Link Me Up, Scotty - Mental Health Edition

A new private hospital network is going to start helping the VA with mental health services for veterans. It's about fucking time.
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More details on Colorado's single payer health bill, coming to a ballot near me in 2016.

H/T Brother Seth
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Something to think about as the silly season approaches. Get up and help someone, indeed.
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Senator Clare McCaskill did a tongue-in-cheek bit on Colbert about how men are cordially invited to shut the hell up on certain topics. Naturally, men came out of the wood work to ensure the point was made.

H/T Debbie the Librarian
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Because we really didn't need any more reasons to think Michelle Bachmann is a socially retarded numb-skull: She ended her trip to Israel by telling the Jews to convert to Christianity. 

H/T Brother Paul
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Police officer in Oklahoma is accused of raping 13 women, is currently on trial, and apparently no one cares. I'm sure the fact that the victims were all black women probably has nothing to do with that. Nah.

H/T Tempest
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Video of my Heart: Chanticleer performs Freddy Mercury's Somebody to Love.