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- zarkonite0
http://www.cnn.com/2011/11/08/us…
"Health care law held constitutional in latest appeals court ruling"
- the reason they state for accepting it gives quite alot of power. i still find it unconstituitonal let be decided at least by state********
- at least at a state level no way does it garner federal control********
- I think given the national nature of insurance companies, states are not in a position of establishing efficient laws... it's a tough issue to say the least.zarkonite
- a tough issue, as a canuck my opinion is that a single payer system works better but that's another debate I guess =)zarkonite
- Yea healthcare is a rough issue. Think it better controlled through smaller parts. than a single monopoly of gov slush funds.********
- funds. I know a former canuck whos family is there. All her family has kids as a form of a job. Albeit theyre catholic.********
- Haha i think she has liek 55 cousins. Insane. I jsut look at the incentives and think 100% insured will drive costs up. and care down.********
- care down. For exampel i got contacts. Bc insurer was paying they ran me through tons of tests. It costed me nothing so why not********
- why not. The costs are on other people. Now if 70% of 100% did this dang that wont help costs********
- Id love to go to a doctor and see menu with pricing. Theyre like cable companies these days. Most costs i dont need to use insurance********
- use insurance. I hate how insurance gets you to pay slightly less than real costs and pays doctors way more like a bribe********
- bribe. Uninsured cost of a birth is much less than what an insurance will co will pay.********
- i really think for the most part insurance is a large problem. A manipulative industry driving costs. And the ide amore insurance wont fix it********
- idea more insurance wont fix it.********
- sry a lot of talk bubbles********
- the reason they state for accepting it gives quite alot of power. i still find it unconstituitonal let be decided at least by state
- ukit20
Interesting post from a conservative blogger...
Mitt Romney as the Nominee: Conservatism Dies and Barack Obama Wins
http://www.redstate.com/erick/20…
Mitt Romney is not the George W. Bush of 2012 — he is the Harriet Miers of 2012, only conservative because a few conservative grand pooh-bahs tell us Mitt Romney is conservative and for no other reason.
That is precisely why Mitt Romney will not win in 2012. But no worry, once he loses, Republican establishment types will blame conservatives for not doing enough for Mitt Romney, never mind that Mitt Romney has never been able to sell himself to more than 25% of the GOP voters. It’s not his fault though, it is the 75%’s fault.
Mitt Romney is going to be the Republican nominee. And his general election campaign will be an utter disaster for conservatives as he takes the GOP down with him and burns up what it means to be a conservative in the process.
You’d think that given the economy, jobs, and the present angst about the direction of the country that the GOP would have an easy path to victory. You would be wrong.
You forget the electoral college. The vote is coming down to a handful of states and Barack Obama still maintains the advantage of incumbency and not terribly terrible polling in those swing states.
Mitt Romney, on the other hand, is a man devoid of any principles other than getting himself elected. As much as the American public does not like Barack Obama, they loath a man so fueled with ambition that he will say or do anything to get himself elected. Mitt Romney is that man.
- Well that comes off a little harsh.********
- Mitt is the mirror image of Obama. Ambition in an empty suit. We get the candidates we deserve.TheBlueOne
- More like the candidates the media/political establishment chooses for usukit2
- It's a job no good man wants.********
- We do NOT get the politicians we deserve, we get the ones someone else bought for their ends. Its their game, not ours.mikotondria3
- Well that comes off a little harsh.
- kirshar120
Woo hoo, Initiative 26 has been blocked down here in Mississippi.......
Good Times.......
- I can't believe that in this day & age there are people who are for it.
Stunning! Good for MississippiRamanisky2 - What's really sad is that 42% were for it.........kirshar12
- I can't believe that in this day & age there are people who are for it.
- zarkonite0
http://www.businessweek.com/prin…
"Ohio Senate Bill 5's repeal buoys Dems"
Looks like Tea Party style politics are not turning out to be popular at all... and on that note:
http://www.bostonherald.com/news…
the Dems are making inroads everywhere these days, Obama might just have a chance... esp. since the only viable republican candidate is Romney and he's not a far right wing nut job.
- ukit20
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- ********0
This made me chuckle:
- BusterBoy0
Good lord...how someone so ignorant can aspire to be POTUSA.
- utopian0
Spencer Bachus (R-Ala.)Congress: Trading stock on inside information
- eieio0
So this has to be the worst part of being prez or any other world leader. Honestly I could not bring myself to kiss another man on the lips for the sake of international diplomacy.
Save me the conspiracy lecture but its a little known fact that the Knights Templar, the precursor to the Masons and Illuminati and such, were accused of Satanic rituals that involved men kissing each other on the lips... the king that accused them of this specifically mentioned kissing each other "on the lips"... anyway, could be continuing on today. :D
- utopian0
How the GOP Became the Party of the Rich
The inside story of how the Republicans abandoned the poor and the middle class to pursue their relentless agenda of tax cuts for the wealthiest one percent.
