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As you all know. Had congress passed a government-run robust Public Option CHOICE! available to everyone on day one, our economy and jobs would have taken off like a rocket. And still will.
The message from these midterm elections is clear. The American people want real healthcare reform. They want that individual mandate requiring them to buy private health insurance abolished. And they want a government-run robust public option CHOICE! available to everyone on day one. And they want it now.
They want Drug re-importation, and abolishment or strong restrictions on patents for biologic and prescription drugs. And government controlled and negotiated drug and medical cost. They want back control of their healthcare system from the Medical Industrial Complex. And they want it NOW!
For profit health insurance is extremely unethical, and morally repugnant. It's as morally repugnant as slavery was. And few if any decent Americans are going to allow them-self to be compelled to support such an unethical and immoral crime against humanity.
This is a matter of National and Global security. There can be NO MORE EXCUSES.
Further, we want that corrupt, undemocratic filibuster abolished. Whats the point of an election if one corrupt member of congress can block the will of the people, and any legislation the majority wants. And do it in secret. Give me a break people.
Also, unemployment healthcare benefits are critically needed. But they should be provided through the Medicare program at cost, less the 65% government premium subsidy provided now to private for profit health insurance.
Congress should stop wasting hundreds of millions of dollars of taxpayer money on private for profit health insurance subsidies. Subsidies that cost the taxpayer 10x as much or more than Medicare does. Private for profit health insurance plans cost more. But provide dangerous and poorer quality patient care.
Republicans: GET RID OF THE INDIVIDUAL MANDATE.
Democrats: ADD A ROBUST GOVERNMENT-RUN PUBLIC OPTION TO HEALTHCARE REFORM.
This is what the American people are shouting at you. Both parties have just enough power now to do what the American people want. GET! IT! DONE! NOW!
If congress does not abolish the individual mandate. And establish a government-run public option CHOICE! before the end of 2011. EVERY! member of congress up for reelection in 2012 will face strong progressive pro public option, and anti-individual mandate replacement candidates.
Strong progressive pro "PUBLIC OPTION" CHOICE! and anti-individual mandate volunteer candidates should begin now. And start the process of replacing any and all members of congress that obstruct, or fail to add a government-run robust PUBLIC OPTION CHOICE! before the end of 2011.
We need two or three very strong progressive volunteer candidates for every member of congress that will be up for reelection in 2012. You should be fully prepared to politically EVISCERATE EVERY INCUMBENT that fails or obstructs "THE PUBLIC OPTION". And you should be willing to step aside and support the strongest pro "PUBLIC OPTION" candidate if the need arises.
ASSUME CONGRESS WILL FAIL and SELLOUT again. So start preparing now to CUT THEIR POLITICAL THROATS. You can always step aside if they succeed. But only if they succeed. We didn't have much time to prepare before these midterm elections. So the American people had to use a political shotgun approach. But by 2012 you will have a scalpel.
Congress you could pass a robust government-run public option now during your lame duck session. You know what the American people want. You already have several bills on record. And the house has already passed a public option. Departing members could leave with a truly great accomplishment. And the rest of you would solidify your job before the 2012 elections.
President Obama, you promised the American people a strong public option available to everyone. And the American people overwhelmingly supported you for it. Maybe it just wasn't possible before. But it is now.
Knock heads. Threaten people. Or do whatever you have to. We will support you. But get us that robust public option CHOICE! available to everyone on day one before the end of 2011. Or We The People Of The United States will make this midterm election look like a cake walk in 2012. And it will include you.
We still have a healthcare crisis in America. With hundreds of thousands dieing needlessly every year in America. And a for profit medical industrial complex that threatens the security and health of the entire world. They have already attacked the world with H1N1 killing thousands, and injuring millions. And more attacks are planned for profit, and to feed their greed.
Spread the word people.
Progressives, prepare the American peoples scalpels. It's time to remove some politically diseased tissues.
God Bless You my fellow human beings. I'm proud to be one of you. You did good.
See you on the battle field.
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This lunacy is never going to go away until we physically pick all the fascists/communists in DC (and rest of the country) and send them all to some remote siberian gulag and throw away the key.
How about we address one of the roots of the chronic DIET RELATED illness that eats 75% of our medical spending and get rid of the corn subsidy?
When I go into a grocery store and at random, pick items off the shelves, and reach for 37 of them before I find ONE without corn sweetener in it.. It is the apex of insanity to think our country is going to end up in a good place in a few more decades. Heck, look at where we are NOW...
OBVIOUSLY it's time to end the dietary suicide our country is going through.
God save us, we haven't the will..
Public health insurance option: does it apply to the Federales as well? After all, the American public will pay for it... Obama can go to a community clinic and line up instead of Walter Reed and Bethesda Naval Hospital / CA
9:17 pm - The Public Option is designed to be self-sustaining. People who sign up for the Option pay premiums.
Some critics say people will just wait until they're sick and then sign up, but this can be discouraged by imposing a 6 month waiting period between signing up for the Option and receiving coverage and paying premiums.
Over used phrases that mean nothing: "Bend [the] Health Care Cost Curve"
If the public "option" -- and I use the term loosely since there is nothing optional about it -- reduces the deficit, it will only come from (1) cutting pay to physicians and (2) rationing care. Who will go into medicine? The future of American health care is "take a number and wait."
John, it's already to the "take a number..." point. :-(
The future of American health care is "take a number and wait."
How is that different than how it is now?
I'm pinching myself. Can it be possible that good sense will reign and a public option will be reinstated as a way out of the legislative mess health care is currently in? Talk about a Hail Mary pass.
After the forced and fiscally tragic ,2300 page bill that no one read was forced on an unwilling public by the Democrats any leader that seriously suggests the socialist public option is going to be tarred and feathered. I wonder if the Democrats have any idea how much they poisened their well?
Let's get rid of the rest of them in 2012, scrap Obamacare and pass real healthcare insurance reform.
Republicans love to throw crap together half ass it and prey that it works, and benefits business.
The healthcare bill is a decent bill. It is not perfect and not for high earning Republicans. It is for the rest of us. It would have been perfect if not for Republicans and Pink Democrats. The old system did not work.
