January 23, 2015

Whistling At Your Mom

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January 23, 2015

Curious about what people are paying for Health Care or what kind of coverage you are getting

from your employer?


My employer (a small business with about 50 employees......only about 8 of us are covered) covers my HC but the deductible is $5,000 which seems terrible. I know the average for company sponsored HC is around a $1,300 deductible. Any guesses on what small businesses pay when your deductible is $5,000 and they have around 8 employees to cover? Any opinions on how good or bad this sounds are welcome. Wondering if several of us need to complain.

If your company doesn't cover you then give premium and deductible. I understand this is personal so it's entirely up to you obviously if you want to give any of this info.

Also, feel free to mention if you have Obama Care and how you like it?

January 22, 2015

The White House Hilariously Trolls Fox News At Press Luncheon

My impression is that Shepard Smith agrees Fox isn't news other than himself and Bret Baier. Shep Smith generally seems pretty good, Baier? That hasn't been my impression but he is better than most on Fox.

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January 20, 2015

Paris Mayor Sues Fox News for Lying

January 20, 2015

Jon Stewart Tears Into Mike Huckabee - " Why Is Beyoncé Harming Kids But Ted Nugent’s Fine ? "

January 19, 2015

John Fugelsang on American Sniper

>>>American Sniper is the best film ever made about shooting people in a country that never attacked us.


My comment:

There are a lot of movies that fall into that category, set in Vietnam etc. but as Fugelsang points out, anyone watching this flick, it gives the impression that the towers were hit by Sadam himself and Iraq was infested with Al Qaida before we got there. But we get it Mr. Eastwood, bringing up bogus yellowcake allegations and the zero WMD's and the whole bogus reason we were there in the first place would have made all the completely un-necessary death a bit less satisfactory and prevented some pro US erections from being as hard as they ended up being.

January 14, 2015

Albuquerque Officer charged with murder caught saying he would shoot Boyd 2 hours before it occured

January 13, 2015

Why Are You Not Dead Yet? (In response to all the anti-vaxxers and anti-science folks these days)

Life expectancy doubled in the past 150 years. Here’s why.

By Laura Helmuth
The most important difference between the world today and 150 years ago isn’t airplane flight or nuclear weapons or the Internet. It’s lifespan. We used to live 35 or 40 years on average in the United States, but now we live almost 80. We used to get one life. Now we get two.


You may well be living your second life already. Have you ever had some health problem that could have killed you if you’d been born in an earlier era? Leave aside for a minute the probabilistic ways you would have died in the past—the smallpox that didn’t kill you because it was eradicated by a massive global vaccine drive, the cholera you never contracted because you drink filtered and chemically treated water. Did some specific medical treatment save your life? It’s a fun conversation starter: Why are you not dead yet? It turns out almost everybody has a story, but we rarely hear them; life-saving treatments have become routine. I asked around, and here is a small sample of what would have killed my friends and acquaintances:

•Adrian’s lung spontaneously collapsed when he was 18.
•Becky had an ectopic pregnancy that caused massive internal bleeding.
•Carl had St. Anthony’s Fire, a strep infection of the skin that killed John Stuart Mill.*
•Dahlia would have died delivering a child (twice) or later of a ruptured gall bladder.
•David had an aortic valve replaced.
•Hanna acquired Type 1 diabetes during a pregnancy and would die without insulin.
•Julia had a burst appendix at age 14.
•Katherine was diagnosed with pernicious anemia in her 20s. She treats it with supplements of vitamin B-12, but in the past she would have withered away.
•Laura (that’s me) had scarlet fever when she was 2, which was once a leading cause of death among children but is now easily treatable with antibiotics.
•Mitch was bitten by a cat (filthy animals) and had to have emergency surgery and a month of antibiotics or he would have died of cat scratch fever.


More


http://www.slate.com/articles/health_and_science/science_of_longevity/2013/09/life_expectancy_history_public_health_and_medical_advances_that_lead_to.html

January 13, 2015

Imagine

Please share the link and give it some traffic: http://www.filmsforaction.org/articles/john-lennons-imagine-made-into-a-comic-strip/#.VLMSHG5jJ8x.facebook

January 12, 2015

Ultra-Orthodox Jewish Newspaper Edits Female World Leaders Out of Charlie Hebdo March

Yesterday’s historic march across Paris included over 40 world leaders expressing solidarity for France after the Charlie Hebdo massacre., but if you read this Haredi newspaper, you’d believe that none of them were women.

The image that ran on the front page of the Israeli newspaper edited two female world leaders out of the image, originally provided by wire service GPO: Denmark Prime Minister Helle Thorning-Schmidt and German Chancellor Angela Merkel. A third woman in a blue scarf who we can’t identify was also cut out.

Link: http://www.mediaite.com/online/ultra-orthodox-jewish-newspaper-edits-female-world-leaders-out-of-charlie-hebdo-march/

The original photo is below: