An state official shared that his individual health plan through the G.I.C. (Group Insurance Commission - http://www.mass.gov/...) for state employees costs $320. Hmmmm. How about we say thanks, no thanks to the health plans, and open up … [Read more...]
Archives for February 5, 2007
Massachusetts Mandates Perjury
Just the facts this time. The town assessor's office has asked me as a rental property owner to provide them with information which will be used to assess the value of my house. The major conflict I have with this is the … [Read more...]
Did they really have permit for lite-brite ads
I heard someone say that they they had gotten a permit to put those things up. Is that true?Why did anyone give someone a permit to put ads up anywhere, let alone ads of someone giving us the finger? Not to mention, that look … [Read more...]
Why Peter Berdovsky cannot afford to plead guilty
Peter Berdovsky originally received asylum due to his role as a student dissenter in Belarus, and the fact that he had already looked down the barrel of a gun there. How much has Belarus changed? Apparently not much. And Peter … [Read more...]
Snickers Encourages Homophobia. Sign petition!
Hi Everyone!I know this is a little off topic here... but...If you saw the superbowl you saw just one of the homophobic advertisements Snickesr is releasing. Some of the ads actually show violence in resopnse to homosexual kissing. … [Read more...]
Turner agrees to pay city $2 million over LiteBriteGate
Turner Broadcasting did indeed step up to the plate. Both our daily papers are reporting a $2,000,000.00 settlement, with somewhat differing details.Boston Herald StoryBoston Globe storyBoth articles quote a $2,000,000.00 settlement … [Read more...]
$210 Health Insurance?
Does anyone smell a PR marketing scam? Good question to ask the Boston Globe they should put "Paid Advertisement" at the beginning and end of this article. Blue Cross is asking the state for more flexibility and they could … [Read more...]
DNA Data Bases & Black Box Voting
The last two paragraphs of Julia Preston's article in today's New York Times, "U.S. Set to Begin a Vast Expansion of DNA Sampling" (sub. req.), caught my eye.Many groups warned that the measure would compound already severe backlogs in the … [Read more...]
A note on “User Posts”
I've been looking through the diaries lately, and I'd like to encourage the use of some basic guidelines:One-line user posts are not really very interesting: e.g. "Check out this article!" followed by a link. Please give us some indication … [Read more...]
The unfortunate split in the health care movement
Health Care for All's John McDonough is pumping up the major accomplishments of the new health care law: 100,000 people now have health coverage who didn't have it before the law. I'm thrilled to jump on the bandwagon in celebrating this. … [Read more...]