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But what did it matter who said no. My reaction was "Great, let's go. 66 pictures is plenty for a show." When's the last time you saw a gallery show with 66 goddam photographs. More than enough. Doug Edwards agreed and the blowups were actually ordered, but then the word came down from Malden. The whole thing was cancelled. 66 yeses somehow confirmed in his mind that the show must not go on. It was a question of whether the glass was half empty or half full, though 22 noes is only a third of the yeses. He was worried about the people who didn't respond. (Huh? Maybe they wouldn't like the ugly pictures of other people who gave their permission?) Also, some of the negatives were big negatives. Harry Dean Stanton not only said no, he threatened to sue the Academy if they displayed my picture of him. (On what possible grounds? Malicious surreal facial reconstruction of a celebrity in an artwork?) Here's the shot.

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Consider just one example of how politics can affect culture. A positive work ethic based on Biblical teaching has long been one of the cornerstones of American culture. In 2 Thessalonians 3:10 we read, “…if anyone will not work, neither shall he eat.” Proverbs 10:4-5 says, “He who deals with a slack hand becomes poor, but the hand of the diligent makes one rich.” Proverbs 14:23 says, “In all labor there is profit…” The great reformers, Martin Luther and John Calvin, translated these and other verses into what eventually became known as the Protestant work ethic. America’s founders adopted the Protestant work ethic as their own because it stressed such Scriptural values as thrift, diligence, self-reliance, self-discipline, responsibility, accountability, deferred gratification, and hard work.
The Protestant work ethic served America well for decades until politicians began to chip away at it with an ever-increasing number of laws and public policies that promote an entitlement mentality. *Liberal politicians, seeing opportunity in numbers, began rewarding idleness and sloth by taking from the more productive members of society and giving to the less productive. The Obama administration has taken this concept *and kicked it into high gear using the socialist theory known as redistribution of wealth.
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THe Formation of small blisters on the hands and feet that progress to scaling, cracking and bleeding of the skin is the typical characterization for Dyshidrotic eczema. Because it is often a chronic, recurrent condition, those who struggle with it are very much in need of optimum treatment and control options.
While the underlying cause remains unclear, it appears that certain bacterial and fungal infections, sensitivity to various ingested metals, and certain allergic responses may actually trigger the condition. The eczema might be triggered or get worse if you have to deal with a lot of stress, humditiy changes, and other factors.
Standard treatment options for dyshidrotic eczema almost completely rely on corticosteroids. However, steroid use is really bad. Thinning of the skin, tenderness, and “rebound” effects (where the condition greatly worsens over time or when the steroids are stopped) are common.
Many individuals seek other treatment options to reduce their dependence on steroid use, because of this.
In fact there are many things to choose from if you have to deal with eczema. These include the following:
1. Avoiding allergy-stimulating irritants.
Many individuals find their condition improves when they avoid substances and situations that may produce other allergic reactions (i.e., asthma, sinusitis, hay fever, etc). These may include certain foods, heavy metals, irritating fragrances and soaps, and some synthetic fabrics.
2. Change your diet.
You should not only avoid allergy-inducing foods, you should also avoid external allergy-inducing irritants. For example, many individuals who follow a low nickel diet find that their condition improves. You should avoid the following food: pears, peas, rhubarb, spinach, tea, tomatoes, whole grain flour, cocoa, chocolate, canned foods, asparagus, beans, corn, herring, mushrooms, onions, oysters,. Foods cooked using nickel-plated utensils may also be problematic.
3. Clothing and environmental changes.
Skin damp has been reported by many people to trigger or worsen the condition. Thus, wearing clothing that wicks away moisture, such as cotton or silk, may be helpful. In like manner, sores should not be covered with tape or moisture-holding bandages or plasters. Rather, gauze coverings and even cotton gloves may prove more helpful during times of flare-ups.
4. Keep an exe on your overall health.
Anyone who suffers from other health problems, particularly bacterial or fungal infections, should seek treatment. If these conditions are resolved through the use of antibacterial or antifungal medications, the condition may well improve. Correcting nutritional deficiencies via vitamin and mineral supplements have also proven helpful.
5. Emotions and stress management.
Because emotional turmoil and stress can worsen the condition, many report overall improvement when they better manage or circumvent traumatic or stressful situations. Thus, learning how to cope well with stress and how to avoid unnecessary stress may produce great benefits.
