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Is it time to ban Micheal Vick?
Vick has not learned anything, nor have his fellow NFL players: Sorry, Philly Eagles. Anything Michael Vick experienced is a result of his cowardice and cruelty in training innocent dogs to fight, then maiming, beating, shooting and abusing the ones ...
Lou Dobbs loves immigrants?
Looks like Lou Dobbs is going around trying to tell people how much he loves immigrants I guess he was just playing the role of xenophobic moron while ar CNN....
Spree killers are criminals not warriors
Yesterday I asked why putting terrorists on trial was such a big deal, looks like other people have been wondering as well. In political terms, the right likes the war idea because it involves taking terrorism more “seriously.” But in doing so,...
“it’s not a sex if your alone”
Carrie Prejean talks about her “solo sex tape” In fairness she was seventeen(I wonder if that makes it childporn?) but she has aligned herself with the family values crowd, the same people who go ape-shit when seventeen-year-old’s ...
It is about sex
Just in case anyone has any doubts the Stupac amendment is all about stopping people from having sex, unless of course the the product of that sex will be a low-wage worker and a high-school dropout....
Do we need NASA?
I am starting to think it is time to get rid of NASA., after killing numerous astronauts on their unsafe space shuttles they have decided to endanger other animals. “The beauty of this is that we can assess at different time points after exposu...
More on the opt out compromise
I wonder if conservatives are starting to understand how unpopular opting out will make them at the local level and in addition I have a feeling that the states that are going to opt out are also the states that have the most unhealthy people, like T...
Overtreatment?
I am not sure I get the outrage on this one: Checking the “female” box when buying health insurance is likely to cost extra — perhaps up to 50 percent more than a man would pay for the same coverage. Gender-rating — or what some term ...
Unrelated thoughts
Finally got to watch some football yesterday, it seems Chicago is just good enough to narrowly miss the playoffs, just like the Denver Broncos of a year ago. And, it should be illegal to experiment on babies....
Opting out
Looks like their may be a public option for health insurance with a clause that allows states to opt out if they don’t want to let their residents have the choice of public insurance. Other than the fact that this will probably make the south,...
The best care in the world?
As the healthcare debate heats up opponents of reform argue the U.S has the best health care in the world. Maybe not so much: “McAllen is legal hell,” the cardiologist agreed. Doctors order unnecessary tests just to protect themselves, he said. E...
We should talk much more about population
Over the weekend I saw this article on population and climate change by Matthew Yglesias and he asks why people don’t talk about the benefits of small families. on the enviroment. Efficiency—just not using energy—is the cleanest source of e...
And then they came for FOX News
This is truly stunning and a bit creepy More than anything I think it shows that angry paranoid people are always angry and paranoid even to their friends, and the FOX reporter does everything but tell the guy I am one of you, and yet he still trys ...
Say”goodbye” to the Democrats majority
The debate about the public option really isn’t policy debate at all. It is a no-brainer to implement a medicare like system that allows for reimbursement at the same scale as medicare, for everyone in America. The real debate is about wheth...
Joe Wilson the new face of the Republican party
During last nights speech Joe Wilson made a name for himself by heckling the president and in the process made Republicans look even smaller and more unreasonable. As the Washingtonmonthly explains There are a few important angles to this. The first...
Stealing from Al
Thought I would re-post this as it seems especially relavant a few years later: With mid-terms coming up soon, I wanted to share this list I came across at my local library: 1933 Unemployment Relief 1935 Social Security 1938 Minimum Wage 1944 ...
right wing hysteria explained
I have not been able to get my mind around the republican hissy fit about Obama’s speech to school children until I read this post:, especially this part: We laugh at the wingnuts pulling their kids out of school, and we point out that Obama’...
Another “debt fueled” Crisis
One thing that does not seem to get enough attention is how much easy access to credit fuels price inflation. At least if you have wage inflation to go with the price inflation people are not stuck with bills they cannot pay at a later date. This ar...
Medicare for all
One thing everyone seems to agree on in the health care debate is that Medicare is a great program. In fact several teabaggers have used their Medicare to pay for fixing them up after they start and then lose a fight at a townhall event. At this po...
Another suicide story
I am not sure what this story shows but it is pretty sad: Four American soldiers have been charged with cruelty and maltreatment of an 19-year-old soldier who committed suicide after being in Iraq for 10 days, the U.S. military told NBC News Friday. ...
Workplace suicides up
As someone who has been drifting around the workplace a little bit lately I can see why this is happening. It is really easy to get trapped into a job, because both their are not a whole lot of opportunities and if you want to keep your health insur...
Micheal Vick is right back where he started
Does Micheal Vick deserve a second chance? Mr Bettor from the comments makes a great point, when he says convicted felons should be allowed to work. In fact recidivism would probably decrease if companies were not allowed to discriminate against co...
Maybe I was wrong about being wrong
I think Hillary could have handled this better. And apparentely so do other people. Hillary’s KO in the Congo on Monday made the covers of both New York tabloids. Using tough hand gestures not seen since “The Sopranos” went off HBO, Hillary sna...
Maybe I was wrong
I take back some of the stuff I said about Hilary Clinton...
“Keep the government out of Medicare”
Right-wing activists seem to have a rallying cry: “Keep the government out of medicare”. This seems to show the problem with a rational health care debate, only one side is rational, and the other side is pretty clearly uninformed and pe...
Racism then and now
I have been traveling quite a bit lately which means I get to eat a lot of bad food and read long books, the bad food, not so great, the long book has been nixonland. According to the book Nixon was able to exploit racial tensions to convince whites...
Universal health care an idea we can all live with
When you consider that not only is it cruel but very expensive to send the uninsured to the emergency room universal health care is going to be a bargain at almost any price. A BARGAIN AT ANY PRICE — ESPECIALLY THIS ONE…. The “tR...
wow
Sarah Palin to resign. What kind of scandal is about to unfold?...
Centrist Democrats worse than Republicans
Paul Krugman has a great column in the New york times today, regarding health care. This part especially goes a long way towards explaining why the “centrist” members of the senate are far from the center: Honestly, I don’t know what th...
Just a thought
Maybe we should start callin Dick Cheney former President Cheney as he is leaving no doubt who was in charge during the “bush” administration....
