If this is what they do when they have a video camera rolling in their own car, what do you suppose happens when one isn't?

Rock legend Bob Dylan was treated like a complete unknown by police in a New Jersey shore community when a resident called to report someone wandering around the neighborhood.

...The incident began at 5 p.m. (2100 GMT) when a resident said a man was wandering around a low-income, predominantly minority neighborhood several blocks from the oceanfront looking at houses.

The 24 year old police officer drove up to Dylan and asked his name. Dylan gave his name. A second officer in his twenties responded to assist. Since neither officer recognized the name, they asked for I.D. and  what he was doing there. Dylan responded that he was on tour and was not carrying any I.D.

The officers asked Dylan, 68, to accompany them back to the Ocean Place Resort and Spa, where the performers were staying. Once there, tour staff vouched for Dylan.  AP

Now he is supporting Whole Foods owner, John Mackey, who wrote WSJ op ed denouncing health care reform because it is too expensive and health care is not a right...

WASHINGTON -- Much of the money and strategy behind the so-called grassroots groups organizing opposition to the Democrats' health care plans comes from conservative political consultants, professional organizers and millionaires, some of whom hold financial stakes in the outcome.

If President Barack Obama and Congress extend health insurance coverage to millions of uninsured Americans, raise taxes on the wealthy to pay for it, and limit insurers' discretion on who they cover and what they charge, that could pinch these opponents.

Most of them say they oppose big government in principle. Despite Obama's assurances to the contrary, many of them insist that the Democrats' legislation is but the first step toward creation of a single-payer system, where the federal government hires the doctors, approves treatments, sets the rules and imperils profit.

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The opposition groups' names sound catchy and populist: Patients First. Patients United. Americans for Prosperity. Conservatives for Patients' Rights. FreedomWorks. 60 Plus. Club for Growth.

Here's who's behind them: read on

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The head of the FDIC, another Bush appointee, is fighting Obama as to whether the banks should self regulate or not.

Laughable position, going on what has happened for the last 8 years, but Sheila Bair is saying it with a straight face.

Federal Deposit Insurance Corp. Chairman Sheila Bair is pushing back against key elements of the Obama administration's financial overhaul plan, saying they wouldn't survive in Congress and calling her own alternatives more viable.

In an interview with The Associated Press, Bair said Congress won't approve two major parts of the package: Expanding the Federal Reserve's authority to regulate the largest financial companies and giving a proposed new consumer protection agency examination and enforcement powers over banks.
Such authority now belongs to her agency and other bank regulators.

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Her ideas include empowering a new agency to protect consumers from abusive mortgage and credit card products - but having bank supervisors enforce those rules.

Franz Ferdinand opening.  Taking the little kid, who's been to one outside concert (at Viejas, no less), and who has no idea how loud this arena concert is going to be.  taking the earplugs just in case.  For all of us.

And we have an agreement from the drug companies to make prescription drugs more affordable for seniors. The AARP supports this policy, and agrees with us that reform must happen this year.

Hey wait a minute, during the Bush Company era, Republican Controlled Congress for the last twelve years one could ponder that Black Water type Insurance companies did and do exist. Even with in the Government employee programs national and state wide. Death Panels are already here, have been here to exist to cut off your policy or refuse your claim. You know what would be fun is to have a government insurance exchange with the power of over sight to follow up insurance problems. Now who do we call ghost busters )  

The other day was listening to hate radio ABC the channel that broadcasts Rush Limbaugh here in the Chicago, it was about an Illinois government employee calling into the new Rod Blagojevich radio program, yes Rod has air time here defending his self before he faces Patrick Fitzgerald who needs time to pour over details to catch Blago in at least perjury, which would be lame as hell. Another Scooter Libby cop out. The individual was complaining about a claim that was refused by our local Illinois insurance plan, the government insurance plan. Isn't that a hoot...    

Ladies and Gentleman of America we all pay into a trillion dollar insurance fund that turns into huge huge profits for auto insurance companies. Called auto insurance cover approximately one hundred and forty million cars on the road. Of course we all pay for auto hospital insurance liability. A lot of this insurance is not paid out in claim, In most states if you don't have it you can't drive. Of course insurance scams exist galore, who do you think makes profits on them, who do think actually pays for the cost of the scams? You and me...