It's times for certain ideologues to remove their heads from the sunless place they occupy. What the good ole blue dog is proposing in health care Nirvana. To oppose it because we are too far down the line is nuts. The only line we are too far down is one leading to oblivion. This has always been the most sensible, and direct, road to universal coverage and ultimately single payer.

As a long standing observer of this problem, I am a bit confused by the claims that Medicare is too cheap. Back when Medicaid first starting to bloom, up-state New Yorkers were aghast at the "outrageous" fees schedules pegged to NYC. But that was 40 years ago in another time and place, and, I guess, another Universe. I know there is a difference between Medicaid and Medicare but when did expenses outside the major metropolitan areas get more expensive than in the cities?

(I think I earned my spurs on this when as a Democratic Candidate for State Senate. I opposed cutting-off working poor from Medicaid and predicted it would lead to a rise in medical costs because desperate working poor would go on Medicaid to get medical services. My prediction was born out later.

(I owed my prescience to material developed by RFK's Senate Office. A week before he was assassinated, I declined a request to endorse HHH by HHH's upstate campaign manager.)

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The process of marginalizing serious descent continues unabated. We are still hearing echoes of the Cold War and intelligence black operations.

Each year in this countries thousands of people are indicted and convicted of criminal conspiracies. But to raise a serious question about governmental conspiracies is only evidence of irrationality in the mainstream media's view point.

It didn't start with 11/22/1963 in Dallas, but that is a prime example. See http://www.johnklotz.com/new-jfk.htm

There is a considerable body of evidence that Lee Harvey Oswald was something else. This man, popularly depicted as a bumbler, managed to get into Russia posing as an American turn-coat. He was strangely gifted. Among other things he attended a Russian opera and took notes on the performance in Russian!?

The phrase "false flag" arose in maritime commerce and referred to a ship flying a flag of the wrong country to disguise its identity. Pirate ships might use a false flag. In intelligence operations, false flag would refer to operations designed to be attributed to somebody other than the originator through the use of dupes or otherwise.

What Glen Greenwald does in this case is raise a serious "false flag" issue about the anthrax attacks by citing the very interesting testimony of a British official. Frankly, in the Alice-through-the-looking-glass world of intelligence, it makes enormous sense.

If I am not mistaken, many of the victims of the anthrax attack were in fact media and liberal types. That's a two fer. You get to scare the opposition into support and, what the hey, you might just get one of the bastards.

Don't forget the Dan Rather incident in 2004. That was another two fer. A sloppy forgery that was easily detected, it defanged the issue and got rid of Rather. Rather, who has had his own contacts with intelligence community, was a thorn in the Bush administration’s side. Was he, or his source, set-up?

Obama is understandably loath to rake over old, divisive coals. But, “the past is prologue.”

Gutless mainstream media has consistently marginalized descent. That is our prologue. we are living in the main act that keeps repeating itself again and again.

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