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Tomorrow is Dia de los Muertos, the Day of the Dead. I thought it would be proper to post these videos, as they honor the dead and those who will die.


Rep. Alan Grayson reads aloud stories of some of the people
who have died because they had no health insurance

Part One

Part Two

Part Three



There's not much I can say about the above, except this:

Anyone who claims that single payer health care coverage is "socialism", damages the "free market", or is in any other way undesirable knows nothing of the kind of suffering that our cold, vicious, vampiric "health care industy" inflicts on our country. Anyone who laughs at those without health care, tells them to "grow up" or says they are whiners has no heart and no compassion, is in fact barely human. Anyone who believes the shite spouted by the tools of the insurance industry should be ashamed.

I am and have been for the last year, on a disability payment of $600 a month. That is my only income. If it were not for the generosity of my family, I would be homeless with no recourse and no way to make a living. There is no way I can afford the extortion that is called "health insurance" in this country. It is unlikely that I will be able to find a job when my workers' comp case is done; certainly I will not be able to get said "insurance." (I use the quotes because as we all know, it is not insurance of any kind, since the companies that extort the people's money have no intention of holding up their end.) Rep. Grayson and that small handful of congressmen like him are the only hope I have that I will not eventually die just like the people he is reading about. For me, this is no academic matter - he's talking about my future.

Think about that the next time you hear someone yammering uninformed garbage about this issue - you can now say you know someone who's going to die because she does not have health insurance.


Names of the Dead

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A timely message for us all:

Go Ahead and Die - Pirates of the Health-Care-ibean

Senators and congressmen make up my scurvy crew
They swab my decks and cash my checks and cast a vote or two
When the Universal Health Care serpent rears its ugly head
My press gang fires broadsides and my crew insures it's dead


This jolly ditty first surfaced in 2006, but it's far more relevant now. I think people should be singing this at all those town meetings where the hateful wingnuts are trying to kill democracy.

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Oh, goody!


( AP probe finds drugs in drinking water )


Just what I need to get my week off to a cheery start.