Other things that may be helpful include: the use of salves and ointments (particularly those containing zinc oxide, and avoiding those that contain water), nickel chelation (removal of nickel from the body using chelating agents), botulinum toxin A injections, treatments with hydrogen peroxide or dilute solutions of potassium permanganate, salt or white vinegar soaks, and the use of certain immune-suppressant medications.
If you suffer from dyshidrotic eczema you should read all you can about your condition to make sure you will be able to manage all of the aspects of your health, because there are so many possible beneficial treatment and management approache. It is recommended that you work closely together with your doctor and explore all available possibilities that may help you to get rid of eczema and manage this skin disease.
Just making an initial effort to manage the condition can improve one’s mental health and emotional well being. It is recommended to start right now, you can even start small if necessary, but start today!
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I think themes for Grand Rounds is a bad idea, but Edwin Leaps question - What would you like to say to future physicians? - is one I have thought about prior. So, imagine you are a graduating medical student, and I am your fabulously well-paid commencement speaker*:
Hello Class of [insert year]. Congratulations on this very special day. If you think your parents are excited for you, wait till you hear from your lenders. I dont envy you that.
Nor do I envy you the effort you have had to expend to get here. You must be tired. I will be brief.
Your education and training puts you in the elite of knowledge-based professions. In this increasingly knowledge-driven economy, you are drawing ever closer to the peak. Your skills are invaluable to society; your expertise essential to civilized life. Without you or people like you, our society would literally fall apart. You can expect - and you will command - tremendous respect for your achievements  and accomplishments thus far.
There are, however, different kinds of knowledge. You have been trained in the clinical, and nobody in their right mind will question your qualifications of clinical issues. Which isnt to say you wont be questioned; theres always Jenny McCarthy, whose most valuable contribution to civilization was sucking the chrome off a trailer hitch in .
But the people who come to see  you: they will come because your knowledge can help them. Many of them will depend on you - their lives will depend on you - to use your knowledge to solve a problem they face. Diseases. Injuries. Disabilities. And I trust you will excel in this task.
The vast majority of problems you will see have a simple, straightforward remedy. Antibiotics for strep. A cast for a broken bone. Stitches for a deep cut. A band-aid and reassurance for a worried parent.
And the people you see - the people you help - will be tremendously grateful to you. You will have their thanks, and their respect, and no small amount of their money. (Someone will get the money, anyway - even if your share seems too small.) And they will leave the clinic and go back to their homes, to their lives, to their worlds.
For a few of your patients, your knowledge wont be enough. You wont know how to cure Huntingtons disease. You wont know how to cure MS, or RA, or IBD, or any of dozens of illnesses still baffling medical science. For people with these diseases, your knowledge wont be enough. You wont have the knowledge necessary to send them back to their lives. Nobody does. Thats something you - and they - will have to learn to live with, for the time being. Their problems will be ongoing, and will cost these people tremendously - in money, in time, in tears, sweat, blood.
Many of them will die from their illnesses. And I am sorry you will have to be party to that. Dont torture yourself if you didnt know enough to save them. Just dont stop learning.
In the meantime, the fact that their illnesses persist means they will face a myriad of additional problems. These problems are not clinical. They are beyond your training and expertise.
To take an example from my own life: shortly after I graduated from college, I was in the middle of a mild flare of my disease. I was functional, I could work, but I looked sick. And as I interviewed for jobs - I was well-qualified - it was obvious that I was sick. And nobody would hire me. Which meant I could not get health insurance. These problems affected my clinical situation - I volunteered for clinical trials, as a way to get health care - but they were not simply clinical problems.
Your patients will face stigma. They will struggle through routine, daily tasks. They will have difficulty working. They will have difficulty paying you to help them. They will face emotional stress and pain well beyond what their physical condition might suggest. Spouses and loved ones will reject and abandon them.
Many of them will face these struggles utterly alone. And they will bring their lives into your clinic. You will be sorely tempted to ignore these problems, or to minimize them, but you should not.
