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To: bentway who wrote (499899)	7/31/2009 7:23:07 AM
From: steve harris	Respond to of 1578178

yeah, Cuban health care is so great, they didn't need a doctor from another country to fly in and treat comrade Fidel...

To: bentway who wrote (499899)	7/31/2009 7:47:02 AM
From: Brumar89	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 1578178

The US does send medical missionaries abroad. And when we send doctors abroad, they're real doctors. Love it when liberals feel compelled to idolize the poorest most pathetic communist countries as a model for the US.

To: bentway who wrote (499899)	7/31/2009 8:23:18 AM
From: longnshort	Respond to of 1578178

GREEN GODS "A colleague sent me an Internet photo of New York Times columnist Thomas Friedman's home in Bethesda, Md. It's hysterical. The global warming warrior who urged the nation's young people to march on Washington for the right to pay a carbon tax doesn't live in a house. He lives on a campus," Detroit News editorial page editor Nolan Finley writes. "The 11,000-square-foot sprawling complex sits on 7.5 acres and replaced a perfectly fine, smaller home that was torn down to make room for his palace. No need for the kids to march on the Mall. The writer could fit them all into his swimming pool," Mr. Finley said. "And yet Friedman is not the biggest global warming hypocrite. That would be Al Gore. The former vice president began the greenwashing of America, urging its citizens to find harmony with the Earth by living smaller, less ostentatious existences. He meant you, not him. Gore's 9,000-square-foot, $2 million mansion in Nashville is slightly smaller than Friedman's. But he makes up for it with a 100-foot houseboat. "Gore calls the lake-liner 'Bio-Solar One,' so no one will miss the fact that it's outfitted with the latest energy-saving technology. Even with all its twisty light bulbs, I have to believe Gore's aircraft carrier consumes significantly more fuel than the entire fleet of bass boats it's swamping down there in Tennessee. "I also bet I could keep driving my pickup truck the rest of my days and 100,000 miles into the hereafter and not leave as large a mark on the planet as Friedman or Gore. Or as Madonna, who, the Times of London noted when she showed up in England for a Live Earth concert, has a carbon footprint 100 times larger than the average Brit. "I'm not criticizing these eco-hypocrites for their lavish lifestyles. I celebrate them. If I had their money, I'd see their carbon excess and raise it by a couple hundred tons. "My point is that even for these environmental purists, human nature trumps nature worship. The more money people have, the greater their temptation to buy more and bigger things. "And it's why the green gods know so well that the only way to keep me and you from mimicking their offenses is to make sure we don't accumulate too much money. Money really is the root of all evil from an environmentalist's point of view."