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So why would we allow this? Punish the 85% that have earned insurance benefits to reward those that do not…wouldn’t it be the ‘smart’ thing to help that 15% without insurance ( Which I believe we already do through State Benefits for the poor and disabled) before we attempt to ‘dictate’ to all what coverage they will be ‘allowed’. We have the best health care in the entire world- don’t fix what isn’t broken…what we currently have can be improved upon but by no means should it be dismantled. This plan to reform our entire health care system is not helpful; it is harmful. America is smarter than this- don’t let the government insult our intelligence any longer. We are all fully capable of choosing for ourselves what is best for our families! They work for us~ we don’t work for them!

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Human-Nature
Our relationship with the natural world.
by Peter H. Kahn, Jr., Ph.D.

Created Oct 23 2009 – 12:05am

https://www.psychologytoday.com/blog/human-nature/200910/the-tepid-pool-choices-we-make-in-connecting-nature

In a New Jersey town, a controversy about a pool has pitted neighbor against neighbor. Here’s the issue, as reported in the New York Times (9/7/2009). There’s a natural swimming hole, called Graydon Pool. It’s 2.6 acres. For over 90 years, children in that town have grown up swimming in this pool. It has a sandy bottom. Cool spring currents flow into it. But many residents would like to plow under this natural pool and replace it with a blue, concrete pool with “thoroughly disinfected” chlorinated water. They call this a “real pool” – a “bona fide pool.”

My colleague, Dr. Pat Hasbach (a clinical psychologist in Eugene, Oregon) and I recently presented a paper at the North American Association for Environmental Education. In our presentation, we asked: What would be missed by future generations if the “bona fide pool” people win out? For one thing, kids and adults won’t feel the sand between their toes. They won’t sense the fluctuations of water temperature in places where the cool streams feed into the pool. They won’t experience the periodicity of usage due to the seasonal fluctuations, the presence of bugs that might land on the water and birds that might be on the shore, leading to a deeper connection to a natural ecosystem. They’ll lose a sense of healthy fear that emerges in unstructured bodies of water.

Children will lose these experiences and not even be aware they’ve lost them. This is the issue I’ve written about in other posts as the problem of Environmental General Amnesia [click here; and also here]. The problem is that as we lose the richness and depth of pervasiveness of interaction with nature, we shift the baseline of what is recognized as healthy nature experience.
To counter the problem of Environmental Generational Amnesia, there’s a lot of work being done in connecting children to local, domestic nature. In his important book, Last Child in the Woods, Richard Louv develops this idea. My co-edited volume, Children and Nature, speaks to this issue, as well.

But what I’ve written about in an earlier post [click here] is that to flourish children need to interact not only with domestic nature, but wild nature.

If we’re brainstorming on a grand level, maybe there’s a new movement to start. Maybe we could call it – The Rewilding of the Child Movement. Or maybe that’s part of a larger movement: The Rewilding of the Human Species Movement! And likely enough, to rewild the species we need to rewild ourselves. How do we rewild ourselves? I’ve been wondering about that. I’ve been trying to feel a little of what that space might be like. With that in mind, here’s a brief personal reflection, which I used to conclude the conference presentation to environmental educators:

There’s a mountain pool that you find hiking up the wild river. The water emerges into it from porous volcanic rock. The water flows from the cold country. It’s too cold to plunge in. But you’re in. You’re in because your lover is nearby and you need to prove your manly-hood. But just as fast you’re out. Your mind can’t believe that mere water can be that cold. It would have been twenty strokes across. You give up that thought. You need to get warm fast. How? It’s easy. You move naked to your beloved and put your arms around each other. Other people say that that pool is too cold. You can’t swim in it. They say let’s make a better one. They do. It’s filled with chlorinated water that’s not too hot and not too cold. Every day of the year it’s that same temperature. It’s called the tepid pool. The pool-man comes once a week. He squeegees the sides and adds blue dye and oils the pump. The pool-man says you gotta love the tepid pool.

Where would you like to swim? Your choice.

https://www.psychologytoday.com/blog/human-nature/200910/the-tepid-pool-choices-we-make-in-connecting-nature

>October 22, 2009

Democrats Lose Big Test Vote on Health Legislation
By ROBERT PEAR and DAVID M. HERSZENHORN

https://www.nytimes.com/2009/10/22/health/policy/22health.html?_r=1&ref=todayspaper

WASHINGTON — Democrats lost a big test vote on health care legislation on Wednesday as the Senate blocked action on a bill to increase Medicare payments to doctors at a cost of $247 billion over 10 years.

The Senate majority leader, Harry Reid, Democrat of Nevada, needed 60 votes to proceed. He won only 47. And he could not blame Republicans. A dozen Democrats and one independent crossed party lines and voted with Republicans on the 53 to 47 roll call.

The Medicare bill has become a proxy for larger issues in the debate over legislation to overhaul the health care system.

Mr. Reid said the bill, by averting big cuts in physician fees, guaranteed that doctors would continue accepting Medicare patients. But since none of the costs were offset or paid for, Republicans said it was fiscally irresponsible, and some Democrats said they shared that concern.

By addressing doctors’ fees in a separate bill, Senate Democrats could hold down the cost of the broader health legislation, keeping it within the limits set by President Obama. House Democrats are considering a similar tactic. Republicans said it was a transparent ploy to hide the cost of a health care overhaul.

Democrats had hoped that by passing the Medicare bill they could appease doctors and secure their support for the broader legislation.

Senate Democratic leaders said the bill to protect doctors’ fees had strong support from the White House, the American Medical Association and AARP.

Among the Democrats who voted against the party leadership were Senators Evan Bayh of Indiana, Kent Conrad of North Dakota, Russ Feingold of Wisconsin, Claire McCaskill of Missouri, Bill Nelson of Florida and Ron Wyden of Oregon.

https://www.nytimes.com/2009/10/22/health/policy/22health.html?_r=1&ref=todayspaper

>The cost for the turf alone will be well below the total cost that the BOE has put in the proposal. Based on current prices, similar projects in the area and the cost of the turf for of Maple Park the cost of the turf alone should be in the $2.2 to $2.5 million dollar range. The BOE has include other items in the cost of the project including new bleachers, a press box, new fences, electrical upgrades, removal of the track at RHS, and construction of a new track at BF. There is no turf scheduled for BF.

The problem with the sound bite world we live in now is that the entire proposal gets boiled down “$50 million for Turf!” or “$6 million for Turf!” and neither one is true. With off sets from the State the total cost to taxpayers of the entire proposal is closer to $38 million (still A LOT of money) and the cost to the taxpayers of the athletic facility piece is closer to $3.2 million. ($5.4 minus the $2.2 from the state) That $5.4 million number includes a lot of things that may or may not get done depending on what the State says in regards to construction in the flood plain but I would expect the turf part of the project gets approved as Maple is very similar and the State approved that.

PJ… as you often do… please re-post the 6:58pm comments, if you deem them to be important enough. Breaking down the cost of this is important. I support the project, but only after I too checked the facts. We should all be smart enough to do so.

If someone can shoot holes in the above post… rational holes, based on facts and competitive market data.. IE, the cost of exisitng turf facilities in the area, lets hear all about it. New bleachers, new regulation sized track moved to BF… not much talk about that. Dont support it, fine.. but dont lump this all unto new Fieldturf facilities

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>Anita Dunn, White House Communications Director, Has a Favorite Politician: Mass-Murderer Mao Tse-Tung (But Fox News Is Her Enemy)

Since so many people are professing admiration for Chairman Mao we thought we could take a look at the man and his contribution.