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POPSSeeding the Universe with Life: Our Moral Obligation? I'm still not sure what my take on this is, but I do believe that equating "life in general" with not only human purpose and values, but also our moral obligation skips a few arguments & requires a big jump. First link is the popular science version of Mautner's ideas & proposal. Second is a scholarly article by him.
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POPSCan'tPass It? Just Make an Executive Orderby
davboz Yesterday 11:40 PM 
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The rest of the article argues mainly from the left but the opening shows the hubris of this arrogant radical Progressivist. Sure, he's appeasing conservatives' goal to cut entitlements, but I sense it comes from the opposite ideology. The elderly may be more conservative (who needs 'em) and the social-ist progressive would direct entitlement to young and the liberal. One feels the elder cuts are just to make the rest of it look not as bad.
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POPSTwo For One Please read this and take action IMMEDIATELY! The first deadline is March 22!
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POPSLatest Dem Bill Raises Medicare Tax for Fourth Time -- Before Even Being Enacted
But not to be undone, the House Democrats have announced that the new investment tax would be increased to 3.7 percent. This effectively means a capital gains tax hike, coming on top of the 0.9 percent tax, which comes on top of existing payroll taxes. This follows the historical pattern of payroll taxes, which have increased 20 times since first introduced in 1935, going from a combined total of 2 percent (including employer/employee contributions) to 15.3 percent today. Now that this new tax is in place, we can only assume that if Obamacare is enacted, this pattern would continue. And one other thing that's worth noting. During the campaign, Obama touted the idea of imposing a payroll tax on higher income earners as a means of helping to make Social Security solvent. Instead, he's now tapping into that revenue stream to create a new entitlement. Latest Dem Bill Raises Medicare Tax for Fourth Time -- Before Even Being Enacted http://bit.ly/cbxeSS
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POPSCall to Arms: Join Me in DC Saturday to Stop ObamaCare Chaos: Stupak proposal riles pro-choice Dems but shows Pelosi may not have the votes March 19, 2010 An attempt late Friday by Rep. Bart Stupak, a pro-life Michigan Democrat, to change abortion language in President Obama’s health care bill riled pro-choice lawmakers who vowed not to allow the revision. The move by Stupak, who holds a crucial bloc of Democratic votes that if released would clear the way for the health bill, threw Capitol Hill into confusion late Friday, less than two days before the House is set to vote on the landmark legislation. Stupak, leaving the Capitol, said that House Speaker Nancy Pelosi’s willingness to talk to him about his idea shows Democrats “don’t have the votes, or they wouldn’t be talking to me,” he said in an interview with The Hill’s Molly Hooper. It was not entirely clear how exactly Stupak’s proposal would work. Stupak is reportedly trying to change the abortion language through a procedure called a “concurrent resolution" .....
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POPSJapan happy as export ban on Atlantic bluefin tuna rejected Papawhale at 01:49 PM JST - 19th March Celebrate while you can, selfish Sushi gluttons because you and Japan just killed the Bluefin tuna for good, or will soon. Thanks to you greedy freaks, my grandkids will never be able to enjoy not only Bluefin but many other species of fish you (and to be fair, other nations) have over fished for too long. I hope your grandkids enjoy Asian Soylent Green
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POPSThe Democrats' Tyrannical Abuse of Power She is proposing to overtly circumvent our Constitution by way of the "Slaughter Solution." Rep. Louise Slaughter, chairman of the House Rules Committee, proposes to pass legislation using the "self-executing rule," which will allow the House to accept the already-passed Senate health care bill by presumption alone, thus negating a formal up-or-down vote by House members. Chart House HealthCare Maze of Orwellian Bureaucracies to Administer and Police The New Fascists Command and Control (including the IRS) click to enlarge jpg image http://pal2pal.com/BLOGEE/images/uploads/housestatisthealthchart1109.jpg Most of the Leftist-controlled political and popular debate about the Democrat proposal to turn over to the central government control of more than 17 percent of the U.S. economy, is focused on one question or another -- what will it cost or save, who will pay and who won't, who will be covered and for what, will there be enough physicians to support this in 10 years ....
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POPSWhy Obama Can't Move the HealthCare Numbers Why can't the president move the numbers? One reason may be that he keeps talking about details of the proposal while voters are looking at the issue in a broader context. Polling conducted earlier this week shows that 57% of voters believe that passage of the legislation would hurt the economy, while only 25% believe it would help. That makes sense in a nation where most voters believe that increases in government spending are bad for the economy. When the president responds that the plan is deficit neutral, he runs into a pair of basic problems. The first is that voters think reducing spending is more important than reducing the deficit. So a plan that is deficit neutral with a big spending hike is not going to be well received.
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POPSSustainabili-Tea This project won University of BC students $25,000 in the recent TD Friends of the Environment 2010 "Go Green" Challenge
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POPSDems Celebrate “Sunshine Week” By … Pushing Demon Pass “During Sunshine Week, which focuses on the importance of open government and freedom of information, Congress is taking action to make the government more accountable, transparent and responsive to the American people,” reads a fact sheet distributed to House Dems’ offices, and which was provided to Hotline OnCall by an incredulous Dem aide. Not to take anything away from these proposals, which do little but nibble around the edges, but wouldn’t having members commit to a vote on controversial legislation create more sunshine than paying down debt from office accounts? The very nature of open government in a representative government requires that elected officials have accountability for the laws they pass. The social contract that binds constituents to these laws depends on that accountability. If we cannot hold our representatives individually and collectively responsible for passage of laws, then we have ceased being a free people and have entered into an autocratic ...
