As a testiment to Delaware's secrecy, I barely knew it existed.

Reuters:

Move over Switzerland. The tiny state of Delaware beats the Alpine country in a contest for the most secretive financial jurisdiction, a tax justice rights group said on Saturday.

The United States, led by the eastern seaboard state, took in $2.6 trillion in deposits from non-resident corporations and individuals in 2007, according to a survey of financial jurisdictions analyzed by the Tax Justice Network.

G.W. Paper Criticizes Sexual Assault Victims’ Lack of “Responsibility”

Earlier that day, several G.W. freshman awoke to a strange man sexually assaulting them in their private dorm rooms. The paper, disappointingly, softens the man’s actions as “sexual advances“:

No Blood for Hubris is the name:

PTSD's the game.

I see traumatized people everywhere:

They don't even know that they're traumatized. (Oh! Would that be: numbing and avoidance?)

But I am running ahead of myself (Oh! Would that be: dissociative de-personalization?).

So I stopped by Digby, who apparently had written a post in support of supporting this here Corrente here. And I was about to comment about supporting her post in support of supporting this here Corrente here.

I mentioned earlier that many schools had decided not to show, live, the President's address to school children on the first day of his daughters' new school year. Now we're finding out that at least a few of those schools' claims they had no room in the curriculum or the class day for the address were (gasp) truthiness in service of obfuscation. Hat tip to the Lone Star bloggers at WhosPlayin.com who earlier broke the news that Lewisville ISD (outside Dallas) had forbidden teachers to show the speech even if parents could opt out.

Oh, and another Metroplex school that refused to show the speech bused kids to an appearance at Cowboys Stadium -- to see w, naturally. Nothing about this

Health Insurance Giant Aetna Paying $80,000 For Health Reform ‘Town Hall’ Moderated By CNN Host Tony Harris

Tomorrow, health insurance giant Aetna is sponsoring a “town hall conversation on the national health system reform debate” at the Morehouse School of Medicine in Atlanta. CNN anchor Tony Harris will moderate the panel, which features lobbyists from the health insurance industry and opponents of reform

According to FAIR, CNN has corporate relationships with AIG, Health Cap, and Paratek Pharmaceuticals. I don't think they were ever going to do any honest reporting.

Medicare Drug Plan Ought to Be Model for Health Reform

No matter how often I see it, I can never get over their staggering indifference to the rest of the country.

Don't know about your city, but here in mine there were two tea parties, one downtown [so they could toss their teabags into the bay] and one further north [the one I accidentally ran into].

Sinfonian, bless his war tax resistance heart, is a South Florida blogger recently relocated to my neck of the woods, which for most progressives is like being sent to outer Mongolia, or Tibet maybe, to live in yurts and feast on sheep lung sausage.  Read more…

David Gregory and Fannie Mae.

A Health Plan for All and the Concerns It Raises

“There’s no way to run a side-by-side competition within the current structure,” said Karen Ignagni, the chief executive of America’s Health Insurance Plans, the industry’s trade association. If the unstated and eventual goal of the public plan is to push private insurers out of the way — a de facto nationalization of health care — “let’s have a debate on a government-run system,” Ms. Ignagni said.

You know what? She is absolutely right.

Via the Chamber Pot we learn that James Gelfand think that the public won't support any more health care initiatives because we have already spent a lot of money SCHIP, COBRA, Medicaid, and some others.

He does not appear to understand that the public is a little more concerned with the TARP program. I think it is in our interest that the Chamber is so out of touch.

note - I still don't understand why the National Journal does not have someone from the single payer movement blogging on their health care discussion.

GE chief warns on US depression threat

The US economy is suffering its steepest downturn since at least the 1970s and could descend into a depression, Jeff Immelt, General Electric’s chief executive, warned on Thursday.

I can't figure out why this guy has a job. Clearly his board does not believe in his management, within the last six months they dumped a net of 199,257 shares of GE stock, and before that they dumped a net of 525,891,000 shares.

