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Jonathan Haidt: How common threats can make common (political) ground - YouTube
Ronald Reagan says if aliens attacked the earth all our supposed differences would vanish in the common struggle for survival. Prof. Haidt is working hard to find ways to help us overcome our partisan (psychological) differences. This TEDTalk points to issues wherein the politics of for example, Grover Norquist and me are in significant agreement. To tell the truth, I LIKE believing I am in an important sense on Grover's and George Bush's team!
Jonathan Haidt: How common threats can make common (political) ground - YouTube
Jonathan Haidt: How common threats can make common (political) ground - YouTube
Sunday, March 17, 2013
Male Affection in Vintage Photos
Can you imagine the stones it took back in the day for a man to create a record of himself and his boyfriends? While it is absolutely true that nothing is visible in these photos save affection, I think you have to beat your imagination with a sledge hammer to not recognize these boys as gay.
Male Affection in Vintage Photos » Sociological Images
Male Affection in Vintage Photos » Sociological Images
Monday, February 25, 2013
Wednesday, February 13, 2013
Rape in the US is down more than 80% since 1979
Statistics Show Drop In U.S. Rape Cases - Washington Post 6/19/06
"Overall, there has clearly been a decline over the last 10 to 20 years," said Kim Gandy, president of the National Organization for Women. "It's very liberating for women, in terms of now being able to be more free and more safe."
he U.S. Justice Department's National Crime Victimization Survey (considered our best measure of crime because its anonymous surveys capture offenses not reported to police) reports that rape has been falling dramatically for decades. The first survey, in 1973, estimated that 105,000 females, ages 12 to 24, were raped that year. In the 1980s and early 1990s, the survey was expanded to include sexual assault and attempted or threatened offenses. Even so, the latest survey (in a young female population 1 million larger than in 1973) reported that 30,000 females, ages 12 to 24, were raped and 60,000 were victims of attempted rape or real or attempted sexual offenses (including verbal threats) in 2005.
The Startling Decline in Rape - Washington Monthly 6/3/11
Tuesday, February 12, 2013
Health Care in Chile
Auge plan
There are a number of high-mortality pathological conditions (currently 69[5]) that have special guarantees for both Isapre and Fonasa affiliates. The Auge (from the Spanish Acceso Universal con Garantías Explícitas, "Universal Access with Explicit Guarantees") or Ges (Garantías Explícitas en Salud, "Explicit Guarantees in Healthcare") plan includes four guarantees in relation to these illnesses:[4]
Access: individuals will be able to get attention from a network of providers near their place of residence,
Opportunity: there is a maximum pre-established time limit to get attention (both initial attention and after the diagnosis),
Quality: services will follow technical requirement standards that will be established based on medical evidence, and
Financial coverage: payment to providers cannot be an obstacle to attention. There will be a maximum copayment of 20% of the cost, with the total not to exceed one month of income for the family in a year.
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"Few people realize that end stage renal disease is a disease for which we have universal coverage, irrespective of your age right here in the United States... The principle of covering everyone for serious diseases is already well established... one way we could have had universal health insurance in this country was to extend the number of organs covered. Imagine if we covered the heart and the liver".
