It’s all a big conspiracy!

What the anti-vaxers and alt-healthers think mainstream medicine is like. (H/T to Rebecca at Skepchick)

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“I guess the progressives are going to be the good soldiers on this one, one more time.”

What’s the big win here? Oh yeah, Democrats get to say they passed health care “reform.” The progressives have caved.  We are screwed. (H/T to Lambert) After claiming for months they couldn’t vote for a bill without the strongest possible government-run insurance option, liberals are putting aside their disappointment over the weaker version in the [...]

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Separate, and not equal

I want to read this book. “For most working people under 65, we’re Germany or France or Japan,” Reid writes. “For Native Americans, military personnel and veterans, we’re Britain, or Cuba … For those over 65, we’re Canada … For the 45 million uninsured Americans, we’re Cambodia, or Burkina Faso or rural India.” People in [...]

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With Democrats Like These: Opt-In???

You have GOT to be kidding me. The Senate health bill is drifting toward ending up with an “opt-in” provision versus an “opt-out,” one Democratic senator said Friday. Sen. Sheldon Whitehouse (D-R.I.) predicted that healthcare reform in the upper chamber would shift from its current construction, which allows states to opt out of a public option, [...]

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Stuff that is sticking in my craw

While I’m waiting for a huge report to download, I’ve got a couple of things on my mind. Well, Congress passed a Hate Crimes Bill.  I’ve got mixed emotions about that. You see, I hate (no pun intended) legislation that appears to prosecute someone differently on the basis of their “motivation” for the crime.  I think all [...]

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Wow

No. Really. Wow! Astronomers have confirmed that an exploding star spotted by Nasa’s Swift satellite is the most distant cosmic object to be detected by telescopes. In the journal Nature, two teams of astronomers report their observations of a gamma-ray burst from a star that died 13.1 billion light-years away. The massive star died about [...]

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Another sounds-good-until-you-look-closer move by Obama

“Hagel will be charged with overseeing the work of the intelligence agencies for the president and investigating violations of law by the clandestine community. “ Isn’t that Congress’ job? Or DoJ?  Oh. Wait. And the fact that the board works “mostly in secret” and had many of its powers stripped by GW, makes this look [...]

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“I’m not some peacenik, pot-smoking hippie who wants everyone to be in love”

U.S. official resigns over Afghan war (Washington Post) A former Marine Corps captain with combat experience in Iraq, Hoh had also served in uniform at the Pentagon, and as a civilian in Iraq and at the State Department. By July, he was the senior U.S. civilian in Zabul province, a Taliban hotbed. But last month, [...]

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Stress

My stress test got moved up to today (instead of tomorrow) and bumped up an hour. This means that I have been forbidden to have any caffeine since noon yesterday, which wasn’t so bad yesterday but is more problematic this morning.  I also cannot eat anything in the four hours prior to my test, so [...]

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Can we say it now?

Yes we can! President Barack Obama is actively discouraging Senate Democrats in their effort to include a public insurance option with a state opt-out clause as part of health care reform. In its place, say multiple Democratic sources, Obama has indicated a preference for an alternative policy, favored by the insurance industry, which would see [...]

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