Ol’ Issa really has the curriculum vitae, doesn’t he? Whew! What a crook.
Sounds like HE’S the one needs investigating

This means that plants are going to be happy

What plants would those be? The ones that can survive on no water? I’ve yet to met one.
But now I know where the cons get their talking points

The TPP isn’t signed but it’s here

That drought in China looks like the Dust Bowl and my state.
If I had it in me, I’d get outta here before my property is totally worthless.
Dried up lakes, mining companies taking the last of the water, people being told not to water their plants but using evaporative coolers for air conditioning.
In a sane world, the water dept would subsidize a shift to AC, it doesn’t take anymore electricity and works just as well, if not better….but no, let’s lose our trees and other flora instead.

No wonder they don’t want it legal. Big PhRMA would have a cow.
they’d just prefer people die

It seems that Mr. Delgaudio is taking the lion’s share of the budget of his little organization.
Maybe he should consider starting a church

I mentioned the “debt” was going down on some blog somewhere and this hysterical “let’s kill them all (except for ME) idiot sez. “Stop lying it;’s still $17 trillion….whihc I didn’t know was ever even a figure for the “debt”.
Apparently, the child thought the “debt” is going Up not Down.

PS: by the by WHAT IS the debt now?

I can’t BELIEVE how long that cat video is!

Do you really believe that assault is tolerated like predatory sexual behavior is? Besides, isn’t most predatory sexual behavior an assault to one degree or another?

True. It’s been a closely guarded secret until now.
But as eCAHN says, I doubt there’s a 50/50 ratio unless the stats were complied BEFORE women were allowed in the military…… but did they even do that at all? Esp if the brass were the main perpetrators?
In any case, we’ve got to stop excusing this as “men have needs” and making women responsible for those “needs” like men can’t control themselves; they can if they want to, It doesn’t seem they want to. It seems a part of the “Masculine Mystique”

It seems the real dems are getting a bit restless about being sold out by Obama…about 4 years too late. Heck, even some of the base is waking up. I mean how many betrayals? Why, you’d have to be co-dependent or something not to see it.

I wonder what they’ll do when he slips the TPP thru without telling them as he invites the republicans over for “cocktails” to discuss it?

Yeah, the “problem” is patriarchy.
Chris Hayes had an excellent consciousness raising segment on his show about the girls abducted and held for 10 years by some maniac last night. It was refreshing to say the least.
Finally, the male problem is being addressed…whether it will be in time to save this warped species from extinction, who knows?

Many philosophers in the 80′s had high hopes that the women’s movement would succeed in freeing up half the species brain and heart power, but now, we’re going back to the Dark Ages.

Men need to stop being so defensive about their part in this total oppression; stop thinking that we belong to them by right of muscle mass and stop condescending to points of view from an “alien” mind.
And who is, ultimately, more “other” than woman?

Pretty interesting article on HufPo:
Hospital Prices No Longer Secret As New Data Reveals Bewildering System, Staggering Cost Differences

Be nice if it was widely available…so it is now:

The database released on Wednesday by the federal Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services lays out for the first time and in voluminous detail how much the vast majority of American hospitals charge for the 100 most common inpatient procedures billed to Medicare. The database — which covers claims filed within fiscal year 2011 — spans 163,065 individual charges recorded at 3,337 hospitals located in 306 metropolitan areas.

Lt.Col. Jeff Krusinski apparently picked the wrong woman to grope in the parking garage………she beat him up pretty badly.

Me Tarzan, you Jane…..OW! LEGGO! OUCH! STOP PLEASE QUIT! ARGH!

I guess he didn’t get the message that she was TRAINED FOR COMBAT. What a doofus