fanMAIL: ObamaCare is better than nothing

Occasionally I publish emails from readers who offer opposing views to the ones I express here on Sandrarose.com about U.S. President Barack Obama and his policies. I publish these emails in the interest of fairness, not because I am in agreement with the opinions of the email author. So don’t get it twisted.

Loyal reader Roz B. writes:

I respect your work as a blogger, but I have to ask: have you personally researched the Healthcare law, and all that it entails? It is obvious that you aren’t a “fan” of President Obama, and even his most ardent supporters cannot co-sign everything he does, but this latest Healthcare issue does not mean that Obama doesn’t care about people.

Look – whether we like it, one way or another, we are going to end up paying for somebody else’s healthcare. The crux of the law is to give people some options other than the local emergency room to get care by a doctor instead of letting health issues just ferment. Is it perfect? Of course not! But the fact there are compromises that had to be made shows there are lots of improvements needed on both sides of the aisle. If you look closer, there is no simplistic, one-horse solution. Until Americans stop killing themselves with their addictions, poor eating habits, and lack of exercise and self-care, the price is high all-around.

Big insurance companies do not support the healthcare law, and yet folks earning low wages also don’t: they are fearing death panels and having to deal with socialized medicine, items NOT in the healthcare law. A health insurance company makes its money off of premiums paid in, but denial of coverage going out. This law is trying in some way to hold these companies accountable and making an affordable option that you can have access to, whether you want it or not.

I have only gotten through about 400 pages of the new law, but from what I see, something to start with is better than nothing to begin with, right? Improvements can happen over time, but right now, there are bigger fish to fry. And I wouldn’t be so skeptical of Republican opposition to the law if one of their own didn’t have one almost exactly like it in his state – talking about Mitt Romney.

BTW – I do read your blog every day. Keep it up – we need voices out there!

Roz B.

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Gang Rape of 11-Year-Old Girl Stirs Racial Tensions in Texas Town

By now you’ve heard the shocking news about the gang rape of an 11-year-old girl that has resulted in the arrests of 18 men and boys in a small Texas town.

The gang rape, and its aftermath, have stirred racial tensions in Cleveland, Texas, a town of 9,000 about 50 miles north of Houston.

The 18 suspects are all black and the girl is Hispanic.

“It’s becoming a black and white issue because it happened over in the quarters. It’s segregating our community again,” said Brenda Myers, who runs the Community and Children’s Impact Center in Cleveland, one of the few programs for Cleveland’s youth. “The reaction is anger, devastation.”

The sexual assaults took place on Nov. 18 after a 19-year-old man convinced the unidentified girl to take a ride with him and two of his friends. They eventually ended up in a dilapidated blue house on the outskirts of town. The men ordered the girl to disrobe. She later told police they threatened to have older girls beat her up if she didn’t comply.

The men were later joined by other males from the neighborhood who got on their cell phones and invited their friends. When an adult relative of one of the males approached the house, the group, including the girl, fled out of a rear bedroom window. She left behind her bra and panties.

The group moved to a dingy, abandoned trailer where the sexual assaults continued. Police believe a total of 28 men and boys had sex with the girl.

Retiree Joe Harrison said he spotted the 11-year-old standing outside the abandoned trailer earlier that day. To him she looked older than her 11 years. She wore dark makeup and long hair. He later heard loud music blaring from the trailer. By then he thought the girl had been picked up by her mother.

Some of the suspects videotaped the assaults on their cell phones and shared the videos with friends at school. The gang rape was brought to the attention of police after the videos went viral.

The girl’s mother, Maria, has seen her daughter only one time since Child Protective Services placed the girl with a foster family and restricted the family from even speaking to her.

Officials brought the girl to visit her mom when Maria was hospitalized recently with an illness.

“My daughter was crying and crying and hugging on me,” Maria said. “She didn’t want to leave. She misses her family and wants to come home.”

Police suggested relocating the family to a different city due to death threats. Several of the suspects are star athletes at Cleveland High School. One of them is the son of a school board member. All are visible in the videos assaulting the girl.

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Calm Down Kids…

According to my sources inside rapper Diamond’s camp, her new facial tattoo is just a lipstick tube.

Diamond’s new tattoo caused hysteria across the Internet when she tweeted a pic of what appeared to be a bullet tattooed near her left ear earlier in the week. “It’s just lipstick, not a bullet” said my source.

The source went on to say that Diamond, whose last big hit was “Rock Yo Hips”, is not following in the footsteps of other mentally challenged rappers who disfigured their faces with large tattoos. “Diamond’s tatt is covered by her hair weave,” said the source. “It isn’t visible to the public until she moves her hair out of the way.”

