06.27.07
Posted in SSquirrel at 9:15 am by SSquirrel
More Metro Detroiters are struggling to pay their hospital bills, a troubling side effect of the region’s prolonged economic slump and health insurance plans that have shifted more medical costs to patients.
At least five Metro Detroit health systems have seen their bad debt from unpaid patient bills rise by millions of dollars in the past several years.
The increase in delinquent bills, which is expected to get worse, is coming even as many local health systems are providing more free treatment or charity care to patients.
Diane(Desi) shares her views in her usual style…
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06.24.07
Posted in SSquirrel at 11:01 am by SSquirrel
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06.21.07
Posted in SSquirrel at 10:52 am by SSquirrel
Dan Eggen
Deputy Attorney General Paul J. McNulty today will defend his past statements about the firings of U.S. attorneys, rebutting allegations from other Bush administration officials that he misled Congress by suggesting there was no substantial White House role in the dismissals, according to prepared remarks released yesterday.
McNulty, who is leaving the Justice Department this summer, also will tell a House Judiciary subcommittee that he does not believe that other senior officials, including former Justice aide Monica M. Goodling, purposely hid the extent of the White House’s role in the firings.
One Justice official and longtime McNulty colleague said the deputy attorney general has effectively been punished for telling the truth about the Arkansas firing and other matters. “He’s probably being maligned in the minds of some because he was honest, and that’s a shame,” said the official, who declined to speak on the record because of ongoing investigations of the firings.
Prepared remarks were dull, but McNulty was a career guy. The question is what are his priorities? His reputation or his job prospects? Hope the staffs did their homework, ’cause he doesn’t seem to be volunteering to be the new John Dean…
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Posted in SSquirrel at 8:56 am by SSquirrel
BAGHDAD (Reuters) - Twelve U.S. soldiers have been killed in Iraq in the past 48 hours, the U.S. military said on Thursday.
In the single worst incident, five soldiers, three Iraqi civilians and an Iraqi interpreter were killed on Thursday when a roadside bomb exploded near their vehicle in a northeastern district of the capital, the U.S. military said.
A six soldier was killed and three wounded on Thursday when a rocket propelled grenade hit their vehicle in northern Baghdad.
Four U.S. soldiers were killed when their convoy was struck by a roadside bomb in western Baghdad on Wednesday, the military said.
Thousands of U.S. troops have been deployed in Baghdad for a major crackdown aimed at curbing sectarian violence that threatens civil war. The troops have set up combat outposts in the city, raising their visibility and making them more vulnerable to roadside bomb attacks.
The U.S. military has launched a major offensive in areas bordering the capital in the past few days in a bid to wipe out car bomb networks.
In western Anbar province, two Marines were killed in combat on Wednesday, the military said, giving no further details.
Make that 14…
The U.S. deaths raised to at least 3,545 the number of U.S. troops who have died since the war began in 2003, according to an Associated Press count.
All Hail His Arrogance, Lord Bush…
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06.20.07
Posted in SSquirrel at 4:56 pm by SSquirrel
“The president supports and encourages stem cell research — including using embryonic lines — as long as it does not involve creating, harming or destroying embryos,” said White House spokesman Tony Fratto.
I must be confused, doesn’t bombing a city involve “creating, harming or destroying embryos”? Not to mention children, pregnant women, and also, for some strange reason newlyweds? (They was shooting at our F-16, or maybe just firing into the air in celebration). So I’m pretty sure war involves using federal funds of wingnut fundies to kill embryos, really kind of pretty sure…
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06.04.07
Posted in SSquirrel at 4:40 pm by SSquirrel
“Over the past seven years, the partial-birth abortion ban as a fundraising technique has brought in over a quarter of a billion dollars” for major antiabortion groups, “but the ban has no authority to prevent a single abortion, and pro-life donors were never told that,” he said. “That’s why we call it the pro-life industry.”
~Rev. Bob Enyart
“What happened in the abortion world is that groups like National Right to Life, they’re really a wing of the Republican Party, and they’re not geared to push for personhood for an unborn child — they’re geared to getting Republicans elected,” he said. “So we’re seeing these ridiculous laws like the Partial-Birth Abortion Ban put forward, and then we’re deceived about what they really do.”
~Brian Rohrbough, president of Colorado Right to Life
Some of them have finally noticed that Dobson’s just a Republican asshole, being a reverend doesn’t make you a Christian…
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