Tuesday Open Thread
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Let’s get this conversation started:
A heartbreaking story of a man who lost his job and joined the army to get his wife cancer treatment. Health care reform now! h/t dkos
In March, he was laid off from his job as a raw materials coordinator for a plastics company called PolyOne, where he’d worked for 20 years. His severance package had provided several months’ salary, but by August the paychecks were winding down. Soon the cost of his family health coverage was going to triple, then a few months after that, nearly triple again. They needed coverage so Mom could fight her cancer.
Dad’s solution: a four-year hitch in the Army.
Carrie Prejean, the almost Miss U.S.A. has apparently angered pageant officials again. They want a refund:
Officials from the Miss California pageant are sending a message to Carrie Prejean — three can play that game!
The production company that runs the pageant is filing a cross complaint against Prejean, demanding, among other things, that Carrie return the $5,200 the pageant fronted her for her breast augmentation.
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Extremely convoluted path to get there, but ‘just desserts,’ none the less. For anyone who has watched Big Brother, I believe two seasons ago (the article says last season, but it seems longer ago), may remember the pompous jackass who was a PR person for an Autism care group just do every anti-PR and PC thing imaginable against the group. Well, dumbass mother effer got his. My hope, and yes it’s vengeful, is that he finds some cell buddies who have a sympathetic-sensitivity towards autistic people.
Bite it, a-hole.
Muy interesante:
http://www.delawareonline.com/article/20091019/OPINION07/910190303/1004/OPINION/Downturn-means-learning-about-the-true-meaning-of-sacrifice
the $5,200 the pageant fronted her for her breast augmentation
I am just imagining the self-satisfied smirk on Meghan McCain’s face on hearing this.
Teddy Schleifer is an awesome young person. Very nice bit of writing.
Thanks for sharing that, Chutapatr!
We have a little sun, today. Remarkable. And a procedural question. If I should lose my mind utterly and reveal the location of my blog, what would get it on the blogroll?
Brooke,
Send the address through the “Got a Tip” link at the top. We’ll take a look at it. Politics related?
Two SC County Republican Party Chairmen need to invoke pretty old school anti-Jewish bigotry to praise Sen Jim DeMint’s refusal of earmarks.
Way to keep it civil, fellas.
“There is a saying that the Jews who are wealthy got that way not by watching dollars, but instead by taking care of the pennies and the dollars taking care of themselves.”
What the hell?! I’m sure the standard Republican apology will come out, “I’m sorry if anyone was offended by . . . “
Not good news for an iPhone on Verizon.
🙁
So, has everyone had a chat with your congressional staffers today?
Funny you should ask Brooke. I just talked to Carper’s office.
I got invited to participate in a Mike Castle phone conference. I can hardly wait!
LOL. Markos called Carrie Prejean “Princess Jesus Boobies.”
Any reactions to the webcast?
86 year old WWII vet says that he fought on Omaha beach for freedom. Even freedom for (gasp!) gay people.
http://www.boingboing.net/2009/10/20/86-year-old-wwii-vet.html