Dick Cheney's Possible Role in the BP Oil Spill Catastrophe

(Source.)

"While the Right furiously tries to pin the Gulf Oil Spill on President Obama, the facts tell a different story. This is the story of rampant deregulation in a never-ending ode to Profit as King, as propagated by the Bush/Cheney administration across all sectors of our economy, which didn’t end with Wall Street or mortgage lending or Enron. Indeed, the deregulation scandals extend now to off-shore drilling in the form of the missing Valve, a remote shut-off device called an acoustic switch. Dick Cheney, former CEO of Halliburton (an oil-services company), may have had his hand in the Department of Interior’s decision not to mandate the valve for off-shore oil rigs.

"ValveGate is coming to a theater near you."

News Corp. Hide Website Stats Before The Paywall Comes

See http://paidcontent.co.uk/article/419-before-the-paywall-murdoch-stops-disclosing-uk-news-site-traffic/.

Hat tip to here.

Bill O'Reilly Interviews Jon Stewart

This may be seen here.

Eric Prince of Blackwater Speaks

Some words of his may be seen here.

What Goldman Sachs (Alledgedly) Did

This cartoon seems to well describe what Goldman Sachs alledgedly did and why Goldamn Sachs is now under investigation by the SEC.

On The Disfunctional Nature of Wall Street

See here.

On Why Some Sadly Are Left Uninsured

Just saw this from NewsReal Blog.

1. There will still be millions of uninsured!

Fact on Health care Plan: The CBO looked at this health care bill extensively and estimated that by 2019 there would still be 22 million Americans left uninsured.

Yep, you heard me right. The Democrats have been selling this plan as a way to ensure “every American” has health care. It’s all a lie. They knew the CBO numbers and tried to keep it a secret. There may be less uninsured then there otherwise would have been (thanks to massive taxing and spending), but there will still be 22 million Americans left uninsured by 2019.

As President Obama said, “This is what change looks like.” Thanks for showing it to us. We don’t want it. And come November, America will tell Obama and the Democrats exactly what they thought about this change.

The right wing opposition did that. They kicked up a huge fuss over health care reform and caused reform to be diluted. That is a major reason why this has happened.

The dream is to have every American insured. But opposition and inertia has caused this dream to be delayed.

And for the other reasons: health care has not been taken over by the government, it is just regulated more, as far as I can see.

"Quality of Health Care will quickly begin to plummet for all of us."

No. There is a lot of waste caused by the way the private system was set up. (That's why reform was needed.) In fact the US public are spending enough to create universal health care already. But it is used for administrative costs instead.

Also I gravely doubt that Federal authorities will fund abortions under health care reform. Senator Stupak nearly killed the bill over it, so I find it very hard to believe that the US Federal government will ignore that as stated in this blog.

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Also this same author has a little blog about what's been happening in Morocco. I find that situation very sad to hear.

I do not necessarily agree with everything said there.