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Health Reform Essential for Reducing Deficit and Slowing Health Care Costs — Center on Budget and Policy Priorities

"It is a signal accomplishment that the Senate and House health reform bills would extend health coverage to two-thirds of the uninsured without adding to the federal deficit. According to the Congressional Budget Office (CBO), the bills would reduce deficits both over the decade from 2010 through 2019 (the Senate bill by $132 billion, the House bill by $138 billion) and after that."

Laura Linney Returns to Broadway in ‘Time Stands Still’ (Cohen, NYTimes)

Big fan. "Ms. Linney, who turns 46 next month, has not managed to leap into the movie-star stratosphere that her talent, intelligence and looks would indicate. She remains a sort of Everywoman’s Meryl Streep. “She’s made very smart actor’s choices, not great movie-star choices,” Mr. Margulies said. “She’s one of the best actresses of her generation, and I don’t think she’s gotten fair credit.”"

Surveillance Can't Make Us Secure (Sanchez, The Nation)

Chinese attacks on Google and elsewhere were aimed at systems companies had set up to comply with *US* surveillance demands: "...the goal of government surveillance is to create a breach-by-design, a deliberate backdoor into otherwise carefully secured systems. The appeal to an intruder is obvious: Why waste time with retail hacking of many individual targets when you can break into the network itself and spy wholesale?"

Google attack part of widespread spying effort (McMillan, Computer World)

Poetic injustice -- Chinese hackers "were able to access a system used to help Google comply with search warrants by providing data on Google users, said a source familiar with the situation, who spoke on condition of anonymity because he was not authorized to speak with the press. "Right before Christmas, it was, 'Holy s***, this malware is accessing the internal intercept [systems],'" he said".

Spending freeze could spell disaster (Mishel, Economic Policy Institute)

“In all likelihood the unemployment rate will be higher in October than it is now, yet somehow the White House thinks it’s appropriate to begin reducing domestic discretionary spending at that time. Reducing overall spending when tens of millions of Americans remain out of work would be a disaster. It will condemn millions of families to years of avoidable economic hardships."

U.S. military teams, intelligence deeply involved in aiding Yemen on strikes

And the intentional assassination of American citizens: "Obama approved a Dec. 24 strike against a compound where a U.S. citizen, Anwar al-Aulaqi, was thought to be meeting with other regional al-Qaeda leaders. Although he was not the focus of the strike and was not killed, he has since been added to a shortlist of U.S. citizens specifically targeted for killing or capture by the JSOC, military officials said." al-Aulaqi's family denies he's a terrorist.

Apples iPad: Steve Jobs öffnet seine Wundertüte (Patalong, SPIEGEL)

About the iPad announcement, but saved here for the great phrase "die eierlegende Wollmilchsau." (literally: egg laying wooly milk sow.)

Three Myths about Political Independents (Sides, "The Monkey Cage")

"The number of pure independents is actually quite small — perhaps 10% or so of the population. And this number has been decreasing, not increasing, since the mid-1970s."

I Don't Even Want To Be Alive Anymore (Rush Limbaugh, to The Onion)

"Many of you are probably wondering, "What would compel a human being to say things like that?" Well, here's your answer: I am a very bad person. And, to tell you the truth, I don't really want to be alive anymore."

How to Squander the Presidency in One Year (David M. Green, CommonDreams.org)

"Never has so much political advantage been pissed away so rapidly, and what's more in the context of so much national urgency and crisis. It's astonishing, really, to contemplate how much has been lost in a single year."

The option - the option - the public wants options!

Posted by Thomas Nephew on October 25th, 2009

Without it, it’s a giveaway!

Via Real News Network and brought to you by Billionaires for Wealthcare.

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UPDATE, 10/25: Enthusiastic review by Rachel Maddow on MSNBC, hilariously pinch-mouthed writeup by Garance Franke-Ruta in the Washington Post.

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2 Responses to “The option - the option - the public wants options!”

Maddie Says:
December 11th, 2009 at 6:16 pm
Awesome!!!!!!! Go public option!!!!!!!!!!!!
~Maddie
Maddie Says:
December 11th, 2009 at 6:18 pm
I hope that the health care bill is passed quickly!
~Maddie

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