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For a class I'm teaching, students are writing about the health care/insurance reform debate. Several allude to the "Canadian Wait List" issue. Does anyone have a reference to reliable sources that have statistics and/or explanations? Testimonials for or against the Canadian system can help, but w... http://journals.democraticunderground.com/garthranzz/84 Sun, 18 Oct 2009 00:27:37 acupuncture

biofeedback

etc.

Will the plan address that?

(She's a former REpublican)... http://journals.democraticunderground.com/garthranzz/83 Wed, 09 Sep 2009 21:40:46
Not just content, but rhetoric.

I note the balance. The recognition of McCain. The reference to the late Ted Kennedy.

Tort reform - we need to be careful with that. LEGITIMATE law suits protect us.

There's an easy way to address the frivolous suits.

Anyway, what would you like freshmen... http://journals.democraticunderground.com/garthranzz/82 Wed, 09 Sep 2009 21:26:46 Forget the wingnuts. Watch McCain and Hatch.... http://journals.democraticunderground.com/garthranzz/81 Wed, 09 Sep 2009 21:09:34 This is personal. So just move on if you have anything negative to say.

I want to start by thanking the DU community for the support they gave me, and others from the Gulf Coast, during those difficult days and months. By extension, you also helped my family.

Four years later, I am, ironicall... http://journals.democraticunderground.com/garthranzz/79 Sun, 30 Aug 2009 01:10:41 This is personal. So just move on if you have anything negative to say.

I want to start by thanking the DU community for the support they gave me, and others from the Gulf Coast, during those difficult days and months. By extension, you also helped my family.

Four years later, I am, ironicall... http://journals.democraticunderground.com/garthranzz/80 Sun, 30 Aug 2009 01:10:41

MARGARET CHASE SMITH:
I don't want to see the Republican Party ride to political victory on the Four Horsemen of Calumny - Fear, Ignorance, Bigotry, and Smear.


(But that's all it is, these days.)... http://journals.democraticunderground.com/garthranzz/78 Wed, 19 Aug 2009 14:12:19
Protect patients, not profits

Life, Liberty and the Pursuit of Happiness shouldn't stop when you get sick

(same idea, a bit longer:) The Founders WANTED health care reform. What do you think life, liberty and the pursuit of happiness means?... http://journals.democraticunderground.com/garthranzz/77 Thu, 13 Aug 2009 16:36:39 I saw part of the Orly (Oily) breakdown, and this obsession with Obama's birth certificate. But according to Lexis-Nexis, he doesn't need one to be a U.S. citizen. Here's the excerpt:

What are the rules for people born between December 23, 1952 and November
13, 1986?
Again, children born abro... http://journals.democraticunderground.com/garthranzz/76 Fri, 07 Aug 2009 14:29:47 and/or the following:

V For Vendetta
"Repent Harlequin, Said the Ticktockman"
Some of The Daily Show's skewering of media complicity or hypocrisy

I've come up with these possibilities:

Revolution
Blowin' in the Wind
The Times They Are A'changing
Give Peace a Chance
Blackbird

(Yeah,... http://journals.democraticunderground.com/garthranzz/75 Sun, 12 Jul 2009 22:13:19
The Health Care Debate, or Too Little, Too Late

The old woman curdles on the sidewalk,
soured, in her dried up life,
and spasms, once or twice -
a stranger might interrupt his call,
or ambulance through the traffic crawl.

