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Friday, October 30, 2009

From Hartford, An old speech against VietNam and Why...read it.

This is a lesser known speech of his...... "The time comes, when silence is betrayal...." Afghanistan, I say............ HERE IS THE FULL SPEECH >>>> http://www.hartford-hwp.com/archives/45a/058.html, copy and paste if the link doesn't work<<<<<< but like Roh's letter of resignation, well worth... Sign in to see full entry.

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Wednesday, October 28, 2009

Foreign Service Officer letter of resignation from Kabul, Afghanistan.

This was printed in the Washington Post newspaper online, http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-srv/hp/ssi/wpc/ResignationLetter.pdf?sid=ST2009102603447 and you need to read it now. Someone knowledgable, on site and truth telling finally tells it like it is over there. IF you want to understand why we... Sign in to see full entry.

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Thursday, October 22, 2009

For Older folks who want to live longer on Less, here's a wonderful idea

I recieved this invitation to go to a seminar. Of course, I don't need it and am not solvent enough to interest them, but for those of you who are, Move to Mexico, less crime there than in America, lower insurance and health costs for elders and lower expenses than in the USA. Everyone is doing... Sign in to see full entry.

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Tuesday, October 6, 2009

Are some Americans losing their minds?!?!? I think so and we are in danger.

This fellow advocates a coup d'etat in his own, "I'm not really saying this", way. HERE And our general in Afghanistan is going 'MacArthur' on the President. HERE And, it it now fashionable to delight in America's problems, to the point of saying very very very anti-American things in public and... Sign in to see full entry.

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Monday, October 5, 2009

This is present day Capitalism, not your grampa's old capitalism anymore...

Read about the vampiric practices going on since Reaganomics began its creative accounting and business practices................how they sucked dry and then killed the Simmons Co. and Six Flags, etc. HERE And folks, none of this has changed one copper penny since Obama came in and said that he... Sign in to see full entry.

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Saturday, October 3, 2009

I have spent many days in bed these past few weeks and you still have not

agreed to pass the Health Care Reform, ie. socialized medicine, that I need. Please think of me and others like me with no coverage, except what we are humiliated in begging for when emergencies arise. To insist that we purchase insurance is just cruel as I personally have empty cupboards and stay... Sign in to see full entry.

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Tuesday, September 22, 2009

Health care video, famous people

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Sunday, September 20, 2009

What goes around, comes around...or something like that.

Mexico's health care lures Americans - USATODAY.com Source: www.usatoday.com As the United States debates an overhaul of its health care system, thousands of American retirees in Mexico have quietly found a solution of their own, signing up for the health care plan run by the Mexican Social Security... Sign in to see full entry.

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Thursday, September 17, 2009

Those who like sausage or political policy should not watch it being made.

I personally am disgusted this month. Sign in to see full entry.

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Wednesday, September 16, 2009

Cost of insurance in the future as opposed to wages

The Henry J. Kaiser Family Foundation released a simple document that could transform the entire health care debate in the United States. Absolutely no other set of statistics so cleanly identify the nature of our broken system. Here is the original article "This week we put out our annual benchmark... Sign in to see full entry.

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I wondered if anyone was reporting from the frontlines of American Society, embedded with the poverty stricken and reporting on what happens each day when you live in the greatest country on earth and earn enough to survive and not much else. I wondered if anyone was explaining America to others and thought that, since I was already embedded in this ongoing cultural experiment, I might tell what it's like.

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