Nearly Normal

Late to the game

But what the hey?  I just discovered this.  Very witty.

Medicare part D and me

I'm on medicare and take multiple medications.  I am one of those people who fall into the dreaded "donut hole" in drug coverage.  It's a scary place to be and it happens fast.  You get there once your drug spending gets to $2930.  However it's not when YOUR drug expenses get that high, it's when you and your INSURANCE company's spending hit that target.  Medicare picks up again at $6,657.   Yes you have to spend $3737 to get back into what is referred to as catastrophic coverage. 

While you're in the donut hole, thanks to Obamacare, you only have to pay 50% of the retail price of a brand name drug.  In my case that means that I pay $785 for a 3 month supply of a single drug, $1006 for 4 prescriptions in addition I pay a monthly $99 premium.  I can't imagine what people do when they have multiple high expense drugs. 

Yes I want Obamacare fully implemented asap.

The Republicans have finally lost their collective minds...

Arizona - illegal to use birth control for birth control law

Romney - get rid of Planned Parenthood

Limbaugh - OMG

Satorum - another OMG

Gingrich - ego maniac

These people hijacked my Church

"How can the warm, nurturing Catholic Church of my youth now be represented in the public arena by uncharitable nasties like Gingrich and Rick Santorum?   "     

What happened to that love for all no matter who church of my college years?  To my great saddness I left it at the Newman Center at UCDavis and have never found it again.  In all too many places it has become backward and narrow minded.  It seems to be hell bent on telling men that they are the only ones capable of making decisions, clearly women cannot be responsible when it comes to their lives and their bodies.  Even nuns are relagated to second class citizenship it this ugly world.

Oh America is right

From my internet friend MFA Mama

 

Yes I'm on the rampage

but it's worn me out for today.  Off to some nice calming knitting - at least it can't offend me.

This email left me speechless and that's almost impossible

While my love sleeps on the couch, I sit at the computer getting outraged at the news.  Today I received this email from ThinkProgress

“Where are the women?” With those four words, Rep. Carolyn Maloney (D-NY) made the most poignant statement of the week about the House GOP’s attitude towards women. The simple answer to Maloney’s question is that women are being callously left out and left behind by the right wing.

According to a recent Democracy Corps survey, there’s been a net 18-point swing away from Mitt Romney in favor President Obama among unmarried women in the past few months. Why? Because women have been watching and listening to conservatives. Here’s a sampling of what we heard just this past week:

GOP Chairman Darrell Issa defending the exclusion of a woman from his all-male panel on contraception: She’s not “appropriate and qualified.” [Read more]
Fox News’ Greg Gutfeld explaining why “liberals” support contraception coverage: “It’s more about getting rid of the poor.” [Read more]

Right-wing billionaire Foster Friess delivering his contraception advice on MSNBC: “You know, back in my days, they used Bayer Aspirin for contraceptives. The gals put it between their knees and it wasn’t that costly.” [Read more]

Virginia Republican Delegate Todd Gilbert rationalizing a state-sponsored bill mandating vaginal probes: A woman already consented to being “vaginally penetrated when they got pregnant.” [Read more]

Fox News’ Liz Trotta justifies why some women are assaulted in the military: “Now what did they expect?” [Read more]

Bryan Fischer of the American Family Association on women in combat: “Women are not wired, either by evolution or by God…to be in those positions.” [Read more]

Rick Santorum explaining his concerns about women in combat: “People naturally may do things that may not be in the interests of the mission because of other types of emotions that are involved.” [Read more]

At least they’re being honest about what they feel.

 

--Faiz
   Editor-in-Chief, ThinkProgress.org

Me and the GOP

Every day I think "they can't get more outrageous that this... " and every day I'm proven wrong.  Step away from Salon, the Daily Beast and Google Cathy, step away.

Not sticking

Years ago someone told me that I'd become more conservative as I got older.  I'm proud to say that's not happening.

I love a parade

And who doesn't?  It appears the Pentagon doesn't.  Yep, they seem to think it's inappropriate to throw a parade for our soldiers returning from the war in Iraq while we still have soldiers at war in Afganistan.  Perhaps they don't remember that there was a parade for the returning heros from Europe while we were still fighting Japan.

Boo, hiss Pentagon.