It's Official; As A Society We've Abandoned Our Children In Favor Of Old People

Today we learned that half of all children will be on food stamps at one time or another in their lives. Meanwhile, if you are over 65 the government pays you a pension and provides you healthcare.

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The Single Most Important Thing in Any Relationship. Do you have it in yours? (Poll)

If you are a single person, you most likely dream of finding the right soulmate, according to all the ideal attributes you have in mind, and according to the needs you require to be fulfilled.

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Wall Street; An Insider's Paradise

Well, here we go again. The ordinary investor is nothing but an ATM for the greedy movers and shakers of Wall Street. It's bad enough that the financial industry and Wall Street are incapable of policing themselves.

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Some of the most virulent opponents of health reform are the elderly, who already have government-provided health insurance. While some may be too silly to know that that's what they have, a great many assuredly do know it, and are happy to pull up the ladder behind them.

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Drugs, sex and financial fraud often tempt the beneficiaries of vast fortunes.

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Leave it to Filipino politicians to miss the point and to say the patriotic thing when Filipinos are insulted, or seem to have been insulted.

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"Commercial caviar production normally involves stunning the fish (usually by clubbing its head) and extracting the ovaries; some commercial fish farmers are experimenting with surgically removing roe from living sturgeon, allowing the females to continue producing more roe durin …

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"Bonobos, or pygmy chimpanzees, arguably our closest relative, may have been hunted so extensively that the survival of the species is at risk, World Wildlife Fund warns."

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Atlas Shrugged: Oops!

Atlas shrugged and delivered the Second Great Republican Depression of 2008. Once again, greedy selfish conservatives with the attention span and historical memory of a Mayfly were painfully reminded that the "Free Market" in the guise of "Reaganomics" and George W.

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Are We Our Brother's Keeper?

I think, when Cain asked God, "Am I my brother's keeper?" The answer was and is yes.Here are two sparkling works from a couple of the Magic Viners. Hope you will weigh in with your thoughts after you enjoy the simple and startling words of Slemay and Spaceyhippie. Enjoy, Em

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Memo to all you right-wingers talking about "Going Galt" by quitting your jobs and leaving the country: just friggin' do it already. Give Russia a try. It is just the sort of right-wing, pro-private sector country with lots of wide open spaces that you would love.

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Why are people rude to those they disagree with?

I believe that we can disagree and still keep our politeness, even if we lose our "cool". But people have a tendency to insult those who have a different opinion than theirs. Why though?

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Some products do comparatively well in times of recession: alcohol, chocolate, cinema tickets, cigarettes.

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Republicans Have Their Own Interests At Heart..As Usual. POLL

Republican Governor Bobby Jindal announced that the state will not change its law to use a part of the $787 billion federal stimulus bill that would result in an unemployment insurance tax increase on Louisiana businesses.

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The Gift of Interaction (Good News Wednesday)

Back in my other life of ignorance and low awareness, someone would pay me a compliment and I would feel terribly embarrassed about it; as though I did not deserve it. They might say how wonderful I looked in that smashing dress, etc.

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Yes, this election proved that if any person works hard enough, she or he can become anything, even leader of the most powerful country on Earth. Welcome to post-racial America!

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This is what I always tell people who don't trust the corporate world: then why trust government? Both are comprised merely of people - people who are in the end going to look out for themselves. So why not embrace Capitalism which encourages selfishness?

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Randianism is the crack cocaine of egotism. It legitimizes man's basest motives and provides an acceptable philosophical framework for not only practicing selfishness but celebrating it. It replaces God with the individual ego and lets man worship himself instead of his Creator.

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In Dante's Inferno, the inner circle of hell was reserved for betrayers like Judas and Brutus. But new research indicates that punishing those who break social norms is not merely the province of poets.

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Why the Conservatives Deserved to Lose

The Republican Party's relationship with religious fundamentalists cost them the election, and I am glad that they lost. Because of Christian influence, Bush launched an altruistic, religion-inspired war on Iraq in order to give Iraqis "liberty" (democracy, i.e. mob rule, i.e.

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CLEVELAND, Ohop -- Sen. Barack Obama, D-Ill., brought back the Ayn Rand-ian "virtue of selfishness" clause he's used in the past to describe the way the McCain-Palin ticket has tried to appeal to those who are reluctant to pay higher taxes.

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The notion that the individual should sacrifice or be sacrificed for the "collective" or the "community" or the "greater good" is not noble; it is evil. It is the very idea that gave rise to communism, Nazism, and fascism.

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On raising taxes: "John McCain and Sarah Palin they call this socialistic," Obama continued. "You know I don't know when, when they decided they wanted to make a virtue out of selfishness."

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She is the reverse of Barack Obama, in essence his shadow, deriding his idealism and turning negativity into a cause for pride.

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The Joseph Rowntree Foundation has established a list of contemporary "Social Evils," 104 years after their founder identified an initial list.

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