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An "Old Army Vet" and liberal, qua liberal, with a passion for open inquiry in a neverending quest for truth unpoisoned by religious superstitions. Per Voltaire: "He who can lead you to believe an absurdity can lead you to commit an atrocity."
(1 comments) SHARE Saturday, November 21, 2009 The GOP's Limbo Rock and How ‘Low' Can We Go?
In an accent she'd never completely been able to overcome, 'Of course . . . I didn't agree with everything the Nazis did.'
(1 comments) SHARE Wednesday, September 3, 2008 BREAKING NEWS: Palin took millions in earmarks as mayor and governor.
The story, sadly, does not end here. Just this year, Governor Palin's office forwarded to Ted Stevens' office a 70-page memo detailing needs for more than $200 million in earmarked funds.
(8 comments) SHARE Saturday, October 31, 2009 The questions asked concerning Afghanistan are all wrong.
It was those who might take offense at my language that I wanted most to offend. We're talking about horrendous death and mutilation of human beings — and some complain because they're disturbed by rough words???
(4 comments) SHARE Wednesday, June 10, 2009 The call to arms on healthcare reform
Conservatives and Republicans have raised a hue and cry - every bit of it shamelessly misleading - against government's involvement.
(8 comments) SHARE Tuesday, May 12, 2009 Health Insurers' Bottom Line Defines 'Medical Necessity'
Regardless that the neurosurgeon, before proceeding with surgery, wanted some assurance of better-than-even odds that the cardio system was sufficiently healthy to accept the stress of surgery, INSURANCE WOULD NOT cover a cardio workup exam! Checking to see whether the patient's heart could weather the storm of an approved surgery wasn't on the computerized "approved" list.
(3 comments) SHARE Thursday, February 11, 2010 America's tenth decile, the "sitting around guys."
Without knowing it, a business model decision that weighs costs with benefits is the Fortune 500 type of decision every young, urban core, gang-banger made, as do all prospective members to the gang.
(5 comments) SHARE Tuesday, May 31, 2011 This is a test, but oh it is such an important one
It matters . . . a great deal, a very great deal, that you scroll over the comments made by U.S. Congresswoman Michelle Bachmann, to highlight them, then hit the Ctrl-C on your keyboard, to paste them into a document that can be easily and immediately referenced.
(2 comments) SHARE Saturday, February 28, 2009 Addendum to Bobby - We Hardly Knew Ye piece
I have stared into the impenetrable murky brown that passes for water in Lake Pontchartrain and Lake Borgne, and I'd take swigs from both before I'd swallow what Bobby was decanting.
(1 comments) SHARE Thursday, October 15, 2009 You want 'what' in Afghanistan?
40,000 additional troops will not accomplish the task. Using Jones' (and General Petraeus') own 1 - 32 insurgent warfare troop-strength calculations, the ratio of boots on the ground to a host population, the Afghanistan campaign is gonna require 640,000 marines and soldiers.
(3 comments) SHARE Tuesday, June 29, 2010 An important speech by Sen Franken to Constitutionalist Soc, PLEASE listen
In his Al Franken manner, tersely outlines what has gone wrong, how justice is being -- as it has been -- hijacked by conservatives to serve ill ends. Franken's points are made with his typical droll, sometimes sarcastic humor. But the points are made.
(3 comments) SHARE Wednesday, February 3, 2010 Friday Night Smackdown - A Sign of the Times
"If a family today cannot afford . . . how much health care insurance will they be able to buy with a $5,000 tax credit that comes into play during the next tax filing year, and after they've spent $15,000 the previous year for health insurance?"
(7 comments) SHARE Saturday, August 14, 2010 My first run-ins with the damning illogic of the Right
NOTICE: Rough sledding ahead. The effort is to be as honest as I can be, which for many may be a ride to tough to handle; language and verbal images employed accordingly.