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Wal-Mart bans gay couple for NOT shoplifting →
This is fucked-up.
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“We built this Nation to serve its people. We want to grow and build and create, but we want progress to be the servant and not the master of man. We do not intend to live in the midst of abundance, isolated from neighbors and nature, confined by blighted cities and bleak suburbs, stunted by a poverty of learning and an emptiness of leisure. The Great Society asks not how much, but how good; not only how to create wealth but how to use it; not only how fast we are going, but where we are headed. It proposes as the first test for a nation: the quality of its people. This kind of society will not flower spontaneously from swelling riches and surging power. It will not be the gift of government or the creation of presidents. It will require of every American, for many generations, both faith in the destination and the fortitude to make the journey. And like freedom itself, it will always be challenge and not fulfillment. And tonight we accept that challenge.”
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Seseme Street celebrates 40 years: Here's 40 things you might not know (or remember) →
just a few:1. CBS and NBC rejected Sesame Street before it debuted Nov. 10, 1969, on PBS.
6. The letters E, S and W, and the numbers 2 and 3 hosted the first episode.
27. Regarding Bert and Ernie, Sesame Workshop President and CEO Gary Knell said, “They are not gay, they are not straight, they are puppets. They don’t exist below the waist.” Sesame Workshop also released a statement in 1993 saying the friends are not gay.
31. Adults couldn’t see Snuffleapugas for 14 years, so they thought he was Big Bird’s imaginary friend. The storyline was changed in 1985 because the show’s creators worried it would discourage children from telling their parents about imaginary friends.
36. Baby Bird is Jewish.
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FDL Action » Stupak Amendment Could Likely Be Used by Insurance Companies to Discriminate Against Low Income Americans →
The Stupak amendment would prevent any private health insurance plan from covering elective abortion, if even one of its customer used even one dollar of affordability tax credits. The problem is that the Stupak amendment will conflict directly with other parts of the bill. The bill would require “guaranteed issue.” This means that any insurer offering coverage to individuals on the health insurance exchange must accept all customers.If the insurance companies offering plans on the exchange are not allowed to turn down any customers, it means no basic insurance plan on the exchange could cover abortion. There would be no way to prevent that at least one of the plan’s customer would be using affordability tax credits to help purchase the plan. So the effect is no plan sold on the exchange could offer abortion coverage as part of its basic package.
The contradiction could be solved in a different manner. The decision could be that insurance companies who offer plans covering abortion on the exchange would be allowed to turn down customers using affordability tax credits. This would create a dangerous loophole for the new guaranteed issue rule. This could lead to the ghettoizing of the health insurance exchange. Insurers would know that offering plans that cover abortion would prevent low income Americans from being able to sign up. Low income Americans tend to have higher medical costs and are less profitable, less desirable customers. Offering abortion coverage would be a simple way for an insurance company to keep them out of their risk pool. Since the exchange has dangerously weak risk adjustment mechanisms, this Stupak Amendment could become a profitable tool used by insurers to discriminate against low income Americans.
It seems the Stupak Amendment would either effectively ban any basic health insurance plan sold on the exchange (the individual and small business market) from covering abortion or would create a way to discriminate against low income Americans. Either way the Amendment will have far reaching ramifications for our health care system.
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Congressman Joseph Cao of Louisiana - the lone Republican YEA →
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i’m going to send this man flowers. or something.
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Oregon Congressman Earl Blumenauer FTW
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