Daily Archives: September 14, 2009

Medical bills underlie 60 percent of U.S. bankrupts: study | U.S. | Reuters

Pretty much everything you need to know about the financial reason to push through health care reform. Families are going broke and losing their homes while insurance companies have enough cash to bribe and buy Congress many times over while earning insanely sick salaries.

Don’t believe me? The CEO of UnitedHealthcare makes (through salary and stock option) over $800,000 A DAY! Unless this guy managed to cure cancer, pull all the excess carbon out of the air, and figured out how to get rid of acne in one morning, there is no way in hell he deserves that kind of money.

But he does. On the back of everyone paying for crappy insurance policies. Some of them are losing their homes while he figures out how many more mansions he’d like to own.

So much for fairness.

Who took the picture of Joe Wilson? And how? | Psychology Today

THIS is a great question:

So here’s what I don’t understand. If Joe Wilson’s outburst during Obama’s speech Wednesday night was truly “spontaneous,” as Wilson claims, and no one (including Wilson himself) could have anticipated it, how come there is a sharply focused and neatly centered picture of Wilson right at the moment he shouted “You lie!” when the outburst lasted less than a second? In the picture, Wilson’s mouth is still open, apparently in the middle of his shouting “lie.”

Not to be a conspiracy theorist but I’m pretty convinced that the GOP is using South Carolina and Louisiana politicians to push forward their hate and racism as those folks will never lose an election in the heart of the resurgent Confederacy. In short, Wilson’s “moment” was staged.

Op-Ed Columnist – Boy, Oh, Boy – NYTimes.com

Just to follow up on my last post, Maureen Dowd’s most recent editorial adds to the “GOP are racists” debate.

One of my co-workers posted something about resurgent McCarthyism on Facebook this week and one of our other co-workers basically railed against “Socialists who hate our Republic” and other assorted shit she probably learned from Glenn Beck’s knee. I shot back with a comment or two and then she assails us all as the “usual suspects” who have “no respect” for others. You know, because calling someone a traitor demands respect given in return or something.

I’m getting really tired of these hypocrites.

The Seminal » Big Insurance Defines Abuse as a Pre-Existing Condition

Do you still like your insurance company?

It takes people who lack a moral compass to justify nine figure salaries while denying cancer patients care because they failed to disclose previous bouts of acne. It is no surprise that insurance executives, who are always busy chasing after the next five figure bonus, are coming up with a novel way to deny people access to medical care: labeling survivors of domestic violence as “individuals with pre-existing conditions.”

Teabagger Math

This will give you a nice visual as to the difference between 70,000 angry, racist, treasonous hypocrites and an imaginary group of 2 million groups of said incestuous mouthbreathers.

Along with “intelligent design”, hatred of science, fear of biology, and disdain for literacy, yet more proof that you can’t trust Republicans with education. They can’t even do math for shit.