Now I can understand how storing personal health records on an I-Pod or a simple CD can 'insure' continuity in care, BUT, to provide global access to everyone's medical record is simply an invasion of privacy and increases the risks of errors and misidentification. What if you're unconscious and can't identify 'the file' the doctor just pulled off the internet as yours? What then? Bush's desperation for an economy is dangerous to American citizens. No doubt in my mind. It's expoitive. We need consumer protection and advocacy. There isn't a Republican government in sight that will provide it.
Michael Moore Today
http://www.michaelmoore.com/
"Culture of Life"
American SiCKO Reggie Cervantes joins Oklahoma rally to save U.S. children
Bush Veto Decried At Oklahoma Rally
2 Dozen Protest Bill At Rep. Fallin's Office
Associated Press
OKLAHOMA CITY -- About two-dozen people protested President George W. Bush's veto of a children's health care bill on Thursday outside the Oklahoma City office of U.S. Rep. Mary Fallin, R-Okla.
The protesters included Reggie Cervantes, a 9/11 emergency responder who was featured in Michael Moore's film, "Sicko."
Cervantes, who recently moved to Oklahoma City, and two other ground zero workers traveled with Moore to Cuba to get health care after having problems getting treatment in New York. sponsor
She said the president was hurting America's future by vetoing legislation to expand the number of children who qualify for Medicaid.
"If our children are not healthy enough to learn, then we can't thrive as a country," said Cervantes, who has two children, ages 8 and 10.
http://www.michaelmoore.com/sicko/news/article.php?id=10350
California group launches campaign to put Gore's name on primary ballots
Jason Rhyne
Published: Wednesday October 3, 2007
Al Gore still hasn't definitively ruled out a bid for the 2008 Democratic nomination for president -- and until he does, one hopeful California group is assuming no news is good news.
California Draft Gore, a grassroots political action committee, has hatched a plan to get their reluctant candidate off of theoretical fantasy polls and onto a real-life primary ballot.
Capitalizing on a provision of the state election law which allows for any name to be placed on a ballot provided enough signatures in favor of that candidate are secured, volunteers will begin scrambling next week to get 26,500 registered Democrats -- 500 from each of California's 53 congressional districts -- to sign off on the former vice president before a Dec. 4 deadline.
http://rawstory.com/news/2007/California_group_launches_campaign_to_put_1003.html
Welcome to the America for Gore Grassroots Coalition
America for Gore is pleased to bring you links, information and action alerts to many of the campaigns working to make
Al Gore the President of the United States in 2009. Use this site as a portal to the universe of Al Gore supporters.
We also have actions you can take to help bring him to the White House as our next president.
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"The health and development of many low and moderate income children will be compromised, with serious consequences for their individual futures."
October 4th, 2007 1:52 pm
Families Brace for SCHIP Demise
Many Poorer Families Fear Presidential Veto Threatens Their Chidren's Health Care
By Carla Williams / ABC News Medical Unit
Oct. 4, 2007 — Carolyn Taylor, a full-time nursing assistant and medical technician, works hard to ensure that she is able to provide for her 11-year-old son Keith. But on Monday, she — along with thousands of others — took time off to rally in support of the State Children's Health Insurance Program.
"The rally was to let Bush know we need health insurance for our children," said Taylor, a Baltimore resident. "We wanted to let President Bush know we are real people. He said there would be no child left behind. Well, we're getting left behind unless he continues SCHIP."
Gathering on the White House lawn and the steps of Congress, the throngs were joined by children who pulled red wagons filled with over a million petitions, urging Congress to expand health insurance coverage for children.
Yet, it appears that the effort may be in vain after Bush vetoed a bill on Wednesday that would have renewed and expanded SCHIP.
http://www.michaelmoore.com/sicko/news/article.php?id=10338
Democrats Begin SCHIP Veto Override Campaign
With a presidential veto of the State Children's Health Insurance Program (SCHIP) now official, Congressional Democrats have formally embarked on a campaign to find the 15 to 20 votes from House Republicans they will need to override President Bush's veto pen.
