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• John Mackey, health care, Friedman, and wisdom…

  
  Thoughts and Ruminations — Authority: 116
  The problem with the free market is that the profit motive trumps all other concerns, which leads to monopolization of societies by powerful corporations. – MeI’ve been pretty hands-off with the whole health-care debate in more public settings.  I don’t shy away from talking about it around the dinner table at ...
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• Good Samaritan Carjacked Near Ottawa KS Monday

  
  Capt. Spaulding's World — Authority: 141
  A 42-year-old man saw a woman walking in the bitter cold on K-68 west of Ottawa on Monday morning and offered her a ride. According to the story in The OTTAWA (KS) HERALD - the woman got in the mans "gold-colored Ford Escort with a Kansas firefighter license tag"- she pulled a gun on him and forced him to ...
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• The Sin of Omission

  
  Kevin Stilley Dot Com — Authority: 143
  by Margaret E. Sangster It isn’t the thing you do, dear; It’s the thing you leave undone, That gives you a bit of heartache At setting of the sun. The tender word forgotten, The letter you did not write, The flowers you did not send, dear, Are your haunting ghosts to-night. The stone you might have lifted Out ...
  4 days ago

• Miracle Twins Will Celebrate First Christmas

  
  Baby Chums — Authority: 512
  Kristen and Scott Baker have added two more red and white stockings to the family’s Christmas decorations this year to celebrate 6-month-old identical twins Carlie and Claire. The family lovingly calls them their “miracle babies.”   The family faced shock and excitement when they learned in February that ...
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• Happy Hour: Down For The Count

  
  Nashvillest — Authority: 429
  Tennessee’s Golden Boy Vince Young was unable to finish practice today and left early to ice down that nasty-looking knee injury he sustained in Sunday’s bout with the Colts. Coach Fisher says he’s not extremely worried about Vince being ready to start by this weekend. [ Tennessean ] Oak Ridge’s geothermal ...
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• Video: How not to clean up Colorado’s leaking mines

  
  Colorado Independent — Authority: 625
  If you want a good explanation of why it makes no sense to require every draining mine in Colorado to have a treatment plant at its base, check out the recently-posted video titled “Act of Congress: Good Samaritans and Draining Mines.” The video was created by Biscuit Boy Productions and Tom Schillaci, a ...
  1 week ago

• Our Christmas Surprise

  
  Jan's Funny Farm — Authority: 422
  Merci: Were happy to report, the surprise Jan told us was going to arrive today is here. And it wasnt cleaning supplies, so sorry, cats, but we cant share with you.Sam: But first, a little background. Do you remember our post on the two Chihuahuas that were dumped outside the mill gates last summer? (You can read ...
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• Good Samaritan Charged for Trying to Help Abused Dog – VIDEO

  
  For the Love of the Dog — Authority: 422
  Wow, doesn’t this just ring a bell? Looks like another good Samaritan is getting punished for trying to help a dog that was abused and neglected by its legal owners after the law and animal services couldn’t or didn’t help! An elderly Savannah, GA woman, Ann Wylene Lam, saw the dog in a neighbor’s while [...]
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• Changing patterns of global childhood blindness should be reassessed: Experts

  
  Thaindian News — Authority: 729
  Washington, Dec 8 (ANI): A team of eye specialists from India, Malawi, and Tanzania have revealed that patterns of childhood blindness have been changing and there is a need to reassess the strategies for recognition and treatment of the disease in developing countries.According to Paul Courtright (Kilimanjaro Centre ...
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• Elderly dog abandoned by road side

  
  Deadline Press & Picture Agency — Authority: 487
    Doris who was dumped at the road side By Cara Sulieman AN ELDERLY dog which narrowly missed being run over by a lorry after being heartlessly dumped at the side of the road refused to budge for rescuers – hoping its owners would come back. A passing motorist spotted the dog – dubbed Doris – ...
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• Billys Brain Surgery

