I am so tired of this election

I don’t think that I am capable of voting for Hilary. I certainly won’t vote for McCain. If she somehow gets the nomination, my vote will go to a third party candidate. I don’t care if McCain wins. He is the same as her. If Obama gets the nomination and loses the election it will be almost entirely her fault.

Pro-Death.

I am pro-death. I favor abortion rights and I like guns. I think that the inclination to remove guns from the arms of citizens is a well intentioned, but ultimately flawed intention of left-wingers. I happen to agree with many of their ideas about human rights and the like. However, disarming America leaves the door open for the final subjugation of American freedom.

Blue Cross of California asks Doctors to rat out their patients

"The state's largest for-profit health insurer is asking California physicians to look for conditions it can use to cancel their new patients' medical coverage.Blue Cross of California is sending physicians copies of health insurance applications filled out by new patients, along with a letter advising them that the company has a right to drop members who fail to disclose "material medical history," including "pre-existing pregnancies." - By Lisa Girion, Los Angeles Times Staff Writer February 12, 2008

Well another sad chapter in American health care. BC of CA is a non-profit, so hopefully they aren’t looking for too much personal gain and are trying in vain to keep health care costs down.

Dr Phil is a douchebag

Apparently he has totally gone over the edge. Confidentiality doesn't apply to him. Peep this NY Times article. This guy was a licensed psychologist in Texas for 20 years apparently. For some reason he was invited to see Britney in her hospital room by her extremely well family. Then he spilled the beans about it to the media, because...because....what else would he do?

Glad to see that the helping professions are being repped to the masses by this self aggrandizing megalomaniacal narcissist. God bless you Phil McGraw.

Corporate Naughtiness Revisited

I read this on dailykos this morning. Big surprise here - of course.

"The Rich Are Different by Devilstower

Thu Dec 27, 2007 at 01:54:10 PM PST

Michelle Leder at footnoted.org specializes in reading company reports and looking for those little special treats given to those folks who have their feet at the top of the corporate ladder.

So what has she found? Marketplace has some of Michelle's best finds for 2007.

How about the CEO at Qwest, whose daughter gets to use the corporate jet to travel to school? Puts that kid whose mother pulls up to jr. high in a Hummer in her place. Cost to the stockholders: about $600,000.

Personal travel was a theme in CEO perks this year. Just ask the CEO of I2. The company covered his commuting expenses so he could live in Maine while the company offices were in Dallas. Cost to the stockholders: $949,000 -- and by the way, the company was busy scrambling to avoid collapse. I'm sure the other employees got equally nice treatment."(rest of post here)

They were jacking it from Marketplace themselves. There is something devilishly wonderful about the self-righteous snarkiness that progressives, liberals, or whatever the preferred nomenclature is, express when these perennial stories pop up. Plus who doesn’t like to snark a little themselves?

I was at a funny little dinner party a few days ago with some friends of the family who all work in higher education. They were speaking about the move of some people on the sub-continent away from agriculture and toward manufacturing jobs. Their main thesis appeared to be that if the poor Indians could see the results of the move away from AG to factories ten years on, then they would stay in AG.

I love these people; I grew up with them. But please, give me a break. Do they wish that they themselves had stayed agrarian? I looked in all the packages and gift bags from the day and I only found one not made in China. Talk about hypocritical. I think I disappoint my family when I make comments to this effect, but isn’t it easy to sit in your heated house streaming internet Christmas radio, exchanging inexpensive gifts and even cheaper social commentary?

Progressives are just as complicit in this corporate world as anyone else. As long as cable television is cheap and consumer goods are cheap, we are all willing to grind brown and yellow people into the ground.

Mad Max - Nigeria Edition

"At least 45 people were burned to death on the outskirts of Lagos when fuel they were siphoning from a buried pipeline caught fire. Nine out of 10 people in Nigeria, Africa’s top exporter of crude oil, live on less than $2 a day, and many are prepared to take huge risks to obtain free fuel." By REUTERS Published: December 27, 2007

Is this Mad Max or what? I can just see this type of thing happening down here in South Florida where I live. This really made my morning special when I saw it on the NY Times site. I can't wait for the fuel crisis to really heat up. At least in the US we can still buy guns.

White House's Perino sounds like a sub-normal intelligence Liar again (big surprise)

So I saw this on a Media Bistro link to Politico this morning when I was checking my holiday emails.

"The New York Times has changed the subheadline in Wednesday’s front-page story on the CIA’s destruction of secret interrogation tapes, following a formal request by the White House.

The correction has already been made online, and there will be a print correction in the paper, according to a Times representative.

On Wednesday, White House press secretary Dana Perino said in a statement that the Times subheadline — “White House Role Was Wider Than It Said” — was inaccurate.

“The New York Times’ inference that there is an effort to mislead in this matter is pernicious and troubling, and we are formally requesting that NYT correct the subheadline of this story,” Perino said.

The White House has continued not to comment on what the representative dubbed “misleading press reports.” (retrieved on 12/26/07 from an article by Michael Calderone on http://www.politico.com/news/stories/1207/7481.html)

Big surprise that the CIA would destroy tapes of torture, right. They are just doing their job - they're spies, duh! The uproar around this is ridiculous. What other action would you possibly expect from spies? I mean really? What? The thing that is fascinating and annoying and stupid is the posturing, of the Times, the White House, the impotent lawmakers, etc, etc, ad nauseam. I wonder what it is like to come off like a total d-bag like Perino does every time she opens her mouth. Bush really loves to put her in the position of sounding like a moronic asshole. I bet she isn't so that is what really intrigues me. What is it like to be forced to say patently idiotic things every day? Even if you have drank the Bush Kool-Aid it must be a little horrifying.