You are right to think that these are not your problems, because they are not clinical problems. They are not the problems you have been trained to address. We might call them instead social problems - to capture in a broad stroke what is economic, emotional, relational, and political about being ill. Disease may be a clinical problem at root, but illness in full bloom is very much a social problem.
Just as there is clinical knowledge - and you are its vanguard - so there is social knowledge. Many of you - thank God - have an aptitude for social knowledge, but you are not experts. In fact, precious few people are. Most of your patients - the ones who need your help the most - will not have access to anyone will the sort of social-knowledge expertise that might help them.
So they will face a host of problems for which there is no . And some of these social problems will be more pernicious than disease itself. Some of these problems will be every bit as disabling as their diagnosis.
As experts in clinical knowledge, you are taught to narrow problems down to a single point. Its not enough to treat every skin problem the same, nor every skin cancer the same. You instead narrow the problem down to a single point - basal cell carcinoma, perhaps - and that is the problem you solve. Yes, I am oversimplifying - but a great many of the problems you have been trained to solve are like this.
Social problems are not like this. They do not exist at a single point. They are often vast and nebulous, in defiance of any attempt to narrow or simplify them. They are often , in the technical sense - you think youre solving one problem, and create three others.
I am not saying you should shy away from these problems. I am warning you: they are much tougher than anything you are trained for. I want you to be engaged and interested in how your patients live outside the clinic, but if you think you have found a simple, single solution to their problems, you are wrong. You are applying clinical knowledge to social problems, and at best you will not help your patients. At worst, you will harm them, perhaps grievously.
(And by the way, you will never be sued or punished for this sort of mistake, as you might be for clinical mistakes. There are doctors who destroy their patients with clinical solutions to social problems, without ever realizing what they are doing. I have survived two of them myself.)
To offer a possibly controversial example on a large scale: we are in the midst of a debate over health care reform, with physicians tending towards either pole. On on side, there are physicians who vehemently insist that the market is the solution to our health care problems, as if the market were a pill dispensed by your local economist that we could all take. On the other side, there are physicians who vociferously push for a single-payer overhaul - as if we could simply anaesthetize our health-care system, wheel it into the OR, and emerge a few hours later with single-payer. This is clinical thinking, applied to social problems.
Neither one has much chance of working, at least not in the ways their physician supporters expect. It takes social knowledge to appreciate that fact.
But even if you dont know much about social problems, you can always learn. There are ways to train people to be experts in social knowledge. You have likely received minimal, if any, training in the social problems surrounding disease, and for that I am sorry. I wish it were otherwise, but perhaps the clinical was already demanding enough.
In all likelihood, you will learn most of your social knowledge on your own. One of your best resources - apart from here and now - is, of course, your patients. Listen to them. Talk to them. Ask them about their lives. Ask them how you can help. As you learn, do not be too quick to arrive at your conclusions.
Whatever else you do, please do not assume that your expertise lends itself to social knowledge. When you step through the clinic doors into the realm of the social, you have just as much to learn as the rest of us. You are just as unqualified as anyone else.
Rest assured: you can spend your entire career in ignorance of the social problems your patients face, and still be a very fine doctor by the standards of your field. You may choose to ignore those problems and focus exclusively on clinical problems - and many of you probably will. But if you are among them, for Petes sake, dont pretend you are doing anything more.
A few of you will attempt to balance social and clinical knowledge, and your reputation as a clinician will likely suffer. But the payoff is this: if you succeed, if you come to appreciate the social problems patients face even half as much as you understand their clinical problems, you will have the ability to help millions of people. It goes without saying that you will not see most of these people in your clinic, but your knowledge will have tremendous potential to transform their lives for the better - in fact, to transform society for the better.
In either case, you first must learn to recognize the difference between the clinical and social. If you cannot do that, you might well be a help to your patients, but you will never - never - be the help they need.
Again, congratulations - and good luck.
*Attention medical schools: it is in fact possible for you to live out this fantasy, and my definition of fabulously well-paid is really quite modest. Email me.

