http://www.democraticunderground.com http://blogs.law.harvard.edu/tech/rss Sat, 21 Nov 2009 07:32:58 Sat, 21 Nov 2009 07:32:58 [b] Intro. An excellent question [/b]

[div class="excerpt"]Since military spending is a poor way of fighting recession, and it imposes significant long-term costs in terms of undermining innovations and economic growth, one must also ask why the country's political leaders turn to the military bu... http://journals.democraticunderground.com/McCamy Taylor/440 Sat, 07 Nov 2009 21:07:33 Sad, the way that the national dialogue has degenerated. Not so long ago, we were debating the relative merits of single payer versus our current patchwork insurance system---the one will all the holes. Now, the press has us convinced that we will have scored a major victory if we create [i] another... http://journals.democraticunderground.com/McCamy Taylor/439 Thu, 15 Oct 2009 12:07:16 This is a Texas sized thread about a Texas sized problem---the possibility that the GOP might call upon Governor Rick Perry to run for president.

[b] Intro. [/b]

Greetings from the bizarro state of Texas, which voted out popular governor Ann Richards in order to replace her with George H. W. ... http://journals.democraticunderground.com/McCamy Taylor/438 Tue, 06 Oct 2009 15:25:39 [b] Intro. Back to the (Reactionary) Past [/b]

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In 1880, many Chinese lived in Hop Alley, Denver's Chinatown. In October of that year an anti-Chinese riot resulted in the lynching of a Chinese man and the injuring of many others. A mob of approximately 3000 people had gath... http://journals.democraticunderground.com/McCamy Taylor/437 Sat, 26 Sep 2009 16:39:20 [div class="excerpt"] The hypocrite's crime is that he bears false witness against himself. What makes it so plausible to assume that hypocrisy is the vice of vices is that integrity can indeed exist under the cover of all other vices except this one. Only crime and the criminal, it is true, confr... http://journals.democraticunderground.com/McCamy Taylor/436 Sun, 13 Sep 2009 17:48:00 [b]Here is another fact to add to your list of health care talking points.[/b]

Today, I received this alarming email from Physicians For a National Health Plan:

[div class="excerpt"] Significantly, [b]in Massachusetts, where an individual-mandate health reform law, much like what President Oba... http://journals.democraticunderground.com/McCamy Taylor/435 Sat, 12 Sep 2009 16:12:33 The last time I tried to alert DUers about some of the problems that those of us who live in Texas face, I was told in no uncertain terms that I could not criticize the state in which I live. However, two bits of news today are so entirely typical of Texas, that I have to comment on them.

First, ... http://journals.democraticunderground.com/McCamy Taylor/434 Fri, 11 Sep 2009 19:39:56 http://www.blogadilla.com/wp-content/uploads/2009/02/caution-zombies.jpg

It is quite fashionable nowadays to say that Republicans have firm resolve that allows them to weather any scandal with their ideals and goals more or less intact. In contrast, Democrats run screaming like a bunch of teena... http://journals.democraticunderground.com/McCamy Taylor/433 Mon, 07 Sep 2009 03:06:30 You have been warned. This is a really long thread. It is about the American way of greed, which is a monstrously large topic.

[b] Lipstick on a Pig [/b]

http://blogs.e-rockford.com/applesauce/files/2008/09/000000june6_2005mmm.jpg

We hear this one over and over. [i] Any healthcare reform i... http://journals.democraticunderground.com/McCamy Taylor/432 Fri, 04 Sep 2009 00:39:13 [b] Intro [/b]

There are many different participants in the ongoing battle for (and against) universal health care. Each special interest has its own needs. For instance, if you manufacture stents for diseased coronary arteries, you want a lot of money set aside to treat folks who develop heart... http://journals.democraticunderground.com/McCamy Taylor/431 Wed, 02 Sep 2009 18:54:02 [div class="excerpt"][b]The U.S. pharmaceutical market, the world's biggest, rose 3.8 percent to $286.5 billion in 2007…[/b][/div]

http://www.bloomberg.com/apps/news?pid=20601202&sid=aVqx3x2Y_Mmo&refer=healthcare

That is a lot of money. It is almost a bank bailout every year. Of course, we kno... http://journals.democraticunderground.com/McCamy Taylor/430 Tue, 25 Aug 2009 19:26:02 http://www.independent.co.uk/opinion/commentators/mary-dejevsky/mary--dejevsky-a-mean-streak-in-the-us-mainstream-1776795.html

So, American’s have a “mean streak” which prevents us from wanting what is best for our neighbors. And that is why we can not get healthcare reform passed! Silly me. I ... http://journals.democraticunderground.com/McCamy Taylor/429 Tue, 25 Aug 2009 06:01:30 [b] I. Association is Not Causality [/b]

