Massachusetts Set to Offer Universal Health Insurance
Massachusetts is poised to become the first state to provide nearly universal health care coverage after the state legislature overwhelmingly passed a bill today that Gov. Mitt Romney says he will sign.
The bill does what health experts say no other state has yet been able to do: provide a mechanism for all of its citizens to obtain health insurance. It accomplishes that in a way that experts say combines several different methods and proposals from across the political spectrum, apportioning the cost among businesses, individuals and the government.
Just posting real quick for The Wife to see… Haven’t read it, so no opinion. Perhaps our New England libertarian correspondents have some info?
Monster’s Ball: Feds, Aryan Brotherhood come to paint the OC courthouse white
Based on claims by prosecutor Emmick and Smith, the AB—though much smaller than the Dirty White Boys, Nazi Low Riders, Mexican Mafia and Black Guerrilla Family—is the elite prison-based criminal organization in America. The Brotherhood recruited people who were fiercely loyal and street-smart; more than anything they were “psychopaths,� according to Smith, not excluding himself from that category.
An interesting peak through the window at the Aryan Brotherhood (You all know how fascinated I am with hate groups and gangs…).
Purely coincidentally, I watched American History X last weekend while The Wife was away at work. Effing fantastic, that movie.
Also note, this OC Weekly site always seems to have some good stuff. I think I need to add it to the regular rotation.
TROUBLEMAKERS: What pit bulls can teach us about profiling.
Then which are the pit bulls that get into trouble? “The ones that the legislation is geared toward have aggressive tendencies that are either bred in by the breeder, trained in by the trainer, or reinforced in by the owner,� Herkstroeter says. A mean pit bull is a dog that has been turned mean, by selective breeding, by being cross-bred with a bigger, human-aggressive breed like German shepherds or Rottweilers, or by being conditioned in such a way that it begins to express hostility to human beings. A pit bull is dangerous to people, then, not to the extent that it expresses its essential pit bullness but to the extent that it deviates from it. A pit-bull ban is a generalization about a generalization about a trait that is not, in fact, general. That’s a category problem.
Fantastic article.
Also puts a point on why I’ve had issues with some of the recent topics of conversation at the Corcorans’.
Somehow, this is in the Scotsman rather than the Onion…
Stalin’s half-man, half-ape super-warriors
The Soviet dictator Josef Stalin ordered the creation of Planet of the Apes-style warriors by crossing humans with apes, according to recently uncovered secret documents.
Moscow archives show that in the mid-1920s Russia’s top animal breeding scientist, Ilya Ivanov, was ordered to turn his skills from horse and animal work to the quest for a super-warrior.
This sounds like an issue of Hellboy or something… Jesus!
Obviously, Stalin was a stone-cold nutter. I can’t believe Lenin was the only one with syphilis rumors surrounding him… (Ah, there are Stalin-Pox ideas after the fact, it seems.)
I wonder if he also had a separate Sleestak breeding program.
Fresh violence rocks Sydney
The trouble erupted on Sunday at North Cronulla, where drunken mobs among a crowd of about 5000 chanted racist slogans and attacked people of Middle Eastern appearance in retaliation for the bashing of two lifeguards, which locals blamed on Lebanese gangs.
So, the whites think some Lebanese blokes beat up a couple lifeguards, and proceed to go after anyone with brown skin, which prompts the Arab community to call for retaliation?
Whatever happened to peace, love, and understanding, folks?
Bush on the Constitution: ‘It’s just a goddamned piece of paper’
I’ve talked to three people present for the meeting that day and they all confirm that the President of the United States called the Constitution “a goddamned piece of paper.�
Context is given, so there’s not much to add, really…
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