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| About 4 more, I'd say. The one I'm most proud of is "Folk Song." Sometimes, you just find something simple, pure, and emotionally affecting, and you get to record it. That's one of the greatest things about being made in God's image: joy in creativity, for the process itself and for finding something beautiful that's never been seen or heard before.
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| Finally got an old keyboard song up on my computer. It's based on a rather banal Christian praise melody, but I think it's some of my best work in terms of song structure and pacing. It's the first one over on my Soundclick page.
It's hard to make MIDI sound good at all.
One thought on the whole healthcare debate: in PA and other states, there are laws called "bad faith" laws. They essentially state that if a health insurance company denies you coverage, you can appeal the decision with a civil suit. If you win the suit, the company not only has to make the payout for your care, but they have to pay hefty punitive fees as well. If we want to improve health insurance, we can do things like expand bad faith laws to punish health care rationing and impose financial penalties on those who bring about bogus malpractice suits.
These two measures can incentivize coverage expansion while attacking one of the unnecessary costs hidden in our health insurance bills, the price we pay to cover doctors' litigation insurance premiums. That's cutting costs and increasing quality without completely transforming the system or giving it over to a public plan that will be consistently running multibillion dollar deficits within a few years. Couple that with allowing people to buy health insurance across state lines, and we might have something to work with. A bill with these provisions wouldn't even need to be ten pages long, let alone a thousand!
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| First: Climate change in the past few decades can be attributed to natural forces, not human activity.
This should be patently obvious. Your BS detector should go off when the same computer models used today to predict future global warming are unable to retroactively predict today's climate using input from the past. That, or when those computer models fail to factor in the effects of FREAKING WATER VAPOR on atmospheric heating and cooling. The scientific understanding of anthropomorphic global warming is not "settled," certainly not enough to radically stunt our economy and raise the cost of electricity by taxing carbon production.
Second: The Five Freedoms You'll Lose Under ObamaCare.
This one hits especially close to home, as my grandmother, who's been diabetic for decades, has gone to three or four different doctors before finding one in Philadelphia who will treat an infection in her foot bones without amputating her toe. Should the particular bills being considered in Congress pass, she will lose the ability to choose with autonomy which specialists she can see and when she can see them.
I hope you'll read these with an open mind.
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| Inspired by Jeremy last night: SwampKatz on Twitter.
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