That's despite the fact that women have historically been more concerned about health care, and more likely to support changes, than men.
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"What we're seeing is that the administration and the Congress still has to make the case to women," said pollster Mark Mellman, who has advised Democrats and liberal groups on public attitudes on the health care overhaul. "The volume has to be turned up on the communication, and the communication has to be directed to a large degree toward this group."
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"Women are much more plugged into the system, and I think they to a certain extent are reserving judgment," he said. link

Assembly Member Tom Ammiano is a San Francisco Treasure. Always has been and always will be. But Tom Ammiano is special. He's hilarious. He's passionate. He's progressive. He's just Tom Ammiano.

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And there he was, the Governator.  On our turf. In the San Francisco Democratic Party event. This wasn't the Assembly Chamber. This was a raucous Democratic Party event.

He was talking with Willie Brown and his entourage for a while. And then, former SF Board of Supes President Aaron Peskin brought him up on the stage.  As he began to talk, Asm. Ammiano yelled out "You LIE."

The Governor began to say a few words about how he heard that the Democratic Party event was in the same hotel as a chorus of boos and other random hissing noises rained down upon him.  I, of course, was taking pictures with my cell phone.  Apparently the Governor felt that he should visit the Democratic event because he "sleeps with one every night."  And then proceeded to tell the room that he was "post-partisan" and that he didn't care whether you were a Republican or a Democrat.

And as he continued, Asm. Ammiano still couldn't believe this man was up on the stage at a Democratic event.  The San Francisco Assembly Member yelled something to the effect of "kiss my gay a$$" as he left the room.

hm, that's curious. maybe i missed their vigorous opposition to the health care industry, and the death and destruction that that industry leaves in its wake? or is it that the U.S. Conference of Catholic Bishops is unconcerned about the plight of the millions that are uninsured, and those that are denied care?

Polanski's lawyers try again to get client released from jail
By HEATHER SMITH AND JOSEPH HEAVEN * Bloomberg News * October 9, 2009

Roman Polanski's lawyers asked a Swiss court to release the film director from jail until the U.S. can file a formal extradition request on a 1978 arrest warrant, one of his lawyers in France said.

The court documents, known as "observations," were filed with a Swiss court Thursday night (Oct. 8), Herve Temime said by telephone from Paris today.

'We don't know when we will have a response from the court,' Temime said. Switzerland's Justice Ministry on Oct. 6 rejected a separate request for Polanski's release.

Polanski, 76, was arrested Sept. 26 as he entered Switzerland to receive a lifetime achievement award at the Zurich Film Festival. He fled the U.S. in 1978 after pleading guilty to charges that he had unlawful sex with a 13-year-old girl.

Any decision by the criminal court on Polanski's freedom may be appealed to the Swiss Supreme Court in Lausanne. The court filings in the case are sealed and Temime said he is prohibited from describing them under Swiss law.

Mascia Gregori al-Barafi, a spokeswoman for the court in Bellinzona, Switzerland, declined to comment.

Extraditing Polanski could take several months, Jane Robison, a spokeswoman for Los Angeles County District Attorney Steve Cooley, said last week.

Polanski won the Oscar for best director for the 2002 film 'The Pianist.' Actor Harrison Ford accepted the award for the fugitive director, according to the Internet Movie Database.

Second, leading Americans at every turn to an educational moment to a review of the Constitution, its clear definition to balance of power, separation of church and state. Most of all flushing out the real bigotry and hatred that permeates to Republican Party in total disrespect for life, health care, poverty or misery from nature actions, Katrina.

The media it self has no recourse but to admit it's complicity and help flushing out the Republican Party of "Wealth Insurance Corporations", bilking money from citizens across America and the world via dishonest health care and dishonest stock market banking business in "Derivates"  that cloned a depression.

Obama with a Democratic Chorus helped America to believe in hope surrounded by the audacity in the disgusting Republican Party. Obama flushed out the Republican views in the interpretation of the Constitution also in respect to Congress as its inherent documented right to declare war, not the president, as Bush did with arrogance defiance declare war with the embedded media's help all done with complicity corrupted beyond any time in history. Also in basic health care showed America how Republicans only think of death and not life just as Keith Olberman pointed out so eloquently in his special comment the other night.

I must confess that I haven't had the occasion to drop a pumpkin off a building - but I sure would if I had a nearby building handy - and a pumpkin to spare..

But still - doubting Thomases can calm themselves by reading this quote from the Associated Press:
"Screens got fuz ad o mmditepituesofth cas o te si-mleplmeoflunardust that the mission was all about". (An exact quote.)

Quoting Project director Andrews also clears up a lot. He said the science team is pouring through the information - including what are supposed to be good images from ground-based telescopes on Earth - to answer the big question: s hee om or o wte ude te oo'ssufae ha was isodged? It will probably be two weeks before scientists will be certain about the answer, he said.

If Tebow plays, LSU narrowly wins.

Tebow runs the option and Brantly runs the pass plays.

Tebow shouldn't go the distance and it'd be a mistake to play him and then pull him in the 3rd Quarter.

Let him play the first serous then switch it up.

The wavering rhetoric we've seen has been calibrated to the political realities in Washington as they have waxed and waned. Simply looking at the task at hand, and the methods available to achieve it, helps explain everything we have seen. And now we are in a position to see the president succeed in enacting a health care overhaul that is largely in keeping with exactly what Obama promised. He's not clairvoyant, but his strategy has made perfect sense and he deserves as much credit for that as all the activists who have worked so hard to get us to this point. The credit should be shared.

I just do not understand why it was necessary for Obama to endlessly promote Baucuscare as a template, why it was necessary for him to choose the 900 billion number, etc.

This Slugger makes it look so easy, you gotta wonder why the Dem leadership is still intent on bowing and scraping to their Repug overlords.

A trip to the pizza parlor, followed by Baskin Robbins, and accessorizing Polly Pockets will be my entertainment this evening...a different realm of alotta fun:)