December 2011
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ALEC Adopts Health Care Compact as Model... →
This press release has been editted with obvious lies overstruck:
Move makes model legislation available to 2,000 state legislators to use in respective states
The Health Care Compact Alliance today announced the American Legislative Exchange Council (ALEC), the nation’s largest nonpartisan individual membership association of state legislators, has adopted the Health Care Compact as model...
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Univision News Tumblr: Immigration law worries... →
univisionnews:
By JUAN GASTELUM Channel: Immigration
A provision in Alabama’s immigration law that prohibits the state from conducting business with undocumented immigrants is keeping many mobile home owners from renewing their registration tags. Last week, a federal judge issued a temporary…
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Scorpion antivenin: $100 in Mexico, $12,000 in... →
The fact that government-supported research (United States and Mexico) can result in a product that sells for $100 in Mexico and $12,000 in the United States, says much more about how health care is financed in the United States than it does about government and private roles in research.
All other wealthy nations have controlled health care spending much more effectively, while covering...
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Living History Guatemala | PhotoPhilanthropy
Because I don’t have the patience to teach submitters HTML, please follow the link here.
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The 99 Percent Declaration →
occupychulavista:
Elect one man and one woman from each of the 435 congressional districts in March 2012 plus six delegates from Washington, D.C., Puerto Rico and the U.S. Territories.
between March 2012 and July 2012, these delegates will draft a list of grievances. all 876 delegates shall meet as a national general assembly for five days the week of july 4, 2012 in Philadelphia.V
allow the...
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Hospital consolidation and the Affordable Care Act →
So the intent is to improve quality and the cost effectiveness of health care by encouraging integration of the health care providers, as through accountable care organizations, yet we will be seeing higher costs and higher profits as a result. That inevitably means that premiums for the private health plans will be higher – a problem that the Affordable Care Act was supposed to address.
What...
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“Gingrich showed real guts in refusing to pander to the most mean-spirited...”
– Paul Begala on Newt’s “humane” take on immigration in a debate he dominated. (via cheatsheet) Begala is no dumbass: he knows that Gringrich, like Rick Perry, are smart enough to know that the GOP needs Latinos as voters. The demographics say that the USA is becoming more ethnically Latino, the...
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“I like to point people to articles and issues about the world outside the U.S....”
– Christiane Amanpour, anchor of ABC’s This Week with Christiane Amanpour and board member of the International Women’s Media Foundation, lays out her media diet at The Atlantic Wire. Read more. (via theatlantic) In terms of the coverage, much the same could be said about the state house of any given...
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“The Senate is going to vote on whether Congress will give this president—and...”
– Chris Anders of the ACLU Washington Legislative Office Senate Moves To Allow Military To Intern Americans Without Trial - 12160 Gentle readers, shall we have a conversation with our Senators about these dogs, Sections 1031 and 1032 of S.1867?
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Jonathan Chait's on Liberal Disappointment -- New... →
I knew something smelled when I read and heard analyses of this opinion piece on the radio this weekend, I was ready for some kind of revisionism or centrist rhetoric when I saw that the article is 6 pages long trying to tie those registered voters who identify as liberal to the Democratic party. Then when I read this passage of euphemisms:
This aspect of the liberal style expresses itself as a...
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Senate's dead tree not quite what staffers had in... →
You better watch out, ALEC is coming to town … The American Legislative Exchange Council is holding its “States and Nation Policy Summit” this week in Phoenix and little elves have been busy preparing.
On the one hand, you have the elected officials who are arranging their schedules so they can attend the event at the Westin Kierland Resort & Spa, as well as the related dinners, mixers and...
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Mary Young: State's economic state not great,... →
With sections titled “More Failures of Progressive Policy” and “The Tragedy of Obamanomics,” the council would have difficulty proving its claim of being a nonpartisan organization.
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“…why on earth would Congress advise violent militarised reactions against...”
– The shocking truth about the crackdown on Occupy Naomi Wolf On a smaller scale, San Diego has yet to prove this point.
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“According to research by the Center for Responsive Politics, 19 current members...”
– Many Influential Lawmakers Invested in Wall Street Giant Goldman Sachs - OpenSecrets Blog | OpenSecrets
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Suspended National Press Club Member Refuses to... →
Some basics on this modern-day rabble-rouser: He has belonged to the NPC since 1997. He pays $600-$700 in annual dues. And yes, he has been “harangued” in the past about his tough questioning, but never to this extent. Some years ago, he recalled being suspended after being falsely accused of behaving badly at an event. In that instance, Husseini insists, it was another member, not him. They...
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Obama Thanksgiving Address: Conservatives Upset By... →
Were the press not a lot of drones to seek out conflict as a basis of their story, they’d have had the dignity not to become tools of overt theocrats who are afflicted with Obama Derangement Syndrome.
