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Healthcare reform... a discussion of sorts

The hot-button issue of the moment is healthcare reform... If you didn't know that then you are likely not reading this right now. While the president spoke last night, I was watching basketball and after that Aqua Teen Hunger Force. Not to be a total ass or anything, but out of genuine curiosity to fuel whether or not I should even be excited about this -- and if so how excited should I be... As presented, the question was...

"Could someone explain to me what specifically this 'healthcare reform' will bring? And I request that it be done without the backloading of opinion, be they positive or negative, I want the meat and potatoes of this one and none of the bullsh*t."
Again, I do not edit the content of the responses, straightup copy/paste... The only thing I fix is the use of quotation marks. This discussion will be a little different from prior "Question of the Days," in that I will not be using the responses that do not specifically address the q…
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Then I realized a typo, deleted and RE-typed it correct this time, and it goes as such...

"Could you get involved with someone who belongs to a different religion from your own, or even none at all? Why/why not?"
First respondent this morning was former coworker, Angel, with...
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"I don't like that!"... A discussion

When my 13 year-old niece was a smaller child, if she didn't want something, she would say "I don't like that," not quite understanding the context of context.
Ever the evil genius now, she gets it, so no worries...

It seems, though, that ADULTS seem to unlearn that shit just in time to become narrow-minded when it comes to trying new things, which leads us into today's Question of the Day, this one comes to us courtesy of the pretty lady Barri over at Witches Brew...

Why, when faced with something that they have never had, do people -- usually brown people -- toss up "oh, I don't like that" just because they'd never had it before?
[Phlip note - a prime example of this would be sushi, and an exception to the rules would be chitterlings -- I don't expect ANYONE to like the specter of eating pig asshole and intestines]

First Facebook respondent was my cousin*Wayne, with...
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