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Politics : GOPwinger Lies/Distortions/Omissions/Perversions of Truth -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: J_F_Shepard who wrote (160805)	7/20/2009 5:53:04 PM
From: longnshort	1 Recommendation Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 173976

no it wouldn't, blacks call 911 (free ride) when they have a tooth ache, that won't change

To: J_F_Shepard who wrote (160805)	7/20/2009 11:28:34 PM
From: Hope Praytochange	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 173976

THAT former Democratic National Committee Chairman Howard Dean has offered some bizarre reasoning as to why lower-income Americans won't suffer financially from the cap-and-trade plan to reduce carbon emissions. Dean, a medical doctor and now a CNBC contributor, said on the cable network: "I believe that for the $40 a year that the lowest income people pay in extra taxes or extra energy costs, they will more than recoup that having their kids spend less time in the emergency rooms because of asthma attacks." Dean did not address the fact that many lower-income Americans do not pay for their emergency room visits. THAT two new reports show it costs more to imprison an American than to educate him. The Bureau of Prisons announced on July 10 that the annual cost to incarcerate a person in a federal prison was $25,895 last year. Meanwhile, College Board statistics cited by Government Security News disclose that the average total charges an out-of-state student paid for tuition, fees, room and board at a public four-year college during the 2008-2009 school year was $25,200. And the College Board noted that nearly two-thirds of full-time undergraduate students receive grants that reduce the actual price of school. THAT tongues were wagging over the television coverage of President Barack Obama's ceremonial first pitch at Tuesday's All-Star Game in St. Louis. Most often the live coverage is shot from a camera positioned behind the celebrity tosser, so the pitch ? no matter how good or bad ? can be clearly seen. But for Obama, the live footage was shot so that the catcher was not in view when the ball approached the plate. Yahoo! Sports observed: "Where did [the pitch] land? Was it a strike or wasn't it? Why didn't the network choose a better camera to shoot from? Those were the questions that viewers of baseball's All-Star Game were asking themselves at home after Fox elected to show President Barack Obama's ceremonial first pitch at the 80th All-Star Game from a tight angle." And National Review's Andy McCarthy wrote: "In its live broadcast, Fox (and remember, this is Fox Sports, not Fox News) covered Obama's first pitch at a very weird angle that conveyed his spastic motion but didn't do justice to how pathetic the toss was." Was it just bad camera work, or a preplanned effort to keep Obama's expected "pathetic" toss off the air? As Yogi Berra said, "You can observe a lot just by watching." THAT actor James Caviezel, who played Jesus in Mel Gibson's controversial film, "The Passion of the Christ," was injured in a motorcycle accident. The Washington State Patrol disclosed that Caviezel was thrown from his bike when "a man hurled a bicycle into the path of his motorcycle" near Leavenworth, Wash. Examiner.com reported that Caviezel was treated at a hospital for cuts and bruises.