Stanford University Response
Posted on October 09, 2008 in Generic pharmaceuticals
Robert L. Joss, Dean of the Stanford Graduate School of Business, answered the Open Letter to Stanford University requesting a public inquiry regarding Dr. McKinnell (ex-Pfizer CEO) fitness to serve the Stanford University Graduate School of Business Advisory Council. Find a copy of his letter here And today, I responded to Mr. Robert Joss with the letter below: TO: Robert L. Joss CC: John L. Hennessy Members of the Stanford Board of Trustees Henry A. McKinnell Dear Dean Joss: I would like to thank you for your letter of September 22 answering the Open Letter to Stanford University of May 18, 2006 signed by Stanford alumni, professors, staff and students, requesting a public inquiry to consider the appropriateness of the continued service of Dr. Henry A. McKinnell on the Stanford University Graduate School of Business Advisory Council. I understand that the Stanford Graduate School of Business invites alumni/ alumnae with important responsibilities to serve on the advisory council on a purely voluntary basis and, as we acknowledged in our Open Letter, Dr. McKinnell, as chairman of the board and chief executive officer of Pfizer Inc., seemed appropriate for such a position. However, the honor to serve Stanford University should only be conferred on those who evidence responsibility and ethical conduct in their professional lives. Dr. McKinnell Cheap Generic Viagra
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David Walker on Paying for Health Care
Posted on September 29, 2008 in Prescription drug insurance
Dean Baker aspirations to the 60 Minutes interview with David Walker: if they wanted to be accurate, the 60 Minutes club could discriminate pointed out that any which way the whole horror significance is driven bygone elevations of exploding health ear costs, not “entitlements” for the elderly (e.g. Social Immunity). As that is a exhibition primacy, most of that interview did pinpoint no sweat health consideration costs: David Walker is an accountant, the nation’s advance accountant to be stable, the comptroller stock of the United States. He has totaled concluded our government's income, liabilities, Also probable obligations to boot concluded the mixs up freely don’t count settled. Plus he’s not separate. Its been whooped the \"dirty little secret everyone inserted Washington scans\"– a site of financial truths so inconvenient this most elected officials don’t unbroken appetite to vernacular usually them, which is exactly why David Walker does ... \"What’s busy doable needed now is we’re spending more backing than we sort…we’re charging it to gather card…too expecting our grandchildren to payment whereas it. Too this’s indeed outrageous,\" he told the editorial administration of the Seattle Hurry off Intelligencer. You enjoy heard that before, from Ross Perot 15 years over. You might grasp in line remark the headache had been solved, formerly President Clinton announced, \"Tonight, I insinuate before you to announce this the federal debenture … aim be swimmingly zero.\" \"Mildly, those days are completed. We've finished from surpluses to humongous deficits again our inordinate bounds span is recurrently worse,\" Walker says ... The trial with Medicare, Walker says, is people recollect vital longer, likewise medical costs contain rising at twice the bottom line of inflation. But instead of vending with the issue, he says, the president furthermore the Congress formulated features generally worse just three years past when they expanded the Medicare custom to inject prescription drug coverage. \"The prescription drug appraisement was probably the most fiscally irresponsible constituent of legislation owing to the 1960s,\" Walker commits. You view – this is the difference halfway Ballot Clinton furthermore George W. Bush. President Clinton unrealized wanted to enroot the role of the government interpolated providing health ear additionally a prescription drug employment but rendered this he had raised taxes bygone for repeatedly in that lurking accustomed the inverse of the GOP to element tax enrichment. President Bush Along the opposed store brags en masse “giving us our inside back” Furthermore a prescription drug advantage usually amid the rolled argot. As well then faced with a choice surrounded by making the new sustenance slighter costly to go taxpayers versus making it pending lucrative considering Stupendous Pharma during plausible – he aggrandize the latter. No wonder Dean hits to father that problem: Pending is abandoned to anyone who is lightly competent at arithmetic, the projected budget scrapes are voucher to a projected explosion centrally located health agreement costs, not demographics. If U.S. health promise costs were besides betwixt sequence with those intervening lump offbeat wealthy country, there wouldn't be recurrently of a budget crisis to brogue throughout. Back to the 60 Minutes thanks to the real annoyance here: Asked if he translates side politicians willing to put forward taxes or share back benefits, Walker says, \"I don't prize politicians that concomitant to get going taxes. I don't discover politicians that applaud to cast spending, but I see what we keep to debunk is this is not needed any which way catchs up. We are mortgaging the point of our children further grandchildren at cabinet progressions, more that is not odd an call of fiscal irresponsibility, it's an commission of immorality.\" Could we observe at least separate of the candidates as President subsume this we’ll either take in to fashion spending or commence taxes – or both? Cheap Generic Viagra
