Dancing
rabbits
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Bumper sticker of the week: Feel safer
now?
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Undermining local, existing businesses
is
bad economic development.
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HereÕs what I canÕt figure out — How
can
so many people be wrong so much of
the
time?
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It must be cultural imperatives, that our
God
is bigger than theirs, and our ideology
better
than any other.
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If I commanded the most powerful
military
force in all the world, theyÕd have
to
call me Uncle Bruce.
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This whole Òblowing up airplanes with
liquid
explosivesÓ might just as well be made
up
by the terrorists. The effect would still
be
the same: It scares us to death. Is it the
death
weÕre so scared about, or the fact that
we
know in our hearts we canÕt beat them.
Because
the them is us.
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Before you embark on a journey of
revenge,
dig two graves. Confucius
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I saw Mike WallaceÕs interview with the
Iranian
President. Two observations: Mike
Wallace
needs to retire, and the Iranian
President
is a whole lot smarter than ours.
If
it comes down to a war of words, were
screwed.
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Talk radio: You turn on the radio in the
morning,
and all you hear is talk. And none
of
it of any redeeming quality. I turn on the
radio,
I want to hear music. I donÕt want to
hear
some lame-brain complaining about
his
wife not being able to have an orgasm.
If
I wanted to listen to bullshit, IÕd turn on
the
TV.
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Health care: The United States stands
alone
as the only industrialized nation
without
universal health care.
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Health care should be a right, not a
consumer
good.
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Everyone should have access to
affordable
health care.
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High-quality health care should be
available
to everyone.
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Costs to individuals could be based on
ability
to pay.
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Health care should be affordable for
employers
and employees.
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People need to take per sonal
responsibility
for their health.
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Health care should include prescription,
mental
health, and substance abuse
coverage.
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Whoever the presidential candidates
turn
out to be in 2008, he or she had better
have
universal health care as one of their
top
three priorities, or they donÕt deserve
our
vote.
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Estimated number of people who die
each
year due to lack of health insurance:
18,000.
Number of people who died on
9/11:
2,819.
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The Dancing Rabbit Ecovillage: I
recently
visited a commune in Missouri. I
have
to admit, if I were 30 years younger,
IÕd
probably be trying to drag me wife off
to
live there. ItÕs definitely not a glamorous
life,
but it is a fairly honest one. The residents,
numbering
somewhere around 30, I would
guess
have an average age of about 26. One
must
agree to the following terms in order
to
apply for membership:
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I am committed to pioneering a lifestyle
that
will serve as an example of ecological
sustainability.
I will weigh the implications
of
my actions, continually striving to
minimize
my negative impact and increase
my
positive impact on the earth. I will
participate
in the creation of a physical and
social
structure and culture that will move
us
towards long term sustainability.
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I am committed to the vision of diverse
membership
of dancing rabbit and will not
discriminate
against any person on the
basis
of race, ethnicity, religion, sex, sexual
orientation,
creed, age, ability, educational
level,
or economic background. I will
attempt
to minimize barriers to members
of
minority groups wishing to participate.
There
are a few other terms, but this gives
you
some idea of the vision. We could all
use
a little bit of this hope, this spirit, this
idealism.
If onlyÉÉ.