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Is that one of the kids whose parents make $83,000.00 a year?, or is it one of the kids who would leave private insurance to go on the Guvment cheese insurance?, or is he one of the illegal aliens up to age 25? I ask because those are the only kids Bush's alternative to the Democrats plan would not have insured.
Once again the Democrats and the media are being disingenuous to the public. Like the Shamnesty Bill, once the public got the whole story the calls were made to representatives and support for the bill waned. The Dems couldn't even get their whole party on board. The Dems should accept Bush's $5 Billion expansion to the S-CHIP program and call it a day.
So Nick, you ready for full blown socialism? The medical community is so disgusted with gov and insurance that many are working without a staff on a cash only basis.
Move a long now, nothing to see here, no story here move along now………
Hey that looks like an eleven year old. She must of been so excited she didn't see W's ride on her way to get the birth control pills from the Middle School nurse without her parents permission.
Thanks liberals!
If you can't get things your way with votes when the balance of power shifts in Congress you still can with the mighty veto pen. Say Nick you may have hit on a second career for Bush after he leaves office. He could replace the Geico Gecko. You have to admit he is a cute little devil outfitted in those sharp cowboy boots. But you have to give him some credit here in this toon. He seems to have stopped but come up short on the rendering aid part.
The SCHIP kid ought to look as big as the "Boomers" in the previous cartoon, what with all of the already-insured kids the Democrats want to needlessly load onto the taxpayers' backs.
The cartoon may seem flippant, and maybe it is. But the issue is dead serious – and far more pervasive than people realize. We're all hurting!
Insurance of all kinds is tainted by a trend of rapidly increasing co-payments, deductibles, preconditions to claims, damages caps, strict tests of adequate proof, and disqualification of large segments of the population from being covered at all. The whole idea of insurance is supposed to be the opposite: sharing the risk among everybody, at a cost to be borne by everybody.
If some people behave so as to incur higher risk – by bad driving habits, smoking, building on a riverbank, or whatever – then okay, adjust the premiums. But any time the word "save" is used, it's a red danger flag! If anybody "saves" on insurance by excluding or limiting coverage, that means that insurance is no longer risk sharing and it no longer serves its purpose. The result is hugely more expensive emergency rooms, homeless shelters, nursing homes, chronic disease, and millions of people staying disabled from working.
That doesn't "save"; it costs us: American quality of life suffers on the whole gamut from infant mortality to nonfunctional elderly; government suffers from added burdens of hospital subsidies, special-ed, crime and welfare; and the economy suffers from lost productivity and sheer human energy & talent.
I can understand why the insurance industry, which holds trillions of dollars in assets and reserves and which spends them freely on advertising, lobbying and public relations, wants to collect as much as possible and pay out as little as possible. But we don't have to give that industry a blank check!
I can never understand why libertarian politics and free-market economics don't believe in making our communities and nation safer and stronger by investing in ourselves. That's not socialism, folks, it's responsibility and it's humanity. You'd never hire an uninsured contractor to rebuild your roof; let's treat our people equally well and insist on coverage for all.
…let's treat our people equally well and insist on coverage for all.
Posted by: Avon at October 18, 2007 10:27 PM
You are assuming that "free" national health insurance will not change people's behavior. The experience of employers tells a radically different story.
Having the employee "on the hook" for part of the bill ensures that the need being addressed is real, and that they are not running to the "free" doctor for every splinter.
The biggest problem we have with employer provided health care is that it divorces the financial responsibility for the cost from the individual consuing the medical services, leading to excessive consumption. "Free" national health insurance would exarcerbate this to the extreme.
By the way, life insurance involves large assets and reserves, but health insurance does not. Health insurance is largely pay-as-you-go for the sponsors.
Well Paul, according to the Chronicle story in today's paper, there have been 7 pregnancies in middle schools in Maine in the past 5 years. Perhaps with a combination of access to decent sex education and birth control those pregnancies might have been prevented.
Funny cartoon, very funny.
let's treat our people equally well and insist on coverage for all.
As long as they pay for their own coverage, I'm fine with that. Quit digging in my pockets to cover families who can afford healthcare, illegal immigrants and 25 year old babies. I have to work for mine, why can't they?