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Each year, more than 55,000 engaged persons in over 40 dioceses are being introduced to the authentic Catholic vision for marriage contained in Christophers marriage preparation program. Of the 91% who have entered the program sexually active, more than half of these couples said they will forego ongoing sexual relations until they are married. Nearly a third of these couples state that they will employ Natural Family Planning methods once they are married. [If that is the case, that means that approx. 33% of those 55,000 persons had grave moral reasons to practice NFP. Think about that...33% had grave moral reasons, not just simply good reasons, but grave ones. Right? Otherwise they are committing mortal sin by employing the method. Its not for everyone. How many of them merely saw NFP as allowable birth control?] And fully 61% made a deeper commitment to Christ because of the program. [Can't argue with that.] This is powerful evangelization.

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We the People of the United States, in Order to form a more perfect Union, establish Justice, insure domestic Tranquility, provide for the common defence, promote the general Welfare, and secure the Blessings of Liberty to ourselves and our Posterity, do ordain and establish this Constitution for the United States of America.

According to Webster LIBERTY is defined as: 1: the quality or state of being free: a: the power to do as one pleases b: freedom from physical restraint c: freedom from arbitrary or despotic control d: the positive enjoyment of various social, political, or economic rights and privileges e: the power of choice

Seems to me when the government can tell the CEO of a publicly owned company that he has to resign we are having our LIBERTY infringed upon. How does the president have the authority to tell a company owned by it's share holders that the CEO has to go? That is not "freedom from arbitrary or despotic control". SCARED YET?

How much longer before Obama and his minions tell the governors who's state takes "stimulus money" that they have to resign their office. What are you liberals going to do when the duely elected executive of your state is told to vacate the office? I suppose if the governor is not exactly an Obama supporter it will be ok. Of course in my wonderful state, Florida, our governor is quite safe from that happening. Good ole Charlie is just about as liberal as Obama himself. I know he won't be getting my vote in the next election.

If you people can't see the pattern forming here you are in deep trouble. You are absolutely crazy if you take anything from the government. The money which the government took from me and hard working americans like me and are giving to failures, non achievers, non workers and otherwise non contributors has strings attached. Obama decides who gets payed what, who deserves a bonus and who doesn't, who runs a publicly owned company and who doesn't. I guess you could say it's like you're selling your soul to the devil to get that "help". SCARED YET?

Think about this people, when has the government ever managed something efficiently? Can you name just one program? Just one? Medicare/Medicaid, Social Security, even itself? Our government is most effective when it shuts its collective mouth, sits on it's collective hands and does collectively as little as possible. When our government gets involved in the private sector it inevitably causes increases in cost and decreases in efficiency. I believe the healthcare costs are a result of government intervention. Making all sorts of requirements on insurance companies as to what they must cover. How much do you think your costs are going to go up when the requirement to cover "pre-existing conditions" is placed on the insurance companies? That's right your cost will go up, because people will be able to choose not to have and pay for insurance until they get an illness, then go get insurance to pay for the cost of treatment. An insurance company is a business owned by its share holders and obligated to make a profit. If doesn't make a profit, it goes out of business and then guess what? That's right no insurance company. You say so what, the government is going to run the health care system. Yea, well how is the government going to pay for it? That's right my tax dollars and yours, if you happen to be a working contributor (of course, if you are a working contributor you probably don't want the government taking over everything either). SCARED YET?

By the time Obama is done spending us into oblivion, those of us who do work are going to have just about every dollar we make taken away just to pay the bill, while those of you free loaders who voted this socialist into office will be enjoying the fruits of my labors, but you will only be able to enjoy them in a way deemed acceptable to OBAMA.

SCARED YET??.

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Technically Im supposed to be unplugged for the next week as I travel, but I am reconnecting to relay two incredibly important things that require your attention.
First I urge you to subscribe to a new free online resource TOSBack.org, courtesy of the Electronic Frontier Foundation (EFF). This site tracks the Terms of Service of 44 Social Media web sites. Given many of my posts about the rights grab imposed by numerous sites online this organization will be an invaluable resource to creatives posting material online. TOSBack.

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Elizabeth Warren has another study out showing that medical expenses contribute to more than half of all bankruptcies--indeed, this time, it's 70%, up from the 50% she found in 2001.

Now, it is possible that this is true. The fact that it seems to disagree with every other study I've ever read that is not authored by Elizabeth Warren, and also, the self-reports of the people in her study (only about a third of whom attribute their bankruptcy to a health problem) could just be a fluke. It doesn't necessarily mean that it's wrong.

Yet upon closer examination, it turns out that it is not just wrong, but actively, aggressively wrong. Warren and her co-authors have obscured important and obvious facts that call the integrity of the work into serious question.

