City Living - a love story

copley
south station
canal
windy day
harborjfk
carson beach
malibu
fenway

I think carson beach is the best representation of what makes Boston so great, the mixture of urban, and for lack of a better term, not-urban, all in one shot.

On the individual mandate:

The plaintiffs have not opted out of the health care services market because, as living, breathing beings, who do not oppose medical services on religious grounds, they cannot opt out of this market. As inseparable and integral members of the health care services market, plaintiffs have made a choice regarding the method of payment for the services they expect to receive. [I.e., by imposing massive bills on everyone else when they appear uninsured in the emergency room.]

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The minimum coverage provision, which addresses economic decisions regarding health care services that everyone eventually, and inevitably, will need, is a reasonable means of effectuating Congress's goal.

BTW, anyone fluent in Manipuri?  I just bought a ticket on line for Henrik Ibsen's last play,"When We Dead Awaken."  

Director's note:

Inspired by the central idea of Ibsen's last play When we Dead Awaken, this piece of work concentrates only on the thematic content; it does not subscribe to the idea of either a realistic plot or normal structure.  The performance is designed to express the internal entanglement of characters without distorting the original idea, using selected dialogues without any change from the original text.

In doing this play, I just wanted to know a different Ibsen with imagery, fantasy and ectasy -far away from the realistic conventional mould where the performance becomes more subtle, symbolic, suggestive and stylized.  It was not easy for me to prepare a performance text for this.  But I have enjoyed immensely playing the hide-and-seek game with the genius during the making of this performance and in the process of interpreting it.

Alaska Senate candidate Joe Miller says his family benefited from Medicaid and a state-run health care program for low-income children and pregnant women.

Miller previously acknowledged receiving federal farm subsidies for land he owned in Kansas in the 1990s, as well as low-income hunting and fishing licenses for him and his wife in Alaska.
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I support the repeal of ObamaCare. First and foremost, there is no Constitutional authority for it.
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This legislation adds millions of new beneficiaries to the already broken Medicaid program and relies in part on finding hundreds of billions in savings from the broken and going bankrupt Medicare program
HuffPo

LONDON (AP) -- Shiver me timbers! Actor Johnny Depp shocked a London school by answering a pupil's fan letter and visiting classes dressed as his character from the "Pirates of the Caribbean" movie series, teachers said Friday.
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Dressed as his character Captain Jack Sparrow, Depp performed pirate songs and dances for the pupils during the visit with four other cast members on Wednesday.