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The Olympic Mountains in Washington state.

I will be away the next several days - an end-of-the-summer break. Be back Monday.

The Most Outrageous Lies About Global Healthcare from Foreign Policy Magazine

“As the U.S. Congress this summer holds its first serious health-care reform debate since the Clinton era, the resulting public furor has featured increasingly overheated claims about everything from so-called "death panels" to the supposed prowess of America's homegrown medicine. Many of the most wildly inaccurate statements have been directed abroad -- sometimes at the United States' closest allies, such as Britain and Canada, and often at the best health-care systems in the world.”