"Bernie Madoff gets 150 years in prison. I'm not sure, but I think that means
it will be 155 years.... let's see....that'll be ...... 2164 before he's
eligible for the Republican Hall of Fame."
- Joe Hickman
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One Down....
http://imgsrv.gocomics.com/dim/?fh=97422af8e4352ed5a20704ad84e92230
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RUTH MADOFF: 'THIS IS NOT THE MAN I OWNED NINE HOMES WITH'
Bernie's Wife Breaks Her Silence
Just hours after her husband Bernie Madoff was sentenced to 150 years in prison
for masterminding a $50 billion Ponzi scheme, Ruth Madoff expressed shock and
dismay at her husband's behavior, telling reporters, "This is not the man I
owned nine homes with."
"When you spend hundreds of millions of dollars with someone, you think you
know him," she said. "I guess I was wrong."
Mrs. Madoff said she was kept "totally in the dark" about her husband's
activities because he used a clever cover story: "He told me he was hiking the
Appalachian Trail."
© Andy Borowitz
borowitzreport.com
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Admittance Form
http://imgsrv.gocomics.com/dim/?fh=76758d5be1260d70291bff7bec72bacb
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"Bernie Madoff will spend 150 years in prison. He'll soon discover 'the pen' is
like a Ponzi scheme: the new guy gets screwed by everyone else."
- Alan Ray
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A Comparison
http://imgsrv.gocomics.com/dim/?fh=5fb1fd99ee891296949bb83f102d0509
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SEC Investigator Warned of Madoff
http://www.cbsnews.com/stories/2009/07/02/business/main5129408.shtml
An investigator at the Securities and Exchange Commission warned superiors as
far back as 2004 about irregularities at Bernard L. Madoff's financial
management firm, but she was told to focus on an unrelated matter, according to
agency documents and sources familiar with the investigation.
Genevievette Walker-Lightfoot, a lawyer in the SEC's Office of Compliance
Inspections and Examinations, sent e-mails to a supervisor, saying information
provided by Madoff during her review didn't add up and suggesting a set of
questions to ask his firm, documents show. Several of these questions directly
challenged Madoff activities that much later turned out to be elements of his
massive fraud.
But with the agency under pressure to look for wrongdoing in the mutual fund
industry, she wasn't able to continue pursuing Madoff, according to documents
and two people familiar with the investigation, and her team soon concluded its
work on the probe. ...
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There's Room....
http://imgsrv.gocomics.com/dim/?fh=35a5753c3bde20ef6b6036ed5d017a3f
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"Bernie Madoff has been sentenced to 150 years in prison, making him the only
man in America who knows he'll still have health care coverage for more than
the next 3 years."
- Jake Novak
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Even Those With Health Insurance Are Going Broke
http://seattletimes.nwsource.com/html/health/2009393598_insuredandbroke28m.html
. . For Americans with serious illnesses, even good insurance is no guarantee
they won't go broke and they will get all the medical care they need.
In 2007, nearly two-thirds of all personal bankruptcies filed across the
country were linked to illnesses, loss of income or high medical bills,
according to a survey published in June by researchers at Harvard University
and Ohio University. Of those cases, 78 percent of the debtors had health
insurance when they first got sick.
What's more, even insured people without serious health problems like Moody are
struggling to afford increasingly higher deductibles and co-pays that are
eroding the value of employer-provided insurance — even as employers are also
paying more to provide that coverage.
In fact, an estimated 25 million Americans too young for Medicare have coverage
that is too scanty to shield them from potentially crippling bills ...
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I Won't Allow It....
http://imgsrv.gocomics.com/dim/?fh=637ad426a52def1670f5e23ee37332e9
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Okay, let's read in our books....
Please open your book to page 5. See Spot run.
Yes, Spot is the insurance companies, and Spot is running for his life.
See the fire hydrant? Spot is preparing to use it. It represents you.
