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Without a new farm bill, welcome back 1949
If Congress fails to pass a farm bill by the end of the year, farm programs will likely take a trip back to the days of the Truman Administration.
The 1949 farm bill, the last piece of permanent farm legislation passed by that Congress, represented a conglomeration of 1940s and 1930s farming practices, according to Mike Traxinger, legislative spokesperson for the South Dakota Farmers Union.
The commodity price supports and planting restrictions included in the 1949 farm bill are dated. The threat of reverting to those subsidies has always provided the nudge Congress has needed to enact a new farm bill, Traxinger said.
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Would You Wait for a Miracle?
A Separate State of Mind | A Blog by Elie Fares
I have a two month old patient, whose bed is way too big for and who hasn’t cried in my presence once. She has blue eyes, which I could barely see through her constantly dilated pupils. Her skin is whiter than snow and colder than ice. She’s not responsive. She has more peripherals connected to her body than a body of that size should handle.
My two month old patient, precious and young as she is, is brain dead.
For a while, my friends and I lamented her young life. She is a person who will never live. She will never utter the words mom, she will never walk, she will never ride a bike. She will never even have solid food. Why was she being kept alive? Why was she being put in such pain?
The medical aspect in us couldn’t understand the point of keeping life tethered to that…
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Sarah Palin Laughs At Fainting Lady
The old hooah is at it again on her Facebook page…
Oh Sarah, even for you, this is low. Laughing at a young, pregnant, diabetic woman who was clearly in distress is f*cking pathetic. You think everyone stoops to your level. Just because you staged a pregnancy and are a consummate liar does not mean other people are the same. May you burn in hell, because you are surely going there. Bitch!
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Breaking News from Thailand
How Cameron and Clegg are outsourcing British jobs to India, Poland and Morocco
(not satire – it’s the UK today!)
The coalition government has decided to outsource thousands of civil service jobs in the DWP, Defra and Environment Agency to a French firm called Steria.
You’ve probably not even heard of Steria but they’re an up and coming outsourcing company which promises to save organisations money by providing “a flexible model built on offshore service delivery” (Steria’s own words).
In Steria’s case, “offshore service delivery” means moving jobs to its massive offshore ‘global delivery centres‘ which are located in Noida, Pune and Chennai in India, Katowice in Poland and Casablanca in Morocco.
This shipping of British jobs abroad should be a big scandal – but it won’t be.
It should also be something both the Right and Left are united in condemning. But it won’t be.
It won’t be for the simple fact that – with the exception of…
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The Ultimate Lebanese Fail: Our Politicians
A Separate State of Mind | A Blog by Elie Fares
Once upon a time, I was a political person with a clear politician affiliation. I didn’t hide it. I wasn’t ashamed of it. If anyone had a problem with it, it wasn’t my problem.
I supported a party I had thought out to be the victim of current times. The rhetoric of the person in charge appealed to me. I thought he had a flawless run through a few years. Everyone else, on the other hand, was busy making mistakes all over the place. How could people not see that? I kept asking myself.
It may not be true. But I’d like to think I grew up since then. And it took me a long time to realize that it was okay to feel this betrayed, this deceived.
That same party I supported feels desolate and strange to me today. I’m not sure if the rhetoric that appealed to me…
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