Great new way to screw patients: Kaiser uses wrong billing code, then refuses...
Imagine that you went to visit your Kaiser Permanente doctor and received some service (not as serious as cancer treatment or heart surgery, thank goodness). By coincidence, your husband had gone to...
View ArticleLeft-Wing? Right-Wing? America's "Estates of the Realm": History Repeats...
Years ago I was puzzled by the use of the words Left and Right when it came to politics. I had heard descriptions such as "liberal, left-wing radicals" and "right-wing conservative Christians", and...
View ArticleWhy do college educated people support the Tea Party?
I hold my beliefs because I think they are true and correct based on all of the information that I have been exposed to during my life. Why would I hold on to a belief that I know to be false? That...
View ArticleCheck out the Ferguson propaganda on Fox news
So I wondered what the good folks at foxnews.com were reporting about the situation in Ferguson. The top news story at the moment is this: A GRAPHIC AND DISTURBING YOUTUBE VIDEO apparently taken in...
View ArticleThe right thinks Michael Brown was attacking Wilson based on this video. What...
If you google the phrase "The next thing I know, he comes back towards them." you will get a whole bunch of links to right-wing sites posting stories that allegedly "prove" that Michael Brown was...
View ArticleInstead of derailing a "Hunter" diary, I wrote this one
Hunter has written a lovely diary that is now on the front page and the "Most Shared" list, called "No, it really was just an effort to smear Michael Brown". As usual, he tells a compelling tale -...
View ArticleWill Chuck Todd approve this new Obamacare ad? I suspect not.
"You'll be okay. Probably."That's the punch line for an amusing new ad aimed at the youngsters from Get Covered Illinois. It sings the praises for a brand new (or maybe not so new) alternative to ACA:...
View ArticleWant Pizza for your Gay, Indiana Wedding? Good News ...
No need to worry, Zach Braff And Donald Faison have got your back! Just because some people in Indiana refuse to cater gay weddings doesn't mean all hope is lost. Zach Braff and Donald Faison, who are...
View ArticleThe Constitution and Me - Part I, Men vs. Angels
"Life is what happens while you are busy making other plans." - John LennonSo a funny thing happened while I was just trying to go about living my life. The universe, for some reason that I still...
View ArticleSince Carly "won the debate" we should spread the word: what did HP employees...
After making comments in another diary (kos' Seven random thoughts about the GOP clown show last night), I was asked to create a diary of my own.I used to work at HP (Hewlett-Packard) under Carly. She...
View ArticleUPDATE X4: The Planned Parenthood Scandal - It's Acorn Part II
I have bad news and good news. The bad news is that I've performed research which proves that the PLANNED PARENTHOOD scandal is just what we all thought it was - heavily edited video manipulated to...
View ArticleErick Erickson knows why the President "pretends" to be a Christian
Erick Erickson, the editor of Redstate, has recently posted an article where he interprets the findings of a new poll from the Pew Research center called "Religious Groups Ratings of Each...
View ArticleMatt Taibbi: Hillary's effort to deflect blame from banks for the 2008 crisis...
So I've become a fan of Matt Taibbi's tweets. I made it through the last GOP debate by enjoying his awesome live-blogging; now I find myself wandering over to his page whenever I want to hear...
View ArticleTaibbi, Trump, and the First DNC Debate
As some of you might recall, I've become a fan of Matt Taibbi's tweets. I made it through the last GOP debate by enjoying his awesome live-blogging, I wondered if he might be doing the same for...
View ArticleSomething Silly: A Dad Responds to His Daughter's Facebook Post
So I was reading a serious diary about how we are all doomed, including this comment about how the super rich are busy making plans for when the 99% finally revolt: Super rich hedge fund managers are...
View ArticleX1: My concern about HRC: Oligarchy in America
By coincidence, I was ready to publish this diary on the day of the witch hunt. I refrained, even before I read and recc'd "To every Democrat on October 22nd: support Hillary Clinton" (361 recs), a...
View ArticleDid you hear the one about the HP CEO who ...
... thinks that failed CEO and failed Senate candidate Carly Fiorina is not qualified to be president?I must admit, it made me chuckle a bit when I heard this news. It reminded me of the time back in...
View ArticleX2: Clinton, and Sanders, and Trolls. Oh My!
I recently came across what I think was/is an honest to goodness conservative troll. You know, one of those people who might actually be paid by some organization to intentionally sow discord among...
View ArticleIgnore this diary please
This diary was published just before the system went down for the new DK5 software, so I republished it in that environment. Please ignore this diary. If you want to make comments, please use the...
View ArticleFYI, found by googling "bernie sanders mlk"
25 Things You May Not Know About Bernie Sanders *Bernie Sanders entered into politics through the civil rights movement, more than a half century ago. He organized with CORE (the Congress of Racial...
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