politics and meds rant

Politics:
Not feeling well, so here you go some reading, I'm too tingly and headache'y, and sniffly to rant (except to say McCain is still lying in his speeches and saying EVERY American will get a $5k credit for health insurance if he's elected and he gets his plan through - when his own website says that's not true, $2500 per person or $5k a family, that's not $5k for EVERY AMERICAN, LIAR).

Cindy McCain offended military wives.  Gee didn't see that one coming giving Obama's record vs McCain's on military issues according to the vet groups that rate these things.

GOP Head compared Obama to bin Laden, oh wait, he not only compared them... No he gave that as a talking point for people about to go door to door in a battleground state when they were about to go out pitching for McCain.

Politifact on Ayers and Obama -
This attack is false, but it's more than that – it's malicious. It unfairly tars not just Obama, but all the other prominent, well-respected Chicagoans who also volunteered their time to the foundation. They came from all walks of life and all political backgrounds, and there's ample evidence their mission was nothing more than improving ailing public schools in Chicago. Yet in the heat of a political campaign they have been accused of financing radicalism. That's Pants on Fire wrong.

And while the McCain camp seems to have removed it from the campaign speeches themselves, the fact that a GOP leader in a battleground state has stretched that very attack so far as to use it to compare Obama to bin Laden in talking points to the folks on the ground about to go door to door for McCain?  I... ugh...

I think McCain is horrible for going to that OCA speech given what they did to gays in OR, I wouldn't go door to door to every gay person I could find, announcing he wants to bomb you because he was ignorant enough to help the OCA  make a few $$.  At this point they've planted the seeds, let supporters run with it so long.... stopping going there themselves and occassionally denouncing the worst or the worst isn't enough. It's pretty much too late.  Ayers was already out there, they turned it into THIS.

Meds:
Err ending rant there... head all wonky.  BTW, I love the pharmacy, I have a disount card that does give a discount for my anti-seizure meds, it's still about $200 a month even with the discount.  Every time I pick it up and they ring it up they announce something like "Ouch are you sure you want it, you do know it's really expensive right?"  yeah... I don't have a choice unless I want worse tingles (so bad I can't walk etc)  and headaches so bad I can't function, we know thanks...I think pharmacists / assistants must get beat up a lot when people without insurance or with insurance that doesn't cover their meds see the prices of meds.  I've checked, meds like my anti-seizure meds aren't ones covered by any of those cheap cheap pharmacy programs that are all the rage now because they don't have generics etc.  If you're in the US and don't have insurance... check out TogetherRX, they don't give discounts on all of my prescriptions, but it's free and I do save money on some of my expensive ones.

oops kept ranting... head... I'm gonna curl up in bed now.  Brain aliens grumpy.