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Lebanon Won’t Have Internet Tomorrow?

Sigh

A Separate State of Mind | A Blog by Elie Fares

Isn’t this the best news to wake up to?

According to Al Akhbar, Lebanon has failed to pay its dues to the IMEWE internet cable consortium and will be cut off from the country’s main internet supply tomorrow, effectively slashing 60% of our internet capacity. We owe the consortium around $1.9 million. If that amount is not paid by November 3rd, tomorrow, Lebanon will also lose its share of the IMEWE cable which is worth around $60 million.

Given our internet state, slashing 60% off of it means we are rendered with a connection that is barely usable and certainly not enough to sustain the country. Lebanon also has a redundant system which covers 30% of current capacity. Back in July 2012, Lebanon had an outage in the IMEWE cable which was due to technical reasons. We fell back on that failover system and the only functional internet we…

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Why ObamaCare Matters to Me

Nuestra Vida, Nuestra Voz

By Jessica Karina Guerra-Ugalde

I was thrilled and honored to stand behind the President last week as he talked about how the Affordable Care Act (ACA) benefits all of our communities.  Because of the immense pride I have in the ACA, I wanted to share my enrollment story and what it means to me.  I graduated college in 2008, and did what college kids throughout the country do after graduation – I moved home and began looking for work. I worked as an intern and later as a temp- both positions did not offer any benefits. At that point, I was 22 years old, and I really did not think that anything could affect me.  I was healthy and rarely got sick. Immediately after the ACA became law and was implemented, my mom went to her job to ensure that I was covered under her health insurance plan. A week after…

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Moon Beast #halloween #shortstory #children’sfiction #amwriting

penned in moon dust

the beast below

It was long ago when the world was young.The Moon some say was bright and full once or twice a year but then she would be gone for weeks at a time.” My grandmother said with a quiet, serious voice.

I closed my eyes. Grandmother told great stories.

“There were fewer people, no one to protect our world or our universe.  I do not think when Mars chased Luna that he intended to sire a beast. But beast he was.”

“How can such silvery beauty as I spawn repulsion?” she screamed as she flung him into the abyss of night.

“I am sorry, Luna. Please forgive me” the love struck Mars pled.

“Our love created that foul thing. We cannot be together, ever.”

“So Mars retreated to his corner of the Solar System looking each evening for a glimpse just a whisper of her , his  dearest Luna.”

“A…

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teabagger Alert!! – A “Not Conservative Enough” vison for America – ‘Republicans Find Themselves Facing New Attack Ad Created By Tea Party’

The Last Of The Millenniums

tea party stop the traitors

‘Tea Party Leaders Decide Enough Is Enough.
Just watch this new video from the Tea Party
Leadership Fund’:

‘Any Republican who did their job is on that list,
labelled as traitors’.

‘The Tea Party Leadership Fund (who notably
bankrolled Louie Gohmert and Allen West according
to Opensecrets.org) has now decided to finance
*any* candidate who runs against any ‘traitor’ who
did their jobs’.

  • ‘So, we can see more rape is “something that God intended to happen” and legitimate rape comments next year from the Tea Party’.
  • ‘We will get more pushes to bring back slavery alongside admission that voter suppression efforts target black people’.

‘The Tea Party has decided that they hate the
United States enough that they just want to burn it
down, and they intend to play fiddle while it
burns’.
From :
http://www.addictinginfo.org/2013/10/29/tea-party-t
raitors/

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Mistreating The Military-Nearly One Million Veterans To Suffer The Pain Of Food Stamp Cutbacks – Forbes

One wonders, however, if the millions of Americans who are so pleased to see food stamp benefits lowered—with more cuts likely to come— understand the impact this will have on a segment of society that one would be loathe to call ‘freeloaders’ seeking to live on the largesse of their country?

That would be the 900,000 veterans who offered up their lives for their country only to return home to find employment exceedingly difficult to come by—thereby creating the need for food stamps to provide for their families.

via Mistreating The Military-Nearly One Million Veterans To Suffer The Pain Of Food Stamp Cutbacks – Forbes.