She is such a great speaker and was one of my favorite actors.

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I do not know if this has been shared before, I just saw it today and thought it had to be shared:

http://www.theatlantic.com/technology/archive/2013/04/a-whole-sky-view-of-the-aurora-borealis/274735/

Too many for even them. They are even thinking of closing that little racket down: http://www.patheos.com/blogs/deaconsbench/2012/05/loose-canon-vatican-may-tighten-rules-on-annulments/

and apparently, a divorced catholic can, under the very special circumstances that would technically meet all the archaic rules they rely on so much, RECEIVE COMMUNION. I am shocked.

"The fact is, the Church does not teach that Catholics are forbidden to receive Holy Communion if they are divorced. Rather, it teaches that a Catholic who has been divorced and remarried, without having first obtained an annulment of the first marriage, is not permitted to receive the Eucharist"

http://catholicexchange.com/divorced-catholics-and-the-eucharist/

I am getting more sure that I do know what I am talking about.

btw, I hope you consider this to be a lighthearted back and forth. I am an ex catholic and I know that the church brought a lot of joy to my mother and father as well as to many other members of the family. So I am glad it did that but my faith is long gone.

I was watching "Army Wives" which I watch regardless of the fact that is is completely removed from any real life reality. This young child was rushed to the ER because of complications in his medical condition around supper time. His mother sits in the waiting room, wearing the most beautiful color gloss lipstick, make-up so perfect that it was magazine photo ready and her hair was perfect.

I thought of the odds of looking like that when I was younger when I had to suddenly leave the house because of some kind of emergency. I know for a fact that "Art does not imitate life."

it is frightening to think there are people out there that think like thisl



“Sorry, the United States of America is not interested in making national heroes of women who go out of their way to do everything possible to put themselves in a situation where they're likely to get raped. She's lucky these boys didn't actually hurt her.

I think she ought to be shot before every teen girl in America thinks they get to become international heroes for drinking until they can't speak and getting naked with high school boys.”

until I read the following taken from The Guardian:

On the Argentinian government's support for a gay marriage bill:

"Let's not be naive: this isn't a simple political fight, it's an attempt to destroy God's plan."

Why do I get the feeling that they are trying really hard to put lipstick on that same old pig.

We are going on a cruise and would like to take some Netflix movies with us. The last cruise we took gave a very limited choice of stations to watch. Most of them were selling us the cruise experience, which I found very annoying. I would like to record some of the shows I have in my instant queue as a back up.

Also, if anyone knows how to get free wifi, that would certainly be appreciated.

They had a chance to be a relevant player on the political stage when they joined the coalition government. As I understand it, without their support the Tories would not be able to govern. They wasted a great opportunity to make a difference and have ended up alienating their own members

. http://www.guardian.co.uk/politics/2013/mar/10/lib-dems-quit-over-secret-courts?CMP=twt_fd

They need to get rid of Clegg ASAP so they can gain some semblance of credibility before the next election or their future as a political party will be gone forever.

I loved the way he turned the question back to her. I decided to sent her a tweet about it and you are welcome to use it if you find it mildly interesting:

@jpaceDC Now its Julie's turn to cry, Julie's turn to cry, Julies turn to cry. You would cry to if it happened to you

The Wikipedia definition of reform is

"Reform means the improvement or amendment of what is wrong, corrupt, unsatisfactory, etc."

There are so many billions of dollars that could be saved by just cutting out the wasteful spending that just makes big pharma and other providers rich while adding no value to the service that is provided. My mother-in-law, who is quite financially comfortable receives a brand new pair of quite expensive looking shoes every year because she has diabetes.

She said that she did not recall requesting them, but they come every years. I am willing to concede that possibly she did request them and then forgot, but I would love to see the exact contract that this company has signed with medicare and how much they make from it. And I certainly do not begrudge anyone who these shoes if they are needed but they look like top of the line shoes and of what she is saying is true, they are being sent to millions of people each year who may or may not use them. What is wrong with reforming that system.

I also remember reading that the federal government does not negotiate with the drug companies that set the price of medicine. I believe that the medicare pays more for drugs than the price in many other countries. That kind of reform would not be bad.

I read of the billions of dollars that is being stolen from the system by providers who commit large scale fraud to recover costs that they did not incur. While we know it is impossible to catch all incidents of fraud, we should increase the fines and prison terms of those we do catch. We should make it so expensive and the jail terms so long that it would deter others from doing the same thing.

We should also make hospitals present bills in a way that can be verified. A man was recently hospitalized for a few days and received a bill of almost half a million dollars. That works out to roughly $500 per hour. That is insane. While that may have reflected the actual costs incurred, he had know way of knowing because he could not understand the hundreds of pages of documentation. Reforming that would certainly help all of us, on and off of medicare.l

I recently had surgery to remove some breast tissue that had the ability to turn cancerous in the future. It was a one day procedure done in a surgical unit run by the hospital but the patient is not checked it. It was a simple procedure and everyone was very professional and very nice. I was covered by private insurance as although I am retired, my husband still works. When I visited the site run my by insurance company, I noticed a bill for the services of someone I had never med and had no idea why he/she was involved. The fact that my insurance paid it made me believe that it was valid as insurance companies rarely pay bills they do not owe. However, I think that all costs and procedures should be spelled out before the surgery, as they certainly have enough time and energy to explain to the patient in every way possible how they cannot be help responsible for the several hundred things that could go wrong while you are in their care, so take a little more time and tell you how they are spending your/your insurance company/tax payer money. That would help catch any errors before they happen.

I know I have rambled on but I think that we sometimes jump to the wrong conclusions when reform and medicare are used in the same sentence and that is not always the case.