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I can not help but be reminded of the 1973 science fiction movie, Soylent Green (MGM Production-based upon the novel, Make Room! Make Room! By Harry Harrison), in which a society running out of resources resorts to mercy killing of the elderly and ultimately uses them for a food source. In that society, participants were convinced there was a high value in undergoing a short lived wondrous death experience and a low value in living a life as an elderly disabled or in-firmed nonproductive citizen.

There's been an mass/chain email going around about my tweets on the Health Care Bill. The problem with this email is that it misquotes what I actually said. It also makes things up that were never in my tweets as well. You can view my actual tweets in my post - The HC Monstrosity - All 1,018 pages. The email has gotten so bad in fact, that I have word it's now going directly to people's spam folders.

As questions about gun rights swirl around the nomination of a new Supreme Court Justice, and debate continues over attempts in Congress to make it easier to carry concealed weapons state-to-state, an increasing number of Long Islanders are applying for pistol permits.