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POPSDISASTERS in ObamaCare Your tax burden will increase: The Senate bill contains as many as 19 new taxes. The entire proposal functions as a massive regressive tax falling on the young and lower income workers, making them beholden to subsidies and punishing success. Your health care will cost more: Obamacare's attempt to "bend the cost curve" and slow the pace of rising health care costs is a sham. In reality, the only reductions in cost come through reduced government reimbursements to hospitals and doctors, who will be forced to lower the quality of care and pass more costs on to the taxpayers.
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POPSBusiness Proposals: Portraits Your Business Business proposals is the most important element that brings business for your organization and also helps you to make clients or customers to make your business success. You should always check once before sending your business proposals to your clients. Because proposal means a lot for your business success.
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POPSShark conservation proposal defeated at U.N. meeting How would people like it if some predator cut off one of their arms and threw them back into a cubicle to work? Humans and their "cultures" are very cruel and will eventually kill the oceans and all the fish, cetaceans, coral reefs. Hence we kill ourselves.
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POPSAmil Amani Lit the Lamp of Truth This excellent article contains moral clarity sorely needed in perilous times. Read it and ponder it well. Share it with your family, friends and associates.
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POPSORRIN HATCH RELEASES ANALYSIS; TAX HIKES IN DEMOCRATS' $2.5 TRILLION HEALTH CARE BILL would see their taxes go up. Holtz-Eakin found, through an analysis of data by the congressional Joint Committee on Taxation, that: Only about 7 percent of Americans would actually receive a government subsidy to help pay for mandatory health insurance. 25 percent of those earning under $200,000 a year would see their taxes rise. In other words, for every one family that would receive the government subsidy, three middle-class families would pay higher taxes. 93 percent of Americans would NOT be eligible for a tax benefit under the bill. Below is the complete analysis by Doug Holtz-Eakin provided to Senator Hatch: Recent Facts on the Distributional Impact of the Senate Health Care Bill In the midst of all the rhetoric about the evil insurance companies from the Democratic side of the aisle to justify the passage of this $2.5 trillion health care bill and all the rhetoric about government takeover from the Republican side of the aisle...
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POPSObama Comes to Ohio (Again), Nobody Shows Up The fact of the matter is that Ohioans are almost solely focused on jobs, jobs, and more jobs. On the economy, President Obama is heavily into negative territory (37 percent approve, 57 percent disapprove) as Ohioans in large numbers disprove of his handling of the economy. Given the fact that Ohio had a net increase in jobs from 1990" 2010 of just 79,100 private sector jobs in a state of 11.4 million people, these findings shouldn't be a surprise. For Ohioans, it really is time that President Obama stopped trying to ram health-care legislation through and started doing what he said he would do in the State of the Union speech " focus like a laser on jobs. Matt A. Mayer - The Corner on National Review Online http://bit.ly/95Ljjd
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POPSAlice in Wonderland real great 3D movie, enjoy watching it with my little girl. I love the characters especially the Mad Hatter =)
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POPSCreating Proposals with Proposal Software Proposal helps company to get going and helps in getting more deals. In the era of competition it is very important for each & every company to keep showing their strengths to win the clients trust and confidence.
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POPSMore of the Same We can look at this another way: The failure of firms reflects the combined judgment of market actors that there is a need for significant, and perhaps structural, change. Profits and losses are the best signals out there to ensure not just that economies undergo necessary changes, but that they do so in the ways that consumers want. Overriding the profit-and-loss mechanism through bailouts and nationalizations is a way to prevent structural change from taking place.
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POPSLimiting liability - Shrink the eurozone, or create a fiscal union Why should the Germans be liable for the corruption and profligacy of their Southern neighbors? So it's back to the old Common Market and an opportunity to create lots of new local currencies. As is so often the case, a better outcome is possible, but unlikely. Can people learn to live in dignified poverty working for and trading amongst themselves? The saving grace for the Southerners is that that's the way the Black Economy works anyway.
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POPSBusiness Proposal: Decisive Component in Business Proposals are the decisive component in business. They are the effective way to promote your business. If you want to make business proposals more effective and impressive then you should focus on some important points.
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POPSBluefin tuna tops CITES conference agenda in Doha
“I don’t think anyone has an argument against the listing of Atlantic bluefin tuna,” said Wijnstekers, whose organization has come out in support of the export ban. “There is no scientific argument against that.” According to the U.N. Food and Agriculture Organization, more than half of all marine fish stocks are under threat. Monaco—the sponsor of the proposed ban on the export of Atlantic bluefin tuna—says numbers have fallen by nearly 75% since 1957. But most of the decline has occurred over the last decade with demand driven by sushi lovers in Japan and elsewhere for the bluefin’s succulent red and pink meat. The United States backed the ban proposal last week. Many European countries also expressed support Japan, which consumes 80 percent of Atlantic bluefin eaten worldwide, has said it will ignore the ban. The more critical issue is whether other key fishing countries will join Japan’s rebuff—which would allow them to sell tuna to Japan. Tokyo also argues that co
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