Insurance of all kinds is tainted by a trend of rapidly increasing co-payments, deductibles, preconditions to claims, damages caps, strict tests of adequate proof, and disqualification of large segments of the population from being covered at all.
Posted by: Avon at October 18, 2007 10:27 PM
Well said Avon. If we can't get the free market folks on board for universal health care because they happen to for the moment have health insurance maybe we can get them on board as their precious private coverage erodes to the point of hurting them financially. I personally am currently experiencing some of this erosion. I have what most would consider at first glance at least "good health care insurance coverage" but because of a technicality in my plan my insurance company is trying to avoid paying for emergency treatment I received that may end up costing me many thousands of dollars. When dealing with these for profit insurance companies you never have the feeling that they are on your side and have your good health as their primary goal, only that they are constantly looking for ways to reduce what they absolutely have to pay for any care that you get. And they are the ones who have the big legal staffs and wrote the carefully worded contract that dolls out payments for your health care. And they are also the ones spending millions of dollars lobbying our Congress to insure that their vision of a "good health care system" is what happens in America.
These RW's sound like a broken record. They scream "socialism" and "federalized medicine" and how the government can't run things. They fail to mention the corporate bureaucracy and corruption in which insurance companies, each of which is creating different rules to cut costs and deny care as often as possible rule the day! United Kingdom, Japan, Spain, Canada, Germany, France, Denmark, Norway and Sweden all have "Socialized" medicine and they can make it work, but we can't?
I think we are better than that.
I can only wonder what all the rightwing nutjobs would be saying right now if she had rejected, the rotten crook, Delay's appeal, on the grounds that it was past 5pm? They would be screaming bloody murder…you guys are a joke.
You'd never hire an uninsured contractor to rebuild your roof;
Posted by: Avon at October 18, 2007 10:27 PM
The difference is that I pay the contractor a fee and the contractor buys the amount and type of insurance he believes is appropriate. That is already occurring. Except that the uninsured are betting that they won't need it OR that the ER will be there to take care of major problems. Lastly, the unemployed have more time than money, so the ER is an acceptable option from their perspective.
In the national health insurance example, the government decides what coverages you will get. By the way, you do appreciate, I hope, that with a single payer system the entire medical profession and industry will effectively become employees of the Federal government? By way of the "reasonable and customary" fees that the national health insurance will pay, they will regulate the income and practice areas of the doctors. In time, the fees for drugs will effectively limit the R&D of the drug companies.
I haven't heard of too many drugs being invented in Canada or the UK. I wonder why?
Nancy Pelosi should stop this silliness of throwing stuff against the wall to see what sticks.
She should focus her attention on this stupid war and just stop the damned funding.
She's beginning to have a desperation tic that will cause her to go down the path of 6 years of a do nothing Republican congress. Unless you count the exception of their kissing somewhere close to Bush's feet.
If some of these Democrats don't grow a back-bone and do what the American public demands, and if the only thing they can do is stop funding the war, so be it. We're only sending our money over there so more of our troops can continue dying, and the RW's plan is to allow our troops to die so their egos won't be bruised.
The realization is, the Republicans still have the bully pulpit of the Presidency, but Congress controls the money. It is stupid beyond anything to be against the war, but continue giving more money for it. Put the SCHIP aside until the war is done.
"I can only wonder what all the rightwing nutjobs would be saying right now if she had rejected, the rotten crook, Delay's appeal, on the grounds that it was past 5pm? They would be screaming bloody murder…you guys are a joke."
oops…wrong thread. This belongs on the Keller thread
"The whole idea of insurance is supposed to be the opposite: sharing the risk among everybody, at a cost to be borne by everybody." – Avon
What?? Where on Earth did you get that idea?
The crooked Democrats gained control of the House and Senate by nominating and successfully getting MODERATE Democrats elected in close elections.
They can't get their EXTREME LIBERAL agenda accomplished with MODERATE DEMOCRATS who will loose their seats on the next election if they move to the left.
Responsible people don't have kids until they can afford to raise and care for them.
