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To: Jorj X Mckie who wrote (2321)	10/21/2009 2:52:32 PM
From: Jorj X Mckie	4 Recommendations Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 23934

Got another email from Moveon.org today...see the email and my response below ------------------------------------------------- From: Kat Barr, MoveOn.org Political Action <moveon-help@list.moveon.org> Subject: Heather Graham To: "me" Date: Wednesday, October 21, 2009, 11:10 AM Dear MoveOn member, We just finished a great new ad starring actress Heather Graham...as the public option. (Really!) It could be the funniest and most memorable ad we've ever produced. But with the health care debate moving fast, we want to get it on the air immediately. Can you check out the ad and if you like it, chip in? Watch the video Thanks for all you do. –Kat, Peter, Stephen, Laura, and the rest of the team ======My response================================= Heather Graham is hot. Loved her tits in Boogie Nights. Of course, she's gonna be pissed when she loses her Motion Picture Health insurance, which is really great insurance. There's no way that government funded healthcare will give her half the benefits that she has now. Maybe these movie stars who are making more millions than they really need should just donate all of their income to pay for poor people's insurance? Wouldn't that solve the problem? Because I'll tell you what, I'm struggling financially right now and I can't really afford to carry some slacker who refuses to work and pay for their own goddamn insurance.

To: Jorj X Mckie who wrote (2321)	10/21/2009 5:23:01 PM
From: joseffy	Respond to of 23934

Cocaine use 'rife in the media' [BBC] October 21, 2009 broadcastnow.co.uk A former BBC employee has blown the whistle on cocaine use among the corporation’s TV and radio producers and star performers. Sarah Graham told a Home Affairs Select Committee hearing into the cocaine trade, that it is seen as “part of your creative genius or part of your extraordinary personality”. She says that instead of being reprimanded, those who take the drug are praised for their “off-the-wall” brilliance. Miss Graham has worked for BBC Radio 5, Children’s BBC and Channel 4’s The Big Breakfast, and says she was offered the drug by a presenter and producer on her first day at work. She says: “Behaviours that would not be tolerated in a normal job can actually be spun to be part of your creative genius. “Some of those people are still in place, some are behaving in off-the-wall ways … and people bow down to them. “There is a culture within the media and within the celebrity world that is very relaxed around the use of cocaine. It’s seen as something that is socially acceptable in industries where this ‘work hard, party hard’ ethos exists.”

To: Jorj X Mckie who wrote (2321)	10/21/2009 5:23:20 PM
From: joseffy	Respond to of 23934

This should make everyone here very sad: 'Doc fix' collapses, Reid tells colleagues AMA led him astray The Hill 10/21/2009 by Alexander Bolton thehill.com A group of Democrats joined all Republicans in blocking a 10-year freeze of scheduled cuts to doctors' Medicare payments, legislation that was considered important to getting a broader healthcare bill through later this year. Prior to the 47-53 procedural vote, Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid (D-Nev.) blamed the American Medical Association (AMA) for giving him bad information on the number of Republicans expected to support the measure. Reid had offered the doctors group a deal to pass the "doctors' fix" in return for support from the doctors on President Barack Obama's broader healthcare initiative, which is slated for the Senate floor later this year. Reid told colleagues that the AMA said it could deliver 27 Republican votes for the legislation, according to two Senate Democratic lawmakers, who spoke on condition of anonymity. Reid needs the GOP votes because at least five members of his party have vowed to vote against the doctors' fix. Reid said at a news conference Wednesday that he would bring up the 10-year freeze after the healthcare reform legislation is passed and will settle for a one-year fix in the meantime. "We'll take this up again when we finish healthcare," Reid said Wednesday, "and we'll have a multiple-year fix for this. Right now, we'll only have a one-year fix." The doctor payment cuts are mandated by a 1997 law.