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hedgehog's Journal“I had no idea that people lived like that,”
Romney’s first weeks as bishop shook that certitude. After a spate of counseling sessions with members suffering financial problems, he came into one meeting of his senior advisers shaking his head.
“I had no idea that people lived like that,” Romney said, according to Phil Barlow, one of his counselors.
http://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/mitt-romney-as-a-leader-in-mormon-church-became-a-master-of-many-keys/2012/08/19/7c8fe1bc-cf89-11e1-8e56-dffbfbe1bd20_story.html?wpisrc=nl_politics&wp_login_redirect=0
My Family Doctor has this season's flu shots in - I'm going down to get mine Tuesday.
He likes to get them in early to catch all the snow birds before they skip town!
http://www.cdc.gov/vaccines/pubs/vis/downloads/vis-flu.pdf
http://www.cdc.gov/flu/about/season/flu-season-2012-2013.htm#expected
a health insurance small business question -
If we had single payer in this country, would you be likely to try your hand at starting a small business?
Question for those of you between say 50 and 65 -
if you could go on to Medicare at age 55, would you retire early?
My husband's pension maxes out when he turns 63. He could retire then, but I'm not sure where we would get health insurance to cover the two year gap.
Hey GOP - if you're going to set the generations against one another, as a long term plan it's
better to get the younger generation on your side!
GOP's plan for Medicare: us old folks got ours, screw all you young'uns!
About those Medicare vouchers - why would insurance companies
lower prices to compete for Medicare recipients who use more medical services, when the insurance companies don't cut rates when competing to cover healthy young adults?
I need help tracking something down on Ryan -
this is serious - I don't want to start or spread any rumors, because that would backfire. But I swear I read he voted the wrong way on an animal cruelty bill - puppy mills, banning cock fighting, horse slaughter, something like that. I've tried googling it, but I'm getting no hits. Since I routinely conflate Paul Ryan/Ron Paul/Rand Paul, I could well be barking up the wrong tree.
When This Oil Spills, It's 'A Whole New Monster'
"TransCanada told Daniel in writing that questions about spills were hypothetical because their pipeline would be designed not to spill. But in a document for the State Department, TransCanada predicted two spills every 10 years over the entire length of its Keystone XL pipeline, from Canada to the Gulf of Mexico. Some scientists argue that the company underestimates that risk. Another pipeline it put into service two years ago has had 14 spills in the United States, although most were small, according to TransCanada."
http://www.npr.org/2012/08/03/158025375/when-this-oil-spills-its-a-whole-new-monster?ft=1&f=1001
The article would seem to indicate that it is a slurry of sand and crude going through those pipelines. My question is, how abrasive is that sand? Does anyone know? Do the oil companies care?
I've been a little puzzled at how quick the bishops were to slap down Paul Ryan's budget,
but then it occurred to me that some of that money goes to programs run by the bishops!
Already planning for next year - anybody know about coleus?
I have a bed out front that is in deep shade. Hostas do fine there. Will coleus tolerate deep shade?
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