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Thursday, April 13, 2006
Not much to Give Up on Today
Not much in Give Up news today.
As usual, we are spending more than we have. Fully 33% of our budget is deficit spending if I read this article correctly. And Scalia, surprise surprise, seems to be mad with power. He's the kind of guy that really makes you question lifetime appointments. A bunch of retired generals have said that Rumsfeld should resign. No surprise there, these are people who actually know how to run a military. Finally, another entry for the obvious files. When a drug company pays for a study, 9 out of 10 times the study favors the drug from the company paying for the study. Even more striking, the analysis showed that conflicts between studies, where one study payed for by one drug company would conflict with a similar study from another company, the only real difference being who payed for it. |
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The CNN article about Scalia is a little longer, and also quotes Scalia as saying that he might have recused himself if it involved Cheney "personally", but since it fell within his professional responsibilities as (Vice-)President, it was all okey-dokey not to recuse.
I have yet to see what that has to do with SCALIA's bias toward someone involved in the case. Apparently we are all to revere our Supreme Court justices as gods-among-men who have transcended petty human biases, just because they're not answerable to voters.
The man has passed beyond unthinking ultraconservative religiosity, to a full-bore god complex. He's on a Divine Mission that supersedes any other concerns, even the Constitution (by now we know his true feelings on free speech; who knows what else he really believes?).
11:27 AM, April 13, 2006
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