http://rawstory.com/news/2008/Coal_industry_takes_down_Clean_Coal_1212.html
http://behindtheplug.americaspower.org/2008/12/home-for-the-holidays.html
Doesn't say if the laid-off singing coal lumps are available for deployment to bad children's stockings.
The reason that health care is so expensive is that there is no competition.
I say we do studies on natural cures as this would cut the health care costs by 80%.
There is quite a bit of anecdotal evidence that natural medicine works. Plus my sister had breast cancer and went on a natural diet that boosted her immune system and was cured of the cancer within months at an aproximate cost of $2,000. Compare this to the cost of chemotherapy and radiation of
between $250,000 to $500,000 you can see the huge savings.
Also my sister is still alive while my brother in-law,who had chemo and radiation died after two years.
He says he's using a pseudonym for security reasons, but he seems to have no qualms about showing his face on national TV. (Not that silhouetting and voice-garbling are always that effective; I remember one such interview in which former CIA official Michael Scheuer's profile and manner of speaking came through unmistakeably.)
It especially disappointed me that Amy Goodman, of all people, didn't press him harder, especially about the presence of psychologists during interrogations --
http://www.democracynow.org/2008/12/3/us_interrogator_in_iraq_says_torture
-- having previously reported so well about the controversy within the American Psychological Assn. about that issue.
"Alexander" seemed so forthright, commonsensical and un-top brassy I almost didn't feel so bad about this war of aggression of ours. Which, of course, the Administration wouldn't mind. Thoughts, anyone?
Browse http://www.rodblagojevich.com and you get redirected to the website of the Illinois Republican Party, http://www.weareillinois.org, which conspicuously urges President-elect Obama and Senator Dick Durbin to keep Patrick Fitzgerald on as U.S. Attorney in Chicago and invites you to "click here" if you've "had enough of corrupt politicians like Rod Blagojevich."
Not that there's anything wrong with that. Keeping Patrick Fitzgerald, that is. But I hereby nominate the Republicans' appropriation of Blagojovich's name for their own website, without even adding "-sucks" or "-isabum" so surfers will have some idea of where they're being directed, for a Falsies award next year. :-)
One thing that isn't widely know to those outside of the Mormon church, and would have a direct impact on the 20 million donated, is how the directive would come across to a Mormon.
Temple going Mormons (the devout) make a promise to give all that they have to the church if asked. It used to have a blood oath accompanying it. The blood oath is gone, but the severity of the promise is very much felt.
So it's very different for a Mormon than having a pastor asking for some help with the Prop 8 thing, and the flock putting some money in the plate. Devout Mormons would view a directive from the LDS first presidency as a command from God to donate their money. A command from God with a blood oath (for most of them) and a covenant to give their money when asked. Very different than dropping some bills in the collection plate.
That is the real reason why the Mormon faithful donated so much money and time to the effort. They didn't really have a choice, without risking going to hell in their minds.
Its not such a grass roots effort when you know why they donated in such numbers. A general belief that homosexuality is wrong didn't make the money pour in, a blood oath requiring them to give money whenever directed to by the first presidency of the church made the money pour in.
For the LDS churches PR dept to try to paint it as just a grass roots effort is disenginuous. That is somewhat like saying that all the people in the Jones town massacre just happened to want to die on the same day. No, the were directed to by their leader and were afraid not to.
Browse http://www.rodblagojevich.com and you get redirected to the website of the Illinois Republican Party, http://www.weareillinois.org, which conspicuously urges President-elect Obama and Senator Dick Durbin to keep Patrick Fitzgerald on as U.S. Attorney in Chicago and invites you to "click here" if you've "had enough of corrupt politicians like Rod Blagojevich."
Not that there's anything wrong with that. Keeping Patrick Fitzgerald, that is. But I hereby nominate the Republicans' appropriation of Blagojovich's name for their own website, without even adding "-sucks" or "-isabum" so surfers will have some idea of where they're being directed, for a Falsies award next year. :-)
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