sharif, christie, lean, zhivago..oscar

it lost to the sound of music for best picture and didn't get a leading actor's nomination for sharif or christie.  what a great movie though.  "no one loves poetry like a russian"
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health care debate has added some strong talkers about why it was the right move to do the health care debate and of course i might have be in the group that sees it as a mistake so to clarify, it all boils down the public option, the debate on the po is what has taken so much time and energy, and it never had the votes in the senate but the hard urban left was dead set on creating it which meant the simple health reforms, not to mention other parts of the agenda like climate change/energy,  that most everyone knows will work, get bogged down and easily tarred by calls of socialism, which a public option kinda sorta is.  this country is no where near getting past the idea that able body people must pull themselves 100% up by their bootstraps. kids and old people get a pass but nobody else. and that's a huge point of contention. now i'm on the single payer side but you know i live in the real world.
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