While attemping to watch the evening news, I was subjected to ELEVEN political ads.  One was shown twice in one commercial break, with an ad for her opponent in between. These people are running for Congress in a different district than the one that I live in. They are arguing over whether Darcy Burner’s computer science [...]

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Our bail out dollars are hard at work, saving the economy! I am so glad that my tax dollars are helping the insurance industry executives relax away their cares with luxury spa treatments. AIG executives took a $440,000 retreat in a luxury spa. The House Government Oversight Committee showed copies of invoices showing that [...]

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I hold long resentment and anger about the hypocrisy of telling adults they are old enough to decide who should lead our nation but not old enough to drink. I get infuriated that these young adults are asked to serve and die for their country but are not deemed mature enough to handle a glass [...]

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I applaud Obama’s speech today acknowledging the race issue in America. Humans fear what they don’t know and that which is different from themselves. To say that race, socio-economic status, gender, religion doesn’t matter to us is naive and dangerous. It has been true throughout history and seems to be part of the human condition. Ignoring [...]

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Community Health Clinics provides a variety of primary health care and dental care on a sliding scale fee. I have received excellent care from Steve Dreseng MD at the Greenwood Medical Center when I was unemployed and uninsured, when I was on Medicaid and now that I am on Medicare. Regardless of my financial circumstances, the [...]

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Surprise, surprise, once again Bush has decided to disregard decency and common sense in favor of his all consuming war on terror.  Once again, I am blogging about man’s inhumanity to man. Terrorists kill people that is a fact and cause great destruction. It sure would be nice to do something  to stop this atrocity [...]

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but the real winner is the voters that participated in the political process
Once again, the people have spoken. They ignored the political pundits, ignored all of the polls that told them who they would vote for, and went their own merry way. This rant isn’t about who won or who didn’t; it is about the [...]

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I finally managed to rent and watch Sicko a few days ago and enjoyed it. I did not learn anything new about our health care system as a lot of the revealed was often discussed in various classes while going for my Masters in Public Health. I thought Mr. Moore did a great job of [...]

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