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The Munya TimesFeb. 11, 2012 - 12:01PM JST This is not a Japanese thing, this is…
Posted in: Job interviews - 'Fools using a foolish method to pick fools'
Dog -- your posts are spot on, as usual, on this subject. Like most things Japan…
Posted in: Yen weakens as BOJ eases monetary policy
Smoke still rose from the remains of a landmark 1870 building which had housed one of…
"stimulus-style spending... tax hikes on the wealthy" Oh good grief, does anybody believe this will fix…
Posted in: Obama's budget goes to Congress
Also trust the government to be supporting localized garbage
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LastBestHope
America has the best health care in the world.
Posted in: Obama braces for town hall health talk
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LastBestHope
And another thing: as splintered and fractious as the GOP is at the moment anyone who insists Republican opposition to Obamacare is organized and orchestrated is contradicting themselves, not that consistency ever mattered to the Left.
Who is 'organizing' the independents?
Posted in: Obama braces for town hall health talk
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LastBestHope
I can't see what former president Bush has to do with Obama going to a town hall meeting.
Posted in: Obama braces for town hall health talk
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LastBestHope
The war on terror was started by whoever was first to resist the spread of militant Islam.
That was centuries before America even came into existence.
Posted in: String of bombings kill at least 40 in Iraq
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LastBestHope
She has been thoroughly humiliated, by her own party no less.
Posted in: Angry Hillary Clinton: 'I'm secretary of state, not Bill'
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LastBestHope
So it is all about CHOICE.
I agree wholeheartedly.
Central Planning can't deliver - unless the Post Office at Xmas is your idea of efficiency.
Posted in: Obama braces for town hall health talk
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LastBestHope
Is the former governor really paranoid? Is she really that far off base calling Obamacare 'evil'?
At NRO (August 10th) Wesley Smith writes: "Dr. Ezekiel Emanuel, White House chief of staff Rahm Emanuel’s brother, has suggested that we can no longer afford Hippocratic medicine, laid the intellectual groundwork for rationing based on age, and even stated that medical services “provided to individuals who are irreversibly prevented from being or becoming participating citizens are not basic and should not be guaranteed.”
Posted in: Palin says Obama's health care plan is 'evil'
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LastBestHope
Why is President Obama attending meetings that Speaker of the House Nancy Pelosi has already declared are 'un-American.'
Posted in: Obama braces for town hall health talk
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LastBestHope
Poor silly harridan. I almost feel sorry for her.
Posted in: Angry Hillary Clinton: 'I'm secretary of state, not Bill'
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LastBestHope
I don't know a single American who has been 'sent' to Canada to buy prescription medications.
Is Glenn Beck withholding something?
Posted in: Obama braces for town hall health talk
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LastBestHope
The War on Terror will continue long after sushisake3 and all of us here are gone.
Posted in: String of bombings kill at least 40 in Iraq
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LastBestHope
Current US healthcare is so bad that Canadians arrive at our border state hospitals cash in hand. They have been doing this for years now.
It probably has something to do with Glenn Beck.
Posted in: Obama braces for town hall health talk
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LastBestHope
The naivete of certain posters here is amusing. Longevity rates for 'Americans' have long since become as political as any other metric out there and like almost any statistic they too can be manipulated to serve ideological ends.
The figures cited by some above do not reflect the fact that in comparison with every other country in the world the rate of immigration to the US skewers outcomes considerably.
Consider also the fact that Japan, Sweden, Switzerland, Australia, Canada do not host 12 to 20 million illegal aliens, like the US does.
Posted in: Palin says Obama's health care plan is 'evil'
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LastBestHope
Almost 90 percent of new medicines on the market today - blockbuster stuff like cholesterol-lowering statins, hypertension medications, breast cancer drugs that now greatly reduce the risk of a recurrence after surgery or chemotherapy - were developed and came to market in one country.
I'll let our little brain trust here guess which one.
Posted in: Palin says Obama's health care plan is 'evil'
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LastBestHope
As I have asked before - if Obamacare is so good why has Congress included in the proposed legislation the provision that they and their families will not have to enroll in it?
Posted in: Palin says Obama's health care plan is 'evil'
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LastBestHope
The silence from gun control advocates is deafening.
Or is it just indifference?
Posted in: Obama attending first U.S.-Canada-Mexico summit
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LastBestHope
Some highlights from the 1000-page bill, which some Democrats chuckle about, explaining that they haven't had time to read all of it.
Page 22: Mandates audits of all employers that self-insure
Page 29: Admission: your health care will be rationed
Page 50: All non-US citizens, illegal or not, will be provided with free healthcare services
Page 58: Every person will be issued a National ID Health card
Page 59: The federal government will have direct, real-time access to all individual bank accounts for electronic funds transfer
Page 170: Any NON-RESIDENT alien is exempt from individual taxes (Americans will pay for them).
Page 195: Officers and employees of Government Healthcare Bureaucracy will have access to ALL American financial and personal records.
Page 239: Bill will reduce physician services for Medicaid. "Seniors and the poor most affected."
Page 272: Cancer patients: welcome to the wonderful world of rationing!
Page 318: Prohibition on hospital expansion. Hospitals cannot expand without government approval.
Page 321: Hospital expansion hinges on "community" input: in other words, yet another payoff for ACORN.
Page 335: Government mandates establishment of outcome-based measures: i.e., rationing.
Page 425: Government will instruct and consult regarding living wills, durable powers of attorney, etc. Mandatory. Appears to lock in estate taxes ahead of time.
Page 425: Government provides approved list of end-of-life resources, guiding you in death.
Page 427: Government mandates program that orders end-of-life treatment; government dictates how your life ends.
Page 429: Advance Care Planning Consult will be used to dictate treatment as patient's health deteriorates. This can include an ORDER for end-of-life plans. An ORDER from the GOVERNMENT.
Page 430: Government will decide what level of treatments you may have at end-of-life.
Posted in: Palin says Obama's health care plan is 'evil'
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LastBestHope
If Obamacare is so good why won't members of Congress and their families be required to enroll in the system?
Posted in: Palin says Obama's health care plan is 'evil'
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LastBestHope
It's embarrassing to read here that some people think the Soros Project know as factcheck.org is actually an objective, credible source for details about government policy and US politics in general.
Posted in: Palin says Obama's health care plan is 'evil'
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LastBestHope
Obama's home state of Hawaii - one of the most loyal blue states in the nation - experimented with the health care plan his party now seeks to impose on America.
Even though they attempted to implement universal health care in stages (child care was the pilot program) it was a fiscal disaster, so bad that the state canceled the program after only seven months.
Read about this failed experiment at
http://www.ibdeditorials.com/IBDArticles.aspx?id=309394637791942
Posted in: Palin says Obama's health care plan is 'evil'