ralphbon, blogging at FireDogLake

According to Tim Carpenter of Progressive Democrats of America, one avenue of appeal remains regarding these efforts:

Democratic House leaders can insert what is called a “Manager’s Amendment” into legislation, even when it is closed to any other amendments. The managers are the majority and minority members who “manage” debate for the bill on each side.

Today, tomorrow, and beyond, we need to call these “managers” and insist that the Kucinich Amendment is restored into the healthcare bill….

The “gang” that holds our future in their hands includes:

* Speaker Nancy Pelosi: Washington, DC, office (202) 225-4965; San Francisco office (415) 556-4862

Reuters:

As Los Angeles housing advocates launched a campaign warning of mortgage rescue scams, a couple hit by foreclosure are charged with torturing two loan-modification agents they suspected of fraud, authorities said on Monday.

Of course, we shouldn't be torturing anybody, not even loan modification agents; after all, they're just part of a "complex ecology." What we ought to be doing is giving artificial persons the death penalty -- starting with Goldman Sachs, Bank of America, and the other top banks, and working our way down.

Bohemian.com in Northern CA:

With healthcare reform chopped up and slashed so many times that it hardly resembles the change we were promised, and with millions of people in the country staggering around, diseased, with no safety net of a single-payer system, it was only a matter of time before two cultural phenomena combined like viral strains of the undead. That's right: zombies and healthcare reform. This weekend, Santa Rosa's Courthouse Square will teem with the pale-faced and bloodied in a protest / dance party / concert called "Zombie Action for Healthcare Reform," and it may be the most unique and, let's face it, pretty dang funny way to make one's primordial grunt heard.

"I will admit that the connection is somewhat tenuous," says Michael Houghton, organizer of the zombie-healthcare gathering. "The joke that I've been making is that we're people who were denied healthcare and are coming back for revenge."

I should explain about 60 minutes and in Reader's Digest this year as a teenager in Alabama, no criminal record, killed two policemen and a dispatcher in the head and fled in a police car - a scenario he repeated for hundreds of hours to take -Two/Rockstar 's video game Grand Theft Auto.

I'm with the boys in jail cells, SA, and their lives on convictions for murder, after she no history of violence that has killed innocent people while he was in a dream state. Said a police officer who investigated how a murder in Grand Rapids, Michigan, was: "The murder as an extension of the game."

Los Angeles Action

My name is Sam Pullen and I will be coordinating the sit-in at the Blue Cross office in downtown Los Angeles on October 15. We are calling upon all local supporters who are fed up with insurance companies that place profits before patients to join us for a rally from 10am - 12noon. We will be targeting the WellPoint Blue Cross office at 801 S. Figueroa Ave, Los Angeles CA 90017.

If you go to this, please take photos and post.

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Anne Applebaum on Roman Polanski:

He did commit a crime, but he has paid for the crime in many, many ways: In notoriety, in lawyers' fees, in professional stigma. He could not return to Los Angeles to receive his recent Oscar.

Richard Cohen on Cap Weinberger:

Based on my Safeway encounters, I came to think of Weinberger as a basic sort of guy, candid and no nonsense – which is the way much of official Washington saw him,” Cohen wrote. “Cap, my Safeway buddy, walks, and that’s all right with me.”