1. Howard Dean and the 50 State Strategy are first!

b) No

c) No

Please recommend this post.

http://www.blogforamerica.com/view/24182...

2. I don't know.

Many Doctors, Many Tests, No Rhyme or Reason by SANDEEP JAUHAR, M.D.

...Overconsultation and overtesting have now become facts of the medical profession. The culture in practice is to grab patients and generate volume. “Medicine has become like everything else,” a doctor told me recently. “Everything moves because of money.”...full ESSAY: http://www.nytimes.com/2008/03/11/health...


This sound like politics.

no and no and lastly, no lo so.

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Watching the exit polls coming in. I'm amazed that 27% of Hillary supporters won't vote for Barack. At this stage though - I don't know too many Barack supporters that would support Hillary.

did you notice in the Spitzer story that homeland security is now running every bank transaction through their software and that was how they got on to him

used to be an over $10,000 limit and I've run up against that a few times in my business, but now they have lowered it to just run everything through so they can spot "suspicious activity" 

next they will be selling the info to McDonalds that Burger King is having a hit with the new sandwich and adding that "financial service" to the GDP

I use wiring services at times (like many people). Watch out peeps.;-)Spitzer has a very expensive hobby.

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poblano's projection in MS. He's probably the best at Kos.

The exit polls will show him ahead by 22 points (0 / 0)
And he'll actually win by 19.8.

You heard it here first.

fivethirtyeight.com: electoral projections done right.

by poblano on Tue Mar 11, 2008 at 03:26:13 PM PDT

yikes Susan my Dad just went into the hospital two days ago

good thing they need assent from my brother for medical procedures

last thing he needs is a bunch of tests, (he is just wearing out at 94)

There's always a method to the clinton campaign's madness. This from a poster at Daily Kos regarding Ferraro's latest:
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Ferraro's rant may play well to (0 / 0)
the Appalachian-type white male working class voter....you know, the kind who thinks that his lot in life is due to the purportedly preferential treatment of women and minorities in society. In most states, those people vote GOP, but there are probably a lot of Dems in places like PA and KY that fit the bill too.

It wouldn't surprise me if appealing to the prejudices of that group were exactly what the Clinton campaign was trying to do through the politically-expendable Ferraro.

Somebody in the Democratic Party needs to bring the hammer down on Clinton's unscrupulous campaign before she destroys our chances in November (and beyond).

by jenesq on Tue Mar 11, 2008 at 03:31:23 PM PDT (hat tip)
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OK, here's a bit of new info on the Spitzer thing.

Interesting because a person-on-the-street succinctly said, "I want to know if they were investigating a call girl ring and stumbled across him, or if they were investigating him and stumbled across a call girl ring."

Apparently the latter. They just said it started a year ago when the IRS flagged some strange transactions of his they thought might be political corruption.

Is the IRS supposed to investigate political corruption, or just tax cheating?

I'm quite confused now.

Even so, Spitzer still needs to go.

-- volney

volney - look at the amounts. IRS watches wiring amounts. I believe the limit is about 10-11K without the beneficiary having to pay tax on it. This isn't anything new. The IRS has been tracking wires for a very long time. Think about drug dealers, etc.

I believe we need one super-super delegate, Al Gore, to come out and endorse Obama and cut through some of these corporate media games like:

announcing cherry-picked polls 

stating false/misleading information for their own purposes

overblowing statements by some has-been or someone with no political power left (Ferraro)

and, most of all, making tons of money from the Dem candidates' contributors and lovin' every minute of it

Make it all end Al, you have the power!

 I believe we need one super-super delegate, Al Gore, to come out and endorse Obama and cut through some of these corporate media games like:

Gore's endorsement worked very well for Howard........................

Phil,

The best of care to your dad.

94 is older but never count oldtimers out.

"They" say that the older you are, the better your chance of living another five years than a newborn has.

Somebody in the Democratic Party needs to bring the hammer down on Clinton's unscrupulous campaign before she destroys our chances in November (and beyond).

The voters are doing it. But of course they aren't doing it fast enough. 

