what is stopping universal health coverage?

http://www.thedailybeast.com/blogs-and-stories/2009-07-15/dr-deans-second-opinion/full/

We already HAVE socialized medicine with the VA hospitals and medicare. What's the fear? That we will become a socialist country? Well, then we'll have to say that the entire rest of the world is socialist then.

If we can afford the $1 trillion useless war in Iraq, I think we should be able to afford health care for ourselves.

nice magazine for helpful information

http://www.backwoodshome.com/

You might not agree with their politics, but there's some good stuff here otherwise.

Iranian protesters face detention and torture, and still they go

http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/middle_east/8133329.stm

I often wondered if Scientology had the power to arrest and torture me, would I still be a critic? Actually, I don't think so. I'm not that brave. But these Iranians are amazing. I hope they succeed in freeing their country.

I read that the revolution that put Khomeni in power took a year. So this is not over yet. Most Iranians are young and educated, and they are learning from other successful protests how best to go foward. I wish them all the best.

http://iran.whyweprotest.net

geotagging - locational socializing

http://www.wired.com/dualperspectives/article/news/2009/06/dp_web_wired0630

When your friends know where you are, that makes planning for social interaction easier to do. But it also can mean that non-friends also know where you are.

Anonymous Iran

http://iran.whyweprotest.net

Project Chanology, the movement to help expose the Church of Scientology, has partnered with the democracy activists in Iran to provide a voice to Iranians seeking freedom in their country.

I think we'll be seeing more and more of this, where one online community helps another online community, simply because they share a common goal or ideal. There is power in numbers.

why prop up the system that just failed us?

http://english.aljazeera.net/focus/2009/06/200961881243654538.html

I like this guy. It makes no sense to me to be propping up the very companies and people who caused the failure in the first place. Plus, trickle down has shown to be a bogus theory anyway.

it's past time for health care overhaul

http://www.reuters.com/article/newsOne/idUSTRE5530Y020090604

60% of bankruptcies in the US are caused by medical bills.
47 million Americans don't have health care coverage.
The US is the only major country on earth without universal health care.

We can be so backward in some things...