Take Action TODAY For Health Care Reform

Things are heating up in Washington this week on Health Care Reform and there might never be a better time for us to make our voices heard. I stumbled upon this blog this morning and was left not knowing if I should laugh or cry:

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What is Your Current Health Care Situation? - A Quick Poll

This is a quick poll to see where the U.S. Newsvine community sits on the insured/uninsured scale. I know there are Newsviners who are not U.S. residents so I'm asking for votes only from U.S. Viners.

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You Want a Brain? For a 16 Year old Male? Ha Ha Ha Ha Ha!

I was at CVS to pick up a few things. It's been a rough week. Actually a rough week following a very long and very rough week. The cashier asked, "Did you find everything OK?" "No," I said. "I couldn't find a brain for my 16 year old son."

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UPDATED - Let's Just Be Honest in our Terminology Please: Are you Pro-Life or Just Pro-Birth?

A man was murdered in a house of worship yesterday. Some people want to excuse it or justify it because the man performed a legal medical procedure that some disapprove of because the procedure violates their moral and/or religious beliefs.

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Sometimes We Just Have To Speak Up

A little thing, some would say, but that's not how I saw it and clearly the gentleman most hurt by the ignorance didn't see it that way. My sixteen year old turned to me and, trying to make light of what clearly shocked him, said "See, that's why no one trusts Whitey."

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Meet My Friend Barbara – She's Uninsured (And Sadly Typical)

Barbara is 52 years old, a college graduate who has worked since she was 14 years old at one job or another.

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Where Is The Compassion

I have just gone through and de-tracked alot of the seeds i was following. The reason being - I just can't take it anymore. The hatred, the under valuing of people, the bigotry, the judgments. I am saddened to find that the biggest offenders are people that claim to be Christian.

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About Kate In Greensboro

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I'd rather diffuse a bomb than argue over whose fault it is that a bomb is about to explode.