The former Crime Mob member will turn 23 on May 20.

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“Snoop” From ‘The Wire’ Arrested in Large-Scale Drug Operation

According to The Washington Post, Felicia Pearson, 30, who played “Snoop” on HBO’s critically acclaimed TV series, ‘The Wire’, was among more than 30 people swept up in a large-scale heroin and marijuana drug sting.

Isn’t it ironic that as soon as Da Brat comes out, Snoop goes in?

The sting operation involved multiple drug enforcement agencies resulting in drug busts all across the city of Baltimore and its surrounding counties.

Raids were carried out in the pre-dawn hours by agents from the Drug Enforcement Administration, Baltimore police and a slew of other federal and state law enforcement agencies.

Felicia “Snoop” Pearson, known for her drug-assassin character on “The Wire,” was taken into custody at a downtown apartment on a state warrant, officials said.

The actress has a troubled past, having been convicted at age 14 of second-degree murder. More recently, she refused to testify as a witness at a murder trial and was arrested at her then-Northeast Baltimore home.

The arrests are part of a five-month drug investigation, officials said.

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Chris Brown Angers Women’s Groups By Describing Rihanna’s Beating As a ‘Mishap’

According to RadarOnline.com, the R&B singer Chris Brown has angered women’s groups (again) by calling his abuse toward Rihanna a “mishap”.

Brown says he is ready to stop apologizing for his violent attack on Rihanna two years ago and move on from the “mishap,” but women’s groups aren’t ready to forgive and forget.

“I’m in a positive place,” said Brown, who last week leaked a graphic pic of his peen to boost album sales.

“I consider myself a grown-ass man. And at the end of the day, if I walk around apologizing to everybody, I’m gonna look like a damn fool,” Brown told Page Six magazine.

But women’s groups don’t believe Brown is a changed man:

In the Page Six interview, in Thursday’s edition of the New York Post, the 21-year-old singer revealed how many of his showbiz pals turned their backs on him after the incident.

“But you can’t blame people for how they want to be portrayed or if they don’t want to be associated with somebody who had a particular mishap,” he said.

Erin Matson, Acting Vice President of the National Organization of Women is disgusted that Brown would use such a word to describe an attack that left his then-girlfriend with serious swelling and bruising, a split lip, bloody nose and bite marks on her arms and fingers.

“It was not a mishap, this was a serious act of violence. No woman who has been assaulted would refer to it as a mishap, nor should anyone refer to it as such,” she told RadarOnline.com.

“What I am most concerned about is people who are hearing him say that he’s assaulted someone and that it’s not a big deal.”

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Obama Caves Under Pressure: Gives Entire State of Maine ObamaCare Waivers

Sometimes a man has to do what a man has to do to keep his job — especially if that man is the president of the United States.

It’s too bad Barack Obama didn’t see the writing on the wall when he signed his healthcare bill into law despite the widespread protests from millions of Americans who were against it.

With his job approval ratings hitting an all-time low in 2011 — 46% — Obama is feeling the pressure to correct his error in judgment by quietly approving waivers for customers of his rich insurance buddies so they don’t have to participate in ObamaCare.

According to Hot Air, the entire state of Maine will be given waivers to exempt them from participating in ObamaCare — that’s 1,328,381 people.

Maine isn’t alone, New Hampshire, Nebraska, and Kentucky have requested waivers as well. That would add another 3,912,691 waivers to the growing list.

It seems that the same people who protested so vigorously against ObamaCare are now being issued waivers to opt out of participating in it.

You’re probably asking yourself, ‘why would Obama sign a health care bill into law and then allow millions of people in certain states to quietly opt out of it?’

Good question. But here’s a better one: guess who’s going to end up getting stuck with the massive fees for health insurance in the coming years? You get what you ask for.

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The Game, Episode 9: “Whip It, Whip It Good”

Last night’s episode of BET’s “The Game” was right on time. Didn’t you want to hug Jason Pitts (Coby Bell) through the TV when he quit his TV show to spend more quality time with his daughter, Brit Brat, who was spiraling out of control? What a powerful message of responsibility and maturity! Too bad it won’t alter the mindset of certain single fathers in our community who really needed to grasp the message of the episode.

In last night’s episode, Jason struggled to right the wrong that he’d done to his only daughter by placing his selfish needs above hers. In real life, Bell and his wife, Aviss, 42, don’t have such problems. Jason and Aviss have 2 sets of twins — 3 girls and a boy. “We were trying for a boy and ended up with a boy and a girl!,” Bell told Life & Style magazine in 2009.

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