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California just made a huge positive step in Healthcare

Governor Jerry Brown made California the fourth state in the US on Monday to allow physician assisted dying. Yes, only the fourth, and it's disappointing that the numbers (or the lack of) overshadow the real achievement. Everyone has the right to live, and everyone should have the right to die. Of course life is sacred, but the opponents of this law must not seriously think that California's true intentions are to have a genocide. They simply just want to help those people who have no hope of a cure, and are suffering. That's it, there is no story here, Everyone is allowed to make their decisions about their life and body. If you can go and get an abortion from a professional, you should also be able to go to your doctor to die. They are there to help you and to lessen your pain. In any way possible. Of course we support that background checks must take place, and several doctors (including psychologists) should sign off before you are allowed to die. You sho...
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Hillary's turning point

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Hillary Clinton had a terrible summer. No one would have expected this. Just absolutely dreadful. But now she is back, and she looks stronger and more confident than ever. She just had the best week of her campaign, and probably the best week in the past few years.


The Vice President announced on Wednesday that he is not running for President in 2016. Joe Biden ended months of speculation, after he confirmed that he is not running despite a heavy buzz for him and relatively high polling numbers.

Over the past six months there was heavy speculation regarding his candidacy, but Biden now declared that he had ‘run out of time’. Most analysts said that the latest probable time that Biden should have entered the race was before last week’s debate.

Biden’s son, Beau, died in May from cancer and wished that his father join the race. Over the summer there were lots of positive signs of a Biden candidacy, and it is clear that he was heavily considering another run.

Biden previously ran twice before, in 1988 before he dropped out due to a plagiarism scandal, and in 2008 when he was overshadowed by Hillary Clinton and Barack Obama, and ultimately ending up as the Vice President of the latter one.

Publicly both Hillary Clinton and Bernie Sanders were very calm about a possible Biden candidacy, but privately they were both terrified. Especially Hillary. The timing of Biden’s announcement couldn’t come at a better time for Hillary as she just gave her testimony at Congress. She now has one less thing to worry about, although Biden made several hidden swipes at the former Secretary of State's policies in his speech.

On Thursday, Hillary Clinton testified in front of a Congressional hearing committee about her tenure as the Secretary of State and the Benghazi crisis. She was attacked heavily and her treatment was't always fair, but most people say that she performed well and didn't make any serious mistakes. She avoided all possibly terrible outcomes, and seemed to be honest. And that is the most important point.

Hillary Clinton also has other reasons to smile for besides the absence of Joe Biden and a successful testimony. The Republican Party continues to fight itself, and their presumptive nominee, Jeb Bush, continues to lack behind. 

In the Democratic "race", both Jim Webb and Lincoln Chafee dropped out. Shocker. And everyone will clearly miss them dearly. No seriously.

Clinton also has had a good time in the polls department lately. Her numbers are up, but Bernie holds steadily too. It will now be a two person race, as Martin O'Malley continues to struggles, although he did just pick up the endorsement of Montana's former Governor.

So in overall, Clinton can keep smiling. She is now back where she thought she would be. Where she should be. There are still gonna be some obstacles in her way, but she now once again seems to be the clear presumptive nominee of the Democratic Party in 2016.

But if she wins, from 2017 she will face big problems. ISIS is probably, and sadly, not going away anytime soon just like that. And Canada's newly elected Liberal Prime Minister just announced that as soon as he takes office, his country, a major coalition partner to the US in the fight against terror, will stop airstrikes in the Middle East. This is a major blow for Obama and Clinton. 

So while she had a good week, there will always be trouble on the horizon. But she knows that.

This is an original material of Finchley 1959.
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