  
  Jan's Funny Farm — Authority: 422
  Percy: Well, today was Buddys big day. His first scheduled brain surgery is finished. Billy Sweetfeets was volunteered by his brothers, Sammy and Miles Meezer. They wanted to find out why Billy is "weerd." Cyndi: I was Dr. Buddys assistant. I was afraid I would pass out at the sight of blood. I didnt. I barfed. ...
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• Best Mystery Books of Year

  
  Matt Beynon Rees — Authority: 116
  The Samaritans Secret , the third of my Palestinian crime novels, was named one of the Best Mystery Books of the Year for 2009 by Deadly Pleasures , the crime fiction magazine with the best read on websites and what fans like. The cover you see here is from the US paperback edition of The Samaritans Secret whichll be ...
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• Tragedy Miraculously Averted!

  
  FreeRangeKids — Authority: 532
  Hi Readers! I’m sorry for what happened to this kid, but is it NEWS? And did we NEED that last line? And as the guy who sent this to Free-Range Kids said: “I thought this a headline from The  Onion.” But no. It’s from Gainseville, Fla:7-year-old ends up walking home alone from schoolBy Harriet DanielsStafff ...
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• No Good Deed Goes Unpunished…

  
  amy king's alias — Authority: 483
  Except when it’s rewarded! Mr. Mohammad Sohail, deli owner, took the good road back in June and invested a little faith in the thief who tried to rob him.  Once the would-be-thief was on his knees begging for mercy, Mr. Sohail gave him just that:  forty bucks, some bread, and a handshake.  Then a couple of days ...
  2 weeks ago

• Ass-backwards on Gays

  
  Matt Beynon Rees — Authority: 116
  When it comes to homosexuals, Palestinians have it all ass-backwards. That led me to introduce homosexuality as a theme of THE SAMARITAN’S SECRET , my most recent Palestinian crime novel. I wanted to show how negative attitudes toward homosexuals function in the Muslim world, demonstrating the bloody consequences ...
  2 weeks ago

• When Do You Act Like A Good Samaritan, And When Do You Avert Your Gaze And Keep Going?

  
  Everyday Ethics — Authority: 121
  I ask because today, during lunch, a coworker and I were walking down the street, and we saw a man in a wheelchair, with only one leg, seeming to struggle to make his way down the block. What did I do?  I looked away and moved on.   Why did I do it?  Read this post »
  2 weeks ago

• David Cameron mustnt miss the point of the Good Samaritan

  
  News Religion — Authority: 130
  There’s very little to add to my colleague Philip Johnston’s excellent post on David Cameron’s invocation of the Good Samaritan. I would just say that people don’t always do justice to the story of the Good Samaritan. And, as a consequence, they miss the point.Margaret Thatcher famously said that the Good ...
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• Would a Good Samaritan law end health and safety madness?

  
  News Politics — Authority: 142
  The last time a Tory leader mentioned the Good Samaritan there was a row. Interviewed in 1980 not long after she became prime minister, Margaret Thatcher said: “No-one would remember the Good Samaritan if he’d only had good intentions; he had money as well.” She was accused of missing the point of his ...
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• Missing Rolls

  
  Jan's Funny Farm — Authority: 422
  Merci: Jan is on the warpath. Id hide if I were you two.Buddy: Whats her problem?Merci: Someone stole her rolls. 9 of them to be exact.Sam: Ill take a look around for them. Where did she lose them?Merci: On the stove. She baked a dozen rolls. She ate three. When she went to put the rest away, she found ...
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• Katie Redding and David Sirota talk insurance industry discrimination and clean water

  
  Colorado Independent — Authority: 625
  Colorado Independent writer Katie Redding joined Progressive Talk 760 AM host David Sirota this morning to discuss her recent reporting on insurance industry gender discrimination and pending national Good Samaritan water cleanup legislation. Redding dialed in from her chilly open-air back porch in Leadville, ...
  2 weeks ago

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