April 2011 - Political Certainty

Sharing the sacrifice? Where is the anger?

Over the past several years, employees at Gannett Corporation were told of substantial and continued layoffs, unpaid furloughs and reductions in salary and benefits. All of these were, they were told, necessary for the company to continue in business, much less flourish. A matter of survival. The austerity did not extend to the top two executives at Gannett

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The hypocrisy of Abortion

April 5th 2011 06:54

A paradox about abortion

Making abortions illegal or more difficult to obtain, including parental notification laws, increases the public health risk, makes injuries or death more likely

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Rick Scott - Governor of Florida! Woe to us all.

April 5th 2011 01:24

Over the next several months, I intend to explore the behavior and judgments of Florida’s Executive and Legislative state government, actions and judgments which evidence, at best, idiocy and, at worst, utter and complete venality. There is certainly plenty to write about, including the Legislature considering further restrictions on a woman’s right to get a safe abortion and imposing intrusion by the government into peoples’ lives, the establishment of a “slush fund” whereby lobbyists and special interest groups can openly and legally deposit bribes into the personal pockets of Legislative leaders, the reduction of services to the poor and middle classes in order to reward corporate interests and the wealthy, the forcing Medicaid patients into managed care organizations (just like the one owned by Mrs. Rick Scott) and requiring all state employees and all welfare recipients to get drug tested (from companies just like the one owned by Mrs. Scott) and more. Goodness knows, the examples are many! But first, as a preface, I want to show how we got there.

(While the focus of these essays is on Florida, the general conclusions and observations are applicable to a number of states now in the hands of the most rabid of the right

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