Aides say because the $35 billion expansion of the program originated in the House, that chamber will go first in its attempt to override Bush's third veto ever as president (his veto of the Water Development Act today makes four). That vote is likely to come during the week of Oct. 15, leaving two more weeks for Speaker Nancy Pelosi (D-Calif.) to exert political pressure on any wavering Republicans. The Senate will follow suit, presumably only if the House secures the two-thirds majority of those present -- the voting ratio that is required by the Constitution to beat a presidential veto. The Senate already has enough votes, 67, to defeat Bush's veto, so all the drama is on the House side for this showdown.
http://blog.washingtonpost.com/capitol-briefing/2007/10/democrats_begin_schip_veto_ove.html?hpid=topnews
Hypocritical congressional Democrats should return $3,900,000 to
Dems who condemned MoveOn took its cash
By: Kenneth P. Vogel
October 1, 2007 08:54 PM EST
Forty-four congressional Democrats who voted to condemn MoveOn.org for its ad branding Army Gen. David Petraeus "General Betray Us" have accepted more than $3.9 million in contributions from the influential anti-war group and its members.
Among those who opposed resolutions specifically repudiating the full-page ad in The New York Times, only 17 Democrats and one independent took cash from the group and its members — contributions totaling almost $1.4 million.
The resolutions approved by the House, calling the ad an “unwarranted personal attack,” were only symbolic. But the split of MoveOn beneficiaries on the votes highlights something of a rift between Democrats and the anti-war activists who largely fuel MoveOn.
http://dyn.politico.com/printstory.cfm?uuid=571844E1-3048-5C12-001EA58BF7E09840
Health Care for All
http://www.moveon.org/
October 1st, 2007 3:00 pm
Hooley blasts Bush's "stonewalling" of Congress
By Jeff Kosseff / The Oregonian
WASHINGTON -- In an interview Friday afternoon, Rep. Darlene Hooley, D-Ore., described the frustration that caused her to introduce a resolution calling for "full cooperation" from the Bush administration with congressional investigations.
Hooley, who unlike some other Democrats has not ruled out the possibility of impeachment, said she was prompted by Bush administration statements that it would invoke executive privilege for congressional oversight attempts and oppose subpoenas of White House officials for congressional investigations.
"One of our constitutional responsibilities is oversight," Hooley said. "There's a reason we have a system of checks and balances. I feel very strongly that we need to be doing our job and we need the president not to be stonewalling us."
http://www.michaelmoore.com/words/latestnews/index.php?id=10315
The too-young-to-vote crowd marches to stop Bush health care veto
October 2nd, 2007 3:29 pm
Kids March to Stop Bush SCHIP Veto
By Matthew Jaffe / ABC News
Kids took health care into their own hands Monday, marching to the White House and pleading with the president not to fulfill his veto threat of the $35 billion children's health insurance expansion passed by both houses of Congress last week.
Twenty-five children, and at least as many adults, pulled nine red Radio Flyer wagons loaded with more than a million petitions to the White House gates chanting "Health care, not warfare," "Care for kids" and "Sign the bill!"
Sen. Ted Kennedy, D-Mass., joined their rally and spoke out against the president's expected veto, calling the SCHIP bill "the test of greatness for a nation is how it cares for its children. On that issue, we put children first. That is why this legislation is so important."
http://www.michaelmoore.com/sicko/news/article.php?id=10328
Most Americans want war funding cut,health care expanded
October 2nd, 2007 6:19 pm
Most Americans want Iraq war funding cut: poll
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Most Americans oppose fully funding President George W. Bush's $190 billion request to fight the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan while a majority supports expanding a children's health care program he has threatened to veto, a Washington Post-ABC News poll shows.
The poll published on Tuesday also shows deep dissatisfaction with the president and with Congress, partly because of the stalemate between Democrats and the White House over Iraq policy, The Washington Post reported.
Bush's approval rating stands at 33 percent, equal to his all-time low in this poll and just 29 percent approve of the job Congress is doing -- a 14-point drop since Democrats took control in January, the newspaper said.
More than eight in 10 liberal Democrats said Congress has been too restrained in challenging Bush's Iraq policy; about the same percentage of conservative Republicans said it has been too aggressive and a narrow majority of independents, 53 percent, want Congress to do more, the Post reported.
http://www.michaelmoore.com/sicko/news/article.php?id=10330
Host a Rally for Our Children's Health Care
Thanks for hosting a Rally for Children's Health Care. Here are a few things to think about when deciding where your event should be:
Congressional offices: If your representative has an office in your community, you should hold your event outside of it. The only exceptions are offices in out-of-the-way places, like office parks.
High visibility locations: If your representative doesn't have an office in your community, or it's in an out-of-the-way place, you should hold your event in a central location. Parks and town squares are often great bets. Just make sure that there is enough room for everyone to be on public property and it will have fairly high foot or vehicle traffic.
