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Some other issues that need to be considered regarding healthcare:

US health insurance is still centered around the corporation. This made perfect sense back when most people worked at the same...

As I said, the postal service doesn't cherry pick, they deliver pretty much everywhere. It's called: providing a public service. So your comparison is apples to oranges.


Again, you fail to...

No need, you already named 4 which are better managed and more effecient than private equivilents.


Works fine and delivers mail pretty much everywhere, it doesn't just cherry pick profitable...

Job loses revised upward by almost a million
http://www.bloomberg.com/apps/news?pid=20601068&sid=aXoQJ14iSlWg

FDIC is taking a beating because banks are still massively lying about losses...

All Along the Watchtower

Jimi Hendrix's cover of the Bob Dylan song.

It's just a handy reminder to scream out the correct name while in the heat of passion. :lol:

Haha, yeah, Grayson on the Republican plan: don't get sick.

Single payer is the best solution, but that can't even be considered in this country because too much of our politicians campaign...

Good for Alan Grayson! Finally a Dem shows some backbone and points out that the Republicans offer no solutions on healthcare.

I especially liked this from his follow up "apology to Republicans":...

Just wow... the right wing has always been nuts but this is over the top.

America's military will intervene as a last resort to resolve the "Obama problem." Don't dismiss it as unrealistic

If...

Now Blackwater's looking to train NGO's and Faith Based Organizations....

Blackwater Offers Training to 'Faith Based Organizationns'
By Jeremy Scahill
...

Apparently it's 100% back to business as usual in Washington and on Wall Street.

Stiglitz is saying that the banking industry is unreformed and it's too big to fails are bigger than ever. He also...

Yeah, corporations being given the full rights of citizenship always seemed nutty to me. A corporation is just a legal document, it's not a person.

It also seems questionable to me that CEO's...

LOL
Need some more gasoline to throw on that fire?[/quote]

Guilty as charged.

Good for the TWU! The folks on Wall Street need some incentives to clean up thier act.

q1a2z3, what's your opinion of the United Nations and the Council on Foreign Relations?

I think the general logic in these cases is pretty much "the enemy of my enemy is my friend". The Soviets were the Evil Empire, thus the enemies of Soviet allies were deemed to be freedom fighters....

Where would we be without Jerry Falwell and Pat Robertson to shepard us?
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=H-CAcdta_8I

But seriously, no real beef with religion, just those that misuse it.

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You think what Spitzer did was uncommon or unknown for a long time? That's being mighty naive.

The issue isn't if he did something wrong(he did), the...

Yes, claims of US troop reductions in Iraq are sham if said troops are merely replaced with private armies.

What hope is to be found in this change?

Yes, privatization is a key weapon key weapon used to loot 3rd world nations. Get them in over thier heads in debt... then the IMF bails them out but imposes conditionalities. The IMF conditions...

Yeah, privatized prisons are probably #2 on my shit list after privatized armys.

How does society benefit from privatized prisons when the shareholders in the prisons are also the lawmakers and...

plane crashes can be clutch(for Karl Rove) but who knows...

Anyone ever research the pedophile ring scandal in Nebraska around the time of the S&L crisis and Iran Contra? The big danger with it...

Privatizing state functions and/or infrastructure is just a bad idea.

We shouldn't even allow private armys to exist. They make us look like a shitty banana republic.

Not a huge fan of ACORN... they do have some issues.

But aren't you painting this problem with a rather broad brush?

I mean... I'd bet we could easily nail at least a few Democrat and...

Lived in London England for 3 years, very fun city but not enough sunlight. It's almost as if they don't pay thier electric bills! :P

In Europe I'd choose Italy, somewhere in the northern...