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Susan Rowe
Tue, 03/11/08
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I had quite an experience myself with my wife.

We went to PSU hospital on to have a stillborn removed. It was before we were eligible for Medicaid, but it was billed to Medicare because it is a training hospital.

The intake nursed talked us into an amniocentesis which I later realized was totally unnecessary. An intern basically used my wife for a pincushion to hone her skills.

Five minutes of torture (she kept taking the needle out and putting it in again) was $750 for her sponsoring physician.

When I got a copy of the bill it was padded with $5,000 worth of nonsense we never had done. We were only there for about 24 hours. I remember there was about $400 for disposable "towel-pads" that I never saw.

It was a total rip-off.

Rasmussen Poll:

Clinton leads among senior citizens but trails among younger voters. But, it is the racial divide that defines the campaign in Mississippi--Obama leads 80% to 12% among African-American voters while Clinton holds a 47% advantage among White voters.

Who was it that said race is not an issue?

Joan In Florida
Tue, 03/11/08
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Joan,

Even I have not endorsed Obama...............Gore wont either........................

Phil ~~ I've been having a "medical" issue. Done my web research. It's not life threatening, and is mostly mistaken by the medical profession for two other things that require fairly invasive procedures to diagnose. The way it works is this: you go in with one complaint, they run a ton of tests to rule out XXX, and then diagnose you with YYY. After a year or so of everything they offer you for YYY not working, you go back, they run a whole new set of tests, and diagnose you with ZZZ. What do you think my chances of going in and telling them I have ZZZ being met with anything but sheer contempt, and an insistence that I go back to go, and start. . . . with the tests for XXX?

At this point, I think just avoiding them altogether is the best choice. Especially since the only treatment for ZZZ is life-style change. Not one med nor procedure, lol!

puddle, is it something homeopathy or acupuncture could help?  I hope you're OK.  Maybe if we knew more, some of us might have some words of wisdom but I respect your privacy.

Candles for puddle! 

Interview With Jim Dean of Democracy for America

http://www.truthout.org/docs_2006/031108...

Truthout's Matt Renner reports: "In our interview, Jim Dean, chair of Democracy for America (DFA), shared his thoughts about the Democratic primary election, the strategies of past Democratic campaigns and the rise of a new locally based progressive movement."

puddle, you rock!

We are each our own best primary care giver.

I remember meeting a man who was a pharmacist who also owned drugstores in many of the area's small towns.

I jokingly told him he wouldn't like to have me for a customer because I try to take no medicines but when I really need to, I only take half the recommended dose.

His response was, "You are very smart." This surprised me quite a lot.

The other day a friend told me her lungs are now irrevocably compromised due to side-effects of drugs that were given to treat a symptom she had, but that was really only a minor symptom of a different illness.

IMO, the person living in the house has the best shot at figuring out where the termites are.

-- volney

Using the Rasmussen poll, Obama should get 72% of the Mississippi vote, which would be a nice thing, meaning 24 delegates to 9 for Hilly.

Sure hope it goes that way!

-- volney

i've about decided that profit and quality cancel each other out.  profit is a conequence of quantity.  while there is an increase in quality possible as a result of the 'practice makes perfect principle,' it's not likely to be sustained because after a certain point boredom tends to decrease attention to the process.  So, in the normal course of events, quality starts out poor, gets better and even close to perfection and then decreases again.  in the end profit cancels out quality because profit can be sustained by putting less material and effort in.

Clinton leads among senior citizens but trails among younger voters. But, it is the racial divide that defines the campaign in Mississippi--Obama leads 80% to 12% among African-American voters while Clinton holds a 47% advantage among White voters.

Who was it that said race is not an issue?

Any time you divide people into categories an issue can be made of it. 

Just look at the overall numbers instead and the "issue" magically disappears.

More people want Obama than want The Clintons. It's as simple as that. 

puddle,

You have to be your own advocate in the healthcare system today. Keep a log and read up. Find a person to speak for you if you can't. Have them write a log too. I got this advice from a very friend who was a past President for the Indiana Medical Association and his wife. The present day system is a total mess. It's harder and harder these days to get into see any member of congress without first having to write a lot of checks and meet with a lot of "their people" even for those who advocate for the AMA.

