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CREDIT CARD GREED

Sun, 06 Dec 2009 17:04:17 GMT

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clipper's remarks: After charging a couple hundred dollars I noticed they had immediately raised my APR a whopping 5%. If they did this so I would see RED..., they sure knew what they were doing. Because I saw every color in the rainbow! I was so angry that I took the allotted money I had put aside for food and paid them off! Also, gave them a piece of my mind in an email.

Anyway, here is my vent to the giant credit card gluttons.

More at: http://www.thethinkingblue.com/creditcardgreed.html

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CREDIT CARD GREED

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I started using a few credit cards that I had paid off but haven’t swiped in some retailer’s figamajig, for months. Why, you might ask? So I won't get charged a fee for NOT USING THEM... HUH? Yup, that's what I've learned, that if you have a credit card account and it has been out of circulation for some time, YOU WILL BE CHARGED A FEE. Now I know this sounds too BANANAS to be real. But REAL it is, just read this. http://www.bloomberg.com/apps/news?pid=20601103&sid=aCLzni_O63h8

They can do or devise anything they want in order to maintain their GREED LEVEL. I can attest to this because I have fell victim to their astronomical gluttony. The first card I dusted off was one that had been dormant for months, (Juniper) I had always liked this card because they seemed to care about their customers and charge a minimal APR fee for their loans. That is, I naively thought so.

I know, that and a dollar (7 dollars at Starbucks) will get me a cup of coffee.

Tags: credit, card, reform, greed, politics, political, banks

The Obama Escalation, Too Sad To Watch.

Wed, 02 Dec 2009 15:06:47 GMT

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clipper's remarks: When I saw President Obama give his speech last night on why he is sending more to die in this Godforsaken Bush/Cheney war in Afghanistan. I felt like I was Yogi Berrer uttering, "This is like deja vu all over again."... But this time is wasn’t War Monger Dubya speaking, it was the "Change You Can Believe In” and the, “Every time I speak about my hope for America, the cynics in Washington roll their eyes.”, Barack Obama. The man who once asked before his election, “I ask you to believe-not just in my ability to bring about real change in Washington. I'm asking you to believe in yours.” ...

YEAH RIGHT Mr. President, and may I ask… “WHAT HAPPENED TO DIPLOMACY TO END THIS WAR? I now realize that was never really in the cards was it?” I believe, Our President wants us to brace ourselves for this war in Afghanistan becoming another Vietnam! thinkingblue

“You can no more win a war than you can win an earthquake.” - Jeannette Rankin
Also - http://www.thethinkingblue.com/escalate.html

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Email from ANSWER

Rhetoric and Reality: Masking War Escalation as a Withdrawal Plan

The anti-war movement responds to President Obama's speech Statement from the ANSWER Coalition

The U.S. cannot “win” the war in Afghanistan. It was losing the war when Barack Obama took office. In March 2009, President Obama ordered another 30,000 troops. Rather than reverse the outcome, the U.S. and NATO effort lost even more ground. Now President Obama has ordered another 30,000 troops to Afghanistan.

Attempting to deflect growing opposition to the announcement of his dramatic escalation of the war in Afghanistan, President Obama is simultaneously claiming that U.S. troops will start to be withdrawn in July 2011.

Generals and Admirals

the White House,

unwilling to accept responsibility for a military setback

The President knows they cannot win

yet is unwilling to leave

Since no leader is willing to take responsibility

they are instead sending thousands more to their deaths

Bush and Cheney

invasion

would be easy

Tags: war, afghanistan, obama, escalation, politics

THE DEADLIEST CARD GAME IN TOWN

Sun, 29 Nov 2009 15:50:52 GMT

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clipper's remarks: but they have joined the right’s sycophants and willingly do the bidding of the LOBBY FIRMS in order to receive the dirty money (more like blood money) these cut-throats will give them (to turn a blind eye) in the form of campaign contributions.

A shell game of sorts, where the suckers, in many instances, have no idea of what is going on and how it negatively affects their well-being.

It's a sad game that cannot be won by anyone who falls into a category called LOW-INCOME. The banks and credit card companies’ makeup all the rules and they are always in their favor.

NO ONE, can get out of the traps they set, while they siphon off any earnings said suckers have given their blood, sweat and tears to acquire. It should be a crime because it is criminal but it is not.

