I finally got to my first Cyclocross race this week. For those who don’t know and don’t like following random links (don’t blame you) Cyclocross is an off-season short course bike race that is time limited. You race over grass, mud, dirt, rocks, roots and some asphalt. And because the race is so short you […]
Read More Cyclocross[Metro Minnesota] hospitals prepared for the strike by bringing in extra non-union staff, hiring 2,800 replacement nurses and reducing patient counts by transferring patients to non-affected hospitals. Dr. Penny Wheeler, chief medical officer of Allina Hospitals & Clinics, said the preparations paid off, that patients at all of the affected hospitals received quality care with […]
Read More Aftermath of the StrikeThis is just painful. And they claim not to be the party of “NO.” I call shenanigans. On Saturday, the House of Representatives passed their version of the health care reform bill that will now move on to the Senate. However, it was not without problem. It seems the Republicans will try anything to […]
Read More White Noise OrchestraFrom Beardedbeard There is no need to lay out the case for single payer health care if you don’t think it is the best way to take care of the ill and injured in the united states that’s fine go read something else. The progressives among us have had a rough month the news has […]
Read More Health CareIf Jesus were still alive today, he’d be a Buddhist. I mean, think about it. Was Jesus a consumer? Did he long for the things that people consider symbols of high status? Did he care for status at all, or did he live as a simple man who needed for only the simple things. Wasn’t […]
Read More The Season of ConsumerismI figured I’d preface this post with Keith Olbermann, who said it best. As you likely have heard, proposition 8 in California passed. It is: a California State ballot proposition that amended the state Constitution to restrict the definition of marriage to a union between a man and a woman. It overrode a decision of […]
Read More Proposition 8 Ramblings“Compassion is not weakness, and concern for the unfortunate is not socialism.” -Hubert H. Humphrey It’s old news now that John McCain has been calling Barack Obama a socialist. Mostly, he’s citing what Obama said to everyman archetype “Joe the Plummer” when they met. Joe: “Your new tax plan is going to tax me more, […]
Read More The Big S: Its Implications and Relations to Modern SocietySarah Palin, discussing the McCain/Palin policies, said this: “Too often, even in our own day, children with special needs have been set apart and excluded,” said Palin, whose infant son Trig has Down syndrome. “Too often, state and federal laws add to their challenges, instead of removing barriers and opening new paths of opportunity. Too […]
Read More The Fear of ScienceHere’s the news, from Kare 11: A mentally disabled man from Lakeville is recovering after being severely beaten last weekend. According to the victim’s mother, Carolyn Hamilton, the 24-year-old victim is terrified and scarred emotionally and physically. Justin Hamilton cannot see color in one of his eyes as a result of the injuries he suffered. […]
Read More Who Are We Raising?Okay, I’m seeing that the crazies country-wide are leaping on this video from ABC News. This is the full video, and from it you can see full well that Obama is obviously discussing “his Muslim faith” not as something actually connected to him but as something being talked about among conservatives, Republicans, and other anti-Obamaists. […]
Read More The Marriage of Church and State, and the “My Muslim Faith” Obama Idiocy
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