Some of you may have heard me bitching about health insurance in the US before. Real Live Preacher is having some of his own problems, and sums up the whole issue rather nicely in this video, which y'all should watch:

Yesterday:


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Via Daily Kos, the must-read post of the day on the tainted food scandal, and it isn't pretty.Months after dogs and cats started dropping dead of renal failure from melamine-tainted pet food, American consumers are beginning to learn how long and how wide this contaminant has also poisoned the human food supply. Last week, as California officials ( Read more... )

From RealClimate:The already-reeling "consensus" supposedly linking climate change to CO2 is about to receive its final coup-de-grace from a remarkable new result announced in a press conference today by Dr. Ewe Noh-Watt of the New Zealand Institute of Veterinary Climatology ( Read more... )

Why do Americans tolerate a healthcare system where the final arbiter of the medication they receive is not their doctor, but their insurance company. Anyone? Anyone at all?

A JOINT RESOLUTION ( Read more... )

If this troop increase is to combat insurgents in Iraq, why is Bush sending Patriot Missiles with them? Those terrorists have many medium range ballistic missiles?

Well, everyone else is doing an election post. I guess I ought to do one. I've been pretty quiet this cycle, mostly because of a feeling of ambivalence on who's likely going to win. That remains with this Democratic victory. My worry remains, as it has been for months and months, that a Democratic victory is enough to simply give the GOP the excuse ( Read more... )

Via Daily Kos, Finally, a Republican Willing to Spend on Educational Material:A candidate for state superintendent of schools said Thursday he wants thick used textbooks placed under every student's desk so they can use them for self-defense during school shootings ( Read more... )

Well, it'll be interesting to see how this turns out:The BBC has obtained evidence that Israelis have been giving military training to Kurds in northern Iraq ( Read more... )