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on Candidate Conversation: 5th District
It's just so sad that where we're at is that people don't realize we were being robbed blind for 8 years until the last two. It didn't just start yesterday! & what planet do you live on that you think that the whole world could be screwed but you think whoever you pick should be able to fix who too many people feel for for the last 8 years before who we have nwo? Bush had both houses for how long? We had a surplus after the last non-Republican, do we see the pattern here?!
posted 2 years, 8 months ago
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on Candidate Conversation: 5th District
Would Scott like to speak to these 2 things - as much of the 2nd as can fit (elipses replace inconsequential text to save on-air time):
"Our state simply cannot afford to make health care an inalienable right."
http://www.blueoregon.com/2010/08/scott-bruun-let-them-eat-cake/
PolitiFact National: - "Bruun's campaign statements give the impression...that $500 billion will be lopped from Medicare immediately, and that seniors are in danger of losing health care benefits. All that is misleading.
...The reforms to Medicare will result in $500 billion in savings over 10 years...the law does not eliminate $500 billion of the current budget for Medicare. There are no cuts to guaranteed Medicare benefits...Medicare Advantage is a more generous version that some seniors choose to buy.
In fact, spending on Medicare will (still!) actually increase over the next decade, (to) $845 billion in 2019, according to the nonprofit Kaiser Family Foundation. Without reform, Medicare spending in 2019 was projected to be $943 billion.
Does a reduction in future spending mean a reduction in quality or quantity of medical services?
No, says Tricia Neuman, director of Kaiser foundation's Medicare Policy Project.
The $500 billion in savings will come from a mix (of) Higher insurance premiums for wealthier seniors, reductions in payments for Medicare Advantage plans...& smaller-than-expected increases in payment rates to hospitals & other service providers each year.
Reducing the payments to the private companies that provide the programs is projected to help trim $136 billion from Medicare Advantage over 10 years.
But it's not all reductions and savings -- something else Bruun doesn't flesh out.
On the plus side, health care reform means Medicare recipients will get more preventive health care services, such as wellness visits, and they won't face the "doughnut hole" gap in prescription coverage left by the original Medicare Part D.
http://www.politifact.com/oregon/statements/2010/oct/02/scott-bruun/scott-bruun-says-kurt-schrader-cut-500-billion-med/
posted 2 years, 8 months ago
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on Religious Literacy
Anyhow, what I was initially going to ask is why don't Muslims everywhere denounce the violent fundamentalists as not being Muslim? Because they would be killed too? This is a valid reason, but I think it might help?
posted 2 years, 8 months ago
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on Religious Literacy
Personally I think all monotheism is above all else false - manufactured for political &/or personal gain for those throughout his-story (which it initiated & wrote) who feel the need to fuse their need for power with their sense of spirituality/justify/rationalize it; or for those more evolved than this, something to hold onto for those who still need someone to tell them what morality is/what to do with their lives to be better/or on a worse not again, to validate their sense of morality, or lack of it for some. But patriarchy on top of monotheism - saying that God should not only be anthropomorphized, & have a gender. That it is a male gender is no accident - patriarchal religions came about universally by slaughter of previously Goddess-worshipping people, see Ishmael - Daniel Quinn, The Alphabet vs. th Goddess - the recently passed Leonard Schlain, & When God Was A Woman (which says that Islam was originally much more honest & disclosing about its refusal to worship the feminine), & means society as a whole - that is to say world society, values patriarchal, or at least masculine values, above femine values, overwhelmingly.
I think our souls somehow congealed the way the planets & stars did, & we incarnate into physical bodies to learn lessons we chose, sometimes with group karma. I know a couple that are really nice Christians, but I don't think their belief in a god that wants to be worshipped - which I don't believe any god would want - is what makes them good. They do excellent deeds though. I've met a Muslim & another Christian I'd say the same about - so it doesn't make someone a bad person, it's just a belief that seems to widely be used, feasibly, to allow the justification of bad behavior on those who don't buy the same belief.
So what lessons do you think you're here to learn this life? Us as a whole?
posted 2 years, 8 months ago
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on Tea Party
How do you justify Sarah Palin making rape survivors pay for their own rape kits, Fox News lying about Obama's nuclear aggreement with Russia when Regan wanted a nuclear-free world, & are you really white supremacists?
posted 3 years, 1 month ago
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on Reporting Abuse
As a mere Undergraduate Psychology student I learned in writing a paper that 1.4% of children are found to be abused, that 30-90% of the spectrum end from neglected to sexually abused up with bona fide PTSD
posted 3 years, 5 months ago
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on Rebroadcast: Sherman Alexie
Hey! I can't find it - don't know if it's recorded, but you're in a Mood Area 52 song! They're a great local sort of neo-tango band out of Eugene, where one of the best lines is "dumb is not hot, & reading is sexy"...I think your last name might rhyme with that line...
The lead singer uses this song as the introduction to his syllabus as an 8th grade English teacher:)
posted 3 years, 5 months ago
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on Talking Education with Richard Lariviere
Yep, competition in itself is pretty questionable, better to play for fun
posted 3 years, 6 months ago
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on Talking Education with Richard Lariviere
I also absolutely despise public funds being spent on the hypermasculinized sport of football. While I agree that it is very good that men in patriarchy have an outlet for their gross allowance of aggression, & the fact that I actually love sport in general, I find the culture of homophobia & sexism surrounding fooball to be an abomination. On a positive note, I've recently heard, to my surprise - this isn't the feeling that came across while I lived in Eugene - that at least a few players on the team really seem like nice people.
posted 3 years, 6 months ago
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on Talking Education with Richard Lariviere
I left Eugene finally earlier this year, (not that I was satisfied with Eugene as a whole anyhow,) but specifically my experience at UO ejected me in disgust somewhat prematurely, though my parter still can't make the move for a few more months.
While at UO the Dual-Enrollment program basically stole my financial aid my first term there after I found out asking 8 times in 3 phone calls wasn't enough to find out what I was supposed to do to be dual-enrolled (with the local community college). I was accepted for an International Internship & then told noone had read my application, when part of the reason I had incompletes barring my acceptance was things like being misinformed by my department's advisor about classes, not to mention about the fact of my new diagnosis of PTSD - when the advisor was for the Psychology department! I, however, have nothing but good things to say about two of my teachers in my time there: Marjorie Taylor & Meredith Meyer; they were both excellent & highly organized teachers.
My partner, also, had a great experience with the Master's program of Landscape Architecture, specifically with a teacher first-named Kenny.
So far, PSU makes similar mistakes a lot, having lost my financial aid case & paperwork twice during my first term, for the first 10 weeks of my first term there, one teacher in particular is shockingly rude to students, as if they are, middle school age? I don't know any teacher would talk to anyone as she does, & obviously Psu doesn't care, another doesn't show up to office hours or take responsiblity for intelligibly writing up assignments. There are other examples important information is generally not kept straight a lot there either.
However, I do find, that at Psu they can understand my writing better. I was educated at home by my father, who is a former Kent University professor (UK's Oxford system), & my thought process has always seemed to function quite a bit differently than my peers in some way. While at UO few understood the ideas I would have for papers, while at Psu it is the reverse, & quite refreshing!
I do highly approve of the Pres at UO no longer being a sweatshop corporation...enthusiast.
posted 3 years, 6 months ago
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