freckles make me strong.

I live in Seattle. These are things that catch my attention, pique my interest and/or make me want to pass notes in class like a 7th grader

October 31, 2011 11:21 am
Does this make sense?

Does this make sense?

(Source: sv, via think4yourself)

April 26, 2011 11:10 am
"If every other industrialized nation can make health care a human right, we can do it too. Our challenge is to pass effective legislation despite the powerful private health insurance companies and other corporations whose influence often trumps democracy. First, we must have a powerful movement. We can’t build it around a shriveled dream. Only single payer, with its bolder promise of social justice, can inspire that movement."

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America Needs a Single Payer Health Care System (via azspot)

(via azspot)

February 25, 2010 6:10 pm
"If you think it’s a socialist plot, then please drop out of the federal employees health program."

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Sen. Richard Durbin (D-IL), to Republican lawmakers at today’s health care reform summit

The Political Carnival: Dick Durbin: “If you think it’s a socialist plot…”

(via think4yourself)

October 2, 2009 10:49 am

Grayson: let’s remember we should care about people even after they’re born

Rep. Alan Grayson, D-Fla, critized Republicans lack of health care reform legislation saying, “If you get sick, America, the Republican health care plan is this: Die quickly.” In response to his origninal statement on the floor he offered this apology:

Last night, I gave a speech and I’m not going to recount everything I said but after that speech, several republicans asked me to apologize. I would like to apologize.

I would like to apologize and here’s why. according to this study, health insurance and mortality in adults which was published two weeks, 44,000 Americans die every year because they have no health insurance. 44,789 Americans die every year according to the Harvard study. and you can see it by going to our website at grayson.house.gov.

that is 10 times more than the number of Americans who have died in Iraq and who died in 9/11. but that was just once. this is every single year. that’s right. every single year.

take a look at this. read it and weep. and I mean that, read it and weep, because of all these Americans who are dying because they don’t have health insurance. now, I think we should do something about that and the democratic health care plan does do something about that. It makes health care affordable for those who can’t afford insurance and it safes these peoples’ lives.

let’s remember we should care about people even after they’re born. I call upon the democratic members of the house, I call upon the republican members of the house, I call upon all of us to do our jobs for the sake of America, for the sake of those dying people and their families.

I apologize to the dead and their families that we haven’t voted sooner to end this holocaust in America. I yield the rest of my time.

Should you need further convincing, the study can be read here.

September 30, 2009 12:44 pm
brooklynmutt: editorialcartoonists

brooklynmutt:

editorialcartoonists
10:10 am
"Congressional Republicans are expressing outrage over freshman Rep. Alan Grayson’s suggestion on the House floor Tuesday night that the GOP health care plan amounts to little more than “don’t get sick” — and if you do, “die quickly.” Republicans have called for an apology from the Florida Democrat, and have compared Grayson’s remark to Rep. Joe Wilson’s (R-S.C.) “You lie!” outburst. But there’s a big a difference between the two floor statements. One was unprecedented — the president had never been called a liar by a member of Congress during an address in all of American history. By contrast, charges that the opposition’s health care plan will kill people have been about as common on the House floor lately as resolutions naming post offices."

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Despite Outrage, Many House Republicans Have Said Dem Health Care Will Kill People (via robot-heart-politics)
September 25, 2009 11:41 am

Senate Finance Committee debates the federal government from defining the health care benefits offered through private insurance

  • Sen. Jon Kyl (R-AZ): I don’t need maternity care, and so requiring that to be in my insurance policy is something that I don’t need and will make the policy more expensive.
  • Sen. Debbie Stabenow (D-MI): If I could just interject once with my colleague — I think your mom probably did.
September 10, 2009 12:51 pm
(via nevver:Art School Girl) You had me at health insurance.

(via nevver:Art School Girl)

You had me at health insurance.

September 9, 2009 5:30 pm
"Well the time for bickering is over. The time for games has passed. Now is the season for action. Now is when we must bring the best ideas of both parties together, and show the American people that we can still do what we were sent here to do. Now is the time to deliver on health care."

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President Barack Obama (via think4yourself)
August 26, 2009 4:38 pm
"Partly because his liberal bona fides were beyond question, he could make deals others could not. With the safest possible seat and his presidential aspirations long behind him, he could and did proceed fearlessly. I’ve written before about my longtime political crush on the man who either in spite of his flaws and losses or because of them accomplished more than anyone else in my lifetime for causes that liberals (and other Americans) care about: fighting poverty, health care reform, civil rights, health care reform, women’s rights, health care reform, workers’ rights, and so on. Now, anything but voluntarily, he’s broken the promise he made a year ago last night, in his last major speech, delivered on the first night of the Democratic National Convention in Denver: “I pledge I will be there” to vote for health care legislation. Without him – and mea culpa, here comes the cruel part – we are left with … Max Baucus?"

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In the Senate and On the Left, Who Will Take Teddy’s Place? (And in What Lifetime?) - Politics Daily (via apsies)