Comments on: Happy B’day, Jack http://morningseditionists.com/msblog/?p=1400 Good Morning philosopher kings and queens, working class heroes, progressive utopians with no sense of humor, lurking conservatives.... Thu, 09 Sep 2010 08:01:22 -0600 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.8.4 hourly 1 By: vernon http://morningseditionists.com/msblog/?p=1400&cpage=1#comment-116551 vernon Sat, 30 May 2009 01:14:37 +0000 http://morningseditionists.com/msblog/?p=1400#comment-116551 <object width="320" height="265"><param name="movie" value="http://www.youtube.com/v/ZHAFmFsb9XM&hl=en&fs=1"></param><param name="allowFullScreen" value="true"></param><param name="allowscriptaccess" value="always"></param><embed src="http://www.youtube.com/v/ZHAFmFsb9XM&hl=en&fs=1" type="application/x-shockwave-flash" allowscriptaccess="always" allowfullscreen="true" width="320" height="265"></embed></object>

]]> By: artnorton http://morningseditionists.com/msblog/?p=1400&cpage=1#comment-116550 artnorton Fri, 29 May 2009 20:02:08 +0000 http://morningseditionists.com/msblog/?p=1400#comment-116550 S and I are going to demonstrate in front of the state capitol for some of that Canadien Health-type care tomorrow http://www.healthcare-now.org/campaigns/may-30th-day-of-action/denver-co/ It'd be nice if there was some local news coverage but I'm sure all the available time will be taken up with covering the disfuntional couple on TLC with eight kids who's lifes are ruined. S and I are going to demonstrate in front of the state capitol for some of that Canadien Health-type care tomorrow http://www.he...n/denver-co/
It’d be nice if there was some local news coverage but I’m sure all the available time will be taken up with covering the disfuntional couple on TLC with eight kids who’s lifes are ruined.

]]> By: Sue P http://morningseditionists.com/msblog/?p=1400&cpage=1#comment-116549 Sue P Fri, 29 May 2009 18:13:26 +0000 http://morningseditionists.com/msblog/?p=1400#comment-116549 Sen. Carl Levin: <em>Mr. Cheney has also claimed that the release of classified documents would prove his view that the techniques worked. But those classified documents say nothing about numbers of lives saved, nor do the documents connect acquisition of valuable intelligence to the use of the abusive techniques. I hope that the documents are declassified so that people can judge for themselves what is fact and what is fiction</em> http://theplumline.whorunsgov.com/torture/levin-cia-torture-documents-cheney-wants-dont-prove-squat/. Sen. Carl Levin:

Mr. Cheney has also claimed that the release of classified documents would prove his view that the techniques worked. But those classified documents say nothing about numbers of lives saved, nor do the documents connect acquisition of valuable intelligence to the use of the abusive techniques. I hope that the documents are declassified so that people can judge for themselves what is fact and what is fiction

http://theplu...prove-squat/.

]]> By: Sue P http://morningseditionists.com/msblog/?p=1400&cpage=1#comment-116548 Sue P Fri, 29 May 2009 18:05:15 +0000 http://morningseditionists.com/msblog/?p=1400#comment-116548 I think that if I saw O'Reilly and Cheney together, I would need medical treatment. I think that if I saw O’Reilly and Cheney together, I would need medical treatment.

]]> By: Sue P http://morningseditionists.com/msblog/?p=1400&cpage=1#comment-116547 Sue P Fri, 29 May 2009 18:03:15 +0000 http://morningseditionists.com/msblog/?p=1400#comment-116547 O'Reilly explains gender politics: <object width="425" height="344"><param name="movie" value="http://www.youtube.com/v/x_vkbSeNvxc&hl=en&fs=1"></param><param name="allowFullScreen" value="true"></param><param name="allowscriptaccess" value="always"></param><embed src="http://www.youtube.com/v/x_vkbSeNvxc&hl=en&fs=1" type="application/x-shockwave-flash" allowscriptaccess="always" allowfullscreen="true" width="425" height="344"></embed></object> O’Reilly explains gender politics:

]]> By: artnorton http://morningseditionists.com/msblog/?p=1400&cpage=1#comment-116546 artnorton Fri, 29 May 2009 16:49:41 +0000 http://morningseditionists.com/msblog/?p=1400#comment-116546 "<em>I don't feel old. I don't feel anything till noon. That's when it's time for my nap." </em> “I don’t feel old. I don’t feel anything till noon. That’s when it’s time for my nap.”

]]> By: Sue P http://morningseditionists.com/msblog/?p=1400&cpage=1#comment-116545 Sue P Fri, 29 May 2009 15:20:06 +0000 http://morningseditionists.com/msblog/?p=1400#comment-116545 Sorry, that post got screwed up and I can't fix it. :oops: Sorry, that post got screwed up and I can’t fix it. :oops:

]]> By: Sue P http://morningseditionists.com/msblog/?p=1400&cpage=1#comment-116544 Sue P Fri, 29 May 2009 15:10:32 +0000 http://morningseditionists.com/msblog/?p=1400#comment-116544 <a href='http://www.colbertnation.com/' rel="nofollow">The Colbert Report</a> Mon - Thurs 11:30pm / 10:30c <a href='http://www.colbertnation.com/the-colbert-report-videos/224789/april-16-2009/the-colbert-coalition-s-anti-gay-marriage-ad' rel="nofollow">The Colbert Coalition's Anti-Gay Marriage Ad</a> The Colbert Report Mon – Thurs 11:30pm / 10:30c The Colbert Coalition’s Anti-Gay Marriage Ad

]]> By: Sue P http://morningseditionists.com/msblog/?p=1400&cpage=1#comment-116543 Sue P Fri, 29 May 2009 12:53:42 +0000 http://morningseditionists.com/msblog/?p=1400#comment-116543 <a href="http://www.newyorker.com/reporting/2009/06/01/090601fa_fact_gawande?currentPage=8" rel="nofollow">This is a long article in the New Yorker</a> about the costs of medical care and the reasons costs are so high. But, here is the way that costs were successfully lowered and quality was raised: <em> (D)ecades ago Mayo recognized that the first thing it needed to do was eliminate the financial barriers. It pooled all the money the doctors and the hospital system received and began paying everyone a salary, so that the doctors’ goal in patient care couldn’t be increasing their income. Mayo promoted leaders who focussed first on what was best for patients, and then on how to make this financially possible.</em> Is it possible that the profit motive does not cure all ills? This is a long article in the New Yorker about the costs of medical care and the reasons costs are so high. But, here is the way that costs were successfully lowered and quality was raised:

(D)ecades ago Mayo recognized that the first thing it needed to do was eliminate the financial barriers. It pooled all the money the doctors and the hospital system received and began paying everyone a salary, so that the doctors’ goal in patient care couldn’t be increasing their income. Mayo promoted leaders who focussed first on what was best for patients, and then on how to make this financially possible.

Is it possible that the profit motive does not cure all ills?

]]> By: Sue P http://morningseditionists.com/msblog/?p=1400&cpage=1#comment-116542 Sue P Fri, 29 May 2009 12:47:08 +0000 http://morningseditionists.com/msblog/?p=1400#comment-116542 I don't know how to accept that Rudi-Judi win. Perhaps upchucking would be appropriate. I don’t know how to accept that Rudi-Judi win. Perhaps upchucking would be appropriate.

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