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Fear and Loathing ... your health is at stake.

Fri, 04 Sep 2009 16:24:59 GMT

clipped by: NonStatQuo
clipper's remarks: Americans have not been governed by the Repbulicans or the Democrats since 9/11.

We have been governed by irrational fear. And it is paralyzing us.

We have GOT to realize that crippling health care costs are going to continue to escalate. We won't be able to pay China back and more jobs will be lost. Healthcare costs are related to the economy.

Stop letting the politicians frighten us into throwing away our country.

Clip Source: www.nytimes.com

A public role in health care shouldn’t be any scarier or more repugnant than a public fire department.

Fifty-six to 60 percent of people in government-run Medicare rate it a 9 or 10 on a 10-point scale. In contrast, only 40 percent of those enrolled in private insurance rank their plans that high.

A Positive Example suitable for Clipmarks Devotees

Fri, 28 Aug 2009 21:36:26 GMT

clipped by: NonStatQuo
clipper's remarks: I have often used clipmarks as a sounding board, to flesh out my own premature ideas in the delightful cloak of semi-anonymity. Not everything that I say I fully mean. Some thoughts are sounding boards to my own opinions until I firm them up and watch them gel in my own head while my fingers are flying across the keyboard.

In the beginning, I spent every day reading comments people left behind mine, opening them up like christmas presents.

For awhile, I left clipmarks because the animosity became so acrimonious that I suffered indigestion along with the cup of coffee and cookie I was enjoying while I read CM in the late morning.

I have enjoyed clipmarks and enjoy reading the clips from people I don't necessarily agree with as well as those of whom I do agree.

I hope in the spirit of the late Ted Kennedy we can take his example of leadership and disagree without rancor and argue passionately with tolerance for an opposing view.

Thank you for reading. Good Day.

Clip Source: campaignsilo.firedoglake.com

He drew them toward him, invariably against their own habits, not by selling out his progressive goal, but by appealing to the decency he perceived in them.

Joe Conason has a good piece in Salon on Edward Kennedy's liberalism, his backing of the public option, and his talent for true bipartisanship -- in other words, how Teddy could get even the most conservative Republicans to back his legislation on occasion without selling himself and us out. The piece ends thus:

Tags: ted kennedy, politics, humanity, kindness, peace, love, conversation, manners, polite discourse

Free Hate Speech

Tue, 25 Aug 2009 02:32:05 GMT

clipped by: NonStatQuo
clipper's remarks: A "Reverend" a "Minister" "Pastor" Steven L. Anderson actually titles his sermon "Why I Hate Barack Obama".

Are the Democrats really THIS crazy and rabid when they are not in power?

Why is America like this?

Clip Source: www.faithfulwordbaptist.org

Pastor Steven L Anderson "Why I Hate Barack Obama" 08/16/09pm Sunday

Tags: hate speech, dangerous loonies, i hope america will one day regret its bigotry

Whole Foods Chief speaks out on Obama Healthcare Plan

Sat, 15 Aug 2009 21:11:21 GMT

clipped by: NonStatQuo
clipper's remarks: The ideas may shock you.

Clip Source: online.wsj.com

The Whole Foods Alternative to ObamaCare

“The problem with socialism is that eventually you run out
of other people’s money.”

—Margaret Thatcher

Health care is a service that we all need, but just like food and shelter it is best provided through voluntary and mutually beneficial market exchanges. A careful reading of both the Declaration of Independence and the Constitution will not reveal any intrinsic right to health care, food or shelter. That’s because there isn’t any. This “right” has never existed in America

Many promoters of health-care reform believe that people have an intrinsic ethical right to health care—to equal access to doctors, medicines and hospitals. While all of us empathize with those who are sick, how can we say that all people have more of an intrinsic right to health care than they have to food or shelter?

Tags: healthcare

Yep. I'd vote for him.

Thu, 13 Aug 2009 17:45:31 GMT

clipped by: NonStatQuo
clipper's remarks: you can keep your arnies, and your clints and your jessie venturas...

I'd vote for this one.

Check out the Makeitright foundation for New Orleans. Gotta love the man.

Clip Source: www.msnbc.msn.com

“Yeah. I’m running on the gay marriage, no religion, legalization and taxation of marijuana platform,” he joked.

Brad Pitt hasn’t thrown his hat in the ring to be mayor of his adopted hometown, New Orleans. Others have done that for him, launching a grassroots campaign complete with nifty T-shirts touting “Brad Pitt for Mayor.”

Tags: brad pitt, katrina, new orleans, optimism, makeitright

We really, really need to make things...

Tue, 11 Aug 2009 01:45:37 GMT

clipped by: NonStatQuo
clipper's remarks: How to bring the economy back? Why are there no jobs? Well because we stopped making things and then let China make all the things we used to make. Now China has our jobs. They belong to them now. And so does our debt. And so do we. We belong to China. So hey Republicans, hey Democrats, stop pretending to fight each other and wake up and smell the Starbucks. We lost and we don't even know it. Who is the enemy here? Our own greed and collective stupidity as a nation and we still are blind to the fact that we have lost our country while listening to birthers and other such nonsense. sigh.

Clip Source: www.huffingtonpost.com

AMERICANS FLOCKING TO CHINA TO FIND WORK

Shut Out At Home, Americans Flock To China For Surging Economy »

Shanghai and Beijing are becoming new lands of opportunity for recent American college graduates who face unemployment nearing double digits at home.

