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Indelibly associated with Jimmy Stewart in “Mr. Smith Goes to Washington’’ ....
" the m ost m omentous p iece of l egislation i n the 60 years since President Truman first tried to enact universal health care for America."
Boston Globe article. Good one.
sharp
No end to the laugh out loud politics in the lotusland of great British Columbia especially with the sun shining and beaming as it is
..
Of course you'd have to live here and be familiar with the local
politics to appreciate this type of ribald humour
...it's like an embalming process. Or having surgery done with the
anesthetic slowly wearing off. My eyes are opening...
So it should be pretty funny, its actually sort of a freeing type experience...to reserve that ultrasoft spot for tears of free flowing mirth..in anticipation of the announcement of where the government is going to get the money.....
maybe they should take a pay cut so we can attract some star talent to fill their shoes.
PS This doesn't surprise me. Well, maybe it does but not really.
cheekyAnotehr million-dollar question:
Clue?
I'll give any blog surfers, readers and visitors a clue, alright.
It's not the Minister of Community Development thats fo sho.
Somebody doesn't have time to update their website.
(Either that if it gets changed "in a hurry" I'll...
Ah the speed of now|Internet, can you beat it?
...we all know who Kim Cattrall is. Don't we? Isn't she 'like' a book writer or something?
on fire
"It is strange that such a strong boxing nation such as Puerto Rico cannot boast a single Olympic gold medal as in professional boxing from Sixto Escobar in 1934 up to date Puerto Rico has produced 49 world champions (editors note as of 08/10/2009 Puerto Rico has 49 world champions who have held either the WBA, WBC, IBF or WBO belt. "
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THIS JUST IN
Research has shown approximately 25 percent to 35 percent of American adults are inactive, [.--.], meaning that they have sedentary jobs, no regular physical activity program and are generally inactive around the house or yard. "This amounts to 40 million to 50 million people exposed to the hazard of inactivity," [.--.], . "..given that these individuals are doubling their risk of developing numerous health conditions compared with those who are even moderately active and fit, we're looking at a major public health problem."
And thrown in with the so-called controversies concerning health care "reform" (what a boring stinging hackneyed word to achieve so much popular use in so little a time) in the U.S. is a LA TIMES blogged vantage point to counterattack rising obesity rates in America by tearing a page or two from the "tobacco wars"..
Tough love for fat people: Tax their food to pay for healthcare:)
of note: released today by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. Obesity rates increased from 18.3% of Americans in 1998 to 25% in 2006, the cost of providing treatment for those patients' weight-driven problems increased healthcare spending by $40 billion a year.
Yikes?!
Watch it America, pretty soon youre going to be picking from Puerto Ricans for President if you don't shape up, so,-,...here's to the hope that health care insurance for every American will help. In other words, we hope you don't turn spend or splurge and celebrate the benefits on soda,chips,cookies,cakes and candy. (Eat to win.)
With insurance, who knows, maybe even more Americans will be able to sleep well and better at night.
Also a rising problem it seems.
We live in a "sleep sick nation", according to Dr. William C. Dement, MD. Dr. Dement is a sleep researcher who also calls this phenomenon a "hidden epidemic"...
Sigh.
hungryUN agency estimated that more than one billion hungry in this 2009.
Rome. Hunger in the world will have a new record in 2009 with over one billion people suffer from it daily, according to new figures presented in Rome this Friday by the Organization of the United Nations Food and Agriculture (FAO ).
The increase in the number of hungry people increased because of the international crisis that has reduced revenues and increased unemployment among the poorest and not to reduced harvests, he stressed the UN agency, which believes that this year there will be a 11 per cent more hungry.
"A dangerous mix of the global economic recession combined with high prices of food, persistent in many countries, has pushed some 100 million more people last year to chronic hunger and poverty," said director general of FAO Jacques Diouf.
".. continued rise of local staple food prices in developing countries, even though global food prices have fallen from their 2008 highs ."
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chattyHaving blogged with Tripod now for over three years (the rough equivalent of the time I have spent here in Prince George BC)
I have reached the limits of the generous allotment my provider has given me 'on the house'. If I wish to continue, I must go pro or continually delete older files.
Given this unique juxtapostion, this happliy coincides with my commitment to focus elsewhere for the time being.
In order to make space however for this final entry, I have had to delete a book cover of Miss Couillard. Hopefully I do not presume to much in thinking that hardly anyone would notice if her cover were missing from my blog.
Her connections to the party now in power during this re-election campaign seem to have been lost on everyone, as much as the inquiry has into the dealings of one Karl Heinz Scheiber and Mulroney and is not limited to the mainsteam media, as well , the opportunity for fair play and comment on the minister for defences past connections to the munitions and arms industry has been missed..
