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• Your Feel-Good Guide to the Senate Health Care Compromise

  
  Indecision Forever — Authority: 578
  Harry Reid and his Gang of 10, the notorious hitmen who terrorized the Five Points section of New York, have reached agreements on various controversies in the Senate health care bill! Lets review what this means for you , the consumer: * The public option is "sidelined," but not "killed." Maybe it will just bleed ...
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• Sushi Land, Nuts & Bolts

  
  Spew — Authority: 485
  RON SWARNER: FOOD MATTERS >>> Empanada Wednesdays: You no longer have to wait to enjoy empanadas from Pampeana, which currently are available through an online order process at pampeanaempanadas.com . Beginning today, Nancy and Alexis Oltman’s impossibly puffy and lighter than air pockets of goodness ...
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• Hugh gropes SJP - while Liz looks on!

  
  Orange Celebrity Blog — Authority: 134
  Posted by Jane Murphy Poor Sarah Jessica Parker had an awful lot to contend with at last night’s London premiere of her new movie, Did You Hear About The Morgans? . For starters, there was the traditional British cold and rain - which she dealt with initially by covering up in a long black coat, ...
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• Best Dressed Of The Day: Sarah Jessica Parker in L’Wren Scott

  
  The Fashion Time Magazine — Authority: 435
  Sarah Jessica Parker injects a bright color at the Did You Hear About The Morgans premiere Click on the title to see more
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• 5 Things To Do: Wednesday

  
  Spew — Authority: 485
  MICHAEL SWAN: WEDNESDAY, NOV. 9, 2009 >>> 1. “Take the prankster chutzpah of Sacha Baron Cohen. Pair it with Michael Moores crusading lefty outrage. Add two frazzled-looking guys in cheap suits. What do you get? The Yes Men Fix The World ” — screening at 9 p.m. inside the Capitol Theater. 2. ...
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• All Roads Lead to Olympia Snowe As Reid Looks for Health Care Closer

  
  Politics Daily — Authority: 793
  Filed under: Senate , Democrats , Republicans , Health Care , Obama Administration , The Capitolist After nearly a year of discussion, five months of committee-level drafts, two weeks of full Senate debate, and 17 votes, at least a half dozen scenarios could leave Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid one vote ...
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• When Is Enough Enough?

  
  Broadway Carl's Blog-O-Mania — Authority: 138
  Leave it to the Senate to take a good idea and turn it into a pile of shit within the blink of an eye. A gang of ten Democratic senators, five progressive and five conservative, worked their asses off over the last few days in an attempt to hash out a system whereby they could agree on a form of health care that ...
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• ArtPOWER!

  
  OlyBlog - 'We Are the Media' — Authority: 437
  Start: Dec 12 2009 - 10:00am End: Dec 13 2009 - 6:00pm POWER will be hosting ArtPOWER this weekend at Whittle. Come shop for unique gifts for friends and family! All proceeds benefit artists and POWER (Parents Organizing for Welfare and Economic Rights). Whittle will be open throughout. Coffee, desserts, ...
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• Dems to shit-can [a|the] [strong|robust]? public [health insurance]? [option|plan] -- ?

  
  Corrente — Authority: 627
  [David Espo. AP only. Nothing at McClatchy. Then again, its not Politico... ] AP : Democratic senators say they have a tentative deal to drop a government-run insurance option from health care legislation. No further details were immediately available. But liberals and moderates have been discussing an ...
  15 hours ago

• FITS Evening Post: Blasts, Ice, Spiller, Etc.

