OKAY PEOPLE LISTEN UP. Just because someone says it doesn’t mean it’s true. And even if it’s true, that doesn’t mean it’s relevant.
Currently listening to podcast No Agenda which breaks down as follows: 70% crackpot, 25% begging for donations, 38% entertaining me (there’s substantial entertaining/crackpot overlap). But one thing they just said really hacked me off.
They say Obama just appointed some dude to head up some agricultural trade commission. Whatever. The problem, they say, is that this new appointee used to have some other bigshot government health job where he lifted the cap on how much drug companies could charge for cancer drugs. Both show hosts are disgusted with Obama appointing this jerk who, they imply, must be beholden to Big Cancer. “And this really hits home because my aunt has cancer,” says Adam Curry.
STOP. A cap on drug prices HURTS cancer patients.
Say a drug company sees potential for a possible new cancer treatment drug, but the government puts a cap on how much they’d be allowed to charge for it. They run the numbers and realize that even if they developed a drug that actually worked, they couldn’t break even on it, let alone make a profit.
Would you want a company in your 401k portfolio if they produced drugs at a net loss? No, and neither would any other stockholder. Investments would dry up, jobs would be lost, and the company would eventually go under.
Putting price caps on cancer drugs prevent drug companies from exploring and developing innovative treatments.
What’s that you say? ..This post has nothing to do with criminology?..
Hey kids, don’t start fires.
The liens were never actually placed by the bonding agency, and last Thursday the prosecution filed a motion to haul Mohanlal’s ass (and probably the rest of him… court documents don’t specify) back to jail where he belongs.
Megan Meier: In 2006, when she was 13 years old, Megan hung herself in her bedroom closet after receiving a cruel message from her Myspace crush. Her dad later saw it on the screen.. 16-year-old Josh Evans had told Megan the world would be a better place without her. Ouch, baby.
Lori Drew: Megan’s ex-friend’s 48-year-old mom. She heard Megan was saying nasty stuff about her kid, so she invented “Josh Evans” and created a profile for him on Myspace. The plan was to gain Megan’s trust and “find out what she thought about [Lori's daughter] and about other people,” per the police report. Right now she’s neck-and-neck with Britney Spears for Mother of the Year.
Ashley Grills: A 19-year-old temp employed by Lori Drew. She appeared on Good Morning America to 
Earlier this month, Harrel Braddy was finally 
In court, Braddy was wearing an electric shock device and knee brace and was surrounded by “extra police officers, all measures taken after Braddy escaped from the courthouse in 1984 when he choked a Miami-Dade County corrections officer.”
ok, no one understands. branden is a great person and friend. he had a full scholarship already. we love those boys and that girl is not an “innocent” girl. you dont go to school there and you dont understand how she really is. all you know is what the media puts out. imagine how we feel. those are OUR friends and were worried for them. when we know its not right that girl KNEW branden she liked him.