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[shadowkat]

1. The Supreme Court upheld the National Healthcare Act.

CNN and Fox NEWs misreported it: http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2012/06/28/cnn-supreme-court-health-care-individual-mandate_n_1633950.html

ABC got it right: http://abcnews.go.com/Politics/OTUS/supreme-court-announces-decision-obamas-health-care-law/story?id=16663839#.T-zTH79TGKw

NPR includes a link to the actual decision in its blog: http://www.npr.org/blogs/thetwo-way/2012/06/28/155901105/live-blog-the-health-care-ruling

CBS - National Health Care Act What it Means For You

CBS- Where the States Stand on Coverage

Arizona

Number of uninsured: 1.28 million state residents not covered, or about 19 percent

Where the state stands: Arizona is among the states challenging the constitutionality of the health care overhaul. The lawsuit covers about 22,000 people statewide, including some 14,000 people in the Phoenix area. Republican Gov. Jan Brewer's administration is moving to implement part of the contested law by reviewing health insurance rates to see if they should be labeled unjustifiably high. The state also has accepted a federal grant to create a state health insurance exchange.

New York

Number of uninsured: 2,886,000 state residents are uninsured, or about 15 percent.

Where the state stands: Democratic Gov. Andrew Cuomo issued an executive order April 12 to establish a statewide health insurance exchange, where individuals and small businesses could tap up to $2.6 billion in federal tax credits and subsidies, planning to show by January that the state is ready to participate, start taking applications the following October and start operating Jan. 1, 2014.

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2. Reading Mark Watches take on Bargaining...made me realize that when and where you watched S6 probably makes a huge difference in how you perceived it. I watched it live in 2001. And I live and work in NYC. Add to that...was not in an emotionally good place at the time. When Buffy asks the question: Is this hell? I was thinking at the time, tears streaming down my face, "my thoughts exactly". It was oddly the only tv show that I felt addressed the pain and uncertainty of that period in my life and my experience with 9/11.
Others tried, but nothing really hit the target for me emotionally speaking like Buffy S6 did. And again, I think, having rewatched the season at different points, that has a lot to do with my own mental and emotional state at the time.

I don't enjoy or appreciate S6 now, the way I did then. I find portions of it to be, frankly, unwatchable now. And I see all the flaws and plot-holes. But back then - it was in some respects a masterpiece, it perfectly captured in all its fluctuations my emotional state of mind. For the first time, I understood and identified with the lead character, as well as the other characters. The series stopped being just a fun tv show that I escaped into, and occasionally trolled the net for spoilers...and something else entirely - it spoke to my soul. And I became obsessed. I needed to find similarly obsessed people to discuss it with. Who understood. And I did. And well. Here I am now. So if it weren't for my reaction to S6? You'd never have met me. Isn't that crazy?

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[rahirah]

It's funny... one of the (many) reasons I didn't much like S6 is that Buffy reminded me not of myself, but of someone I'd known in the past who used their legitimate emotional problems as a justification for taking their pain out on others. Everyone I know who likes the season identifies with Buffy; I identified with Spike as the desperate, clueless person who has to deal with Buffy, and nothing you do is ever right or ever works. I always laugh bitterly to myself at people who say that if Spike had only had a soul, he could have dealt with Buffy's depression with no problems. Yeah, sorry, it ain't that easy.

[shadowkat67.livejournal.com]

I never read it that literally. If that makes sense? Or I didn't focus on the lashing out...not sure how to explain. I was the opposite of Buffy, I directed it all inward. But I think part of the reason for the fan fights online is we all projected our own experience and pain into the show, and as a result got angry at someone who had a contradictory experience? We'd say it was just a tv show, don't take it personally, but it was personal, damn it, we saw ourselves or our friends or our lives reflected in those characters? I don't know, maybe not.

In some respects I struggled a great deal with Willow and Xander who I felt were to blame for Buffy's state. But I also understood where they were coming from. S6 was a weird season for me - because I understood all the characters emotional states, I clearly saw where each character came from, each character's point of view. I like to call S6 - six characters in search of a therapist or on the verge of a nervous breakdown...the writers threw them literally off the cliff that season. I still admire that. I always will. If they hadn't? I probably wouldn't have become an obsessed fan.

I also identified with Spike, in some ways far more...because he was the outsider fighting to fit in, to do the impossible...yet at the same time he reminded me of the pretty boy who always got the girl, but this round not so much.

This is all in past tense by the way. I don't feel that way now. Not at all. But that was..what over five years ago?

[rahirah]

we all projected our own experience and pain into the show,

Definitely. I was always super annoyed by people who dismissed Buffy beating up Spike as a metaphor for her struggle with depression, so it didn't count, and she had no need to make amends. Especially as they'd turn right around and insist that Spike trying to rape Buffy was literal, and he needed to be punished for it.

[sophist.livejournal.com]

I wish it was only 5 years. It was 10. Damn, I'm old.