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Shirley it is not generally a good idea to advertise when you are going to be out of town.
While the boss is away/the hooded character assassins will play.
Boy, are you calling the kettle black.
TNA said "hooded." You have to give him that much slack. The characters are knee-capping, if not assassinating themselves. Don't see no hood on TNA.
watched WHAS's story on bank street brewhouse and public art.
i'm waiting for someone to announce that WHAS is in the mayor's pocket.
Shirley,
Guess you are in DC. We don't see the same way on Health Care. Too many people "assume" what the money figures and conditions will be. I probably would be considered to have a 'great coverage' plan. I cannot afford any more fees or taxes. I see it coming from the Health Care Bill now. Someone needs to find out the 'specifics' and 'definitions' they are using. What 'they' consider me or someone else as needing to pay to help the 'system' may not be what I can afford. What are the $ penalties for not having insurance? What would minimum and low wage earners have to pay? If they double or triple what you and your family pay, Shirley, can you afford it? If your BMI is higher than 'big brother' says, will your rates go up or pay penalties? Remember we are dealing with 'politicians' who say what they think we want to hear but 'forget' to add details. Remember what happened to the Credit Cards (gave those companies days to change/dodge the new laws). Yes, help is needed but just 'reform' the insurance laws first!!!
The younger healthier citizens will now be forced to pay their share, instead of going without health insurance. They may not like the high rates, but that is the way it must be. Right now Medicare doesn't pay enough of the bills, so now maybe doctors and hospitals will be paid more, so some won't refuse to take patients. Maybe my supplemental insurance costs will come down. When you are retired, the costs increase but not your retirement income. If you are really ill, those bills pile up. Right now, I am thinking I may need to ask my daughter, if I can move in with her family. Not that they can afford it, but times are tough. I need more options.
as opposed to here?
Hello!
my name is Tom and im completely new to this forum.
I hope that I'll learn and share a lot of interesting things.
Thanks!
tom,
for another view of new albany politics and culture, i recommend you check out cityofnewalbany.blogspot.com
that site has less screaming and name calling.
bitter coffey actually updated his blog. wish he could stay on topic so i could follow his "logic."
And Away we go with Health Caer Change Shirley! Buckle your seat belt, we are now the bad guys!
Sidewalk all along State Street is gravel right now. Price's ideal sidewalk material.....after dirt, that is.
Too bad they're actually going to pour concrete on it. Didn't you know Dairy Queen is in England's pocket?
YEAH, I SAW ENGLAND WALKING OUT OF D.Q. WITH A DILLY BAR SO I CALLED THE F.B.I.
You tell them Anonymous. Do you have tapes of England with his Dilly Bribe?
DAM RIGHT I HAVE TAPES. I WILL SHARE THE TAPES WHEN THE TIME IS WRITE. HE HAD 2 DILLY BARS AND GAVE WON TO KAY. ENGLAND BYS HER SILENCE.
LOL! We stirke again!
Whats our slogan again?
Midget people strike agin! No thats ont right.
Short people strike again! ummmm...
Short midgets strike again. Wait wait dont tale me.
Crap. I no this one.
Little people! Little itty bitty people strike agin!
We is to smart! England can't trick us.
NO HE CAN'T LOL!
No, we hate owners who get free sidewalks and patio's and throw in beer licenses for way less than others paid for.
I think it's called political favors.
So how's that open & change working out for you morons who voted for Obama?
Wait until Roger has to pay fines for not covering his employees with Obamacare.
I think the Teapartyer's are real patriots. I applaud them for fight against that evil Obama.
and who did mathes pharamacy and wick's pizza do their political favors for? not to mention everyone along state street?
I think the Oabama is a real patriot. I applaud him for fighting against that evil TeaParty.
WHAS is in the Mayor's pocket!
The Indiana House, Senate and Gov. Mitch Daniels are in Baylor's pocket. Why else would they pass a new law just to benefit his brewery?
Coffey Parody site.
http://coffeycorner.blogspot.com/
At Coffey's other site, he said the VFW is being deprived of its rights?
