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Scoured Light
James Marcus Schuyler wrote like an angel. That is, he fashioned poems from flawless American English ("English" and "angels" are parties to an old pun, if not to a shared etymology) and made it look like the easiest thing in the world. A case in point: "Light From Canada," from his collection The Crystal Lithium (1972). His caressing eye is accurate; his words are pithy and elegant; and his emotional tenor is of someone striving for a state of grace, though pain is always near—and fresh as paint:
A wonderful freshness, air
that billows like bedsheets
on a clothesline and the clouds
hang in a traffic jam: summer
heads home. Evangeline,
our light is scoured and Nova
Scotian and of a clarity that
opens up the huddled masses
of the stolid spruce so you
see them in their bristling
individuality. The other
day, walking among them, I
cast my gaze upon the ground
in hope of orchids and,
pendant, dead, a sharp shadow
in the shade, a branch gouged
and left me "scarred forever
'neath the eye." Not quite. Not
the cut, but the surprise, and
how, when her dress caught fire,
Longfellow's wife spun
into his arms and in the dying
of its flaring, died. The
irreparable, which changes
nothing that went before
though it ends it. Above the wash
and bark of rumpled water, a gull
falls down the wind to dine
on fish that swim up to do same.
Schuyler may have written like an angel, but he would never write of angels. He was an empiricist. As with Elizabeth Bishop and Lorine Niedecker, Charles Darwin was one of his favorite writers—and there Darwin is, in "Light From Canada," in the gull and the fish who meet at the intersection of mutual hunger. The great pleasure and sense of health the poet takes from the air (the bedsheets-on-a-clothesline simile, the "scoured" air, the unclumped bristles) is undeniably invigorating. It is also ambivalent. The force that drives the air down from Canada is a harbinger of winter and death, which Schuyler rises to meet like the fish. Under the guise of twentieth-century free verse, this poem snaps shut with a (visual) rhyme as neatly as any sonnet.
The courtliness of Schuyler's verse sprang miraculously from the shambles of his life. He was a late bloomer, 46 years old when his first full-length collection, Freely Espousing, was published in 1969, and each successive volume of poems seemed wrenched from an ever more precarious existence. Schuyler enjoyed scarce advantages to begin with. He was born in 1923 in Chicago to Midwestern, middle-class parents who were divorced by the time he was 6. He was forced to take the name of his antagonistic stepfather after his mother's remarriage and rarely saw his father (a "heavy, jolly, well-read man") again. (He changed his name back in adulthood.) He attended Bethany College in West Virginia—not Harvard, like his future New York School confreres Frank O'Hara, John Ashbery and Kenneth Koch. Having fared poorly in his studies, he left Bethany without a degree and in 1943 joined the Navy. That ended with a dishonorable discharge: he went AWOL on a drunken bender, and at his hearing it came out that he was gay. All his life Schuyler would struggle with alcoholism and manic depression, with hospitalizations paid for by friends—W.H. Auden and James Merrill among them.
Schuyler was Auden's secretary during a sojourn on Ischia in 1949. "Well, if this is poetry, I'm certainly not going to write any myself," he reminisced in an interview late in life. His long apprenticeship must have frustrated him; he developed antagonisms toward his mentors, including his friend and occasional roommate Frank O'Hara. They had a falling out that remained unresolved at O'Hara's death, in 1966, at the age of 40. Schuyler's elegy for O'Hara, "Buried at Springs," starts with a shock: "There is a hornet in the room/and one of us will have to go/out the window into the late/August midafternoon sun. I/won." It was O'Hara's highly enjambed lyrical monologue "The Three-Penny Opera," published in Accent magazine in 1951, that moved Schuyler to try his hand at poetry. The big revelation: "it's the matter of where the line turns," Schuyler explained to himself in his diary. One of his most emblematic poems, "Salute," was composed at the Bloomington mental hospital in White Plains that year:
Past is past, and if one
remembers what one meant
to do and never did, is
not to have thought to do
enough? Like that gather-
ing of one of each I
planned, to gather one
of each kind of clover,
daisy, paintbrush that
grew in that field
the cabin stood in and
study them one afternoon
before they wilted. Past
is past. I salute
that various field.
"Salute" has all the earmarks of a mature Schuyler poem: an eye for nature, an ear for "where the line turns," a sense of spontaneous utterance and of scrupulous proportion. His technique would loosen as he aged (the tone of his last collection, A Few Days, from 1985, was downright chatty), but right from the start he made well-spoken middle-Atlantic vernacular speech the ground of the poem. It didn't need the metrical apparatus of the English (Audenesque) tradition; its rhythms materialize in the enjambments. And if the enjambments looked arbitrary at first glance, so much the better: the ragged edge of the arbitrary, provisional or contingent is exactly where the poet communicates his lyrical vulnerability. A prosodic and tonal balancing act replaces mastery in the old sense. William Carlos Williams tried to theorize free verse into something called a "variable foot"; Charles Olson tried to theorize it into a "composition by field"; Schuyler simply wrote the poems, and his view of a "various field" crystallizes his sense of style without pontification.
