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20:54 Mar 22 2010
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What will happen when the boogey man doesn't appear? When people actually see only minor changes to the status quo? Will they appreciate kids being able to stay on parent’s coverage when the chance at finding a job with benefits is smaller than it has been in decades? Will they be glad that they cannot be denied coverage for a condition they were born with? How many of us have seen the death panels under the old system, the denial of coverage, the total cap of expenses runs out so the plug is pulled?
Yes I suppose the boogey man is real... and he has been with us a long time under the profit at any cost of life scenario.
We still have a ways to go before we actually remove him from the equation, but there is a framework in place. A piece of legislature that whomever controls Congress can edit.
Where were these people during election time? They were at the voting booths, but the candidates echoing their fears did not get enough public votes to win.
Like it or not, the majority voted this Congress in and the majority of Congress is passing this bill.
The opposition is the minority, and shall not hold the majority hostage to its own agenda. Democracy does not work that way.
20:40 Mar 21 2010
Times Read: 816
Somehow I've turned out worse than my mother... you know the "eat your food, there are kids starving in China" bit? Seven told me I was starving the family since it was 1:30 in the afternoon and hadn't cooked a thing... My response, "there are people who go days without eating and don't die."
20:20 Mar 19 2010
Times Read: 832
I am not naming any names, but I blaming this snow on a certain witch.
19:46 Mar 17 2010
Times Read: 839
"Speaking to La Republica last week, Amorth [official Vatican exorcist], who in fact does have a new book, "Memoirs of an Exorcist," to shill, said, "When one speaks of 'the smoke of Satan' in the holy rooms, it is all true – including these latest stories of violence and pedophilia." A few days later, he told the UK Times, "All evil is due to the intervention of the Devil, including pedophilia." He also added that contemporary culture has "given in to the Evil One. You see it in the lack of faith, the empty churches, the collapse of the family. Compare the world of today to when I was a boy in Modena: families and parish communities were strong, women did not go out to work."
I've been called a lot of things in my day... but really, my working is responsible for priests molesting and raping altar boys?
18:41 Mar 02 2010
Times Read: 854
Chilean earthquake may have shortened earth day by microsecond: NASA
By Michael Sheridan
DAILY NEWS STAFF WRITER
Tuesday, March 2nd 2010, 11:18 AM
The quake that rocked the South American nation may have also knocked the Earth off its axis.
The 8.8-magnitude earthquake near Chile may have also made our planet's days shorter, according to NASA scientist Richard Gross.
A minor change in the Earth’s axis isn't expected to alter much in terms of weather. The planet's tilt influences the seasons, allowing for winter, spring, summer and fall, and it would take a far greater change in the Earth's axis to affect them.
The Chile quake may have moved the Earth’s axis by about 3 inches, Gross said.
The quake also shortened the day by 1.26 microseconds, the scientist determined, using a complex model he and others developed.
The Earth's rotation was likely affected by the shift in the planet's mass, which could cause it to spin faster.
Scientists believe other quakes, such as the 2004 9.1-magnitude earthquake in Sumatra, have also decreased the Earth's day. That quake is believed to have shortened it by 6.8 microseconds, and altered the axis by nearly 7 inches.
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imagesinwords
20:57 Mar 22 2010
I totally, emphatically agree.
Xzavier
21:41 Mar 22 2010
Sadly the US isn't a democracy..wait that's good thing. Sadly we forgot that we aren't democracy :P
meeper
22:33 Mar 22 2010
We are a representative democracy, more so now than when the US was founded. Originally the citizens had no direct say in the composition of the Senate. For those who think we have a corrupt government or that it is not representative of the people, then it is the people's fault- not the institution.
Xzavier
05:50 Mar 23 2010
Oh I totally agree that the root of the problem is the fault of the people, absolutely. That being said the way the US was is the way it technically is and we should act like it. Things like this bill only go to further our decent into a very dangerous world. It's sad when a bill becomes law (as it will) that is itself a violation of the founding laws of this country.
Anything near a pure democracy is a great danger and we would do well to keep away from that.