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Should America Apologize For Hiroshima?
by Bangalore inshould america apologize for hiroshima?.
http://blogcritics.org/politics/article/apologize-for-hiroshima/.
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Is GOP Serious on Repealing The Healthcare Law? Here Is A Warning Message
by Scott77 inhealthcare law repeal hurts deficits: cbo10:50am estby richard cowan.
washington (reuters) - an effort by republicans in the house of representatives to repeal the healthcare law enacted last year would add to already huge federal budget deficits, the congressional budget office warned on thursday.. in a preliminary estimate of legislation the house is set to begin debating on friday, the cbo said repealing the law that president barack obama and his fellow democrats enacted would "increase federal budget deficits over the 2012-2019 period by a total of roughly $145 billion.
" it said that figure would rise to $230 billion by 2021.. the cbo also said repeal would result in 32 million fewer people having health insurance.. the nonpartisan cbo analyzes legislation for its impact on government spending and revenues and develops forecasts of economic performance.. republicans won majority control of the house last november after campaigning on promises to slash the deficit, now at around $1.3 trillion.. during the 2010 campaigns for congress, republicans also said they would repeal the healthcare law, saying it places too many job-killing burdens on business and is unconstitutional because it requires individuals to purchase health insurance if they are not already covered.. democrats still hold a majority, although narrower than last year, in the senate, where any healthcare repeal bill is expected to be blocked.. on friday, newly installed house speaker john boehner plans to begin debate on republican legislation to repeal the healthcare law, which aimed to reduce medical costs and insure millions of people who currently can't afford coverage.. the law also prevents insurance companies from refusing to cover patients with pre-existing conditions.. house republican leaders have dismissed cbo's forecasts that the healthcare law would reduce u.s. budget deficits, saying there were too many unrealistic assumptions in such forecasts.. a house committee began meeting on thursday to put together rules governing the house floor debate of the healthcare law.
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Odd that opinion piece from the WSJ would use the actuary report from Jan 08, 2010 when there was another one on April 22.
Date of Article: JANUARY 12, 2010
Yet even after passage, the basics I outlined above do not change.
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Is GOP Serious on Repealing The Healthcare Law? Here Is A Warning Message
by Scott77 inhealthcare law repeal hurts deficits: cbo10:50am estby richard cowan.
washington (reuters) - an effort by republicans in the house of representatives to repeal the healthcare law enacted last year would add to already huge federal budget deficits, the congressional budget office warned on thursday.. in a preliminary estimate of legislation the house is set to begin debating on friday, the cbo said repealing the law that president barack obama and his fellow democrats enacted would "increase federal budget deficits over the 2012-2019 period by a total of roughly $145 billion.
" it said that figure would rise to $230 billion by 2021.. the cbo also said repeal would result in 32 million fewer people having health insurance.. the nonpartisan cbo analyzes legislation for its impact on government spending and revenues and develops forecasts of economic performance.. republicans won majority control of the house last november after campaigning on promises to slash the deficit, now at around $1.3 trillion.. during the 2010 campaigns for congress, republicans also said they would repeal the healthcare law, saying it places too many job-killing burdens on business and is unconstitutional because it requires individuals to purchase health insurance if they are not already covered.. democrats still hold a majority, although narrower than last year, in the senate, where any healthcare repeal bill is expected to be blocked.. on friday, newly installed house speaker john boehner plans to begin debate on republican legislation to repeal the healthcare law, which aimed to reduce medical costs and insure millions of people who currently can't afford coverage.. the law also prevents insurance companies from refusing to cover patients with pre-existing conditions.. house republican leaders have dismissed cbo's forecasts that the healthcare law would reduce u.s. budget deficits, saying there were too many unrealistic assumptions in such forecasts.. a house committee began meeting on thursday to put together rules governing the house floor debate of the healthcare law.
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Healthcare law repeal hurts deficits: CBO
The CBO numbers, as used by the Democrat noise machine, are a steaming pile of freshly excreted pig shit. Everyone knows this (or anyone that stops and looks at the thing). The scoring has a list of caveats a mile long.
Richard Foster, the chief actuary for the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services, reports that under his analysis national health spending will rise under the bills by $222 billion over the next 10 years. In other words, ObamaCare really does "bend the cost curve"—up.
One of the fictions Mr. Foster highlights is the 30% cut in physician payments over the next three years that Democrats have already promised to disallow. Republicans would do the same, we hasten to add.
Another chunk of ObamaCare "savings" are due to cranking down Medicare's price controls for hospitals and other providers that Mr. Foster says are also "extremely unlikely to occur." In the absence of "substantial and transformational changes in health-care practices"—in other words, a productivity revolution in medicine that has never happened—costs will simply rise for private patients, or hospitals will refuse to treat seniors insured by Medicare. Congress will never allow that to happen either.
http://online.wsj.com/article/NA_WSJ_PUB:SB10001424052748703652104574652563562216036.html
So they have a 30% reduction in provider payments that were part of the CBO score...that are not going to happen.
They have 10 years worth of payments for 6 years worth of services.
Let me repeat myself.
They have 10 years worth of payments for 6 years worth of services.
That, along with the fictional 30% cut in payments, (and other crap) is the only way they can show a surplus (on paper) with the CBO.
The Democrats never mention "that part."
Why is that?
