” banners in the sidebar.














