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shadowkat1. The Supreme Court upheld the National Healthcare Act.
CNN and Fox NEWs misreported it: http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2012/06/28/cnn-supreme-court-health-care-individual-mandate_n_1633950.html
ABC got it right: http://abcnews.go.com/Politics/OTUS/supreme-court-announces-decision-obamas-health-care-law/story?id=16663839#.T-zTH79TGKw
NPR includes a link to the actual decision in its blog: http://www.npr.org/blogs/thetwo-way/2012/06/28/155901105/live-blog-the-health-care-ruling
CBS - National Health Care Act What it Means For You
CBS- Where the States Stand on Coverage
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2. Reading Mark Watches take on Bargaining...made me realize that when and where you watched S6 probably makes a huge difference in how you perceived it. I watched it live in 2001. And I live and work in NYC. Add to that...was not in an emotionally good place at the time. When Buffy asks the question: Is this hell? I was thinking at the time, tears streaming down my face, "my thoughts exactly". It was oddly the only tv show that I felt addressed the pain and uncertainty of that period in my life and my experience with 9/11.
Others tried, but nothing really hit the target for me emotionally speaking like Buffy S6 did. And again, I think, having rewatched the season at different points, that has a lot to do with my own mental and emotional state at the time.
I don't enjoy or appreciate S6 now, the way I did then. I find portions of it to be, frankly, unwatchable now. And I see all the flaws and plot-holes. But back then - it was in some respects a masterpiece, it perfectly captured in all its fluctuations my emotional state of mind. For the first time, I understood and identified with the lead character, as well as the other characters. The series stopped being just a fun tv show that I escaped into, and occasionally trolled the net for spoilers...and something else entirely - it spoke to my soul. And I became obsessed. I needed to find similarly obsessed people to discuss it with. Who understood. And I did. And well. Here I am now. So if it weren't for my reaction to S6? You'd never have met me. Isn't that crazy?
CNN and Fox NEWs misreported it: http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2012/06/28/cnn-supreme-court-health-care-individual-mandate_n_1633950.html
ABC got it right: http://abcnews.go.com/Politics/OTUS/supreme-court-announces-decision-obamas-health-care-law/story?id=16663839#.T-zTH79TGKw
NPR includes a link to the actual decision in its blog: http://www.npr.org/blogs/thetwo-way/2012/06/28/155901105/live-blog-the-health-care-ruling
CBS - National Health Care Act What it Means For You
CBS- Where the States Stand on Coverage
Arizona
Number of uninsured: 1.28 million state residents not covered, or about 19 percent
Where the state stands: Arizona is among the states challenging the constitutionality of the health care overhaul. The lawsuit covers about 22,000 people statewide, including some 14,000 people in the Phoenix area. Republican Gov. Jan Brewer's administration is moving to implement part of the contested law by reviewing health insurance rates to see if they should be labeled unjustifiably high. The state also has accepted a federal grant to create a state health insurance exchange.
New York
Number of uninsured: 2,886,000 state residents are uninsured, or about 15 percent.
Where the state stands: Democratic Gov. Andrew Cuomo issued an executive order April 12 to establish a statewide health insurance exchange, where individuals and small businesses could tap up to $2.6 billion in federal tax credits and subsidies, planning to show by January that the state is ready to participate, start taking applications the following October and start operating Jan. 1, 2014.
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2. Reading Mark Watches take on Bargaining...made me realize that when and where you watched S6 probably makes a huge difference in how you perceived it. I watched it live in 2001. And I live and work in NYC. Add to that...was not in an emotionally good place at the time. When Buffy asks the question: Is this hell? I was thinking at the time, tears streaming down my face, "my thoughts exactly". It was oddly the only tv show that I felt addressed the pain and uncertainty of that period in my life and my experience with 9/11.
Others tried, but nothing really hit the target for me emotionally speaking like Buffy S6 did. And again, I think, having rewatched the season at different points, that has a lot to do with my own mental and emotional state at the time.
I don't enjoy or appreciate S6 now, the way I did then. I find portions of it to be, frankly, unwatchable now. And I see all the flaws and plot-holes. But back then - it was in some respects a masterpiece, it perfectly captured in all its fluctuations my emotional state of mind. For the first time, I understood and identified with the lead character, as well as the other characters. The series stopped being just a fun tv show that I escaped into, and occasionally trolled the net for spoilers...and something else entirely - it spoke to my soul. And I became obsessed. I needed to find similarly obsessed people to discuss it with. Who understood. And I did. And well. Here I am now. So if it weren't for my reaction to S6? You'd never have met me. Isn't that crazy?
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Date: 2012-06-29 02:02 am (UTC)no subject
Date: 2012-06-29 02:34 am (UTC)Although I will state no one, literally no one, did the level of analysis that ATPO did nor as politely as ATPO did it.
May have been the age demographics of the boards. I don't know. The moderators of the other boards were in their 20s, while ATPO's moderators were in their 30s and 40s. So it attracted an older demographic and a more academically inclined one.