I'm going to plagiarise and somewhat alter an article's title from a non-WSJ site:
America Will Never Be Safe until the Last Liberal Is Strangled in the Entrails of the Last Bureaucrat
That is just one of the many ridiculous proposals of that debt panel. Bart and Homer would have had more sense than that absurd ex senator Simpson.
Surprised, 2 say the least, about some extremist views above. Why would we not consider the public option? It could not be worse than the out-of-control health costs now. Employers r going out of biz all over the country partially due to the high cost of health care costs, which continue to pass to employees in higher deductibles.
How about rewarding Americans for turning in frauds & cheats? Why r there so many cases of Medicare fraud?
H*ll no. The Government is incompetent. On paper the "public option" might save money, in reality it will cost more. I have only to look at Medicare and the promises made in the 1960's that it was only going to cost "this little teeny bit" and now it's the largest and fastest growing part of the budget. How many times in the last two years have we heard the phrase "more than economists expected"? No more socialism, dammit.
I can see right now that the only way we will ever avoid the national debt calamity is a 5-10% cut across the board so that everybody's sacred cow gets gored.
National Health Insurance never really went away. The reason why the Democrats lost the House of Representatives to the Republican rabble, was because they caved in to pressure from the insurance companies and right wing ideologues. They went with the Mitt Romney Massachusetts coerced insurance plan, deeply unpopular, and paid the electoral price. Polls continue to show that the majority of Americans want national health insurance , expected national health insurance, and were disappointed when the Democrats failed to deliver.
The following statement is a little misleading: "Currentlty, private insurers charge more than government insurance programs."
I think you meant to say: Currently, private insurers ARE CHARGED more than government insurance programs."
"But supporters contended it could actually give the government a new muscle to bend health spending, since such a plan would have new power to pay health-care providers at lower rates."
Please provide any example where a government monopoly reduced costs!
DoD? no... Post Office? no... Welfare? no... Public Schools? no... VA Hospital System? no... Russia? Cuba?
Reality is that only competition can reduce costs because no bureaucrat has to face stark reality. Consider the school unions, the postal unions, welfare corruption, medicare, politicians salaries/staffs, etc. etc.
In fact, cuts in the VA Hospital System is part of the "savings" that are proposed for the DoD cuts !!!! How do we come to the conclusion that a larger government bureaucracy can do better than a small one when our distinguished government pannel targets our largest examples of big bureaucraces as examples of waste and over-spending?
If the government can't run the Veterans hospitals cost effectively enough, then how is it at all conceivable that taking over all of medical services in the nation would lead to savings ????
In fact, by eliminating the competition, our government would not even be able to measure costs and effectiveness of their systems.... they would quickly become, over paid, lazy and ignorant of their own failings.... like every other monopoly in the history of the world. ....and I bet the bureaucrats would love having complete control with virtually no chance of competitive pressure or even comparison with a competitive alternative!
"Russia? Cuba?"
Both are making massive cuts in their government workforce because they simply cannot afford the inefficiency of huge bureaucracies. Cuba, where virtually all workers are government workers, is attempting 20% cuts, encouraging the layed off to become entrapreneurs and create new income, jobs for the increasingly stagnant nation.
One of the widely broadcast misconceptions about Medicare is that the administrative cost are "so much lower" than the costs in the "profit making" world of private insurance.
1) by simply not looking for fraud, by not evaluating their own performance in a competitive way, and by judging their performance on how much money they shovel out the door rather than how efficiently they actually cure people of real problems, medicare and other government insurance programs APPEAR cheaper by totally hide the huge cost of fraud and abuse due to incompetence.
2) many of those private insurance companies are actually mutual insurance companies where the owners of the company are the people insured.... they are not creating huge profits for investors but actually doing the due dilligence necessary to offer the best service they can for their members. If their administrative costs are "high" compared to medicare, you clearly can see that medicare is not doing "due dilligence".
Part of the reason for the high cost of healthcare to begin with is government mandates for the public safety. A Tylenol cost $5.00 in the E.R. because a Physcian must order it, a Pharmacist has to dispense it, a nurse must give it to the patient and a clerk must document it. This is all required by the government in order to comply with the State and Federal Regulations.....so if the Federal Government is not going to pay for what they are requiring how will physcians and hospitals comply with the regulations? If there are no private insurances and self pay how will they make up the difference, because the insurance companies are paying for the costs that the government and self pay are not paying. Hospitals and physicians will go out of business. I worked in a hospital for many years in a small community and as the small community grew older most of the hospital income was coming from Medicare and the hospital went out of business because it could not sustain the cost of services versus the revenue that was reimbursed.
In regard to healthcare REFORM, the very FIRST bill placed on the US House floor by the new Republican majority shouldn't be to repeal Obamacare, that can wait, but rather to pass what was NOT included in Obamacare, MEDICAL TORT REFORM; this alone would drastically reduce the costs of healthcare in this narion!
The next thing which should be done is to guide every Medicare and Medicaid beneficiary into an Advantage provider, private insurance HMO/PPO; there's your "fraud" savings becasue these "for profit" firms scrutinize for fraud on a continuinig basis, and as these would be limited in number (unlike the millions of individual providers now), they would be easier for the government to bargain with on costs and audit; this would also free up millions of private practitioners to accpet only private insurance and cash, which in turn would provide them with fewer clients but better bottom lines for their respective practices.
Wow...the uninformed are out in legions today. Tort reform may be a good idea for some reason, but it does not save money. California has had draconian lids on damages for years; over 30 states to lesser extent. Savings? Not so much. Look at your premium. Look at the costs nationwide. This is a myth from those who want to deny the real sources of excess cost.
Medicare Advantage as a cost SAVER. That's just hilarious and very stupid. Medicare Advantage plans cost 14% MORE to deliver the same service v. regular medicare plus supplements. Those are the facts from the last 4 yrs or so....Why Advantage plans must be subsidized.
Of course an all payer system would be able to control costs, but one would have to ask how a for-profit insurer would survive if they could not set their own rates? Really, an all payer system is only to appease those wedded to the insurance industry. Let me reinterpret the article because we have a hard time saying this in polite company. Single payer is the most efficient way of financing care. The sooner we get there, the sooner we can control costs and get to finally get a grip on our mounting deficit.
