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This is the crunch time on health care. If this vote passes, the others ones are a piece of cake and there will be some form of health care reform in this country, and 31 million more people will be able to get health insurance. Here is the list of House members and their phones numbers and status. You should check it periodically for updates during the day because some members are announcing their yes vote as the day goes on and the pressure succeeds.

Rep. Jason Altmire 202-225-2565 will be voting yes
Rep. Brian Baird (202) 225-3536 Possible Yes–Call him!
Rep. Bart Gordon (202) 225-4231 Probable yes as well–call him!
Rep. John Boccieri (202) 225-3876
Rep. Brad Ellsworth (202) 225-4636
Rep. Baron Hill (202) 225-5315
Rep. Scott Murphy (202) 225-5614 Will be voting yes
Rep. Glenn Nye (202) 225-4215
Rep. John Tanner (202) 225-4714 Possible yes–call!
Rep. Suzanne Kosmas (202) 225-2706 Possible yes
Rep. John Adler (202) 225-4765 Says he’s a NO vote–push on him hard!
Rep. Lincoln Davis 202.225.6831
Rep. Jim Matheson (202) 225-3011
Rep. Harry Teague (202) 225-2365
Rep. Travis Childers (202) 225-4306
Rep. Jerry Costello (202) 225-5661 Undecided
Rep. Zack Space (202) 225-6265
Rep. Mike Doyle 202-225-2135
Rep. Michael Arcuri (202)225-3665
Rep. Chris Carney (202) 225-3731
Rep. Ann Kirkpatrick (202) 225-2315
Rep. Alan Mollohan (202) 225-4172
Rep. Dan Maffei (202) 225-3701
Rep. Bill Owens (202) 225-4611
Rep. Earl Pomeroy (202) 225-2611

I don’t think that headline is bold enough for this story. Fuck you, Texas book board. And every single Texan who doesn’t personally do something about this, fuck you.UPDATE: All of us can help. Support this candidate and also this other candidate, both of whom are running to replace the FUCKING MANIACS WHO JUST BANNED THOMAS JEFFERSON FROM TEXAS HISTORY TEXTBOOKS IN PUBLIC SCHOOLS

After many years, the real history of how things were done begins official exposure. It’s a good thing that the journalist who tried to expose this during the Watergate era is alive to be vindicated. According to this story, his case is still in court after nearly 40 years.

If you know anyone who has just about any model Toyota made since 2000, please remind them of this: if the accelerator acts up, put the car in neutral. Every Toyota model, gasoline or hybrid, allows you to do this while the car is running, even if the engine speed accelerates out of control. Dozens and dozens of people have avoided a crash by doing it. This guy, understandable, was afraid to do it. The result was quite frightening.

When the accelerator stuck, he said he weighed all his options. He feared turning the car off in the middle of traffic, expecting the steering wheel to lock. If he shifted into neutral, he worried that it would slip into reverse. The floor mat, he said, wasn’t interfering with the gas pedal.

“It was accelerating out of control. Period,” Sikes said.

Sikes said he had never had a problem with Toyota vehicles. But when his friend showed up this morning to take him to the dealer in a Prius, he hesitated. “It just felt funny,” he said. “I love Toyotas. I will not drive a Prius again.”

His fear of “going into reverse” led to a mistake that was very near fatal. He went some 30 miles at 90 miles per hour, pursued by the State Police and weaving through traffic. Toyota’s has hundreds of thousands of cars on the road in the U.S. that are still prone to sudden unintended acceleration. This includes cars that have already been recalled and “fixed,” in my opinion. The car at issue in this story was not even part of a recall, yet just read what happened with it and there are many other stories like it that involve cars not part of the recall. Just as importantly, the “fix” being applied by Toyota (replacing accelerator pedals and floor mats on some cars) is completely irrelevant to and ineffective at fixing the main problem.

It will save money, not “waste” it. Remember that the next time every single mainstream media outlet repeats the opposite without question, totally operating every single day on the presumption that the bill is “expensive.” It will actually cost the taxpayer more money to defeat the bill than to pass it.

The “unanimous consent” bull is bullshit and should be done away with.

Also manages to whine that he’s missing a basketball game to do so. This is pure evil.

It hardly gets more comic than this. Watch the video linked here. Keep in mind that Gibbons was also accused of rape in 2008.

Bonus points:

Here’s Gibbons with his girlfriend on the trip and a famous Appalachian trail hiker:

It turns out that the recent radioactive leak at Vermont’s nuclear power plant was not the first, and that executives covered up at least one previous leak by lying under oath that the very pipes that leaked didn’t exist.

This guy’s a hero.