today is september 22

first day of fall officially.
I must say I am reserving judgement on the hyped "terrorism raid..." if the intelligence community" is serious about its work, they should be more discreet. Also - innocent until proven guilty.

daze and awe

I relly can't wait to see the new Michael Moore film "Capitalism - A love story."
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IhydyxRjujU

On another note: If the Congresscritters pass a health financing bill that mandates everyone buy an insurance plan: they will be carting me to jail. I cannot afford it, nor will I be able to pay fines. I have a feeling I will have a lot of company.

baucus bill-s****

According to the m$m, this is a great thing because the Dems and Rethugs are working on it together. The bill sounds word for word written by the insurance companies - no government run competition, "exchange" of companies, mandated insurance. I want my single payer!!!!

today is tuesday

hello blog!!! Loved the teabag/tenther/birther.twelfther republicrazy "protest." Shees.! The amount of media coverage they got was very overrated. If it were a protest during the W era - - it wouldn't even be a sentence on page 14.

obama speech on health care

interesting speech. I think politically, Obama did what he needed to do - addressing the issues/critics/republiscums. I think what we will get will be some kind of consumer protection for health insurance. I truly hope for the strong public option, since Obama said we;re not getting single payer (not immediately anyway) I hope that will lead to single payer and that the Feds will allow the states to try single payer.

it's september 7

warm sunny day. I'm off to the West Indian parade in Brooklyn - food fun costumes and music!!

happy labor day

hope you all have a great Labor Day. here in NYC it's busy - Brazilian Independence, the West Indian Day parade, adn the Labor Day parade.

Pity the clock in reversing for ordinary workers - more overtime, more stress, shaky job security.
It's a good weekend to reflect on the good unions and organized workers have done, and the disaster Taft-Hartley is on the Federal level and the Taylor Act in NY. Long live Labor!!

a mean streak

interesting all the meanness in the US media about the release of a terminally ill prisoner. The man is now in a hospital bed. The crime? He is teh Lockerbie bomber - alleged - and was convicted and sentenced to life in prision. Well, many families of those who perished in that flight feel the man should have remained in prison to die. The man is dying -does it really matter where? Also, a US destroyer shot a plane with Iranian civilians, killing 290, yet there was no clamor. Thoughts??

good day

it's the first of september. Labor day approaches; a day with great history and reflection on the contributions of ordinary working people. Give yourselves a hand!!