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Listed below are comments made by kenneth jessett between Monday, 5th January 2009 and Saturday, 12th December 2009.

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Woods's only option was to step away 3:37pm on 12 Dec 2009 Oh please! I don't get all this 'pity party' for Woods. He was the one who stuck his you know what where he did, no one forced him. He was the one who reneged on his marriage vows and cheated his wife while she took care of his children.
Has morality sunk so low, have our standards of decency taken a tumble so much for the worst that we are now rooting for the liar, the womaniser, the libertine all just because he is an outstanding golfer. Is that all that matters any more? Good God, what has become of us?
Competition hots up in Copenhagen 5:24pm on 01 Oct 2009 Madrid is a lovely city in a lovely country, so my hope is for them to have it. Tokyo is to close too Peking, Rio is too smoggy and dirt poor, Chicago will try and spread the event venues across the state to pay back for the state support, so, Madrid has it.
Some initial space notes 1:59pm on 23 Sep 2009 Actually, BBC is not an acronym, since an acronym must be a word. A word must have a beginning and an end: From the Greek; akron 'end, tip' + onoma name.
Hubble still has what it takes 9:07pm on 10 Sep 2009 Is there colour in space? I would have thought the absence of particles would not have provided for colour to be transmitted, or are these images 'colour added' back here on Earth?
A final essay on Europe 8:10pm on 01 Aug 2009 This is the first time I have read anything by this writer, and to be truthful, having read through the entire piece, I find I didn't read anything particularly enlightening in it. Just filling in the space speech?
Outback film enchants and challenges 1:53pm on 19 May 2009 Any chance of seeing a little snippit from the film?
Amen to all that 3:03pm on 06 Apr 2009 "A garden centre", so true, it's a pity they mess it up playing golf ;)

And I just wished they wouldn't publically present a cheque at the end, it seems so crass - so American.
Governor's pointed remarks 8:10pm on 24 Mar 2009 So, in other words, King is not saying anything useful to aid the recovery, and neither is Flanders.
Maybe Bevis or Butthead can offer better advice - they can surely do no worse.
Tougher tasks ahead for England 2:38pm on 12 Mar 2009 I think this is fantastic. Women are so much more interesting to watch than men, and have a sportmenship (sportswomenship?) towards each other that the primping men lack. More of the same please.
Health care heartbreak 4:07pm on 05 Jan 2009 First; thank you for sharing your child's concerns. Never an easy thing to have one's child become sick and you feeling you can do little to help him. I wish him well.

Second; To become sick in America is a frightening event unless you have insurance, and even then, the co-pays can be steep. But I live in America and fortunately have always had company insurance ($600+ monthly premiums) so we have had our two boys go through various ailments and conditions (heart for the oldest) and survived well enough.

Growing up in England we made few demands on the NHS but I remember enduring long visits in GP's waiting room full of dusty books and even dustier patients.

I don't know which is better, the American system if you have the good fortune to have insurance - you will surely live a crippling life if you become ill if you don't - or the British NHS which our friends tell us is abysmal these days.

But it is a fair comment to say that if a child becomes debilitatingly ill, the parent will move heaven and earth to get him or her the required treatment regardless of the system under which they find themsleves.

The best approach to obtaining good medical care is to become an informed consumer.

America will never have a national health service, the insurance lobbies and those who can afford to pay simply wont stand for it. Anyway, a 'national' anything is an anathema to conservative America.

It also helps the industry that a congressman, even if for one term only, has free health insurance for life - so no grass roots knowledge of the need of indigents there. "let them eat cake", indeed.

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