What rights are you talking about, O Danny Boy? They're not in the new plan. You are talking about yesterday's news. Then again why would we ever expect you to look forward?
Why doesn't Coffey want New Albany's returning veterans to have good places to work here when they get back from Iraq and Afghanistan?
They are working hard over there. They deserve to have someone working hard here while they're away.
LOVE the latest post at
http://coffeycorner.blogspot.com/
keep it up cappuccino!
"So how's that open & change working out for you morons who voted for Obama?
Wait until Roger has to pay fines for not covering his employees with Obama care."
This bill started as any other law in the history of civilization had begun. It was born out of a need to address a problem within society.
I would submit to you that this is NOT Obama's bill as some would suggest. This has been attempted by multiple administrations prior to this one.
As a new bill, it is much like a newborn child, and it will change and grow, just like pretty much every bill that has been signed into law has.
Some are acting as though this is the end of democracy, and I for one am tired of hearing that, there was not this much outcry for the "patriot act", and the subsequent tapping of our phone lines, government sponsored racial profiling, getting your JUNK scanned by a $10 per hour airport security guard.
How can this be treated as though it is the end of democracy, when NO bill, NO law is EVER immortal. As political party popularity waxes and wanes over electoral cycles, bills and laws are amended and sometimes rescinded. If people are so against this bill, then the opportunity to partake in the sacred right to VOTE will be forthcoming, and the time will come to change this.
I do not completely agree with this, and the pork attached to it is insane, but at least for the time being, when I look in the face of those who are uninsurable under the current system because they had the nerve to get breast cancer, or MS, or HIV/AIDs, I can at least hope they can get the treatment they need to at least make what’s left of their life comfortable, with out ruining the financial future of their families.
why isn't anonymous erika on WHAS?
oh that's right, she doesn't even take herself seriously enough to take her mask off. hahahahaha
Coffey's latest slop includes the statement:
I was contacted this Sunday, March 21st, by another group of developers that were also interested in this same property.
Why would a group of developers contact Coffey? He's not the mayor. He's not on the redevelopment commission. If the developers were interested, couldn't they have responded to the RFP?
Coffey is well known for his disdain of developers. Why doesn't Coffey tell us who these developers are? MAYBE IT'S BECAUSE THEY DON'T EXISTS and Coffey's just creating a reason to criticize the mayor.
Fake professors.
Fake watchdog organizations.
And now...
Fake developers.
it's been common knowledge for the past two years the Bobo has been interested in that parcel. his architect has even shown architectural drawings at a couple meetings at the library. he made another presentation TO THE CITY COUNCIL when the amendments to the masterplan were adopted (remember stevie's "abstain" on that vote?).
HOW WAS THIS A SECRET MR. COFFEY?
Coffey wrote:
When the members of the V.F.W. found out what was in the plan, those people responsible for putting this plan together were irate.
An absolute lie. Show me one tiny bit of evidence of this, Liar Coffey? Besides what the hell does this have to do with anything. The V.F.W. recently received free internet from the city and the master plan doesn't touch the V.F.W. site. Stop changing the subject, Coffey.
Gosh Roger, do you have blisters on your fingers from all these postings yet?
why do you assume roger's the only person in new albany with a computer?
you know what happens when you assume.
No blisters here. When I post, you know it. My name and photo appear alongside.
throw in beer licenses for way less than others paid for.
Someone remind Dan Coffey that he voted in favor of the Riverfront Development Area and its special three-way permits, which is a Indiana State initiative, not a local one.
mitch daniels is in your pocket roger! (wink)
Latest FOS slop:
"Once a Muslim, Always A Muslim."
And we know what she likes to do to Muslims on airplanes. She still hasn't taken down the Hitler post.
Keep it up and the Secret Service will be calling for a chat.
Stevie never knows what he is voting about. He just votes NO across the board, when in fact he often contradicts his "point of view".
Coffey, Dan
NEW ALBANY, IN
47150 Self employed/Auction House Owner $250 04/30/2008
P HILLARY CLINTON FOR PRESIDENT - Democrat
Coffey is Nuts
coffey's self interest is for as many new albany residents as possible to loose jobs, fail, file bankruptcy and going into foreclosure.
he makes his money with auctions. the more people who are liquidating because they cannot work, the more cash in liar dan's pockets. that's why he wants to ruin new albany.