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No meds.
I re-read what Id written in the instructions a few weeks ago to the house/pet sitter. No medications are given. The mere thought made my head swirl. All I could think about was the chart I used to tape to the kitchen counter with the demanding and constantly changing meds schedule I had for two  geriatric dogs. Fred and Clint were medical train wrecks, really, but most of the med changes were for Clint, my toy poodle from Katrina. The chart listed morning, noon, dinner, and bedtime.
I could have kept one dogs schedule in my head, but not both of them. The chart changed at least once every week or every other week and Id scratch things out with a pencil or a red pen. Wed try this, and then try that, alter a dosage, eliminate a med, or change the timing. Both of them had dry eye and needed ointment, although Clints was more severe, so he had tacrolimus while Fred had cyclosporine (or as I used to say, tacrolimu$ and cyclo$porine). Every once in a while Id type and print a clean new chart, and it would stay clean for a week or so. I didnt really need the chart after Clint died, but I kept it up for the six months afterwards during which Fred was still alive.
After there werent any geriatrics around, there was no need for medication for the past year and a half. Ginger has a mild case of inflammatory bowel disease that is kept under control with food from the veterinarian. and Dodger doesnt need a darn thing except heartworm preventive. Dickens has had some struvite crystals, but as with Ginger, a specific diet is all thats needed to manage it.
At least thats the way it was until last week. Ginger turned 13 in early April, just days after being attacked at the dog park. Since her birthday, shes been limping a bit and slowing down, and then a bit more, and then once or twice she couldnt get into the back seat of the car by herself. Then she needed help getting on the couch. I assumed it was arthritis. We went to the vet, who found a spot of inflammation on her spine. There is no way to know if it was from the attack when she was rolled on her back or if it would have happened now anyway. After a few days on a veterinary NSAID designed for arthritis (Previcox), Ginger is walking like herself again, running at the dog park, and getting on the couch.
I love better living through chemistry if it can be accomplished without side effects, but it means regular blood work to make sure she can handle an NSAID long-term. It means shes really a geriatric and weve just jumped onto the Yellow Brick Road of Old Age. Toto, I dont think were in Kansas anymore.
I hadnt even really noticed how easy life was during that small but bright window of time where dispensing multiple meds four times a day wasnt necessary. That window has shut with the arthritis meds, and as I gird myself for the next couple of years I remind myself that this time there will only be one geriatric and I wont need a chart, at least as long as I dont buckle under and bring home some ancient little one in need of some TLC. Ginger is the healthiest dog Ive ever had, and Ive long thought shed get to be the oldest one. She may well be the oldest, which for me would mean past 15.5, and my hope is that she needs a minimum of medication along the way. My goal for her is that she never needs her own chart taped to the kitchen cabinet.

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So....my first tri taught me a few things. The one I am going to expound upon today is "breathing"-- specifically breathing while swimming.

If you'll remember from my first go around...breathing while swimming is no walk-in-the-park. As a matter of fact, it's pretty freakin' hard to get the hang of breathing only air when swimming laps. By only air, I mean 1/2 of my breaths or more included a variable combination of air and WATER. For those who haven't tested this theory lately--breathing water doesn't work that well! Especially not when you're breathing hard and NEED every ounce of air you can get. Add it the convulsive coughing that immediately follows a big gulp of air/water mixture and you've got a recipe for disaster or as it's called in water, DROWNING!

But, the more I trained, the better I got at this breathing thing. These days I can do this fairly well and fairly water free. Now that I've grasped the most elementary element of competitive swimming (breathing air not water) it's time to add a new level of difficulty (which will greatly help my time).

Imagine your riding down the road, windows down, on a nice spring day. Now, imagine putting your hand out of the window and holding it palm-down so that it cuts through the air nicely. You remember this game?.....you turn your hand palm-side to the front and your hand now becomes a sail and it catches the air instead of slicing through. Your hand races upward and backwards and unless you turn your hand back to palm-down, your arm rips off at the shoulder. Maybe not that violent...but you understand the story here. Now....imagine swimming is like this story. When your head is down in the water, it's like your hand palm-down....you slice through the water very nicely. But, when you have to breathe, you lift your head a bit and roll a bit and all of a sudden your aerodynamic position is lost and your forward momentum slows. (let me point out here that unlike in the car, when you breathe your head will not rip off like your arm, at least not at the 1.2 mph that I'm swimming!). So, it only makes sense that the fewer times you have to breathe, the faster your time will be because of the fewer momentum-killing breaths.

So...to the point of this post. You have 3 ways to breathe while swimming:

First way-- every 2 strokes. Stroke, stroke, breathe. Stroke, stroke, breathe (for me this breath comes on my right side). This is what most lay-swimmers do and what I've always done. It's tough at first, but gets easier the more you swim.