Schuyler thrived as a pastoral poet, even when he lived in Manhattan. He modeled his themes after the paintings of his friends Jane Freilicher and Fairfield Porter, who modeled their work on Édouard Vuillard and Pierre Bonnard, painters of domestic happiness whose insignia was the floral centerpiece. To Schuyler, painting epitomized the pure joy of being. The happiest period of his life was the twelve or so years he lived with Porter and his family in Southampton, New York, and on Great Spruce Head Island, Maine. The poet's childhood was scarred by a broken home, and his mental illness made it impossible to create a home for himself in adulthood. But when, following a breakdown, he was taken in by the Porters, he achieved a measure of stability that allowed him to develop his gift. According to biographer Justin Spring, Porter's interest in Schuyler was romantic. (In turn, Schuyler referred to Porter, who wrote art criticism for this magazine, as his "best friend.") Anne Porter—who bore Fairfield five children, managed the household single-handedly and was an accomplished poet herself—embraced him nonetheless. Their works became as intertwined as their lives. Schuyler is portrayed in several family paintings from the era; Freely Espousing is dedicated to Fairfield and Anne. Fairfield wrote to O'Hara: "Jimmy is writing a new novel, and sometimes I hear him typing and often I hear a woodpecker and think that it is he."


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Pinging around the blogosphere today has been a Politico article claiming that immigration reform could be a "bonanza" for Democrats, considering that reform could eventually lead to more Hispanic voters, who voted Democratic by a 3-1 margin in the last election. As the article breathlessly wrote about current undocumented immigrants (right before they noted that the exercise was "inherently speculative"):
If these people had been on the voting rolls in 2012 and voted along the same lines as other Hispanic voters did last fall, President Barack Obama's relatively narrow victory last fall would have been considerably wider, a POLITICO analysis showed.
Key swing states that Obama fought tooth and nail to win — like Florida, Colorado and Nevada — would have been comfortably in his column. And the president would have come very close to winning Arizona.
Republican Mitt Romney, by contrast, would have lost the national popular vote by 7 percentage points, 53 percent to 46 percent, instead of the 4-point margin he lost by in 2012, and would have struggled even to stay competitive in GOP strongholds like Texas, which he won with 57 percent of the vote.
It might be Rush Limbaugh's greatest nightmare, but the analysis was rooted in false and superficial assumptions, which quickly led serious pollsters to push back. Nate Silver, the polling guru at New York Times' FiveThirtyEight blog, was nearly apoplectic about the flaws in Politico's methodology, tweeting:
POLITICO "analysis": no way to know how many illegal immigrants would get citizenship and vote, so let's assume 100%. politico.com/story/2013/04/…
— Nate Silver (@fivethirtyeight) April 23, 2013
Politico attempting to use statistics is like Taco Bell attempting to cook French food.
— Nate Silver (@fivethirtyeight) April 23, 2013
Also love how Politico's "analysis" assumes that all illegal immigrants are Hispanic. politico.com/story/2013/04/…
— Nate Silver (@fivethirtyeight) April 23, 2013
Nate Cohn, another prominent polling reporter at the New Republic, further called the Politico analysis "ludicrous" and wrote, "In effect, this 'analysis' assumes that every undocumented worker will become a citizen, and that every new citizen will vote in the 2028 election." He also noted that Politico didn't take overall population growth into account, which would dilute the impact of Latino and immigrant population growth.
Sen. Marco Rubio (R-FL)'s office also responded with an addition to their "Myths vs. Facts" on immigration website section, noting that "FACT: Not all 11 million illegal immigrants here today will qualify to become citizens, and not all of the 11 million illegal immigrants are Hispanic."
As polling from Latino Decisions frequently points out, Republicans don't have to win Latino voters to do better electorally, they just have to win a larger percentage than they are right now. According to recent polling, 44% of Latinos would consider voting for a Republican if the GOP was more supportive of immigration reform. If Republicans could just boost their Latino vote support to 42% nationwide–around the percentage George W. Bush won in 2004–six states would flip from Democrat to Republican. If, on the other hand, Republicans choose to do nothing, or choose to kill immigration reform, eventually the Latino vote in Republican-strong states like Texas, Arizona, and North Carolina will eventually grow to haunt them.
As Mother Jones' Kevin Drum wrote this week about the Latino vote question, Republicans are currently in such doldrums with Latino voters that supporting immigration reform is a "no-lose proposition" for the GOP. "If depriving Democrats of immigration reform as an issue hurts them," Drum said, "Republicans could make significant gains."

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Microsoft Corporation filed as a Statement & Designation By Foreign Corporation in the State of California filed on Friday, October 29, 1993. This corporation is approximately twenty-two years old according to documents filed with California Secretary of State. Microsoft Corporation also lists William H. Gates as Director.
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Actress Urmila Matondkar is one of the most successful item girls. She was featured in "Chamma Chamma" in the 1998 film China Gate. Baz Luhrmann's 2001 film musical, Moulin Rouge! used a westernized version of this song.
Although there have been many songs that fit the descriptions of item numbers in the early and mid 1990's, the term itself was coined when Shilpa Shetty danced for "Main Aai Hoon UP Bihar Lootne" in the movie Shool. This is perhaps the first time the media actually referred to Shetty as an "item girl" and the scene as an "item number".
Malaika Arora Khan and Yana Gupta are "official" item number dancers. They have said they don't want to act in movies since they earn sufficient amount of money by just doing one song.
Abhishek Bachchan became the first "item boy" with his performance in Rakht; Shahrukh Khan also performed an item number during the opening credits of Kaal but had an item number in the true sense of the word with "Dard-e-Disco" in the Farah Khan directed Om Shanti Om where he was shot in typical "item girl" manner with bare six pack abs; however the number did have a meaning within the plot. He also performed an iten number for the recently released movie Krazzy 4.