Read more: http://www.rollingstone.com/poli…
- ukit20
Gotta lol at this a little...the effects of budget cutbacks
If you’re a victim of a burglary, theft or car prowling in Spokane, don’t expect to get the crime solved.
The Spokane Police Department announced Wednesday the official elimination of the property crimes unit and said citizens should expect only 5 percent of reported property crime to be investigated.
“We don’t want people to have that false impression that just because you make a police report a detective is going to look at it,” said Officer Jennifer DeRuwe, department spokeswoman.
Police continued working active cases and have been trying to start new investigations, but the resources to continue doing so just aren’t there, DeRuwe said.
- ********0
A woman activist who posted nude pictures of herself on her blog to protest limits on free expression has triggered an uproar in Egypt, drawing condemnations from conservatives and liberals alike.
Some liberals feared that the posting by 20-year-old university student Aliaa Magda Elmahdy would taint them in the eyes of deeply conservative Egyptians ahead of Nov. 28 parliamentary elections in which they are trying to compete with fundamentalist Islamic parties.
Nudity is strongly frowned upon in Egyptian society, even as an art form. Elmahdy's posting is almost unheard of in a country where most women in the Muslim majority wear the headscarf and even those who don't rarely wear clothes exposing the arms or legs in public.
Elmahdy wrote on her blog that the photographs - which show her standing wearing only stockings - are "screams against a society of violence, racism, sexism, sexual harassment and hypocrisy." The blog has received 1.5 million hits since she posted the photos earlier this week.
- ali0
This should be a worldwide standard:
http://www.hippocrates.com.au/hi…The Truth in Political Promises Act
We suggest that all Australian political officeholders be held to the same ethical standards as other citizens.
We don't tolerate lies and deceit from manufacturers, business owners, shop assistants, estate agents, used car salespeople, solicitors, medical practitioners, or financial advisors. Why should we accept less than 100% honesty from politicians (or governments)?
We propose that all political officeholders (Commonwealth, State, Council) be subject to the following law:
"Any holder of political office in Australia - who breaks any promise or guarantee (oral or written) made at any time to any citizen - shall be removed from office immediately, and forfeit all pension and/or superannuation benefits."
- utopian0
Apple's American job disaster
Manufacture of its products meant good-paying jobs in the U.S. But a move to China took them away.
The death of Steve Jobs was followed by an avalanche of superlatives - brilliant, genius, and visionary among the more common. He was likened to Leonardo da Vinci, Albert Einstein, and Thomas Edison.
But in the case of Edison, there was one significant difference that went unmentioned. For more than a century, just one of Edison's inventions alone - the incandescent lightbulb - was manufactured at numerous locations in the United States, providing employment for millions of Americans across family generations.
The Apple home computer, not at all. After only one generation, all the Apple manufacturing jobs in America disappeared, as the work of building and assembling the machines was turned over to laborers in sweatshops in China and other countries. Jobs that should have provided employment for Americans for decades to come were terminated.
For Apple, the corporation, the system functioned beautifully. This year the company had more cash in its bank accounts than the U.S. Treasury. And for one day, Monday, Sept. 19, the company was the most valuable corporation on the planet, its stock worth $382 billion. It was a sum that exceeded even the worth of Exxon Mobil Corp., the world's largest international oil and gas company.
Full Story: http://www.philly.com/philly/opi…
Greed is Good!
- it covers the pricey PR haha********
- i mean R & D haha. im serious.********
- Damnmoldero
- it covers the pricey PR haha
- IRNlun60
Crossroads GPS, which is affiliated with Karl Rove, just recently started airing ads in Massachusetts in support of Republican Senator Scott Brown, against his Democratic challenger Elizabeth Warren.
Looks like Republicans will be using their opposition of the Occupy Wall Street protests on their campaigns for upcoming elections. Really interested to see how thats going to play out.
- ukit20
The latest Congressional failure to agree on a plan for balancing the government’s books could yield a surprising result: a sharp reduction in annual federal deficits, larger than anything contemplated by the special panel that reached its fruitless finale on Monday.
Tax cuts passed in the Bush administration will expire at the end of 2012. By law, the panel’s failure triggers new caps on spending, cutting $1.2 trillion from the military, education, health care and other priorities over 10 years beginning next fall. The combined impact of higher tax rates and less spending would reverse the growth of annual deficits beginning in 2013, reducing by more than half the current $1.3 trillion gap between annual revenue and spending.
- mg330
I love how CNN's poll that puts that idiot fuckface Gingrich in the lead on the GOP was conducted amongst approximately 1,300 adults that are 50+, live in the South, and own landline telephones.
- BusterBoy0
Good lord...Letterman would make a better President than this guy. Letterman absolutely rips this guy for being a pretender.
- Chubs for Dave.waterhouse
- hahaha, that was pretty entertainingukit2
