By Sadie Bass

Sep 2, 2009 9:28am

Quotes of the Day

"It's still a very treacherous situation. The fire has a lot of potential, and it's still a big animal." — U.S. Forest Service Incident Commander Mike Dietrich

“Faced with falling approval ratings and increasingly impatient with Senate negotiations, Obama is considering a speech in the next week or so in which he would be ‘more prescriptive’ about what he feels Congress must include in a health bill, top adviser David Axelrod said Tuesday in an interview. The speech might occur before the Sept. 15 deadline the White House gave Senate negotiators to seek a bipartisan bill.” — Chuck Babington, the Associated Press

"On our part there was no conspiracy, no cover-up, no double dealing, no deal on oil, no attempt to influence Scottish ministers, no private assurances by me to Colonel Gaddafi.” – British Prime Minister Gordon Brown, addressing charges of a quid pro quo in the freeing of Libyan Abdel Ali al-Megrahi

Sneeze into your arm with Elmo.” — Elmo, enlisted in the Obama administration’s war on H1N1 flu

User Comments

VA Hospitals; Charity Hosp. in New Orleans; Walter Reed Hospital
I suggest that the public really investigates these hospitals.
Is this the kind of option the public wants?
Yes, overhaul health care, by all means. It’s needed. There’s things the goverment can do to help people: change the rules with private insurances. Overhaul the VA system; provide more updated Charity Hospitals for people without insurance. Anyone can lose their insurance for one reason or another.
Lets raise the bar; not lower it.

Posted by: ddg | September 2, 2009, 1:25 pm 1:25 pm

The fire around LA is “treacherous” in more ways than one: it may have been deliberately started. That is in the same league as arsonists showing up to fight the fire they set.

Posted by: Candadai Tirumalai | September 3, 2009, 9:38 am 9:38 am

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