Yovana Cisneros Espindola, 23, the wife of an undocumented farm worker from Mexico, was fortunate, because of her pregnancy, to have state health insurance last year when she suffered her first multiple sclerosis attack, which temporarily blinded her.
There's no sense that government should provide for the least fortunate because of an underlying social contract instead, the idea is to hope that America's rich and powerful keep getting a nice buzz from using their money for good.
The Sheriff's Department has been fortunate; because of the relationships it has built with various Muslim groups, and as a result more and more Muslims are interested in law enforcement.
We have been very fortunate because of our leadership and hardworking nurses and physicians to have an increase in our CCOP funding since 2002.
If such a scenario has never happened to you, well, consider yourself fortunate, because, for the rest of us who traverse this ritual on an almost nightly basis, this part of the day can be a nearly constant source of stress.
This is, surely, what an invention session is: it is Hankel, Pfaff, Homer Lane, Varley, and Lamé in a room together, and if you have them on your staff you can get a big chunk of Kelvin's discoveries, without ever needing to have Kelvin which is fortunate, because, although there are plenty of Homer Lanes, Varleys, and Pfaffs in the world, there are very few Kelvins.
This is, surely, what an invention session is: it is Hankel, Pfaff, Homer Lane, Varley, and Lamé in a room together, and if you have them on your staff you can get a big chunk of Kelvin's discoveries, without ever needing to have Kelvin — which is fortunate, because, although there are plenty of Homer Lanes, Varleys, and Pfaffs in the world, there are very few Kelvins.
It forbids Americans from putting themselves in the shoes of the less fortunate, because, as former Pennsylvania Senator Rick Santorum, a 2012 presidential hopeful noted, putting oneself in another's shoes is tantamount to theft.
"I feel very fortunate because lots of people dream of owning their own place and never have the opportunity," she said recently as she presided over her small staff and a sparse lunchtime crowd in the bar.
"I'm fortunate because 99.9% of people don't get to speak to him.
"Channel 4 is fortunate because part of our remit is to innovate and that's what comedy is about.