You know how a song just sticks in your head for no reason, even if you haven't actually heard it in a long time? "Pure and simple happiness" is the line I like best from this tune. Thank you, Hegel, for giving me this CD all those years ago. I love you like the breath of life itself, and always will. Gosh I miss London.

Digby has Andrea Mitchell's latest embarassment:

Andrea Mitchell: It does go beyond rhetoric. He needs to engage the American people in this joint venture. That's part of the call. That's part of what he needs to accomplish in his spech and in the days following the speech. He needs to make people feel that this is their venture as well and that people are going to need to be more patient and have to contribute and that there will have to be some sacrifice.

Haw:

Catholics who claim they have seen the Virgin Mary will be forced to remain silent about the apparitions until a team of psychologists, theologians, priests and exorcists have fully investigated their claims under new Vatican guidelines aimed at stamping out false claims of miracles....

If the visionary is considered credible they will ultimately be questioned by one or more demonologists and exorcists to exclude the possibility that Satan is hiding behind the apparitions in order to deceive the faithful.

AHA, AMA object to Medicare “never event” policy — The American Hospital Association and the American Medical Association objected to Medicare’s plan not to reimburse hospitals for medical errors such as operating on the wrong patient or the wrong side of a patient’s body. The groups argue the policy is vague and needs to be better defined, such as by determining exactly which medical services it won’t pay for in such cases. [Source: Modern Healthcare]

Shikha Dalmia embarrasses herself in Forbes:

Detroit's Big Three need a bailout not because Big Labor has been too greedy but because American taxpayers haven't been generous enough.

At least, that's the argument that Michigan Gov. Jennifer Granholm was making on Meet The Press and other shows last weekend. But Granholm ought to get her facts straight.

DeMint predicts riots if Auto Makers receive bail out.

Yes, he is up for reelection in 2010.

Look for Collection Account Balances to Fall Under Universal Health Care, Not Volume

If America shifts to a mandate-driven universal healthcare system, debt collectors that currently specialize in medical receivables shouldn't expect fewer accounts. But the balances forwarded by clients may be smaller.

Health Insurers See 'Universal' Opportunity

OKLAHOMA CITY -- Health insurance companies such as Humana and UnitedHealth always seem to pay a price for "gifts" from the federal government.

Elizabeth Drew does her own "angling", you decide what for:

"But Washington has been taking in Obama's victory in its own idiosyncratic way. Hostesses are angling to be the first to entertain the Obamas at their first private dinner in Washington.

MSNBC's Brzezinski falsely asserted "the average Big Three automaker union worker's compensation is $73/hour"

Via Back Alley Media we learn the latest in Versailles pretentiousness, Sally Quinn presumes to tell the Obamas where they should go to church.

It tells you everything you need to know about the National Cathedral that they would consent to be quoted in such an article. Anything less spiritual would be difficult to imagine.

Via Atrios: Senate Throws Good-Bye Party For Ted Stevens, Gives Convicted Felon A Standing Ovation

For your viewing pleasure we have exclusive video of the evening's festivities.

Two items from Howard Fineman's list of reasons why Obama should have an even bigger lead:

• Obama’s own Democratic Party is relatively unified, the sulking of the Clintons notwithstanding.
• The “mainstream” media, or what is left of it, has favored and fawned over Obama from the start--even before the current parade of official endorsements. Much of the coverage has been egregiously slanted. Just ask Sen. Hillary Rodham Clinton.

The article doesn't give the new limits they want, just that they're asking congress for permission to do it.

http://tinyurl.com/3z22ma

And I have to apologize, the best article I've found is from AP (don't touch that content) and it only seems to come up on our Wii.

45 years ago today, in Washington, DC -- I have a dream

for Bayard Rustin -- and all the rest of us who remain "Brother -and Sister- Outsiders" -- who still don't have the opportunities, equality, and rights that others have -- and that we all deserve.