Tort reform at the state level is meaningless and should not be cited as a valid reference. The industry is national (actually global). Insurance is national. Premiums are set based on national experiences. No one state can make enough of an impact to matter.
It boggles the mind that anyone with a brain thinks that price controls can make things cheaper. If you fix a price that is below the cost of production, you simply make the product cease to exist. What next, forcibly enslaving providers and requiring them to continue to offer service even at a loss? That's what we'll need to do.
How can the government run a new health care program when they cant't even run medicare? For instance, you pay into medicare for approximately 40 years before you're eligible to take part in the program. Then you continue to pay premiums for the rest of your life - and they still can't run the program w/o a defecit. Sure would like to have several million people give me money for 40 years giving nothing in return. Then, when they start using the benefit, keep on charging them! AND the gov't want to do even more!!!
I've recently read that the Department of Justice is suing BlueCross of Michigan because they used their market share clout to negotiate lower rates with hospitals. The Fed felt the hospital would pass it's losses onto other insurers. What is different about this other than the public option would hasten the demise of private insurance by foisting more and more extra costs onto it while keeping it's expenses low artificially?
Medical care should not be for-profit. If there are profits, patients are being charged too much. The profits should be returned to the patients in the form of reduced premiums. Putting the patient in the position of dealing with an insurance company is ludicrous. There is no dialogue. If you have doubts about this, read the horror stories of reasonable people with reasonable requests denied - and the insurance-company-created gauntlet to stonewall solutions. Medicare certainly isn't the best system - but there are no private companies offering choice of doctor and hospital at about 1/3 the monthly premium (with no deductible or co-pay) in the most comprehensive medi-gap policies. Want to quickly and narrowly focus congressional action on creating a working public option or universal plan? Just insist they have only the same insuranc options their constituents have. It'll work.
Can you re-explain the "all-payer system?" Where I come from, health providers bill insurers, and subsequently patients pay the leftover amount. In your article you used the words "private insurers charging more" which makes not sense.
There are no cost savings in a public option and anyone with half a brain knows it. Only competition forces price reductions and service improvements. Only true free market competition in healthcare will result in better, more complete coverage for the maximum number of people. Healthcare is not a right, and those who seem to think it is are confusing it with an entitlement.
I'm amazed at the blatant idiocy of some posters here - did you fail Econ 101 or just elect not to take it? Any move to institute a public option will start mass rioting in this country faster than you can say, "Obama".
An all payer system has doctors and hospitals billing public and private insurers, as well as persons who pay cash, exactly alike. Fine idea.
If money is not received, no treatment. Some readers seem to think that doctors will work if medicare payments are cut. They will, but will not treat medicare or medicaid patients. If I were in practice, I would not treat "public option" patients. Fee for service is a much better way to get better treatment.
The clueless stupidity of the anti-public option crowd is amazing. The nations with single-payer systems provide far better care, at a far lower cost, than the expensive and broken mess we have in the US. Without something like a single-payer system, businesses are going to start failing under the burden of rapidly growing health insurance costs. Even is we stopped providing health benefits, we will still fail as our key employees either migrate to first world nations, or die from medical neglect.
If you want to live in a libertarian paradise, move to Somalia - and stop trying to destroy America.
Over 30 responses and not ONE is willing to address WHY Americans NEED healthcare like we do in the FIRST place.
NOTHING you all propose is going to work. whether you've a hard-on for the public option, or turning each and every American into a 'mandated' cash-cow for the insurers.
America really NEEDS to address the garbage we mindlessly put in our pie-holes -->FIRST<--.
How many of you reading this right now, have liquid candy in your fridges? THINK about the sugared nature of most of what you eat, and ask yourself if that 'fun' food is going to be worth the cost, in a dozen more years, when time and poor diet has turned you into a medical dependent. 75% of what you'll collectively spend will be directly linked to that triple cheeseburger deluxe and three liter 'Big chug' of soda that TOO many take as a daily sacrament.
Cha-CHING! Hope you all have deep pockets..
The rising cost of medicare and medicaid is testament to the fact that a public option would not work in this country. In fact many of us question if medicaid and medicare work, and even if we do believe it works we question if it will in the future.
The reality is that 1% of GDP increase per year is not sustainable if you hope to actually take care of the growing number of health problems, not all because of the aging demographics of the countries people. The medical system will break down totally and we will have a worse health care system, not a better one.
Taking a break from the ER, and saw this post. what about the patient that (honest!) just got ejected from his car, now with an expensive back fracture, all because he could not be bothered to wear a seatbelt. I guess he will get disability as a reward for his inaction. No "solution" will work without introducing accountability to our system.
I recently had my appendix taken out which included a one night stay in a hospital in the U.S. Total cost was 25,000. It was covered by my health insurance. However, when speaking to a surgeon friend of mine in Canada he told me the cost would have been closer to 4,000.
The U.S. Health is now ranked at 37 in the world but we pay more than any one else. It is time the government put a stranglehold on runaway health cost and it can only be done with a Public Universal Plan!
Public Option is a bad idea. The Democrat's believe only government can take care of people. We are too stupid to take care of ourselves. The Canadian system and the English system have enormous cost overruns and wait lists for even critical procedures. Those who expect others to pick up their tab in life want this system. People who care about innovation and quality medical care want US system to remain intact with some tweaks to curtail costs. When in doubt.....go the free market route. Reign in tort law, allow nationwide purchasing of insurance, encourage HSA's, encourage low cost clinics. No free care for anyone. Everyone must pay something when receiving care, even at ER. The free train has left the station.
the federal government sets the price floor for all doctor and hospital fees. The federal government sets the price floor for all drugs, supplies and equipment purchased by doctors and hospitals. there can be no productivity gains when it is a federal crime to charge less than medicare rates or buy supplies less than federal mandated rates. The price to consumer of medicare is nothing, another distortion of the market. It is a federal law that everyone gets free care in the ER. So why have insurance when care is free in the ER. But costs go up. So the feds pass another law to try and fix the mess they created. So the federal answer is a single payer and federal control of all aspects of care. look at the productivity gains at the post office to see what America will enjoy in 50 years. No one will remember what a doctor used to be, and all will have a "health care provider", but it won't be a doctor. Notice the new speak. health records. Evidence based medicine. Unless there is a five year study, providing evidence, your doctor won't be allowed to deviate form the Party LIne. The Blue pill will be your fate.
mark is confusing his bill with costs. Insurance did not pay 25000 for his appendectomy. Likely it was closer to 4000. hospitals have to charge a high rate to stay above the federal floor in pricing. but on the back end they have a negotiated discount with insurance to bring the fees back down to reality. If any entity charged more to the feds (medicare, medicaid), than to any other private entity ( mark's insurance), the feds can fine a hospital or doctor $100,000 per event and extrapolate the fine across the entire practice. therefore all hospitals will have a fee schedule many fold greater than the federal mandated rate. IT IS THE FEDERAL GOVERNMENT making these rules, not insurance companies, hospitals or doctors. and the feds don't tell you because they want you mad so they can take it all over.
