1. This is an interesting look at how a biased political support of a so-called "think tank" can breed contempt and disharmony. It is also a look at the Koch Brothers and how their petrol riches leech into the infrastructure of institutions that create political influence to cement a grip on the upper domain of the 1%:
http://www.nytimes.com/2012/03/06/us/cato-institute-and-koch-in-rift-over-independence.html?_r=1&nl=todaysheadlines&emc=edit_th_20120306&pagewanted=print
2. Take time out for a comedic relief. If nothing comes of his run, at least Mitt Romney has had his chance to audition for American Idol in a very expensive way:
http://www.nationalmemo.com/article/video-mitt-romney-recites-davy-crockett
3. The adage "..you reap what you sow" has never been more spot on than the latest meltdown of right-wing blather from Flush Slimebaugh:
http://www.smirkingchimp.com/print/41797/
4. This is a vision of economic parity regarding taxation from one whose roots were were/are nurtured in the 99%:
http://www.smirkingchimp.com/print/41771/
5. To all of my airline industry friends, and any others who suffered through corporate reorganization, this one at American Airlines is a sick one. An employee who hires on at a young age and hangs in for a period long enough to be dead meat on the employment market should they quit, pulling health and pensions benefits out from under is not a nice thing:
http://www.truth-out.org/print/13264
6. Romney will come out of this Super Tuesday affair more battered and worse-off. Can the Republican Party bosses figure out a solution?...probably not:
http://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/lasting-damage-for-romney/2012/03/06/gIQArMNevR_print.html
7. A study of the comparative analysis of our health care system with those in ALL other countries in the world reveals that the USA is the costliest. I received my newsletter from the Tea Party today (yes, I read lots of different stuff for this project), and one of the paragraphs stated that the USA has the best and "greatest health care system in the world". Okay....okay?....huh huh:
http://www.latimes.com/business/money/la-fi-mo-u.s.-medical-prices-high-20120306,0,1734961,print.story
8. This NY Times editorial pretty well sums up the GeeOpee antics to date:
http://www.nytimes.com/2012/03/07/opinion/super-tuesday.html?_r=1&ref=opinion&pagewanted=print
http://www.latimes.com/business/money/la-fi-mo-u.s.-medical-prices-high-20120306,0,1734961,print.story
--
Juan
"In preparing for battle I have always found that plans are useless, but planning is indispensable."
-- Dwight D. Eisenhower
-- Dwight D. Eisenhower
"For centuries, theologians have been explaining the unknowable in terms of the-not-worth-knowing."
-- H.L. Mencken
-- H.L. Mencken
"When buying and selling are controlled by legislation, the first things to be bought and sold are legislators."
-- P. J. O'Rourke
"Fiction is obliged to stick to possibilities. Truth isn't." -- P. J. O'Rourke
-- Mark Twain
"Health is the thing that makes you feel that now is the best time of the year."
-- Franklin P. Adams
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