Those that have kids before they can afford them should deal with the results of their actions themselves. Bailing them out only sows the seed of another generation of people having kids who shouldn't.
Look at what happened to New Orleans.
Why is Bush driving a family sedan? Shouldn't he be in a huge gas-guzzling SUV?
"…sharing the risk among everybody…"
"Where on earth did you get that idea?"
Well, that's the way it works in Houston. Home insurers have conveniently come up with the idea of an "insurance pool".
The way it works is, if Houston has a devastating flood,(which it has) everybody's insurance(home and auto) goes up in all the surrounding counties.
All for one, one for all.
Insurance and school taxes have similarities, I'm still paying for someone's kids to go to school, which is the worst of all taxes, and I'm paying for someone elses damaged auto and house.
Once again CON-servatives showing their true colors. They want the vast majority of working class americans to be as poor and needly as possible. that why their corporate elite overlords can demand 80 hours a week for pennies, and threaten to withdraw their health insurance.
And please stop the lies. Lie #1. this program will not be for undocument workers Lie #2. it will not reach up to 83K, that was a wavier New York applied for that was denied.
When CON-servatives are ready to step up to the plate and be responsible adults to have the government be on our side instead of the side of the fat cats, then we might get some progress in this country. BUt until then, nothing is going to make then happy, and they will just whine and piss and moan no matter when the honorable democrats do. So stop trying to appease them, and just go forward with the possitive progressive agenda that 70% of americans want!
When dealing with these for profit insurance companies you never have the feeling that they are on your side and have your good health as their primary goal, only that they are constantly looking for ways to reduce what they absolutely have to pay for any care that you get.
Posted by: craig at October 19, 2007 08:46 AM
How odd…you contract with them for something, and they wish to deliver exactly that.
Tell me, when you get your paycheck, do you ask your boss why there isn't something extra in it? What would you say if your mortgage company called and asked why you didn't put something extra in your check, just for the heck of it?
I don't like insurance companies for the very reasons you cite, but I don't criticize them either. If you want a health insurance policy that pays for "whatever it takes, no matter what" you can get probably that, but it will be an extremely expensive policy. Just don't buy a "Yugo" policy and then complain it's not as good as the "Rolls Royce" one.
And of you think national health insurance will be a "whatever it takes, no matter what" policy, you're seriously mistaken.
if she had rejected, the rotten crook, Delay's appeal, on the grounds that it was past 5pm?
He filed timely.
[Sid] What?? Where on Earth did you get that idea?
Avon is right. Pooled risk is what insurance is all about. Instead of saying "everybody," however, I might have said "everybody in the risk pool." And everybody in that pool has to pay premiums in accordance with his/her perceived risk. Thus drivers that have lots of accidents and traffic tickets pay more for their auto insurance than those without, and consumers with certain pre-existing conditions are simply denied health insurance outright.
Insurance is a for profit business. I agree high risk policy holders pay more as they should. People with pre-excisting condidtions are a sure loser in a for profit business and should be denied health insurance if the company who is trying to make a profit wants to deny them.
Grow up people, your neighborsd aren't your Mommy and Daddy. Take care of yourself and don't have babies if you cant afford to take care of them properly.
If there was universal health care…private companies would not have to waste billions on healthcare insurance for their employees! Doesn't that make you rightwingers think a little bit?
"I haven't heard of too many drugs being invented in Canada or the UK. I wonder why?
Posted by: JohnG at October 19, 2007 10:04 AM"It's that dang librul media
This "families with 83,000 annual income" qualifying for health insurance is pure CON-servative SPIN… There is a formula, and the number IS MUCH, MUCH LOWER… The 83K number is a PURE FABRICATION. The President saying it DOESN'T MAKE IT SO, anymore than him saying "major combat is over"… The only place 83K has EVER come up in FACT/REALITY is that state offcials in New York City last year (with its really expensive housing market) asked the FEDS IF they could re-formulate the qualification for S-CHIP children's heath insurance by using LOCAL not AVERGAGE housing costs in their qualification formula AND theorictically making some familes making up to 83K qualified…. The FEDS (I THINK CORRECTLY) SAID NO. END OF STORY… Nothing in this bill would make families making 83K qualify…. Can't we at least start with the TRUTH???