Watch, learn and weep for those who get snared in THE DEADLIEST CARD GAME IN TOWN, where there is no place to turn for help. (MORE) http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/pages/frontline/creditcards/view/
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THE DEADLIEST CARD GAME IN TOWN

Hidden fees, skyrocketing interest rates, bankrupt consumers. FRONTLINE correspondent Lowell Bergman investigates the future of the consumer loan industry amidst an ongoing battle over increased government regulation.

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EXCERPT ONE - DISCLOSURE

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To Watch The Entire Show On-Line at PBS - Click Here

A card game that grantees to ruin your life, I should know I played it for over 30 years and psychologically suffered most of that time. We’re talking the credit card game here and PBS’s frontline has taken it on in this latest documentary about how we are pawns to those who operate and get rich in this industry.

Watching this Frontline narrative will give you an illustration of what our government is doing (or fails to do) for us, especially the right-wing who should all hang their heads in shame.

I wish the left-wing who is suppose to be consumer protectors (which they pretend to be) were there to protect us

and willingly do the bidding

but they have joined the right’s

Tags: credit, card, pbs, frontline, politics, political, gop

Bishop Tobin, Self Appointed God

Mon, 23 Nov 2009 12:01:41 GMT

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clipper's remarks: Bishop Tobin continues to dip his fingers and toes into the holy waters of the state. Acting as though he was god, he continues to threaten politicians who do not buckle under the pressures of his religious dogma. Not having dominance over those who have not been indoctrinated in the Catholic ideology (which must really piss this guy off) he badgers those who he can badger. Threatening them, that only he and his church can guarantee their ticket into heaven and only if they do his bidding. What total and archaic nonsense. Tobin the Thug probably would be sentencing people to the guillotine if he had been born hundreds of years ago when (in the western hemisphere) church and state were one.

Now, I am sure there are intelligent clergy among those in the hierarchy of the Catholic church who believe and teach their flock that religion and state should be separated but apparently Bishop Tobin or should I say Holiest Highness Tobin is NOT ONE OF THEM. He's just another bully in my book.

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Kennedy dispute reveals divide among Catholics

R.I. – A bitter dispute over abortion that prompted Rhode Island's Roman Catholic bishop to ask Rep. Patrick Kennedy not to receive Holy Communion has revealed the depth of the divide among Catholics over how politicians should reconcile their faith with their public duties.

Tobin

on Sunday said he made the request because of the Democratic lawmaker's support for abortion rights.

The news prompted debate among Catholics around the country

the bishop's flock in the nation's most Catholic state about whether it was right for Tobin to publicly shame Kennedy for breaking with the church

he fight began escalating shortly after the death of Kennedy's father, Sen. Edward Kennedy of Ma

came to a head on the 46th anniversary of the assassination of his uncle

John F. Kennedy.

Tobin

in an interview Sunday that he's praying for the younger Kennedy,

and said Kennedy has been acting "erratically."

he attacked the position of the church on health care, on abortion,

Tags: religion, politics, kennedy, abortion

Back To The Dark Ages, You Dog!

Sun, 22 Nov 2009 12:02:38 GMT

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clipper's remarks: Hold on to your proverbial HATS, Enlightenment is over. According to one Catholic Bishop, it's over or never began.
How can a priest ban a parishioner, who helps pay his salary, from a spiritual right within his religion? If I were Patrick, I would turn to an enlightened source of organized spirituality or just use the brain he was born with before it was tarnished with incongruous notions thought up by a pack of authoritarian male homo-sapiens.
Religion is what is screwing up the world, in all its eerie, ghostly and spooky forms; it seems to rail against rational thought. This is how they rule. This is how they coerce wars and this is how they enslave the masses.
As one escapee from the clutches of irrational thought perpetuated by an organized religion, I can tell you it is far better to be acquainted with logic and reason in this, OH SO MANY QUESTIONS UNANSWERED universe of ours. The freedom to inquiry ones existence, without fear of punishment, is the only way to fly!

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Kennedy says RI bishop banned him from Communion

AP – FILE - Providence Bishop Thomas Tobin, is shown in his office in Providence, R.I, in this Aug. 21, 2008 …

PROVIDENCE, R.I. – Roman Catholic Bishop Thomas Tobin has banned Rep. Patrick Kennedy from receiving Communion, the central sacrament of the church, in Rhode Island because of the congressman's support for abortion rights, Kennedy said in a newspaper interview published Sunday.

The decision by the outspoken prelate, reported on The Providence Journal's Web site, significantly escalates a bitter dispute between Tobin, an ultra orthodox bishop, and Kennedy, a son of the nation's most famous Roman Catholic family.

