polymath22 on Why Do You Have To Criminalize People To Coax Them Into A Plan That's Fabulous?! Rep Roskam on why 5 years in jail and $250,000 in fines for not getting health insurance is in the bill passed by the house. - http://www.reddit.com/r...
polymath22 on I'm playing a drinking game while watching the health care debate: Drink everytime a Republican says "government takeover," "job-killing," or "mushrooming debt." I'm not going to make it to the vote. - http://www.reddit.com/r...
"what if my money is jacked via taxes and given away in no-bid contracts to war profiteers? as for government, you can always ... ya know... GTFO of USA. i hear conservatives do well in the Iran elections."
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polymath22 on I'm playing a drinking game while watching the health care debate: Drink everytime a Republican says "government takeover," "job-killing," or "mushrooming debt." I'm not going to make it to the vote. - http://www.reddit.com/r...
"you could make a /[r](http://www.reddit.com/reddits... for a specific part or aspect of des moines if you wanted to, like [arts and crafts](http://www.reddit.com/r...), downtown, schools, sports teams, clubs, meetups-tweetups... encourage others to develop local subreddits by subscribing, upvoting, commenting, and submitting. subreddits "won't run themselves". it takes a group of like minded people to work and play together to make it all come together. ps. why do redditors get upset about "the hive mind" like its a bad thing? because [the bandwagon effect](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki...)"
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"to whoever downvoted this article. from the submission page, you can CLEARLY see that it links to [desmoinesregister.com](http://www.reddit.com/domain...) a reputable source you SHOULD be familiar with... so therefore you KNOW its not spam... if you read the article and went OMG, thats horrible.. does not mean you should "downvote" the bad news. you upvote, not because you thought the h1n1 news was wonderful, but to thank the submitter for taking the time to submit something. its a common courtesy, acknowledges others efforts with a simple click, gives the submitter "karma" and a warm-fuzzy feeling and encourages the "social" part of social media. so, please tip the help!"
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MUSLIM TERROR ATTACK: 'NINE shot dead' 12 30 Wounded at Mass Shooting at Fort Hood, US Army Base, Primary Gunman, Malik Nadal Hasan is MUSLIM CONVERT - http://atlasshrugs2000.typepad.com/atlas_s...
MUSLIM MUSLIM MUSLIM. did you also make a note of Adolf Hitlers faith? or Tim McVeigh? or George W Bush? or studied the Inquisition? Lynchings? KKK? the list goes on and on and on...
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"Why do so many people second guess educators? Are there large parts of the population second guessing YOUR work? We pay these people so little and expect so much."
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polymath22 on If a society is judged on how it treats its poor, we would be at the bottom. - A true story that happened to me two hours before this post. - http://www.reddit.com/r...
"i don't know the individual circumstances of this lady and her child, but it sounds similar to a another lady in my town. She would wait at a 4-way stop at the intersection of two busy streets, and walk up to peoples cars and if the door wasn't locked she would open it up and jump in. once inside, she would make a simple request like a ride for a few blocks whichever way the driver was going. once in motion, she would give a story similar to the one described in this story. she always needed money to feed her family, yet somehow i never noticed her or her family at any of the free soup-lines around town, ( and i knew them ALL). Day after day, same place, same scam, until finally the irritated motorists turned her in enough times for the police to do something about it. i try not to have a cold heart, but there are scam artists out there who will cry crocodile tears and accept YOUR last dollar for themselves, and not think anything of it."
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twitter class? i have been hearing more and more about twitter classes. i am curious. who are these twitter teachers? i don't know that i follow any of them
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Blame Czar Bush still a campaign tool for Dem'crats. 10 months under Obama is way worse than 8 years with Bush. Remember 4.5% unemployment? - http://twitter.com/Prolife...
i like this, because it makes me laugh. I do remember low unemployment, but I also remember very high unemployment, under #tcot lord-and-savior, messiah Ronald WILSON Reagan (as @hannityshow likes to put it). Worst unemployment since 1986? WTF, thats like, his SECOND TERM, yet @BarackObama is responsible for unemployment after 10 months? It's also worth mentioning that by this time in the Bush Administration the USA had already been attacked. With Bush as CIC, the FRIGGIN PENTAGON GOT HIT. The most sensitive military target on the PLANET, on the GBW WATCH. Not to mention the economic targets and all those dead people. Keep telling yourself that "Bush Kept Us Safe"... after 911, after Anthrax, after Katrina, after TWO questionable wars. Oh yeah, and the #GWB and #DickCheney KNEE-JERK REACTION TO 911 KILLED MORE AMERICANS THAN EVERY AL QAEDA AND TALIBAN COMBINED. </rant>
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"Iowa City Iowa News also imports content from other [sources](http://friendfeed.com/iowacit...), so if you are looking for something to submit to the Iowa City sub reddit, this would be a good place to start. There are constantly new sources being added to the room, as they are discovered."
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polymath22 on "The problem with Adam Smith is no one bothers to actually read Wealth of Nations... While he is presented as a free market ideologue, in reality he was an Enlightened thinker who advocated for government regulation to prevent corporations from corrupting public policy and exploiting consumers" - http://www.reddit.com/r...
polymath22 on Credit card companies are going to start charging a fee for having perfect credit. If you have perfect credit, you get to either pay a high annual fee or cancel the card and hurt your credit score. - http://www.reddit.com/r...
as a matter of fact i do. i think it is revolutionary. consider digg or mixx or reddit where users submit ONE link at a time. Friendfeed lets you "submit" entire content streams, like this http://friendfeed.com/iowasoc...
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"not weird, but funny. i sitting in a stall doing my thing and in comes a father and his young son (3-5 years old). dad is helping junior do his thing in the next stall, and junior starts ... "vocalizing" grunt... "puuuuussssshhhhh the chicken out" grunt... "puuuuussssshhhhh the chicken out" grunt... "puuuuussssshhhhh the chicken out""
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