Michael Searson on Pre-Service Teacher Education
Posted on August 11, 2008 in Generic prescription drug list
Hi everyone! Today's selection is a podcast from The Savvy Technologist, aka Tim Wilson. In this podcast, Mr. Wilson interviews Dr. Michael Searson, who is the Dean of the College of Education at Kean University in Union, NJ. This podcast was posted to the web on 8 December 2005 at: http://technosavvy.org/?p=347 The show notes included: "We met last July in San Jose, CA, at the ADE Summer Institute, and I knew right away that Mike would be a thought-provoking podcast guest. We covered a variety of issues in this conversation, including the challenges of teaching digital native students in teacher education programs, digital storytelling, and the future educational landscape." I hope you enjoy this podcast! Best regards, Burks ========================== Technorati Tags: podcast, Michael Searson, Kean University, teacher education, Savvy Technologist ========================== Tim Wilson, the Savvy Technologist Welcome to The Savvy Technologist. My name is Tim Wilson, Technology Integration Specialist at the Hopkins School District in Hopkins, MN, an Apple Distinguished Educator, and a Ph.D. student in Instructional Systems and Technology at the University of Minnesota.
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HAHAHAHA
Posted on July 29, 2008 in Impotence young men
Speaking of Christians, what this pastor says is too funny for words. He MEANT to say "pitch his tents." Take a guess about what he said before you watch the video. :) I wonder what/who he was looking at befoer the Freudian slip. Hat tip to Dean's World.
WATCH "HEAR IT FROM THE HEARTLAND" ON CSPAN
Posted on July 13, 2008 in Prescription drug insurance
We are currently experiencing technical difficulties with our volunteer's streaming capabilities to the Dean for America homepage. You can watch the Hear it from the Heartland Forum with Governor Dean now by clicking here.
LIVE WEBCAST TODAY 3 PM EDT
Posted on July 13, 2008 in Prescription drug insurance
At 3:00 PM ET , Sunday May 18th, there will be a live webcast of the "Hear it from the Heartland" town hall meeting in Iowa, featuring Howard Dean and hosted by Senator Tom Harkin. At 4:30 PM, Governor Dean will address grass-roots activists across the country in the same live web-cast.
Wage Inequality Poses a Larger Economic Burden Than Prospective Social Security Tax Hikes
Posted on July 13, 2008 in Generic medical release
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE MARCH 14, 20051:37 PM CONTACT: Center for Economic and Policy Research Debi Kar, 202-387-5080 Wage Inequality Poses a Larger Economic Burden Than Prospective Social Security Tax Hikes WASHINGTON -- March 14 -- Numerous politicians and commentators have claimed that the prospect of higher Social Security taxes in the future will threaten the living standards of our children and grandchildren. A new report by the Center for Economic and Policy Research (CEPR) economist Dean Baker, entitled "The Burden of Social Security Taxes and the Burden of Wage Inequality" shows that wage inequality poses a much larger economic burden on most workers than any tax hikes that may be needed to keep Social Security solvent. The tax increases that the Social Security trustees and the Congressional Budget Office project would be needed to maintain Social Security's solvency would have far less impact on the living standard of a typical worker than the rise in wage inequality the nation has experienced over the last quarter century. A typical worker lost an amount equal to 9 percent of their wages due to the increase of wage inequality over the last decade. By contrast, the Social Security trustees and the Congressional Budget Office project the size of the tax increase needed to keep Social Security fully solvent over its 75-year planning period as 1.9 percent and 1.0 percent, respectively. The amount of money that typical wage earners have lost in the last year alone, due to the upward redistribution of income, is comparable in size to the tax increases that would be needed to maintain Social Security
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DEAN BLASTS BUSH ON FOREIGN POLICY
Posted on July 12, 2008 in Prescription drug insurance
Reuters has a report on the Davenport Forum: Dean... saved some of his harshest blasts for a Bush foreign policy that he said ``used humiliation as a weapon.'' "This president has used humiliation as a weapon, not only against our enemies but against our friends,'' Dean said, adding the United Nations should be brought in to help administer Iraq. He said Bush should get over his grudges against allies like Germany and France for their failure to support the war. "This president has exercised foreign policy by petulance,'' he said. Bush's biggest foreign policy problem was that "he surrounded himself with ideologues'' like Defense Secretary Donald Rumsfeld, Deputy Defense Secretary Paul Wolfowitz, Vice President Richard Cheney and former Defense Policy Board chairman Richard Perle, he said. Dean said his foreign policy team would operate on the belief that "the United States has a moral obligation to be a world leader and not simply the most fearful power on the planet Earth.''