Second way- a bit more advanced (and infinitely harder for less-coordinated people breathing every 3 strokes. Stroke, stroke, stroke, breathe (right side). Stroke, stroke, breathe (left side). Since there is an uneven number of strokes per breath, you alternate the side you breathe on. This is MUCH harder to do than it seems. Trust me...this causes most swimming-related deaths! (i'm just joking..but I wouldn't be surprised because coordination and trying not to drown at the same time just does not come naturally for me....nor most people). Imagine trying to shoot a basketball with alternate hands every time you shot...that's how hard breathing on your non-dominant side is! Or, for those on here whose athletic event is eating, imagine alternating your hands while eating cereal. Only, in swimming, instead of spilling milk down your chip...you breathe in water--see recipe for disaster above.

Third, and last (for me at least breathing every 4 strokes. Stroke, stroke, stroke, stroke, breathe (right side). Stroke, stroke, stroke, stroke, breathe (right side since there is an even number of strokes). I like this better than #2 because it takes much less coordination. I breathe on my dominant side every time. The problem? Four strokes between breaths! To get an idea of this...next time you go to a building with a stairwell....take 3 flights of stairs...and only breathe every 4 steps. Can you imagine this? Instead of the natural in-out rhythm that makes us all out-of-breath by the top....try taking 1/2 the breaths!!! Right...we would find most of you passed out around floor #2, sitting down because you're dizzy from lack of oxygen. Now...take that same feeling to a pool. This is where you are very grateful to be swimming in an indoor pool with a life guard! But, by only breathing every 4 strokes, i'm infinitely faster....and eventually I will grow my lung capacity by doing this--which will help with my swimming AND biking AND running! The only problem is now...the beginning...where my lungs feel like they are dipped in acid because of the burning towards the 4th stroke...and if you don't get a good breath...let's just say it's not good! (if i don't get a good breath, I simply breathe after 2 strokes, get a nice breath, and begin my 4 strokes again).

Well...that's probably more technical than anyone reading this cares to know....but it's what I'm working on and therefore what I'm writing about. Wish me luck and pray that one of the 110 lbs high-school girl life guards never has to attempt dragging 250 lbs from the water.

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We the People of the United States, in Order to form a more perfect Union, establish Justice, insure domestic Tranquility, provide for the common defence, promote the general Welfare, and secure the Blessings of Liberty to ourselves and our Posterity, do ordain and establish this Constitution for the United States of America.

According to Webster LIBERTY is defined as: 1: the quality or state of being free: a: the power to do as one pleases b: freedom from physical restraint c: freedom from arbitrary or despotic control d: the positive enjoyment of various social, political, or economic rights and privileges e: the power of choice

Seems to me when the government can tell the CEO of a publicly owned company that he has to resign we are having our LIBERTY infringed upon. How does the president have the authority to tell a company owned by it's share holders that the CEO has to go? That is not "freedom from arbitrary or despotic control". SCARED YET?

How much longer before Obama and his minions tell the governors who's state takes "stimulus money" that they have to resign their office. What are you liberals going to do when the duely elected executive of your state is told to vacate the office? I suppose if the governor is not exactly an Obama supporter it will be ok. Of course in my wonderful state, Florida, our governor is quite safe from that happening. Good ole Charlie is just about as liberal as Obama himself. I know he won't be getting my vote in the next election.

If you people can't see the pattern forming here you are in deep trouble. You are absolutely crazy if you take anything from the government. The money which the government took from me and hard working americans like me and are giving to failures, non achievers, non workers and otherwise non contributors has strings attached. Obama decides who gets payed what, who deserves a bonus and who doesn't, who runs a publicly owned company and who doesn't. I guess you could say it's like you're selling your soul to the devil to get that "help". SCARED YET?

Think about this people, when has the government ever managed something efficiently? Can you name just one program? Just one? Medicare/Medicaid, Social Security, even itself? Our government is most effective when it shuts its collective mouth, sits on it's collective hands and does collectively as little as possible. When our government gets involved in the private sector it inevitably causes increases in cost and decreases in efficiency. I believe the healthcare costs are a result of government intervention. Making all sorts of requirements on insurance companies as to what they must cover. How much do you think your costs are going to go up when the requirement to cover "pre-existing conditions" is placed on the insurance companies? That's right your cost will go up, because people will be able to choose not to have and pay for insurance until they get an illness, then go get insurance to pay for the cost of treatment. An insurance company is a business owned by its share holders and obligated to make a profit. If doesn't make a profit, it goes out of business and then guess what? That's right no insurance company. You say so what, the government is going to run the health care system. Yea, well how is the government going to pay for it? That's right my tax dollars and yours, if you happen to be a working contributor (of course, if you are a working contributor you probably don't want the government taking over everything either). SCARED YET?

