A cartoon explanation of why we need a public health insurance option.
If you agree that a public option should be part of the health care reform bill, make sure you let your representatives know!
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Animated by Andy Lubershane. More comics at http://www.earthlycomics.blogspot.com
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A RippleCard™ is a card that represents goodwill. The purpose of the RippleCard™ is to pass the card on to someone while doing something nice for that person. In turn, the next person will do the same for someone else, thus creating a ripple effect of acts of kindness, which we refer to as Ripples.
The idea of the RippleCard™ was conceived based on the premise that the power to make positive changes in the world was in the hands of ordinary people going out of their way to affect the lives of others in a positive and meaningful way.
Ignorant
Main Entry: ig·no·rant
Pronunciation: \ˈig-n(ə-)rənt\
Function: adjective
Date: 14th century
1 a : destitute of knowledge or education <an ignorant society>; also : lacking knowledge or comprehension of the thing specified <parents ignorant of modern mathematics> b : resulting from or showing lack of knowledge or intelligence <ignorant errors>
2 : unaware, uninformed
— ig·no·rant·ly adverb
— ig·no·rant·ness noun
synonyms ignorant, illiterate, unlettered, untutored, unlearned mean not having knowledge. ignorant may imply a general condition or it may apply to lack of knowledge or awareness of a particular thing <an ignorant fool> <ignorant of nuclear physics>. illiterate applies to either an absolute or a relative inability to read and write <much of the population is still illiterate>. unlettered implies ignorance of the knowledge gained by reading <an allusion meaningless to the unlettered>. untutored may imply lack of schooling in the arts and ways of civilization <strange monuments built by an untutored people>. unlearned suggests ignorance of advanced subjects <poetry not for academics but for the unlearned masses>.
Listerine presents: The Les Paul & Mary Ford at Home Show: Alabamy Bound & Darktown Strutters Ball. One of their many 5 minute episodes. (from 1953?)
Excellent Listerine commercial in between songs.
Good job Mr. President, you rock.
...President Barack Obama awarded the Presidential Medal of Freedom, considered the highest U.S. civilian honor, to 16 people on Wednesday including a celebrated scientist, the first woman to serve on the Supreme Court, a gay rights pioneer, and a top leader against apartheid in South Africa...
...This is a chance for me — and for the United States of America — to say thank you to some of the finest citizens of this country, and of all countries,” he said.
Honorees included scientist Stephen Hawking, former Supreme Court Justice Sandra Day O’Connor, deceased gay rights campaigner Harvey Milk, and Archbishop Emeritus Desmond Tutu of South Africa..
...Other awardees included breast cancer activist Nancy G. Brinker; doctor to the homeless Pedro Jose “Joe” Greer, Jr.; sports star and former Republican vice presidential nominee Jack Kemp, now deceased; healthcare advocate and longtime Senate statesman Edward Kennedy, who was represented by his daughter; tennis great Billie Jean King; civil rights activist Reverend Joseph Lowery; acclaimed actor Sidney Poitier; actress and dancer Chita Rivera; former president of Ireland, Mary Robinson; cancer scientist Dr. Janet Davison Rowley; and microcredit pioneer Muhammad Yunus...
Gay scientists have isolated the gene they believe makes people Christian.
UnitedHealthcare CEO Stephen Hemsley owns $744,232,068 in unexercised stock options. CIGNA’s Edward Hanway spends his holidays in a $13 million beach house in New Jersey. Meanwhile, regular Americans are routinely denied coverage for the care they need when they need it most
What does UnitedHealthcare CEO Stephen Hemsley have to lose if Congress passes real healthcare reform this year? Well, for starters, his nearly three quarters of a billion dollars in unexercised stock options might lose a few pennies on the dollar.
What does Isabella, a four year-old girl in Winsconsin who is physically incapable of eating and has had to be tube fed her entire life, have to gain from healthcare reform? The treatment she needs to live a normal life.
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Sonia Sotomayor, left, President Obama's choice to replace retiring
Justice David Souter, takes the oath from Chief Justice John Roberts to
become the Supreme Court's first Hispanic justice and only the third
woman in the court's 220-year history, in Washington, Saturday, Aug. 8,
2009. She is joined by her brother, Juan Luis Sotomayor, and her mother
Celina Sotomayor. Sotomayor, 55, has been a federal judge for 17 years.
The Senate confirmed Sotomayor's nomination Thursday by a 68-31 vote.
(AP Photo/J. Scott Applewhite)
