How Dysfunction Helps the Republicans
Interesting perspective, particularly to read in the Wall Street Journal.
h/t to Craig at Reverent and Free.
July 03, 2009
Celebrate Independence Day
...by listening to a reading of the Declaration of Independence. It will be the best 9 minutes of your weekend, even if your burgers are spectacular. Everybody is familiar with a few stanzas, but to hear the entire document is very powerful.
And enjoy the burgers, too.
June 29, 2009
Help Fort Wayne’s healthcare stories
walk all the way to Washington!
Doctor
Gural is walking from Chicago to Washington, DC to advocate for healthcare
reform.
On Friday, July 3, he will stop in Fort Wayne to
talk with local residents and hear our stories.
Friday, July 2
12:30pm
At the River Greenway,
Calhoun and Superior St.
(near Headwaters Park)
June 25, 2009
UPDATE TO GIAQUINTA SERVICES
Thank you for your kind interest and phone calls to our HQ regarding Helen's memorial service.
The time of the memorial service has been set for Saturday at Eleven a.m. at St. John the Baptist Catholic Church, 4500 Fairfield Ave, Fort Wayne. Visitation will be 2 to 5 p.m. and 7 to 9 p.m. Friday at Klaehn, Fahl and Melton Funeral Home, 6424 Winchester Road.
REST IN PEACE HELEN GIAQUINTA
Our Party and our community lost a faithful member on Wednesday with the passing of Helen GiaQuinta, 90. Helen has been a fixture in the ACDP for decades--serving in many capacities including pct. person, headquarter volunteer, mail helper, canvasser and more. The Sloppy Joes she made almost every election for scores of Election Day HQ volunteers are legendary....and of course we could always count on her bright smile at every event we had--always asking how everyone was and offering her encouragement.
I have known Helen for more than fifteen years--in many capacities over the years and I am so privileged to call her a friend. She was always full of great stories, surprises and a lasting love for her family. It has been an amazing experience to know her even for this short time.
Helen is an epitome of a life well-lived--she may not have been as visible as her well known children and husband, but never doubt that Helen has left an incredibly long lasting and widespread impact on our community. She had a great time and touched many lives while she was here. She will be missed by all.
Please keep her family in your thoughts.
A memorial service is planned for Saturday, time to be announced, at St. John the Baptist Catholic Church, 4500 Fairfield Ave Visitation will be 2 to 5 p.m. and 7 to 9 p.m. Friday at Klaehn, Fahl and Melton Funeral Home, 6424 Winchester Road.
June 24, 2009
Souder jumps the shark
Mark Souder was on the Pat White show on Monday. I wish I had taped it.
Souder said that the cost of gas was increasing because the oil business is NOT profitable and that several refineries had to close and cannot afford to re-open. He also said it is a MYTH that oil companies are profitable.
You buyin' any of this?
It gets weirder and weirder
Look, I get it that sometime you might want to go hiking by yourself OR take a quick trip to Buenos Aires. And I get it that you might not want to be annoyed by the media while you're there. But this whole Mark Sanford thing just gets curiouser and curiouser, to quote Lewis Carroll.
June 21, 2009
Happy Father's Day!
From us at the ACDP, and from President Obama (note that our Senator Evan Bayh is shown in the video):
There is some more background here.
June 20, 2009
Iran
Your humble correspondent was going to post something today about the terrible events unfolding in Iran, but fortunately Stephen Parker has already written on the topic at AroundFortWayne, and much more articulately than I could have done.
Stephen writes:
Those of us who embrace openness in government, who detest most strenuously violence in any form – especially that perpetrated on a people by its very government; those of us who love democracy and detest dictatorships stand with and behind our Iranian brothers and sisters who crave freedom and relief from the tyrannous regime over them. While the picture, with no thanks to the Iranian government, is not clear as to what exactly is going on there, some of the details that have escaped are shocking and unimaginable. Pray for Iran and those who live within its borders that the lives lost and suffering of those oppressed will not go unanswered; that justice and the human spirit will prevail, and the evil will be removed from power. Remember this as we here in the US go about our weekend, enjoying all that our freedom and system of government allow us.
Amen.
Memo to the President from Robert Reich re: health care
Courtesy of Talking Points Memo:
Mr. President:
Momentum for universal health care is slowing dramatically on Capitol Hill. Moderates are worried, Republicans are digging in, and the medical-industrial complex is firing up its lobbying and propaganda machine.
But, as you know, the worst news came days ago when the Congressional Budget Office weighed in with awful projections about how much the leading healthcare plans would cost and how many Americans would still be left out in the cold. Yet these projections didn't include the savings that a public option would generate by negotiating lower drug prices, doctor fees, and hospital costs, and forcing private insurers to be more competitive. Projecting the future costs of universal health care without including the public option is like predicting the number of people who will get sunburns this summer if nobody is allowed to buy sun lotion. Of course the costs of universal health care will be huge if the most important way of controlling them is left out of the calculation.
If you want to save universal health care, you must do several things, and soon:
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