By the time Obama is done spending us into oblivion, those of us who do work are going to have just about every dollar we make taken away just to pay the bill, while those of you free loaders who voted this socialist into office will be enjoying the fruits of my labors, but you will only be able to enjoy them in a way deemed acceptable to OBAMA.

SCARED YET??.

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Albania is a fairly small but very pretty country in the Balkans, very close to Croatia. It is quite possibly the least visited countries in Europe but that is slowly changing as more and more travellers become aware of its wonderful sites. Albania has wonderful, white sandy beaches, pretty much untouched mountain regions, and trendy, growing cities.
Albanias sandy beaches are gorgeous. The beaches are usually white, sandy beaches although there are a dozen or so pebble beaches too. You can if you want spend time in the warm dry sun on a blanket or rent a lounge, the option is yours. Almost all of the beaches are virtually untouched by visitors and a couple are so remote that you can possibly have the beach pretty much to yourself, even in in the peak season.
There are a number of beautiful mountain landscapes in Albania. Those in the north are wonderful for skiing or hiking and you are able to see quite a few waterfalls and clean lakes in the region. The mountains in the north are great to visit but the other mountain regions are also beautiful.
Albanian cities are bustling with a cafe culture so there are many local cafes to spend time in. Albania cities for example Vlora are worth visiting to visit the unusual old city area and possibly to visit a museum or two.
Albanians are very hospitable and will be pleased to present to you their country if you take the time to visit it.

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If you really want your body to last, it isnt too much to ask that you look after it, is it? By using natural health techniques that have almost been lost over time it is possible to improve our overall health and efficiency by using natural products which do not upset our bodys equilibrium. It is about taking charge of your life and placing yourself in the position where you actively prevent damage rather than wait for it to happen so you can cure it.
The desire to be healthy is something we all want, but very few actually practice natural health methods or seem to have any concern about how unhealthy they actually are. Natural health is not about being a health freak, but more a health-conscious person and it is about making the lifestyle work with and for you. Looking after your body naturally requires a number of factors be considered including where you live and work.
The best place to learn more about natural methods of staying healthy it is best to carry out some research whether on the internet where you will find many websites or to invest in a book. If you are looking for a short term fix with this you will, be disappointed because natural health doesnt work that way so prepare yourself for a little effort. It may take a little while but if you continue to respect what you put into your body rather than fast food, you will start feeling the benefits of a natural health way of living.
But this requires that you learn more about what the body needs to be healthy; what vitamins and other essential nutrients it currently lacks. It is usually once you start to learn these things that you realize how much you have been mistreating your body. So now you understand why studying the subject in greater depth is so important if you want it to work.
The natural health philosophy also means incorporating more naturalistic solutions into your life. The results of the changes you make will mean that you will be able to enjoy the pleasures of life with a body that functions at its optimum at all times. If you truly want to succeed in this path it will require a commitment you may not have shown in any other part of your life previously but being healthy is your choice.

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The OpenTravel Alliance is planning to market a product well-suited for the times: FastRez, a basic, streamlined version of its hotel messaging schema that will jumpstart relationships between hotel companies and their trading partners. The alliance produces a couple of specifications every year. Robert
Cole, chief executive officer of Rock Cheetah Consulting, said that with manpower and resources more limited than ever, few companies have the wherewithal to sift through the various versions and pull out what they need to establish a trading relationship.
Cole, who reviewed FastRez, said it could cut implementation time in half.
“It can take six months to figure out an interface,” he said. “There’s a lot of back and forth along the lines of ‘We’re using this and you’re using that.’ We’ve set up a framework that includes what everyone uses.”
The messages are “stripped down to ‘just the facts, ma’am’: available request, availability response, booking request, booking response,” Cole said. “It’s the core basics along with enough of the business logic to make it work. It skips a lot of the analytical work.” Cole said FastRez “helps the standard be more actionable. It was  an academic exercise in the beginning, but we’ve made the transition from the philosophy to something we can work with.”
OpenTravel has not yet determined the price of FastRez, but executive director Valyn Perini said the price would be well within small companies’ budgets and would compare favorably with other off-the-shelf products.

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The Democrats are not only ready to fund the Iraq War, but they plan to use it to give billions in tax dollars to their friends and constitutents. Speaker Pelosi is planning to give more than $1 billion to her home state avocado growers as part of the Iraq funding bill. Is this why voters put the Democrats in power? No, but it may be why they throw them out. The Democrats War may be even uglier than the Republican version.