In Krazzy 4, Hrithik Roshan also has an item number during the end credits.
Former item girls in pop songs outside films, Rakhi Sawant and Meghna Naidu, for example, are now quite in demand and very popular. Today, they are even being given lead roles in commercially successful movies.
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Artist Housing
The City of Seattle recognizes that artists need the same thing other working people need: an affordable home. Working-class artists are a vital part of Seattle's past, present and future. Towards that end, the Office of Housing has partnered with Artspace Projects, Inc. and Delridge Neighborhoods Development Association, to build nearly 150 units of housing designed to meet the needs of artists.
"Locally and nationally, it's an established fact that the arts are good for the economy and that arts developments are good for neighborhoods," said Artspace President L. Kelley Lindquist.
The City of Seattle realizes that artists have specialized housing needs, often preferring open, loft-style spaces instead of a more conventional floor plan. Additionally, the buildings allow artists to stay in the city and live near the galleries that show their work. Finally, these developments bring art to the community via retail and gallery space.
The Seattle Housing Levy has funded three apartment buildings with units affordable to and designed for working artists: Tashiro Kaplan Artists Lofts and Hiawathta Artists Lofts, owned by Artspace Projects, Inc., and Cooper School/Youngstown Cultural Arts Center, owned by Delridge Neighborhoods Development Association. Please visit these agencies' websites for rental information.
In addition to these buildings designed specifically with artists' needs in mind, painters, musicians, filmmakers and other working artists have found homes in other Seattle Housing Levy-funded apartments around the city. Besides being affordable to artists, these Levy-funded apartments offer additional amenities, including great locations in diverse and vibrant neighborhoods, a sense of community and a close proximity to transit and other amenities.
For more information about affordable housing in Seattle, we provide contact info and website links for our many non-profits partners on our affordable housing links page.


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YouTube has officially announced a new pilot program where content creators can choose to have users pay to subscribe to their channels. This doesn't mean that all your favorite content on YouTube isn't going to be free anymore — it's a service that's open for a small set of YouTube partners to take advantage of, at least for now.
Paid channels will have subscription fees starting at $0.99 and every channel that does this will (thankfully) have a 14-day free trial. That way, you'll be able to make sure the content you're paying for is really worth it. Also, many of the paid channels will have yearly discounted rates. So if your kid loves watching their Sesame Street on YouTube, subscribing for a year might be a good idea to save some cash — the channel will begin offering full episodes when it launches. YouTube also plans on broadening this service as time goes on, eventually making it a self-service feature for "qualifying partners."
Paying for content on YouTube isn't actually a new concept, some channels have been charging for rentals of movies and season subscriptions for some time now. Now the initial reaction to hearing that YouTube will begin offering paid subscriptions might be a negative one, but let's try not to forget the creators behind all the content we enjoy. It gives those that work hard on making compelling videos another avenue to get something back for what they do — just make sure you put your money in the right places.
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I can see people paying a small monthly fee for good, original content, or content from other countries that might not otherwise be legally available. I would pay for a BBC channel if the right programs were included, or for an Australian channel if it included NRL games.


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Sunday Night Boob Tube Bonanza: Someone Takes A Tumble On "Revenge," Deb Is Still Confused On "Dexter" & Brody's Being Watched On "Homeland"
Soooo many developments on last night's episodes of "Revenge," "Dexter," and "Homeland." Let's get to it, shall we? Recaps and clips, complete with spoilers, after the jump!
"Revenge." Okay, before we got into who took a serious tumble on last night's episode of "Revenge," can we touch base on Nolan's sexual orientation. Now, unless I missed something, I thought his dalliance with Tyler in season one made it clear that Nolan was gay. But in last night's episode, he got all romantico with new assistant Padma. I, and multiple other "Revenge" fans I follow on Twitter, were mighty confused by this development. Was the show trying to pretend like Tyler was never gay? Someone replied to me on Twitter and said that Nolan was bisexual — which of course makes sense — except that bi characters (especially male bisexuals) are pretty damn rare on network TV. If Nolan being bi is the case and they plan on having his character continue to be attracted to both men and women, that's fantastic. I'm just surprised that the show didn't make his bi status more clear (again, unless I missed that episode), because I think it's awesome that bisexual men are finally being represented on television. Anyway.
So, lesson learned from last night's episode — previous learned via "Gone with the Wind" and every soap opera ever — heated arguments with pregnant women should never occur near balconies or steep flights of stairs. Poor Amanda, doing Emily's dirty work again, took a tumble off the Grayson's marble balcony, which means that she and little baby Porter are in big trubs. Her fall did bring Emily the results she wanted — her mother (played Jennifer Jason Leigh) coming out of the woodwork. But the craziest revelation from last night's episode is that Mama Clark may not be such an innocent victim — did she really try to kill Amanda as a child? As things are never ever what they seem — and never ever what they don't seem either — on "Revenge," I HAVE NO FUCKING CLUE.