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“…pressure has been building on the Swiss government to arrest him and open...”
– George W. Bush cancels Switzerland visit over fears of arrest on torture charges | Mail Online Funny, I thought that Zionists would be literate.
Maybe they can still get Sarah Palin.
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WatchConsumer orgy in a Walmart over $2 waffle irons.
(via Ms. Clark to you - Over $2 waffle makers lol - Twitvid)
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“According to the Associated Press, at approximately 10:20 p.m.in a Walmart store...”
– Woman uses pepper spray during Black Friday madness at Walmart
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OECD Health at a Glance 2011 →
Nevertheless, the OECD still reports that public health and administrative costs in the United States are more than two-and-a-half times the OECD average.
Also, the OECD estimates of public spending for health care in the United States leave out two important categories. The tax deductibility of employer-sponsored plans amounts to a subsidy of taxpayer funds, plus taxpayers also pay for the...
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ALEC Brings Power, Protest To Scottsdale - Modern... →
Events scheduled by the American Legislative Exchange Council, or ALEC are planned from Wednesday to Friday next week at the Westin Kierland Resort & Spa, 6902 E. Greenway Parkway, Scottsdale. Over the same three days, a variety of labor and activist groups, including the Arizona AFL-CIO, Occupy Phoenix, Common Cause, MoveOn, AZ Justice Unitarian Universalist Collective and others, are...
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“The U.S. State Department and the U.S. Consul General in Cairo have confirmed...”
– Egyptian court orders release of IU student: IU News Room: Indiana University
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Petition: Fox News anchor Megyn Kelly: Eat or... →
It’s the day before Thanksgiving, you’re not working. There are over 16,000 of you who want Megyn Kelly to prove that pepper spray is really a food product. How will Fox News ignore it if you all tweet at her, demanding that she eat the pepper spray? Especially if you link to this petition to show our support?
Remember to put a dot before the @Megynkelly part, so your followers see...
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confronting the police now is a really bad idea... →
The problems with it is that we do not live in a de facto fascist / police state. To take on the police, of which no officer is elected, doesn’t follow the chain of accountability in our electoral system. It’s the mayor and the city council who we should be hammering, they are the ones who are supposed to control the police force. If they can’t or don’t control the SDPD,...
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How White Supremacists Are Trying to Make an... →
A recent influx of white supremacists and Patriot group members to the town of Kalispell, Montana, is causing alarm.
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Animal Protein Addiction & Hunger
After I saw a can of SPAM in the pantry closet, I found myself humming “She’s Lost Control” by Joy Division.
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WatchSeymour Hersh:
And what you have is—as I said, it’s some sort of a hysteria that we had over Iraq that’s coming up again in Iran. And this isn’t a plea for Iran. There’s a lot of things that the Iranians do that is objectionable, the way they treat dissent, etc., etc. So I’m just speaking within the context of the hullabaloo that’s up now.
When you hear someone talk about Iran developing nukes...
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“Libya’s National Transitional Council has said it wants to try Saif...”
– Q A: Will Gaddafi’s son be tried in Libya or The Hague? | Reuters
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Jennifer A. Marshall: Adoption is far too rare →
It’s interesting to note that this article comes rom The Heritage Foundation, an organization which churns out all kinds of conservatism, walking the way that they talk when they oppose abortion.
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“I think that anytime that an intoxicant is made legal there are social costs...”
– Cop Says Marijuana Legalization Could Cause Window Washers to Fall From Large Buildings and Land on People | StoptheDrugWar.org Lee Baca, don’t you have more people in custody than you can legally detain? If that is the case, why do you have this clown blabbering this non-sense to overfill...
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“For one thing, compromising with Obama is compromising with a Democratic...”
– Why Republicans like Simpson-Bowles - The Washington Post
Opinion polls get in the way of doing the right thing in Congress: what a clusterfuck.
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Privatization Nightmare: 5 Public Services That... →
Privatized Prisons
Parking Meters
Wisconsin
Louisiana Privatizing Public-Employee Health Plans
Traffic-law enforcement (including red-light cameras – decisions are made on profit motive, not good judgement)
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Experts try to define affordable health insurance →
The fundamental defect here is that we keep trying to match payment for a specified package of medical benefits to the incomes of specific individuals. Since a reasonable package is no longer affordable by median-income individuals, some form of subsidization is required for the majority of us. Yet recognized experts in the policy community have very different concepts as to how much and in what...
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OccupYrCorner Chula Vista went off today and as reports roll in: a resounding success! Many Occupiers took to the streets of Chula Vista, San Diego to spread the word of economic equality, Occupational politics, and the future of America for the young and old. They did it all in the rain and spent many days preparing clothing, immunity boosters, and a game plan to tackle the elements. A million...
