New blood pressure drug

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The White House wants its minions to tell on their friends and now it is sending emails to people who haven't requested them... Outside of FNC and a few blogs nothing is said.

Bush wanted to tap telephone calls from known terrorists outside the US to telephone numbers inside the US, and vice versa, and the press went ballistic.

Tell me the media isn't full of ignorant fools in the tank for Obamie.

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My MD started me on a new blood pressure drug this week. Having went through this before I called my insurance company since it was new and not in their formulary. They had added it but it is PA (prior approval) and ST ( step therapy - to be used only after lower level therapies have been tried.)

So my MD GP will have to call and explain before it will be covered by the insurance. This is per Medicare Part D guidelines.

And they won't ration care to get that $400 billion. Sure they won't. No way.

Maybe I need to call that female type person in Houston who played a Doctor to get on TV.

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How come none of the Leftie blogs are raising hell about the stepped up fighting in Afghanistan?

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How come "Netroots Nation" is on C-Span? Oh, yeah. The propaganda thing.

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Michael Vic has a new job! Well, that took a long time.

Michigan is in the tank

and you need to do no more and read this to understand.

Detroit, Mich. - Michigan just experienced its coldest July on record; global temperatures haven't risen in more than a decade; Great Lakes water levels have resumed their 30-year cyclical rise (contrary to a decade of media scare stories that they were drying up due to global warming), and polls show that climate change doesn't even make a list of Michigan voters' top-ten concerns.

Yet in an interview with the Detroit News Monday, Senator Debbie Stabenow (D., Mich.) - recently appointed to the Senate Energy Committee - made clear that fighting the climate crisis is her top priority.

"Climate change is very real," she confessed as she embraced cap and trade's massive tax increase on Michigan industry - at the same time claiming, against all the evidence, that it would not lead to an increase in manufacturing costs or energy prices. "Global warming creates volatility. I feel it when I'm flying. The storms are more volatile. We are paying the price in more hurricanes and tornadoes."

This is an elected offical. A Democrat. It is obvious she knows absolutely nothing about what she is speaking of yet she is willing to just do the President's bidding.

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Michigan, you are getting what you deserve. Too bad it also hurts us.

But if you think Michigan has a problem, read this comment from calny from NY, NY. (Either there or Gollywood.)

Cold weather can be caused by global warming and so can increased storm volitility.

I really don't know if I should laugh, cry or puke.

I'm not a Doctor but I played one to get on TV

Thank goodness for blogs.

Woman claims to be MD at Houston Town Hall.

Yelling at Congresscritters bad.

Lying to help a Democratic Congresswoman good.

Can you imagine the hoorah if she had been a Repub???

Hat tip to Buffy.

New Element discovered

Lawrence Livermore Laboratories has discovered the heaviest element yet known to science. The new element, Governmentium (Gv), has one neutron, 25 assistant neutrons, 88 deputy neutrons, and 198 assistant deputyneutrons, giving it an atomic mass of 312.

These 312 particles are held together by forces called morons, which are
surrounded by vast quantities of lepton-like particles called peons..
Since Governmentium has no electrons, it is inert; however, it can be
detected, because it impedes every reaction with which it comes into
contact. A tiny amount of Governmentium can cause a reaction that would
normally take less than a second, to take from 4 days to 40 years to complete.

Governmentium has a normal half-life of 2- 6 years. It does not decay,
but instead undergoes a reorganization in which a portion of the
assistant neutrons and deputy neutrons exchange places.

In fact, Governmentium's mass will actually increase over time, since
each reorganization will cause more morons to become neutrons, forming
isodopes. This characteristic of moron promotion leads some scientists
to believe that Governmentium is formed whenever morons reach a critical
concentration. This hypothetical quantity is referred to as critical
morass.

When catalyzed with money, Governmentium becomes Administratium, an
element that radiates just as much energy as Governmentium since it has
half as many peons but twice as many morons.

Hat Tip to Mike L.

Obama's health care excuses

I listened very carefully to this video from the House of Obama in which a guy says that no cuts in benefits in Medicare are going to happen.

Instead everything is going to get better.

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First he mumbles that Rx drug costs are going to go down and that when the doughtnut hole is reached there will be no co-pays and preventive drugs will be free.

And he evidently doesn't know how Medicare Part D works. He says that after you have reached the doughnut hole, which is $2700, which is the sum of your copays and what the Insurance company has paid, you have to pay 100%.

Nope. Not true. You can purchase insurance that will cover part of the generic drugs you need until you reach $4350. If you have no additional insurance, at $4350 total out of pocket costs you pay 5% of the drug cost or a copay of %2.40, which ever is higher. (The 5% always is.)

Now if he doesn't know that you can bet your Grandma's training bra that he doesn't know what he is talking about in the new plan.

The second thing he claims is that more doctors, both GPs and specialists are going to be available for both rural and urban America. Now he doesn't say how that is going to be done. Outside of heavy incentives or guards or both I don't see that happening. Most people don't go to school for years and years to have a lower standard of living than the kid who took shop in high school and became a plumber.

The third thing is that since the government will know everything about you, you won't have to answer all those pesky questions when you go to new doctor, a new clinic or a new hospital. Not doing so will save all of 5 minutes, especially since most Medicare patients have a GP, a Clinic and a hospital... But even then any Doctor I want treating me is going to want to go over the drugs in the database with the patient... Just to be sure.

And of course there is the fact that the whole world will know about that nasty STD you caught down Tijuana.

At that point the video switches to an out take of Obamie's PR meeting with AARP in which he looks into the camera and swears that benefits won't be cut....

And the check's in the mail, the Beamer is paid for and he will respect us in the morning.

Yeah. Sure. No doubt.

What you can expect from Obama's

"Public Option" healthcare plan.

10) Your annual breast exam is done at Hooters.

(9) Directions to your doctor's office include "Take a left when you enter the trailer park."

(8) The tongue depressors taste faintly of Fudgesicles.

(7) The only proctologist in the plan is "Gus" from Roto-Rooter.

(6) The only item listed under Preventive Care Coverage is "an apple a day..."

(5) Your primary care physician is wearing the pants you gave to Goodwill last month.

(4) "The patient is responsible for 200% of out-of-network charges," is not a typographical error.

(3) The only expense covered 100% is "embalming."

(2) Your Prozac comes in different colors with little M's on them.

AND THE NUMBER ONE SIGN YOU'VE JOINED A VERY CHEAP HEALTH CARE PLAN:

(1) You ask for Viagra and they give you a Popsicle stick and Duct Tape.

Hat tip to Jimmy M who gave me one that I changed.

Professional Democrats Organize?

But they say Organizing for America, which was known as Obama for America during the presidential campaign, is quietly and deliberately building a system of professional field organizers and trained volunteers that has already inspired thousands of community events and reached millions of people.

Staffers have been hired so far in 42 states, said the group's deputy director, Jeremy Bird, and he expects to have paid workers in every state in a matter of weeks.

And they will never attend a Town Hall meeting, call a Congress Critter.... and they will respect you in the morning...

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Now we know why Obama wanted this:

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which will lead to this:

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