I got an e-mail yesterday from somebody or other (Democrats.com or MoveOn or something; can’t find it right now), that said the House had voted for the “public option,” and now it was time to put pressure on the Senate. I wish you could actually reply to these e-mails, ‘cuz I’d like to ask them, what option? As far as I know, there’s no “option” involved in what the House passed. An public option would be, like, you have the option of choosing between your employer’s plan or the public plan. Not, you must take your employer’s plan or get fined. That’s the real option there – get fined or don’t get fined, depending on what you can afford best.

There also seems to be no real regulation on the insurance companies, either. First off, they get until 2013 to jack up rates as high as they can (which they’ve already promised to do). After that, they’re not allowed to deny people based on existing conditions (supposedly; who wants to bet they won’t find some loophole in nearly 2,000+ pages of needlessly complicated legislation), and supposedly caps out of pocket expenses, but I don’t see where it limits how much insurance companies can charge for premiums. And the idiot Republicans have the audacity to call this a “government takeover” of health care.

Which just goes to show that they should have just insisted on Medicare for everybody. Then maybe we could have gotten something worthwhile (that didn’t attempt a “back door” ban on abortion).

Oh well. On the bright side, it’s still OK to send grown-up babies to their deaths in Afghanistan, as CBS is reporting that Obama has decided on sending about 40,000 additional troops there – upping our presence to 100,000. Or not. That report was quickly denied. Whether it was just a trial balloon, or the Obama administration doesn’t really know what the hell it’s doing, who knows? Both of those seem plausible to me. One thing I’ve come to believe in the past 10 months or so is that the Obama machine is a lot better at running for office than actually being in office.

Did you think that Carrie what’s her name with the fake boobs was finally over with? You were wrong. Her fifteen minutes has been extended once again, and she’ll be on the Today Show this morning to talk about masturbating on video. I must admit, I’ve been a bit behind the curve on this one, haveing not even heard about it until I watched last Friday’s podcast of “Countdown” yesterday. No word on whether or not the video is available on line somewhere (just a matter of time, I reckon), or who was behind the camera (or did she just set up a tripod and have at it), but, well, pardon me but is it illegal to masturbate? Or even immoral or whatever? As always, I admit I’m no bible expert, but I don’t recall reading about that being in there. “Thou shalt not diddle thyself, nor be diddled by others.”

Of course, if you think about it in the extreme sense, masturbation is kinda like gay sex, in that you’re having “same sex.” So nobody who has ever masturbated should be able to get married. Or is it that you just shouldn’t marry yourself?

I dunno, this bible shit is just piled too deep for me to understand.