.virtually every 3rd world state is run by a despot or dictator......

They then take measures to ensure their own survival and thus propagate the vicious cycle.

.......it just isn't quite that simple!

Listening is important but then who do we listen to?

I find traveling alone is hard because at night you are alone in a hotel....

With respect to the people you might be interested in romantically, do you have a preference for hair length, long, medium, short,... and why?

Check out snopes.

Status: Undetermined

Like in college, I refuse to do others homework.

...there is no set of laws in place that covers treatment of Terrorists

...they should be treated in any way...

Yes capitalism is bad. It freed the slaves, it freed Europe from Fascism, it made the U.S. the number one superpower and leads to freedom.

We've been marginalized and disenfranchised and purposely divided through consumerism, religion, sex and TV to the point where most of the populace wouldn't know whether to shit or go blind in response to the real politics controlling their lives... If they could even begin to handle that particular brand of truth...

But this is no accident... This was planned....

So the BC Government announces today that the seasonal flu vaccination will not be available until after the vaccination program for the H1N1 flu

Science isn't perfect.

More than 10 million seniors enrolled in an enhanced, private version of Medicare known as Medicare Advantage - including 175,000 in Massachusetts - could see their plans shrink or be replaced with traditional coverage under the health care overhaul plans proposed by Democrats in Congress.

Democrats want to cut Medicare Advantage by more than $120 billion over 10 years. It could leave seniors with fewer boutique Medicare options offered through private insurance companies or with private plans that offer fewer of the extra benefits such plans provide.

Republicans have seized on Medicare Advantage cuts to accuse President Obama of fudging the truth with his oft-repeated pledge that seniors’ Medicare benefits will not be reduced. Under the health care overhaul proposals as written, traditional Medicare would still be open to all Americans age 65 and over, and the standard benefits would not change.

Private insurers can afford to offer extras under Medicare Advantage - such as lower premiums and coverage for eyeglasses and gym memberships - because the federal government pays them about 14 percent more per patient than Medicare typically spends.

Many health policy specialists say that, with Medicare nearing bankruptcy and millions of Americans going without any insurance at all, the United States can hardly afford to offer a pricier Medicare version that is growing more popular.

“The [Medicare Advantage] beneficiaries have gotten a very good deal from these overpayments. These are good services,’’ said Robert Berenson, a health policy specialist at the Urban Institute. “But it’s a very inefficient way to give people extra benefits.’’

The $120 billion cut to Medicare Advantage is part of spending reductions in Medicare totaling $460 billion to $540 billion over 10 years that have been proposed by Democrats. The cuts would fall on the government reimbursement rates for a broad variety of providers such as hospitals and home health agencies, which could probably absorb them without affecting the services elderly Americans receive, many specialists said in interviews.

Though some industry groups complain the spending reductions are too severe, adjustments could be made if problems arose because they would be phased in gradually. Most are aimed at making the programs more efficient.

“We think the proposals actually will improve access and quality,’’ John Rother, a leading lobbyist for the AARP, the large lobbying organization for senior citizens, said in an e-mail.

But Republicans have seized on Medicare spending reductions as a political bludgeon aimed at the health care overhaul.

Seniors are a key constituency, and “scaring seniors’’ with attack ads is a perennial campaign tactic for both parties.

Polls show that Republicans, who began decrying the Democrats’ Medicare proposals last summer, have already helped turn seniors against the president’s health care overhaul.

That is despite the GOP’s own proposals to cut Medicare by 14 percent over seven years in the mid-1990s, said health economist Len Nichols of the New America Foundation, a Washington research group.

The White House is scrambling to fight back. Yesterday it released a seven-page report titled “Health Insurance and Medicare: Making Medicare Stronger for Seniors’’ that emphasizes the upside of a health overhaul: major prescription drug discounts for seniors, free preventive services such as mammograms and colonosopies, and investments in higher quality care.

James Roosevelt Jr., chief executive of Tufts Health Plan, a Massachusetts plan with 83,000 Medicare Advantage subscribers, said the effect of the Medicare Advantage cuts will depend on how they are made.

The House Democrats’ proposal might not dramatically change Tufts’s offerings, he said. But the Senate version would be “quite devastating to what is available to our Medicare Advantage members,’’ he said.

Most of the rest of the Democrats’ Medicare spending reductions involve asking providers to accept a slower-than-expected rate of growth in payments over the next decade.

Some, such as payments to home health care agencies, were previously recommended by the Medicare Payment Assessment Commission.

Stuart Guterman, assistant vice president for the Commonwealth Fund’s payment system reform program, said, “This policy is saying something that providers ought to be able to do.’’

Some specialists worry seniors could be harmed indirectly. Gail Wilensky, who ran Medicare under President George H.W. Bush, notes that many nursing homes depend on getting overpaid by Medicare to offset the stingy payments states provide for Medicaid patients.

Curtailing those overpayments could strain those fragile institutions, she said.

But health policy specialists said the cuts should be considered in the context of a larger problem: Medicare is on the verge of going broke.