The distortion in health care pricing has come from the government's involvement. As the recent bill did not do anything to improve this through market competition, and indeed the mandated coverage set by government has already begun to drive up prices. As one cannot undo the laws of economics, their only recourse is to lower what they pay providers. With development of Government run health care, physicians who can retire will, those who would have worked longer will retire when they can. The best and brightest will not go into medicine and the lack of physicians will be made up with nurse practitioners and physician assistants who have 1/3 to 1/2 of the training at the primary care level. They will also not have the surgical training to be at all competent. The end result will be more morbidity and mortality, ironically, sicker patients and more hospitalizations which will increase the cost of health care in the end. Health care needed to be reformed with market based solutions, not government dictat.
I agree with Piperdoc. There will be no incentive to enter into medicine. Mark's costs are due to Federal Laws and run-aaway malpractice. Physician re-imbursement has steadily declined. Overhead has steadily increased. We have HIPPA, Medicare, Medicaid, Malpractice and normal inflation to cover. I am sure that many physicians will opt out of medicare and medicaid once the 21% reimbursement decrease takes effect. This will go for single payer too.
Is it true that the countries with single payer health insurance have a doctor shortage? Do all doctors want to be in business or in a service field? I believe that even in countries with public health insurance, there is room for physicians to charge for services like plastic surgery and add to their income stream. Many doctors would take less paperwork from private insurers and receive a little less money so there concentration can be focused on medicine.
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Now I see a run to Trader Joe's as my biannual (if I'm lucky triannual) occasion to stock up on food that actually tastes better than cardboard. Like squirrels stocking up for the winter, The Professor and I pile our carts (and yes we each have our own cart) high with pasta, olive oil, coffee, and organic milk that I don't have to take out a small loan for.
On my last run, I picked up a bottle of orange muscat champagne vinegar and immediately thought of a recipe that has been burning a hole in my have-to-make-it folder. I ran across this fruit vinegar marinade on one of my favorite blogs 5 Second Rule and loved the idea for a new twist on roast chicken. I was going to use plain old apple cider vinegar but now finally I had the vinegar to really do it justice.
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However, like CR1976 said about a week or so ago, he is looking more and more like damaged goods. Clarkson has the worse of the 2 contracts, but if Clarkson can actually play in his then his contract is def superior. It's not fun seeing Clowe skate slow as molasses out there and having to hold our breaths every time he gets hit pretty good. Hell our team the last few games have seem faster overall since he has been sitting out with his injury.
IDK but this is looking like the worst signing of any team this past summer. I really do hope he gets better and gets it going for the benefit of the team but he is looking more and more like a buyout candidate. This was obvious a panic signing by Lou after losing Clarkson in the same vein as his panic signings of Malakhov and McGillis after Niedermayer bolted.


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Posted by: meikah | 21 February 2008 | 8:40 pm
Have you been to a hospital where CT scans for stroke patients, turnaround of radiology reports, and even meal deliveries are done well, quick, and fast?
Maybe yes, maybe not. But for patients at Saint Vincent Health Center in Erie, northwestern Pennsylvania's largest health care network, those are exactly what they're getting. For those benefits, they have Lean Six Sigma to be thankful for.
In 2005, the management team of Saint Vincent Health Center partnered with The Center for Industrial Effectiveness (TCIE) at UB to launch a Lean Six Sigma initiative.
According to Steve Osborn, vice president for quality compliance at Saint Vincent Health Center, "It's pretty remarkable: In two years, we went from having no systematic Lean Six Sigma program to having implemented 50 projects in which we have either reached our goal or surpassed the halfway mark. Our organization is reaping financial benefits and our customers also feel it."
To date:
Saint Vincent Health Center estimates that overall, the UB program helped it achieve savings to date of approximately $540,000 in areas that include the catheter lab, billing office, central store inventory, radiology department, meal-delivery service and the CT scanning and testing lab.
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It was a tearful reception for a hero's final homecoming. Friends and Family of Private First Class Larry Guyton, 22, of Brenham gathered at a Conroe airport Tuesday to escort their fallen soldier to his final resting place.
The plane carrying the body of the young soldier landed at Hobby Airport in Houston before making the short journey to Conroe Regional Airport. In a somber ceremony, Guyton's flag draped coffin was removed from the aircraft by a military honor guard. The body was then taken back to Brenham in a multi-car procession.
Guyton died May 5, one day after an improvised explosive device detonated near his vehicle in Baghdad. But his father believes his son died doing what he wanted to do. "What made him go into the military...I think he just wanted to grow up," said Larry Guyton, Sr. "He wanted to get out and start his own life. I had taught him from a child up. Taught him everything I knew and he just wanted to learn some things on his own and get out on his own and become a young man."
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Cannes films met with hushed reverence
Last week's column focused on the religiously ceremonial nature of the Cannes Film Festival. This week's column focuses on its scripture — the films themselves.
As with most ornate handwritten texts, the first thing that strikes you about Cannes is the attention paid to presentation. The films are shown with crystal clarity — never dim or blurry — on huge screens in darkened theaters with plush seats and sharply audible soundtracks. Like congregations at a solemn Sunday service, the audiences are respectfully still — all cell phones silenced, all crying infants banished, all conversations hushed, all food and beverages forbidden. We are in a sacred setting.
