Archive for the ‘Outrage’ Category
Morning After Contraception
I’m trying to parse the Bishop’s statement on contraception and it sounds like they’re going to keep fighting, and it also looks like they just found the bold button in Word and decided to take it out for a spin: These changes require careful moral analysis, and moreover, appear subject to some measure of change. [...]
February 11, 2012
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mistermix ... World Peace · 
84 Comments
Posted in: World's Best Healthcare (If You Can Afford It)
What I learned from The Corner today – An occasional series
Warning: Many links are to Kathryn Jean’s Fluffy Pink Womb of Zygote Love. Kathryn Jean thinks that Mitt Romney is a man of principle because he vetoed a section of legislation which would have required all Massachusetts hospitals, including Catholic ones, to provide emergency contraception to rape victims – or as she puts it: would [...]
February 3, 2012
· Sarah Proud and Tall · 40 Comments
Posted in: Assholes, Decline and Fall, I Read These Morons So You Don't Have To, World's Best Healthcare (If You Can Afford It)
None Dare Call It Murder
I’ve got just one quick note to add to the discussion of the Komen Foundation’s surrender to Greater Wingnuttia and the Global War on Women. That would be that this decision is not just about the dollars. It’s genuinely a matter of life and death —of murder, really, with only the anonymity of the victims to [...]
February 1, 2012
· Tom Levenson · 242 Comments
Posted in: Uncategorized, Vagina Outrage, Where's my Moore Award?, World's Best Healthcare (If You Can Afford It)
Ruling on bone marrow stem cells
Big decision: A federal law banning compensation for organ transplants doesn’t extend to bone marrow harvested from a donor’s blood, a federal appeals court said Thursday in a ruling that could attract thousands of new donors in a national campaign to save the lives of those afflicted with cancer and genetic disorders. In the last [...]
December 9, 2011
· Kay · 56 Comments
Posted in: Domestic Affairs, World's Best Healthcare (If You Can Afford It)
Breast Cancer, PPACA, and a Change of Heart About President Obama
Obamacares. LA Times featured an op-ed yesterday that is a must-read: I want to apologize to President Obama. But first, some background. I found out three weeks ago I have cancer. I’m 49 years old, have been married for almost 20 years and have two kids. My husband has his own small computer business, and [...]
December 6, 2011
· ABL 2.0 · 146 Comments
Posted in: World's Best Healthcare (If You Can Afford It)
The Year of Lying Decadently
I’m afraid Krugman is right: Back in 2000, George W. Bush made a discovery of enormous consequence: you could base a whole political campaign on claims that were flatly untrue, like the claim that your big tax cuts for the wealthy went to the middle class, or the claim that diverting Social Security funds into [...]
December 4, 2011
· John Cole · 184 Comments
Posted in: Assholes, Blatant Liars and the Lies They Tell, Election 2012, Our Failed Media Experiment, World's Best Healthcare (If You Can Afford It)
We’re not at the end of the beginning, but perhaps the beginning of the end
Something huge happened today. The kind of thing that changes the nature of the economy, and Americans’ relationship with their government, and with the corporations that seem to rule so much of our world. Today is the day that a significant part of the Affordable Care Act took effect. Today is the day that companies [...]
December 2, 2011
· Soonergrunt · 70 Comments
Posted in: Domestic Affairs, Free Markets Solve Everything, OBAMA IS WORSE THAN BUSH HE SOLD US OUT!!, Proud to Be A Democrat, The Failed Obama Administration (Only Took Two Weeks), Vote Like Your Country Depends On It, Vouchercare, World's Best Healthcare (If You Can Afford It), Yes We Did
“Shovel-Ready Clinics”
This is an intriguing proposal, although I don’t know enough about the background behind its boosters to judge its real-world value. Jeffrey Leonard, in the Washington Monthly, wants to bring the SBA to the implementation of the ACA: ... In 2014, a little more than two short years away, the provisions in the Affordable Care [...]
December 2, 2011
· Anne Laurie · 34 Comments
Posted in: C.R.E.A.M., World's Best Healthcare (If You Can Afford It)
Don’t Let the Healing Begin
This weekend, a reader sent this Reuters story about a candlelight vigil at Penn State, attended by 10,000. Some of the sentiments expressed: Yenser and other speakers said the school must move forward, but never forget. [...] “This is definitely a start in the healing process,” said Kolker, a junior. I’m sure these people are [...]
November 15, 2011
· mistermix ... World Peace · 86 Comments
Posted in: Outrage
Money Party Likes Money
Is anyone really surprised by this? Schweizer: There are all sorts of forms of honest grafts that congressmen engage in that allow them to become very, very wealthy. So it’s not illegal, but I think it’s highly unethical, I think it’s highly offensive, and wrong. Steve Kroft: What do you mean honest graft? Schweizer: For [...]
November 14, 2011
· mistermix ... World Peace · 24 Comments
Posted in: Outrage
By The Way, David Brooks Is Still Always Wrong
I know this is already long since fishwrap, but amidst the many disembowelings of David Brooks discovery that he has always been at war with Eurasia always loved Mittens, I have to rage, rage, at the relentless, endless, fetishization of the deepest, most degrading fantasy of the right. No, not that one. Nor that one [...]
November 13, 2011
· Tom Levenson · 53 Comments
Posted in: David Brooks Giving A Seminar At The Aspen Institute, David Brooks is a dickhead, Free Markets Solve Everything, Fuck The Middle-Class, Uncategorized, World's Best Healthcare (If You Can Afford It)
Creeping Soshalism Watch, or Another Blow to the “Let Them Die” Approach to Health Care
First, the good news: President Obama will issue [has issued] an executive order on Monday that the administration hopes will help resolve a growing number of critical shortages of vital medicines used to treat life-threatening illnesses, among them several forms of cancer and bacterial infections. The order offers drug manufacturers and wholesalers both a helping [...]
November 3, 2011
· Tom Levenson · 26 Comments
Posted in: Free Markets Solve Everything, Outrage, World's Best Healthcare (If You Can Afford It)
Raising Taxes Is a Crime
But beating women is not: Last night, in between approving city expenditures and other routine agenda items, the Topeka, Kansas City Council debated one rather controversial one: decriminalizing domestic violence. Here’s what happened: Last month, the Shawnee County District Attorney’s office, facing a 10% budget cut, announced that the county would no longer be prosecuting [...]
October 11, 2011
· John Cole · 100 Comments
Posted in: Outrage
SCOTUS and the ACA: Do We Set Our Hair on Fire?
From the Washington Post, “Justice Dept. asks Supreme Court to review health-care law“: The Obama administration moved aggressively Wednesday for Supreme Court review of the 2010 health-care act, making it likely a constitutional ruling on the president’s signature and most controversial domestic achievement will come in the thick of the presidential campaign. The administration said [...]
September 29, 2011
· Anne Laurie · 77 Comments
Posted in: Activist Judges!, All we want is life beyond the thunderdome, Looks Like I Picked the Wrong Week to Stop Sniffing Glue, World's Best Healthcare (If You Can Afford It)
Open Thread: It’s Not What You Know…
(Jeff Danziger’s website) ... it’s who you know. Charlie Pierce, now at Esquire’s Daily Politics blog, points out that no Lawn Order In-Forcement felt inspired to ‘kettle’, much less pepper-spray, a certain “interstate conspiracy to riot and to disrupt a legitimate recount in a presidential election“. Perhaps it’s just that no Floridian Tony Bologna was [...]
September 28, 2011
· Anne Laurie · 54 Comments
Posted in: Assholes, C.R.E.A.M., Open Thread, Outrage