"Dexter." While it's been super exciting to have Deb finally know that Dexter is a serial killer, and watching her wrestle with the implications, the plot twist has kind of put a damper on that other revelation from the end of last season — that she has a total boner for her brother. Because I am a weirdo, I loved this development so I've been a touch bummed to see her amorous feelings for Dex tempered by the realization that he's not who she thought he was. Still, the undercurrent is still there, even as her priority is now coming to terms with his behavior, rather than her desire to plant one on him. Last night's episode saw Deb contending with morbid fantasies of soaking in a bathtub of blood while Dexter looks on. The scene called to mind Rita's death, of course, and whether Deb is destined for a similar fate — but it also hinted at the fact that she is faced with a choice by knowing who Dexter really is. Can she accept for who he is that thus be willingly culpable in his crimes? At the end of the episode, as Dexter showed Deb the smoke rising into the air as Speltzer's body burned, and she declared that she felt good about his death, I felt like Deb was in for a very, very long road ahead.
"Homeland." You guys, thanks to Showtime, I have access to episodes of "Dexter" and "Homeland" in advance of when they air, so I saw last night's episode of "Homeland" over a week ago and have literally had my hands over my mouth because I have been dying to talk about it with someone, but knew I couldn't. Now that I can finally let it out, humor me: HOLY SHIT OH MY GOD BRODY IS SO BUSTED!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! First of all, how hot is the new dude that Carrie is forced to work with as they watch Brody's every move? Secondly, I found myself cheering multiple times as Carrie was finally able to do what she does best, which is use her own real emotions to reel in and trap Brody. The look of suppressed glee on her face, just as she was about to call him on his lies in the hotel room, was pure genius. Claire Danes does "suppressed glee" just as well as she does "epic crumple cry face." The question is, with Brody in cuffs, where does the show go now? Given that "Homeland" has centered around Carrie Mathison trying to catch Brody, how can the show continue since it appears he is caught. I cannot waaaaaaait to find out.
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Bad Reasons for Going to Law School
Inside the Law School Scam has a somewhat snarky-toned but very insightful piece today "for the 50,000 people taking the LSAT tomorrow." In countdown form:
8. Everybody in my family is a lawyer.
"Is everybody also a workaholic with a drinking problem who hates their spouse and never sees their kids?"
No, folks, it's not that bad–trust me, I've been there–but the syndrome he describes is all together too common among lawyers. We are statistical outliers, as a profession, in the worst sense, on alcoholism, divorce, and unhappiness in general.
7. I want to help poor people [and/or] make a difference.
Cynical law students tend to dismiss their classmates' interest in doing anything but trying to make money by pointing out how these noble ideals soon crumble in the face of the realities of On Campus Interviewing. But that's the point: It turns out there's very little money in law for doing anything other than representing the interests of the rich and powerful. That doesn't mean people who claimed to want to do something else were disingenuous: more likely they were merely naïve.
Actually the most novel aspect of this observation–which you can otherwise read across many many web pages–is its indictment of OCI! I like it.
6. I want to be rich.
This is the evil twin of #7, or #7 is the evil twin of this (we're nonsectarian judgmental here). The reality is you can do fine if you land the AmLaw 100 jobs graduates increasingly seem to eschew, but beware. As an economist, I know that one's perceived wealth is what matters, and it's all relative: "If you're very fortunate you'll make just enough money to feel poor by comparison to the vastly wealthier people you'll be dealing with regularly in your professional life."
5. Lawyers do all kinds of interesting work.
The few, the lucky, do. Most are more like airline pilots, only they have to work 70 hours/week and the FAA mandates highly civilized amounts of rest and time off for pilots. (How do lawyers resemble pilots? Their jobs are simultaneously tedious but with the potential for periods of insane stress.)
4. All of this doesn't matter to me because I'm a winner: I'll graduate Order of the Coif from a T-14 school, land at the AmLaw 50 of my dreams, and then I can figure it all out later.
Our professor's riposte to this reads, in its entirety, "You get the hell out of here," but I think it deserves a slightly lengthier response, if only because it's so common (yours truly pleads guilty, with the defense that I pulled it off, however).
I think the real response is that the air starts getting pretty thin up there. Just because you've been in the 97th-99th%-ile of everything you've ever done all your life doesn't mean the same is assured in this league. Remember what All Star outfielder Bobby Murcer said about trying to get a hit off a major league pitcher at the top of his form? "It's like trying to eat Jello with chopsticks." It gets tougher and tougher.
3. My parents will be disappointed if I don't do something respectable.
Make sure your efforts to be "respectable" don't leave you with $200,000 in non-dischargeable debt and feeling like failure incarnate.
2. What am I supposed to do with this useless undergraduate degree?
Here our professor has quite sane advice: Don't pour good money (and time) after bad. "Don't double down."
1. I don't know what to do with my life.
Before you invest $XXX,000 in a three-year sabbatical, figure it out. Start somewhere. Anywhere.
October 3, 2011
Ha! I've got a list going here that might be amusing for people to check out:
Law School Myth #1: Lawyers Make a Lot of Money: http://thegirlsguidetolawschool.com/09/law-school-myth-1-lawyers-make-a-lot-of-money/
Myth #2: Student Loan Debt is Good Debt:
Myth #3: Law School Gives You Three More Years to Figure Out What to Do With Your Life:
Myth #4: Life as a Lawyer is Exciting and Intellectually Challenging:
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from: BigGovernment.com
It is crunch time tonight in Congress. Speaker Pelosi is moving towards a full floor vote on the Obama/Pelosi Health Care Plan up for a vote. At the time of publishing, votes are expected around 8 or 9pm EST. I received a call early this morning that my Orthopaedic Services were in demand. Apparently, the Speaker, the President's Chief of Staff Rahm Emmanuel and their staffs have been "breaking arms of anyone and everyone in sight that is on the fence about The Bill." These Enforcers have put Freedom, Liberty and constituent representation aside.
