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re: #17: kosher cheeses only.
When Firefox dies, it comes back to life after 3 days.
Firefox runs on Cheeses?!?
Jesus is still subject to a lot of "hang-ups" :)
@n8chz, I believe Firefox does run on Jesus, both are open source projects.
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the app costs 21 Sheckles
re: #12, yeah, but you have to buy the app.
Does Firefox run on Jesus?
A COPY OF THE LETTER I JUST SENT TO MY COMPANY’S HEALTH INSURANCE AGENTS THIS MORNING FOR PERUSALBY YOU GOOD FOLK:
Mr. XXXXX and Ms XXXXX,
Please begin reviewing alternate health insurance providers for @@@@@ as it appears that Blue Shield of California may no longer value our company’s business.
@@@@@ received the attached letter from Blue Shield, dated 05/28/10, notifying the company that Cedars-Sinai Health Associates/Cedars-Sinai Medical Group will no longer be a provider for Blue Shield. As Cedar-Sinai is one of the finest and largest medical providers in the entire country, it causes concern that Blue Shield appears intent on blockading staff members of our company from seeking the best quality healthcare available in the local region. @@@@@ is left wondering what it says about worthiness of Blue Shield as a vendor that their reimbursement rates are unacceptable to such a quality institution. Frankly, @@@@@ paid $81,997.86 in 2009 and has paid $35,867.94 in premiums this year to date and we are questioning if our premium dollars can be more wisely spent. You may wish to express our concerns to your contacts within Blue Shield.
In short, this situation is wholly unacceptable and definitely figures into the discussion of whether Blue Shield will continue as @@@@@’s health insurance provider in the future.
On a personal note: My family has received letters from both Blue Shield and Cedars Sinai describing the impasse in their negotiations. The letter from Blue Shield states that they will be transferring my family to Prospect Medical Group on 08/01/10. Everyone I know locally in the healthcare industry (including my wife and mother-in-law) describe this as an extremely poor provider choice. I, personally, have less than zero interest ensuring the salary and bonuses of Blue Shield’s Chairman, President and Chief Executive Officer, Bruce Bodaken, at the expense of providing adequate healthcare for my beloved family.
Additionally, I request that you provide me the direct contact information of the specific individual within Blue Shield of California who I can adequately express my personal discontent as I am sure that calling Customer Service will not allow me to efficiently and effectively communicate my personal views regarding the situation.
Respectfully,
Richard L. Adlof
Comptroller
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Jesus Saves, Microsoft resets.
Hmm must have pressed preview instead of save. Oh, well.
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re: caller's request for people to see the live video feeds. This page has the 12 feeds (though most are blank (probably intentionally) but one or two view are adequate anyway.
http://globalwarming.house.gov/spillcam
Have it sitting on a corner of my monitor.
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Many progressives, including myself, are leery of a constitutional convention because of the possibility of more authoritarian amendments being ratified.
The powerful take advantage of ambiguities in the Constitution to shift law to their benefit. Amendments to the Constitution are the necessary evil.
I am shocked by my favorite senator's comment regarding "clogging the constitution with amendments", refering to a constitutional amendment regarding corporate personhood. I think this is the most important issue of our time. From this, everything else can begin to change back to we the people. If Bernie isn't on board with this, I doubt any other senator would be. This is not like progressives want an amendment for frivolous issues.
I don't know whether you think of c4ss as opposition or ally. I have mixed feelings about them, myself. I'm more sympathetic to the decidedly 'communist' element of the anarchist movement, but I try, hard, to keep an open mind and read the writings of people who can use the term <i>laissez faire</i> without retching.
In a Truly Free Market, BP Would Be Toast
http://c4ss.org/content/2685
Sometimes it's wise to read what the "opposition" has to say in better to understand them, and the Republicans and the Democrats who oppose them.
To Thom,
Just wanted to let you know (and I'm proud to let all on this blog know too), last night my wife and two children attended our first Green Party meeting!!!! Yes sir we're getting active (though our children are just observers at this time).
Your absolutely right though, local political meetings are small, my wife and I made up 2/5 of the attendance, though I don't think there is any need for us to attempt a takeover, this small core of party faithful are already on top of local issues as well as national. Let this be a lesson to all bloggers here, get to your political party meeting, get informed and get active. I bet you dollars to donuts you'll leave your first local meeting feeling like there is something you can do.
(I so wanted to annouce that I was planning on doing this earlier this week, but I didn't want to talk the talk until I walked the walk.)
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I also agree with the dwalker81 comment that stopping benefits for working people is a poor way to treat our fellow citizens.
What I am most curious about is the closing of the tax loophole. Will it really bring jobs back to the U.S.? I have heard that some factories closed down and moved overseas in one month. They can come back that quickly if the loophole is closed. The effect on our economy would be so positive that perhaps the bill will pay for itself after all. I just want to know if it really will close the loophole and make it worthwhile to come back.
Obama offers Americans warm fuzzies. Americans need more than warm fuzzies.
@mstaggerlee, a person writing an article does not necessariiy have to refer to Obama. If you study Obama's pattern of words and deeds, the study will help you with regard to his pattern as president. Obama's leadership offers only hollow rhetoric.
True, the TFR is below 3000 and over a massive area. Above 3000 feet your chances of photographing the environmental impact is nil.
Lady Liberty is Lying Face Down in the Mud, Oil Tainted Mud
an essay by hep2jive
The lady is barely enlightened, hardly free and laden with toxic mud and oil. She is crying out for relief. The wetlands are shouting for justice, and why? One simple word--greed. In the interest of making a "killing" BP Oil moved forward, without a disaster plan that would safeguard our precious land.
Lobbyists and politicians prostituted themselves--and us--and our American land. For what? The almighty profit.
No plan, no safeguards, no concern for communities full of people who have worked and lived their lives dependent on the waters of the Gulf, done what their grandfathers and great grandfathers have done for all this time.
Here we are once again. Watching the suffering of innocent people and the desecration of our beautiful American land-- all because of one word--greed.
There is no "right" way to do something wrong.
After all this new enlightenment and change, America is still living under the effects of colonialism, the dribbling filth of imperialism, the "we know what is best for the foolish masses of "know-nothings" the average man and woman. The middle class do-gooder who will shoulder the burdens for all.
After all, almost an entire political campaign was built with a plumber's toolset, "Joe the Plumber" to be exact.
If "we the people" are truly pursuing the American ideal, this insanity of solving problems the same old way and expecting a different result has to change.