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Archive for November, 2008
Happy Thanksgiving
Posted in Culture, Military & War on November 27, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
Elected Officials Need Civics Lessons
Posted in Education, Government, tagged civics, elected officials, literacy on November 27, 2008 | 3 Comments »
I wanted to address this yesterday, but time got away from me, what with all the food preparations for the oneday of the year that we gorge ourselves on obscene amounts of food. (Okay, okay, I’m not that bad about tons of food, as we have a standing guest whose mom passed away 2 years [...]
Left Behind: The Poor
Posted in Economy and Business, Poverty, tagged bailout, economy, Paulson, poor on November 25, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
The history of “free markets” and “capitalization” and “deregulation” shows us that it is the growing numbers of poor that are left behind. And, to make matters worse, it is this growing number of people that are being left out of all bailout talks.
As the roster of corporations and financial institutions on line for government [...]
The Bush Thanksgiving Pardons
Posted in Bush Administration, Courts, tagged Bush, commutations, pardons on November 25, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
Someone has a soft spot for drug offenders.
Among those receiving commutations was rap singer John Forte, who was charged with intent to distribute five kilograms or more of cocaine. He was sentenced to 168 months in prison and five years supervised release. His prison term will now end on Dec. 22 of this year, and [...]
TN GOP Thought to Be Moderate by WSJ Columnist
Posted in Culture, tagged extremists, GOP, RNC, Tennessee on November 23, 2008 | 2 Comments »
Oh, good god! Can it get any worse? Tennessee was a bellwether state, and during this election season was one of only a very few states that went redder, McCain getting more votes than Bush did in 2004, and the GOP taking over both state houses for the first time since Reconstruction. The TN GOP [...]
Where Have All The Progressives Gone?
Posted in Obama Administration, tagged center-right, Obama Administration, progressives on November 22, 2008 | 3 Comments »
Progressive, some disillusioned by the remaining candidates, came out in droves on election day and pushed the button casting their vote for Obama, the lesser of the two evils. For myself, I had no illusions that I would be writing this post, asking the Obama administration where are the progressives, I just didn’t expect to [...]
HRC as SoS?
Posted in Obama Administration, tagged Hilary Clinton, Obama, Secretary of State, SoS on November 21, 2008 | 2 Comments »
Update below
I’m not surprised that Obama would throw Hilary a decent slot in his administration, and personally, I feel it should have been as VP. But, that episode is over and there’s not much that can be said anymore. And, I really do not want Obama to coopt Hilary just because she had millions of [...]
Will Obama & Congress Continue to Kowtow to Health Insurers?
Posted in Health Insurance, tagged blood-sucking insurers, health care crisis on November 20, 2008 | 1 Comment »
Socialized health care? Single-payer health care? I will probably never see that in my life-time, although our country really needs to put the kibash on the health insurance industry. That industry has grown so strong, and has muscled it’s way into determining healthcare policy for decades. That isn’t stopping.
Pear notes that the health insurance industry [...]
When Doctors Don’t Want to Work For Insurance Companies
Posted in Health Insurance, tagged concierge doctors, health, Health Insurance on November 18, 2008 | 1 Comment »
A very interesting survey was conducted, doctors want to leave the medical industry because of insurers red tape.
Nearly half the respondents in a survey of U.S. primary care physicians said that they would seriously consider getting out of the medical business within the next three years if they had an alternative.
The survey, released this week [...]
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