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The Holy Grail - REAL Investigative Reporting Money Hungry Managed Care Company in THE Under-regulated State Harm to babies in the pursuit of profits The Dallas Morning News has been one helluva newspaper for a long time. Under the leadership of Publisher Jim Moroney, a huge investigation was started over a year ago. The findings are devastating. Texas, My Texas Just imagine, a healthcare company more interested in profits than saving lives of babies! Just imagine a "managed-care" company denying care, but still talking the (BIG) money! Just imagine fictitious doctor "networks!" Just imagine, state officials failing at every level in overseeing it all! OK, stop imagining and look at this stunning bit of real, super documented,  investigative journalism. Roll up your sleeves and READ THE REPORT HERE. PAIN AND PROFIT

Duking It Out in the Comments Sections     I just have to write comments a lot. Thats a disgusting habit I've got. ... and mostly it's good old politics that fires up my fingers, pushing my purely polarized platitudes across the  pissoire of passionate positions. Political positions, that is.* NM Political Report story:   Understaffed National Parks   Stop complaining! Long lines are the National Park tradition. Scooter Duff   "Government is bad," the Reagan mantra, is pushed into the self-fulfilling prophecy range by underfunding government's critical jobs. (Of course that leaves more money to give to major funders via tax cuts.) No problem! Just privatize the National Parks. The Republican way. ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Washington Post : Ann Telnaes cartoon:    Trump deal w/Chinese money and “saving Chinese jobs . ”  Lower, lower! scifiscooter The Forever Trumpsters must feel like their fingers are caught in a Chi

A Lost Kitty Event Defined Genders? Who Knew?* It all started like this, a post on our Nextdoor.com neighborhood bulletin board. My favorite cat had just poofed away. I waited three days - her longest away time so far - and put this out: Lost Black Kitty Our feral-turned-garage-cat has gone missing. Totally black with her left ear clipped by the feral rescue folks, Black Kitty has those luminescent aquamarine eyes and is a purely one-man cat, partially rehabbed from full feral. She will be hard to catch. If you see a smallish black cat, please give us a call. 281-5165. Thanks. (What I wrote on YouTube, celebrating the return.) Prodigal black cat named Black Kitty came home to her usual evening meal and rubdown in Olde Scooter's garage. Ten days gone. Her longest sojourn previously, three days. So I had accepted here gone-ness, mourned her, and even started thinking about a new cat.  Then there she was. Never give up hope unless you find the body. Thank You Lord.

An Old Democrat's Take on "Guaranteed Jobs" and Such MAKE WORK   PUBLIC WORKS Done right (one of my fav sayings) great Public Works can work miracles . The Result of the WPA (Water Project for America) The Mississippi Flood of 2020 (and most other U.S. floods) became the End of Drought.  The solar and wind energy industry joined the oil companies as Majors.  American technology took another great leap. Agricultural subsidy took on an entirely new meaning.  Millions of Americans became owners of a dependable money machine.  Dying aquifers began refilling.  The Presidency regained some of its luster.  And the rest of the world began to emulate a plan that worked. Ok, it's just fiction, but plausible fiction. This is how America used to solve huge problems - like building the Interstate Highway System, or laying railway track over field and mountains. There is a huge difference between "Make Work" and "Public Works."

It #1 is Money for Basic Research       It #2 is World Leadership in Science & Tech You may know I truly like Aviation Week , a main trade magazine for Space and Aeronautics. Here's a finely tuned advocacy for GOVERNMENT SPONSORED basic research. In massive humility, I say, "I couldn't have said it better." I mean, whew. Wanna get punched? Click me and duck! What company would spend the research money? "... I don’t think you’d find many people in our industry who would voluntarily pick up the tab to fund research on shrimp and barnacles . And yet, scientists studying barnacles and shellfish are actually doing national security research right now. As any sailor knows, barnacles are a huge problem for ships, slowing them down. The U.S. Navy estimates $7.5 billion dollars annually in fuel costs are wasted due to the drag of barnacles. * Super sticky icky Recently researchers sponsored by the Office of Naval Research figured out the

The Occasional Breitbart Conversation Redux Communications across the barricades I know where I stand. * A major meme on the right these days is to hate California. USC held a poll of Californians that says a large majority wants the property tax limiting "Prop 13" rescinded for commercial property.  The anti-tax Force is strong on Breitbart*. The Russian trolls were rife, whupping up the snarling and snapping about the Golden State.  I dived in with a pro-CA comment. Instantly one of the snarler/snappers whupped me with "socialist parasite," and the game was on. I'm 98.4% sure I was fencing with a Russian troll. (I'm the hurricane track.) What do you think? seniorjunior (scooter duff) • Just watch, Breitbarters. California is our super state, and it continues to set smart objectives and policies to make them happen. "Conservatives" who demonize government are happy with decaying infrastructure, underfunded public sc