Do your congressmen/women have any idea what is in this 1990 page Bill, and what it means for each and every American? So you do not have to count, it creates 118 new boards, commissions, offices and bureaus. Supposedly, ALL of these new entities will be selflessly looking out for your "betterment." Somehow, ObamaCare needs all of these levels of review and personnel to provide better and more available healthcare to more Americans, and plans to work this miracle do this at a fraction of current costs. (Oh, and they will eliminate Medicaid fraud in the meantime.) This has little connection with reality.
There is another option. A different reform package has been purposed by The GOP Leadership, and every member of the minority has signed on. In fact, before this debate is over maybe a few "Blue Dog Democrats" (now with broken arms) will sign on as well. This reform package:
- EMPOWERS the public,
- Lowers health care premiums,
- with pre-existing conditions,
- Reduces junk lawsuits,
- Establishes Universal Access Programs for those
- Prevents insurers from canceling a policy,
- Allows Americans to purchase insurance across state lines,
- EXPANDS HSA'S, and
- Promotes PREVENTION & WELLNESS.
Two Congressmen need to be commended for their support of Prevention, Wellness and HSA's: Congressman Fortenberry from Nebraska and Congressman McCotter fromMichigan. As many of you know, last Wednesday Glenn Beck asked me to "borrow" his audience and to give them a frontline assessment of the health care legislation pending in Congress.
In my discussion with Judge Napolitano on the Glenn Beck Show, I hammered on the fact that the rationing and enforcement boards were already created and passed into law through the stimulus bill, and that the President had already appointed the members, funding them to the tune of $20.6 BILLION. When I pointed out that these boards were charged with directing healthcare "at the time and place of care," Judge Napolitano expressed outrage at the prospect of these government entities insinuating themselves into the previously private and confidential doctor/patient relationship. The biggest outrage is the fact that no one seems to know that THIS IS ALREADY LAW! These rationing boards threaten your privacy, your control, your health, your treatment possibilities, and your future.
Enter Congressman McCotter again. In the GOP Alternative Bill, Congressman McCotter added two very important Sections :
SEC. 401. RULE OF CONSTRUCTION. Nothing in this Act shall be construed to interfere with the doctor-patient relationship or the practice of medicine.
SEC. 402. REPEAL OF FEDERAL COORDINATING COUNCIL FOR COMPARATIVE EFFECTIVENESS RESEARCH. Effective on the date of the enactment of this Act, section 804 of the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act of 2009 is repealed.
With the addition of these two Sections, the subterranean health care coup within The Stimulus Bill, becomes NULL & VOID.
I thank those in Congress who were willing to listen to 'the grunts on the front line of our health care system and to create the alternative Bill. I thank Congressman McCotter for (1) having the "guts" to call out the President, the Speaker, Senator Reid for their subterfuge in enacting the rationing and enforcement boards, and (2) for proposing a remedy for the unpalatable Democratic draught.
Health Care is too important to enact by default. It deserves debate and dialogue. We need Healthcare Reform that is above-board, not back-room. We need a simplified health care system that can deal with reality, not smoke and mirrors. We do not need to add expensive bureaucratic gridlock that limits your access to treatments and care, as we bankrupt the actual healthcare providers, the doctors, nurses, therapists, technicians and hospitals on the front line of health care. We need to identify the ailments in our system, and identify solutions that do not create worse side effects and complications. To quote English dramatist John Fletcher, let's make sure "the medicine is not worse than the malady!"
FOX NEWS IS REPORTING BITTER DEBATE GOING ON THE HOUSE FLOOR Saturday Morning!
Admin: Those congressmen who vote for this bill will be signing their termination! 54% of Americans reject this socialist move!
Historic PelosiCare Debate Going On Into The Night
from: BigGovernment.com
Today, a historic debate will commence on a bill that would impose big government health care on all Americans. Nobody knows if this bill is going to pass and many questions about the bill remain unanswered. All those who cherish the idea of limited government and a health care system driven by free market principles are hoping that good prevails over evil.
Yesterday, the House Rules Committee passed the rule to consider H.R. 3962 (PelosiCare), the Affordable Health Care for America Act, and this debate will be covered live on C-SPAN all day long. Today, the American people can watch the debate in the House of Representatives on legislation that would dramatically change the way health care services are delivered.
Who is the Next Marjorie Margolies-Mezvinsky?
The vote on final passage of the bill is going to be close and people looking to the 2010 congressional election cycle are going to watch this vote to see which Blue Dog Democrats, Democrats from conservative leaning districts, are going to be forced to Walk the Plank and vote for an unpopular bill. Dan Perrin of Red State has an excellent review of what happed to one term former Congresswoman Marjorie Margolies-Mezvinsky of Pennsylvania. Perrin wrote "we are reminded of the case of Marjorie Margolies-Mezvinsky (D-PA) who famously switched her vote to give then President Clinton his tax increase." She lost her re-election the next year and became the poster child for the 1994 Republican sweep of Congress.
It is possible that a handful of Congressman from a conservative leaning district are considered the deciding votes to pass PelosiCare and that may cause them problems going into an election cycle that, if the Governor's elections in NJ and VA are any indication, may be an uphill climb for many Democrats.
