Vigilance, Perseverance, Justice
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I don’t want health care “reform” to pass.
In addition to being the most regressive “tax” imaginable, with proceeds from that “tax” going to pad the balance sheets of insurance companies and big pharma, it’s a death sentence for too many Americans.
That’s it. I’m done with it. The last shred of “reform” has already been “compromised” away.
We can revisit it in another 20 years or so, after medicare goes bankrupt, along with the rest of the country.
Tags: congress
Tags: democracy
The defense bill that Obama just signed into law (LINK) contains revised rules for military tribunals.
It looks to me like they made only cosmetic changes — so they can pretend they made big changes.
(They falsely demonized the Bush-era tribunal rules, so they are now are in a position of being unable to use those rules without pretending they’ve made some big changes.)
I’ll post some excerpts in the comments to this post.
17) “Cliffs of Dover” (Eric Johnson)
(I somehow heard that this song was listed in “The 100 Greatest Guitar Solos”. That’s when I decided to do this. I don’t think there are any more stinkers from here on out.)
“I don’t even know if I can take credit for writing ‘Cliffs of Dover,’ ” says Eric Johnson of his best-known composition. “It was just there for me one day. There are songs I have spent months writing, and I literally wrote this one in five minutes. The melody was there in one minute and the other parts came together in another four. I think a lot of the stuff just comes through us like that. It’s kind of a gift from a higher place that all of us are eligible for. We just have to listen for it and be available to receive it.”
Tags: Music
Profiles of Afghan Power Brokers
October 26, 2009
The following profiles represent a partial list of some of the major players in Afghan political society. U.S. attitudes toward these power brokers and ex-warlords have been ambivalent at best, and some actors have been alternatively embraced and pushed aside. The Obama administration will have to contend with Afghanistan’s entrenched power brokers and former warlords regardless of which strategy it pursues for the country. However, any strategy must recognize how counterterrorism cooperation with these figures works at cross purposes to the simultaneous efforts to build a state capable of resisting the Taliban insurgency.
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