Bloating..very severe

Oct 10, 2007 - I have a really good body shape. Im slim and although i exercise a bit im not rock hard. I walk over an hour a day everyday, do weights every second day and either dancing & martial arts 3 times a week. - 6 Comments

Who Killed California?

Oct 15, 2009 - by Troy Senik http://nationalaffairs.com/publications/detail/who-killed-california My apologies for having nothing originally in this post.  The text was here but didn't show up. Apparently this article is too long to be printed here, at about 11 pages.  It is nevertheless worth reading, unless, as someone has already done, you have made your  mind up what to believe before reading. - 29 Comments

From Great Britain: Geithner aides made millions on Wall Street (Again MSM= MIA)

Oct 15, 2009 - Geithner aides made millions on Wall Street By Tom Braithwaite in Washington Published: October 14 2009 20:49 | Last updated: October 14 2009 20:49 Obama administration officials now working on fixing and regulating the financial system were beneficiaries of several million dollars in pay from Wall Street and private equity companies, it has been revealed. Financial disclosure forms show that prior to joining the government, Gene Sperling, a senior Treasury adviser, was paid $887,727 by Goldman Sachs and $158,000 for speeches to companies that included Stanford Group, the company run by Sir Allen Stanford, who has since been charged with fraud. Mr Sperling’s compensation from Goldman was for work on a philanthropic project. - 3 Comments

GOP Lawmakers: Government Care Okay for Them

Sep 02, 2009 - Republicans in Congress have raised the specter of a bloated, "socialized," bureaucrat-run nightmare of a health care system as a means of undermining the White House's effort at a systematic overhaul. And yet, as Democratic sources are now pointing out, when medical crisis hit close to home, many of these same officials turned to a government-run hospital for their own intensive care and difficult surgeries. Take, for instance, Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell (R-Ky.), who warned that "a government takeover of health care" would "take away the care that people already have [and] are perfectly satisfied with." - 2 Comments

Myths About Healthcare Beyond the U.S.

Sep 01, 2009 - As Americans search for the cure to what ails our health-care system, we've overlooked an invaluable source of ideas and solutions: the rest of the world. All the other industrialized democracies have faced problems like ours, yet they've found ways to cover everybody -- and still spend far less than we do. I've traveled the world from Oslo to Osaka to see how other developed democracies provide health care. - 83 Comments