Fed Chair Balks At Speed-Up Of Credit-Card Rules

I still believe in the President but even he has to be able to read the tea leaves... new non-Goldman Sachs leaders at the Fed and at the Treasury the majority of Americans have been taken far enough on this merry ride to monetary hell. Fire them Mr. President! Give us some hope that the direction has changed and fire those guys and put some folks who are sensitive ones to us and our financial plight.
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Alexander McQueen's 10-Inch Stilettos Shock Paris: To Die For Or Will Kill You? (PHOTOS, POLL)

Its official, women are back as fashion sheep. There should have been a stampede out of the show with a peek of the very ugly torture devices that was being palmed off as fashion shoes.



Where's the progress in this?
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Obama Speech Twitter Reaction: Read Multiple Feeds From Newsmakers

Whomever called the President of the United States in the joint session of Congress a liar needs to be identified and pointed to as crass and despicable. I am so angry about that I could just spit.
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The Life of Service of a Flawed Good Man

I am a Christian. I believe in God's forgiveness. I believe in the power of redemption. The greatest charge that Jesus left us with is the care for the "least of thee." For that reason alone Senator Kennedy's life speaks well of him.

Most times the person asking God for forgiveness is the last person who forgives himself. I am not surprised that the Senator grieved his actions that caused the death of Mary Jo Kopechne. I am not surprised that he bore that burden his entire life. To his detractors I say that the Senator got away with nothing. Every article written about him after Ms. Kopechne's death always included a reference to it. I cannot imagine living with condemnation for decades. I do think that it was for him a harsh punishment in and of itself.

God loves him in spite of the wrong things he did. I love him because of all of the right things he did unselfishly for America. He was a good man with flaws but a good man to the end. I miss him already.

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A Giant Lost

Massachusetts we have lost our lion. Senator Edward Kennedy, the last of the Kennedy brothers has left us with a job to complete...health care for all! It is now up to us to deliver on his vision of bringing health care to all Americans. He has left us a great commission and a strong legacy. Stand up in his honor and for each other and help pass a strong health care bill.



I am not sad. I am energized. God Bless his family in their time of grief.
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"Meet The Press" Draws Most Viewers Since April On Maddow's Debut Appearance

I usually refuse to watch Sunday teevee noos talk shows. I usually read Jason Linkins' column because it is funny and not as frustrating as the shows. Last Sunday I made an exceptionally because Rachel Maddow was going to be on. She was great! My wish would be that she would be a little tougher on the liars but I can live with civility if I must.
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<i>WaPo</i> Unleashes Army Of Anonymous Sources To Slag Public Option

There is no deal. There is only the public option without coops or dollars to buy off the insurance industry's pad mouthpieces...the Republicans. This is the biggest single issue for me and I am putting my few dollars where my mouth is and funding only those Democrats who vote for a public option and nothing else.



The White House has practically dealt themselves out of the picture by being floor mats for the Republicans. It is up to them to get back into the playing field and behind this juggernaut that is the health care public option. Progressives must stand firm because this really is the single biggest fight we have had on the domestic front that like social security can dramatically change the lives for the better of all Americans.



Every bankrupted family, those sick with no health care, insured with deductibles so high that it is almost as if you have no insurance, every unemployed American with no money for COBRA, those with no insurance because they are temporary workers, and for those of us who have health insurance but it won't pay for tests we need because it eats into their profits need to say ENOUGH! We who believe in change must remind our Democratic politicians that we matter, we vote, and we want a STRONG public insurance option passed this year. Anyone standing in our way should be ashamed and fearful as we are angry gentle people a forced to be reckoned.
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Sebelius: Public Health Care Option "Not The Essential Element"

I will not give up. As much as the Republicans we have a stake in this outcome. I want a government run public insure option or I want single payer and that is as far as I am willing to go. I proudly vote Democratic each election but my only choice because THIS issue means a lot to me personally is to write my people and tell them that I will remember them on voting day and keep this regular Democratic vote and dollars at my home on election day.That sadly includes my President too.



I am tired of being taken for granted by the Democrats and overlooked by the Republicans. This is about the American people who are presently at the mercy of an amoral industry. Has your premium gone done? Have your services been expanded? Can you take your insurance with you to any job? Have you been denied care prescribed by your doctor because the insurance "death panel" says it will not cover it?



I am sick of these self serving politicians who act more like street walkers that public servants. Maybe we ought to chip in and pool our dollars and buy us our politicians back.



Sign me angrier than the crazies that have hijacked this issue but I don't call folks Nazis.
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Valarie Jarrett Heckled And Hissed At Netroots Nation

Let's see, if you stumbled over a hornet's anf get stung very badly why do it again? We know what is in the pictures. Why give people who already have grievances against us more fodder? What's the point?



I am more concerned about the failure to go after those who designed "law" to torture people in our name. Yet, I am patient because that too is in process and I am willing to give this Administration a chance to prove that no one is above the law.



