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Gulf Oil
Interestingly – I just don’t believe it when BP says “virtually all” oil to be captured soon. Especially when there are all these other plumes of oil that are not capped.
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Nationalized Health Care (in Gr Britain)

In his first interview as Secretary of State for Health, Andrew Lansley talks about the urgent need for reform within the NHS

Why? Because its just that bad. Sadly their solutions do not include empowering the patient, because, via the author:

Lansley seems serious about addressing this problem, but I must confess that when he refers to “patient choice” and empowerment, I can feel myself wincing. I tell him that patients feel about health care the way parents feel about state education; they don’t want to have to exhaustively research their options and find their way through the labyrinthine system, weighing up distance and league tables.

That’s right – patients don’t really want choices, they just want you (the government) to take care of them….which leads me to
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The Single Ladies
In a new book out reviewed by One Cosmos (ht Maggie’s Farm) called New Threats to Freedom we find in the part by Jessica Gavora (Chief speechwriter for Attorney General John Ashcroft and a senior policy advisor at the Department of Justice and wife of Jonah Goldberg) that single women are a huge threat to freedom. Here’s the factoid, followed closely by the conclusion.

Gavora notes that in the 2008 election, single women “delivered a whopping 71 to 29 percent majority for Barack Obama.” It is simply a truism that liberty is not high on the list of values that animate the single woman. Rather, they much prefer to be swaddled by the state, largely because “increasingly these women are substituting the security of a husband [for] the security of the state.”

This is a simple trick of wordfoolery. Put the fact and the conclusion close together and people will assume causation even where none exists. ie My hands hurt…..I must be blogging too much.

Yes, because single women voted for Obama, it must mean that they want the security of the state since they can’t have the security of a husband. Huh?

It wasn’t because of Obama’s 6 pack abs vs McCain’s age.
It wasn’t because he was “cool” or “intellectual”.
It wasn’t because (like many people) single women felt the time was right for a black man.
It wasn’t because of general dissatisfaction with George Bush.
It wasn’t because of the memories of the good economic years of Clinton.
It wasn’t because a huge number of single women are also poor and poor people voted for Obama.
It wasn’t because a huge number of single women are women of color and black people voted for Obama.

It must have been because single women long for a man that they can’t have so they choose the state.

Can you imagine the interviews post election as the single ladies came out of the ballot box in order to get to this conclusion in an actual fashion?
Who did you vote for? Obama
Why did you vote for Obama? Because Obama will take care of me where other men have been, shall we say, less than satisfying.

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