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Irregular commentary on whatever's on my mind -- politics, sports, current events, and life in general. After twenty years of writing business and community newsletters, fifteen years of fantasy baseball newsletters, and two years of email "columns", this is, I suppose, the inevitable result: the awful conceit that someone might actually care to read what I have to say. Posts may be added often, rarely, or never again. As always, my mood and motivation are unpredictable.

Buster Gammons















Monday, October 29, 2012

Everything You Really Need To Know

"The economy is slowly recovering from the 2008 meltdown, and the country could suffer another recession if the wrong policies take hold.  The United States is embroiled in unstable regions that could easily explode into full-blown disaster.  An ideological assault from the right has started to undermine the vital health reform law passed in 2010.  Those forces are eroding women's access to health care, and their right to control their lives.  Nearly 50 years after passage of the Civil Rights Act, all Americans' rights are cheapened by the right wing's determination to deny marriage benefits to a selected group of us.  Astonishingly, even the very right to vote is being challenged.

"That's the context for the Nov. 6 election, and as stark as it is, the choice is just as clear."

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(From the 10/28/12 NY Times endorsement editorial, "Barack Obama for Re-Election".  For the full editorial, which smartly sums up health care, the economy, foreign affairs, the Supreme Court, and civil rights, just click the link.)

http://www.nytimes.com/2012/10/28/opinion/sunday/barack-obama-for-president.html?partner=rssnyt&emc=rss&_r=0

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