Category: News
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Ramblings… (news focus)
If you haven\’t been around SP for long, you\’ll learn quick that I\’m obsessed with the news. Mostly internet news though. I haven\’t watched network news in over a decade. Some people are obsessed with the weather channel, some are obsessed with YouTube; but me, I\’ll take the news. So let\’s jump in with this…
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Who\’s to blame?
An interesting article I read today can be found here: http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20061024/ap_on_re_us/katrina_insurance After reading it, I\’m still not sure what my thoughts are. At first I thought it was going to bash the government for not helping blacks as much as whites post-Katrina… but that really isn\’t the point of the article. So instead of editorializing…
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In the news…
A bit of a news focused rambling for today… First up is this article. (Full Disclosure: I work for a Health Insurance company) I can\’t understand why health insurance companies get such a bad rap when it\’s Doctor\’s fees (which is really the fault of the Malpractice Insurance industry), overuse of unnecessary procedures (radiology is…
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Katherine Kersten: Conservative Columnist or Right-Wing Wack-Job?
One of my least favorite Star Tribune columnists, Katherine Kersten, now has a new blog titled \”Think Again\”. At first glance you certainly wouldn\’t label Kersten a \”right-wing wack-job\”. But if you read enough you\’ll start to see the double standard she brings to her column.
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WalMart… still evil
An article I read recently, sadly, didn\’t surprise me. It\’s a long article, but definitely worth reading. The quotes from internal memos, especially the Human Resource VP, are especially chilling. There seem to be two fundamental forces at play here. The first is Wall Street. The second is the desire for cheap stuff to buy.   …
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\”The President who made things up.\”
KO strikes again. Read the transcript; Watch the video. If what he says is true, he could end up in Git\’Mo for that one. As such, I applaud it. I\’d offer to start collecting for his (and mine, and your) defense fund, but we all know that\’s passé as well.
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Faith
As most of you have either heard, read, or seen by now, a man in rural Pennsylvania stormed an Amish schoolhouse, took all the girls prisoner, killed 5 of them, seriously injured the rest, before killing himself. A quote in an article yesterday by one of the victim\’s father was: \”We think it was God\’s…
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9/11/2006
When I walked into the break room upon arriving at work this morning was confronted with the rebroadcast of MSNBC\’s 9/11/2001 programming, I was taken aback. While I had it in my mind that today was the 5th Anniversary of the events of 9/11/2001 (And isn\’t it hard to use the word \”Anniversary\” with something like…
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Keith Olbermann
Reason number [insert random numeral here] why I love YouTube: After watching KO read this excellent and thoughtful essay on-air last night I decided I wanted to post up a link to the show here for the world to see. Then I thought: Ya know, if I wait twelve hours, it\’ll be on YouTube. Sure…
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Northfield Hail Storm
Here\’s a little photo gallery from last week\’s hail storm. Amazing stuff, man. Link.