Isn't it enough that he has already ruined one families lives! Coffey can't even control his own animals!
Why does he think he can run the city?
How many animals have to be running around on your property to be sentenced as a misdemeanor?
are muslims all about socialized health care?
sorry denhart, taliban don't have a national health care system. they have neither health care nor a nation.
sounds like FOS goals you have more in common with them than you think.
STOCK MARKET UP TWO DAYS IN A ROW.
If only those idiots on Wall Street knew as much about the economy as Professor Erika does.
In CJ:
Americans by 9 percentage points have a favorable view of the health care overhaul that President Barack Obama signed into law Tuesday, a USA TODAY/Gallup Poll finds, a notable turnaround from surveys before the vote that showed a plurality against it.
By 49 percent-40 percent those surveyed say it was “a good thing” rather than a bad one that Congress passed the bill. Half describe their reaction in positive terms, as “enthusiastic” or “pleased,” while about four in 10 describe it in negative ways, as “disappointed” or “angry.”
The largest single group, 48 percent, calls the bill “a good first step” that should be followed by more action on health care.
Hill must be trembling.
http://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2009/07/19/us/politics/20090717_HEALTH_TIMELINE.html
Time for a history lesson.
It was 'em damn Progressives...in 1912?
what gets me is if certain people here don't agree with a persons opinion they attack them and then go over on NAC and they take pot shots and accuse them of not taking their meds and etc.
But if they state their opinion their right and others are wrong.
Baron Hill is so done you could put a fork in him.
As far as Obama ask yourselves why would someone spend $3 million to defend himself if he had nothing to hide.
Do I believe he is a muslim and a radical? Yes, so take your best shot at me.
Does Pelosi get botox shots it's documented.
Do you wnat to pay for others healthcare? I don't.
I'm reading the 2,700 pages and just maybe some of you need to read it also.
Does Indiana want to bail out California? No, if they mismanage there funds and allow SEIU to be catered I say shame on them. Why are they not being made to pay their fair share?
Just like sewers, most of us want them to use EDIT, TIF's, Rainy Day and CDBG money and any other fees or funds. Just because a certain group wants our money used for them, why should I support that?
Why did council pass an impact fee and only two HAVE been collected and was written up by the SBOA?
People and many should I say agree more with CFA than with the mayor and this downtown group.
I think their ideas are good and I have not heard any better ideas from the mayor or anyone of you.
There are solutions to solve our problems no one wants to give but put everything on the backs of us rate payers.
The mayor doesn't want to give, the police do not want to give so now the council is going to have to come up with using EDIT and TIF'S.
Btw, our city can not raise property taxes that's the Governor's job and England can't force the County Council to raise the LOIT Tax.
Again, why should we be made to cover this administrations mismanagement, over spending and mistakes?
Take your best shot.
Shirley, I sure hope you had a great time in TENN.
5:49 thank you I did. I know who you have been talking to.
The reason I posted that I would be out of town for a few days was to let everyone know that I was not ignoring my blog.
I was not happy about the health care bill either. I don't think it is fair to force people to buy insurance. The rest I am unsure about since I have not read the 2,700 page bill.
Mayor England must have deep pockets to have so many people in them. At least he gets plenty of Dilly Bars.
Since Dan Coffey quit letting people post remarks it looks like they are coming over here instead. Well at least they can read my articles while they are here.
I don't have anything to write about now unless anyone wants to hear about Gatlinburg, (which I doubt).
Be sure and read the (2,700 pages) you will understand the outrage of Tea Party members and anyone involved in healthcare.
England wouldn't know the difference between a dilly bar and a push up.
Riiiiiiiiiiiiight on, welcome back.
Welcome to the new USAA.
Welcome to the new USAA.
They (democrats) really think that nobody will tell the emperor that he has no clothes.
Not that this is going to change any monds, but in the interest of honesty
Here is HR 3962
[docs.house.gov]
Barack lied and Freedom died.