"The bishop instructed me not to take Communion and said that he has instructed the diocesan priests not to give me Communion," Kennedy told the paper

Kennedy said

the bishop

explained t

"that I am not a good practicing Catholic because of the positions that I've taken as a public official,"

abortion.

Tags: religion, politics, enlightenment, dark ages

This is for those with inquiring minds: GOD PARTICLE - Update

Sat, 21 Nov 2009 11:14:00 GMT

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RACING TO FIND THE GOD PARTICLE - Update Nov. 21, 2009

This is for those with inquiring minds:

I did a youtube video dubbed THE GOD PARTICLE back in August of 2007. This was to be a huge breakthrough for us in solving some of the perplexing questions about existence amongst other things, As in: What's It All About Elfie?

The first time the Atom Smasher was turned on more than a year ago, it resulted in failure, for this 10 billion dollar experiment. After a year and some $40 million in repairs it was turned on again.

This is very exciting and I hope we will, in the near future, be a little bit closer to scratching the surface about the unknowable, unknown.
;-) thinkingblue.blogspot.com

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Scientists switched on the world's largest atom smasher for the first time since the $10 billion machine suffered a spectacular failure more than a year ago, circulating beams of protons in a significant leap forward for the Large Hadron Collider.

Tags: science, god, particle, hadron, collider, politics

Greedaholic Drug Makers Raise Price Before Reform

Mon, 16 Nov 2009 15:21:53 GMT

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clipper's remarks: Drug makers race to raise prices on drugs to beat the target date of Gov. Overhaul of the health-care system… HUH? First the Credit Card Ind. tries their hand at price gauging before the deadline of Gov. changes go into effect, Feb. 2010. Now BIG PHARMA jumps on the greed bandwagon, putting gluttony above altruism by raising already exuberant drug prices before reform takes place. Is BIG CORP. DADDY beginning to feel the slight strangulation of a Progressive Gov. in control? I don’t think so. What they are feeling is the loss of authority, handed to them on a silver plate by leaders in Congress who only respond to how much $$$ they can get from the greedaholic’s quid pro quo. Giving the SOB’s, carte blanche on what they can do to the rest of us. The fracturing of our fragile consumer driven economic system should have changed their behavior but as the saying goes… You Can’t Teach An Old Dog New Tricks. Only one thing counts, its bottom line ($$$), no matter who gets hurt!

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Drug Makers Raise Prices in Face of Health Care Reform

Even as drug makers promise to support Washington’s health care overhaul by shaving $8 billion a year off the nation’s drug costs after the legislation takes effect, the industry has been raising its prices at the fastest rate in years.

In the last year, the industry has raised the wholesale prices of brand-name prescription drugs by about 9 percent

That will add more than $10 billion to the nation’s drug bill, which is on track to exceed $300 billion this year.

it is the highest annual rate of inflation for drug prices since 1992.

Drug makers say they have valid business reasons for the price increases. Critics say the industry is trying to establish a higher price base before Congress passes legislation that tries to curb drug spending in coming years.

said he found a similar pattern of unusual price increases after Congress added drug benefits to Medicare

“They try to maximize their profits,”

Tags: politics, pharma, drugs, health, credit, banks

Sorry Ass News For A Sunday Morning

Sun, 01 Nov 2009 13:32:48 GMT

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clipper's remarks: Did you ever pick up a newspaper and wished you hadn't? Well that's what happened to me this morning. It wasn't an actual real time Newspaper but in today's world it was a Newsdig but I still wished that I hadn't clicked!

First it was a, Health Care {NO} Reform won by the Health Care and insurance Industry.

Then the gloom and doom news from Afghanistan. It's enough to make you put on a pair of rose colored glasses or stick your head in the sand. But alas, I can't do that, because then I would become part of the (Sarah Palin - Michele Bachmann et al ) crazy lunatic fringe mob on the right!

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The Sorriest Ass News For Sunday 11/01/09

After all the fuss, public health plan covers few

This is beyond disgusting. Why anyone is not outraged over this (except for the insurance companies) is also beyond repulse. Good Luck America, our leaders have handed our fate over to the health insurance lobby, and Corporate Interests, once again. The next question is HOW MANY MORE WILL DIE BECAUSE OF THIS DECISION? Thinkingblue

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Afghan challenger drops out of runoff election While President Obama has to make one of the hardest decisions of anyone's lifetime, determining, whether or not to continue a deplorable war by sending in more fodder or withdrawing and allowing a sovereign state to solve its own problems. Afghanistan leaders continue to play games and commit high crimes and misdemeanors.

