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NSA/Surveillance: A First Step In Reining It In
The President’s speech on Friday, pre-empting the final report he commissioned on NSA restraints, is a good first step. So, we applaud a beginning in rolling back the Surveillance State aimed at the American people.
Dems: Time For Radical Economic Solutions
I’m throwing this out there after much thought, but also just before leaving town for a week. So I won’t be able to respond right away. The economic incrementalism we Democrats are doing with supposed economic solutions to a broken capitalistic system isn’t working. Jim Hightower and many other fellow populists told you they wouldn’t work and he was right. It is time for radical solutions on behalf of the people.
ObamaCare A Qualified Success
We’re 90 days past Sebelius’s near catastrophic launch. In spite of amazing roadblocks, Republican resistance and sabotage, Republican governor’s further undermining a key element to serve the health needs of our poorest citizens, and what our President had the honesty to characterize as “self inflicted wounds”, We’ve got a success here.
Senator Coons, Too Many Cooks In the Iran Kitchen
Well, maybe living in a Blue state is not all its cracked up to be after all. I now read that Senator Coons has signed onto the Menendez bill with some of the worst the Republican party has to offer to mess with the Iran peace/nuke disarmament recipe.
Eliz. Warren Gets It Right On Credit Score Bullies
I read with interest that Sen. Elizabeth Warren is submitting legislation to regulate and rein in consumer credit scoring companies on their abuse of our citizens. This warms my populist heart. It mainly aims at employer’s use of this unreliable and often inaccurate information but at least it is a start for us consumers/job applicants.
Meet The Best Health Care, The VA
Yes, the best health care in the USA is the VA. Not private, for profit care but the system owned and run by the people of the United States, via the federal government. Yes, government healthcare that is essentially socialized medicine.
Day 70 In Pursuit of ACA Health Care
My spouse started her attempt to replace a sub-standard health insurance policy 70 days ago. She is and was a huge supporter of the ACA compromise legislation as also am/was I. We were both big supporters of single payer, still are, but understand political compromise.
Why Is Delaware Risking Faulty Elections?
I was thrilled last spring to move to a Blue state. Still am, except for one major deficiency here. Our voting machine systems. Most of the rest of the free world, at least here in the good old U.S. of A., has discovered the flaws and huge risks present with DRE voting machines.
You Be The Judge In A Mental Health Court
“A person may be dangerous to self and others when he or she have recently threatened or attempted suicide or some serious bodily injury. He or she may have demonstrated danger of substantial and imminent harm to himself and/ or others through some recent act, attempt or threat of the same.”
Now, I’d welcome your interpretation of this legal definition of a mentally ill person’s status in a court in a crisis center or public psychiatric hospital whose family members or colleagues trying to get an involuntary assessment of their mental health/competence to make their own decisions. Pay particular attention to the words “dangerous”, “threatened”, “recently”, “substantial”, “imminent” or “harm”.
What conduct, voiced statements or behaviors would lead you to your decision to either release the person to society or have them confined temporarily for psychiatric assessment and further action?
Anybody Else Longing For Single Payer?
Ok, now I am more than totally befuddled about our so called health care reform. Today the President announced that if you liked your piece of shit so called catastrophic health policy that covers practically nothing and leads you to bankruptcy court, you can keep it. If only the insurance companies will willingly volunteer to restore their pieces of shit policies. In the name of good citizenship.
O’Keefe At It Again
The infamous conservative James O’Keefe has now set his sites on Obamacare Navigators with video clips of their allegedly misinforming, or misleading or encouraging abuse of a federal program.
So, Where Was The Republican Outrage On Insurance Ethics Pre-Obamacare?
Upfront, let me tell you I was hugely disappointed when the public option and/or single payer got shelved in the formation of Obamacare. And as one in the health care industry I was amazed that candidate Obama was willing to trust the health insurance industry to do the right thing for a revamped health insurance public policy, having seen them in action up close and professionally.
At War With The Surveillance State: Electronic Frontier Foundation
NSA overreach revelations just keep coming and yet Sen. Feinstein’s Intelligence Committee, created to provide oversight to protect our privacy rights are trying to expand the reach of surveillance and data collection by our government. Google’s CEO’s critique in the last days is an example, as the surveillance net entraps our data held by his company.
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