You are wrong finn,
Notice I use sources, NOT opinions.
If there was universal health care…private companies would not have to waste billions on healthcare insurance for their employees! Doesn't that make you rightwingers think a little bit?
Posted by: tonybot
It makes me think you didn't think when you posted that statement.
Where will the money come from if people leave self paid and employer paid health insurance?
All together now………..HIGHER TAXES FOR EVERYONE!
"Grow up people, your neighborsd aren't your Mommy and Daddy."that statement clarifies
the reason why I'm not a Republican. That party panders to the most primitive and ugly of human traits: "fear" and "selfishness". Thank God there are some decent people in this world.
More leftist babble from Nick and the other leftist who print the Chron rag.
Nothing in this bill would make families making 83K qualify…. Can't we at least start with the TRUTH???
Posted by: finn at October 19, 2007 03:10 PM
The two sticking points in this bill are (1) the increase of the upper income limit for eligibility from 200% to 300% of "poverty level," and (2) the requirement that 95% of eligible kids below 200% of poverty level be enrolled in SCHIP before Federal funds may be used for kids in the 200% to 300% band. Currently, 74% of eligible kids in this band are not enrolled. This enshrines the "Poor Kids First" concept.
I note in passing that the percentage of kids in the 200% to 300% band who already have health insurance is 89%.
Waivers were previously granted by the Feds of up to 350% of poverty level for a limited number of very high cost areas (e.g., NYC).
So you are right that the $83K number is not enshrined in the bill, but one may be confident that the request for waivers will not go down under the new bill.
> there have been 7 pregnancies in middle schools
> in Maine in the past 5 years.
In Portland.
The story also said, which, of course, Dave knew, that the pills were being made available to girls who were already sexually active and only after extensive counselling.
The important point to the story is no parental notification is nessasary. Remember the goals, it's all in the goals:
#41. Emphasize the need to raise children away from the negative influence of parents. Attribute prejudices, mental blocks and retarding of children to suppressive influence of parents.
> Notice I use sources, NOT opinions.
One extremist quoting another extremist hardly qualifies as using a credible source.
> More leftist babble
"Leftist", in this case, being defined as "not foaming at the mouth".
"People with pre-existing conditions are a sure loser in a for-profit business and should be denied health insurance. . ." — Sarge
So, if you change employers (and thus health-care providers) and have a pre-existing condition, what are you supposed to do?
I know people who are stuck in terrible jobs because they are afraid they will lose their insurance coverage if they leave.
That party panders to the most primitive and ugly of human traits: "fear" and "selfishness". Thank God there are some decent people in this world.
Posted by: tonybot at October 19, 2007 04:09 PM
Those who share your viewpoint have lost sight of the basic qualities that make us uniquely American:
1) Initiative
2) Self-reliance
3) Generosity
You seek to eliminate any societal endorsement of the first two, and to pervert the third into an "entitlement." We decline to play along.
Need I remind you yet again of the Albert C. Brooks study that reveals that religiously observant folks are more generous with money and blood (i.e., Red Cross) than their secular brethren?
The story also said…that the pills were being made available to girls who were already sexually active…
Posted by: Jeffrey E. Salzberg at October 19, 2007 05:02 PM
Unless Maine has become completely perverse, sexual activity by someone of middle school age is a crime. Why doesn't the school report the "sexual activeness" to law enforcement so that appropriate intervention can be had? How is it better to enable and implicitly endorse that behavior?
I know people who are stuck in terrible jobs because they are afraid they will lose their insurance coverage if they leave.
Posted by: derek at October 19, 2007 06:25 PM
Then they are stuck due to ignorance. ERISA was amended several years ago to eliminate pre-existing medical conditions as a dis-qualifying condition for employment and employer insurance purposes.
JohnG makes a valid point re: S-CHIP.
Remember the goals, it's all in the goals
Posted by: Steve at October 19, 2007 05:40 PM
Steve, having read over the list, a few are over-the-top, but many of them ring eerily true.
JohnG makes a valid point re: S-CHIP.
Posted by: finn at October 19, 2007 10:46 PM
Not to look a gift horse in the mouth, but to which point do you refer?
