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Tough Medicine to Swallow
Health care for clunkers. Global normalcy. Insurance devils, and much more.
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Insurance companies pay billions of dollars each year for their lobbying efforts around the entire country in every state — not just in Washington alone. They pay for young lawyers to become judges so these judges will decide in favor of the insurance companies. And this is only a small part of their ploy to manipulate laws and communities in their favor.
Why don’t the media report the truth about the insurance companies supporting all these politicians in an effort to promote the insurance companies?
Believe me, if the insurance companies were not behind this health care bill, it would not go anywhere and there would be a strong outcry from them to stop it — have you heard or seen any effort by the insurance companies to stop this bill? I haven’t.
Please report this truth to the American public so everyone will
know the truth about how our government is lead by the insurance
companies — The United Insurance Companies of America. Of the
insurance companies, by the insurance companies, for the
insurance companies.
— Rick Gregory
PAYBACK
We voted for change. We bought the hope.
But we got so much change, we can hardly cope.
Now he’s spreading the wealth around,
Now he’s spreading the wealth around,
With fewer and fewer jobs to be found.
And it does no good to plead
Cause it’s the toll for “white folks’ greed.”
— Neil S.
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Rocco| 8.3.09 @ 7:01AM
Mr. Martell:
I see you're back. I recall your being maligned in the past for somewhat unpopular views. However, your post above is right on. Today's Republican Party (our reps, not rank and file like you or me) is one of two sides of the same coin. I used to be a dedicated Repub, from the time of Nixon, but left the party shortly after 9/11. I found the Repubs lost the strength of their convictions and were becoming worse than what they had replaced. And Pres. Bush's somewhat limpwristed approach after 9/11 (yes, yes, he did go full force into Afghanistan and later into Iraq) turned me off. He lost a great opportunity to really mobilize the country behind him by failing to forcefully declare war and get the country behind him. Yes, Congress passed resolutions and all, but it wasn't a declaration of war on al-Qaida. This, I believe, laid the groundwork for his later political problems, and failure to get the military ramped up (I was still active and astounded to find the military still on a peacetime footing - no mobilization curricula put into effect in the military training and education system, etc). I can go on and on.. I have opted for the Constitution Party, but consider Libertarians from time to time. The Republican party has completely lost me, and will continue to do so, until they close their primaries and get off of this "my turn" kick which brought us ineffective candidates such as Dole and McCain (both of whom I do deeply respect for their personal sacrifices in the military), and finally, get back to the small government, free enterprise and constitutional principles which brought them victory after victory.
Big J| 8.3.09 @ 8:04AM
Trudy,
Stay tuned, young lady. Some of us are trying to gather such a march on our treacherous "leaders" in Washington. Probably around September 12.
It's not good timing for me financially, but it is important enough to grin and bear it.
Michael L. Hauschild| 8.3.09 @ 8:33AM
As far as Stein goes I hope he is a better manager of personal finance than he is as an “economic commentator.” My advice to you Ben (and unlike your own insights, it won't change) is, “Hide your money."
VIRUS MISSING in USA| 8.3.09 @ 12:38PM
April 22, 2009 -- Updated 0050 GMT (0850 HKT)
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Army: 3 vials of virus samples missing from Maryland facilityStory Highlights
Venezuelan Equine Encephalitis samples missing from Army facility
Virus sickens horses, can be spread to humans through mosquitoes
Investigators say vials may have been in freezer that was destroyed
So far, investigators have found no evidence of criminal activity
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From Larry Shaughnessy
CNN Pentagon Producer
WASHINGTON (CNN) -- Missing vials of a potentially dangerous virus have prompted an Army investigation into the disappearance from a lab in Maryland.
Fort Detrick is the home of the Army's top biological research facility.
The Army's Criminal Investigation Command agents have been visiting Fort Detrick in Frederick, Maryland, to investigate the disappearance of the vials. Christopher Grey, spokesman for the command, said this latest investigation has found "no evidence of criminal activity."
The vials contained samples of Venezuelan Equine Encephalitis, a virus that sickens horses and can be spread to humans by mosquitoes. In 97 percent of cases, humans with the virus suffer flu-like symptoms, but it can be deadly in about 1 out of 100 cases, according to Caree Vander Linden, a spokeswoman for the Army's Medical Research Institute of Infectious Diseases. There is an effective vaccine for the disease and there hasn't been an outbreak in the United States since 1971.
The vials had been at the research institute's facility at Fort Detrick, home of the Army's top biological research facility, for more than a decade. The three missing vials were among thousands of vials that were under the control of a senior scientist who retired in 2004. When another Fort Detrick scientist recently inventoried the retired scientist's biological samples, he discovered that the three vials of the virus were missing. The original scientist's records about his vials dated back to the days of paper-and-pen inventories.
During the investigation, the retired scientist and another former Fort Detrick researcher cooperated with investigating agents and, according to Vander Linden, they came back to the facility to help look for the vials
Hardius| 8.3.09 @ 3:56PM
Mr. Martell and Rocco all I have to say is AMEN.