Did we really believe that when George W. Bush and his sidekick Dick (the dick) Cheney left office we would not have to stomach them any longer?

MORE

Tags: politics, health, healthcare, reform, afghanistan, war

An Egregious Tragedy Has Taken Place

Wed, 28 Oct 2009 17:18:30 GMT

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clipper's remarks: ... into its clutches.

It didn't happen to my child but it did, to someone who lived in my community. His name was Adam Walsh and he was a year younger than my own. The Walsh's horrible story, could have been mine. I, many times frequented the same place as Adam and his mom and I forever shuddered to think it my child who was cut from the herd and open to attack.

We as a society should warn our children and ourselves that we are but one or two seconds from something so heinous that our lives would never recover. Whenever our children leave the safety of our sight, we should tell them, "Never allow a stranger to talk lies, in order to hurt you. Scream, cry, run and fight if need be, not to be taken by anyone.”

Every child, every young person who falls victim to the savages amongst us, must be a reminder that we live in a jungle of predators but worse, these fiends look like us, so we have to be even more vigilant than jungle prey.

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Justice for Somer Thompson

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This is a story of egregious tragedy, not only for the loved ones involved but for all of us who exist in a social environment, infiltrated by murderous monsters. This horror may not have happened if we all considered our surroundings to be parallel to the darkness of dense jungles where meat eaters lurk behind the thickness of forestry waiting their next gorge. Without envisioning this comparable, life appears orderly and free of danger.

Within the food chain, hunger is the motivator to kill. It's not called murder but it is the same. Something must die in order to satisfy the needs of a predator. When a youngling is cut away from the protection of the herd, a beast of prey will spot, immediately the vulnerability of this life form and direct all its attention towards a capture. What happened to this child is the same. A monster, perhaps not even on its usual hunt, zeroed in on a little girl, alone, away from any protection

and used its cunning to lure her

Tags: crime, murder, somer, children

You're Not Going To Believe This One.

Tue, 20 Oct 2009 19:22:13 GMT

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clipper's remarks: Just when you think the Banks can’t possibly do more to hurt us... They come out with a lalapalooza... They are now going to charge their credit card customers for... hold on to your proverbial hats... INACTIVITY! I heard this on CNN this morning and I couldn't believe it. Bank of America, yup the ones who received $25 billion from the government's $700 billion financial rescue fund, including $10 billion that would have gone to Merrill had it not been acquired by good old Bank of America.
Now, instead of just gouging those who are in debt and over a barrel they are targeting people who have enough income and only use credit cards, as a convenience. The question is, are these financially better off consumers going to take it? Or Are they going to (like the rest of us) GET MAD AS HELL AND NOT GONNA TAKE IT NO MO? I hope they will be strong enough, in numbers, to put these greedy banks in their place… If not there is NO JUSTICE!
HAPPY NEW YEAR!

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Latest bank fee is for paying off credit card on time every month

Starting next year, Bank of America will charge a small number of customers an annual fee, ranging from $29 to $99.

card holders who have never carried a balance or paid late fees could be among those affected.

Citigroup, meanwhile, has started charging annual fees to card holders who don't put more than a specific amount on their cards, typically $2,400 a year. Other banks are charging inactivity fees if customers don't use their credit cards during a specific period of time. You heard that right: You could be spanked for staying out of debt.

These fees are the credit card industry's response to credit card legislation that will, among other things, restrict credit card issuers' ability to raise interest rates on existing balances.

What to do

•Call and complain

If your

card charges a fee,

you'll have a choice:

Pay the annoying fee or close your account.

Unfortunately,

closing an account could hurt your credit score.

Tags: credit cards, politics, banks, political, bailout

National Gaps Between Rich & Poor - USA is No. 3

Mon, 19 Oct 2009 13:02:56 GMT

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clipper's remarks: When I saw this headline, I thought for sure the ole USA would be at the top of the list but NO there really are greedier nations (people) residing on this Earth. Though only 2, for USA hit the number 3 slot.
It's a pity that the human race has yet to understand that we are all one, all traveling in the same direction of unknowing. Yet material-wise we struggle to have a one-upmanship on one another; a need of sorts to look down your nose at those financially beneath you due to hard luck or heritage.
The visualization of this gap is hardest to stomach. With architecturally handsome buildings on one side of the picture (You can envision those within these structures looking out their ivory tower windows at the ants below.) and poor people, on the other side, in fetal-like positions, huddled against buildings to protect themselves from the elements, cold, hungry and hopeless. It’s the food-chain, only the winners aren’t the fittest but the greediest.