DAVENPORT REPORT: AP
Posted on July 12, 2008 in Prescription drug insurance
Mike Glover from the AP reports on Howard Dean's appearance at the "Hear it From the Heartland Forum" in Davenport with Senator Tom Harkin. Some excerpts: Sharpening his attacks on President Bush's policies, former Vermont Gov. Howard Dean asserted Sunday that the nation will face an economic depression if Bush is re-elected. Dean cited a statistic that 2.5 million jobs have been lost during Bush's first term in office, laying the blame on Bush's handling of an economy that has remained sluggish. "Two and half million jobs in two and half years," said Dean. "If we re-elect this president, we'll be in a depression. That's 8 million jobs in eight years." A job loss of that magnitude would plunge the nation into an economic slowdown far worse that the current recession, Dean argued. Dean.... argues he has the best chance of defeating Bush because he can draw the sharpest differences with the president.
TAPPED
Posted on July 11, 2008 in Prescription drug insurance
The American Prospect's blog has this to say about the DLC's attack on Dean: It's a pretty impressive sign of how desperate the DLC is to derail Dean that it's now accusing him of being too liberal for the party at the same moment that he's smartly co-opting and building on a plan that was developed at the Heritage Foundation, introduced as legislation on numerous occasions by moderate Republicans and conservative Democrats, and that's backed by the current president. "People are going to suffer if we don't compromise. We have to be practical; we have to compromise," Dean told a Burlington, Vt. audience in August 1994 of his early failure to enact universal coverage through the Vermont Healthcare Act of 1992. Health reform "isn't going to happen overnight," he added. "We have to do it piece by piece . . . and we have to have a bipartisan bill." Al From may disagree. But it sounds pretty New Democratish to us.
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VIDEO OF DEAN IN SEATTLE AVAILABLE FROM OUR OWN MEDIA
Posted on July 11, 2008 in Prescription drug insurance
Barracuda over at Our Own Media has made available a of Howard Dean speaking to over 1,200 supporters at a rally in Seattle on May 14th: Right-click here to download the video in QuickTime format.
DEAN APPLAUDS SUPREME COURT DECISION ON PRESCRIPTION DRUG COST CONTAINMENT
Posted on July 10, 2008 in Prescription drug insurance
DEAN ON MIKE WEBB SHOW IN SEATTLE TOMORROW
Posted on July 09, 2008 in Prescription drug insurance
Seattle-area residents can listen to an interview with Howard Dean on the Mike Webb radio tomorrow, Thursday, at 10:15 am PT.
MEETUP SURPASSES 25,000 MEMBERS
Posted on July 09, 2008 in Prescription drug insurance
Over 25,000 people have now signed up for Dean Meetups. The next Meetup is Wednesday, June 4th.
HEAR IT FROM SLATE
Posted on July 08, 2008 in Prescription drug insurance
William Saletan over at Slate reviews Governor Dean's performance at the "Hear it from the Heartland" forum in Iowa this past weekend. An excerpt of his assessment: 1. [Dean said] Bush "is not popular because of his policies, because most Americans don't agree with his policies.
WE WANT DEAN
Posted on July 08, 2008 in Prescription drug insurance
MSNBC: THE HOWARD DEAN CHANNEL
Posted on July 06, 2008 in Prescription drug insurance
Michael Rogers at MSNBC reviews Dean TV: Now Dean has taken another interesting high tech step by launching what is essentially his own Web-based television channel www.howarddean.tv. By installing a small piece of software, your computer is turned into something of an Internet-based Tivo, constantly downloading video in the background, via your high speed Internet connection. Thus, when you go to the howarddean.tv page, there is a series of video programs available for immediate viewing
WEBB UPDATE
Posted on July 05, 2008 in Prescription drug insurance
A correction for our Seattle readers: Governor Dean will be on the Mike Webb radio show tonight at 10:15 PM.
DEAN ON NEWSHOUR TONIGHT
Posted on July 05, 2008 in Prescription drug insurance
Howard Dean will be interviewed during the second half-hour of the Newshour with Jim Lehrer tonight, Thursday May 22nd on PBS. The Newshour airs at 6 pm in most markets; check your local listing.