A child, with curly hair, sniffles, and wipes his nose,
as his so... http://journals.democraticunderground.com/garthranzz/74 Fri, 19 Jun 2009 08:55:25
He tried to steal the election by a landslide. Bush, Cheney & Rove could have told him, if you're going to steal an election, do it by a small majority. Then the pundits will believe that the screwed results are just numbers games and statistics. Good grief, doesn't one right wing dictator learn f... http://journals.democraticunderground.com/garthranzz/73 Tue, 16 Jun 2009 09:35:58
I've had it. There's only one way to deal with slime like Dick - scorn. Make him laughable and irrelevant. Here's what every sensible human being should do when Cheney's name is mentioned. (Note: normally I abhor ad hominem argument, but in this case ad hominem is not a fallacy, but an accurate po... http://journals.democraticunderground.com/garthranzz/72 Thu, 21 May 2009 21:24:09
When we allow others to torture in our name...
When we make excuses for those who torture in our name...
When we allow pundits and cowards to justify torture in our name...
When we make politics of torture in our name...
When we allow moral hollowness to hide torture in our name...
When we ma... http://journals.democraticunderground.com/garthranzz/71 Sun, 26 Apr 2009 18:30:26 I cast my first vote for president in 1972 (I was still 17 in 1968). Then I voted against a man who stood for war, divisiveness, pettiness, deceit and oppression.

Today I voted for a man who represents hope, unity, peace and the rule of law.

Until today, I was proudest of that vote in 1972. To... http://journals.democraticunderground.com/garthranzz/70 Tue, 04 Nov 2008 10:48:36 This was forwarded to me by a friend. I don't know the author. Moderators, if this is a duplicate, please delete.

For those who still can't grasp the concept of white privilege, or who are looking for some easy-to-understand examples of it, perhaps this
list will help.

White privilege is whe... http://journals.democraticunderground.com/garthranzz/68 Sun, 19 Oct 2008 22:22:16
The vote is half and half - so painful!
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Dear Friends:
PBS has an online poll posted asking if Sarah Palin is qualified. Apparently the right wing knew about this in advance and are flooding the voting with YES votes.
The poll will be reported ... http://journals.democraticunderground.com/garthranzz/67 Tue, 07 Oct 2008 18:14:53
And therefore let it rip?... http://journals.democraticunderground.com/garthranzz/66 Mon, 29 Sep 2008 18:49:46
For governments of an autocratic type the foolishness of the multitude has always been an asset.

Emanuel Lasker, Manual of Chess... http://journals.democraticunderground.com/garthranzz/65 Mon, 29 Sep 2008 15:21:24
This is big, and was shown on FOX!!

Frank Luntz was a Republican strategist. Here's a link. Scroll down to the Frank Luntz 5 minute video

http://www.youdecide2008.com/2008/09/27/saturday-obamamccain-post-debate-analysis-wrap-up/
... http://journals.democraticunderground.com/garthranzz/64 Sun, 28 Sep 2008 02:13:25 Because it was broadcast on Shabbat, I only saw it tonight, via the web. Here's my response. Haven't checked anyone else's yet. Will do so now.



First, my wife’s reactions. A prefix: She does not follow politics and dislikes the back and forth. She comes from a very Republican family. She oppo... http://journals.democraticunderground.com/garthranzz/63 Sun, 28 Sep 2008 02:02:13

Of all people, how can John McCain justify his denying benefits to veterans?

Of all people, how can John McCain justify his support of torture?

What's happened to John McCain?
... http://journals.democraticunderground.com/garthranzz/62 Fri, 26 Sep 2008 19:27:34 Reading Naomi Klein's The Shock Doctrine - and listening to her - puts it all in perspective.

Cameron and the CIA torture
Pinochet
(skip a few decades)
9/11
Iraq
Now, Bear Sterns, etc.

And the common ingredient to making it work? "Extortion," as she puts it. Panic, fear - shock therapy -... http://journals.democraticunderground.com/garthranzz/60 Fri, 26 Sep 2008 00:26:24 McCain doesn't need to suspend his campaign; he needs suspenders to keep up his campaign.

Oh, wait - I misunderstood - it's not a campaign suspension - it's a suspension bridge - to nowhere.... http://journals.democraticunderground.com/garthranzz/59 Thu, 25 Sep 2008 23:38:17
It might be just a rah-rah.

But it might be a series of presidential assertions - since Congress can't solve this - a declaration of martial law, suspension of posse comitatus - a financial takeover.

McCain's timing and Bush's sudden emergence - it stinks.

What's being said on the network... http://journals.democraticunderground.com/garthranzz/57 Wed, 24 Sep 2008 20:01:06