As I promised I'm including a few pics from St. Patrick's Day festivities. Some pretty lucky people caught the leprechaun this year, but strangely enough my title refers both to my playlist at the party and the current socio-political climate. I've heard a lot of conservative anger/angst against Obamacare and I've also been directed by my "fair and balanced" University to contact my congressional representative to encourage them to support the new legislation. As the plan will increase health care coverage, especially among low-income high-risk groups, it is public health's short term dream in some major ways. I'm not going to pontificate more on the subject as the scant literature I've read on the legislation is biased and I don't know enough about it to competently comment. But I will say that Dropkick Murphys said it perfectly in my title track, "I know I'll win my battles, though I fear we'll loose the war to the new American way." Socialization is the new American way. You can battle against it if you wish, but I fear you'll lose the war.
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I'm glad that St. Paddy lives on in your heart and at your parties. As to the health care, I think it helps to look at it from a different perspective than your own (not you personally but people generally). That way we can see how it would affect other Americans and then decide if it is a good or bad move for our country. I think we too often try to look at things through only the lens of our own lives, and that can hinder our ability to do what is best for all of us and not just some of us. With that being said, I do not have an opinion on the new legislation yet, but I have been able to see why it will be good in some ways, and bad in others. Once I am edumacated I will form an opinion on it and then refuse to listen to differing opinions, because if there is anything I have learned from the two-party system is that the other side is not just in error, but their views are also morally unsupportable!
Read Tocqueville he will really make you depressed about our future. Not that I support apathy but it may be the nature of democratic states to unravel themselves.
Hey buddy, that looks like it was a most beauty-ous party, after the order of yester-year. I'm a bit bummed I didn't catch the leprechaun this year. Next year I'll have to build a bigger trap.
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