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01-14-2015, 09:53 PM | #1 | |||
The future is unwritten
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How dare they question us
I don't know, these furriners are getting awfully uppity. How dare they question baseball, apple pie and Chevrolet. I may park the Chevy and go home in a snit.
Ann Jones writes at TomDispatch, being one of six million American living around the world, she gets questions from people everywhere. The most common, even from the most polite, is, "Have Americans gone over the edge? Are you crazy?". Quote:
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Some nerve... hmmm... you know a lot of them resemble the pesky Indians we generously gave those reservations to.
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01-15-2015, 08:01 AM | #2 |
Makes some feel uncomfortable
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Short answer: Because we're exceptional
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01-25-2015, 01:19 AM | #3 |
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The lack of universal health care is always the biggest mystery to me, and most people I know outside the USA. That a country so rich should not have it is so strange. It changes a lot of things, not just giving needed medical treatment to poor people. For example, one of the arguments used to support conspiracy theories about the govt and "Big Pharma" would not apply here in Australia (or not as easily) as it is in the govt's economic interests for us not to be sick. The govt is the one who will have to carry the costs if they actually are trying to "keep us sick" as conspiracy theorists would have you believe, and that would be silly. Same with vaccinations. If they really did make us so much more sick, then they would be stupid forcing us to have them.
Whew. That was my first non-me-me-me post, and it has left me a bit exhausted. Hope I made sense.
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01-25-2015, 02:07 AM | #4 |
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It's very simple, on one hand we have a small minority who have the money and power and do their best to keep both.
On the other hand we have over 300 million without money and power, but half of them don't want to change that. Why? Damifino.
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01-25-2015, 03:53 AM | #5 | |
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Because they are blindsided by the infinitesimal chance that they might one day be among the rich, and therefore wouldn't want their wealth under attack.
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01-25-2015, 07:33 AM | #6 |
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And on a less individual level, they are convinced that the entire reason our country is "so rich" is precisely because of the way we do things. Which you have to admit, makes a certain logical sense: we're the richest by far, and also the only country that does certain things very differently. Why would a generally successful person take advice from a generally less-successful person?
I still happen to think they're incorrect, or at least could stand to moderate their position a bit, but it doesn't help to put their motives in the "stupid" half of "stupid or evil." It's not the vain hope that they may one day be one of the super rich that drives them, but rather the fear that there would be no more rich (or even upper-middle class) to even aspire to. |
01-25-2015, 08:52 AM | #7 |
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I don't know about the people you guys are talking about, or whom they actually are, but the care that the bottom 10% get from the ER and related are better services than they get from almost any branch of government.
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01-25-2015, 09:12 AM | #8 | |
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How many spend money on cold remedies to cure the common cold (ie Airborne) when nothing on those shelves actually cures or prevents sickness. How many believed Jenny McCarthy because the stripper has big tits and blond hair? Many are that easily manipulated. A majority only believe the first thing told. And then take an extremist denial when facts expose those myths. For the same reason that well over 60% of Americans knew smoking cigarettes increased health. Most people are that easily brainwashed. Last edited by tw; 01-25-2015 at 09:40 AM. |
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01-25-2015, 09:25 AM | #9 |
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http://journals.cambridge.org/action...07114502001794
Probiotics are viable non-pathogenic micro-organisms which, when ingested, exert a positive influence on host health or physiology. We have critically analysed the evidence for the efficacy of specific probiotic strains in human gastrointestinal diseases. The best evidence can be obtained with randomised controlled trials which avoid bias. Good evidence has been obtained with several strains in the prevention or treatment of antibiotic-associated disorders, in the treatment (and to a lesser extent prevention) of gastroenteritis and acute diarrhoea and in the alleviation of lactose intolerance. We also analysed the recent randomised controlled trials performed in patients with Clostridium difficile or Helicobacter pylori, inflammatory bowel disease, irritable bowel syndrome, non-ulcer dyspepsia and colon cancer.
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01-25-2015, 09:42 AM | #10 | |
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Meanwhile that speculative paper confuses many manipulated by spin. The point remains - most only believe the first thing they are told. Never demand that always required reasons why - with numbers. Most are that easily manipulated expecially by the rich who can now spend as much as they want to tell the naive how to think. The Supreme Court says it is good that the rich have much more free speech than anyone else. More people can now believe Jenny McCarthy. Last edited by tw; 01-25-2015 at 10:06 AM. |
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01-25-2015, 10:28 AM | #11 |
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Wrong, Dannon lost a class action suit for $56 million to the FDA and 39 states for making overblown claims, Dannon products with probotics would keep kids from getting colds/flu and they would miss less school.
They paid $35 million in 2008 for the same thing.
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01-25-2015, 03:00 PM | #13 |
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Between OOP costs, increased in premiums and reductions in coverage, I'll be out about $5000 more with my great new insurance plan.
I can't afford all this Free stuff & help.
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01-25-2015, 03:55 PM | #14 | |||
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This is from 2010 in the US: ABC News Dannon to Pay $45M to Settle Yogurt Lawsuit Feb. 26, 2010 By TROY MCMULLEN Quote:
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