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1.   When we first drafted this review, we titled it "Justice Roberts saves the Health Insurance Industry."   Roberts is a well-known "company man" and it seemed obvious to us that the motivation behind his ruling was throw a life-line to companies that will drown in a sea of red ink without Obamacare.   

     The fact is that the health delivery system in the United States needs the life support mechanism of Obamacare.  The injection of profit incentives into the veins of health care is sheer poison.  Insurers cannot afford the costs and people cannot afford the insurance.  Obamacare seeks an antidote by mean of a counter injection of mandated premium purchases.  This is only a short term solution; but the short term is good enough for company men.   

    But the problem highlighted in this essay is that nothing the court's opinion states what the justices are actually thinking.    One can conjecture, psychoanalyze and prognosticate howsoever one can, but the opinion itself is a heap o' words signifying nothing. 

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120307-FN1-Epiphany

The word epiphany means a manifestation, showing forth or presentation. Because Jesus's Epiphany is usually painted in glowing hues, some semi-literate bird brain in the Sixties concluded that the word meant a "revelation" or mind unboggling eclat. Snap. Crack! Oh Wow! From that dubious jumping-off point the word came to mean a Life-Transforming insight. In typically sociological fashion, American dictionaries have trod after the ignorant and misinformed and have now "ratified" the misuse of a word as its "accepted" meaning. A manifestation is not an insight, period.

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120307FN-1: Social Chauvinists

The term ante-dates but foretold the National Socialists. What Lenin understood was that socialism on a national level, even if it truly existed, did not obviate national interests; and, that being the case, would inevitably be subsumed to the dictates of national interest. The term "fascism" became demonized in the Allied world because we went to war with Germany and Japan and our propagandists had to come up with something awful to say about our enemies. But we did not go to war with them over their internal political economy (which we in fact emulated) but over geo-political national interests.

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111117-FN1-AraPacis

"Roma" on the Ara Pacis (Altar of Peace) of Augustus

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Moving with Hobbes

Looking for Digs with Hobbes ("Street Days")

Hamburgo Y Amberes

Anna's House (as it was being torn down)

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110615-Index Articles on Full Spectrum Security Policy

Partial List of Articles Discussing NeoCon National Security & Strategic Full Spectrum Policies.

Devil in the Drone
http://wcg-newsandnotes.blogspot.com/2010/09/devil-in-drone.html

Obama's Jihad II
http://wcg-features.blogspot.com/2009/12/obamas-jihad-part-ii-defending-zones-of.html

Synderesis & Wrecked Brain Syndrome

http://wcg-journal.blogspot.com/2008/09/synderesis-identified-as-cause-of.html

Blendables
http://wcg-darktimediary.blogspot.com/2008/02/blendables_2802.html

Political Cancer
http://wcg-darktimediary.blogspot.com/2005/08/political-cancer.html

Thug Politik I
http://wcg-darktimediary.blogspot.com/2003/09/thug-politik-neo-con-agenda-for-new_11.html

ThugPolitic II
http://wcg-darktimediary.blogspot.com/2003/09/thug-politik-neo-con-agenda-for-new_13.html

Thug Politik III
http://wcg-darktimediary.blogspot.com/2003/09/thug-politik-neo-con-agenda-for-new.html

Fear & Loathing
http://wcg-darktimediary.blogspot.com/2002/10/fear-and-loathing-in-new-american.html

American Kampf
http://wcg-darktimediary.blogspot.com/2002/09/american-kampf.html

NewYorkTimes Scoops
http://wcg-newsandnotes.blogspot.com/2010/05/nytimes-scoops-pentagon-strategy-of.html

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