A different opinion as stated by a former Police Officer who has been on Fox News before. Fox news has always been the recipient of supporting conversation when it came to guns. Only this his discussion on Fox News about AR15s was quite different and took a different turn. [embedded content] Posted as: Watch This Gutsy Detective Speak Gun Truth On Fox News, Crooks and Liars, Susie Madrak. Fox News did not expect the former Homicide detective to...
Read More »Financialism
Back before, municipal and state governments, pension funds, etc. mostly invested in financials of the manufacturing sort. Then, America was in the manufacturing business. An issuing manufacturer was contractually bound to hand over the return owed. The investors were entitled. If they didn’t get their entitle, it was, ‘”see you in court.” In 2023, in Biden v. Nebraska, six states are arguing that Biden’s proposed cancellation of certain student loan...
Read More »Ethical Behavior, Politics, and SCOTUS
It was, maybe, the late eighties and I was at Oscar Mayer buying packaging for products such as Lunchables, hot dogs, bacon, etc. and the labels. This buy included the graphics. Management thought they were overwhelming me. Indeed, I was thriving having commandeered on OM Wiener mo-jet to visit suppliers in Minnesota and Massachusetts. I did not ask, they offered one of the planes up. A side category responsibility for me was the purchase of...
Read More »Privatized Medicaid and MinnesotaCare
Kip Sullivan has been comparing Fee for Service Medicare to Medicare Advantage and Commercial Healthcare Insurance at length calling out the failures of the latter. The results of such comparisons show FFS Medicare is far less costly in providing similar and better healthcare. Expanding Medicare to include all constituents as it is or in a Single Payer format would lower costs and provide better healthcare to all constituents. The “if” here is...
Read More »Wall Street, venture capital drive high drug prices
And undermine public health in the process I ran across Merrill at the Washington Monthly writing about Healthcare. This particular article is on the mark in terms of what is occurring in pharmaceutical healthcare today. Kip, Merrill, and I are all hitting similar notes with regard to healthcare and other issues impacting it. Some such as Kip and Merrill more so on the details than I. The costs and prices of Pharma are overstated by the industry....
Read More »They Can Only “Win” by Cheating …
Editorial by Ten Bears at Homeless on the High Desert. Ten Bears is reviewing the politics or the changing of the rules in Montana for the 2024 Senatorial Election. And changing the rules only for 2024. Sounds almost like Wisconsin plans to impeach a newly elect Supreme Cour Justice. They Can Only “Win” by Cheating . . . , Homeless on the High Desert, Ten Bears, g’da says . . . Daily Chaos: Republicans in the Montana state Senate on Tuesday...
Read More »Judge bans Abortion Pill Nationally and Overrules the FDA
Not sure where these critters come from; but, it sure is tiring. One person lacking the foundation for making such a decision is allowed to make the decision only because of his status. If he has a legal background (???), he knows he is wrong So much for “leave it up to the states:” Right-wing activist w/no medical training overrules FDA, bans mifepristone nationally, ACA Signups, Charles Gaba. Charles: I was out of town for much of last week...
Read More »April 9, 1865 . . . The Aftermath and the Economics of War
We died at Cold Harbor June 1864, an officer of the Iron Brigade. UW had his letters and I was allowed to read them. They were given to me, neatly tied up with a thin ribbon. I was allowed to make copies. It was interesting to read the letters of an ancestor who fought in the Civil War. In particular, his letters were used to detail the battle at Gettysburg. No news reporters had been there to record the events of the days. And neither could his...
Read More »What’s Going On?
Poland, Hungary, Turkey, Russia, Israel, India, Italy, Brazil, …, and even the USA; around the world, we are seeing democracies lurching toward autocracy and/or theocracy. A hundred years from now, history will tell us what it was all about. It would help to know now. Though no common denominator stands out; one of the more common is religion. More specifically, it is right-wing religious groups either leading the charge toward theocracy or being...
Read More »Overdue Selection of Stuff from My In-Box
The Overdue Selection of Stuff from My In-Box. Some days are good at Angry Bear. Getting a background in how to run a Blog by myself at this time. Sometimes run out of ideas. Fortunately, I have good influx of articles hitting my In-Box daily. I recently cleaned out a couple of thousand emails going back a couple of years. Hoping Dan will get better and can join me. He was the brains and is the owner of Angry Bear. I just write or C&P . . ....
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