The PelosiCare bill is very long and complicated. Congressional Quarterly (subscription required) reports that the bill's coverage requirements include an individuals mandate requiring "nearly all individuals to obtain health care coverage, beginning in 2013." Also, an employer mandate requiring "employers to offer their employees health care insurance, or make an insurance contribution on their behalf, starting in 2013." A federal heath insurance exchange will be created and being operation in 2013 "that would allow individuals and small businesses to purchase health insurance from insurers participating in the exchange." Many conservatives, and libertarians like Michael Cannon at CATO, object to the mandates, because they feel that mandating health insurance is a means to a government takeover of health care.
Public Option
The controversial public option is part of PelosiCare and "requires the establishment of a public health insurance option within the insurance exchange by 2013." The federal government would "run the public option and negotiate with providers to determine rates." The Heritage Foundation argues that the problems with a public option are that the "costs are hidden," public provided health care offers "substandard care compared to private health insurance," the government be unfairly setting up rules for competition between the government and private health insurance providers, and that "as many as 119 million Americans would no longer be in private coverage."
The end goal of the public option for the left is a "the end goal is definitely a single-payer system. That's why many supporters of a single-payer system, where the government runs the whole health system, are suddenly converts to choice and private competition as long as there is a public plan." Don't believe me and The Heritage Foundation? Just listen to Rep Jan Schakowsky (D-Il). Also, PelosiCare prevents insurance companies from denying or lowering coverage because of an individuals pre-existing condition starting in 2013.
Taxes would be raised under PelosiCare. The bill imposes a 5.4 percent tax surcharge on individuals earning $500,000 or $1 million for married couples. This is scored by the Congressional Budget Office as a $461 billion in revenues to pay for the bill. There is a controversial 2.5% surcharge on medical devices that will be passed on to you, the consumer. Health Savings Accounts HSAs are under attack with discriminatory tax provisions intended on legislating HSAs out of existence. Ryan Ellis of Americans for Tax Reform has compiled a comprehensive list of all the tax increases in PelosiCare.
The Heritage Foundation estimates the cost of this bill, over the next 10 years, to be $1.5 trillion. The President promised that ObamaCare would not cost the American people more than $900 billion, yet the bill being considered in the House breaks yet another Obama promise. If you take the CBO price tag and add the so called Doc Fix bill, which changes the way doctors are reimbursed for Medicate payments and has been part of the Obamacare debate from the start, that adds another $245 billion over the next 10 years.
Donald Marron, former CBO director, estimated that there are $217 billion in additional spending ignored by CBO. Even if the bill cost under the arbitrary $900 billion limit requested by the President, that seems to be a $900 billion expansion of the federal government that we, as a nation, don't need right now.
The Congressional Budget Office (CBO) scored this bill as a net savings of $129 billion over the next 10 years. Only in Washington, D.C. could a bill that expands government, raises taxes, creates numerous new federal programs and costs over one trillion dollars be considered legislation that saves taxpayer's monies. Even if you accept the CBO's numbers as true, you have some shocking numbers. There are $427 billion in promised cuts to programs and we are not clear who will be impacted by these massive cuts to programs that many are relying on for health care services. There are $594 in additional revenues, this means taxes and these monies will be coming out of other productive sectors of the economy.
The abortion issue has become the most serious stumbling block for Pelosicare. Congressman Bart Stupak (D-MI), co-chairman of the House Pro-Life caucus has warned leaders that up to 40 democrats might vote against PelosiCare unless if stronger language is not added to the bill to prevent federal funding of insurance plans that cover abortion services. If these Pro-Life Democrats follow through with that threat, the bill will not pass.
Stupak has an Amendment that he wants to offer that would prevent insurance plans from getting federal monies to cover abortions. Supporters of PelosiCare argue that the bill does not require insurance plans to cover abortions, yet the plan would empower the Obama Administration to decide whether the government run public option would cover elective abortions. Is there any question that bureaucrats in the Obama Administration would support government funded abortions?
Congressman Brad Ellsworth (D-IN) has offered an amendment that no federal funding would be allowed for abortion services and all Americans would have access to at least one plan that does not cover abortions. The U.S. Conference of Catholic Bishops and the National Right to Life don't think this is enough, but it will be interesting to see how the Democrats in the House Pro-Life Caucus vote on PelosiCare with the Ellsworth language added to the bill. Abortion could be the issue that takes down comprehensive health care reform in the end.
The President promised that illegal immigrants would not be covered by the health care reform proposal. Joe Wilson (R-SC) disagreed. The immigration issue seems to be unresolved and an issue that will be hotly debated today.
The bottom line is that this debate will be played out over this important weekend in the fight against big government. Feel free to use this as an open thread during the debate and remember to watch these elite politicians as they attempt to seize control of private health care, raise your taxes and spend over a trillion of your dollars.
Pelosi Is Bent on Ramming Obamacare Through, No Matter What!