♥ puddle.

Spitzer--so, they're estimating $80k and $4,300 in one night, sheez. At the end of the day, he was utilizing the services of call girls. I actually see this as a private matter between him and his family, provided no public money was involved. Oldest profession and all.

from KOS:

Ferraro speaking: If Obama was a white man, he would not be in this position. And if he was a woman (of any color) he would not be in this position. He happens to be very lucky to be who he is. And the country is caught up in the concept.

Ferraro isn't some unknown lower-level or obscure advisor, but one of her top fundraisers, member of Clinton's finance committee, and a former Democratic vice presidential nominee.

Update: Comment by slatersan:

She's half right

If he were a white man...

the race would be over...

and he'd be the nominee.

Not sure why KOS included this update:

Update: Comment by slatersan:

She's half right

If he were a white man...

the race would be over...

and he'd be the nominee.

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This would seem to validate Ferraro's claim?!?!?

seashell, lol! NOT life-threatening. Simply annoying as hell.

"More people want Obama than want The Clintons. It's as simple as that."=====

True that.

Spitzer and the oldest profession being a private matter. Yes and no - it's called trafficking human beings for sex. NY to DC. Federal offense.

they are running every banking transaction throught their software

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Here is where I come down on FISA, they are destroying Roe v Wade by setting precedence that privacy is not a right guaranteed by the Constitution, same with the banking softeware tracking every transaction

pass FISA kiss Roe v Wade goodbye

very friend s/b very dear friend

Spitzer has to go and he may have to do time, but how they caught him and how it was leaked is to me a huge issue.

Quality is always trashed when the American pocket book is in the picture. Greed is rampant in American society today. That is why folks think lying and cheating are OK. They are not. It's just plain cheap and lazy like most Wal-Mart Executives.

I'm thinking s/o may have been gunning for Spitz, but who knows?

Cafferty had some disturbing news about whether or not people would vote for the nominee, no matter who it would be.

The majority of people who answered said they'd never vote for HC, or never vote for BO, or would not vote at all.

This must be music to McC's ears. 

2 glass ceilings - how dumb can the dem party be! 

Barack wins Mississippi!

Phil, FISA will pass, will it not?  Our objections have fallen of deaf ears it seems.

With a McC presidency, we'll be back to the 9th century with a nightmare of a SC.

That's why I don't understand it when some dems say they won't vote for this person or that person.  Heck, I'm an Indy and I'll vote for the dem nominee.

Maybe hatred (fear)  of one particular person or another is stronger than love of basic American freedom. 

Hatred is not getting us to where we say we want to go....world peace. 

I'd like to hear every person posting here say that they'll vote for the dem nominee, even if it's HC.   

cChalfonte--Prejudice is a judgment or assessment that's accepted as true BEFORE any evidence to support it is received.  What makes it so hard to remove, once it's implanted, is that any subsequent information that's consistent with the judgment is taken as confirming and any contrary evidence is taken in as "the exception that proves the rule."  So, Obama is an exception in the minds of prejudiced people and they don't see anything wrong with it because they aren't antagonistic towards any particular person to begin with.  They accept the prejudice (a shared antagonism)  because that's what their social cohort expects and, if they don't go along with the prejudice, they risk being ostracised themselves.  Because that's what the primary function of the prejudice is--to define who belongs to the group or clan and deserves to enjoy its benefits and who doesn't.

I have the sense that the younger generations have little or no awarness of how this process works.  Besides, since most established social groups are bestowing fewer and fewer benefits on their off-spring, young people stand to lose little if they don't conform.  That's what the run of the mill "family values" group is upset about--their inability to control the young by conferring or withholding benefits.  Socialism is a negative because it supplants the mechanisms of familial control.

Some parents resent public education because they can't control what their children are taught.  Childless people resent public education because they have to pay for but can't control what other people's children are taught.

