Between the idea / And the reality

Even as drug makers promise to support Washington's health care overhaul by shaving $8 billion a year off the nation's drug costs after the legislation takes effect, the industry has been raising its prices at the fastest rate in years.

Between the motion / And the act

Drug makers say they have valid business reasons for the price increases.

Falls the Shadow

Critics say the industry is trying to establish a higher price base before Congress passes legislation that tries to curb drug spending in coming years.

Between the conception / And the creation

...the drug makers have been proudly citing the agreement they reached with the White House and the Senate Finance Committee chairman to trim $8 billion a year -- $80 billion over 10 years -- from the nation's drug bill by giving rebates to older Americans and the government.

Between the emotion / And the response

But this year's price increases would effectively cancel out the savings from at least the first year of the Senate Finance agreement. And some critics say the surge in drug prices could change the dynamics of the entire 10-year deal.

Falls the Shadow

A Harvard health economist, Joseph P. Newhouse, said he found a similar pattern of unusual price increases after Congress added drug benefits to Medicare a few years ago, giving tens of millions of older Americans federally subsidized drug insurance. Just as the program was taking effect in 2006, the drug industry raised prices by the widest margin in a half-dozen years.

They attack and kill us because we are infidels to them and that is what you do to infidels if you choose to.  

They hate us for our freedoms!

Our decades-long policy of murder, rampage, invasion, deadly sanctions, and all-out financial and military support for another ME country that routinely invades, oppresses, threatens, and murders them...These have NOTHING to do with their rage.

It reminds me of "Zelig" - the character who morphs into whomever he is around.

Millions will have to repay part of tax credit
Stephen Ohlemacher / Associated Press

Washington -- More than 15 million taxpayers could unexpectedly owe taxes when they file their federal returns next spring because the government was too generous with their new Making Work Pay tax credit.

The Treasury Department's inspector general for tax administration issued a report Monday saying that taxpayers are at risk if they have more than one job, are married and both spouses work, or receive Social Security benefits while also earning taxable wages.

The tax credit, which is supposed to pay individuals up to $400 and couples up to $800, was President Barack Obama's signature tax break in the massive stimulus package enacted in February. Most workers started receiving the credit through small increases in their paychecks in April.

Whats really funny is that Al Qaeda earlier tried to blow it up and that effort resulted in civil trials and convictions. When ever Republicans rant as such as they have been, they must have something serious to hide. Bush and his Wahabbi war machine are likely totally paranoid to be outed in public display for violations of all sorts. Including crime, indictments, and trials of the Bush Wahabbi administration war machine.

Second the basic issue of sending more troops to Afghanistan as requested by the Generals is one thing; for sure America's primary security in its domestic operations, and they are resilient as Bush said but far too, too, fragile which Bush kept from everyone. For the last eight years it is obvious Bush and his Wahabbi war machine extended Americas debit into uncharted waters. Lingering on the edge of depression of an economic abyss never before existing.

The President must have the capability to run the country in that its operations besides sustaining a war, is top priority. This is obvious the Republicans can not do. Republican's seem to not to give a dam to the needs of the domestic agenda of the safety and welfare of everyday American's, the flag is there with the fort Hood action whether out right murder to review internal military security is a must befire moving forward, Allah is here. And, by these continuous rant of more war...more war...more war... more troops...more troops into the time and space of two thousand years of corruption called the Middle East is curious to me.

She came to court on a retail fraud case, but left in police custody for carrying a weapon in her purse.

Breanna Tenai Calvin, 18, of Flint was arraigned on one count of possession of a dangerous weapon for bringing what police describe as brass knuckles with a knife attached into 52-4 District Court in Troy on Friday.

She is due back in court Nov. 23 for a pre-exam conference.

The felony charge carries up to five years in prison, according to the Oakland County Sheriff's Office.

Police said Calvin came into the courthouse for a probation violation hearing on a prior retail fraud case. But when her purse passed through the X-ray machine at the security checkpoint, a sheriff's deputy noticed a suspicious object inside.

The deputy discovered the nine-inch metallic knuckles with a more than three-inch knife blade on one end.

Calvin was taken into custody and arraigned Saturday.