House Speaker Nancy Pelosi rammed ObamaCare down the throats of the American people early Sunday Morning. As Congressman Tom Price, who happens to know a little something about health care as he's also one of the few doctors in Congress, recently said: "Your concerns about a government takeover of health care have been totally ignored by Speaker Pelosi and her allies, who worked behind closed doors to write the bill. After months of debate, the bill they introduced today is essentially the same bill the American people have flat-out rejected." Truth be told, Congressman Price's words were tempered when you consider the reality of what's really happening in Washington. Pelosi's latest incarnation of ObamaCare – dubiously titled the "Affordable Health Care for America Act," (H.R. 3962) is not merely "the same bill the American people have flat-out rejected" … … It's actually far worse. At nearly 2,000 pages, it's almost twice the size of Pelosi's first bill (H.R. 3200) and includes even more of what the American people have already flat-out rejected. And make no mistake, Pelosi's plan to ram this latest version of ObamaCare down the throats of the American people with lightning speed is no accident … it's a calculated political move to try to pass ObamaCare before you and millions of other concerned Americans have a chance to once again rally against it. We can't let her get away with it. Congressman Price observed, the "future of American health care is in the balance and we are on the clock." He' right. How we, the American people, respond right here and right now will determine the fate of health care in this country forever. We can stop this government takeover of health care, but the time to make our voices heard is now.
|Page 111 – Section 223 establishes a new board of federal bureaucrats (the "Health Benefits Advisory Committee") to dictate the health plans that all individuals must purchase.
Page 211 – Section 321 establishes a new government-run health plan that, according to non-partisan actuaries at the Lewin Group, would cause as many as 114 million Americans to lose their existing coverage.
Page 297 – Section 501 imposes a 2.5 percent tax on all individuals who do not purchase "bureaucrat-approved" health insurance – the tax would apply on individuals with incomes under $250,000, thus breaking a central promise of then-Senator Obama's presidential campaign.
Do you believe Pelosi and Obama when they say "if you like your plan you can keep your plan" … that you ultimately won't be forced to live with government-run insurance? Check out this provision…
|Page 94 – Section 202(c) prohibits the sale of private individual health insurance policies, beginning in 2013, forcing individuals to purchase coverage through the federal government.
Of course, Members of Congress and their family members need not worry about how this radical overhaul of our nation's health care will affect them because…
|Page 225 – Section 330 permits—but does not require —Members of Congress to enroll in government-run health care.
Use the button below to send your urgent and personalized Blast Faxes to Barack Obama and the Leadership of the United States Senate and the United States House of Representatives. Or alternately, you can send your urgent and personalized Blast Faxes to Barack Obama and each and every Member of the House and Senate… that's over 500 Blast Faxes.Tell them that Nancy Pelosi's latest incarnation of ObamaCare must be defeated. Tell them you are sick and tired of the repeated attempts by liberals in Congress and the Obama Administration to craft egregious "reform" proposals behind closed doors, market that legislation to the American people as something that it is not and then try to ram that legislation through Congress before anyone is any the wiser.
Here Are A Few More Little Nasties In Pelosi's H.R. 3962. We're not finished. It would be impossible to mention every egregious provision in Pelosi's 1,990 page bill, but here are a few more notables… just in case your blood isn't already boiling.
|Page 110 – Section 222(e) requires the use of federal dollars to fund abortions through the government-run health plan—and, if the Hyde Amendment were ever not renewed, would require the plan to fund elective abortions.
Page 313 – Section 512 imposes an 8 percent "tax on jobs" for firms that cannot afford to purchase "bureaucrat-approved" health coverage; according to an analysis by Harvard Professor Kate Baicker, such a tax would place millions "at substantial risk of unemployment"—with minority workers losing their jobs at twice the rate of their white counterparts.
Page 336 – Section 551 imposes additional job-killing taxes, in the form of a half-trillion dollar "surcharge," more than half of which will hit small businesses; according to a model developed by President Obama's senior economic advisor, such taxes could cost up to 5.5 million jobs.
Page 520 – Section 1161 cuts more than 150 billion [dollars] from Medicare Advantage plans, potentially jeopardizing millions of seniors' existing coverage.
Page 733 – Section 1401 establishes a new Center for Comparative Effectiveness Research; the bill includes no provisions preventing the government-run health plan from using such research to deny access to life-saving treatments on cost grounds, similar to Britain's National Health Service, which denies patient treatments costing more than 35,000 [pounds].
And last, but certainly not least:
|Page 1174 – Section 1802(b) includes provisions entitled 'Taxes On Certain Insurance Policies' to fund comparative effectiveness research, breaking Speaker Pelosi's promise that 'We will not be taxing [health] benefits in any bill that passes the House,' and the President's promise not to raise taxes on families with incomes under 250,000 [dollars].
Use the button below to send your urgent and personalized Blast Faxes to Barack Obama and the Leadership of the United States Senate and the United States House of Representatives. Or alternately, you can send your urgent and personalized Blast Faxes to Barack Obama and each and every Member of the House and Senate… that's over 500 Blast Faxes.Tell them that Nancy Pelosi's latest incarnation of ObamaCare must be defeated. Tell them you are sick and tired of the repeated attempts by liberals in Congress and the Obama Administration to craft egregious "reform" proposals behind closed doors, market that legislation to the American people as something that it is not and then try to ram that legislation through Congress before anyone is any the wiser.
