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It was quite the weekend on the facebook page, lots of commentary and eye rolling on my part. If you need your weekend fix, go and like the page. Now onto the usual Monday morning catch up...

To all the people out there getting overly excited that a bill was passed by the House to protect military pay, don't go and spend that check already. Remember though, it still needs to go through the Senate and signed by the President. It will be very telling who will and will not vote for it so pay attention. The bill, which was passed unanimously by the House, is a good move and a huge relief for military families -- provided that that it continues through the proper channels without challenge.

Oh a shutdown, it's become a huge blame game all over the place. Everyone is getting in on it and I have been too. You can tell me all you want that it's the GOP and grandstanding Ted Cruz's fault if it happens and I will seriously just sit here, shaking my head and convulse with laughter. Please explain to me how you think it is justifiable to delay or completely exempt groups and companies from the onslaught of Obamacare, but not the masses? Since the Senate did not defund Obamacare, the House came back with a reasonable solution since they've been listening to what the public has to say (sidenote: Young Conservatives did a quick write up over the weekend and taking poll numbers figured that Obamacare is more unpopular than the war in Iraq, telling is it not?) and at least are trying to delay the start for everyone in order to work out all the details and get a better idea of how everyone will be affected and weed through and get rid of any provisions that will hurt the workforce, to include outsource jobs to avoid hefty taxes and fines. With Harry and Barry saying "Hell no, it's our way or the highway" and basically flipping the bird to the American people, how do you not blame those two for a potential government shut down? Clearly, conservatives have stated that their goal is not to shut down the government but they do want to fully defund the ridiculous piece of legislation that is Ocrapcare, er I mean Obamacare but they have tried to come up with reasonable solutions. End of story: this can only end badly for the American people, and the American people need to think carefully about who they are willing to put into office from here on out -- and hold them accountable.

Finally one last piece of the supposed for the people eye rolling news, the Texas abortion law is back in the limelight. Apparently forcing abortion clinics to have the same sanitary standards as a hospital or a free standing clinic (i.e. an urgent care office) and you know requiring a licensed professional doctor with admitting privileges to a local hospital to perform a surgical procedure clearly does more harm than good to women seeking abortions. How dare the state of Texas do everything possible to make sure that these women will be treated with dignity and respect and given a clean, safe place to obtain what I think is something absolutely heinous. And because we live in such a litigious society, what better thing to do than sue the state of Texas? That is exactly what Planned Parenthood, ACLU and several other groups are planning to do to block this portion of the bill. I'm sort of shocked they're not challenging the 20 week limit, but after the last hoopla and it came out and an overwhelming majority of Americans, including Texans, opposed anything beyond 20 weeks, they were right to leave that out of the suit. So instead, they're saying that having standards is not important and basically the bottom line is the money, by adhering to the standards set forth, these shady abortion clinics stand to lose a lot of money. It has nothing to do with proper patient care, if these people gave just a small damn about the situation they would understand that the Republicans who lead the charge on this do give a big damn about the people. I have said it before and I'll say it again, the Texas bill is one of the most fair compromise pieces of legislation that we have witnessed concerning abortion. I just hope that the judge who receives this case will just laugh and throw it out the window.

Keep up with the facebook page for ongoing snark concerning a potential shut down and other craziness and have a great week everyone!