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The BS on Reconciliation

March 8, 2010August 10, 2015 265 Views 0 Comments Procedure, Meet the Press, Religion, Reconciliation, Orrin Hatch, Healthcare Reform, E. J. Dionne

Below is a youtube of a segment from Meet The Press this past Sunday in which E. J. Dionne calls out Sen. Orrin Hatch for the Republican’s continuing bullshit about the use of reconciliation to pass things based on a simple majority vote in the Senate. We need to be discussing policy and health insurance reform (or elimination), but instead, all the Republicans can come up with to try to “win” is to run around like Chicken Little complaining that the sky will fall if some Senate procedure is “out-procedured.”

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Kite Runner, The

April 13, 2008 B. John 244 Views 0 Comments Pakistan, Afghanistan, Communists, Russians, Friendship, Reconciliation, Redemption, Marc Forster, The Kite Runner, Shaun Toub, Khalid Abdalla

In a divided country on the verge of war, two childhood friends, Amir and Hassan, are about to be torn apart forever. It’s a glorious afternoon in Kabul and the skies are bursting with the exhilarating joy of a kite-fighting tournament. But in the aftermath of the day’s victory, one boy’s fearful act of betrayal will mark their lives forever and set in motion an epic quest for redemption. Now, after 20 years of living in America, Amir returns to a perilous Afghanistan under the Taliban’s iron-fisted rule to face the secrets that still haunt him and take one last daring chance to set things right.