And, as with all religions, there is a certain ritualistic feel and tone to the proceedings. The "texts" of Hollywood are typically fast-paced, splashy, plot-driven, straightforward, crassly commercial popcorn offerings. Four such films managed to infiltrate Cannes this year: Steven Spielberg's Indiana Jones and the Kingdom of the Crystal Skull, Woody Allen's Vicky Cristina Barcelona, Clint Eastwood's The Exchange and Dreamworks' Kung Fu Panda.
Cannes' inclusion of these entries shows how tolerant it is of the diversity of film. Nevertheless, there was an agnostic (albeit generally positive) reaction to them. Audiences tended to treat them less like serious art and more like larkish entertainment. (To my mild shame and embarrassment, I liked these Hollywood entries — they were well-made and provided a nice counterpoint to Cannes' typically heavy fare.)
The main sacrament of the festival was provided by film "sermons" that seemed like pages out of the same hymnal: brooding, meditative, slow-paced and artistic. That's not to be judgmental — in the religion of Cannes, all are accepted and welcome. It is, however, to say that Cannes films are typically a denomination all their own.
And when it came to these "texts," the cup runneth over. In the span of 11 days, I saw 30 feature films and nine short films, a small fraction of the vast array of offerings. And, like familiar prayers, they shared a certain aura.
With few exceptions, all these films included the following elements in varied portions: (1) set somewhere other than North America, either Third World countries or Europe (preferably France); (2) had a downbeat or outright bleak mood; (3) possessed no or sparse musical soundtrack; (4) were filled with long takes of people going about daily lives or quietly staring off in the distance; (5) involved drugs; (6) were punctuated by bursts of violence; (7) showed pregnancies of all kinds, including unwanted ones; and (8) depicted plenty of sex and nudity.
So, like any good Sunday School teacher, I will limit my focus in order to give a flavor of kinds of films presented.
• Soi Cowboy: This Danish feature centers on an overweight man living in Thailand in a cramped apartment with a young, petite, pregnant Thai woman. Their relationship is unclear; we are not even sure he is the father. The start of the film involves the two of them separately getting up, using the bathroom and making breakfast all without them saying a word and in washed-out black and white. This goes on for what feels like 20 minutes. The man goes out and runs some errands, shopping with street vendors and purchasing a necklace for the woman. When he returns, they look at the necklace while watching TV and she comments on its resale value.
Next they are seen traveling to some temples. There are long sequences of them in a hotel (there is a bizarre, lengthy scene of nothing but an elderly Anglo woman with a walker as she shuffles from the elevator down the hall to her room only to turn around and shuffle back; this elicited frustrated and confused laughter from the audience) and of them touring the temple. The camera loses sight of them at the temple, and then suddenly everything is in color and we are watching a family on a Thai rice farm. We see two brothers, one of whom has returned to the farm to fetch the other brother and take him into town. On the way there through the jungle, the retrieving brother, with his sibling's consent, chops off his brother's head. He takes his brother's head to a whorehouse where we again see the overweight man and the young Thai woman. They are sitting at the table and are clearly involved with the owners of the whorehouse, who also appear to be some kind of Thai mafia. He delivers the head to the young Thai woman — who appears to be related to the two brothers. The head is supposed to be some kind of threatening message to the young woman (who is clearly one of the prostitutes) for getting pregnant. The brother delivering the head seeks payment from the Mafioso, but is shot dead instead. The end. All of this has the feel of a David Lynch film, with inexplicable and murky images and relationships. It was an exercise in tone and mood.
• Involuntary: This Swedish film focuses on the exploits of five separate groups of people during a couple of days in Sweden. Their stories are intercut, periodically going back and forth between the groups. The groups include: a party at a house where the patriarch gets facially injured by a misfiring firework; a couple of preteen girls as they take sexually provocative pictures of themselves and meet up with friends and party; a tour group on a bus; a young woman teacher at a junior high school; and a group of guys who hang out together at a country resort.
The camera remains stationary for each segment as we follow the activities of each group. The people come in and out of the field of view. Each group's story centers on whether to divulge information and the ramifications of doing so — or not doing so. The patriarch is seriously injured, but his pride — and not wanting to disrupt the dinner party — keep him from saying so, with serious consequences. The group of guys ends up engaging in homosexual harassment, much to the discomfort of one of the men, who has to decide whether he will confront them and tell his wife about the sexual abuse he endures. The tour bus passengers are detained because a curtain rod in the bathroom is broken and the driver insists on having the culprit fess up. That person's failure to do so results in their not proceeding. The young girls linked up with some others whose behavior get more and more rowdy and puts the girls in potentially dangerous situations. And the teacher witnesses another teacher harshly physically disciplining an unruly student. When she exposes this incident to school officials, she is ostracized by the other teachers. The film was creatively put together and is very thought-provoking. It had me reflecting on the whistle-blowing book by former White House press secretary Scott McClellan and the visceral reaction it has elicited.
These are just two examples of so many wonderful films. Other outstanding films included: Tulpan, a touching and naturally striking film about a Kazak family raising sheep on the stark, flat steppe and how the older boy, who just got back from a stint in the military, wants to marry and create his own herd (this won an award); The Silence of Lorna, a well-made film about a woman involved in an immigration scam in Belgium with tragic results; Linha de Passe, an excellent story of a single mother raising four boys from separate fathers in the slums of Sao Paulo, Brazil, and how she tries to keep them from a life of crime (the actress here won the acting prize); Entre Les Murs, an engaging French film about a teacher trying to inspire his diverse students, who face the usual problems of growing up in a melting pot and dealing with their disparate ethnic and national identities (this won the Palme d'Or); Afterschool, a disturbing American film about our voyeuristic culture through the story of a troubled prep-school boy who happens to film the shocking death of two students; Versailles, an affecting French film about a homeless single mother abandoning her boy with a homeless man living in the forests around this palace; Johnny Mad Dog, an aggressively in-your-face film about marauding boys as they join militia forces to take over an African government; and The Good, the Bad and the Weird, a wild, colorful Korean film that was a collision of the Sergio Leone movie, Mad Max, martial arts films and a cartoon.
