Good story - Goodwill - $150k - don't look a gift horse ... ---
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Urge your Senator to pass legislation for Office for Global Women's Issues - one of every three women globally has been subjected to violence - more effort is needed to stop ---
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Healthcare reform - Steve Pearlstein - I think this is the clearest statement of what should/needs to happen to reform the broken system - will it? - doubtful - physicians have to get involved more ---
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And this letter from a physician at the Mayo Clinic is also good - emphasizes that physicians have to get more involved - we have to take the profit out of healthcare - I've said for some time that the example of private and public universities should be considered ---
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Maybe this says it best ---
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John Conyers rips Waxman and Rangel for backing away from single-payer ---
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I have to agree that the problem is those Democrats that are unwilling to hang together - Republicans have always had more discipline and thus get rewarded beyond that expected/deserved ---
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Environment - better range management - it works - more ranchers are using it - knowledge/understanding is key to most environmental gains ---
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Oceans - World Ocean Day - becoming garbage dump - main culprits - cigarette products, paper, plastic ---
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Break up the big US banks for the good of the people - Nobelist Joseph Stiglitz - wish he was in the Administration ---
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Logic from the right - Tom Tomorrow ---
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I thought I'd give the Sotomayor issue a rest except for this ---
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The world belongs to the young - youth - euthanasia - laughter - Garrison Keillor ---
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Promised aid to Africa is way behind - particularly France and Italy ---
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Israel - supposed to be a democracy - becoming more fascist? - minority rights ---
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Terrorism works? - apparently - effective - Tiller's clinic closes - but how to contravene ---
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More Gitmos - Russ Feingold on holding suspects indefinitely ---
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And Gitmo detainees can't be held in the US ---
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Eric Cantor is either a baldfaced liar or ignorant beyond belief - to say there is no precedent for terrorists suspects in the US court system when several hundred have been through the system is incredible ---
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Our latest 'achievement' in Iraq - developing the most vicious 'special forces' to-date - also known as the 'dirty brigade' - apparently we're getting better at it - they're better i.e. more vicious, than the ones we developed in El Salvador ---
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70s/80s - humid - more rain? - sun - sun - less humidity this weekend - enjoy