"The Worst Bill Ever: Epic New Spending And Taxes, Pricier Insurance, Rationed Care, Dishonest Accounting: The Pelosi Health Bill Has It All." That's what the Wall Street Journal had to say about H.R. 3962. But that's not all the Journal said: "The health bill she [Pelosi] unwrapped last Thursday, which President Obama hailed as a 'critical milestone,' may well be the worst piece of post-New Deal legislation ever introduced." Here's a scary prognosis: "Taxes will need to rise precipitously, even as ObamaCare so dramatically expands government control of health care that eventually all medicine will be rationed via politics." The Journal also writes: "Yet at this point, Democrats have dumped any pretense of genuine bipartisan 'reform' and moved into the realm of pure power politics as they race against the unpopularity of their own agenda. The goal is to ram through whatever income-redistribution scheme they can claim to be 'universal coverage.' The result will be destructive on every level — for the health-care system, for the country's fiscal condition, and ultimately for American freedom and prosperity." That last paragraph gives us valuable insight as to exactly how we can stop these idiotic leftist health care schemes once and for all. Extreme liberals in the House and the Senate, as well as Barack Obama, are indeed racing against their rising unpopularity. And health care will only be passed if these extreme liberals can make false and empty promises and ram legislation through Congress before the American people realize they are being duped. That's been their plan of action with each and every previous incarnation of ObamaCare and that is still their plan today. Pelosi and her allies in Congress forgot long ago that they serve the American people… that they work for you. And they weren't exactly thrilled when the American people soundly rejected their first health care "reform" scam. So now, instead of heeding the will of the people, they've decided to take off the gloves. It's almost as if they're saying; Oh… so you (the American people) didn't like our first health care offering… fine… we'll show you who's boss… let's see how you like what we're going to ram down your throats now. But you can stop them… you can make a difference … you've already made a huge difference. Your Blast Faxes and phone calls were the reason the Pelosi-Reid Congress had to put the brakes on each and every previous incarnation of ObamaCare. You made a difference then and you can make a difference right now. With this latest bill, Pelosi, Obama and Reid are hoping that the American people are tired… that you will give up on this fight. Let's prove them wrong. Let's put a lid on this scheme once and for all. The time to speak up is now.
Use the button below to send your urgent and personalized Blast Faxes to Barack Obama and the Leadership of the United States Senate and the United States House of Representatives. Or alternately, you can send your urgent and personalized Blast Faxes to Barack Obama and each and every Member of the House and Senate… that's over 500 Blast Faxes.Tell them that Nancy Pelosi's latest incarnation of ObamaCare must be defeated. Tell them you are sick and tired of the repeated attempts by liberals in Congress and the Obama Administration to craft egregious "reform" proposals behind closed doors, market that legislation to the American people as something that it is not and then try to ram that legislation through Congress before anyone is any the wiser.
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Demand, once and for all, that they stop the deceptions… the secret meetings… the legislative chicanery… the procedural tricks… the dark-of-night votes… the outright lies. Demand that they scrap ObamaCare once and for all and start over with measures that will actually make health care more accessible and affordable to Americans. Demand they defeat H.R. 3962.
Demand, once and for all, that they stop the deceptions… the secret meetings… the legislative chicanery… the procedural tricks… the dark-of-night votes… the outright lies. Demand that they scrap ObamaCare once and for all and start over with measures that will actually make health care more accessible and affordable to Americans. Demand they defeat H.R. 3962.
Demand, once and for all, that they stop the deceptions… the secret meetings… the legislative chicanery… the procedural tricks… the dark-of-night votes… the outright lies. Demand that they scrap ObamaCare once and for all and start over with measures that will actually make health care more accessible and affordable to Americans. Demand they defeat H.R. 3962.
Pelosi's Bill Is Even Worse Than You Think. Everything that was intolerable in the first House health care bill (H.R. 3200), is still in the second incarnation (H.R. 3962). Congressman Price again: "Government-run insurance? Still in the bill. Higher taxes? You betcha. An individual mandate that restricts choices and innovation by requiring Washington to define what qualifies as health insurance? Check. A job-killing employer mandate, a budget-busting expansion of the Medicaid entitlement, and countless provisions that set Washington bureaucrats firmly between you and your doctor? Better believe it." Price adds: "H.R. 3962 has all the 'government takeover' of H.R. 3200 with an extra thousand pages thrown into the mix. That's a whole lot of government involvement in personal, private health care decisions." As if that's not enough, here, courtesy of Congressman Mike Pence's House Republican Conference, are just a few more goodies Pelosi threw into H.R. 3962:
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Clouds continue to increase with a stray shower or two possible.
Today: Increasing Clouds, Stray Showers
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Overnight: Mostly Cloudy, Shower Possible
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Highs: 70-74 | Wind: NW 5-10
The weather remains active into the weekend, with several disturbances passing by both later today and tomorrow. The end result is that while we start the weekend with lots of sunshine, clouds will increase throughout the day. Much like yesterday we could see a shower pop late-day, but nothing widespread as temperatures top out in the low 70s. Tomorrow another system slides overhead early in the day but appears to quickly push south. So while Mother's Day features a chance for a shower or two, I believe it will still turn out alright with mixed skies and highs in the low 70s.
A ridge of high pressure will bring sunshine and mild conditions through the first half of next week with highs climbing into the mid and upper 70s. By mid to late week some afternoon storms could fire with a stronger cold front possible by Friday. Have a great weekend!


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Judy Junor, a Member of Legislative Assembly in Saskatoon Eastview, recently walked a day in the shoes of Steve Olson, an SEIU-West member and continuing care aide. Junor shadowed Olson during his workday at Cheshire Homes, a residential care home in Saskatoon for physically disabled adults.
"People should know that the caregivers who keep places like Cheshire running and keep people who are in Cheshire happy and productive and connected to the world -- they're so important," said Junor of the experience. "Not everyone gets an opportunity to do this, and I would encourage other elected officials to participate. It was a real privilege."
SEIU's "Walk a Day in My Shoes" campaign first launched during the 2008 campaign as a way to allow elected officials to experience firsthand what life is like for working people. More details on Steve and Judy's Walk-A-Day here.