"They say it's a government takeover of health care – a big lie, just like Goebbels. You say it enough, you repeat the lie, you repeat the lie, you repeat the lie, and eventually people believe it. Like blood libel. That's the same kind of thing.
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Miracle. Kidnapped baby 23 years ago-Alive and Well. Carlina White, Christopher Dansby & Shane Walker
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The Gateway (Sweet Home Alabama–Neil Young Was Right Edititon)
|Just when you think the Mayor may have been chastened by his recent run of luck, he proves he didn't assimilate the lesson that the problem wasn't the accumulation of precipitation, but rather the uncleaned accumulations of arrogance and cluelessness.
Quid Pro Cuomo? (Revised)
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As I think I've already made clear, I've little problem with the spending (more accurately “cutting”) side of the Governor's agenda.
We don't have the money, and last year's elections make clear there is no mandate (and probably the opposite) for any tax increases. Though the economy is a great part of our revenue shortfalls, there are also structural problems with the way our state does its business.
The crisis will be a great opportunity to address a few of them.
The Gateway (Three Day Weekend Wrap Edition)
|Let us not forget that when Dr. King began his career, America was in many of its component parts a de jure apartheid state. By the time King died, though his work was not complete (and is not yet now) America was no longer so.
How Are Businesses Like People?
|The New York Times is reporting that the majority of states did not save up enough money in the good times to pay unemployment benefits in recession, and have borrowed $billions from the federal government. One reason is that businesses successfully lobbied for lower unemployment taxes. "Right now, 30 states owe money to the federal government for their unemployment programs. Many of them tried to keep their unemployment taxes low in recent decades as states have competed with one another to lure companies and jobs. Now, although unemployment taxes are low by historic standards, the states face the strong possibility that they will have to take action at the worst possible time, raising taxes on employers at a time of low hiring, and cutting benefits when they are most needed."
If you outsource everything to China right now, your business would have benefited from those lower taxes in the past and won't be around to pay that money back. But if you start a new business today you'll get socked with the higher taxes to offset what was not paid in the past. This is just one example of what is happening, and will be happening.
Marriage Equality Film’s New York Premiere
|The opening of March On is scheduled for January 30th at the New York City LGBT Center and on January 28th at the Proctor in Schenectady where it kicks off the capital region’s Q Fest and it may prove to be a game changer for the movement in favor of marriage equality in the United States as the film puts a human face on the inequalities of the institution of marriage and the trials and tribulations of same sex couples as they try to adopt to a country that has chosen, for the most par
Marriage Equality Day in Albany
|February 8th is marriage equality day in Albany where approximately 160 people are expected to converge in order to meet with elected officials. Marriage equality supporters are being bused in from all over the state as part of an organizing drive led by Marriage Equality New York.
The Prism of Faith
|There may very well be one god who however offers different interpretations of his/her existence through a diverse array of religions reflecting the characteristics of their respective people. So a Britain sees a Protestant god, the Spanish a Catholic one, an Israelite a Jewish god, an Egyptian a Muslim one and a Native American sees their own spiritual array of beliefs so on and so forth through Hinduism and Buddhism and other religions.