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Well.
Bush threw out the first ball of the season, and the crowd boohed him loudly. I wonder when the last time was that he was exposed to the public, rather than shielded by his handlers?
The New Yorker has said it all too well. As we continue to privatize health care distribution in this country, as overall costs soar, but coverage continues to decline precipitously, the question is never asked, “How’re we doin’?” Or if the question is asked, the answer never seems to involve results.
Or maybe it’s that the “results” that are weighed are unrelated to the effective distribution of health care in this country, nor to the cost-effectiveness of the care that we as citizens receive.
I’ve said many times that the purpose of health care delivery systems in other countries is to deliver health care, while the purpose of ours in this country is to make sure that nobody who does not deserve health care gets it, regardless of how much it costs to make sure this does not happen. Or gets a subsidy. Subsidies are parceled out to the well-to-do, not to the poor, who by the mere fact that they have chosen to remain poor have proven that they deserve no help whatever.
The situation in this country is best illustrated by the situation of the woman who was injured, brain-damaged, and permanently disabled while working at walmart. Her lawyers won a settlement from the insurance company, and walmart’s lawyers have sued her to regain the costs of care they had already doled out. A woman on a forum I post on said that she was “double-dipping”, trying to get paid twice. Excuse me? I don’t think she was doing anything except vegging out in the nursing home where she has no choice but to live, at least until they put her out on the street for lack of funds.
Only in this country is it considered a positive moral imperative to turn people out of a nursing home to die on the street.
You know, I like Bill Clinton and all—he’s basically a very likeable guy—but it turns out that the blame for the subprime mortgage lending crisis falls squarely in his lap, like an intern in a blue satin dress. He considered signing the laws that made this possible to be a crowning achievement of his administration.
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A little market correction?
Well, it’s not exactly a market correction, since Bush has decided to bail out the greedy and irresponsible bankers who have scored the most profit on this disaster. In fact, it’s not anything like a market correction at all.
Even during the height of the Savings and Loan debacle, no one would have ever proposed that people who can’t afford to make mortgage payments in the first place should be given mortgages that it will be impossible for them to pay off when payments balloon. “Subprime mortgages” as we know them never existed before. They were illegal to create and market.
So who made them possible? What regulatory agency agreed that this was a good idea? It is what the whole house of cards is built on, right? Well, at best. I would like to hear Alan Greenspan address this one.
Girl, you need some time for yourself? Get it after you bank that million from Hustler.
“In a surprising turn of events, NY Governor Eliot Spitzer has filed a lawsuit against “Kristen”, a prostitute for the Emperor’s Club prostitution ring. Spitzer’s complaint alleges that “Kristen’s” refusal to allow him to sleep with her bareback, while allegedly knowing of his sexual addiction, constituted unfair exploitation of an ADA-protected disability.”
I’m presuming this is fiction, and I’m wishing I’d written it myself.
“Although researchers have long agreed that girls have superior language abilities than boys, until now no one has clearly provided a biological basis that may account for their differences.
For the first time — and in unambiguous findings — researchers from Northwestern University and the University of Haifa show both that areas of the brain associated with language work harder in girls than in boys during language tasks, and that boys and girls rely on different parts of the brain when performing these tasks.“
What the researchers found is that language areas in girls’ brains worked harder when they were being tested by reading or auditory means.
In boys’ brains, however it was the hearing or visual centers that worked harder.
Researchers speculate that there may have been an evolutionary advantage to men being able to focus their hearing and sight in avoiding dangers.
But I’ve been saying that all along.
Tests were run on boys and girls age 9 to 13. They’re going to have to duplicate the test on adults in order to make sure that this is not something that the younguns outgrow.
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