This headline caught my eye in the DU’s Latest section:

[div class="excerpt"] Cannibis smokers have a seven-fold schizophrenia risk. Harper government devotes funds to studying the link between marijuana use and mental illness.[/div]

http://www.thes... http://journals.democraticunderground.com/McCamy Taylor/428 Thu, 20 Aug 2009 03:01:38 [b] I Mission Impossible [/b]

We knew it would be tough. Americans voted in the 111th Congress with a clear mandate to make health care universally accessible and affordable in this country. As late as this summer, a whopping three-quarters of us still wanted a Medicare style public option.

h... http://journals.democraticunderground.com/McCamy Taylor/427 Sun, 09 Aug 2009 21:42:44 [b] I. "If we allow this, America will no longer be a noble nation."[/b]

http://douggeivett.files.wordpress.com/2008/10/bill-oreilly.jpg

Q: Who said this and why?

A: Ok, I gave it away with the photo. Bill O’Reilly said it about Dr. George Tiller of Kansas, who had been acquitted in court... http://journals.democraticunderground.com/McCamy Taylor/426 Wed, 05 Aug 2009 20:07:07 The Congress has gotten to be a lot like the United Nations. Senators and Congressmen keep talking about our nation’s health, but their words mean nothing. So, I have created this guide to help translate what they are saying:

When they say [b] America has the best healthcare system in the world [... http://journals.democraticunderground.com/McCamy Taylor/425 Tue, 04 Aug 2009 00:09:59 [div class="excerpt"][b]Without Contraries is no progression. Attraction and Repulsion, Reason and Energy, Love and Hate, are necessary to Human existence. [/b]
William Blake [i] The Marriage of Heaven and Hell [/i][/div]

[b] Intro. [/b]

Think of this thread as the flip side of my last jour... http://journals.democraticunderground.com/McCamy Taylor/424 Thu, 16 Jul 2009 20:21:49 It is great being a United States citizen. We are wealthier, healthier and have more freedoms than the average citizen of this world. True, working folks in Western Europe have it better in some ways-----more maternity leave, guaranteed health insurance, good food, fine museums. But we have more nuk... http://journals.democraticunderground.com/McCamy Taylor/423 Tue, 14 Jul 2009 22:44:30 [div class="excerpt"] Truth is eternal, knowledge is changeable. It is disastrous to confuse them.
Madeleine L'Engle, An Acceptable Time[/div]


I am going to step into my time capsule to explore some universal “truths” which were once treated as heretical, dangerous or just plain preposterous... http://journals.democraticunderground.com/McCamy Taylor/422 Mon, 13 Jul 2009 20:03:11 http://www.washintonpost.com/wp-srv/politics/daily/graphics/intheloop_012405.jpg

During the 2000 recount in Florida, a bunch of Republican operatives staged a “spontaneous” riot at the Miami-Dade County polling place in order to stop election workers from counting lawfully cast votes. Among those... http://journals.democraticunderground.com/McCamy Taylor/421 Fri, 03 Jul 2009 21:20:50 [b] I. Forty Years Ago.... [/b]

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Last fall I wrote “Educating Huckabee: The Terrible History of Systematic Violence Directed at Gays” after the former presidential candidate said that gays and lesbians do not need ci... http://journals.democraticunderground.com/McCamy Taylor/420 Wed, 01 Jul 2009 18:57:58 The opposition does not play fair. While we use reason and statistics, they use some dirty weapons in their war against sane, effective universal healthcare. The latest attack comes from a source which has been known to cater to corporate special interests, Associated Press.

Keep in mind that ma... http://journals.democraticunderground.com/McCamy Taylor/419 Thu, 25 Jun 2009 19:58:40 [b] I. "_____ Democrat Is a Liar" [/b]

You can fool all of the people some of the time and you can fool some of the people all of the time. And, if you are the corporate media in the United States, you think that you can fool the electorate every single time using the same strategy. That is becau... http://journals.democraticunderground.com/McCamy Taylor/418 Wed, 24 Jun 2009 20:38:25 Remember broken records, the way they would skip back and repeat a musical phrase over and over again? Here is something we are hearing way too often lately.

[div class="excerpt"] Obama has broken his campaign promises far more flagrantly than his predecessors did in their first 100 days in offic... http://journals.democraticunderground.com/McCamy Taylor/417 Tue, 23 Jun 2009 19:57:05 Shortness of breath is a symptom of a variety of diseases. Some people get short of breath as a sign of stress---i.e. they hyperventilate. Others may experience a single episode of difficulty breathing from some isolated, acute (one time) problem like pneumonia, pulmonary embolism, smoke inhalatio... http://journals.democraticunderground.com/McCamy Taylor/416 Fri, 19 Jun 2009 17:14:33