The End
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Insurance companies are like vacuums, sucking money up wherever they can.
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Joe: No Go On "Public Option"
http://www.newhavenindependent.org/archives/2009/07/post_459.php
U.S. Sen. Joe Lieberman [D-GOP] has a bipartisan group of senators ready to
help pass health care reform -- minus a government-run insurance plan.
During a New Haven stop to support overall reform, Connecticut's independent
fourth-term senator gave his strongest statement to date opposing Democrats'
and President Obama's call for a "public option" health care plan
"Public option" is shorthand for a Medicare-like government plan that would
compete with private companies to cover many of the 47 million Americans who
don't get private health insurance through their employers or elsewhere.
"If we create a public option, the public is going to end up paying for it,"
Lieberman said following an hour-long confab with public-health experts at the
Ashmun Street community center of the Monterey Homes public housing complex.
"That's a cost we can't take on."
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Sen. Joe Lieberman, Dem. Primary Debate July 6, 2006
"And what I'm saying to the people of Connecticut, I can do more for you and
your families to get something done to make health care affordable, to get
universal health insurance, to make America energy independent, to save your
jobs and create new ones. That's what the Democratic Party is all about."
Sen. Joe Lieberman, General Election Campaign Sept. 21, 2006
"I have long supported the goal of universal health care. Ned Lamont can talk
about it. I've been doing something about it all the time I've been here."
Sen. Joe Lieberman, Candidate's Debate Oct. 23, 2006
"I've been working on health insurance reform for more than a dozen years ... I
have offered a comprehensive program. Small business health insurance reform,
plus something I call MediKids to cover all the children in America on a
sliding fee basis up until the age of 25.
"MediChoice to allow anybody in our country to buy into a national insurance
pool like the health insurance pool that we federal employees and Members of
Congress have. Medical malpractice reform.
"It will cover 95% of those who are not covered now, and it will reduce the
pressure on rising costs for all the millions of others."
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Senate Democrats are out of excuses. They need to pick a side:
We The People
- or -
They The Insurance Industry.
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Hey, Wait A Minute!!
http://cagle.com/working/090701/zyglis.gif
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The Problem With The Public Option Is That It Lowers The Cost Of Health
Insurance
http://openleft.com/diary/13985/well-duh-by-Chris-Bowers
The main goal of health care reform is to lower the cost of health insurance.
Apropos, Olympia Snowe thinks that the problem with a public health insurance
option is that a public option would... wait for it... lower the cost of health
insurance:
http://www.baltimoresun.com/news/sns-ap-us-obama-health-care-snowe,0,7253018.story
In an Associated Press interview in Portland, Snowe said it would be unfair to
include a government-run health insurance option that would take effect
immediately.
"If you establish a public option at the forefront that goes head-to-head and
competes with the private health insurance market ... the public option will
have significant price advantages," she said.
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Instead of 'private insurance plans' shouldn't they be described as 'profit
insurance plans'?
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Operating....
http://cagle.com/working/090701/stein.jpg
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How Dysfunction Helps the GOP
http://online.wsj.com/article/SB124640443679876503.html
"Remember the $400 hammer? How 'bout that $600 toilet seat?" asks a
Conservatives for Patients' Rights TV commercial criticizing President Barack
Obama's health-care plan. "Seems when Congress gets involved, things just cost
more."
As it happens, I do remember the incident of the $436 hammer, the one that made
headlines back in 1984. And while it may "seem" in hazy retrospect as though it
showed how "things just cost more" once those silly liberals in Congress get
started, what the hammer episode actually illustrated was a very different sort
of ripoff. The institution that paid so very much for that hammer was President
Ronald Reagan's Pentagon. A private-sector contractor was the party that was
pleased to take the Pentagon's money. And it was a liberal Democrat in the
House of Representatives, also known as "Congress," who publicized the pricey
hardware to the skies.
