O.k..Cyndiee, 'grow a heart', will you?..sm

• Obama's Nancy Pelosi Problem - Backwards typist
  • I literally cringe every time I see - sm
    • she looked like the whack-a-mole character during that "speech" the other night.. - nm
      • LOL, I LOVE that imagery, whack-a-mole is right!!!!!...nm - Cyndiee
      • Oh....I know. - sm
  • 1) Pelosi took too many shots to the head, and 2) O needs to buy her a muzzle......nm - Cyndiee
    • I get it now!....(sm) - Just the big bad
      • Say what?? I am talking about a specific person whom I personally think...sm - Cyndiee
        • That's interesting...(sm) - Just the big bad
          • JTBB grow up! - please
            • I reall dislike this: When somebody is cornered, - mar
            • Take your tears somewhere else...(sm) - Just the big bad
              • Who was crying tears? - Please
              • I am SO disappointed, JTBB - I thought you were different.
              • LOL!!............................. - sm
        • O.k..Cyndiee, 'grow a heart', will you?..sm - mar
          • Okay, and thanks for being getting me off this board, wow, it has been fun and intelligent.nm - Cyndiee

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Oh, now I see.  I never thought of it that way.  What difference does it make about whether or not people should be eating at McDonald's??!.  Let's stay on point.

For another example, if you raise the minimum wage, that shampoo that you have to put off buying (and I applaud your use of a budget - more people need to practice self-restraint) will now go up in price because the people who stock the shelves where you buy that shampoo have now had a raise and that money has to come from somewhere.  The increased payroll cost will drive up prices everywhere. 

I think your earlier point about cracking down on welfare fraud is a great idea and I have been saying that myself for a number of years.

Wow!  I can surely relate to you!  I was diagnosed with cystic fibrosis three years ago and was hospitalized nine times for pancreatitis (caused by CF) since then.  I was just discharged from my TENTH hospitalization after having a very mild stroke last week.

I am prescribed a Duragesic patch (which costs almost $700 a month), other painkillers, and an array of other medications to treat associated problems with CF.  I obviously can't afford my medication.  (Unlike you, though, I did apply for SSDI when I realized that I just can't produce as I used to be able to do.  This is after working 40 consecutive years and paying into the system.  Like most applicants, I was denied and am awaiting a hearing which probably won't happen for another year or so.)  I can certainly relate to the difficulty in paying for medications, and I'm writing this post to you to inquire if you ever looked into the patient assistance programs offered by the manufacturer of the drug.

Right now, I am receiving my Duragesic and Lopid for free from the manufacturer.  After my most recent hospitalization, I've also been prescribed Plavix ($160 at Walmart) and Lipitor ($130 at Walmart).

Since I've already been approved by Pfizer (their "Connection to Care" program) for the Lopid, I am also automatically eligible to receive other products they manufacture (such as Xanax and the Lipitor) for free, as well.

It is very easy to apply, and it is based upon your income.  The income guidelines are very liberal, and if you don't qualify for free medication, you may very well qualify for the medication at a very reduced cost.

I found all of this on the internet by simply Googling to find the manufacturer of the drug and then seeing if they have a patient assistance program.

If it wasn't for these programs, I don't know how I would deal with my medical problems.  I have lived a pretty healthy life, so I can't complain even a little at being diagnosed with this horrible disease, especially when I consider how many babies and small children struggle with CF.

As far as the stroke, I THINK I'm supposed to have a CT scan next Wednesday (the 11th), and I have an appointment with my doc on the 18th of March.  (I just discovered the note about the CT scan and don't recall them talking to me about it before I was discharged, plus I had a CT scan when in the hospital, so I'm just not sure; I guess I'll have to call.  Guess my brain just isn't working -- not really anything new.  LOL)

Anyway, if you're having difficulty paying for your meds and don't have prescription drug insurance, PLEASE look into this option.  I can't begin to express how thankful I am that they exist and that they make applying so easy.

My best wishes to you!! 

Maybe you should just take a break instead.  I left for about a month, and now that I'm back, I have a little different perspective and don't get as involved as I used to.

I have enjoyed reading your posts because you DO try to be polite and find a middle ground where people can hopefully agree and discuss, instead of bash and condemn. 

Unfortunately, this board may represent a microcosm of the entire country, where people are fed up and angry and maybe a little frightened of what their futures may hold.  If we met each other on the street, we'd probably be friendly; however, the internet offers an aspect of anonymity (sp?), maybe what we see are just raw, unadulterated feelings of anger -- normal feelings, but directed at the wrong people -- people who are basically just like them.

I hope you decide to return to the board, and I hope people on this board could show a little more tolerance when dealing with the people to whom they respond, because we all ARE PEOPLE, with human feelings.

I think there are some intelligent people on this board -- both Republican and Democratic -- and who knows?  Maybe a little intelligent conversation could help to solve some of the terrible problems we face or at least let us know most of us are in the same boat, regardless of our political leanings.

Maybe you just need a break.  I hope so, and I hope to be reading your posts again soon.  Take care. 

Maybe you should just take a break instead.  I left for about a month, and now that I'm back, I have a little different perspective and don't get as involved as I used to.