So you know: under the new Obamacare the democrats voted for: sex offenders can receive viagra. Smart move democrats. If your daughter gets raped by a sex offender you have Obama and the democrats to thank.
See what happens when you don't read the bill you vote for.
If your daughter gets raped by a sex offender you have Obama and the democrats to thank.
Even if the rapist had no previous criminal record OR if the rapist was not on Viagra provided under the new system?
The italicized statement is just another example of outlandish scare tactics used by tea-party nuts. Intimidation is their favorite tactic.
If you really want to protect my daughter from rapists, how about approving some EDIT to hire additional police instead of to lower your sewer bill.
List of prior Presidents who at one time called for national health care:
1. Teddy Roosevelt
2. Franklin D. Roosevelt
3. Harry Truman
4. Lyndon Johnson
5. Richard Nixon
6. Jimmy Carter
7. Bill Clinton
Geez I guess they were ALL socialists.
Oops...forgot Kennedy.
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Here's a little more history.
John F. Kennedy
In many areas, Kennedy echoed the concerns and beliefs of FDR and Truman. He believed rising costs had moved health and medical care beyond the reach of too many Americans. The health care system was overburdened by a lack of sufficient doctors, nurses and hospital beds, he said. And all of that came to roost on the people who relied on the system the most, the elderly.
“No piece of unfinished business is more important or more urgent than the enactment under the social security system of health insurance for the aged,” he said during his 1962 State of the Union address.
Lyndon B. Johnson
Lyndon B. Johnson signed the Medicare bill on July 30, 1965, during a special ceremony in Independence, Mo., home of Harry Truman.
Noting there were 18 million Americans 65 years of age and older, Johnson said Medicare meant “no longer will older Americans be denied the healing miracle of modern medicine. No longer will illness crush and destroy the savings that they have so carefully put away over a lifetime so that they might enjoy dignity in their later years. No longer will young families see their own incomes, and their own hopes, eaten away simply because they are carrying out their deep moral obligations to their parents, and to their uncles, and their aunts.
Richard Nixon
Richard Nixon submitted his wide-ranging National Health Care Strategy to Congress in 1971. Although rejecting the overall plan, Congress enacted specific points, such as programs to attract more people into the health care industry, the National Cancer Act, and the National Health Service Corps that provided health care professionals to rural areas and inner city neighborhoods.
The country was spending more than $75 billion a year on health care, he said. “Yet, despite this huge annual national outlay, millions of citizens do not have adequate access to health care. Our record in this field does not live up to our national potential.”
Bill Clinton
On Oct. 27, 1993, Bill Clinton presented a health care reform package to Congress. It was named the Health Security Act, something he said “guarantees every single American a comprehensive package of health care benefits.
“We have tried to draw on the best ideas put forth over the last 60 years by both Democrats and Republicans,” he said. “This bill reflects the sense of responsibility that President Roosevelt tried to put forward when he asked that the Social Security program include health care. It reflects the vision of Harry Truman, the first President to put forward a plan for national health care reform. It reflects the pragmatic approach that President Nixon took in 1972 when he asked all American employers to take responsibility for providing health care for their employees.”
Sources:
American Presidency Project. www.presidency.ucsb.edu
Read more at Suite101: National Health Care: Seven Presidents Called for a National Policy http://americanaffairs.suite101.com/article.cfm/national_health_care#ixzz0j3MlJfOo
We all knew Nixon was evil but I never knew he was a SOCIALIST!
So THAT'S what he was doing China!
Sorry anonymous fake professors. Once again, neither facts nor history are on your side.
You still have your "tapes" for comfort.
You're an evil person and ought to be ashame.
price is only thinking about himself. the only reason he's fighting the sewer increase is because he pays the sewer bills on all his rentals. screw the rest of us.
"So you know: under the new Obamacare the democrats voted for: sex offenders can receive viagra. Smart move democrats. If your daughter gets raped by a sex offender you have Obama and the democrats to thank.
See what happens when you don't read the bill you vote for."
Check you facts before spewing disinformation. Persons that may be a sex offender can all ready get viagra, levitra with medicare suppliments or medicaid.
