Mar
03
2010
kymberly
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or as I am now fond of saying, “Let the internet be the horse you ride in to town, and let your signature be the six-shooter that returns the place to order.”
It’s time to deputize yourself and prepare to fight for a healthy, sexy America that’s free like a unbridled Mustang, not one that’s held at gunpoint by an evil band of insurance lobbyists.
The scoop…
Blue Cross (and others) has the “right to vote”.
That means We The People have the right to demand accountability for the crimes commited by your bad asses.
Join today.
Day of action - next Tuesday.
PS - dugski and I have (so far) received amazing response to the story about us in yesterday’s Post Register (front page, above-the-fold - we’re famous!). Thanks to Dan Henry for leading us to Clark Corbin who did a wonderful job of condensing my emotive verbosity into something resembling cohesive thought. (Hug a writer today, because the good ones really do deserve it.)
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Tags: Blue Cross, Clark Corbin, Dan Henry, health care reform, Post Register, The Citizens' Posse
Feb
17
2010
darlene
Dan Henry as the local host of Drinking Liberally sends out a weekly email newsletter. This man is tremendously talented, smart, funny, and makes you think.
This week, he makes me want to cry. Well, actually, not because of something he said, but something he asks us to read. He gave a link to a really cool website called “Balloon Juice”…specifically, a John Cole blogpost from last week. It’s a dead-on treatise that explains perfectly what many of us have noticed in the past year-that we as a society, as a country, are screwed. It paints a grim picture that is both accurate and horrible, which is what makes me want to cry.
So many things are so badly out of whack, it’s overwhelming in scope. And when something is broken so thoroughly, it’s impossible to fix because it’s impossible to know where to start, what area to focus your attention on, to effect positive change. Usually, you need a flood of Biblical proportions to wipe it all out and start over. The amount of energy needed to remodel would be almost the same as the amount needed to build again new…isn’t that a call for revolution?
Any ideas? Or must I be a nihilist, without hope, cynical that nothing can be done because the tides and forces of society are aloof and pitiless in their ceaseless onslaught, caring naught for the likes of puny individuals and their pipe dreams?
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Tags: balloon juice, Dan Henry, IF Drinking Liberally, John Cole, nihilism, obstructionism
