Americans Healthier Since Obamacare

Since the implementation of Obamacare picked up in the fall of 2013, Americans are reporting better health and easier access to doctors, a new study found. But minority Americans as well as lower-income Americans reported even greater gains.

“The reduction in the uninsured rate among Latino adults was greater than the reduction among white adults,” the study noted, with Latinos reporting a reduction at 11.9 percent compared to 6.1 percent reduction among non-Latino whites. Likewise, non-Latino blacks saw a greater drop in the uninsured rate than whites, reporting a 10.9 percent reduction. In the areas of access to doctors and medicine, Latinos and blacks also made greater gains than their white counterparts.

Full story: http://talkingpointsmemo.com/news/obamacare-jama-study

Nuclear Options

Just as there is no “winning” the war on terror, there is no winning the debate on a nuclear deal with Iran. And it is a “deal,” meaning there is no ideal outcome for either side of the argument. That’s what a “deal” is, a compromise. The only question that really matters is this: would the proposed agreement increase or decrease the probability of a nuclear war? Even the most hawkish NeoCons admit that some restriction on Iranian nuclear capabilities are better than none.

And wouldn’t Israel actually be more secure if there were weapons inspectors combing Iranian nuclear facilities and uranium mines, searching for the tiniest scraps of contraband? Is it better to tighten the screws/sanctions until Iran is so demoralized and depressed that it feels it’s got nothing to lose? Cornered and wounded animals being the most dangerous, that kind of thing.

Is there anything to gain from creating more enemies in the region, more potential terrorists? And to those Chickenhawks who won’t be satisfied until we are carpet bombing Tehran, have we learned nothing from the Bush Crime Family’s failed doctrine of preemptive war? Think of the American blood and treasure that will be lost on yet another doomed battlefront.

And to what end? Are the Rapture Righties this determined to welcome Armegeddon?

Well, it is church night . . . .

–KBM

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Tragedy Porn

The number of ever-increasing mass killings and random acts of gun violence is both alarming and tragic. From the man who shot his wife and children (and then himself) in Georgia to the latest theater shooting in Louisiana, the body count rises exponentially with the number of NRA lobbyists.

Try as they might, there is no way a gun nut can convince me that these killings would still occur if the murderers didn’t have guns. Are we to believe that Louisiana’s John Houser or Colorado’s James Holmes would have started shooting movie patrons with a bow and arrow if guns weren’t so handily available? Or that a four year old would accidentally kill his toddler sister while playing with Daddy’s fish cleaning knife?

I know, the ammosexuals will tell us that it’s not the guns, it’s the madmen. And that those movie goers would still be alive if they were all packing heat. So would the little toddler, and the sleeping children shot by their father. See, nobody would ever get shot if everybody had a gun. Makes perfect sense in Neocon world.

The bobble-heads on the cable “news” channels then add insult to injury witIh endless sickening interviews of the survivors and tearful relatives, only hours after their loss. Like poor 16-year-old Ali Breaux, sister of 21-year-old Layfaette victim Mayci Breaux, who broke down twice during her MSNBC interview this morning, while the host-dripping with feigned compassion-pressed her for details of her sister’s life, and what she meant to her little sis. Ali was clearly sill in shock, but she did the best she could to perform for the cameras:

‘She taught me how to be the strong person I am today,” Ali Breaux said. “She taught me not to care about what other people think, and taught be how to be a good person.” The younger sister added, “She was my rock.”

If we can’t control the guns, can we at least control the media? Stop them from turning the murderers into celebrities? Would that not, perhaps, discourage copycat killers? And wouldn’t that be easier for the families and survivors if their loved ones weren’t martyred for ARBITRON?

–KBM

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James Fetzer: "Cheney Was In Charge Of 9/11 False Flag Operation"

Former US Vice President Dick Cheney was in charge of the September 11, 2001 "false flag" operation in the United States, says American scholar James Henry Fetzer, who has extensively researched the 9/11 attacks.

Fetzer, a retired professor at the University of Minnesota who currently resides in Madison, Wisconsin, made the remarks in a phone interview with Press TV on Saturday while commenting on release of dozens of never-before-seen photos from the day of the 9/11 attacks.

The photographs, captured by Cheney's staff photographer, show then-President George W. Bush and senior officials in their immediate response to the incidents. 

Full story: http://www.presstv.ir/Detail/2015/07/25/421797/Cheney-911-false-flag-

Hillary Clinton Dodges On Glass-Steagall

Democratic presidential front-runner Hillary Clinton on Thursday declined to endorse legislation championed by Sen. Elizabeth Warren (D-Mass.) that would break up big banks.

Warren and other liberals — including Clinton's 2016 primary opponents Sen. Bernie Sanders (I-Vt.) and former Maryland Gov. Martin O'Malley — are pushing to reinstate legislation that former President Clinton repealed in 1999 called Glass-Steagall.

Earlier this month, Warren reintroduced a bill that would require banks to divide their commercial and investment banking.

Full story: http://thehill.com/policy/finance/249050-clinton-dodges-on-glass-steagall

The More Bills You Block, The More We Will Fund You

File this under unsurprising, but nefarious nonetheless.

Members of U.S. Congress who vote against mandatory labeling for genetically modified (GMO) products receive three times as much funding from the food and agriculture lobbies as their colleagues, according to new reporting from Open Secrets, a project of the Center for Responsive Politics.

The political finance watchdog group found that the supporters of the anti-labeling bill which passed the House of Representatives last Thursday collectively received $29.9 million from the agribusiness lobby and food and beverage industry during the 2014 election cycle.

Full story: http://www.commondreams.org/news/2015/07/27/surprise-pro-gmo-lawmakers-get-big-funds-agribusiness-lobbies

Huckabee: "Iran Deal Will March Israelis To The Oven"

The presidential candidate Mike Huckabee has said the deal between six world powers and Iran regarding the Islamic Republic’s nuclear ambitions will “take the Israelis and march them to the door of the oven”.

The former Arkansas governor made the comment, with its allusion to the Holocaust, in a conversation with the conservative news site Breitbart.com.

“This president’s foreign policy is the most feckless in American history,” he said. “It is so naive that [Barack Obama] would trust the Iranians. By doing so, he will take the Israelis and march them to the door of the oven.

Full story: http://www.theguardian.com/world/2015/jul/26/huckabee-iran-nuclear-deal-obama-marching-israelis-to-door-of-the-oven