"The composite rate is intended to cover all operating and capital costs that efficient providers would incur in furnishing dialysis in outpatient facilities or in beneficiaries' homes. The base composite rate as of 2006 is $130 for freestanding dialysis facilities. Medicare caps its payments to facilities at an amount equal to three dialysis sessions per week. Although home dialysis may be given more frequently it is not fully reimbursed by Medicare." Wikipedia - End Stage Renal Disease Program
- Victor Rodwin - Professor of Health Policy and Management Robert F. Wagner Graduate School of Public Service New York University
"The composite rate is intended to cover all operating and capital costs that efficient providers would incur in furnishing dialysis in outpatient facilities or in beneficiaries' homes. The base composite rate as of 2006 is $130 for freestanding dialysis facilities. Medicare caps its payments to facilities at an amount equal to three dialysis sessions per week. Although home dialysis may be given more frequently it is not fully reimbursed by Medicare." Wikipedia - End Stage Renal Disease Program
Wednesday, February 06, 2013
Libya Lies
What Qaddafi said:
Speaking on a call-in radio show, [Qaddafi] promised amnesty for those "who throw their weapons away" but "no mercy or compassion" for those who fight. - NYTimes - 18 March 2011
What Obama SAID Qaddafi said in trying to justify the US attack:
"At this point, the United States and the world faced a choice. Qaddafi declared he would show “no mercy” to his own people. He compared them to rats, and threatened to go door to door to inflict punishment. In the past, we have seen him hang civilians in the streets, and kill over a thousand people in a single day. Now we saw regime forces on the outskirts of the city. We knew that if we wanted -- if we waited one more day, Benghazi, a city nearly the size of Charlotte, could suffer a massacre that would have reverberated across the region and stained the conscience of the world". - POTUS March 28, 2011
"We lead from the front," Obama said. "We introduced the resolution in the United Nations that allowed us to protect civilians in Libya when (Muammar) Gadhafi was threatening to slaughter them. - USA Today - 11/10/27
“Gaddafi airstrikes on Libya did not take place” – Russian military
Black Africans lynched by Libyan "rebels" - Google Search
Libya's "Great Man Made River" Bombed by NATO - Google Search
Tuesday, February 05, 2013
We Already Have Universal Health Coverage!
"Few people realize that end stage renal disease is a disease for which we have universal coverage, irrespective of your age right here in the United States... The principle of covering everyone for serious diseases is already well established... one way we could have had universal health insurance in this country was to extend the number of organs covered. Imagine if we covered the heart and the liver".
- Victor Rodwin - Professor of Health Policy and Management Robert F. Wagner Graduate School of Public Service New York University
Tuesday, January 29, 2013
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Wednesday, November 14, 2012
Blame It On Kabul
Loud thermobaric explosions at dawn, fill a man's heart with romance
Kalashnikovs crackling at dusk make him want, to go find some woman and dance
The scent of an improv explosive device wafts from the nose to the heart
From there it heads south to a bodily region where trouble has been known to start
Afghanistan's Capitol is such a place as feminine mystery abounds
With woman flesh covered in burkas it is fantasy's favorite town
With all the repressed sexuality there who might not behave like a fool?
Passion, deception, intrigue and betrayal let's just blame it all on Kabul
Look at poor general David Petraeus he never stood one chance in hell
When into Afghanistan's heated milieu came super-hot Paula Broadwell
With a body as hard as an M-16 barrel and responsive to touch like its trigger
Broadwell's attention made Petraeus' ego and some of his other parts bigger
The CIA chief's secret love gives real meaning to the old term "gag rule"
But secrets, skulduggery danger and lies are just par for the course in Kabul
General John Allen is just one more guy caught up in the lust of the war
Testosterone mixed with adrenaline and made his heart burst with amor
The boom of the bombs and the boobs of the babe turned marital honor to jelly
And 30,000 documents later we know he fell for Jill Kelley
He general's rational mind lost the fight between it and has manly crown jewels
But once he arrived in the place he was done for everyone's crazed in Kabul
It all seems so tawdry, puerile and low class that's why it's so darn much fun!
With each peeling back of the onion skin you think the good part's just begun
Sure they are four-star generals but fundamentally they are just guys
And we are entitled to any opinion about men except for surprise
But cut them some slack, let's save them some face let's make a new Golden Rule
Thou shall not judge men who just follow hormones, especially when there in Kabul
Thursday, November 01, 2012
Monday, October 10, 2011
How Banks Got Too Big to Fail | Mother Jones
As if you needed more reasons to support the Occupy Wall Street movement, this chart illustrates that before the passage of Gramm-Leach-Bliley there were a lot more banks, none of which were too big to fail.
How Banks Got Too Big to Fail | Mother Jones
How Banks Got Too Big to Fail | Mother Jones
Wednesday, June 15, 2011
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