Month: July 2009
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Why Americans Hate Single-Payer
One of the truly amazing and depressing things about the health reform debate is the persistence of fear-mongering over “socialized medicine” even though we already have a system in which the government pays substantially more medical bills (47% of the total) than the private insurance industry (35%). via Paul Krugman’s Blog
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Betsy McCaughey's Lies
Two weeks ago, on former Senator Fred Thompson’s radio program, she warned that “the healthcare reform bill would make it mandatory — absolutely require — that every five years people in Medicare have a required counseling session that will tell them how to end their life sooner.” via Will Bill and Betsy kill again? | […]
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U.S. troops accused of damaging Babylon's ancient wonder – CNN.com
The site of the Hanging Gardens of Babylon was converted into Camp Alpha shortly after the United States invaded Iraq in 2003. The troops and their contractors caused “major damage” by digging, cutting, scraping and leveling while they were revamping the site to meet military standards, the U.N. cultural agency, UNESCO, said in a report. […]
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Dismantling the Empire
Think of it as the 800-pound gorilla in the American living room: our longstanding reliance on imperialism and militarism in our relations with other countries and the vast, potentially ruinous global empire of bases that goes with it. via Tomgram: Chalmers Johnson, Dismantling the Empire.
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Suspiciously Prescient Man Files Patent for iPod-Like Device in 1979 – kane kramer – Gizmodo
Suspiciously Prescient Man Files Patent for iPod-Like Device in 1979 – kane kramer – Gizmodo Kane Kramer- an inventor by trade- came up with a gadget and music distribution service almost eerily similar to the iPod-iTunes relationship that predates it by three decades. The guy predicted details down to DRM and flash memory's dominance.
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I interuptz yerleezure
I interuptz yerleezure lolcats- cats and funny pictures – I interuptz yer leezure to reportz a hungrie.