I don't, typically, hog the front page with blog posts. However, Gregg prompts me to make an exception and use the tools that will provide exposure of his posturing for the longest period of time.

If our Democracy worked as it should, then artificial persons (corporations such as banks) which violate their charter would be dissolved, not allowed to declare bankruptcy and start over.

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Samantha Bee thinks President Obama should never have made a concrete pledge to televise health negotiations on C-SPAN.

Watch Samantha's take on the stealth care debate

I think it's because there's an inability to anticipate what is going to happen next. And that's probably a consequence of an inability to track the sequence of events with any accuracy. It's as if information is randomized, like shuffling a deck of cards, BEFORE being stored in memory. Knowing what comes next is never identified. So, remembering the past is no help, if one wants to prevent making the same mistakes again.

Obama directs $600M to health centers, med records

By PHILIP ELLIOTT, Associated Press Writer Philip Elliott, Associated Press Writer – Wed Dec 9, 1:46 pm ET

WASHINGTON – President Barack Obama announced on Wednesday the government is spending almost $600 million for community health centers and for a push to transfer medical records to electronic formats.

The White House painted the spending — part of the $787 billion stimulus bill the president championed during his first days in office — as a way to add jobs to a struggling economy. Officials also linked it to the administration's broader push for an overhaul of the nation's health system.

New Childish Republican Obstruction Tactic: Refusing To Use Their Assigned Cards In Order To Delay Votes

In September, the Orlando Sentinel reported that Rep. Alan Grayson (D-FL) had noticed Republicans House lawmakers intentionally forgetting or losing their voting cards in order to delay votes. Starting late in the summer, Grayson said he saw 60-70 GOP congressmen engaging in this tactic:

GRAYSON: They’d all walk to the front of the House and, laughingly and jokingly, put their arms around each other’s shoulder like it was some kind of clownish fun. And they did this over and over to make sure every vote took half an hour. That’s how low things have gotten. I could give you countless examples just like that. They’re simply obstructionists and there’s nothing you can do about it.