I hope everyone can deduce for themselves what it means when Maxime Bernier was insinuated at for being "gay" for not having a love interest or girl friend, which prompted and preceded Miss Couillards arrival. Just keep whistling.
My letter to the Vancouver Province and their public endorsement of Stephen Harper.
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Sirs/Madames
Your editorial sounds closer to an endorsement of the principles of the past political entity known as the Progressive Conservative Party than the leader of the new Reform Alliance party led by Mr.Stephen Harper.
I hope that our slow siding down the scale of our commitments to third world countries and developing economies eventually registers with you.
Judging by his speech a day after advance voting closed, there is little more to offer from him than a refresher of past 'run up attempts' that past Conservative governments have tried while in power and have failed, and he all but says so him self.
If your editorial board is sincere in its cry for a " steady hand in Ottawa" I would like
to encourage you to consider how many party members have publicly denounced the policies of Harper and formed a new political party named Progressive Canadians in light of
the shifty curtain pulling and raising Prime Minister Harper has done while in power.
Still, you refuse to make the most logical of connections between the steady immersion of the U.S. into the mire of war and incursion into Iraq and it's connection to its present economic position and credit rating and the fact that Mr.Harper clamored for Canada to be included in this strategy.
Where would we have been if this had happened? Washing our hands of blood and paying for our soldiers lives and paying for their widows pensions by buying Iraqi dinars?
Your view is significantly twisted further by the fact that you emphasize in a rudimentary way and without adieu that we need to increase our role in Asia Pacific trading without even bothering to acknowledge which party has a better historical record for engaging our Asian counterparts.
As well as your attempts to pathetically call for a need for tougher stance on crime as of importance to B.C. when your own newspaper publishes the facts as issued by Statistics Canada that violent crime has been decreasing.
Furthermore, you lack of public support for the party that worked with every Premier across this land to come up with and forge the landmark Kelowna Accord has hereby been noted
A steady hand for you would mean someone endorsing someone who can realistically see that unbridled spending and pie in the sky ambitions are not fiscally prudent in our volatile global economic climate, which is exactly what Dion is promising: a steady hand in being realisticaly less ambitious.
That you would make such pronouncements and endorse parties without examining each issue is a shameful action to take and is an embarrassment and insult to every Canadian involved in supporting and participating in our democratic process.
But as for poker games themselves, as evidenced by the debates, we have all seen who is the better card sharper. But you missed your chance to wish your readers a Happy Thanksgiving didn't you?
But thank God elections in Canada ARE not the stature of poker game nor a hockey game and this weekend we should be celebrating and cherishing the democratic process as Canadians.
I hope to write you next year to remind you of your gimmicky, hap hazardously put together slanted and disjointed editorial view and endorsement of Harper.
By this time next year though we will see if the Happy Thanksgiving holiday is something the government endears themselves to as our elected representatives and if they in return extend their benifence to us.
Clearly, you do not.
Daddy, daddy, daddy...what does the word
mean?
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CTV interviewer caught in bold faced lie.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=K3X_BUUZkZ8
compared to the actual question as posed as he did ask it and actually recorded as said: here and aired on national television
The person who asked the question would not even seem remorseful when confronted with his egregious attempt to report the news truthfully.
A grain of salt is fine, but without that grain and if its remiss, I would like to ask the CBC to demonstrate the same lack of cohesive question posed to Mr Stephen Harper to fully lower the platform to such an insiduously low level that even a high schooler can play politics with these big boy journalists and beat them at their own game.
Its very baiting as a question as equally seductive to lower ones stature to try and answer to it.
Please take the CTV to task for trying to jury-rig this election.
Comments for these vastly seperate stories are the same and match:
http://ca.news.yahoo.com/s/capress/081010/delection/fedelxn_main_20
and
http://ca.news.yahoo.com/s/capress/081010/delection/fedelxn_main
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It would take something as non-consequential as a speech impediment for Harper to win this election.
The last headline doesn't even make sense. And I nailed the writer to the cross to for his egegrious attempt at a sentence for his opening paragraph.
"Against a backdrop of blackening economic skies, fresh job numbers and signs of life in the polls filled(?) Stephen Harper's sails Friday as the Liberal campaign boat ran briefly aground on a rocky TV interview with Stephane Dion."
Like smarten up, eh? Re-read it for your self, the only way the above sentence would work was if 'optimism' preceded the adverb "filled"; followed by the adjoiner: as the Liberals parties campaign boat ran aground following a rocky tv interview with Stephane Dion.
quizzicalAnd did you know that..
brightSyria, Venezuela , Iran, Russia.
Which of the preceding four do not belong?
Check your intelligence networks.
http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/c/a/2008/10/02/MNIB135E52.DTL
http://en.rian.ru/russia/20070123/59565930.html
Israel meets with Russia October 7th.
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