October 2011
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September 2011
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Affordable Health Care Act
Considering the effects that ACA will have on the insurance and healthcare systems, the real truth behind rising health care costs is that Insurers and Health Care providers are increasing rates to protect profit-margins and shareholders. This happens in any corporate system when a company is trying to battle consumers especially in recessions, when manufacturers (in this case Health Care and...
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Montana Gov. Seeks to Establish Mon. Universal... →
Gov. Brian Schweitzer said Wednesday he will ask the U.S. government to let Montana set up its own universal health care program, taking his rhetorical fight over health care to another level. […] The popular second-term Democrat would like to create a state-run system that borrows from the program used in Saskatchewan. He said the Canadian province controls cost by negotiating drug...
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More U.S. military action in Pakistan... →
Support is growing in the U.S. Congress for expanding American military action in Pakistan beyond drone strikes already used to target militants in Pakistani territory, a senior Republican U.S. senator says.
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80 Arrested in Financial District - Wall Street... →
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Competition Idea
suckerpunch is hosting a new competition to design a “Lunar Cultural Center”
While I would argue that their interest in suggesting that any Lunar Center should become even remotely commercialized with bars, nightclubs, hotels, etc. is naive and misguided, I can understand the rapid interest in fantasizing a commercial avenue for Luna. With Virgins spaceport soon to be open and others...
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“And so it is that the land of the free has become a land of the feared. As a...”
– aPom
“More People means more Markets”
– Sign in US Dept. of Commerce, circa 1950’s
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“Every family needs two homes.”
– Douglas Fir Plywood Association*
*what asshats
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