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All the heated debates about healthcare vary radically on the position they take to human life. Framed as socialism,a battle that the Democrats willingly lost,healthcare for all is unwinnable. Framed as another freedom that this country gives its inhabitants,would it win in another round? The point is relevant:a proper instituted healthcare [...] uno no siempre hace lo que quiere pero tiene el derecho de no hacer lo que no quiere [...] Today is Document Freedom Day 2009 Why is that imnpoirtant? When a corporation owns the format in which your document lives,it is effectively gone from you the moment that corporation changes anything,goes broke,anything. Also,if you have an open document,archival and retrieval processes are far easier and replicable. How many of [...] I am confident that the One Laptop Per Child will have the effect which is the educational equivalent of the nutritional disaster that imported formula has had on the poor parts of the world. Is this a broad generalization,or is this post by Atanu Dey actually on point? The famous OLPC irks me [...] When is it that you realize that your social conscience is asleep? Today,I kept noticing people at work all dressed in black,and suddenly I remember the account of the Jenna 6 from the archives of democracy now,the more detailed story that can be found at intel daily. IntelDaily has a description of [...] Committee on Homeland Security Committee Chairman Bennie G. Thompson asks Chertoff to clarify his gut feeling comment: Words have power,Mr. Secretary. You must choose them wisely—especially when they relate to the lives and security of the American public. What color code in the Homeland Security Advisory System is associated with a “gut feeling?” What [...] Diversity Magazine has an article about the recent Supreme Court decision on it,End of an Era? starts with The U.S. Supreme Court Thursday issued a 5-4 ruling against voluntary-integration plans in K-12 public-school districts in Louisville,Ky. and Seattle,Wash. that use race as a factor to prevent segregation in student assignments. These cases [...] Today is World Refugee Day,a day instituted to bring awareness to the plight of the millions of people displaced by racism,intolerance,war and persecution. Go and check MDW,that has a poem by a 14 year old Sudanese refugee,of which the following is an extract:The actual moment,Of Exile,Is like [...] And thanks to Gwen,for pointing this out;check the interview here: I just don’t think that way,see,about guarding against. I’m thinking about plunging ahead. All right,I think you guard against decay,in general,and stagnation,by moving,by continuing to move. And with courage. And courage is like —it’s a [...] Luis Carlos Galan was a Colombian presidential candidate,assassinated in August 18th,1989. He was a big opponent of the drug cartels,and although young,had great promise. The day of his death I was at an international conference for business college students. We all went into shock,and at that moment the frail scaffolding [...] |  | ||||||
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