Especially considering fow often the credit reporting outfits f*ck up, and how they don't care about fixing errors unless you're rich or famous.

Big Pharma, Wall St, and Big Health Insurance won the WH in 2008. Having passed pro-business and pro-Wall St bail-outs and wasted entirely the 'change' mandate he was elected under, the president is now compelling Senate and House Dems to forget J-O-B-S, again, and jam through an extremely unpopular health bill that will motivate the Republican base and depress the hell out of the Dem vote.

Once the pesky Dems have been swept aside, Republican president Obama, the first African-American president and the first Republican African-American can get about the business of turning over the country entirely to the same gang who did so well during the tenure of Dubya.

Having failed entirely to recognize that Americans want jobs, not a national health insurance program, the inside the blogway left and the new village idiocracy walked away from the entire mess they did so little to prevent.

   I am fascinated, not in the best way, but fascinated  :-)

Here's an update to a very sad story and the moral being that money doesn't necessarily buy you happiness.  I hope they nail this guy and he goes away for a very long time. Actually, I hope he has a much bigger cell mate in prison who also has anger management issues.

(Warning - this is disturbing)

It's unclear whether the couple saw each other before that Wednesday night, when, according to police accounts, Mike Farren said he wanted her to drop the [divorce] proceedings and stay together. She said she could not. He walked toward her.

When she said, "Do not approach me," he "exploded in rage," she told police. She has flowing brunette hair. Her husband pulled out "gobs" of it, she said. She said he threw her across the room and began hitting her with a metal flashlight. On the floor, she passed out for a time, she told police, and went briefly blind when he strangled her.

Then she remembered the alarm button on the security system, which automatically summoned police.

"Don't hit the alarm button," Mike Farren warned, according to the police account. When she managed to do so, "he went nuts" at the sound, she reported. Again, the flashlight.

At this point, according to the affidavit, she pleaded with him to stop, saying they could work it out. He paused for a moment, she wrote, then decided: "You're just saying that because you're scared."

Mike Farren then announced he was going to slit his wrists, his wife said. She told police he took a kitchen knife into the bathroom and made an effort to get her in as well. Instead she scrambled to her daughter's room screaming, "Daddy's trying to kill me," got the startled barefoot girl and her infant sister down to the garage, into the BMW sedan and past the gate.

The bloody BMW keys were photographed as evidence. So was Mary Margaret's lacerated face, broken nose, broken jaw, bruised arms, legs, torso. In an image now attached to the divorce action, she leans forward in the emergency room, the entire chair behind her black with blood. Police ended the interview the second time she began vomiting blood.

A NATO destroyer has sunk a pirate mothership in the Indian Ocean off the Somali coast after allowing the crew to leave, the alliance said Monday.

Shona Lowe, an anti-piracy spokeswoman, said the HDMS Absalon - the Danish flagship of the three-vessel NATO flotilla in the region - disrupted a pirate operation by "scuttling" one of the large boats used by Somali gangs to transport attack teams to piracy hunting areas far off the coast.

The mothership was fired on and sunk after its crew members were transferred to a smaller boat in tow, which was allowed to return to the mainland, she said.

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Barack Obama will make a speech tomorrow laying out the way forward on health care. It's widely expected that he will endorse a reconciliation sidecar approach to pass what amounts to the Senate bill with a series of fixes outlined in his white paper on the subject. The process would begin with the House passing the Senate bill the week of March 19. The House would then pass a reconciliation bill and send it to the Senate the week of March 26. The timing is designed to stop Republicans from an endless series of amendments, which would eat into their Easter recess. I don't think this will stop them, but some rulings from the chair calling non-germane amendments dilatory and out of order presumably would.

This is an extremely rough outline - we don't know the substance of the sidecar bill. But procedurally, it does look like the House would go first, passing the Senate bill before the changes come into play (it would then be held and not signed into law without the changes). It's unclear what kind of collateral House Democrats would need from the Senate - a signed pledge, a televised statement, who knows - before feeling free to pass their bill.

You can tell that the House is gearing up to pass something with respect to health care, because the Democratic media shop has floated to the AP some names of possible vote-switchers on the bill, which would be needed to move forward.

So much for that firm stand by the House, huh?  Do you think they know we've figured out the pattern yet?

Oh - and abortion language isn't the only thing Bart Stupak doesn't like about the Senate bill...

Stupak said the White House hasn't included enough provisions from the House bill in its proposed package of changes to the Senate version. He cited some of the House's tighter restrictions on insurance companies and new payment methods to encourage doctors to provide quality treatment that he thinks should be in the bill. And even though the White House peeled back the tax on high-value insurance plans, he's upset that it's still in there at all.

And what a platform!  A more liberty-friendly and fiscally sound state...hard to argue with that.

"My ideas may seem radical, but with a [huge] deficit we need radical solutions,"