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2009-09-10 Home Front: Culture Wars

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Posted by 49 Pan 2009-09-10 12:43|| || Front Page|| [7 views ] Top

#1 Well 49....I guess my first question is how and is there a plan. I agree totally but there has to be a plan. I know I stopped watching MSM and wouldn't waste my money on "news papers" long ago because of the bias. Please...put together a plan, put it out there, and we'll go.

Posted by armyguy 2009-09-10 15:46|| 2009-09-10 15:46|| Front Page Top

#2 Health care in the US is in trouble, it is not working like it should, and we need to get it back on track. I don't think anyone will argue that it is fine the way it is.

Hmm..so when was it better? 1950? 1970? 1990? What's not available today to more people than it was back then? [Here's a hint - emergency rooms in most hospitals. Gone. Why? Maybe because the federal government mandated that no ER could turn anyone away, but failed to underwrite the cost of that little morality play. So where do the 'poor' go now? Why to the same ERs that provided services before. Namely government facilities sheltered in the economic cocoon of deficit expenses, like endangered species habitats.]

Posted by Procopius2k 2009-09-10 18:54|| 2009-09-10 18:54|| Front Page Top

#3 Hear, hear, 49!

I never watch network news, and dropped the paper over a year ago when I decided the only thing that wasn't a lie in the paper was the comics and some of the classifieds.

And I tell anyone who asks what I've done and why. Damned if I'll pay with either time or money to be lied to.

Posted by Barbara Skolaut">Barbara Skolaut 2009-09-10 19:29|| 2009-09-10 19:29|| Front Page Top

#4 I know a quick way for the Republicans to get the networks back on the straight and narrow, if not pro-Republican side. Loudly suggest that the major media corporations are an oligopoly that needs to be dealt with in an antitrust campaign.

Even a few Republican leaders saying so, and GE and Disney CEOs would personally shove oily rags in the mouths of their radical journalists.

Posted by Anonymoose 2009-09-10 20:09|| 2009-09-10 20:09|| Front Page Top

#5 And the fun part, 'moose, is it's true.

Posted by Barbara Skolaut">Barbara Skolaut 2009-09-10 20:38|| 2009-09-10 20:38|| Front Page Top

#6 Healthcare is fine. You don't have coverage and need and Emergency room and you will get care in an Emergency room. Doesn't matter if you are legal or not. This has helped to bankrupt the States but that's another issue, and reforming Healthcare won't solve that.

Posted by rjschwarz 2009-09-10 21:07|| 2009-09-10 21:07|| Front Page Top

#7 OK Armyguy, time to stop bitching and build a plan. Point taken, more to follow, NSDQ.

Posted by 49 Pan 2009-09-10 21:29|| 2009-09-10 21:29|| Front Page Top

#8 It's a Heisenburg problem Pan.

The area under a curve can better be defined by smaller and smaller slices of the curve. Remember that?

But if you are measuring a living social curve, each touch shifts it. More news, more channels, more touches introduces more deviation. Carefully orchastrated touches on a common theme, 'sampling' the social curve, will steer it(pun intended, thank you).

Posted by Skidmark 2009-09-10 23:13|| 2009-09-10 23:13|| Front Page Top

#9 Take note, all. This is where 49 Pan's political career started. Life is going to get interesting in his part of the world pretty darn quick.

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