It gives them their little talking point that is, in fact, A LIE.
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Judge Rutherford on radio - God says, "Quit making Jackasses of yourselves"
by VM44 ina description of a recording of rutherford played on the radio:.
judge rutherford.
august 10, 1941. wbbr, new york city.
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Pope says God was behind big bang. Interesting read
by rabidewok inhttp://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/40945242/ns/technology_and_science-science/.
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LWT, the point is, speaking of animals "suffering" in human terms is idiotic.
Do wild creatures suffer "moral outrage" over being eaten or eating themselves? Do they question the injustice of natural wildfires wiping out their forest? Do they philosophize on the injustice of "survival of the fittest?" Do they envision a world in which "eat or be eaten" is not the rule? Or do they rather merely act on instinct?
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Pope says God was behind big bang. Interesting read
by rabidewok inhttp://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/40945242/ns/technology_and_science-science/.
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Are you having a burger for lunch?
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Pope says God was behind big bang. Interesting read
by rabidewok inhttp://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/40945242/ns/technology_and_science-science/.
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If there is an intelligent Creator, he/she/they is one mean SOB.
In that case, so are you, meat eater.
Inanimate matter, microbes, plants and animals aren't on the same level as humans.
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Pope says God was behind big bang. Interesting read
by rabidewok inhttp://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/40945242/ns/technology_and_science-science/.
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As usual, mainstream media articles miss a lot when reporting on Catholic matters.
The Catholic Church no longer teaches creationism
The Catholic Church has always taught that God is the Creator of the Universe. We recite during every Mass:
We believe in one God,
the Father, the Almighty,
maker of heaven and earth,
of all that is, seen and unseen.
Worthy of mention: This means that most Christians alive today are members of a religion that rejects Creationism.
The Catholic Church does not reject Creationism, if by Creationism you mean "special creation." It has no official teaching on whether to believe the literal 6 day/6000 yo creation or not.
Even in the early days, there was a wide divergence in ideas regarding Genesis:
http://www.catholic.com/library/Creation_and_Genesis.asp
Millions of Catholics believe in a literal Genesis, however.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_Catholic_creationist_organisations
As Catholics, we are free to agree or disagree. I would say, the great majority disagree. When I went to Catechism classes before my baptism, we had a class on origins, and our teacher for that lesson was a Catholic geneticist specializing in yeast biology. Evolution was accurately explained.
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Pope says God was behind big bang. Interesting read
by rabidewok inhttp://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/40945242/ns/technology_and_science-science/.
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The Pope received his words from the Skeptnostitian Bible, found in It Starts, chapter 1, verse 20, which reads: "And look! A large bang happened! Stars, including the Kedar constellation, and the Kimah constellation, and a whole lot of other constellations were born."
Georges Henri Joseph Édouard Lemaître...was a Belgian Roman Catholic priest, honorary prelate, professor of physics and astronomer at the Catholic University of Louvain.
Lemaître was the first scientist to propose what became known as the Big Bang theory of the origin of the Universe, which he called his 'hypothesis of the primeval atom'.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Georges_Lemaître
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Pope says God was behind big bang. Interesting read
by rabidewok inhttp://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/40945242/ns/technology_and_science-science/.
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God was behind Big Bang, pope says
'The universe is not the result of chance, as some would want to make us believe'
VATICAN CITY — God's mind was behind complex scientific theories such as the Big Bang, and Christians should reject the idea that the universe came into being by accident, Pope Benedict said Thursday.
"The universe is not the result of chance, as some would want to make us believe," Benedict said on the day Christians mark the Epiphany, the day the Bible says the three kings reached the site where Jesus was born by following a star.
"Contemplating it (the universe) we are invited to read something profound into it: the wisdom of the creator, the inexhaustible creativity of God," he said in a sermon to some 10,000 people in St. Peter's Basilica on the feast day.
While the pope has spoken before about evolution, he has rarely delved back in time to discuss specific concepts such as the Big Bang, which scientists believe led to the formation of the universe some 13.7 billion years ago.
Researchers at CERN, the nuclear research center in Geneva, have been smashing protons together at near the speed of light to simulate conditions that they believe brought into existence the primordial universe from which stars, planets and life on earth — and perhaps elsewhere — eventually emerged.
Proof God doesn't exist? Some atheists say science can prove that God does not exist, but Benedict said that some scientific theories were "mind limiting" because "they only arrive at a certain point ... and do not manage to explain the ultimate sense of reality."
He said scientific theories on the origin and development of the universe and humans, while not in conflict with faith, left many questions unanswered.
"In the beauty of the world, in its mystery, in its greatness and in its rationality ... we can only let ourselves be guided toward God, creator of heaven and earth," he said.
Benedict and his predecessor John Paul have been trying to shed the Church's image of being anti-science, a label that stuck when it condemned Galileo for teaching that the earth revolves around the sun, challenging the words of the Bible.
Galileo was rehabilitated and the Church now also accepts evolution as a scientific theory and sees no reason why God could not have used a natural evolutionary process in the forming of the human species.
The Catholic Church no longer teaches creationism — the belief that God created the world in six days as described in the Bible — and says that the account in the book of Genesis is an allegory for the way God created the world.
But it objects to using evolution to back an atheist philosophy that denies God's existence or any divine role in creation. It also objects to using Genesis as a scientific text.
