Ontogeny recapitulates phylogeny - and I think I'm regressing. A few months ago I decided to change how I shave (when I do shave).
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Dave Barry's humorous views on 2010
After the recent double snowstorms I thought I'd take my camera for a walk. I'm not an avid photographer, but I like to try my hand from time to time. This is what my neck of the woods looked like after the recent snow.
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It's getting to be very 'Christmas-y' here. Snow has been falling since yesterday evening, and it's expected to continue until tomorrow morning. As I type, there is about 18" on the ground (and on my house).
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Where is the problem with our current health care system? Most folks agree that 'something must be done'. Most folks are 'in favor of health reform'. But after that, the agreement stops.
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There have been many articles on Newsvine lately that have discussed health care reform. Most of the ones I've seen have been broad in scope and shallow on real content.
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I'm seeding this article for a number of reasons. First - it gives us a perspective of Alaska and Alaskans that differs from that which we may have developed based simply on Palin.
Folks who follow heath-related matters I'm sure are familiar with the ups and downs of the Medicare Catastrophic Coverage Act (MCCA) of 1988 (P.L.
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Here's my first article - those of you who have read any of my posts know to expect a long text. If I've violated any rules, or have done something wrong there'll be no hard feelings on my part if the Newsvine monitors remove it. So - with that ...
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Perhaps you got tired of feeling like you are renting Microsoft Office rather than buying it. Maybe you were just too broke at the time you had to renew, to afford the next upgrade. Me, I was put off by the radical makeover between Word 2003 and Word 2007.
There's no gentle way to put it: People who give in to racism and prejudice may simply be dumb, according to a new study that is bound to stir public controversy. The research finds that children with low intelligence are more likely to hold prejudiced attitudes as adults.
Washington Post Editorial writer Charles Lane maintains that “Deciding the president by popular vote is a flawed idea.” (http://wapo.st/whWI0f). Pointing to the 2000 Presidential election between George W. Bush and Al Gore, Mr.
To whitewash one of the darkest practices in America history, conservatives proposed that textbooks refer to the slave trade as the “Atlantic triangular trade.”Now Tennessee Tea Party members are taking their efforts a step further and trying to eliminate references …
WALLACE: But I'm just going to ask you man-to-man. Did you ever think to yourself, 'I'm living in a really glass house maybe I shouldn't be throwing stones?' GINGRICH: No. I thought to myself if I cannot do what I have to do as a public leader, I would have resigned.
rls8r,
If that comment was meant for me, I can't imagine why we aren't friends.
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BTW - I think you live in one of the most beautiful places in the US. Been there many times - great bike country! But I won't tell anyone - it should stay just the way it is.
Great comments and seeds... Keep up the good work!
Take care!— McSpocky
I have to say that you seem to have a greater in-depth understanding of the content of proposals before the various levels/entities of government than anybody else that I have encountered. I will probably quote a number of your entries to save me the trouble of rewriting the same page, paragraph, section, line, etc. when responding to some of the rhetoric that is in the local message board and our weekly Newspaper (Big metropolis I live in, paper is published once a week). in Thanks for enlightening the eyes of a few as to what is fact and what is fiction.
Love your header. You definitely have a place here on the 'Vine!
— ABD3
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