Lets not forget sex offenders who have private insurance, or sex offenders who apply for prescription assistance through Pfizers connection to care program, or (GASP) pay cash for it.
So under this train of thought, if a sex offender rapes my daughter that did not need viagra, is it health reforms fault? Or in the long run is it the fault of the court system?
I have heard seom pretty far fetched exaggerations regarding the health care reform, but you should win a prize for that one.
Well your article helped me truly much in my college assignment. Hats afar to you send, choice look progressive in the direction of more interrelated articles promptly as its one of my pet issue to read.
9:30 anonymous,(progressives)don't bitch when Daniels is forced to cut even more funds for the City of New Albany in 2011. Who you going to blame then?
You just don't get it.
Dear Anon 5:57AM.
What does Daniels' funding to New Albany have to do with national health care? Not much.
Once again you fail to make sense in your blind anger.
1:13AM anonymous "Well your article helped me truly much in my college assignment."
Guess the college crowd is having fun on this blog. Don't you just wonder how many anonymous comments they make?
Unreal. Someone's daughter being raped is something I could never let enter my head; something I wouldn't want to think about.
Bad argument and bad thoughts and not much sense at ALL (to me).
I am looking forward, after all the innuendos and myths and mistruths spread by certain party members seeing what this does do for me and mine, seeing I have no insurance.
Simply my thoughts.
4:14pm
It shows the nature of their resolve. Nothing will be too taboo or too far fetched for them to throw out there. It is all scare tactics.
I do not fully agree with this bill, nor do I agree at all with the speed in which it was passed, but the one thing I do know, and something that no one against the bill will ever admit to is that no law, no bill is immortal....
Shirley,
Why are you not posting about yesterdays article on sewer rates in half?
There are so many questions needed to be ask like SRLF Funding and etc. It's us rate payers who have to foot these bills.
I personally would like your thoughts on yesterdays Tribune article.
To many questions not enough answers from this administration.
Example: If we don't need to borrow $7.4 million, then why do it?
Since you are running AtLarge you should have some thoughts on these comments.
Is there other solutions out there besiding put more deby on rate payers?
What say you?
Be careful, Shirley.
If you don't provide the "correct" answers, neither of them will vote for you.
I plan to do an article about the "new" sewer rates but I injured my back so I had a heating pad to my back and I had taken several Extra Strength Tylenols so I did not feel much like blogging.
Hope to write an article today.
I would say, Shirley, your health comes first, recoup from the back injury, then worry about blogging.
I hope you get feeling better soon!
Chris,
Thank you for your concern. I am feeling much better and did return to work today, so if I can work I can blog I guess.
Back to work for me tomorrow also...
Glad you are feeling better
Get a life Roger and leave Shirley alone.
And, I hope you feel better soon.
Did anyone hear Denhart is running against Coffey for council? I work in the CC Building and that was the buzz today. They even have a pool going that she will win. She's got my vote in fact the entire 1st floor, 3/4 of the 2nd floor and the entire 4th floor are betting on Denhart.
TO 3/25 7:22PM,
That sounds good for Vicki. I'm sure she will be pleased to know she has so much support.
Denhart vs. Coffey.
Rumble in the Jungle of Confusion.
Denhart's the only person whose candidacy would make me remind myself that no, we still cannot do any worse than Coffey. Although anyone BUT Denhart would be better than Coffey.
Shirley, no one had the courthouse supports Vicki. She's just posting here anonymously to make people think they should jump on a bandwagon that's not really there.
She even wrote a book and teaches classes on this technique:
http://citizens-for-accountability.blogspot.com/2009/08/cfa-to-offer-astroturfing-class.html
So what your saying is after all your bitching, complaining,insults and attacks on Dan, you still prefer another four years of Coffey over Denhart?
No, I wrote that nowhere. I wrote that replacing one uninformed liar bully for another uninformed liar bully doesn't change much.
Denhart was lucky she did not get laughed off the last ballot. After making every one in CC building lives a living hell and accussing them of breaking the law, stealing, lying and cheating, why would anyone in teh CC vote for her?
it'll be a three way race between coffey, denhart and whatever joker ends up actually getting elected.
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