Merry Christmas, from Ronald Reagan!

"I'm sending coffin nails to all my friends, and the tobacco companies are glad to finance my campaigns to boot. What a laugh!"

Smoke all the Chesterfields you want, but will Mr. Reagan's party take care of you when you're old and dying of cancer? I don't think so. Dear Ron was one of the first to attack the original Medicare program as "socialized medicine".

The refrain still works today, apparently. Corporate welfare is fine; taking care of your citizens' deteriorating health when they use your products, like tobacco, well . . . that's positively un-American.

Remember how hard it was to fight the Big Tobacco lobby in the previous century, then think about how effective Big Insurance has been in defeating decent, affordable health care.

In case you had any doubts about who runs the show, see "Class War Is Over, Working People Lost".

Smoke Chesterfields, for a taste that's mild and soothing to your throat with no unpleasant after-taste. Doctor recommended!

22 Million Missing Emails from the Bush Admin "found"!

Hmm. Didn't Rosemary Woods, Dick Nixon's secretary "accidentally" erase 22 minutes of crucial White House tapes? What is it with "22"? It must be one of the mystical Republican numbers.

22 Million Bush Emails Recovered

The 22 million e-mails "would never have been found but for our lawsuits and pressure from Capitol Hill," said Anne Weismann, chief counsel for CREW. "It was only then that they did this reanalysis and found as a result that there were 22 million e-mails that they were unable to account for before."

First Global Map of Mercury

Image: USGS. Large, Extra Large, and Ridiculously Huge version of this image available at the USGS Astrogeology Center.

Story Link: First Global Map of Mercury
from Wired.com

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