Do As I Say, Not as I’ve Done: Trying Too Hard Is a Problem

Well, many of us hear that “Do as I say, not as I do” thing as children, and yes, it’s annoying. But Ms. Sanity has inadvertantly provided a fabulous example of things not to do, and why people say that “do as I say…” thing. It can be helpful when we learn from the mistakes [...]

November 26, 2009  Tags: , , , , , , , , ,   Posted in: Insane, Tips  One Comment

Republican Ideas About Health Care in A Nutshell: Quotation of the Century.

Apologies for this drive by posting (and slow posting schedule of late…) but I’ve been up to my eyeballs in a multitude of levels and your Ms. Sanity hesitates to write you darling people unless she’s feeling at least marginally sane.
Anyway, ran across this, and it needed more eyeballs:
Apparently Rep. Alan Grayson (D-FL), explaining the [...]

September 30, 2009  Tags: , , , , , ,   Posted in: Insane  No Comments

Please Cut The Crap on Health Care Discussions

I am really, really, really, really tired of the blatant, self serving, and manipulative lies coming out of the Right wing and the $1.4 million/day (look it up!) health insurers’ lobby regarding possible changes to the US health care system.
Over and over and over ad nauseum I’ve seen blogs and “tweets” and letters to the [...]

September 2, 2009  Tags: , , , , , , , , , ,   Posted in: Insane  No Comments

Of Mania and Manic Meltdowns

Obviously this blog is called Manic Meltdown, and just as clearly to those who look around a bit, I rarely write about truly being manic. That’s largely because I rarely am manic, myself, I’m more of a unipolar depressive type myself, when my grip slips. (Yes, I know, that’s shocking to those of you who [...]

August 31, 2009  Tags: , , , , , ,   Posted in: Resources, Sane, Tips  One Comment

More Lies We’re Told About Health Care in the US

One of the things you’ll hear frequently when discussing health care  with Americans has to do with “the reason why prescription drugs are SO expensive in the USA.” Those of you reading from outside this country may be surprised to hear that the average person on the street in the US probably believes (and I’ve [...]

July 20, 2009  Tags: , , , , ,   Posted in: Insane  One Comment

There’s No Doubt Who The Bad Guys Are; Time to be Furious.

I’ve read with some interest people debating the potential for universal health care access in this country. Then I run accross this:
Executives of three of the nation’s largest health insurers told federal lawmakers in Washington on Tuesday that they would continue canceling medical coverage for some sick policyholders…
Note that these are POLICY holders–who have been [...]

June 21, 2009  Tags: , , , , ,   Posted in: Insane  5 Comments

The Bankers are Not Your Friends

I don’t know that much about Senator Dick Durbin, (though I am glancing over his voting record as I write this) but I did run across this interesting little quote from him today.
Durbin is a Democratic Senator from IL, and apparently he said recently:

“And the banks – hard to believe in a time when we’re [...]

May 30, 2009  Tags: , , , , , , , ,   Posted in: Insane  2 Comments

And then there’s this…

Some idiotic Chicago libertarian (or republican, depends on who you ask) so-called “shock jock” radio talk show host apparently had himself water-boarded the other day to “see if it was torture or not.”
Uh, I can answer that without having to bother anyone to tie me up or anything. Yes, it’s torture. Simple as that.
Apparently the [...]

May 23, 2009  Tags: , ,   Posted in: Insane  2 Comments

We Freak Out Over So Little

I saw a great comment on Twitter lately; having to do with the recent kerfluffle over Facebook’s (now reversed)change in their “Terms of Service,” where for perhaps a period of 24 hours it said something like “All your data are belong to us forever and always if you put it on Facebook.” Within hours, after [...]

February 18, 2009  Tags: , , ,   Posted in: Insane, Tips  One Comment

Diogenes and Obama

I know I’m late on the uptake here but I just had to mention that it seemed that President Obama is unwittingly being called to behavior right up there with one of the original cynics, Diogenes. I’m speaking in the context of President Obama’s attempts to get his cabinet populated.   In case you don’t [...]

February 12, 2009  Tags: , , , ,   Posted in: Insane  One Comment