January 13, 2014

Papantonio Hammers Stuart Varney

This is old but really good!

January 12, 2014

My flu shot was covered by my insurance today for the first time.

My job provides pretty lousy medical insurance under Rocky Mountain HMO. In years passed I always had to pay the $30 for my flu shot but today it was covered. Correct me if I am wrong but I believe this is because of the Affordable Care Act requiring all companies to cover preventative care. Correct?


On Edit I found this: http://www.takepart.com/article/2013/05/13/obamacare-healthcare-freebies

Snip> There’s still no such thing as a free lunch, but would you settle for a flu shot with a price tag of $0.00, or gratis medication to help you stop smoking? Those freebies—and others—will be coming your way, regardless of what health insurance plan you choose for coverage starting in January 2014, when some of the biggest changes under the Affordable Care Act (ACA, or Obamacare) kick in.

January 11, 2014

Steve Jobs on cancer: Don't mess with eastern medicine

This video also touches on what happened to Steve Jobs:

January 11, 2014

Now that there is more and more evidence vitamin supplements don't do much good

do you still take any? If so what do you take? The only things I take are Vitamin D, Zinc and Fish Oil. All three have pretty good science behind them.

Of course some people should take certain types of vitamins if they have deficiencies or their Dr. thinks they might help with an ailment.



http://io9.com/how-many-of-your-health-supplements-are-actually-snake-1492960177

January 10, 2014

Natural Pools - Natural Pool selfbuild

http://naturalhomes.org/naturalliving/organicpools.htm


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January 10, 2014

7 Reasons Why You Should Stop Bitching About People On Benefits

1. One day, it could be you.

The welfare state is a safety net. It is there to catch anyone who falls on hard times, including you. Say you got hit by a car and were tragically paralyzed from the waist down; the welfare state would pay you a Mobility Allowance so that you could still leave the house. It would pay for any special equipment you needed and a personal assistant to help you go to the loo, bathe and perform household chores. If you lost your job and were unable to find a new one, the state would support you until you were able to find another one. Sounds pretty fair now, doesn’t it?


2. What do you think the other options are?


Let’s be totally selfish here; the other option is that anyone without a significant safety net is made homeless. Two summers ago I worked out that if I took my family out of the picture, I was one month away from homelessness. Two if my landlord felt like being lenient with the rent. Would you seriously prefer that millions of people had to live on the streets (your streets) if it meant that you would have to pay a couple of pence less tax?

As attractive as it is to bluster on about how we should kick everyone off benefits and into paid employment, the jobs situation now is rather like the time my local library gave me an extension on my library books because if I were to bring them all back at once, they would not have room on the shelves. There simply are not enough jobs and due to 'austerity measures', more and more jobs are being lost. The more impoverished the area, the worse the situation.

Job hunting is a soul destroying process. I have been unemployed twice and both times I was spending around four hours a day, five or six days a week job hunting. I had an excellent CV, a whole bunch of qualifications and lots of voluntary work but the fact was that every entry level job on the system was attracting around 150 applications; jobs at places like MacDonalds and Tesco were attracting over 500. It really isn't that simple.

3. Seriously, the amount of tax you pay into the welfare state is a pittance.

Every time I ‘talk’ to people having a winge about their tax going to ‘scroungers’, they seem to have run away with the idea that they, personally are paying for that flatscreen TV they have heard so much about. Your tax goes to pay for many, many things including schools, hospitals, bin collections, roads, the legal system, the royal family, streetlights, the military and right now, for massive corporations like Tesco to get free labor when they should be actually employing people who need jobs. If you earn £20,000 a year, you pay 0.00003066 pence a year to each individual person on unemployment benefit. I don’t imagine you have paid for even 1% of someone’s flatscreen.
- See more at: http://sorrelish.blogspot.com/2013/03/7-reasons-why-you-should-stop-bitching.html#sthash.S3PUBSB5.dpuf

January 8, 2014

This Is what happens When A Little Girl Gives Marijuana A Try...

http://www.quickmeme.com/p/3vql5s

January 8, 2014

What Would You Do? - Amazingly Generous Man On WWYD

January 7, 2014

View of the current Polar Vortex on a temperature anomaly map

This view is looking directly down at the N. Pole which has temps way above normal and huge pockets of extreme cold pushed down around the N. Hemisphere.

Snip>The general assumption is that reduced snow cover and sea ice reflect less sunlight and therefore evaporation and transpiration increases, which in turn alters the pressure and temperature gradient of the polar vortex, causing it to weaken or collapse. This becomes apparent when the jet stream amplitude increases (meanders) over the northern hemisphere, causing Rossby waves to propagate farther to the south or north, which in turn transports warmer air to the north pole and polar air into lower latitudes. The jet stream amplitude increases with a weaker polar vortex, hence increases the chance for weather systems to become blocked. A recent blocking event emerged when a high-pressure over Greenland steered Hurricane Sandy into the New Jersey coast.[16]

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Polar_vortex

January 6, 2014

Sam Harris Exposes Deepak Chopra's Religious Woo Woo

Talk about a fight over who is the woo!