People with pre-excisting condidtions are a sure loser in a for profit business and should be denied health insurance if the company who is trying to make a profit wants to deny them. Sarge
Those who share your viewpoint have lost sight of the basic qualities that make us uniquely American:
1) Initiative
2) Self-reliance
3) Generosity JohnG
If only George Bush had been as upfront about his beliefs when he ran for President with his so called "Compassionate Conservatism" claims as Sarge is here America would now be in a better place.
JohnG says "Generosity" is one of the "basic qualities" that make us uniquely American. Coupling that claim with Sarge's thought it would seem that the "generosity part" certainly would play no part in running a for profit health insurance business. It would only be brought into play after making big bucks on the backs of your insureds. Then like Ken Lay you could look like a really big man on campus at the local social scene fund raisers. Ah entrepreneurialism unfettered by any rules or regulations. Truly God's gift to mankind and the Republican party.
"ERISA was amended several years ago to eliminate pre-existing medical conditions as a dis-qualifying condition for employment and employer insurance purposes." — JohnG
If you are correct, John — and I hope you are, are you telling me that the vetting process wouldn't tell the prospective employer that the applicant has health issues? As you and I know, an employer would certainly choose a healthy employee over one who might miss work due to a medical condition.
Making something illegal and punishable by a stiff slap on the wrist doesn't deter many employers. Age discrimination is illegal, too, but how many employers would choose a 60-year-old over a 30-year-old? Part of the reason they would choose the younger man or woman is because they would expect he or she would cost them less on their insurance coverage — not to mention salary.
My wife is a veteran teacher with a masters degree. Next year she will have 25 years teaching in the same district, mostly in the same school. Several of her fellow teachers have warned her to be careful because the district likes to "weed out" older teachers who earn more so they can replace them with young teachers fresh out of college in the Teach for American program or teachers they have recruited from overseas — places like The Philippines. These teachers are often more easily intimidated and controlled. As a rule, the young teachers don't last long, often a year or two, but the districts don't care. They want to keep their payroll down. They place no value on experience, and maybe this has something to do with lousy test scores in schools.
My point is that making something illegal does not assure it won't continue, especially when the penalty is inadequate to deter.
…the "generosity part" certainly would play no part in running a for profit health insurance business. It would only be brought into play after making big bucks on the backs of your insureds.
Posted by: craig at October 20, 2007 09:56 AM
Here we go again with the "profits screw the little man" argument. Perhaps you would prefer the health insurance business run at a loss where the premiums are kept low to help the little man, such that they don't cover the claims, and the business goes bankrupt and then everyone loses their health coverage.
Making something illegal and punishable by a stiff slap on the wrist doesn't deter many employers.
Posted by: derek at October 20, 2007 12:23 PM
It deters the major employers (the ones the Dems consider the embodiment of evil). The risk is that a clear pattern of violations will cause a loss of income tax "qualification" for the health insurance plan, and that would be a HUGE deal. The loss of "qualified" status would mean that the health insurance premiums you pay at work would not be tax deductible and the reimbursements would be taxable income. However, the medical expenses would be deductible to the extent they exceeded 7.5% of your AGI.
Obviously the employees would be screwed big time, with the likelihood that a tremendous number would leave the company. No HR dept is going to risk getting fired wholesale by an irate president.
derek and craig's vision of life is for everyone to live down to the lowest common denominator.
Extra effort, genetics, natural abilities. etc. be damned!
…genetics…be damned!
Posted by: Paul at October 21, 2007 01:00 AM
You do appreciate that the Democrats believe so strongly in evolution that they are doing their damndest to halt or even reverse its progress.
How else can we explain their draining away all conceivable resources in favor of creating an "entitlement to equal outcomes?"
Moses permitting the Red Sea to consume Pharaoh's army was small potatoes compared to the efforts the Democrats are devoting to this cause.
> derek and craig's vision of life
…is that a civilized society takes care of its less fortunate members.
No one's forcing you to "live down to the lowest common denominator", Dave; we just won't let you keep others down just so you can feel better about yourself.
