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For a succinct explanation of why the just-passed health-care reform legislation is complete bullshit and a total gift to greedy, murderous insurance corporations, see this rundown from Firedoglake [warning: PDF]. Did you know that: This bill is almost identical to the plan written by AHIP, the insurance company trade association, in 2009. Or that: The … more…
Is this new bill called the Torches and Pitchforks Act of 2010? The Directive for the Prevention of the Revolt of the Peasants? Cuz there’d better finally be some major blood — of a figurative sort, of course — and fines that look like the GDP of small African nations. Or I call for tarring … more…
Is our children learning? The answer is still no. The impetus for change has to come from states and local districts? Ha. Look what’s happening in Texas: AUSTIN, Tex. — Even as a panel of educators laid out a vision Wednesday for national standards for public schools, the Texas school board was going in a … more…
This isn’t a joke or a parody. Victoria Jackson, Crazy Person, is totally serious here: (via Jezebel)
“The people’s interest, and the people’s future”? What a crock. As long as for-profit insurance companies are allowed to continue doing business, this bullshit “reform” is in the insurance companies’ interest. Maybe it’s true that the bill on offer prohibits insurance companies from denying you coverage for a preexisting condition, or from dropping you when … more…
Obviously, the Olympics with its international competition and accompanying bragging rights is a kind of ritualized war. Here’s an idea: Could we perhaps actually replace war with the Olympics alone? I mean, if two countries have a beef over, say, natural resources or territorial rights, does it really make any less sense to leave the … more…
Every week my browser gets cluttered up with tabs for stuff that I stumble across and figure I might be able to use as a Question of the Day or a WTF Thought for the Day or grist for some other post. And inevitably, I end the week with most of that material unused. But … more…
So, Obama runs down the outrages of the health insurance companies, yet doesn’t mention the obvious solution: Shut. Them. Down. We don’t need the health insurance companies. The purpose of health insurance companies is to turn a profit, not to provide health care — in fact providing health care is antithetical to the purpose of … more…
All sounds sensible, but can it work? And can the federal government provide the kind of kick in the ass to the economy that we need without increasing the deficit?
Every week my browser gets cluttered up with tabs for stuff that I stumble across and figure I might be able to use as a Question of the Day or a WTF Thought for the Day or grist for some other post. And inevitably, I end the week with most of that material unused. But … more…
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