Video - Sara and Grandma

Just a quick post - this is Sara and my mom, taken at her nursing home in California on 6/22/11. The activity for that day was "Sing with Rex." This was Rex singing the ABC song to them.

Praise From a Snake

"I worship the ground Paul Ryan walks on. I hope he doesn't run for president because that would ruin a good man who has a lot of work to do." -Dick Cheney, May 2011.

Hopefully this endorsement from snake-oil salesman Dick Cheney will be the final death knell for Ryan and his budget proposal to reduce taxes on the rich while at the same time eliminating Medicare. The recent congressional election in New York, in which a Democrat won for the first time in decades, could be a sign that the tide is definitely turning. If Republicans are going to continue pushing this Medicare-killing agenda, expect them to be completely decimated in the 2012 election.

I wonder how Cheney would feel if he weren't a federal employee, receiving free, taxpayer subsidized health insurance. In the days before "Obamacare", would he even be able to get health insurance? Normally, once you've already had five heart attacks, insurance companies won't even go near you with a ten-foot pole. After all his heart attacks, the guy would either be bankrupt or drowning in debt. If the guy had a heart (which he doesn't), he would realize that Ryan's proposal (giving insurance vouchers to seniors), is preposterous, and would leave the frailest members of society without care.

I'm not even sure you can call the GOP a party of "conservatives" anymore. This is a party of radicals. Extreme, right-wing radicals. A party that attacks teachers, education, unions, the elderly, the poor, and the environment (to name but a mere few.) They are anti-civilization, and need to be stopped.