What's all the healthcare hubbub about? Unless I miss understood, we placed a .09% tax on 1% (3,180,000 people) to extend healthcare to 30 million Americans (10% of the population). : politics. "The Only Moral Abortion is My Abortion" - When the Anti-Choice Choose. Damndirtyape comments on Where do values come from, if not from a belief in a God? - StumbleUpon. CaspianX2 comments on ELI5: What exactly is Obamacare and what did it change? Subjective worldview. Going Green Project. How do you guys think Obama did as president so far? : moderatepolitics. DEAR AMERICA: You Should Be Mad As Hell About This [CHARTS] HERE'S WHAT'S WRONG WITH THE ECONOMY... (And How To Fix It) The United States is in a very tough spot, economically and politically.
The 25-year debt-fueled boom of 1982-2007 has ended, and it has left the country with a stagnant economy, massive debts, high unemployment, huge wealth inequality, an enormous budget deficit, and a sense of entitlement engendered by a half-century of prosperity. After decades of instant gratification, Americans have also come to believe that all problems can be solved instantly, if only the right leaders are put in charge and the right decisions are made. And so our government has devolved into a permanent election campaign, in which incumbents blame each other for the current mess, and challengers promise change. The trouble is that our current problems cannot be solved with a simple fix. They also cannot be solved quickly. So it is time that we began to face reality. The biggest debt binge in US history, by a mile. St. Total US debt, including households, companies, and the government. f30CH.jpg (581×5559) Death Statistics.
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A decent number of them are punishable by death. Unless you’ve never done any of them (and 54 to 56 are particularly tricky), perhaps it’s time to lay off quoting 18:22 for a while? 1. Burning any yeast or honey in offerings to God (2:11) 2. 3. 4. 5. 6. 7. 8. 9. 10. 11. 12. 13. 14. 15. 16. 17. 18. 19. 20. 21. 22. Dreadgoat comments on Reddit, what is the most powerful image you have ever seen? What is the most powerful image you have ever seen? : AskReddit. 30 Best Quotes in Pictures of the Week - May 05th to May 12th, 2012. 1. ”Put your hand on a hot stove for a minute, and it seems like an hour…..” – Albert Einstein 2. ”When you can’t smoke” – Rory Sutherland 3. ”Death does not concern us…” – Epicurus 4. ”I think it’s better to have ideas.” – Chris Rock.
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Join our email list: Stay up to date with the latest headlines via email. Christian Right activists who give money, pressure politicians and organize against gay rights may think they’re accomplishing a couple of goals, like rolling back gay rights and asserting their religion’s primacy in American culture. A Lesson that Christians, Muslims, and Atheists need to learn. House tells it like it is. A statesman, orator, and former slave. - StumbleUpon. Russia in color, a century ago. With images from southern and central Russia in the news lately due to extensive wildfires, I thought it would be interesting to look back in time with this extraordinary collection of color photographs taken between 1909 and 1912.
In those years, photographer Sergei Mikhailovich Prokudin-Gorskii (1863-1944) undertook a photographic survey of the Russian Empire with the support of Tsar Nicholas II. He used a specialized camera to capture three black and white images in fairly quick succession, using red, green and blue filters, allowing them to later be recombined and projected with filtered lanterns to show near true color images. The high quality of the images, combined with the bright colors, make it difficult for viewers to believe that they are looking 100 years back in time - when these photographs were taken, neither the Russian Revolution nor World War I had yet begun. - StumbleUpon. I am Neil deGrasse Tyson. The Stanford Center for the Study of Poverty and Inequality - 20 Facts About U.S. Inequality that Everyone Should Know.
Allegory of the Cave. Plato realizes that the general run of humankind can think, and speak, etc., without (so far as they acknowledge) any awareness of his realm of Forms.
Timeline of Failed Predictions (Part 1) What I especially love about bad predictions and prophets of doom is that they both highlight the danger of extrapolating from a single trend or from seeing the world with a single lens.
In other words they use critically false assumptions. They assume that things will always go on as they are or fail to foresee the impact of new events or innovations. There is also the problem of groupthink. As the writer JG Ballard once said: "If enough people predict something it won't happen. " There are obviously countless lists of failed predictions and especially regrettable quotations but most are just a jumble. Pangloss Wisdom. - StumbleUpon.
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