Even those with limited or no knowledge of Chinese are heeding the call. They are lured by China's surging economy, the lower cost of living and a chance to bypass some of the dues-paying that is common to first jobs in the United States.

9 Funny Street Intersections

Mon, 13 Jul 2009 16:10:41 GMT

clipped by: NonStatQuo

Clip Source: www.2leep.com

9 Funny Street Intersections

Clip Source: www.oddee.com

Tags: funny

I know I could be shot down for saying this....

Mon, 13 Jul 2009 15:20:06 GMT

clipped by: NonStatQuo
clipper's remarks: ....but bearing arms should not be a right.
Reading this article even skimming it, the obvious truth just jumps out at you.
More guns just do not make people safer.

More guns brings more guns and death.

Why is this so hard to fathom?

Look at countries that do not have the right to bear arms willi-nilly.

See their crime rate and safety.

We are fast down the slippery slope and only picking up speed.

Clip Source: news.bbc.co.uk

Tennessee gun law divides opinion

Following a recent series of high-profile shooting incidents in the United States, the southern state of Tennessee is changing its gun laws this week.

It is relaxing them.

If a last-minute legal challenge fails, from Tuesday, gun owners in the state will be allowed to carry their weapons in a lot more public places - including bars and restaurants.

Tags: guns, rights, murder

Spread a little Love

Thu, 02 Jul 2009 00:28:39 GMT

clipped by: NonStatQuo
clipper's remarks: To everyone on clipmarks...

sending a little good energy your way

Clip Source: paulocoelhoblog.com

Never forget. Happy 4th of July!!!!

Wed, 01 Jul 2009 16:29:16 GMT

clipped by: NonStatQuo
clipper's remarks: This 4th of July we have our freedom once again.
Let us remember, Democrat and Republican, Christian, and Muslim, Gay, straight or in-between, how wonderful it is to be free, even when those freedoms are severely challenged and altered and hamstrung by the very ones who profess to love this great country.

Faults and all, America is an amazing country, full of warm and generous people. Amazing landscapes and rich culture.

The more we celebrate our triumphs and stop tearing each other apart, the better off each an every American will be.

We all prosper when we build together.

Happy 4th of July.

Clip Source: www.telegraph.co.uk

Tags: patriotism, america, celebration, peace

Two Sleezeballs...

Tue, 30 Jun 2009 19:22:21 GMT

clipped by: NonStatQuo
clipper's remarks: Are these two men sharing a joke on a golf course? Of course not? One of these two men has just had a son pass away not 24 hours prior to this photo being taken.

Disgusting.

Clip Source: www.dailymail.co.uk

Time out: Joe Jackson sharing a joke with family friend Reverend Jesse Jackson outside his home in Encino, Los Angeles

Tags: michael jackson, jessie jackson, joe jackson, disgusting.

A spot of Grace

Tue, 30 Jun 2009 02:01:35 GMT

clipped by: NonStatQuo
clipper's remarks: I had a really difficult weekend and my partner and I were full of tears over an exasperating situation. Today wasn't much better. I was going thru my RSS feeds and found a poem. I was curious. Found out about the author. Went to her website and found this.

Take a few minutes to listen to the story and find yourself refreshed in a world where too few stories provide such sustenance.

Clip Source: www.spotofgrace.com

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MIchael Jackson ... an interesting opinion piece

Sun, 28 Jun 2009 15:57:03 GMT

clipped by: NonStatQuo
clipper's remarks: I think this is an interesting piece focusing more on the hypocrisy of the media and the price of fame.
I clipped it because it was different take on the whole issue

Clip Source: www.freep.com

We're wacko in how we view Jacko

I know death has a way of aggrandizing life. But some of the same people mourning the King of Pop for the TV cameras didn't do a whole lot for him while he was here.

But the whitewash of opinion being spouted by the public outdoes anything Jackson ever tried to do to his looks. Four days ago -- when he was still alive -- Jackson was perceived as a desperate, grotesque, off-the-radar, once-great performer turned weird, pathetic, possibly criminal and unable to sell records the way he did.

A day later, he was a world-healer, a joy-spreader, a one-of-a-kind man of magic.

But let's be honest. Celebrating Jackson more in death than in life doesn't honor him. If anything, calling him Wacko Jacko, chronicling his surgically enhanced face and making him a national joke, then weeping for TV cameras about how much we'll miss him makes us seem, for the moment, even stranger than him.

Tags: culture, michael jackson

Jeezus said "Pa-Pow"!

Sun, 28 Jun 2009 05:08:12 GMT

clipped by: NonStatQuo
clipper's remarks: Bring your gun to church day.

It seems like packing heat for Jesus is the way to go in this US town.

How do guns and Jesus go together, please tell me.

Clip Source: news.bbc.co.uk

US pastor opens church to guns

Gun-toting parishioners attended Pastor Ken Pagano's service in Kentucky

"The idea of wearing guns to churches or any sacred space I think many people find deeply troubling," organiser Terry Taylor told AP.

Tags: stupid, jesus, guns

XXL Idiot!

Sat, 27 Jun 2009 02:42:49 GMT

clipped by: NonStatQuo
clipper's remarks: nothing more to say.

Clip Source: www.themudflats.net