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Countries with the Biggest Gaps Between Rich and Poor

income inequality worldwide

The UNDP ranked countries and regions based on a number of factors, including their Gini coefficient, named for Italian statistician Corrado Gini.

Scandinavian countries, Japan, and the Czech Republic have the least amount of inequality. The U.S. is among the most unequal

Top 11 Countries With the Biggest Gaps Between Rich and Poor

No. 1 Hong Kong

ED Jones

No. 2 Singapore

No. 3 U.S.

share of income for the top percentile of Americans was 23.5% in 2007, the highest since 1928,

Income for the top 0.01% hit a record-high 6.04%. And the recession may be exacerbating income inequality.

No. 4 Israel

Gone are the days when Israel was one of the world's most egalitarian societies.

men who study the Torah rather than work has worsened the inequality problem.

No. 5 Portugal

Spencer Platt/Getty Images, Justin Sullivan/Getty Images

No. 6 New Zealand

No. 7 (tie) Italy

No. 7 (tie) Britain

No. 9 Australia

No. 10 (tie) Ireland

No. 10

Greece

Tags: rich, poor, politics, usa, capitalism

Just When I Thought I'd Heard It All...

Sun, 18 Oct 2009 12:32:04 GMT

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clipper's remarks: SWEAT LODGE appears on my computer screen. WTF? People paying money to be herded into a makeshift room that's hotter than any imaginative HELL?

After reading a 3rd person had died in this sweat ceremony, my curiosity piqued and I had to find out more about those who seek enlightenment, by sweating. Huh?

I can't believe a charlatan like this guru, Ray can so easily flimflam people into paying him lots of cash so they can suffer greatly (even die) in some sweaty, crowded, hot cubbyhole.

If only I could have talked to these poor souls before they handed over their health and wampum to some Nut. Maybe I could have saved them by telling them go live and blend in to a Third World slum where there's plenty of misery and sweat, trying to survive, to see if that will bring about the financial glorification they seek?

Maybe if they would have helped someone living in these REAL, not conjured up conditions, fulfillment may have followed.

Never underestimate the power of GIVING!

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3rd person dies in Ariz. sweat lodge ceremony case

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By FELICIA FONSECA
FLAGSTAFF, Ariz. – An Arizona homicide investigation now includes three deaths after a woman died more than a week after participating in a sweat lodge ceremony that hospitalized nearly two dozen people.

Liz Neuman of Minnesota died Saturday at a Flagstaff hospital, Yavapai County sheriff's spokesman Dwight D'Evelyn said.

The 49-year-old suffered multiple organ damage during the Oct. 8 ceremony at a resort near Sedona, a resort town 115 miles north of Phoenix that draws many in the New Age spiritual movement.

Authorities were treating all three deaths as homicides, but no charges have been filed.

Neuman was among more than 50 people crowded inside the sweat lodge run by self-help guru James Arthur Ray.

Twenty-one people were taken to area hospitals with illnesses ranging from dehydration to kidney failure

Kirby Brown

and James Shore, 40

died upon arrival at a hospital.

$9,000 and $10,000 to attend the retreat.

Tags: sweat, lodge, james authur ray, politics, poverty

Doctors' Piecework: How Many Unnecessary Operations?

Tue, 13 Oct 2009 22:19:55 GMT

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clipper's remarks: I’ve always thought when money is the bottom line, LOOK OUT! Health care is one of those touchy subjects that people would like to feel, money has no power over. How naive! When money is involved, forgetaboutit, you become a $ sign. I once worked for a funeral home and I was amazed how money was the bottom-line. This creative industry didn’t like, waiting for people to die to make their bucks, so they devised something called pre-need funeral contracts. It’s a contract signed by a consumer who agrees to pay installments on goods and services to assure they have the paraphernalia needed to get rid of their earthly remains upon death. The funeral directors (salesmen) get paid a commission on what they sell. So they try to sell the most expensive items (much like car salesmen) to prospective customers often, resulting in aggressive, hard selling. It’s disgusting, but not as bad as doctors convincing patients to undergo unnecessary procedures to increase their OWN wealth. THAT’S SICK!

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The Telltale Wombs Of Lewiston, Maine

Listen to the Story

A view of Lewiston, Maine. Dr. Jack Wennberg's data about health care practices in Maine showed that an unusually large number of women in Lewiston were having their uterus removed.

