05.26.10
Bp gulf gusher of Death
I wonder if Gulf Shrimp will be extinct this time next year? I wonder if we could farm raise them in a huge pen of Haiti?
SS
03.13.10
Green Zone -Facts aren’t Fair or Balanced
It’s hilarious, WMD-nuts are still digging holes in Syria looking for the “secret cache”. From Commander Chimpy McFlightsuit’s “F*** Saddamm,we’re taking him out!” quote in Time mag a year before, his creation of a huge slush fund to expand Qatar Air Base that summer, and an unsubtle Labor day war propaganda rollout, anyone with a room temp IQ knew when the war would start.(missed the night of no moon due to freak early sandstorm). The excellent aluminum tube WaPo article, McClatchy’s reporting, and the IAEA report put the lie to Chimpy’s Cheer Squads claims. The only WMD’s that other countries believed Saddam had were chem/bio shells left from Gulf I. Clinton’s two attacks got those. Judas Miller and Highball were just Chalabi puppets.
S(iegal)Squirrel
12.08.09
Uh, Oh! Tiger’s Wife OD???
WINDERMERE, Fla. - A woman was transported to hospital from Tiger Woods’ Florida home after firefighters responded to a medical call early Tuesday, NBC News reported.
According to Orlando-based WESH, the adult female was taken from the $2.6 million home “on advanced life support” after firefighters received a call at 2:36 a.m.
A radio log showed an adult female was transported to Health Central Hospital, WESH reported.
Footage obtained by WESH appeared to show a blond woman on a stretcher being attended to by emergency services.
Orange County Fire officials were unable to disclose further information about the incident.
This doesn’t look good, not good at all…
S(andtrap) Squirrel
11.24.09
The Princess Graces us with her presence…
Desi seems to be back blogging somewhat regularly (more than I’ve been anyway). The snarky, conceited beauty has been sorely missed by many and it’s great to “see” her back even if I’m not blog-rooled anymore sniff…sniff
S(mileyface)Squirrel
First We Kill All the Insurance Companies…
Health insurers have forced consumers to pay billions of dollars in medical bills that the insurers themselves should have paid, according to a report released yesterday by the staff of the Senate Commerce Committee.
At a committee hearing yesterday, three health-care specialists testified that insurers go to great lengths to avoid responsibility for sick people, use deliberately incomprehensible documents to mislead consumers about their benefits, and sell “junk” policies that do not cover needed care. Rockefeller said he was exploring “why consumers get such a raw deal from their insurance companies.”
Many Americans pay higher premiums for the freedom to go outside an insurer’s network of doctors and hospitals. When they do, insurers typically pay a percentage of what they call the “usual and customary” rates for the services. How insurers determine the usual rates had long been opaque to consumers and difficult if not impossible for them to challenge.
As it turns out, insurers typically used numbers from Ingenix, a wholly owned subsidiary of the big insurer UnitedHealth Group. Ingenix had an incentive to produce benchmarks that low-balled usual and customary rates and shifted costs from insurers to their customers, the report said.
Ingenix got its data from the same insurers that bought its benchmark information, the report said. Insurers that contributed information to Ingenix often “scrubbed” their data to remove high charges, and Ingenix further manipulated the numbers, removing valid high charges from its calculations, the report said.
This is why any congressman who defends insurance companies as useful or competitive are evil lying assholes..am I being too subtle? Why do our “elected representatives” continue to allow them to rob Americans? Why?
06.24.09
Iran- Cry Havoc!!! The apparent perils of letting the general public wander around unleashed and un-licensed…
It is becoming all too clear to the Repugnican Party (and Fix’d Noise) that allowing the general public to wander around freely expressing their opinion can be detrimental; not only to Party loyalty, but to political power in general. Even Diane Feinstein who enjoys a certain Democratic cachet seems to be having doubts about giving the public even the shortest shrift these days…
The “party faithfull”, those willing to keep repeating the party line at ever increasing volume unil everyone with a brain and factual information get annoyed or bored or discouraged enough to just go away…well, they have basically decided to just stop listening. The increasingly crazy attacks (SSocialistts, Communists, Obama is scary, Be Afraid, Be very afraid…)
