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January 19, 2006

Just a quick post on something I found kind of funny.

I will often check out Yahoo! News, because they run a lot of the AP and Reuters wire stuff, and I can sometimes catch the less obvious examples of liberal bias before the wire services change and correct things. Well, no luck on that front so far today, but I did find this AP article, talking about how the President's State of the Union speech will focus heavily on health care costs.

Okay, interesting news, right? Yeha, I think so. Particularly as a self employed individual, who currently doesn't have health insurance, I'll be interested to see if this amounts to anything. To be clear, despite lacking insurance becuase of the cost, I don't believe that "rich" people should pay more taxes so that the large majority of us who make and pay in much less can get free health care.

Anyway, I don't see what the story has to do with Laura Bush watching Nigerian dancers on her recent swing through West Africa.

Again, I'm not seing bias in this particular instance.... It's just weird. I've got to assume it's some sort of automated thing that makes images show up next to the article, but they're usually relevant. So perhaps this isn't human error, but some sort of artificial intelligence malfunction? Either way, it just struck me as funny to read the bold headline with that out of place photo below it, particularly because Mrs. Bush isn't mentioned in the article at all.

Back on the healthcare issue for a moment, I haven't had the chance to really look in to this yet, but my aunt mentioned it to me the other day, and thought I'd let the Christians out there take a look (sorry, non-Christians need not apply). Medi-Share.