In 1974, Roxanne Tremblay was 29 years old, a frazzled single mom supporting a young daughter. So when the pain came on, it presented a real problem.

Tremblay couldn't risk losing her job, so she went to see her gynecologist

Three weeks after her first appointment, Tremblay went into the hospital and had her uterus and ovaries removed —

hysterectomy

in the mid-'70s in Lewiston, Maine, lots of women were getting them.

Why So Many?

Accidental Discovery

It all started in the late '60s

Bradford, like Roxanne Tremblay, had a hysterectomy in the mid-'70s.

Doctor Influences

And

Money

this subject was completely verboten.

Talking to doctors about money is difficult

doctors

are paid basically like pieceworkers

More Is Not Better

United States spends

2 trillion

30 percent

unnecessar

Tags: health, care, politics, doctors, greed

The Real Columbus Story.

Mon, 12 Oct 2009 12:50:00 GMT

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clipper's remarks: I learned awhile back what a ruthless cruel man Christopher Columbus was. He was no hero but the history books continue to paint him that way. Why? Is it because the Christopher Columbus myth has taken a life of its own and cannot be dispelled? Human beings love fantasy. We love to be lifted, if only for a short period, out of our humdrum lives. We also love answers, even if most of the answers we are given by historians don't hold water, we will still cling to them. It makes me wonder that maybe in the not so far off future when we are all trying to survive the Global Warming Effects, history books will claim that the George W Bush era helped save our planet by getting rid of billions of poor people so that the wealthiest will have a better chance at survival. All the rich kids will read about their savior "W" while they bask in the sun at the seashores of South Dakota and Kansas on their George W Bush day off. No different from today.

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What Is The Real Columbus Story?

The discovery of the North and South American continents by Europeans occurred no more than 600 years ago but the record of just exactly what happened, and who did what is deeply shrouded in faded national and international propaganda.

A couple of Italians seem to have helped in creating the maze.

School books say Christopher Columbus discovered America in 1492, five years before Vespucci. But this may not be true,

How did this story get lost?

Innocent VIII, an Italian, dispatched Columbus on his voyage hoping he would find gold to help finance the Crusades.

But the pope's death in 1492 set the stage for a big change in the Vatican. The succeeding pope, Alexander VI, a Spaniard, covered up the story and allowed the Spanish throne to take the credit.

Columbus didn't discover anything

our history books record none of this

We have a National Holiday for a discoverer, and adventurer, and a hero who was, in reality, a mass-murderer, a rapist, and a greedy miser

Tags: global waming, columbus, politics

There's more Moore.

Mon, 12 Oct 2009 11:35:01 GMT

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clipper's remarks: I thought Michael Moore's letter to President Obama was a bit harsh but then again it also hit the proverbial nail on the head. I'm proud of Pres. Obama but he's only human and therefore fallible. I don't believe (lucky for us) his admin. is as reckless as the Bush/Cheney one was. They cared nothing for people, nothing for the WORLD, only their pipe-dreams of total power were important to them. They were almost non-human. Thank goodness they are no longer in power. I can't imagine what else they would have done to ruin America. Sadly there are some of their ruthless followers carrying-on where they left off. (Beck & Limbaugh) but without power they are neutered and just don't have the BITE their mentors had! Thanks Michael for printing on your site, michaelmoore.com a retraction of sorts about what you think of our President winning the Nobel Peace Prize. I know the Republicans stick together more than we but that's their sin, not blessing. They can't change their minds but we can!

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Wait there's more, Moore:

October 10th, 2009 6:01 PM

Get Off Obama's Back ...second thoughts from Michael Moore

Friends,

Last night my wife asked me if I thought I was a little too hard on Obama in my letter yesterday congratulating him on his Nobel Prize. "No, I don't think so," I replied. I thought it was important to remind him he's now conducting the two wars he's inherited. "Yeah," she said, "but to tell him, 'Now earn it!'? Give the guy a break -- this is a great day for him and for all of us."

I went back and re-read what I had written. And I listened for far too long yesterday to the right wing hate machine who did what they could to crap all over Barack's big day. Did I -- and others on the left -- do the same?

I think the Nobel committee, in awarding Obama the prize, was also rewarding the fact that something profound had happened in a nation that was founded on racial genocide, built on racist slavery, and held back for a hundred-plus years by vestiges of hateful bigotry

Tags: politics, moore, nobel, peace, obama