[FREEP] I just got an insane email from moveon calling for mobilization and CAN'T POST IT HERE

Hi, I'm the public health insurance option. People have been saying all sorts of untrue things about me lately, so I decided it was time to stand up and set the record straight. First off: the reports of my death have been greatly exaggerated. I'm happy and healthy. And I'm proud to play a starring role in four of the five health reform bills currently on the table. Second: I have a lot of friends. President Obama and House Speaker Nancy Pelosi support me—as do 77% of the American people.1 In fact, I'm feeling pretty popular. But there is one area where I could use your help. Your senator, Pat Roberts, sits on the Senate Finance Committee, which is considering a "trigger" proposal that could kill me through indefinite delay.

Can you call Sen. Roberts and tell him that real health care reform must include a real public health insurance option that's available immediately? Here's where to call: Senator Pat Roberts Phone: 202-224-4774

Then click here to report your call: http://pol.moveon.org/call?tg=FSKS_2&cp_id=1120&id=17304-9706996-wOAE0ix&t=2 A "trigger" that would make me wait to become available is just a trap designed to kill me. As Senator Charles Schumer has pointed out, "any reasonable criteria for triggering a public plan has already been met" because insurance companies have already failed to rein in costs and expand coverage.2 Here are some other things you might not know about me: I like candlelit dinners, overseas travel, and long walks on the beach. Whoops, sorry—wrong email. Some people say they don't like me because I'm too expensive, but that's just a flat-out lie. Keeping me around will actually save money—I'd cost 10% less than the typical private plan.3

I'm the best way to keep insurance companies honest. Like my friend Senator Jay Rockefeller has said, "Without the steady, positive influence of a public plan option in the marketplace, we will never truly solve the health care crisis in this country. Private health insurance has a long history of cutting people off or charging too much for too little."4

Over 60 House progressives have publicly pledged to only vote for a bill that has me in it.5 So without me, health care reform doesn't have enough votes make it through Congress. And I'm counting on your help to make it through the Senate. Can you call Sen. Roberts today? Senator Pat Roberts Phone: 202-224-4774

Then click here to report your call: http://pol.moveon.org/call?tg=FSKS_2&cp_id=1120&id=17304-9706996-wOAE0ix&t=3 Thanks for all you do. –The public health insurance option (and the MoveOn team) Sources: 1. "New Poll: 77 Percent Support 'Choice' Of Public Option," The Huffington Post, August 20, 2009 http://www.moveon.org/r?r=51799&id=17304-9706996-wOAE0ix&t=4 2."A 'trigger' for the public health insurance option? Already triggered." NOW! Blog, May 20, 2009. http://www.moveon.org/r?r=51443&id=17304-9706996-wOAE0ix&t=5 3. Letter to Rep. Charles B. Rangel, Congressional Budget Office, July 14, 2009 http://www.moveon.org/r?r=84763&id=17304-9706996-wOAE0ix&t=6 4. "Rockefeller Unveils Public Plan Option," Office of Sen. Jay Rockefeller, June 10, 2009 http://rockefeller.senate.gov/press/record.cfm?id=314224

5. "60 Members of Congress Say 'No Public Plan, No Conference,'" Firedoglake, August 17, 2009 http://www.moveon.org/r?r=51784&id=17304-9706996-wOAE0ix&t=7 Want to support our work? We're entirely funded by our 5 million members—no corporate contributions, no big checks from CEOs. And our tiny staff ensures that small contributions go a long way. Chip in here.

ON THE SPIRITS AND INHABITANTS OF THE MOON

Some spirits appeared overhead, and I heard from there voices like thunder; for their voices thundered just like the claps of thunder which come from the clouds following lightning flashes. I supposed that there were a huge number of spirits who knew the trick of making their voices sound like that. The more simple spirits present with me laughed at them, which very much surprised me. The reason for their laughter was soon revealed, which was that these thundering spirits were not numerous, but only few, and also as small as boys. Another reason was that previously they had struck terror into them by similar thunderings, yet had not been able to do them any harm. [2] To show me what they were like, some of them came down from the height where they were thundering. I was surprised to see one carrying another on his back, so they approached me as a pair. Their faces were not unattractive in appearance, but longer than those of other spirits. In height they resembled a boy of seven, but were stronger in body; so they were dwarfs. I was told by angels that they were from the moon.

[3] The one who was carried by another came to me, attaching himself to my left side below the elbow. He spoke to me from that position, and said that when they give voice they thunder like that. This frightens spirits who want to harm them, making some of them run away, so that they can go where they want in safety. To prove to me that they could make such a noise, he retreated from me to join a few others, but without going out of sight, and made the same kind of thunder. Moreover, they demonstrated that their voice came out of their abdomen like a belch, and this caused the thunder.

[4] I gathered that this arises from the fact that the inhabitants of the moon do not speak so much from the lungs like the inhabitants of other worlds, but from the abdomen, using some air which collects there. This is because the moon is not surrounded by the same kind of atmosphere as the other worlds. I was informed that the spirits of the moon answer in the Grand Man to the scutiform or xiphoid cartilage,* to which the ribs are connected in front, and from which the linea alba descends, which is the fulcrum of the abdominal muscles. [* Both these terms were formerly in use for what is to-day generally called the sternum.-TR.]

Earths in the Universe (Chadwick) n. 112 112. Spirits and angels know that there are inhabitants on the moon too, and equally on the moons or satellites around the planets Jupiter and Saturn. Those who have not seen spirits from there and talked with them are still in no doubt that there are people on these moons, because they are just as much worlds; and where there is a world, man is to be found. Man is the purpose for which a world exists, and the supreme Creator made nothing without a purpose. Anyone whose reason is at all enlightened can be sure that the purpose of creation is the human race, so that heaven can be formed from it.

(SWEDENBORG, Worlds In Space)

I begin my Ministry of Peace with my wife, MaryBeth tomorrow and will post it on the White House Facebook Page.We will be traveling across the country hearing from folks in every Church the Lord leads us to.

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