The sad fact is that those who do not gain entrance to film festivals like Cannes probably won't have a chance to see these or most of the other films. Unless they are bought by American distributors, they will remain hidden from view, like a lost Ark of the Covenant. But they are as inspiring as any religious artifact for those who are seeking a respite from the typical Hollywood blasphemy. And it's worth the effort of an Indiana Jones to find them.
Doug Young is The Statesman's globetrotting film critic.


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This could be a whole new level of clusterfuck.
Rockets hit Israel from Lebanon
Israel replied with artillery, but called the attack an "isolated event".
The incident followed Israel's heaviest bombardment so far on Gaza, with 60 air strikes targeting Hamas facilities.
Efforts have continued to broker a ceasefire, as a senior Israeli official travelled to Cairo to hear details of a plan put forward by Egypt and France.
A Hamas delegation is expected in the Egyptian capital at some stage for parallel "technical" talks, Egyptian diplomats said.
If it was Hezbollah they would've fired more than 3-5 rockets. Looks like it was done independently. But nothing happens in southern Lebanon without the knowledge and passive consent of Hezbollah, which de-facto controls the area.
If anything, it could force Israel's hand and stop their rampage from going any further. Neither Israel or Lebanon want to start something.


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LieAlgebras[Decompose] - decompose a Lie algebra into a direct sum of indecomposable Lie algebras
Calling Sequences
Decompose(Alg, saveAlg, method, factors, hint)
Alg - (optional) the name of an initialized Lie algebra
saveAlg - (optional) equation of the form saveTemporaryAlgebras = TF, where TF is true or false
method - (optional) equation of the form method = "Indecomposable" or method = "AbsolutelyIndecomposable"
factors - (optional) equation of the form factoralgebras = TF, where TF is true or false
hint - (optional) a list of polynomials and their square-free factorizations, given in the form hint = [var, [polynomial1, [factors]], [polynomial2, [factors]], ... ]
An (internal) direct sum decomposition of a Lie algebra 𝔤 is given by a collection of subalgebras 𝔤1, 𝔤2, ... , 𝔤N such that
[i] 𝔤 = 𝔤1+ 𝔤2+⋅⋅⋅ +𝔤N,
[ii] the intersection of any two distinct summands 𝔤i and 𝔤j, i≠j, is trivial, and
[iii] the Lie bracket of any two distinct summands 𝔤i and 𝔤j, i≠j, is trivial, that is, 𝔤i, 𝔤j≠ 0.
Decompose() will decompose the given Lie algebra g into an internal direct sum of subalgebras 𝔤 = 𝔤1+ 𝔤2+⋅⋅⋅ +𝔤N,where each summand 𝔤i is indecomposable. All abelian summands appear as a single factor. If no argument is given, then the decomposition of the current Lie algebra is found.
Decompose returns a list with 2 components [A, B\ where [i] A is a matrix which defines a Lie algebra isomorphism from g to the Lie algebra defined by the direct sum of the Lie algebras in the summand_list, and [ii] B is a basis for the original Lie algebra 𝔤 in which 𝔤 decomposes.
With saveTemporaryAlgebras = true, the Lie algebras created by the program as part of the decomposition algorithm are not erased and can be initialized for further analysis. Use this option in conjunction with userlevel[Decompose] := 2. The default is saveTemporaryAlgebras = false.
With method = AbsolutelyIndecomposable, the decomposition will be done over the complex numbers. The default is method= "Indecomposable".
With factoralgebras = true, the program will also return the Lie algebra structure data for each summand in the direct sum decomposition.
If Maple is unable to find a square-free factorization of certain minimal polynomials which arise, then a warning to this effect is given. The polynomials which need to be factored can be obtained from the procedure DifferentialGeometry:-Tools:-CalculationHistory:-Get("Decompose"). The square-free factors of these polynomials can be passed to Decompose with the hint option, for example, hint = [x, [x^2 - 1/2, [x - 1/sqrt(2), x + 1/sqrt(2)]].
This module implements the algorithm described in
[i] Patera, Winternitz and Zassenhaus, On the Identification of a Lie Algebra Given by its Structure Constants I. Direct Decompositions, Levi Decompositions and Nilradicals, Journal of Linear Algebra and its Applications, Vol. 109, (1988): 197-246.
[ii] W. D. Rand, Pascal programs for the identification of Lie algebras I, Comput. Phys. Comm. 41: 105--125 (1986)
The command Decompose is part of the DifferentialGeometry:-LieAlgebras package. It can be used in the form Decompose(...) only after executing the commands with(DifferentialGeometry) and with(LieAlgebras), but can always be used by executing DifferentialGeometry:-LieAlgebras:-Decompose(...).
Example 1.
In this example we shall check that the output of Decompose does indeed lead to a decomposition of the algebra. First we initialize a Lie algebra and display the Lie bracket multiplication table.
Decompose this Lie algebra.
To check this answer we first create the Lie algebra defined by the vectors in the second component of the answer. This shows explicitly that the Lie algebra Alg1 decomposes into the direct sum of a 3 dimensional and a 2-dimensional Lie algebra.
Lie algebra: Alg2
We check that the matrix decomposition[1] defines a Lie algebra isomorphism from Alg1 to Alg2.
Example 2.
In this example we show how to use the hint option. First we initialize a Lie algebra and display the Lie bracket multiplication table.
Warning, the Lie algebra "Alg3:2" is decomposable but an explicit decomposition could not be constructed. See CalculationHistory and rerun Decompose with optional argument hint.
From this we conclude that the algebra is decomposable but that a decomposition could not be constructed because Maple was unable to factor a certain polynomial which arises in the decomposition algorithm. We can use the program DifferentialGeometry:-Tools:-CalculationHistory:-Get to see what this polynomial is.
The problem is that Maple could not factor -12 + _z2. So we factor by hand and rerun the program. We find a non-rational change of basis that will decompose the algebra.
Example 3.
In this example we decompose an algebra over the complex numbers. First we initialize a Lie algebra and display the Lie bracket multiplication table.
To decompose over the complex numbers, we use the optional argument method = "AbsolutelyIndecomposable". In addition, to effect a decomposition over the complex numbers, it will be necessary to provide some polynomial factorizations over the complex numbers. See Example 2.
Example 4.
