Welcome to the Coven, Laura Berg

The New York Times included the following editorial about Laura Berg, RN who practices as a psychiatric nurse in the Veterans Administration system. For speaking truth to power, she was almost charged with sedition, and the full court witch hunt press of the Bush Administration was on her. Nurses are far to easily [...]

Frontline Begins, But Doesn’t Get To Nursing

Frontline recently presented an intriguing story about looking at several key factors in designing health care systems across five Western countries and then making some comparisons with the US non-system system.  But after visiting the Frontline web pages, my perceptions were confirmed:  nurses were again ignored in evaluating and designing health care systems.  My response [...]

Torture: They Report It Because The US Media Is Pimping For The White House

The UK-based Guardian, has presented a several part primer on understanding the breadth, depth and scope of US torture.  Yes, make sure you pay attention to the referencing that it is US policy affirming and using torture.  What George and Dick do, they do in all our names.  Until we remove them from office, repudiate [...]

The D.C. Madam Has Nothing On Pimp Extraordinaire Rumsfeld

David Barstow has just let loose on the New York Times with another scandal.  Donald Rumsfeld ran the Pentagon as a prostitution ring. 
Richard Myers, the Chairman of the Joint Chiefs seems to have been the stupid lead prostitute - not fully aware of what he was doing or what was being done to him, although [...]

Reach Out And Touch The Toobz

Skippy is showin’ his roo.  Embrace the roo, and use the contact info to professionally and intelligently express how far afield from the public interest and public trust veered the ABC debate:

bc new york newsroom: (212) 456-5100 newsradio@abc.com newsroom fax machine 212.456.5150
peter salinger (the man in charge of election coverage) director, special events & sports [...]

Daily Constitutional: I Told You So Edition

I hate to be right on these things, but here’s some more evidence which supports my prognostications:
PZ Myers of Pharyngula fame, speaks to Sanctimonious Monsters, and he gets it just right on all fronts.

Yesterday, two great pious leaders of the world met in Washington DC. President Bush has immense temporal power, leading one of the richest [...]

Daily Constitutional: Torture and Torturous

Military.com reports about the Pentagon’s detailed evidence of abuse of Afghan prisoners.
The LA Times addresses the horrendous state of prison health care.  And yet, no mention is made of the widespread criminalization of people with mental illness.  over 50% of all inpatient psychiatric care is delivered in prisons.  The answer isn’t in adding to the prison [...]

Torture: The Principles

 

A Trip To McBurney’s Point

 As a new graduate nurse, I had planned to move to NYC after graduation from FPB in Cleveland.  So I trekked to Brooklyn to take my NY State nursing licensure examination - the former two day all day paper and pencil multiple choice exam after exam after exam marathon - held at Pratt Institute during [...]

Mississippi Misery: Medicaid Malfeasance

A physician, Dr. Hebert (a la Colbert) who was smack in the middle of the area devastated by Hurricane Katrina blogs about the human misery that continues and his own life after devastation.  His blog is a must read to understand the continuing disaster of the people caught in Hurricane Katrina, the gutted health care system, [...]

Rice Chaired Torture, but states, “Nobody Condones Torture”

Act to remove Condoleezza Rice as US Secretary of State.  She is a war criminal. She is an enemy of the United States.

Torture News Sources, New Media: Rejection, Repudiation and Resistance

George W Bush and Dick Cheney readily admit to planning, implementing and directing the systemic and intentional use of torture.  ABC News reports it, and promptly buries it.  No other major news media in the US report about it.  Torture is being extraordinarily renditioned to a black site, and the public goes on, largely unaware [...]

Expelled Expulsion

 [UPDATE: Darwin's Works are now online. Read and enjoy.]

 
Now, help with the cause to promote science, reason and evidence by linking to expelled.

Torture: “Never Let Your Skill Exceed Your Virtue” - “Say No, Instead Of Here’s How”

Torture:  it will never roll off the tongue without a gagging in the back of my throat. I can’t take in that George W. Bush bragged about approving torture, and that the evidence is leading to a picture of at least sixteen people inside the White House meeting again and again and again to discuss, [...]

Daily Constitutional: Parasites And Prio-biotic Health Systems

The Wall Street Journal amazes today using the exact same analogy for the for-profit insurance industry as I do: it’s a parasitic health care system blood-sucker.
Still, an opinion piece by crime novelist and psychology prof Jonathan Kellerman in today’s WSJ goes further than anything we’ve seen in saying the insurance system is the central health-care [...]