What great things do you think Obama will do after he wins his last election?

I really think he will push Medicare for all.

Presidental Debate Schedule 2012

2012 Presidential Debate Schedule
The dates and venues have been announced for the 2012 Presidential debates between President Obama and the eventual GOP nominee. The date for the Vice Presidential debate has also been announced.

Ticketing for the 2012 general election debates is controlled by the Commission on Presidential Debates and tickets will be extremely limited. The majority of tickets are distributed to university students and faculty through a lottery system with the remaining tickets going to friends and families of the campaigns and the media.

October 3, 2012 Air Time TBD
Location: University of Denver in Denver, Colorado
Sponsor: Commission on Presidential Debates
Participants: President Barack Obama and Mitt Romney

October 11, 2012
Vice Presidential Air Time TBD
Location: Centre College in Danville, Kentucky
Sponsor: Commission on Presidential Debates
Participants: Vice President Biden and the GOP Vice Presidential nominee

October 16, 2012 Air Time TBD
Location: Hofstra University in Hempstead, New York
Sponsor: Commission on Presidential Debates
Participants: President Barack Obama and Mitt Romney

October 22, 2012 Air Time TBD
Location: Lynn University in Boca Raton, Florida
Sponsor: Commission on Presidential Debates
Participants: President Barack Obama and Mitt Romney


http://www.2012presidentialelectionnews.com/2012-debate-schedule/2012-presidential-debate-schedule/






I can't wait. I'll be in the UK for the last one but I will watch it online.

The most talented dog ever

I've been working at a new job for 9 weeks and tonight

I've just witnessed a third person getting fired. These were nurses with small children and families to take care of. For each firing it happened all the same - they came into work their shift and before they could clock in the Admin Nurse said I need to talk to you and the next thing you see is her walking them out the door. And for what? I do not know - no one talks about it. I have never seen so much incivility from a nurse admin in all my years, and I'm 59. I come home from work and I can't open the wine bottle fast enough. (No I'm not a heavy drinker). I took off a year and half and moved to England after my partner died and this is what I came back to. Is this a precedent?

Why are the Repukes saying the law will take people off their private insurance

plan?

Ripped Off By A Mac? Why Apple Users May Pay More For Booking Hotels With Orbitz

Online travel site Orbitz Worldwide [NYSE: OWW] is testing a system that offers Apple [NASDAQ: AAPL] Mac users pricier hotels than their Windows counterparts, it was revealed Tuesday.

The controversy results after Orbitz found that Mac users spend on average 30 percent more on hotel rooms than Windows users visiting the site and decided on the profiling trial, according to the Wall Street Journal.

The system works by offering Mac users more expensive "recommended" hotels at the top of searched for suggestions.

Usually Mac or Windows users would see the exactly the same list of "suggested" hotels, but with the new system Mac users will be shown a modified list of plusher options.

http://www.ibtimes.com/articles/356448/20120626/apple-orbitz-hotel-pricier-expensive-tracking.htm

Missouri town welcomes horse slaughter plant, jobs

ROCKVILLE, MO. -- People here don’t have anything against horses.

Or slaughtering them.

In fact, they’re fairly delighted at the prospect of transforming horses into export-ready steaks in a building that sits across from their local convenience store. They’re even praying for it.

“The town is all for it,” said Rockville Mayor Dave Moore. “I think it’s great.”


http://www.kansascity.com/2012/06/12/3659273/rockville-mo-welcomes-horse-slaughter.html


This is just 100 miles from where I live and it turns my stomach just thinking about it.

Western Hebrides and the Shetland Isles

I'm planning a trip to the Western Hebrides and the person I'm going with wants to visit the Shetland Isles also. Is there much to do there? (Shetland). Thanks in advance.

US healthcare system a haven for many, but sick Americans are often jilted

The NHS is sending patients abroad for advanced treatments, but that same care is hard to come by for many living there


Ethan Fidler is a 10-year-old from England who has spent six weeks in Florida and by now is missing football. Many would think him a lucky boy, and indeed he is – not because of Disney World or the beaches but because the the British national health service was willing to fly him four thousand miles and pay upwards of £50,000 for specialised radiation treatment for his brain tumour.

The NHS – often derided in the US as "socialised medicine" – sprang into action for Ethan and there is every likelihood he will be cured. His doctor at the University of Florida institute of proton therapy in Jacksonville, Danny Indelicato, is delighted with him. His mother, quantity surveyor Julia Fidler, who has been in Florida with Ethan throughout, while his dad, Mark, stayed home with their daughter, is astounded.

"I was amazed. To be told that this was something that could happen for Ethan – I was staggered," Fidler said. "To just be told that all this is going to be available for your son. It gives you a massive sense that they must really feel they can cure Ethan or they wouldn't go to these extremes. Every parent must feel that. It does give you confidence."

Ethan is in the US because the NHS as yet does not have proton therapy machines, although the UK government has just agreed to fund two of them, in London and Manchester. But while the British boy is getting cutting-edge cancer treatment here, others who live in America are struggling to obtain the medical care they need. And when they are seriously ill or have a long-term condition, many will not be able to pay the bills that pile through the door. Two-thirds of personal bankruptcies in the US are related to healthcare costs.


http://www.guardian.co.uk/society/2012/jun/06/us-medical-care-haven-nhs

Women raped while in the US military are denied abortions. End this now

"A female solider in Iraq is more likely to be attacked by a fellow soldier than killed by military fire," declared a piece on rape in the US military in the Guardian last December. As if the details of ensuing isolation, lack of psychological support and risk of homelessness weren't enough, one travesty was left out: unless life is at risk, military medical insurance does not fund abortion for women who are left pregnant after such attacks. Period.

Even if a woman can afford to pay for her own termination, military hospitals are currently outlawed from performing the procedure. The March Act, proposed by senators Kirsten Gillibrand, Barbara Boxer, Jeanne Shaheen, Patty Murray and Frank Lautenberg, seeks to change that. Endorsed by the Department of Defence, and given its appeal to patriotism as much as its pinpointing of this grievous human rights violation, can this be the law to finally persuade America's anti-choicers of the compassionate abortion argument? Or will it merely be the exception that proves the rule?

Much of the current legislative restriction on civilian abortion in the US relates to the 1976 Hyde amendment, which declared that federal funding should not cover abortion (initially relating to services offered by the low-income healthcare provider Medicaid), except in cases of rape, incest or where the life of the mother was at risk. Its relevance was alarmingly renewed in March 2010 when Barack Obama signed an executive order reiterating that protection of federal funds to save the $940bn healthcare bill.




http://www.guardian.co.uk/commentisfree/cifamerica/2012/may/28/women-raped-us-military-abortions