July 25, 2008 Did you know that health care costs are sky-high because prices are artificially low? That doesn’t sound like it makes any sense stick with me.
You see, most people don’t pay for all their health care. Their health care is subsidized by insurance, which means they get all grabby. Here’s McCain’s health care adviser Al Hubbard explaining it:
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July 25, 2008 
State Street in Bristol Virginia / Tennessee
Obama solicitors canvassing public housing in my home town of Bristol, Virginia were kicked out of the housing complex. The Obama supporters were told they were violating federal law by engaging in political activity in public housing:
When asked about the incident, BRHA Executive Director David Baldwin initially told the Bristol Herald Courier that federal law bans politics from public housing.
“We have federal regulations that we can’t have anybody campaigning on our development,” Baldwin said Tuesday. “We can’t have partisan activity on the site.”
Housing authority agents had the anti-campaign law in mind when booting away the Obama supporters, Baldwin said.
But the U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development, which oversees and partially funds the nation’s public housing, says no such federal laws exist. [ No Politicking Allowed In Bristol, Va., Housing Complex ]
When the Bristol Herald Courier reporter followed up with Baldwin, he backtracked, saying he thought there was a federal law. Baldwin also claimed that there were signs prohibiting solicitation of any kind, but there aren’t — Baldwin was forced to admit that as well. It sounds to me like a case of acting first, justifying later.
BHC reporter Michael Owens goes on to say that Housing and Urban Development claims that individual property managers can decide to restrict federal campaigning on their own. But that’s a Constitutionally muddy area. I can see property managers being prohibited from campaigning, but not other non-government-affiliated citizens. Shouldn’t that be protected speech?
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July 21, 2008 So they want to name a sewage plant in “honor” of George W. Bush. Ha-ha funny, right? Imagine you work there. What does the fact that some people think naming a sewage plant after someone is an insult say to you?
The employees of the sewage plant have an important, thankless job that most people would rather ignore, and they do not deserve to be made the punch-line to a President Bush is Crap joke. Can we come up with some other idea that doesn’t cause so much collateral damage?
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July 21, 2008 1. Maliki says he supports Obama’s timetable for troop withdrawl in Iraq.
2. Maliki recants, via the US Military, saying the words were “misunderstood & mistranslated.”
3. But the original translation is borne out by several independent translations.
If it walks like a duck and quacks like a duck it is obviously a pigeon in a duck suit, comrade. What are you, some kind of anti-patriot?
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July 19, 2008 If you know anyone who tends to get their news via email forward, Snopes (yes, Snopes) has an analysis of a message full of MUS (made up shit) going around claiming Obama will raise everyone’s taxes by enormous amounts:
The statement that Senator Obama proposes instituting a 28% tax “on profit from ALL home sales” is false. Both candidates’ proposals would leave intact an existing capital gains exemption for the first $500,000 per housedhold of profit from the sale of a primary residence. Homeowners who realize a profit higher than the current exemption amount from the sale of their primary residences might pay more capital gains tax under an Obama presidency than they would now, but those instances currently constitute a very small minority of all home sales. [ Proposed Tax Changes ]
Email forwards continue to be an excellent means to send panicky messages full of crappy pseudofacts that manipulate low-information readers. Just like Fox News.
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