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Pancake Tuesday, or Shrove Tuesday; is celebrated the day before Ash Wednesday, allowing families to use up their surplus of fat, butter and eggs; all foods that were forbidden during Lent. Later, it was only necessary to give up one thing, but the custom of a huge pancake feast remained.

Mardi-Gras, which translates to "Fat Tuesday", and is celebrated annually in New Orleans, is based on much the same principle. This carnival originated in the middle of the second century in Rome, when the Fast of the 40 days of Lent was preceded by a feast that lasted several days. The Romans put on masks, and considered all pleasure allowable; the masks no doubt giving them anonymity while they engaged in 'sinful' pleasures.

The English celebrated the day with the traditional Pancake Day Race that originated in the fifteenth century. The story goes that a woman was in the middle of making pancakes when she heard the shriving bell summoning her to confession. She ran to church wearing her apron and still holding her frying pan, beginning a trend that has lasted for more than five hundred years.

According to the rules, only women wearing a dress, an apron and a hat or scarf, could take part in the race. Each contestant had a frying pan containing a hot, cooking pancake. She must toss the pancake three times during the race and the first woman to complete the pre-dertimed course; arrived back at the church, served her pancake to the bellringer and was kissed by him; was the winner.

The males were not left out of the day's festivities, however, and could join in the Annual Pancake Grease. A huge pancake was thrown over a five metre high bar and the boys frantically scrambled for a piece. The one who emerged with the largest chunk was the winner.

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im 6 ft 1. nice slim body. im have a b size cup. so i aint flat lol





http://www.flickr.com/photos/26665788@N0...
Could i be a model? (heres a pic)?
YES, U WOULD BE A REALLY PRETTY MODEL!!!! go 4 it girl!!
Could i be a model? (heres a pic)?
eh. your okay.


your pretty and everything, but you dont have something that makes me wonder what you are [nationality wise].


angelina jolie could be a model, along with jessica alba, and even hillary swank. [and many more]


they have something that not everyone has, and that makes them exotic/unique.





not to sound mean, but you have an average, everyday girl look. i dont see anything about you that i love.
Reply:Yep.


You need to go on a excerise to stay in shape and eat healthy. Next you need to go to modeling agenices and apply to become signed. Don%26#039;t give up. It%26#039;s possible but remember you will probably get turned down at least once not because your not pretty more because that those agency people are complete As*holes. Trust me I know some of them and their insane and want people who are basicly dead. Never loose weight because they want you to. Stay who you are and make sure you don%26#039;t get a big ego when you get signed.
Reply:no


ugly as hell


if I were you I%26#039;d hide my face from the world


plus you definitely don%26#039;t have the bone structure to be a model











Answer mine, please!


I need as many opinions as possible!!!!


http://answers.yahoo.com/question/index;...
Reply:yeah!...grow out your hair..and it looks like you straighten it....





dont straighten it anymore...make it look natural..and besides, if you become a model, there would be so much damage that is going to be done to your hair...so for right now just make it natural
Reply:i would say so just get a haircut and you will do great things! Plus! you are preety than most girls I have seen on America%26#039;s next top model!! For sure!
Reply:Very pretty but to better determine would need full view pic.
Reply:oh my god no! your face is asymetrical and you look like every other normal girl out there! NEVER! and b cup? yeah right! thats nothing!
Reply:Yes you can. You look like one.
Reply:hah the girls are brutal to you.you really are hot.
Reply:No, you%26#039;re some kind of troglodyte and I suggest you return to your cave. Nerds roam free in 2023! Can I get a %26quot;hell yeah!%26quot;?
Reply:your pretty but its also hard to be very tall as a model (yea you wouldnt think that, but its true)
Reply:def


1]your tall


2]your pretty


and yeah whatev else, try out for antm
Reply:Cut your hair to be more edgy, and yes you could be. You have great bone structure, and tall enough. Go on ANTM!
Reply:I think you could


you%26#039;re pretty
Reply:If you are tall for your age then i think so
Reply:definitely
Reply:if yuo got a nose job. your body is perfect though
Reply:Yes!
Reply:yeaaaah !
Reply:Do it!


ANTM?
Reply:you could be catalog, maybe more.





go on ANTM!
Reply:ya really pretty
Reply:your not ugly but... u dont have a model potential
Reply:try out for ANTM. LOVE THAT SHOW!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Reply:YEA U GO GIRL!
Reply:fo sho.

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