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Saturday, February 14, 2009

ARE YOU WONDERING ABOUT “PORKAPALOOZA”, AKA “THE STIMULUS BILL”?

REASON MAGAZINE has an analysis, including a big list of projects that made it into the bill - that OUGHT to make your blood boil.
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It’s a terrible bill, in other words, both on its face and in the details. For the reasons I detailed HERE, it won’t stimulate the economy. It violates many of President Obama’s promises. Most of the deals that created it were made behind closed doors, meaning that there is virtually zero transparency and no real way to track where, how, or why money is being spent. On top of that, the bill is still packed with items that any vaguely impartial observer would call pork.

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. READ THE WHOLE THING…..and weep for our children and grandchildren, who will be paying for our lack of restraint for many decades.

Posted by Earl on 02/14 at 08:13 PM
Politics • Domestic • Healthcare • Government Outrage • Economics •

Saturday, December 06, 2008

AMERICAN ASSOCIATION OF RETIRED PEOPLE RIPS OFF SENIORS…..

Arthur Laupus joined AARP because he thought the nonprofit senior-citizen-advocacy group would make his retirement years easier. He signed up for an auto insurance policy endorsed by AARP, believing the advertising that said he would save money….When Laupus…compared his car insurance rate with a dozen other companies, he found he was paying twice the average. ....Laupus stumbled onto something that many members of the world’s largest seniors’ organization don’t know: The group, formerly called American Association of Retired Persons, collects hundreds of millions of dollars annually from insurers who pay for AARP’s endorsement of their policies.(emphasis added)

So what, you ask? They need the money for all the good things they do for seniors, you say?

Posted by Earl on 12/06 at 07:20 PM
Miscellany • Politics • Domestic • Healthcare • Economics • (0) Comments •

Tuesday, November 11, 2008

IS IT LEGITIMATE TO RECORD CAMPAIGN PROMISES MADE BY POLITICIANS? EVEN IF IT’S OBAMA?

Because that’s what those nasty guys at INVESTOR’S BUSINESS DAILY EDITORIALS have done…...for shame!
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Few presidential candidates have made more specific promises to American voters than Barack Obama. They came so fast and furious in the latter part of the campaign, you’d be excused for not keeping up. So as a public service, we’ve put together a handy checklist of some of the biggest Obama promises — culled from his “Blueprint for Change,“ his campaign speeches and advertisements. Clip it. Save it. And see how he did in four years.

Posted by Earl on 11/11 at 08:04 PM
Politics • Domestic • Healthcare • Economics • Iraq • Second Amendment • (8) Comments •

Friday, October 17, 2008

MICHAEL POLLAN HAS WRITTEN AN OPEN LETTER TO THE PRESIDENT-ELECT—START THINKING ABOUT FOOD

MICHAEL POLLAN has written A NUMBER OF BOOKS, the last several of them about food, and the U.S. food supply, and our peculiar way of producing it.

I recently finished THE OMNIVORE’S DILEMMA, and Thank You, LAURA for insisting, and for loaning me the book. I truly enjoyed the last half of it, where he talks about sustainable agriculture and about hunting and gathering…but the first half about U.S. factory agriculture, is pretty horrifying. Even given that, I recommend the book - it will change the way you look at the grocery store, and for the better.

Posted by Earl on 10/17 at 03:47 PM
Miscellany • Education • Food • Politics • Domestic • Healthcare • Economics • (2) Comments •

Saturday, September 13, 2008

SO…..WHY IS THIS STUDY “NEWS” IN SEPTEMBER, 2008?

To Work or Not?

A new study finds that children of privileged families fare worse when the mother works outside the home. But what does the research really tell us?
By Mary Carmichael | Newsweek Web Exclusive
Sep 11, 2008 | Updated: 8:23 p.m. ET Sep 11, 2008

DISCUSS AMONG YOURSELVES

Posted by Earl on 09/13 at 08:25 PM
Politics • Healthcare • Media Bias • (1) Comments •

Saturday, January 06, 2007

SO YOU THINK HEALTHCARE IS A MESS IN THIS COUNTRY…...?

And that something like “Hillarycare”, where there is a “single payer” (the government) will improve matters?

Riiiiiiiiiiight!

Patients are being denied basic operations, including treatments for varicose veins, wisdom teeth and bad backs, as hospitals try frantically to balance the books by the end of the financial year, The Times can reveal….In one example of the cash-saving strategies, seen by The Times, a primary care trust in Yorkshire has told hospitals that they will not be paid for some non-essential operations, while patients will not be given a hospital appointment in under eight weeks….The cuts are widespread, although there are no central records to provide definitive figures.

Yikes!

Posted by Earl on 01/06 at 10:15 PM
Politics • Healthcare • Economics • International • (2) Comments •

Friday, December 15, 2006

HOW BIG A STRETCH MUST YOU MAKE TO BOOST YOUR SELF-ESTEEM…...?

If you’re really hurting, maybe this will help:

“People who are more intelligent as children, who will obviously keep that intelligence when they are 30, were more likely to say they are vegetarians at that age than those that were less intelligent,“ said Dr Catherine Gale, an epidemiologist at the University of Southampton in England.

Posted by Earl on 12/15 at 10:57 AM
Science • Health • Miscellany • Food • Politics • Healthcare • (1) Comments •

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