Showing posts with label health care. Show all posts
Showing posts with label health care. Show all posts

Thursday, September 29, 2011

Saturday, December 18, 2010

weblog

Gangsta wannabes in the heartland - MLive
Shot up a Jackson, MI neighborhood with BB-guns then burned a barn down. Real gangstas, eh? Felons at 18 years old now too.
Michael Moore's film Sicko's depiction of Cuban healthcare system fanciful propaganda - UKG
Lenin called people like Moore "useful idiots". The Cuban state has it's heart in the right place but not the resources to make it happen, which Moore should have reported. Lying about it was stupid and dishonest.
But then Moore never counted on Wikileaks either.
Metro Detroit man trapped in Persian Gulf - DetFP
"You cannot leave without your sponsor's OK. You can't rent a house. You can't open a checking account. You can't get a driver's license. ... And if you get into a legal issue with them, they have the home field advantage." And add "no exit visa for you" to the list of things sponsors can also deny.
Book review: The World That Never Was: A True Story of Dreamers, Schemers,Anarchists, and Secret Agents. reason
This war was against the anarchist movement in Europe and America circa 1870-1920. Times have changed, but not that much.
Encryption still pretty good privacy protection. But for how much longer? - CompWorld
California trial court says nunchakus are protected by 2d Amendment too - VC
From the comments section of the post: "A well-regulated force of ninjas being necessary..." Heh.
Mobile phone carriers want to start charging for webpage views for sites like FaceBook, Skype, YouTube, etc. - Wired

Wednesday, December 1, 2010

weblog

Good-bye America!
Canadian immigrant leaves Seattle for Calgary after 25 years. Is life better in Canada? Maybe, but the health care benefits surely are.

Mark Ames & Sasha Levine "apologize" for their recent slime fest of misinformation in the The Nation earlier.
Sort of.

Monday, April 26, 2010

weblog

A cute little mutant lizard with two heads-io9
Problem is they keep trying to eat each other.
According to economists there is "no demand" (i.e., "the ability to pay")out there for medical services by the poor.
It can monitor your insulin level or tell the police where you are in real time instantly. Boon or bust? Depends.
The Saiga Model 12 - A very nasty Russian-made semi-auto shotgun.



Will weed lose its mojo if it becomes perfectly legal? - LA Weekly
Some think so. I mean who sings about beer, wine or single-malt Scotch?
"Why I love shoplifting from big corporations" - Crimethinc