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Private health insurers retroactively dropping coverage for sick - what exactly are we insuring?

Submitted by Atheinostic on Mon, 2009-06-29 19:21
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If you're going to need Health Care anytime soon, make sure you don't "get" any of these more "costly" conditions:

breast cancer, lymphoma, pregnancy, or high blood pressure.

If you do, it will put you on the Insurer's Radar, for possible Policy Cancellation...

What are we insuring exactly, when private health insurers retroactively drop health care coverage when we get sick? It clearly isn't our health.

Fundamentalism in the US Military

Submitted by Atheinostic on Sat, 2009-06-27 13:36
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Consent of the Governed

Submitted by Atheinostic on Thu, 2009-06-25 02:18

We hold these Truths to be self-evident, that all Men are created equal, that they are endowed by their Creator with certain unalienable Rights, that among these are Life, Liberty, and the pursuit of Happiness—-That to secure these Rights, Governments are instituted among Men, deriving their just Powers from the Consent of the Governed, that whenever any Form of Government becomes destructive of these Ends,

it is the Right of the People to alter or abolish it,

and to institute a new Government, laying its Foundation on such Principles, and organizing its Powers in such Form, as to them shall seem most likely to effect their Safety and Happiness. Prudence, indeed, will dictate that Governments long established should not be changed for light and transient Causes; and accordingly all Experience hath shewn, that Mankind are more disposed to suffer, while Evils are sufferable, than to right themselves by abolishing the Forms to which they are accustomed. But when a long Train of Abuses and Usurpations, pursuing invariably the same Object, evinces a Design to reduce them under absolute Despotism,

it is their Right, it is their Duty, to throw off such Government,

and to provide new Guards for their future Security.

Fox News: All bad Republicans are actually Democrats

Submitted by Atheinostic on Wed, 2009-06-24 18:46
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Fair and Balanced strikes again!
sanford is a democrat?

I'm sure this was just another innocent mistake...
foley is a democrat?

Biased Media Discusses Media Bias

Submitted by Atheinostic on Mon, 2009-06-22 21:23

Is Fox News too biased, not biased enough, or about the right amount?

Submitted by Atheinostic on Fri, 2009-06-19 08:08

This recent Fox News poll might have set a new world record for most loaded questions. Does this mean that Rupert Murdoch is still beating his wife?

Here are a few of their "fair and balanced" polling questions:

In the next congressional election in 2010, are you more likely to:
1. Vote for the Democrat to help Barack Obama pass his policies and
programs
2. Vote for the Republican to provide a check on Obama's power

The Obama administration has recently said there are signs the economy is starting to improve. Do you believe the economy is starting to get better, or is it that the administration is putting a positive spin on things?

Do you think the Obama administration is proposing too much of an increase in government spending, not enough of an increase, or about the right amount?

Based on Barack Obama's criticism of Bush administration deficits during the presidential campaign, are you surprised the Obama administration is increasing the nation's deficit, or not?

When an elected official says they want to "invest" your tax dollars in a government program or project, do you think they want to spend your money or save your money?

Which do you think would do more to improve the nation's economy right now?
1. Cutting taxes on individuals and businesses
2. Reducing federal spending by the government
3. Both
4. Don't know

Fox News hypocrisy

Submitted by Atheinostic on Thu, 2009-06-18 16:24

Do they ever even watch their own shows?

Public option or bust

Submitted by Atheinostic on Thu, 2009-06-18 16:21
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Olive Garden pulls Letterman ads over Palin's BS - so long, Olive Garden

Submitted by Atheinostic on Thu, 2009-06-18 15:24

I won't be eating there anytime soon.

Following a week of back and forth between CBS late-night comic David Letterman and Sarah Palin over a crude joke he told about the Alaska Republican governor’s daughter, the Olive Garden restaurant says it is canceling all of its scheduled ads on Letterman’s “Late Show” for the rest of the year.

In an e-mail to a Letterman critic obtained by POLITICO, a spokeswoman for the Italian restaurant chain wrote that “there will be no more Olive Garden ads scheduled for ‘The Late Show’ with David Letterman in this year's broadcast schedule,” citing the talk show host’s “inappropriate comments.”

Iranian-American's perspecctive on Iran

Submitted by Atheinostic on Thu, 2009-06-18 11:41
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Iranian-American's perspecctive on Iran

"...the sentiment of the protest has gone beyond just Ahmadinejad, and is truly directed towards Khamenei. When Iranians yell 'Death to the dictator', as my dad put it, and as I've argued for the last week, they're not talking about Ahmadinejad."