  
  FITSNews — Authority: 647
  For those of you who are colorblind – or afflicted with chronic cocklaphobia (fear of hats) – we’d like to take this opportunity to draw your attention to our holiday “flair.”  Specifically, we’ve got a minty new green background and our founding editor’s cartoon caricature has donned a Santa hat. ...
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• The 7 Democrats Who Voted to Restrict Access to Abortion (and the 2 Republicans Who Didn’t)

  
  Irregular Times: News Unfit for Print — Authority: 442
  A few moments ago, the U.S. Senate voted 54-45 (with Robert Byrd ill) to kill the Nelson-Hatch Amendment . The Senate equivalent of the Stupak Amendment , it would have prohibited abortion coverage in health care plans. Under the Nelson-Hatch Amendment, if just one single person gets a partial federal subsidy ...
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• Stand-up comedian Chris Kent at The Gate – Sunday 20th December

  
  YoughalOnline.com — Authority: 138
  Comedy Night at the Gate starts about 9pm on Sunday December 20th. Like ripples across a lazy pond Ireland’s comedy stand-up circuit is slowly spreading from urban centres across the rural hinterland. By Christy Parker Chris Kent As far as East Cork is concerned, the past year saw stand-up reach ...
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• Webb joins bipartisan group in prescription-drug plan

  
  Augusta Free Press — Authority: 479
     Staff Report www.webb.senate.gov Sen. Jim Webb (D-Va.) today joined a bipartisan group of 19 senators in proposing an amendment to the health care reform bill to lower prescription drug costs and save the federal government nearly $20 billion over the next ten years. Originally introduced earlier this ...
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• Down and dirty with the Dirty Birds

  
  Spew — Authority: 485
  MATT DRISCOLL: PLUS THE RETURN OF A SURF GUITAR LEGEND >>> Tacoma is no stranger tosurf guitar superhero Dick Dale . He’s been to T-Town many times, playing atHell’s Kitchen, and the results have always been loud and  memorable –unless you drank so much PBR that it’s all a “Miserlou” ...
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• Duck The Malls Art, Craft and Bake Sale

  
  OlyBlog - 'We Are the Media' — Authority: 437
  Start: Dec 12 2009 - 11:00am End: Dec 12 2009 - 4:00pm BUY LOCALDuck the Malls 7th annual Arts, Craft and Bake SaleSaturday, Dec. 12th 11-4 pmCapitol Theater206 5th Ave SE, Olympia WADont miss this Olympia tradition! Over 45 of our finest local artists and craftsman bring you unique handmade items just in time ...
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• Snowe Seeks Repeal of ARC Loans

  
  As Maine Goes — Authority: 148
  OMB estimated 60 percent of ARC borrowers may default on their loans. Read More... read more
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• Roundup: An Amendment By Any Other Name Smells Just As Bad

  
  RHRealityCheck.org — Authority: 717
  Sometimes you just have to wonder if you are stuck in the movie " Groundhogs Day ."  Here we are, five weeks later, with the same amendment pushed by another group of congressmen, this time, senators, over the same objections over it being a sexist amendment that only applies to and harms women, especially poor ...
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• Yo AWD Senators: Let men pay abortion rider for women they impregnate

  
  Writes Like She Talks — Authority: 488
  Click here to view the embedded video. And here’s another great idea: health care plans allowed to coerce women to get sterilized in order to get health care coverage: Click here to view the embedded video. Floor transcript of floor speech today by U.S. Senator Barbara Mikulski (D-MD) during Senate debate ...
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• Snowe Miffed that Harry Reid Slighted Her

  
  Daily Kos — Authority: 799
  The "worlds greatest deliberative body" is increasingly being laid bare for what it is--utterly dysfunctional because of the massive egos and personal foibles of narcissists like Joe Lieberman , who can hijack the most critical of issues for their own narrow, personal reasons. In that vein, today Roll Call [sub. ...
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• Senate Possibly Looking at Early Medicare Buy In

  
  Firedoglake — Authority: 727
  Fifty-five saves lives (photo: rogue3w) [ Ed. Note : Dave Dayen also has something to say about this.] There has been multiple unsourced reports that at least some Senate Democrats are considering a possible early Medicare buy in for older Americans. The numbers I have seen indicate that the idea would be ...
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