I have enjoyed reading your posts because you DO try to be polite and find a middle ground where people can hopefully agree and discuss, instead of bash and condemn. 

Unfortunately, this board may represent a microcosm of the entire country, where people are fed up and angry and maybe a little frightened of what their futures may hold.  If we met each other on the street, we'd probably be friendly; however, the internet offers an aspect of anonymity (sp?), maybe what we see are just raw, unadulterated feelings of anger -- normal feelings, but directed at the wrong people -- people who are basically just like them.

I hope you decide to return to the board, and I hope people on this board could show a little more tolerance when dealing with the people to whom they respond, because we all ARE PEOPLE, with human feelings.

I think there are some intelligent people on this board -- both Republican and Democratic -- and who knows?  Maybe a little intelligent conversation could help to solve some of the terrible problems we face or at least let us know most of us are in the same boat, regardless of our political leanings.  Bashing each other on a personal level, however, will never lead to anything that's good.

Maybe you just need a break.  I hope so, and I hope to be reading your posts again soon.  Take care. 

    Wednesday 26 October 2005

    After W. was elected, he sometimes gave visitors a tour of the love alcove off the Oval Office where Bill trysted with Monica - the notorious spot where his predecessor had dishonored the White House.

    At least it was only a little pantry - and a little panting.

    If W. wants to show people now where the White House has been dishonored in far more astounding and deadly ways, he'll have to haul them around every nook and cranny of his vice president's office, then go across the river for a walk of shame through the Rummy empire at the Pentagon.

    The shocking thing about the trellis of revelations showing Dick Cheney, the self-styled Mr. Strong America, as the central figure in dark conspiracies to juice up a case for war and demonize those who tried to tell the public the truth is how un-shocking it all is.

    It's exactly what we thought was going on, but we never thought we'd actually hear the lurid details: Cheney and Rummy, the two old compadres from the Nixon and Ford days, in a cabal running the country and the world into the ground, driven by their poisonous obsession with Iraq, while Junior is out of the loop, playing in the gym or on his mountain bike.

    Mr. Cheney has been so well protected by his Praetorian guard all these years that it's been hard for the public to see his dastardly deeds and petty schemes. But now, because of Patrick Fitzgerald's investigation and candid talk from Brent Scowcroft and Lawrence Wilkerson, he's been flushed out as the heart of darkness: all sulfurous strands lead back to the man W. aptly nicknamed Vice.

    According to a Times story yesterday, Scooter Libby first learned about Joseph Wilson's C.I.A. wife from his boss, Mr. Cheney, not from reporters, as he'd originally suggested. And Mr. Cheney learned it from George Tenet, according to Mr. Libby's notes.

    The Bush hawks presented themselves as protectors and exporters of American values. But they were so feverish about projecting the alternate reality they had constructed to link Saddam and Al Qaeda - and fulfilling their idée fixe about invading Iraq - they perverted American values.

    Whether or not it turns out to be illegal, outing a C.I.A. agent - undercover or not - simply to undermine her husband's story is Rove-ishly sleazy. This no-leak administration was perfectly willing to leak to hurt anyone who got in its way.

    Vice also pressed for a loophole so the C.I.A. could do torture-light on prisoners in U.S. custody, but John McCain rebuffed His Tortureness. Senator McCain has sponsored a measure to bar the cruel treatment of prisoners because he knows that this is not who we are. (Remember the days when the only torture was listening to politicians reciting their best TV lines at dinner parties?)

    Colonel Wilkerson, the former chief of staff for Colin Powell, broke the code and denounced Vice's vortex, calling his own involvement in Mr. Powell's U.N. speech, infected with bogus Cheney and Scooter malarkey, the lowest point in his life.

    He followed that with a blast of blunt talk in a speech and an op-ed piece in The Los Angeles Times, saying that foreign policy had been hijacked by a secretive, little-known cabal that hated dissent. He said the cabal was headed by Mr. Cheney, a vice president who speaks only to Rush Limbaugh and assembled military forces, and Donald Rumsfeld, a secretary of defense presiding over the death by a thousand cuts of our overstretched armed forces.

    I believe that the decisions of this cabal were sometimes made with the full and witting support of the president and sometimes with something less, Colonel Wilkerson wrote. More often than not, then-national security adviser Condoleezza Rice was simply steamrolled by this cabal.

    Brent Scowcroft, Bush Senior's close friend, let out a shriek this week to Jeffrey Goldberg in The New Yorker, revealing his estrangement from W. and his old protégé Condi. He disdained Paul Wolfowitz as a naïve utopian and said he didn't know his old friend Dick Cheney anymore. Vice's alliance with the neocons, who were determined to finish in Iraq what Mr. Scowcroft and Poppy had declared finished, led him to lead the nation into a morass. Troop deaths are now around 2,000, a gruesome milestone.

    The reason I part with the neocons is that I don't think in any reasonable time frame the objective of democratizing the Middle East can be successful, Mr. Scowcroft said. If you can do it, fine, but I don't think you can, and in the process of trying to do it you can make the Middle East a lot worse.

    W. should take the Medal of Freedom away from Mr. Tenet and give medals to Colonel Wilkerson and Mr. Scowcroft