Daily Archives: August 18, 2009

Dirty Secret No. 2 in Obamacare

Chuck Norris

By Chuck Norris

08/18/2009
I’ve read on several blogs that if my tears can cure cancer, I should take care of universal health care. Cute.

The real fact is that neither I nor Obamacare (in its present form, the 1,000-plus-page H.R. 3200) can provide the remedy.

In my column last week, I explained that dirty secret No. 1 in Obamacare is that the House bill would grant government the authority to come into homes and usurp parental rights over … Continue reading

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Joe The Plumber Says He Would ‘Beat The Livin’ Tar’ Out Of Pelosi

This past weekend, at the right wing’s RightOnline blogger conference in Pittsburgh — sponsored by Americans for Prosperity — Alternet’s Adele Stan reported that Joe “the Plumber” Wurzelbacher attacked Nancy Pelosi for calling teabaggers “un-American.” (In fact, Pelosi said “drowning out opposing views is un-American.”) Wurzelbacher said that in the good ol’ days, he would have been able to physically “beat” Pelosi: Continue reading

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6 more cases of botched cancer treatment at Pa. VA

AP

PHILADELPHIA – Six more cases have been found of cancer patients being given incorrect radiation doses at the Veterans Affairs Medical Center in Philadelphia.

The errors happened in a common surgical procedure to treat prostate cancer.

That brings the total to 98 veterans who were given incorrect radiation doses over a six-year period at the hospital.

The program had treated 114 cancer patients … Continue reading

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AIG awards new CEO $7 million annual salary

Here is another slap in the face to the American people, and how can it be justifyed when the people who do the production in this Country gets minimum wage.
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Reuters
Tue Aug 18

NEW YORK (Reuters) – American International Group Inc (AIG.N), the insurer that received billions of dollars in a U.S. bailout, said on Monday that it will pay newly-.. Continue reading

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