When I was in college, I had a torrid love affair with a young woman named Hope. One day I came to her and told her that I had found Jesus and that I was leaving her. In reality, Jesus was our maid’s five-year-old son who had been missing all afternoon. Everyone [...][...]
Archive for the ‘Healthcare’ Category
December 31st, 2009 - 11:15 am § in Healthcare, O-Bitch-uaries
Farewell, Not to Be Forgotten
It is usually at this time of year that bloggers, television, and print come up with lists of all the people we have lost this year. While these memorial lists are interesting and provide context for the year in which we lived, we at the Blanca DeBree Blog believe it is more important to single [.[...]
December 30th, 2009 - 4:20 pm § in Healthcare
Blanca Now Supports Health Care Reform
After lengthly consultation with health care providers, insurance company executives, and senior citizen advocates, Blanca has decided to change her position on health care reform being advocated by Democrats in Congress. Well, it was not so much the consultation with health care experts as a length[...]
December 23rd, 2009 - 12:22 am § in Healthcare, Jesus
Senator Coburn Kills Senator Inhofe
It appears that after Senator Coburn instructed Americans to pray for someone to miss the 1 AM roll call to vote on healthcare reform, one Republican Senator is now missing from the ranks. On C-SPAN today, a man called in voicing what everyone had feared: the prayer to kill Senator Byrd backfire[...]
December 22nd, 2009 - 11:02 am § in Healthcare, Jesus
Bible Verse of the Week: Matthew 25:35-40
35For I was an hungred, and ye gave me meat: I was thirsty, and ye gave me drink: I was a stranger, and ye took me in: 36Naked, and ye clothed me: I was sick, and ye visited me: I was in prison, and ye came unto me. 37Then shall the righteous answer him, saying, Lord, when [...][...]
December 22nd, 2009 - 11:00 am § in Healthcare, Jesus
Senator Coburn Kills Ann Nixon Cooper
In the wee hours of the morning on December 21, Senator Tom Coburn of the 19th Century Territory Oklahoma, prayed that one Senator would not be able to make the 1 AM vote being held in the middle of a blizzard. Although he could have meant the prayer for the Almighty to smite any one [...][...]
December 19th, 2009 - 8:33 am § in Healthcare
Al Franken to Joe Lieberman: STFU
This is just horrible! I mean if someone on the right tried to do this, they would be accused of Antisemitism, but when someone on the left does it, it gets a headline on the Huffington Post and a coveted spot on You Tube. Oy, oy, oy, the hypocrisy! [...]
November 9th, 2009 - 11:23 pm § in Healthcare
It Doesn’t Go Far Enough
The House of Representatives passed the Democrat healthcare bill on Saturday night with an amendment sponsored by Bart Stupak of Michigan. The so-called Stupak Amendment prohibits any federal funding for abortion in either the public option or the insurance exchange, except in cases of rape, inces[...]
November 8th, 2009 - 5:36 pm § in Healthcare
Republican Traitor of the Week: Joseph Cao
Last night, around 11 PM, the South suffered the worst indignation since Sherman marched on Atlanta and burned it to the ground. Actually, if any of you have been to Atlanta lately, a repeat of that infamous siege might be welcome. A shittier town in the South I have never seen. Joseph Cao, of N[...]
October 29th, 2009 - 5:54 pm § in Healthcare
Hooray for Kansas!
The folks in Kansas aren’t having anything to do with Obamacare. Several state senators are planning to introduce a bill, which would keep Kansans free. Free I tell you. It is every Kansan’s right to not have healthcare. And they certainly aren’t going to silently sit by wh[...]