If there are multiple representative's nearby: Some of you have multiple members of Congress in your community. In that case, you should target the one who voted against children's health care recently. You can look that up here. If multiple representatives voted the wrong way, just choose one.
http://pol.moveon.org/event/events/create.html?r=3023&action_id=97
H.R.676
Title: To provide for comprehensive health insurance coverage for all United States residents, and for other purposes.
Sponsor: Rep Conyers, John, Jr. [MI-14] (introduced 1/24/2007) Cosponsors (84)
Latest Major Action: 2/2/2007 Referred to House subcommittee. Status: Referred to the Subcommittee on Health.
http://thomas.loc.gov/cgi-bin/bdquery/z?d110:HR00676:@@@N
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October 1st, 2007 3:00 pm
Hooley blasts Bush's "stonewalling" of Congress
By Jeff Kosseff / The Oregonian
WASHINGTON -- In an interview Friday afternoon, Rep. Darlene Hooley, D-Ore., described the frustration that caused her to introduce a resolution calling for "full cooperation" from the Bush administration with congressional investigations.
Hooley, who unlike some other Democrats has not ruled out the possibility of impeachment, said she was prompted by Bush administration statements that it would invoke executive privilege for congressional oversight attempts and oppose subpoenas of White House officials for congressional investigations.
http://www.michaelmoore.com/words/latestnews/index.php?id=10315
War protester bursts White House bubble, briefly
by Frank James
President Bush doesn't like to see protesters at his events. No president does really. The job is stressful enough without them. Plus most presidents enjoy being accorded great respect. It's something they get used to.
Staffers in the Bush White House and on the president's campaigns know this president especially doesn't want to spot protesters at his events, no more than he wants to hear a reporter's cell phone ring at a presidential press conference.
Bush aides and campaigns have well-deserved reputations for screening people who get into the president's events to make sure protesters don't get in. And when they've managed to slip into an event in the past, they usually were quickly ushered out.
All of which makes it remarkable that a woman named Sherry Wolfe was able to get into, and apparently allowed to stay in, a Bush appearance in Lancaster, Pa. today at which he spoke to the local chamber of commerce about fiscal discipline.
http://www.swamppolitics.com/news/politics/blog/2007/10/war_protester_amazingly.html
Army Sgt. 1st Class Brent A. Adams
40, of West View, Pa.; assigned to the 2nd Brigade Combat Team, 28th Infantry Division, Pennsylvania Army National Guard, Washington, Pa.; killed Dec. 1 when an improvised explosive device detonated near his military five-ton truck during combat operations in Ramadi, Iraq.
http://www.militarycity.com/valor/1394169.html
October 3rd, 2007 12:17 pm
Bush vetoes child health insurance plan
By Jennifer Loven / Associated Press
WASHINGTON - President Bush, in a sharp confrontation with Congress, on Wednesday vetoed a bipartisan bill that would have dramatically expanded children's health insurance.
It was only the fourth veto of Bush's presidency, and one that some Republicans feared could carry steep risks for their party in next year's elections. The Senate approved the bill with enough votes to override the veto, but the margin in the House fell short of the required number.
Democrats unleashed a stream of harsh rhetoric, as they geared up for a battle to both improve their chances of winning a veto override and score political points against Republicans who oppose the expansion.
Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid, D-Nev., decried Bush's action as a "heartless veto."
"Never has it been clearer how detached President Bush is from the priorities of the American people," Reid said in a statement. "By vetoing a bipartisan bill to renew the successful Children's Health Insurance Program, President Bush is denying health care to millions of low-income kids in America."
http://www.michaelmoore.com/sicko/news/article.php?id=10332
October 3rd, 2007 3:20 pm
Iraq follows Bush to Lancaster
By John L. Micek / The Morning Call
LANCASTER - Concerns about the Iraq war -- and its cost in lives and tax dollars -- followed President Bush today to an event hosted by the Lancaster County Chamber of Commerce.
In this Republican-friendly heartland to warn congressional Democrats about overspending, Bush took audience questions. The first, from Gerry Beane, a Realtor from Manheim Township, targeted the war.
Citing polls, Beane told the president: "We've reached the point where the majority of the country doesn't want to see another $190 billion going to Iraq. I hope I can say to you man-to-man and taxpayer-to-taxpayer that we need to stop that spending and bring them [U.S. troops] home."