It took 8 years to get into the mess we are in and even whole year is not enough time to burrow out of it.
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Chris Rock's 'Good Hair' Looks At Business Of Black Hair (VIDEO)

I label this "plantation issues" be cause along with skin color the next give-away for being black is our hair. This is a very volitile issue and while Chris is putting it in a humorous light an honest discussion could bring some folks to blows. Now, that I live in the north I see no difference between black folks here and the south concerning "good hair"and lighted skinned black folks being better. As long as we define goodness and beauty in terms of whiteness we will struggle with these "plantation issues."
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Goldman Faces Inquiries From Regulators On Bonuses And Derivatives Trading

Jail them! Enough is enough. Make an example of highly connected Goldman Sachs and the others should fall in line. Please send them to state penitentiaries instead of Federal Boutique jails. That should put fear in their coldblooded hearts.
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Obama V. Drudge: White House Rebuts Heath Care Clip (VIDEO)

Look, I don't care if the President said it or not it is exactly the kind of health care I want so Drudge would be bringing me good news. It is a shame we have to fight so hard for a half step like a public option.



Portability of health care eliminates the crap-shoot when you change jobs as to the kind and affordability or health care at all at the new job. Why must we suffer because too many elected officials feel no loyalty to we who elected them but to those who have paid them like insurance companies, pharmaceutical companies, and nursing homes. Banding together against them would assure us of Congressional representation that do our bidding regarding something as essential as decent, affordable, health care. It's time to vote the shortsighted knuckleheads out (regardless of politicalparty)!
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Happy Birthday, Mr. President!

Barack Hussein Obama, born August 4, 1961 in Hawaii.

A great birthday present would be single payer health care.
A good birthday present is at least a strong public option!

August Ad Wars Begin: Progressive Group Targets Ben Nelson (VIDEO)

Nail him! He has no shame! Senator Baucus is out for himself and cares not one wit for the rest of America. What we really need is a single payer system for health care. What the compromised was is a public option. His and the Republicans live off of the dollars of the legal thieves...insurance companies that shut out a lot of Americans through premiums or preexisting medical conditions. These are the same peole who cry and moan about abortion but are heartless and cruel to already existing people.



They have no shame. They have no shame. It is time for retirement. Montana do the country a favor, keep Senator Baucus home and send someone that will look out after Montanans and the rest of the country too.
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Progressive House Democrats Balk At Health Care Compromise

My preference is for a single payer system. That mountain is too hard to climb but having a public option for Americans simply is not optional. We MUST have a strong public option for there to be any kind of health care reform. The problem is that those folks who have good health care insurance (like government workers like CONGRESS) see not much wrong with the private insurers' provision of service to the rest of us.



For me the concepts of coverage, stability, and affordability are the base of our health care reform. We all need coverage. The coverage needs to be portable. We need to be able to pay for it according to our income. Why is this so difficult?



Putting money before the health and welfare of the American people has brought us to this quagmire. Finally, it is time for Congress (both houses and both sides of the aisle) to do the right thing by the American people and develop, pass, and send the President a bill that will help us first and the insurance industry maybe.



WE certainly deserve it!
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Send Us Your Favorite Local Food Restaurants

Betty's Restaurant and Barbecue, Ft. Lauderdale, FL

601 NW 22nd Rd



Not a weak item on the menu. If you have room the homemade cakes are just as good as the rest of the entrees and sides. My favorite is the oversized fluffy square of cornbread. that comes with every meal.



Two Sisters (was Two Sisters Kitchen) not to be confused with the Court of Two Sisters Restaurant

223 N. Derbigny Street

New Orleans, LA



Very, very tasty food served in generous portions and a kind and friendly staff. They will not break your pocketbook either. Two Sisters is the favorite haunt of politicians, locals and the lucky tourists who get the inside tip to hop a cab and get a seat there. Well worth the trip.
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Senate Finance Committee Dropping Dem Health Goals: AP

Senator Max Baucus not President Obama is shepherding the bill in his committee. He has gone against the weak-kneed Majority Leader Reid and continued to cave to the Republicans who will not vote for any health care bill. Apparently, no one in Montana needs health care reform they've got it made.



The Blue Dog Democrats should be renamed the Dollar Bill Democrats. They have sold the middle class and working people out for lobbying dollars.



I am a Christian so I cannot hope for bad things to happen to them but I want it known that it is really hard not to do so.



They have excellent health care and so what do they care about the rest of us?
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Fake And Real Outrages In The Health Care Debate

Why should we believe that our doctors are altruists? They are not. Health care is a business and these folks are business people. People vote for the group that protects their financial interests so if themajority of doctors are Republican what does that say?



Health care reform is needed for the people of the United States that want stabilization of providers and/or a provider at all. I am staunchly behind a public health care provider option. I would drop my current and I might add decent provider in a hot minute for a public provider like my mother's Medicare. I would not be subjected to whomever my employer chose and I would be able to keep them during what is now becoming frequent job changes.



The private providers have sucked the marrow out of health care and want to continue doing so. The politicians that allow this to continue regardless of political party should go down in flaming defeat at the polls. We need decent health care at an affordable price for all Americans. It in this still rich country should be a right not a privilege for a chosen few.
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La. Dems Respond To Vitter's 'LuvFest' Ad: Our 'LuvFests' Are Legal, Unlike Yours

It seems the Senator set himself up for that Democratic Party retort. Good for the LA Dems. My home state is such a backwards 19th century relic that having even another Blue in the Senator is preferable than Vitter whose intellect has not been displayed much if at all during his term of service. He should have remained a US Rep from Metairie where they appreciate his like.
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Gates Says What A Lot of Us Are Thinking: You Prove It!

Great column. The teevee noos stations here in Boston are going nuts. It is disgusting and aggravating how they automatically assume the police guy is telling the truth.



Now, they want the President and Governor to apologize to the policeman.
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