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Tuesday, August 20. 2013

Tuesday morning links

Funeral eulogies banned in Irish Catholic diocese


What Is a Brony?


Help Thy Neighbor and Go Straight to Prison


Arctic sea ice-free by 2013


America's Libertarian Moment - A longtime libertarian policy wonk talks about whether the
philosophy can save the GOP -- and why he still doesn't think Rand Paul
can win the presidency.


Obamacare: Lawmaker, Regulate Thyself


Your new health care system, schematized


Obama’s vague Buffett Rule a political ploy


Scientists Unlock Self-Fertilizing Crops


NY Welfare Recipients Eligible For More In Benefits Than Teachers Earn


The Worst Argument Against Catastrophic Health Coverage


The ‘Forced Home Inspections’ in Obamacare Law


Adult kids at home: New Jersey’s Boomerang Generation


Are big-time journalists out of touch with America?

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"Your new health care system, schematized"

Ok, now lets see the same picture with the labels on each object replaced with the cost of each object. Particularly the government objects.
#1 Larry Geiger on 2013-08-20 08:02 (Reply)
Re: Arctic sea ice-free by 2013

If I want to see the polar ice caps, I better hurry! I only have four months left to do it!
#2 mudbug on 2013-08-20 09:02 (Reply)
"Help Thy Neighbor and and go straight to prison". It's a great story but it is all untrue. This kindly man who was helping his nieghbor was also committing robberies and even brought his young son to the crimes. Something the author conveniently left out of the story. What really happened is this man reverted to his old habits of crimes and was caught.
#3 GoneWithTheWind on 2013-08-20 10:06 (Reply)
There is also the issue that the story keeps saying that he "innocently" possessed the shotgun shells. As a convicted felon he should have known what he was allowed to do and not allowed to do. Ignorance of the law in this case is no excuse in this case. Clearly he has been in trouble with the law and should be more aware of it than your average citizen.

Further, he is a "stay-at-home" dad because he is on disability. His disability is back problems and rheumatoid arthritis? Maybe; but I know several people with such "health problems" and they work. It sounds to me like someone has learned how to game the system. He gets no sympathy from me.
#3.1 Charles on 2013-08-20 11:09 (Reply)
The Irish Catholic diocese position on the funeral mass makes perfect sense to me. The psychologist's emotional focused blather not so much.

The best funeral services I've attended are a basic mass where the priest delivers a homily that everyone can learn from and that is personalized to the deceased, family and friends.

Personal stories, funny and touching memories can be shared at a post funeral party.
#4 phil g on 2013-08-20 10:59 (Reply)
This is not exclusive to Ireland - bishops here in the US are also enforcing restrictions. Obviously in the Extraordinary Form the Requiem Mass is highly structured; we run into trouble in the current structure of the Mass. I agree with the restrictions. It's why there's an informal gathering of friends and family of the deceased immediately after the Mass. Besides, by then most folks are ready for a nosh and a stiff drink!

http://wdtprs.com/blog/2013/08/another-bishop-restricts-eulogies/
#4.1 KellyM on 2013-08-20 11:15 (Reply)
Yeah, it made sense to me too.
#4.2 DrTorch on 2013-08-20 12:59 (Reply)
"Help a neighbor, go to Prison" is one reason I seldom read the Times. Can it publish news without propaganda?

Here's the quote from the article:

This case captures what is wrong with our “justice” system: We have invested in mass incarceration in ways that are crushingly expensive, break up families and are often simply cruel. With less than 5 percent of the world’s population, the United States has almost one-quarter of the world’s prisoners.

Free all prisoners, especially rapists--should be cheaper.

Criminals should be separated from their families. That's why it's called prison and not a family picnic.

As to the last statistc: the questions should be: why are so many people law breakers in the USA as compared to, say, Zimbabwe? And why are other nations justice systems so corrupt that criminals rage I disturbed?
#5 ErisGuy on 2013-08-20 11:29 (Reply)
Seems to me the real schematic is a cobweb with Barry and the IRS at the center waiting to eat us.

It seems to me so...unlike...the NYT, saying nice things about a white apprarently-middle-class guy.

I just bought a new Polar Ice cap from Amazon--looks great on me!

All the arguments against catastrophic health insurance are to funnel us into a one-size-fits-all maw in which our bones are ground into dust.

Da Press: One of the things I like about TMC is the old movies about newspapers, or reporters helping solve crimes. These were working-class folks. Sure, it's a movie, and fake, but there was fact under the fiction. These were not college grads, for the most part.
#6 Sam L. on 2013-08-20 12:25 (Reply)
i went on holiday seasons for 8 times in December very last calendar year, i had been at a very good weight loss. i stopped for the about a thirty day period. then picked it up peice by peice now i smoke only joints at night (about 3 an evening) i use to smoke bongs not joints.
#7 weight loss (Link) on 2013-08-23 21:11 (Reply)

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