In this example we calculate the decomposition of the real Lie algebra so4. The computations can be examined by setting infolevel[Decompose] to 2 or 3. With a value of 2, an outline of the main steps is displayed while a value of 3 provides all the intermediate steps.
Lie algebra: so4
Step 1: Use Query to determine indecomposability of : so4
the Lie algebra so4 is decomposable
Step 2: Performing central decomposition
Detailed calculations for central decomposition
[i] center = C = []
[ii] derived algebra = DA = [-e4, -e5, e2, e3, -e6, -e1]
[iii] intersection of center and derived algebra = M = []
[iv] central factor = complement of M in C = []
End of detailed calculations for central decomposition
central decomposition is trivial
Step 3 Start:
ToBeDecomposedFactors = [_DG([["LieAlgebra", "so4:2", [6]], [[[1, 2, 4], -1], [[1, 3, 5], -1], [[1, 4, 2], 1], [[1, 5, 3], 1], [[2, 3, 6], -1], [[2, 4, 1], -1], [[2, 6, 3], 1], [[3, 5, 1], -1], [[3, 6, 2], -1], [[4, 5, 6], -1], [[4, 6, 5], 1], [[5, 6, 4], -1]]])[1][2]]
IndecomposableFactors = []
Step 3.1 Start: Decomposing the algebra "so4:2"
Detailed Calculations :
[i] the matrix representatives S for the centralizer of Adjoint, modulo its Jacobson radical are :
S[1] = Matrix(6, 6, {NULL}, storage = empty, shape = [identity])
S[2] = Matrix(6, 6, [[0,0,0,0,0,1],[0,0,0,0,-1,0],[0,0,0,1,0,0],[0,0,1,0,0,0],[0,-1,0,0,0,0],[1,0,0,0,0,0]])
the algebra "so4:2" is decomposable
[ii] the miminal polynomials P for the matrices S are :
P = [-1+_z1, -1+_z1^2]
[iii] the following relatively prime factorization of the polynomial P[2] will be used:
-1+_z1^2 = [_z1+1, -1+_z1]
[iv] the projection matrices onto the summands of the decomposition are:
N1 = Matrix(6, 3, [[1,0,0],[0,1,0],[0,0,1],[0,0,-1],[0,1,0],[-1,0,0]])
N2 = Matrix(6, 3, [[1,0,0],[0,1,0],[0,0,1],[0,0,1],[0,-1,0],[1,0,0]])
factor 1 = "so4:3" = [e1-e6, e2+e5, e3-e4]
_DG([["LieAlgebra", "so4:3", [3]], [[[1, 2, 3], 2], [[1, 3, 2], -2], [[2, 3, 1], 2]]])
factor 2 = "so4:4" = [e1+e6, e2-e5, e3+e4]
_DG([["LieAlgebra", "so4:4", [3]], [[[1, 2, 3], -2], [[1, 3, 2], 2], [[2, 3, 1], -2]]])
Step 3.1 End:
ToBeDecomposedFactors = [_DG([["LieAlgebra", "so4:3", [3]], [[[1, 2, 3], 2], [[1, 3, 2], -2], [[2, 3, 1], 2]]])[1][2], _DG([["LieAlgebra", "so4:4", [3]], [[[1, 2, 3], -2], [[1, 3, 2], 2], [[2, 3, 1], -2]]])[1][2]]
Step 3.2 Start: Decomposing the algebra "so4:4"
S[1] = Matrix(3, 3, {NULL}, storage = empty, shape = [identity])
the algebra "so4:4" is indecomposable
Step 3.2 End:
ToBeDecomposedFactors = [_DG([["LieAlgebra", "so4:3", [3]], [[[1, 2, 3], 2], [[1, 3, 2], -2], [[2, 3, 1], 2]]])[1][2]]
IndecomposableFactors = [_DG([["LieAlgebra", "so4:4", [3]], [[[1, 2, 3], -2], [[1, 3, 2], 2], [[2, 3, 1], -2]]])[1][2]]
Step 3.3 Start: Decomposing the algebra "so4:3"
the algebra "so4:3" is indecomposable
Step 3.3 End:
ToBeDecomposedFactors = []
IndecomposableFactors = [_DG([["LieAlgebra", "so4:3", [3]], [[[1, 2, 3], 2], [[1, 3, 2], -2], [[2, 3, 1], 2]]])[1][2], _DG([["LieAlgebra", "so4:4", [3]], [[[1, 2, 3], -2], [[1, 3, 2], 2], [[2, 3, 1], -2]]])[1][2]]
Step 3 End:
Step 4: Sorting the summands in the IndecomposableFactors list and appending the central abelian Factor
See Also
DifferentialGeometry,CalculationHistory, infolevel, LieAlgebras, LieAlgebraData, MultiplicationTable, Query[Homomorphism], Query[Indecomposable]
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Highlands residents add to discussion
City Council members should be applauded for their decision last week to forge ahead with the plan to preserve Park Pointe. The council did so despite misguided opposition from Issaquah Highlands residents. Homeowners there have concerns about adding density in their community as a way to offset the preservation at Park Pointe on Tiger Mountain. In exchange for the open space, 550 homes could be built in the highlands.
The decision must have been particularly tough for Councilman Mark Mullet, the first and only highlands resident on the council. His support took grit in the face on unified opposition from his friends and neighbors.
The meeting encouraged us to see so many highlands residents turn out for a City Council debate. We hope to see highlands homeowners become more frequent participants in city conversations — not just the debates that affect their neighborhood.
The transfer of development rights benefits the entire city. The deal aims to protect land ill-suited for development and put more homes near the roads and utilities needed to serve them. And more residents could help attract the retail businesses needed to serve the highlands neighborhoods closer to their homes.
Many of the highlands residents expressed concerns about Grand Ridge Elementary School and the impact of the additional students that are sure to follow with more new homes. Enrollment projections from the Issaquah School District should put their fears to rest. The school can handle the added students. Portable classrooms might someday be needed, but that would not impact student education. The commitment of parents, teachers and staff members are what define a school community.
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"The school can handle the added students. Portable classrooms might someday be needed, but that would not impact student education."
How do you figure that?
1) The projections are just that, projections. Anyone can make the numbers look the way they want. Reality is that the school is already over crowded and adding more homes will only worsen that.
