Do you trust Harry Reid?

This section of the bill sounds like it is taking away the power of future congressional leaders to change the healthcare bill. I don't care if there are death panels or not, placing restrictions on future legislative action seems short sighted and scary to me.

clipped from www.redstate.com Section 3403 of Senator Harry Reid’s amendment requires that “it shall not be in order in the Senate or the House of Representatives to consider any bill, resolution, amendment, or conference report that would repeal or otherwise change this subsection.” The good news is that this only applies to one section of the Obamacare legislation. The bad news is that it applies to regulations imposed on doctors and patients by the Independent Medical Advisory Boards a/k/a the Death Panels.

Coroner completes Brittany Murphy autopsy - Yahoo! News

• Coroner completes Brittany Murphy autopsy - Yahoo! News

  
  

• BBC News - US snowball fight gun officer 'totally inappropriate'

  
  

• Glenn Beck: Media Matters ' 2009 Misinformer of the Year | Media Matters for America

  
  

• Most outrageous comments of 2009 | Media Matters for America

  
  

• Yawn.... Time sure played it safe this year.

  
  

• Brittany Murphy Photos & Pics | Stars Remember Brittany Murphy

  
  

• CNN: Sarah Palin's 'Death Panel' Comment Wins 'Lie of the Year'

  
  

• The Ayn Rand Center for Individual Rights: THE NATURE OF GOVERNMENT

  
  

• President Bush was right...

  As American troops prepare to pull out of Iraq the country might be in the best condition in years. Open to the rest of the world after the removal of Saddam Husein, and settling into a post war peace means concerns about cucumbers and parking are growing and violence shrinking. However, the threat from Iran remains. It might be noted that Iran and Iraq have long been tense neighbors. While some Iraqis may want a continued American presence in the country, it isn't clearly beneficial or necessary. American power in the region should be enough to prevent Iran from provoking any real trouble, and minor problems can be handled by Iraqis. The presence of American troops on the other hand continues to provide fuel to elements that don't like America and don't want to see democracy in Iraq. This fuel makes the country more unstable than it might be otherwise.

  
  

• Editorial: Pot law creates a confusing cloud - Sacramento Opinion - Sacramento Editorial | Sacramento Bee

  
  

• Subcontinental Smut: Is Soot the Culprit Behind Melting Himalayan Glaciers?: Scientific American

  The Himalaya Mountain region is warming up three to five times faster than the global trends—or about half a degree Celsius per decade—and many of its glaciers are rapidly losing mass. Greenhouse gases alone cannot explain this warming, however, and several new studies are pointing to an old form of pollution: soot.

  
  

• Restrictive Monsanto Seed Contracts Investigated - The Consumerist

  
  

• Joe Lieberman Gets So Appalling Even the New York Times Can't Resist Mentioning It - Joe Lieberman - Gawker

  Mr. Lieberman could not be happier. He is right where he wants to be - at the center of the political aisle, the center of the Democrats' efforts to win 60 votes for their sweeping health care legislation. For the moment, he is at the center of everything - and he loves it.

  
  

• YouTube - Monsanto will own all seed

  Monsanto are corporate criminals. What happens against farmers is not an accident when Monsanto is involved! Farmers worlwide are suffering irreversible debt because of this corporation. People can live without clothing for the most part. We can live without buying homes if we are able to build rudimentary shelters. We cannot live without food and water. If corporations own our seeds and clean water supply, they own us. Monsanto is not at all affected by hundreds of farmers committing suicide.

  
  

• Drunk Woman Steals Ambulance, Admits She

  
  

• Autocomplete Me » I Will!

  
  

• Just When You Thought Joe Lieberman Couldn't Get Any Worse - Healthcare - Gawker

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Misinformer of the Year 2009: Glenn Beck

Yawn.... Time sure played it safe this year.

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Actress Brittany Murphy Dead at 32

Lieberman Socks

Girl, Interrupted - Ice Cream Outting

Brittany Murphy in Clueless - Rollin' With The Homies after the party

CNN: Sarah Palin's 'Death Panel' Comment Wins 'Lie of the Year'

clipped from newsbusters.org

The Ayn Rand Center for Individual Rights: THE NATURE OF GOVERNMENT

clipped from www.aynrand.org The Ayn Rand Center for Individual Rights (ARC) is a public policy and media center in Washington, DC. A division of the Ayn Rand Institute, the Center advocates for individual rights, with an emphasis on the morality of business and capitalism.

President Bush was right...

As American troops prepare to pull out of Iraq the country might be in the best condition in years. Open to the rest of the world after the removal of Saddam Husein, and settling into a post war peace means concerns about cucumbers and parking are growing and violence shrinking.

However, the threat from Iran remains. It might be noted that Iran and Iraq have long been tense neighbors. While some Iraqis may want a continued American presence in the country, it isn't clearly beneficial or necessary. American power in the region should be enough to prevent Iran from provoking any real trouble, and minor problems can be handled by Iraqis. The presence of American troops on the other hand continues to provide fuel to elements that don't like America and don't want to see democracy in Iraq. This fuel makes the country more unstable than it might be otherwise.

clipped from www.csmonitor.com During Mullen's walk, Iraqis there were at once wary and friendly, with children and shopkeepers talking to the American soldiers and posing for pictures. One shopkeeper stopped Mullen to complain about parking. Fears of violence just aren’t as much on the minds of Iraqis as they once were, Mullen said later.