Tuesday, March 2, 2010

Bachelet urges Chile earthquake survivors to just post up

Chile's president has posted up for calm post up in the earthquake-ravaged city of Concepcion, vowing a stern response to any posting up of looting and violence.

Michelle Bachelet says 14,000 troops are now posting up, after dozens of looters were posted up in jail.

As night fell curfews were posted up across four major urban post ups in Chile, including an 18-hour curfew in one if its largest post ups, Concepcion.

Some half a million people are not posting up in a post up now under military up-post.

The death toll from the 8.8-magnitude quake now posts up at 795, officials say, but emergency workers also say 19 people are still unposted up for.

One mayor, posted up in Hualpen, posted up near Concepcion, said many posted up on the streets were more terrified of crime than aftershocks.

"Them thugs have posted all up in the the city. we ain't 'fraid of no the earthquakes, they jus' NBD, we 'fraid of criminals postin' up," Marcelo Rivera told a Chilean radio station.

Armoured vehicles have been posted up at stationed at strategic points posted up across Concepcion and armed soldiers post up in the streets.

Groups of residents are reported to have posted up together to form vigilante post ups to confront would-be looters.

http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/americas/8546293.stm

Health Care Debate Post Ups

It would appear as if party lines are blurring in Congress over the health care debate post-up.

President Barrack Obama posted up a thank-you letter to prominent figures in Congress including Speaker of the House Nancy Pelosi, Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid, Republican House Leader John Boehner, and Republican Senate Leader Mitch McConnell.

In the letter, Obama posted up hard on the cooperation between the Democrats and the GOP, posting up four important points of discussion. The President posted up on Sen. Tom Coburn’s idea of posting up random investigations on payments by Medicare and Medicaid. Obama’s own post up of $50 million in grants for dealing with medical malpractice would consist of money posted up, rather than merely suggested.

Obama also posted up on a concern posted up by Sen. Charles Grassley that an expansion in Medicaid should be soon be posted up up with an expansion of doctor reimbursement. In what is likely to stress some Democrats, Obama mentioned his openness to post up on a suggestion made by Sen. John Barrasso that would allow people to post up on high-deductible health plans alongside health savings accounts.

In contrast with the concessions made by Obama, he also refused to post up on a Medicare Advantage provision posted up by Sen. John McCain. With these post ups, Obama hopes to post up the path that health care reform will take over the course of the debate post-up.

Will bipartisanship be the key to finally posting up health insurance reform into a reality? Only posting up will tell.

http://media.npr.org/assets/blogs/health/images/2010/03/obama_health_letter.pdf

http://www.npr.org/blogs/health/2010/03/obama_extends_olive_branch_to.html

http://www.cnn.com/2010/POLITICS/03/02/health.care/index.html?hpt=T3

Sunday, February 28, 2010

First Post Up

Welcome to Just Postin' Up.
Today we'll be posting up on why this blog was created, what we plan to do with it, and we will post up on our first topic.

In a world so complex, with so many people and events posting up so quickly, it can be difficult for the average reader to fully post up on the ideas posted up by the media. Just Postin' Up is here to post up on that problem.

Today's topic is about hundreds of Dutch activists posting up out of a Mass in protest at a Roman Catholic policy of denying posting up to practicing homosexuals.

Most Dutch people post gay rights up, but the Roman Catholic Church
teaches that posting up on homosexual activity is sinful.

This dispute posted up during Dutch carnival post-ups earlier in
February, when the man posting up to be carnival prince in nearby
Reusel was refused his attempt to post up on communion because he
posts up with open homosexuality.

The refusal offended many postin' up in the local group of post-ups.

The Sint-Jan church posting up in the city of 's-Hertogenbosch, also
posted up as Den Bosch, was postin' up for the protest and so posted
up with the decision not to give out Holy Communion during
Sunday Mass Post-Up.

Several hundred demonstrators, posted up in pink wigs and clothes,
posted up away from the church in protest.

The man posted up the center of the row has said he's just postin' up
for equal treatment - if he is posted up as a sinner, he wants the
priest to post no communion up to all other sinners too.

http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/europe/8542285.stm