“We can think that the status quo means everybody has everything they have now, but that is all in danger if we don’t do anything,’’ Guterman said.

http://www.politico.com/static/PPM110_090925_document2.html

"Trailer Park Boys"....I saw a couple episodes. Saddening. A lot of swearing and antics that are "trailer trash humour" and they have a hit? WTF???

So...the tv blares on...but just as a noise-maker. Unless the news is on, or weather.

Shows how much I knew about this "corporacracy."

They never even mentioned it when I took corporations law.

instead of just sticking to what our dumb old U.S. Constitution says.

Will you rely on angels, karma, god, Jesus...?

He dropped a few lines about how hard it is to be single in a small town...

I should have had some quick quip..... but nothing.

I'd really like for them to have a geography lesson for ya outdoor, somewhere along the lines of "is California in Canada?"

I probably should grow a pair and ask.

What I mean is all these men saying size doesn't matter. How do they know?

The longer you are here the more stoic you become or you just get eatin' alive.

Large penises look good but, sexually speaking, girth is more important, but not too much girth (maybe) and the smaller ones get harder than the bigger ones ~ although, that might be a good thing

Also, some guys are big when limp but don't get much bigger when hard, and some guys look real small and get a lot bigger

I will post it where I choose.

thousands of jobless workers gave up on their searches and left the work force.

The jobless rate nationwide is expected to peak above 10 percent next year, from its current 9.7 percent.

The employment department’s published jobless rate doesn’t include discouraged workers who’ve stopped hunting for jobs, and it doesn’t count underemployed Nevadans who’d like to work full-time but can find only part-time jobs.

If you factor in the discouraged and the underemployed, Nevada had a 12-month average of 15.2 percent joblessness in the second quarter. McDonald said he suspects the rate is even higher now — perhaps nearly double the stated unemployment rate, and certainly close to 20 percent.

Unlikely to bite unless molested, it has a poisonous bite.

It also is poisonous and has a docile nature.

Premiums for employer-sponsored health insurance rose to an average of $13,375 annually for family coverage this year, with employees on average paying $3,515 and employers paying $9,860, according to a new survey.

The benchmark 2009 Employer Health Benefits Survey, released by the Kaiser Family Foundation and the Health Research & Educational Trust, found that family premiums rose about 5 percent in 2009. That’s more than general inflation, which fell 0.7 percent, and workers’ wages, rising 3.1 percent, during the same period.

Since 1999, premiums have gone up 131 percent. That’s far more than than workers’ wages, up 38 percent, or inflation, up 28 percent, over the same time period.

The survey found that 60 percent of firms offered health benefits to workers in 2009, but the smaller the firm, the less likely it is to offer health benefits. It found just 46 percent of the smallest employers, who have three to nine workers, offer health benefits.

Among those firms offering benefits, 21 percent report they reduced the scope of health benefits or increased cost sharing due to the economic downturn, and 15 percent report they increased the worker’s share of the premium.

The survey further reveals that a growing number of workers who are covered by their employer are facing high deductibles in their plans in addition to contributing to the premiums for their coverage.

In 2009, 22 percent of covered workers must pay at least $1,000 out of pocket annually for single coverage before their plan will pay a share of their health care bills, up from 18 percent last year.

Now in its 11th year, the survey is a joint project of the nonprofit Kaiser Family Foundation and the Health Research & Educational Trust, an affiliate of the American Hospital Association.

It was conducted between January and May and included 3,188 randomly selected, non-federal public and private firms with three or more employees.

Always make "oil" or "butter". Never thrown in the greens. It tastes awful.

I would like to thank the last poster who made it clear that "Butter" is always far superior to the "Greens" lol. I was expecting those comments and it actually made me smile to see you clarify that.

I'm not much of a drinker...

And funnily enough, *I* don't get those sorts of sites as ads here. I get all these weight-loss ads. Are the ads on PoF designed for only men and then only women? That's pretty funny, if so.

I reserve "hot" for a woman that is attractive (all women have some attractive features, its whether or not you look for them), she is intelligent, honest, trustworthy, ... (she has a full set of excellent character traits). That truly makes her "hot" not to mention sexy!

....without people working there are no taxes to pay for all of his programs anyways......

The taliban is not even 20 years old...

The new religions that appear I always cringe.

People go on about how we (the people) would have to pay for an unwanted child but prefer to give some jacka__ who killed someones daughter, mother, father, son free health care, dental, and room and board for 30 years. One prisoner on death row probably could provide enough money to sustain life to an unwanted child for XX years.

ALSO the way someone can be FOR the right to have an abortion then turn around and want to save the life of a convicted killer who is nothing but evil.

It would be like a woman that can't get a boy friend because she has an A CUP to get bigger boobs.

I wouldn't be able to tell anything by a sticker that says, "Made In China".

think a good upbringing makes you what you are.

...they settle down to the real world of bankruptsy, loans, children, marriage ect.

...generation crude...

http://cerealchemistry.aaccnet.org/doi/abs/10.1094/CCHEM.1999.76.2.316

Guess it depends on the polls you look at.

http://www.twiigs.com/poll/Politics/39158

What is the positive value of the internet?

You can pretty much google any question and find an answer.

Young will claim....

Edwards purportedly told....