Emotion crept into the president's voice as he answered, starting by saying he wasn't going to debate polls. Bush noted planned troop withdrawals, and vowed that as long as U.S. troops are in Iraq the nation would spend whatever it takes on their behalf.
http://www.michaelmoore.com/words/latestnews/index.php?id=10336
October 3rd, 2007 4:07 am
In Oregon, 'Impeach' is not just a bumper sticker
Politics - More anti-Bush activists take up the chant, even as Democratic leaders call the demand unrealistic
By Harry Esteve and Charles Pope / The Oregonian
Every Thursday, they gather outside the congressman's office, a sign-waving brigade of activists with one word on their minds -- and their T-shirts:
"IMPEACH."
"It can happen," says John Bradach, one of the organizers of the weekly protest outside U.S. Rep. Earl Blumenauer's headquarters in Northeast Portland. "And it should, even in the limited time left."
Bradach joined the impeachment cause after losing a nephew in the Iraq war. But passion won't change political reality.
http://www.michaelmoore.com/words/latestnews/index.php?id=10331
October 5th, 2007 5:52 pm
Colorado Student Newspaper Editor Admonished But Will Keep Job in Bush F-Word Editorial Debacle
Associated Press
DENVER — The student editor of the Colorado State University newspaper was admonished Thursday for the paper's use of an obscenity in an editorial about President Bush but David McSwane will be allowed to keep his job.
The decision came after a closed door meeting by the board which oversees student media at the school.
The Board of Student Communications released a statement saying that they found that McSwane violated the Rocky Mountain Collegian's code of ethics, which bars "profane or vulgar words" in opinion writing. The board also had the power to fire him or demote him.
McSwane canceled a press conference he had scheduled to respond to the board's decision and declined comment. He has 20 days to appeal the board's decision.
http://www.michaelmoore.com/words/latestnews/index.php?id=10367
October 5th, 2007 8:32 pm
A redwood sanctuary
By Jennifer Wadsworth / Tracy Press
An anonymous millionaire donated a building near the Russian River so Nadia McCaffrey can create a retreat for troubled veterans who return from Iraq.
Nestled in the Redwoods, overlooking a vineyard on one side and the Russian River on the other, the four-story veterans retreat looks exactly like the restful getaway Tracy activist Nadia McCaffrey envisioned.
For three years since her son Sgt. Patrick McCaffrey died on a special mission in Iraq, McCaffrey has traveled cross-country to raise awareness and money to help veterans re-enter civilian life. Her mission is to help soldiers returning from combat with injuries – whether physical or mental, like post traumatic stress disorder — recover peacefully, instead of relying on limited treatment from government clinics.
http://www.michaelmoore.com/words/latestnews/index.php?id=10369
October 4th, 2007
"What on Earth makes you think a Democrat is going to be elected next year when they don't even have the spine to take the victory that's been handed to them and do something with it" -- Michael Moore
October 4th, 2007 2:52 pm
Moore lecture lives up to its billing
Controversial filmmaker takes on health care, education, political leaders
By Kevin Fryling / UB Reporter
Controversial award-winning documentarian Michael Moore lived up to his billing this weekend, delivering a nearly three-hour address in Alumni Arena that featured his trademark blend of humor and outspoken, incisive criticism against the American health care system, education system and leaders on both sides of the political aisle.
The appearance by Moore—the inaugural speaker in UB's 21st annual Distinguished Speakers Series—was his first before a college audience outside Michigan in three years.
A director who's taken on big business, gun violence, health care and the war in Iraq in such award-winning documentaries as "Roger and Me," "Bowling for Columbine," "Sicko" and "Fahrenheit 9/11"—the highest grossing documentary of all time—Moore told his audience that all his most recent films have been asking the same central question: "Who are we as a people?"
http://www.michaelmoore.com/words/mikeinthenews/index.php?id=10340
Thursday, October 4th, 2007
'Imagine Peace' ...by Cindy Sheehan
Imagine all the people, living life in peace.
John Winston Ono Lennon
October 9, 1940-December 8, 1980
A dream you dream alone is only a dream.
A dream you dream together is reality.
Yoko Ono Lennon
On October 9th, on what would have been John Lennon's 67th birthday, his widow, Yoko Ono is dedicating a peace tower in Reykjavik, Iceland in the memory of her husband. There will also be almost a half a million peace wishes buried in capsules around the tower which is a blue tower of light extending up to the sky above us.
http://www.michaelmoore.com/mustread/index.php?id=925
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