2) Portable Classrooms WILL NEGATIVELY IMPACT student learning. They won't have the same technology built in. They aren't in a climate controlled building that has easy access to disabled accessible restrooms. Kids will have to travel outside in inclement weather to use the restroom, eat lunch, go to assemblies ect.
I don't know how you can possibly applaud this decision.
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LONDON, Sept 13 (Reuters) - Rich countries should pay forAfrican governments to get advice on negotiating the best dealsfor exploiting their natural resources, a panel set up by formerBritish Prime Minister Tony Blair said on Monday.
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In 2007, the National Estuary Program, established as part of the 1987 amendments to the Clean Water Act (CWA), celebrates its 20th anniversary of protecting and restoring estuaries of national significance. The program promotes comprehensive planning efforts and actions to help protect 28 designated estuaries that are deemed to be threatened by pollution, development, or overuse. Between 2000 and 2006, the NEPs restored and protected one million acres of habitat. The CWA also requires that EPA report periodically on the condition of the nation´s estuarine waters.
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Overall condition of the nation´s NEPs is fair. This rating is based on four indicators of estuarine condition-water quality index (e.g., dissolved inorganic nitrogen, dissolved inorganic phosphorus, chlorophyll a, water clarity, and dissolved oxygen), sediment quality index (e.g., sediment toxicity, sediment contaminants, and sediment total organic carbon), benthic index, and a fish tissue contaminants index. For each of these four key indicators, we assigned a score of good, fair, or poor to each NEP. We then averaged these ratings to create overall regional and national scores illustrated in the map on the first page, using "traffic light" color scoring. Population pressures in the NEPs were greater than those in non-NEP estuaries from 1990-2000, yet, the NEP estuaries showed the same or better estuarine condition than our coastal waters overall.
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The continued viability of these fisheries depends on continued good health of their habitat.
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The NEP indicators that show the poorest conditions throughout the United States are sediment quality, fish tissue contaminants (rated fair), and benthic condition (rated fair). The indicator that generally shows the best condition is water quality (rated fair).
Nationally, 37% of NEP estuaries are in poor condition. Regionally, Puerto Rico´s NEP estuary (San Juan Bay) is in poor condition, and about 46% of the Northeast Coast, 46% of the Gulf Coast, 36% of the West Coast, and 23% of the Southeast Coast NEP estuaries are in poor condition.
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Today the 2012 election race ends — no doubt mercifully in the minds of many Americans. After months of campaigning, the candidates at the national, state and local level will see if their efforts have made an impact on the electorate.
Some will finish the day as winners. Others will end up conceding defeat and maybe encouraging their supporters that next time it will be different.
Perhaps the saddest thing about Election Day is that if we are lucky, just six in 10 eligible voters will actually take the time to register and vote. It's never been much higher in the two-plus centuries that we've elected presidents.
The biggest turnouts were in years following the Civil War, when more than 70 percent of voters went to the polls. In the 20th century, voter turnout averaged about half the eligible electorate. The 2008 presidential election brought out just a bit more than 60 percent to cast a ballot.
It's really an embarrassing record, especially when we look at nations around the world that lack the opportunity to choose their leadership.
Why don't Americans vote? Perhaps it's as simple as the fact that the right to make our own choices has been such a long part of our national persona that we don't take it seriously. It's always been there. Surveys have identified a number of reasons why we Americans have such a poor voting record. The most oft-repeated reason given is that many people just don't think that their vote matters.
But past elections at all levels have shown that even a handful of votes can make the difference. This spring, just 26 votes out of over 100,000 cast separated Mitt Romney and Rick Santorum in the Iowa caucuses. In the 2000 presidential race between Al Gore and George W. Bush, 537 votes in Florida out of 6 million made the difference in Bush's capturing that state's electoral votes and the White House.
This September, in the Massachusetts 9th Congressional District Republican primary, Christopher Sheldon defeated Adam Chaprales by just 79 votes out of over 20,000 cast. Individual votes do count.
A dislike of the candidates is another reason nonvoters give for staying away from the polls. But even in a contest that is perceived as choosing between the lesser of two evils, someone will win. Better to be involved than remain on the sidelines and later be angry about the outcome.
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If anyone is still telling themselves that these excuses for failing to vote justify staying home on Election Day, they should reflect on the recent Associated Press story of 93-year-old Frank Tanabe. Tanabe was a decorated World War II veteran who learned in August that he had inoperable liver cancer. As his condition worsened, he ended up in hospice care at his daughter's home in Honolulu. But Tanabe was determined that he would vote in this year's presidential election. On Oct. 17, he did that by absentee ballot with his daughter reading the choices to him. It was the last patriotic act of his life as he died a just week later.
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The public hearing on the proposed expansion of Narla Tatarao Thermal Power Station (NTTPS) scheduled to be held on Friday is going to give some tense moments for officials and engineers of AP Power Generation Corporation Limited (AP-GENCO) and NTTPS as several villages have passed resolutions against the project fearing a spurt in environmental pollution and represented their grievances to the District Collector M. Raghunandana Rao and Andhra Pradesh Pollution Control Board (APPCB) demanding that the project should be stalled.
The APPCB was to conduct the public hearing in September last but had to postpone it due to protests against bifurcation of the State.
The NTTPS has six units of 210 MW each and one 500-MW unit and it is the proposed expansion of its capacity by 800 MW that has stirred the Hornet's nest in its conceptual stage itself. The proposed unit is coal-based and its requirement is 3.95 MTPA to be sourced from Madhya Pradesh and its capital cost was pegged at nearly Rs.5,290 crore.
The people of Guntupalli, Kethanakonda, Kotikalapudi and other villages situated in close proximity to the power plant have resolved in their meetings to oppose the expansion project on the ground that it will aggravate pollution, and dismissed the Environment Impact Assessment (EIA) made by Hyderabad - based Ramky Enviro Engineers Limited (REEL) as a farce.
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Is the entirety of Ms. Gaga's position paper available on her think tank's website?
I should care what this, whatever she is. cares about because?
This article is sad. Isnt there more important things in the day in age than who Lady Gaga is calling? Especially a low ranking nobody Senator like Gillibrand
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