February 2010
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Note to Dems: Pass The Public Option
In the last week alone, we’ve seen a major health insurer report billions of dollars in profits, while also dropping the number of people it will provide insurance for, and drastically raising premiums on the remaining customers. -Sen. Michael Bennet [Sign the Petition]
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GreggWithTwoGs: http://jeffgreenspan.com/goodbye-rga.mov
Steven Cloud: lame
GreggWithTwoGs: yeah, not really.
Steven Cloud: i’m glad you find some enjoyment in it
GreggWithTwoGs: no you’re not. that’s just something you’re saying. you love to pick apart people and institutions that don’t mean what they say, yet there you go. i very seriously doubt that you find...
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Legal Experts Slam "Targeted Killings" of US...
The American Civil Liberties Union is among those expressing serious concern about the lack of public information about the policy and the potential for abuse of unchecked executive power. Attorney George Brent Mickum, who has defended a number of Guantanamo Bay detainees, told IPS, “I guess my sense is that it’s just more fear mongering. They kill somebody and don’t need to...
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Santa Fe Institute economist: one in four...
This ain’t good. (Via Cory Doctorow - Boing Boing)
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“A man’s ethical behavior should be based effectually on sympathy,...”
– Albert Einstein
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Google Economist Explains Why You Won't Pay For...
“…the statistics were even grimmer than you might be expecting : Overall newspaper circulation has been in decline since 1990, “well before the Internet,” Varian noted, while newspaper circulation crossed against the nation’s population has been declining since 1960; and circulation per household has been dropping since — wait for it — 1945. You...
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New Theory Nixes "Dark Energy": Says Time is...
The team’s proposal, which will be published in the journal Physical Review D, dismisses dark energy as fiction. Instead, Prof Senovilla says, the appearance of acceleration is caused by time itself gradually slowing down, like a clock with a run-down battery. Read More.