Morning Feature: The Rights We've Always Had?

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Wednesday October 20, 2010 · 4:36 AM PDT

2010/10/20 · 04:36

Community college student Yassir Afifi didn't want a legal debate on privacy. He just wanted an oil change. After his mechanic found an odd device on the car, Afifi posted a photo online asking if anyone recognized it. Then the FBI came to his apartment. They wanted their GPS tracker back.

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Thursday September 02, 2010 · 4:00 AM PDT

2010/09/02 · 04:00

With great joy and celebration, a community health center in New Mexico was unveiled this week.

Morning Feature's TheFatLadySings wrote a wonderful diary with great photos of the event and posted it to BPICampus.com Community Health Center. Unfortunately we couldn't get it to cross post yesterday.

Technical difficulties continued today, and we don't want you to miss the diary, so we're including the link. Please comment here or at BPICampus.

Hugggs and good morning!

Furthermore! - "My walk of shame"

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Monday July 05, 2010 · 7:01 AM PDT

2010/07/05 · 07:01

One of the saddest sights I've been seeing over the last six months is the growing number of people standing in the median at busy intersections, holding signs, and begging. These are young people, and on ratty pieces of cardboard they tell their stories.

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Wednesday June 23, 2010 · 4:02 AM PDT

2010/06/23 · 04:02

My dad was a veteran of WWII, who fought in the Pacific. He died earlier this year, and it's only been as I look through the things he left behind that I realize something:

War took my dad away before I was even born. And it never completely gave him back.

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Tuesday June 01, 2010 · 4:01 AM PDT

2010/06/01 · 04:01

I've been pushed onto memory lane by my youngest daughter's graduation from high school. Reflection after 42 years can be interesting: how things have changed, and how little some of that "important" past means now.

They really weren't the best years of my life.

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Saturday February 27, 2010 · 5:40 AM PST

2010/02/27 · 05:40

Two weeks ago, in the space of 16 hours, I lost my dad and my dog. Denial finally slipped away, and I spent a lot of hours sobbing my eyes out. I'm not sobbing now. After watching the Health Care Summit Thursday, I'm feeling something else altogether.

You see, my dad was eased out of life by hospice. My dog was eased out of life by our vet. Two weeks ago, I participated in two "death panels."

And I'm not sorry at all.

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Monday February 15, 2010 · 12:00 PM PST

2010/02/15 · 12:00

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Wednesday October 28, 2009 · 4:02 AM PDT

2009/10/28 · 04:02

My education in "the least of these" truly began in the late 1980s when I returned to St. Edward's University in Austin as an non-traditional student. One of my philosophy professors worked with the homeless, and in one half-hour period, he shattered all the conventional wisdom about them.

It still surprises me to this day was that I needed him to tell me what I already knew, for I had been homeless with two young children.

So who are "the least of these" and how do we treat them? What I've learned over the years, what I've seen, has left me furious.

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Wednesday September 16, 2009 · 7:00 AM PDT

2009/09/16 · 07:00

Well, I got an e-mail from Senator Bill Nelson yesterday. He's in favor of health care reform and since he's on the Finance Committee, that's a good sign, right?

Maybe. Or maybe he's weaseling really well. You decide.

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Wednesday September 09, 2009 · 4:02 AM PDT

2009/09/09 · 04:02

Good morning, Blogistan Polytechnic Institute. It's Crissie's day off, so I'm here to talk about the things I've learned at DailyKos over the past 18 months. Good lessons all. Don't take any of this personally, unless it's about you. Or someone you like. Or something.

More below.

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Friday September 04, 2009 · 6:12 AM PDT

2009/09/04 · 06:12

My neighbors are responsible people. He retired from Army Special Forces. She was pursuing her life-long dream to become a nurse. They had scrimped and saved to buy their dream house, and even managed to pay it off five years after they moved in.

And then everything went down the toilet because of insurance denials.

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Wednesday August 26, 2009 · 4:10 AM PDT

2009/08/26 · 04:10

One of the big claims in the current health care debate is being framed around government interference between you and your doctor.

So let's talk about how your insurance providers use networks against you. It's another form of getting between you and decent health care.

Until you get really sick, you may not even realize how egregious this is.

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Weaseling? My call to Sen. Bill Nelson re: HCR.

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