I say yes, you say no, OR People are Strange

Loved the pics of Christians and Muslims protecting one another during prayer.  That is religious freedom. 

what pip said, those were inspiring pictures.

Excellent documentary on PBS on LIfe of Muhammad.  Learned about this important part of the history - http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Constitution_of_Medina

Happy sunshine from Western MA - with, get ready for it, a touch of Fall in the air...in the 40's at night, and the pumpkin growning in my garden is beginning to turn orange.  Only one, many flowers, and bees, but only one pumpkin.  Well, as last year, will have enough seeds to grow next years.

TEE, HEE, TEE, HEE  "Canada is not really foreign soil" - don't tell the British Royal family...this thread is SUCH a great place to find a giggle...gorgle, chuckle....thank you all...even the "non foreigners" who supply us with such good cheer

C4C, next time you're criticized for being foreign and have no business having an opinion about our policies, quote this "leader" of their party.

Yoooo, hoooo - hope everybody is having a wonderful sunny ( almost end of summer) day.

thought of Blue when I read about Linda Ronstadt....still laughing at the pic of infant on dad's chest..so cute.

From DU:

The Huffington Post’s Jason Cherkis reports on a remarkable encounter between Reina Diaz-Dempsey, a Kentucky public health worker signing people up for insurance coverage under health care reform, and a middle-aged man who approached her booth at the State Fair. After Diaz-Dempsey explained that he will either qualify for tax credits to buy insurance through Kynect (the state’s new insurance marketplace) or an expanded Medicaid pool in October, the man seemed pleased and mused, “This beats Obamacare, I hope.” 

Kynect is actually one of the statewide insurance marketplaces at the heart of Obamacare, and the Medicaid expansion is another provision that stems from the health reform law. But Diaz-Dempsey doesn’t tell the man that — figuring the connection to Obamacare might actually dissuade him from pursuing coverage in a state with terrible public health demographics, where one in every five adults is uninsured. The anecdote is striking for its irony. But it underscores the reality that while some Americans — including many who will benefit immensely from the law — remain opposed to the abstract specter of “Obamacare,” they actually do support its core provisions. 

Polling on the health law has consistently highlighted that paradox. A Kaiser Family Foundation (KFF) tracking survey from March found skepticism about “Obamacare” but widespread approval of actual Obamacare policies. Over 75 percent of respondents like the law’s insurance subsidies; 80 percent favor the statewide insurance marketplaces; a staggering 88 percent approve of the small business tax credits to help pay for employees’ health coverage. 

But decidedly fewer Americans realize that these are all things the health law actually does... 

C4C - LOL

A Kaiser Family Foundation (KFF) tracking survey from March found skepticism about “Obamacare” but widespread approval of actual Obamacare policies. Over 75 percent of respondents like the law’s insurance subsidies; 80 percent favor the statewide insurance marketplaces; a staggering 88 percent approve of the small business tax credits to help pay for employees’ health coverage. 

the man seemed pleased and mused, “This beats Obamacare, I hope.” 

Same meme - they vote against their best interests and they like things they espouse to hate.  Ignorance lives on.......I like that we call it Obamacare.  Best move Conservatives ever made (sarcasm) naming it that!

Well, there have always been, and always will be, folks who are willfully ignorant, but I do think the ignorance/stupidity of the GOP followers might well have started with Reagan and "trickle-down" economics.  Their "betters", meaning the rich folk, said it was the best economic policy, and even after some 30 years of the proven fallacy of that theory, the GOP still says it works, only now they call the corporate masters "job creators".  Facts be damned; don't listen to Nobel Prize winning economists who told them at the beginning that the only thing "trickle-anything" meant is that corporate profits "trickle-up" to the corporate masters and the workers are left with the dregs.

I'm happy to see Costco and Win-Co, whose companies value their employees and pay them a real living wage, are making record profits, while Walmart's profits are declining.  And the Boeing plant that moved to South Carolina to avoid union workers is failing to the extent that the equipment they're making is being sent back to the Washington plants to be repaired by experienced and well-trained unionized workers before being constructed into Boeing 787s.

Oh, and then there are the idjuts who want to destroy the federal government, conveniently (er, willfully) forgetting about transportation safety, the EPA, federal interstate highways, the FBI, Social Security, Medicare/Medicaid, and all the other federal responsibilities that allow these same idjuts to live relatively safely and easily in their beloved country.   

Just popping in to say hi before we begin a very long Sunday. We leave this evening and arrive mid Sunday afternoon. So its approx 30hrs until we arrive in ?Vancouver and Sunday will still have 10 hours to go.

We are in the middle of great debate as the Opposition Labour Party tries to elect a new leader.

Big hugs and really looking forward to meeting some of you.

Alyson.....enjoy immensely and stay safe and sound

This article is one of the reasons why Christianity gets a bad rap.  I could do about four pages on this --- one thing verses this other and none of it actually trumps anything.....unless you put on your Christianity holier than thou cloak.  Too many do.

http://www.addictinginfo.org/2013/08/24/christian-right-whines-upon-learning-that-school-teaches-children-about-all-religions/

Jackie

Jackie