Madea Quote – Answer To
“It’s not what people call you, it’s what you answer to.” – Madea
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Tough times don’t last, but tough people do
“Tough times don’t last, but tough people do.”
Read moreGeorge Burns Quote – Too Bad
“Too bad that all the people who know how to run the country are busy driving taxicabs and cutting hair.” – George Burns
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Nicholas Butler Quote – Three Groups of People
“People can be divided into three groups: Those who make things happen, those who watch things happen, and those who wonder what happened.” – Nicholas Butler
Read moreAmsterdam’s Scum Villages
Amsterdam ‘Scum villages’: Families that persistently behave badly and harass their neighbors are to be evicted from city-run housing projects and moved into trailer parks that have “minimal services” and are under constant police supervision. The new housing camps have been dubbed “scum villages” by the Dutch media, because the plan appears to echo a proposal by right-wing populist Geert […]
Read moreHunters for the Hungry (Budget Cuts Affecting Food Pantries)
Hunters for the Hungry Fred has been working with an agency called Hunters for the Hungry for five years. During that time, his food bank has received thousands of pounds of venison to feed the poor. This year, however, when Fred received no call from the agency saying it was ready to deliver the meat, he called the organization himself. The answering machine […]
Read moreFewer Americans Killed by Lightning Strikes
Fewer people are being killed by lightning strikes due to better ways to get out of its way. In the United States we have learned that we can get out its way by having covers over us that don’t attract the lightning bolts. In the 1940s there was over 400 people a year that were killed by lightning and in […]
Read moreGLOBAL HEALTH CARE
The Commonwealth Fund ranked health care systems in 11 wealthy nations according to criteria such as quality and access. Below, a sampling of the rankings:
Read moreBright Lights in a World of Darkness
Bright Lights in a World of Darkness More than 30 years ago the Supreme Court in the United States ruled that if individuals are mentally ill but not criminally insane they cannot be confined to asylums. They must be allowed to live in the general population. The results of that decision over the years have met with mixed success in different areas of the […]
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