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Greedy Insurance Industry

Or, as 60's activist and Realist publisher Paul Krassner says, " The obscenely greedy insurance industry is a pre-existing condition that must be treated with a dose of competition."

Where Does The Money Go?

NY deputy in Taser incident suspended without pay

SYRACUSE, N.Y. (AP) — The sheriff's deputy who zapped a Syracuse area woman with a stun gun during a traffic stop earlier this year has been suspended without pay.

The Onondaga County Sheriff's Department says Sean Andrews was suspended from his job for 30 days after an administrative hearing Wednesday that's part of ongoing disciplinary proceedings.

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Health Care Wingnuts

The Democrats have moved to the right,  Republicans have moved to the mental hospital--Bill Maher

How do Republicans train themselves to be so impervious to reality? It begins, I suspect, with religion. They are taught from a young age that it is good to have "faith" – which is, by definition, a belief without any evidence to back it up. You don't have "faith" that Australia exists, or that fire burns: you have evidence. You only need "faith" to believe the untrue or unprovable. Indeed, they are taught that faith is the highest aspiration and most noble cause. Is it any surprise this then percolates into their political views? Faith-based thinking spreads and contaminates the rational.

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Daydream Believers | American Journalism Review

America has become a country filled with people who stubbornly continue to believe what they want to believe, regardless of the facts.

Take the so-called birthers, who refuse to accept that President Obama is an American citizen, despite ample evidence showing that he is.

Or those who embrace the notion that the health care legislation working its way through Congress would establish "death panels" that would "pull the plug on grandma," even though it clearly wouldn't.

It's the job of journalists to sort out such contretemps, to determine where the truth lies. But what do you do when a significant portion of the electorate ignores the findings?

via www.ajr.org

March On Washington For Health Care September 13

Robert Reich, the former Labor secretary, scholar and commentator, called Tuesday for a “march on Washington” on Sept. 13 —“Grandparents Day” — in support of a health care bill that offers a public option.

While he said organizing was not his strength, he would be prepared to assist. “If enough people feel that’s the best way for their voices to be heard, and can’t be heard in any other way, then we march,”

A group of conservatives have already announced a “tea party” movement march on Washington for Sept. 12. An opposing march the next day, if one were to materialize, could make for an interesting weekend.

Reich’s suggested march is the latest manifestation of liberal anger about signs that the Obama administration may be willing to live without a public option if it means a health care bill can become law.

“Very few things happen in Washington that are in the public's interest when corporations have huge financial stakes in the game, as they obviously do with health care — unless the public is actively involved, engaged and organized,” Reich wrote. “We won't get a public option, or anything close to it, unless people who feel strongly about it make a racket.”

The “first step is to be very loud and very vocal: Write, phone, e-mail, your congressional delegation and the White House.

Second step: Get others to do the same.

Third step: Get voters in Montana, North Dakota, Nebraska, and other states where Blue Dog Dems and wavering Senate Dems live, and have them make a hell of a fuss.

Fourth step: March on Washington.”

He suggested the morning of Sept. 13 because “that's a Sunday, and it's also Grandparents Day. I've just become a grandparent, and I'm worried as hell about the kind of world my little granddaughter is inheriting. “

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