Manns Medium

Since the beginning of time, man has always separated themselves into categories.  These categories were defined by those making the separation and seemed to always amount to them placing the group to which they belonged as higher than all the rest.  This idea is borne out by history beginning with the mentions within the Old Testament of the Bible about the Pharisees and Sadducees as those with whom God only speaks and the words or rules that they expound should never be questioned and seen as coming directly from God.  It is borne out by even Moses writing within the Bible that only those from the tribe of  Levitt  can be called as priests and it continued  with the Native Americans, the slaves, the Irish, the Jews, women and so many more groups of people not viewed as equal.  This kind of thinking still remains prevalent today and has even been documented and made true by our past, present and current history books. This idea allows evil to mak...

The real world is full of wonderment especially when you compare it to the media world or the cable news universe when they talk about President Obama’s shrinking poll numbers.  I listen to all them even Fox News and say to myself, I wonder who they are asking and how the question is being phrased to get this information.  I wonder that because there are several others factors that maybe those who are so quick to quote numbers are failing to consider. Are they asking those that the Affordable Care Act (ACA) is actually helping?  Are they asking the insurance companies competing in this marketplace and watching their profits and bottom line soar?  If so then how are they phrasing the question because there are a lot of stories like the one written by Joan McCarter titled “ Big Obamacare news:  Premium falling in seven big cities ” for the Daily Kos where she reports “Remember "rate shock" and the dire warnings from Republicans about how Obamacare would cause...