Everybody wants to be in charge and hardly anybody wants to be told what to do. 

Is Karl Rove running the Clinton campaign?  They've really got the "accuse your opponents of exactly what you yourself are guilty of" thing down pat.

First with NAFTA in Ohio, now this...

"But her husband has had numerous associations with the Saudis, who have donated millions of dollars to his presidential library. And in 2004, the New York Sun reported that Mr. Clinton had spoken twice at economic conferences in Saudi Arabia, on one occasion collecting $300,000 for a speech and the second time flying on a plane sent by the Saudi royal family."

In the NYTimes, nonetheless.

and he'd be the nominee.

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This would seem to validate Ferraro's claim?!?!?
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Nah. Think her claim is that he wouldn't even have been *able* to run. That he's running on his race. . . . (Like Hill isn't running on her sex?????????????????)

Thank you Mississippi.

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Geraldine Ferraro you are an embarrasment.

Think her claim is that he wouldn't even have been *able* to run. That he's running on his race. . ======

ok. Weird statement, Ferraro's. I really didn't get her point.

Here's a picture of Geraldine Ferraro

I have the sense that the younger generations have little or no awarness of how this process works. Besides, since most established social groups are bestowing fewer and fewer benefits on their off-spring, young people stand to lose little if they don't conform. ======

Great post, Monica. I see this with the younger gen also. Folks under 35 don't see a big deal about interracial couples, gays...just no biggie to them. Good on' em.

Phil, I agree and it was my first thought when the scandal broke.

Think her claim is that he wouldn't even have been *able* to run. That he's running on his race. 

Does anyonre think Hillary could be president if she wasn't married to one?

It's funny how the shoe actually fits Hillary instead of Obama. 

seashell

there is no glass ceiling above Clinton, all the exit polling shows her getting a positive boost out of her gender

and Obama can carry 35 states in the general election

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Democrats in Congress better stick up for the notion of privacy. The banking and email rifling probably was stuck in Patriot Two. All things considered had a story about burglary being solved states away with police going through emails.

kiss probable cause goodbye

thought crimes are next

but again, privacy as a right is the basis of Roe v Wade 

If Clinton doesn't denounce Ferraro personally they need to pull the plug on her microphone.

new thread

bbl

Geraldine Ferraro you are an embarrasment.

B. Kerrey, Bill Shaheen, the owner of BET, Geraldine Fararro......

It's amazing that such prominent people are willing to crawl into the gutter, trash their reputations, and fall on their swords for The Clintons. 

The manner in which Hillary is conducting her campaign is a disgrace. If someone doesn't stop her from using the Rove tactics she may well be the downfall of the democrats WINNING this race in Nov!

Obama has spent more time over the past few weeks defending himself against her negative adds, and comments, which is a back handed tactic Hillary is using and it worked well in Ohio and Tx. I hope voters in Pa are smarter than that.

Hillary keeps stating she has been "vetted," I beg to differ- there are many younger people who are not familiar with all the Clinton scandals which WILL come back to haunt Hillary if she did become the nominee. And, we have no idea what Bill has been doing since he was out of office that may come back to haunt Hillary in the general election as well.

The fact that she has not produced her tax documents along with the archives which would prove to the American public what she did (or did not do) as first lady is very alarming and people should be concerned.

Her win/win strategy is only to go after the super delegates, because it appears after doing all the math this is the ONLY way she CAN win. I know the DNC rules allow this, but if Obama wins by both popular vote and delegates, the supers need to listen to the will of the people or they are going to lose a lot of party members. I have heard many say if that should happen (meaning the supers go against the will of the voters) they will either vote for McCain or not at all, and believe me they are not kidding.

I didnt trust George Bush prior to 2000, and I have never trusted Hillary either. Just the idea that she stood by Bill after he was having one affair after the other is a telling sign. It says to me she is either a weak woman, or she is power hungry and needed Bill to continue on with regards to her running for President ultimately. I have no faith in this woman after viewing her voting record as well, that speaks volumes. Where is the red flag???

2. No.