The effects of logging are vastly underrated by most of the general public. They still do not connect the increasing contamination of their water with the logging of watershed.   Anybody who needs water to live should be concerned.  

The Walden Logging Bill, HR 4200, is scheduled for a vote on the House floor this week. The vote is expected on Wednesday, Thursday or Friday. American Lands Alliance is scheduling a national call in day on Tuesday, May 16th.  You can read about it here.

Jump this muddy ditch with me, for a closer look.

It's a good thing the executives of the pharmaceutical industry have unfettered access to cholesterol-fighting drugs, because the Republican-controlled Congress just handed their companies enough Medicaid-related pork to give the bastards heart conditions.

What am I saying? Those sociopathic f**ks don't have hearts.

As part of a House budget bill that reduces spending on Medicaid prescription drugs, pharmaceutical giant Eli Lilly and Co. and other businesses secured a provision ensuring that their mental health drugs continue to fetch top price at a cost of hundreds of millions of dollars to the states.

The provision -- inserted by Rep. Steve Buyer (R-Ind.), whose district flanks Lilly's Indianapolis headquarters -- would largely exempt antipsychotic and antidepressant medications from a larger measure designed to steer Medicaid patients to the least expensive treatment options.

At a time when states are seeing less federal dollars due to the Bush Junta's tax cuts for the wealthy, a time when many people on Medicaid have to choose between buying food or buying medication, after five years of medication costs not just rising but skyrocketing past inflation, the GOP decides to show "compassion" to a multi-billion dollar industry, wrecking millions of live in the process.

How is it that Congressional Republicans haven't been lynched yet?

This should surprise nobody, and maybe just maybe seniors will note this B.S. when they vote next time.  Besides the higher prices guaranteed to drug companies, this Medicare drug program is so complex and convoluted, that many many seniors have no clue what to do.  When you want something to work especially with seniors, keep it simple has to be the rule of order.  This law is meant to use its purposeful complications to give advantage to insurance companies and drug companies over senior's health!