Everyone is, of course, entitled to their opinion. The frustration lies, however, with #Stans who won’t even *consider* facts which conflict with their narrative! Opinions are subjective. Facts are not. These days, conflating the two is destroying our society! Literally!
If you don’t believe this, look at any of the anti-vaxxer web sites which are killing people under the guise of “free speech”!
In a crowded movie theater, you don’t have the right to shout “FIRE!”. Simultaneously, in a crowded movie theater that’s burning, you don’t have the right to drag people towards the fire while saying “Don’t worry, fire isn’t really dangerous!”
I still believe that our country would not be in the current state of division had HRC won the presidency in ‘08. Conservative backlash against a Black #POTUS fueled the rise of #FormerGuy and pushed #TodaysGOP to out themselves as The #AmericanNaziParty. That said, he is still
the best #POTUS we’ve had during my lifetime! @BillClinton is definitely a strong runner-up, and I believe @HillaryClinton may well have been the best #POTUS since #FDR and his astonishing #NewDeal which, had he lived to fully implement, might very well have accelerated
Organized religion teaches that #God is all-knowing (omniscience); all-powerful (omnipotent); has a plan (which suggests that there isn’t really free will). We’re also taught of God’s infinite love and compassion.
If God is omniscient, omnipotent, and *THIS is their plan why would ANYONE worship it/she/he?
*THIS meaning hatred, racism, rape, torture, inequality, Holocaust, war, injustice, abuse, child-sex-trade, human slavery, authoritarianism, starvation, suffering, pain, disease,
climate change, hypocrisy, exploitation of humans by other humans, vengeance, murder, discrimination, misogyny, self-loathing, etc.
If everything’s going along as planned by this theoretical entity, then either A and/or B must be true:
If you’re male (or were born male), you should get a colonoscopy if you’re 50 or older. There are times when earlier makes sense (check w/your own doc) Years ago, I picked a stomach virus while in Europe or China (never definitively identified), that wouldn’t go away.
Finally, in desperation (I’d lost 30# in 3 months), my Dr. ordered both endoscopy and colonoscopy. The doc who did the colonoscopy noticed that something didn’t look right, and sent me to an oncologist who removed some tissues that turned out to be pre-cancerous cells.
For the second time in recent years, my monthly #SocialSecurity benefit has gone DOWN because the premium for #Medicare has gone UP more than the #COLA adjustment to the cash benefit. SS isn’t an “entitlement”, it’s insurance into which I paid a fortune. Any insurance policy
which doesn’t adjust for inflation in all of its elements (including healthcare inflation, which has ALWAYS run ahead of ordinary inflation), is poorly designed and needs fixing.
#Congress, please strengthen and expand #ObamaCare in such a way the people who are on fixed income do not see their #COLA increases entirely eaten up by #Medicare expenses!
Controlling runaway pharmaceutical costs would be a great place to start!
It looks like I’ve lost a few hundred followers after a series of tweets arguing that Israel is mis-treating the Palestinian People. I *am* Jewish, and thoughtful support of the Palestinians does *not* make me anti-Semitic, any more than being anti-#FormerGuy makes me unAmerican!
There are Patriotic Russians protesting against the authoritarian rule of Vladimir Putin. Being a protester against injustice doesn’t make you unpatriotic, it is exactly the opposite! Only in this bizarre #SocMed influenced world can everything get so politicized that your POV is
“Patriotism” and everyone else viewpoint makes them a traitor! Turning everything into “us versus them” makes compromise impossible, and without compromise, democracy becomes impossible. Republicans have decided that power is more important than democracy, and they will quail at