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Help! The patients have taken over the asylum in Michigan. They have shoved RTW down our throat, pepper sprayed us and kicked us out of the Capitol building. It's Wisconsin all over again. But they haven't seen the last of us!
Good Morning Rachel: I just watched the clip from Lawrence show last night showing the vote in the Senate yesterday regarding the Disability Treaty. He literally brought me to tears....
I'm reading about all the laws the Michigan government is passing that has the state in a frenzy!
Right to work
Emergency Manager (that we just voted out in the election so they rewrote it and put it back in)
Passing a very broad based bill allowing health care providers from insurance companies to nursing homes, to decide what care they wont give based on their "morals".
Not allowing insurance companies to pay for an abortion unless its in an optional rider that was purchased by the patient. Except in the case of rick to the mothers life (not for risk to health, rape, incest, etc)
Allowing children to go to any school and opening up charter school restrictions allowing them to pick their student base.
You should read the long list of bills theyve passed in the last 24 hours. http://www.legislature.mi.gov/(S(50j00d45wixovs45fr2cay45))/mileg.aspx?page=Daily
It's insane throwing all of their own citizens under the bus. I would get the hell out of Dodge if I lived there. I'm going to California with an aching in my heart.
I must be confused. I thought they did NOT vote down the Emergency Manager law in Michigan.......?
It really mystifies me that, regardless of the policy of "States Rights," one state can be allowed to do this to its residence, no matter what state it is. Michigan, however, appears to be taking the cake on all the nasty stuff it can do to ITS residence. I'm sorry for anyone who lives there and has to go through all this.
I wonder how they were able to get the verbiage in their bills done so quickly. [light bulb] Oh, wait! Could that be ALEC at work??
I hope along with the drug tests, they are willing to rehabilitate these recepients in order to help them. Does this mean that their State government is willing to actually help those with addiction problems, I hope so. I know that Prison is now a business, but drug abusers need help more than anything, not hype. People who use drugs are in serious pain. Do the next right thing, or the right thing next.
Since elected officials are paid by the taxes we pay (and the amount of work they do is pretty suspect), they should be drug-tested as well. I don't want my tax dollars going to fund some congressperson's habit. Add that in to the bill and see how far it gets.
Tricia - thanks for the link to the Pearl Harbor article. How fascinating! I want to meet Elizabeth McIntosh! Interview on TRMS? Please?
Andrea Mitchell says female reporters were not respected.
I recall stories where they ghost wrote for men, who got credit for it. Women were told to write recipes and household hints and the like.
Elizabeth McIntosh seems pretty spunky and maybe she can get an interview. 2nd that motion, but it's now past Dec. 7th.
Hey Rachael. I love your show. Check this out. In MN our roadmap to Health Care Reform leaves out LGBTQ, because it records data using the following... "Implement(ing) best practices for collection and reporting of data by healthcare providers and payers on detailed categories of race, ethnicity, and language linked to health disparities." Not doing so perpetuates health disparities experienced by people due to their orientation and identity. An outpouring of support for LGBT inclusion in this effort can make a difference! The deadline to respond is 5pm this Monday, December 10.
I'm reading a letter PA State Rep. Jesse White has sent to DEP Secretary Michael Krancer addressing the unanswered concerns about water quality testing issues near Marcellus Shale drilling sites in Pennsylvania. Rather than engage in a meaningless exchange of non-answers, he has asked ten specific questions for the Secretary to answer. I'm not, however, holding my breath for Krancer's response.
http://www.scribd.com/doc/115765009/Letter-to-Krancer
since Reince Priebus did such a bang up job last time it won't hurt my feelings if the GOP keeps him. that 150 members want to keep him says they haven't learned anything form a month ago.
About the Pearl Harbor story- Say the reporter went to where the dead child was examined the unexploded shells in this and other the areas of civilian devastastion. The truth was those civilians were killed by US personnel. Digging deeper, the newspaper could have reported that General Billy Mitchell had accurately predicted the attack down to the timing. Yet Mitchell had been court martialled due to his relentless efforts to show the the emperors of US naval power had no clothes.
Mitchell's prediction was publicly available, and a google search in 1941 would have revealed it. Had modern information resources existed freely available to vast numbers of interested readers, there would be stories in the blogosphere about how the civilian deaths were caused by US Naval shells, and US naval blind arrogance driven by lucrative Naval arms contracts to support the battleship fleet.
Is our modern press superior? What would World War II reporting have been like with greater sources of information that ran contrary to the themes promoted by editors of city newspapers? Today, the Honolulu newspapers are laying off reporters and local stories of political corruption can no longer be covered. The real story of Pearl Harbor might well have been reported, but there is no reason to believe that this would have injured US public opinion any more than information from UN weapons inspectors dissuaded the US support for the Iraq war. With the internet, the information in Elizabeth McIntosh's report would have gotten out due to the sensational nature of it, and the national attention. But McIntosh would have no job as a reporter, nor would there be anyone to cover important stories with less spectacle.. So today, we both have more information, and so much less.
Rachel, will you be back tonight? (Whine.....................)
Is it only me, or has anyone else noticed that the story about Jovan Belcher has completely disappeared in less than a week? Well, maybe we don't need to be talking about these particular people, because that's not the point, but the spectacle of yet another gun-death tragedy surely deserves to make more of an impact than that. It's like the press being banned from the "coming home" ceremonies for our soldiers who've made the ultimate sacrifice. Out of sight, out of mind.
Is the NRA really so powerful that the story could be quashed and swept under the rug? Really??