Let's get right to the point here. What I'm atalking about here is the Minneopolis based Star Tribune, which on a regular basis puts out the Republican party line on health care, W's war mongering, and just about every other issue I've noticed in this GOP rag.

Just this last Friday's issue was trying to sell the Iraq War to folks here in Minnesota, where even based on the flawed official vote count, people voted for John Kerry, and that was definitely true in the Twin Cities of Minneapolis and St Paul as well some of their suburbs. Also opposition to the war seems to be pretty strong here, as you might expect, given the fact that Paul Wellstone was a senator from for a good while and up until his death. People have to wonder why don't these "wonderful" elites at the Tribune ever get it. We don't want this damn war nor the jack asses in this administration who gave it to us. Actually we're haveing to pay for it, thus I shouldn't say they're giving us anything but a con job, which they're real good at at least trying to do. Fortunately, though, here it's meeting with less and less success, and that's actually pretty good news.

On the front page, though, the Tribune is trying to sell the Iraq War to us. Give this BS a rest! Think outside the GOP
loony right/far right box for a change. What's all this bull about the good side of this war. The "good side" of this war includes all the rape, torture, pillage, and kill that Attila the Hun would just love. I'd hate to have look at the bad side, if what we already know is the good side.

Then on health care, the Tribune is real good at putting out the party line, virtually genuflectiong before the health insurance companies telling us how they now are actually just hiking the prices because we consumers are causing it. That's a damn lie, and the damn Tribune knows it. Health care costs in this country are higher because we use the pure market/rip off/ con job heath insurance industry non plan made of all too many schemes for sucking the blood out of the consumer while lining the pockets of the rich white parasites running this industry.

Why can't the Tribune simply take a look at the objective information available to all which shows Canada provides absolutely top notch health care to all its people at a much lower price with a publicly funded system, and it is a system which provides health care in Canada, unlike the inferior Third World type care people get here in the USA, as I know first hand. The UN World Health Organization, which is about as independent and impartial source available, rates US health care as right there with the Third World, with Mexico giving us competition. What the hell is that? But yet these jack asses keep trying to sell people this absolute BS about how the market does health care better.
Hey, you at the Star Tribune, can you say I'm a lying whore for the health insurance industry and the whole neo con agenda? Oh, how dare I ask? You are, after all, the official GOP newspaper of the Twin Cities. Oh, the World Health Organization rankis Canada very high on health care. Lately they've been getting some waiting as to extent they've tried to bring the rip off/market/con job/raw deal which we use here in this country. But once Canada gets back to being Canada, folks up there will probably get things sorted out with much less reliance on the market and they'll go back to having even better health care.

It's also worth noting that at least one company has located in Canada rather than the USA, and health care is the reason as far is known. It would certainly make sense, as people Canada are healthier, and they're as well educated as the American labor force, if not more so.

It would be nice to get something other than the neo con line around here the way folks in Madison WI do with the Capital Times. But that newspaper actually looks for the facts instead just carrying water for the GOP and ther rest the neo cons. Maybe that's the reason people can get the truth there, but not here unless they ignore the Star Tribune and use the internet to get the Common Dreams web site which gets out at least quite a bit of the truth to the neo cons everlasting discomfort, and to Common Dreams' everlasting credit.