But so what? Myth is so much more satisfying than history, and with myth the
competence of Washington actors from 25 years ago doesn't matter any more. Nor
does it matter which arm of the federal colossus did what. Republican or
Democrat, White House or Congress, they're all part of a monolithic,
undifferentiated "government" that acts according to a money-burning logic all
its own.
The myth has been getting a lot of play from conservatives in recent weeks as
the debate over health care has heated up. The message, as always, is that
government can't do anything right.
Where the conservative mythologists show their hand is when they use their own
monumental screw-ups, committed during conservatism's long years in charge of
the government, to prove that government in general is a futile proceeding, and
that Democratic health-care plans, in particular, can't possibly succeed. ...
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"The weak economy is even taking a toll on the Amish. Farm income is down,
building material costs are up, and the horse union won't budge until it gets a
$25 billion dollar federal bailout for the buggy industry."
- Jake Novak
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Teabaggers Plan Independence Day Protests
http://i40.tinypic.com/1z6vz3c.jpg
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He's Back! Guess Who's Coming To Tea Parties
http://www.wnd.com/index.php?fa=PAGE.view&pageId=102631
Joe the Plumber is hitting the streets to speak at tea parties and help
citizens take America back this Independence Day weekend.
Samuel Joseph Wurzelbacher became known as Joe the Plumber following his Oct.
12 encounter with then-presidential candidate Barack Obama in Ohio. ..
Joe the Plumber said the best advice he can give to citizens who are frustrated
with intrusive government is to stop voting along party lines and begin
electing leaders who will abide by the nation's founding document.
"Learn the Constitution," he said. "Then when someone wants to be elected, hold
their feet to the fire and make them follow it because that's what we need to
get back to. It works so well when we follow it. Forget party politics. Learn
the Constitution and vote the best American in, not the best Democrat or
Republican." ...
Asked if he has plans to run for public office, he replied, "I hope not. You
know, I talked to God about that and he was like, 'No.'"
He continued, "I believe he's gotten me on this grassroots movement. If I can
encourage leaders to step up, that's what I would like to do. That's a heavy
role. That's something I don't know if I am prepared to do yet."
But Wurzelbacher said he will keep that door open if God ever calls him to be
that leader.
"I just know whenever I fall off his path, things get really hard," he said.
"So I just stick with what God tells me to do."
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"The state of California has still not balanced its budget, and it will now
have to print and issue IOU's. In a related story, California can't afford to
pay for the millions of dollars it will cost to print and issue IOU's."
- Jake Novak
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When Life Gives You Lemons....
http://cagle.com/working/090701/wright.jpg
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FDA Rarely Inspects Imported Food
http://www.theonion.com/content/amvo/fda_rarely_inspects_imported_food
Despite routinely being rejected as unfit for human consumption, only 1.3
percent of imported fish, vegetables, fruit, and other foods are inspected by
the Food and Drug Administration. What do you think?
George Tartuffe, Guitar Salesman
"What will the government do with all the food unfit for humans? 'Cause I'll
totally eat it if they're just gonna toss it away."
Johann Puntigam, Pharmacist's Assistant
"Please tell me this doesn't include those Guacamole Doritos."
Paul Ludlow, Toll Booth Agent
"Can you blame them? I see the words 'Product of Ukraine' on a foodstuff and
all my inhibitions melt away."
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America's Favorite Food Additives
http://www.theonion.com/content/node/37022
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"Noting that 56,000 people annually are hospitalized for over-dosing on
pain-killers, experts commissioned by the F.D.A. have recommended that the
maximum dose of pain medication containing acetaminophen, be reduced to 650
milligrams, down from the 1000 milligram dose delivered by two Extra Strength
Tylenol tablets. A spokesman for Johnson & Johnson defended the present
standard, pointing out that death occurs only when the pills are accompanied by
a suicide note."
- Bob Mills
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Banning Medication
http://cagle.com/working/090701/walters.jpg
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