Profile - mloger

Palin's death panel comment where about passive euthanasia not active euthanasia. All the uproar was directed at the end of life panning provisions. That was over the active euthanasia and removed from the Senate bill. Palin's comment about passive euthanasia are not out of the bill. Mainly due to the fact it was never directly in the bill. It has always been a likely consequence of the bill. In can happen in two ways. One, you dump several million more in to the system but don't add any mo... Read Full Story

The "death panels" are not the same thing as end of life planning. It as well is not they same as medicare/medicaid paying for hospice if needed. The payment of docs to have conversations on end of the life planning may encourage at the very least more people to give up on life. It's out of the senate bill for now. That's a good thing. It would have been a reminder, every five years, that it might be better to just die quietly. Nothing wrong with dieing quietly, but do we need a reminder?How... Read Full Story

Both side are massively off the point on most of the town hall anger. That is not a comment an the substance, just how it is being handled. The thing I scream at the TV/radio/compu tubes the most is that we should be more civil. What the hell are we supposed to do when, at the very least, they distort the facts and most of the time out right lie. I have finally read someone who has it right."I agree with Krauthammer, more, but not fully. Public spectacle does have a bit of usefulness. But onl... Read Full Story

I don't have much affection for the British. I think of them of an example of what not to do and where we will be in all to short a time. There TV is entertaining more so than ours for the mindless stuff. As classes and sophomoric as the gifts giving was this is a systemic nightmare.Special relationship? Obama's people won't even answer the phone, whines Downing Street"He said it meant the Government was finding it 'unbelievably difficult' to hold discussions ahead of the meeting of world le... Read Full Story

I don't have much affection for the British. I think of them of an example of what not to do and where we will be in all to short a time. There TV is entertaining more so than ours for the mindless stuff. As classes and sophomoric as the gifts giving was this is a systemic nightmare.Special relationship? Obama's people won't even answer the phone, whines Downing Street"He said it meant the Government was finding it 'unbelievably difficult' to hold discussions ahead o... Read Full Story

I had hear this but hadn't seen much direct evidence. A name of some who had turned him down.Via Ace of Spades From ABC News"Democratic sources say that H. Rodgin Cohen, a partner in the New York law firm Sullivan & Cromwell LLP, and the leading candidate for Deputy Treasury Secretary, has withdrawn from consideration. It's the third withdrawal of a top Treasury Department staff pick in less than a week. (cont.)Cohen had risen to the top after the withdrawal last week of expected deputy ... Read Full Story

I had hear this but hadn't seen much direct evidence. A name of some who had turned him down.Via Ace of Spades From ABC News"Democratic sources say that H. Rodgin Cohen, a partner in the New York law firm Sullivan & Cromwell LLP, and the leading candidate for Deputy Treasury Secretary, has withdrawn from consideration. It's the third withdrawal of a top Treasury Department staff pick in less than a week. (cont.)Cohen had risen to the top after the withdrawal last week of exp... Read Full Story