JohnG I am a confirmed Catholic. I hate to have to talk about it since it goes against my conscience, but I have done service work for A.A., The United Way and The Star of Hope organizations. So I guess us secular people are all out of touch with God? The thing that separates me from you is that I don't' try to shove my religious beliefs down someone's throat and say people are going to hell because they don't think like me like most RW religious conservatives do. And when they mix politics with religion, they loose all credibility in my view and I just shut them out.
Insurance is a for profit business. I agree high risk policy holders pay more as they should. People with pre-excisting condidtions are a sure loser in a for profit business and should be denied health insurance if the company who is trying to make a profit wants to deny them.
iam following your work from beginning and i must say you are doing great job. i wish we had more talented people like you!
My understanding of the labor laws is that, contrary to popular opinion, major employers employ only a small portion of the total labor force in the United States. Most of our working men and women are employed by small companies with 25 or fewer employees. Because of this, most employees aren't protected by ERISA and other government regulations that are aimed at larger companies. Surprisingly, a company that employs fewer than 25 people can discriminate against anyone on the basis on race, religion, you name it. In other words, they can refuse to hire you because you are African-American, Jewish, etc.
Texas is also an "employment at will" state in which the employer can fire the employee at any time, for any reason, or no reason at all. If you are an employee in the Lone Star state, you have practically no rights at all.
Here we go again with the "profits screw the little man" argument. Perhaps you would prefer the health insurance business run at a loss where the premiums are kept low to help the little man, such that they don't cover the claims, and the business goes bankrupt and then everyone loses their health coverage.
Posted by: JohnG at October 21, 2007 12:25 AM
No not at all. The simple and best answer is universal health care run by our government. Halfway measures trying to keep for profit companies from trying to game the system has not worked and will never work for the best interests of the insureds, all Americans.
Tonybot wrote: "And when they mix politics with religion, they lose all credibility…".
You're absolutely right, I grew up in the vestage of the Southern Baptist holier than thou bunch. I can say with and all knowing experience, that every week we had a sermon on how to hate Catholics and Blacks.
It wasn't the church, it was the church doctrine, that fomented hatreds that I didn't understand then nor do I understand now.
It wasn't our God that hated with this ideology it was the people that pretended they were speaking for God.
This today, is the Right Wing religious sect that I consider dangerous and will destroy our country because they can't accept anything but their own agenda, which is based on hatreds and elimination of anything that conflicts their message.
"And when they mix politics with religion, they lose all credibility…".
I fully expect tonybot and Ind. Lash to righteously condemn Hillary and/or Obambi when they show up at black churches as the election nears and start speaking like preachers (do I hear an Amen!) But then again, given their consistent history of hypocrisy, maybe they won't.
Despite JohnG's point re: the potential of S-CHIP expanding into higher income groups of children who don't have health insurance, I still support increasing funding for SCHIP. For heaven's sake, they're American kids without health insurance. We should at least find a way to insure that sub-group (out of the 47 million Americans without health insurance). If Bush thinks SCHIP is too expensive at 35 Billion over 5 years, whats the alternative? We spend that much in Iraq every 3 months, with no end in sight…. I'm sure more Americans are dying every year because they can't afford their meds, chemo, ect, THAN Al Quida is killing …
Hey Independent Lash, I guess TheRipper is one of them there southern baptists? Funny how he brings up black churches!
The constitution prohibits government's meddling in religion, but it doesn't prohibit churches' meddling in government — and nor should it.
Churches should be free to opine on moral and ethical issues facing the country; the problem arises when they try to encode their religion into law.
"If Bush thinks SCHIP is too expensive…".
I don't think it has anything to do with expensive. Bush's veto pen is the only thing making him feel important and "relative".
Because of the two-thirds required to overide a veto, it gives him his old "flight deck strut" back, and makes him feel like a man. It's too bad he didn't feel like a man in his previous 6 years, now that we're deeply in debt to the Chinese, all of a sudden he becomes a Conservative of the moment.
He's a joke and a hack, and suffers from "illusions of grandeur".
The simple and best answer is universal health care run by our government.
Posted by: craig at October 21, 2007 04:57 PM
The government does the "best" job in providing commodity-type utilities such as water, electricity, garbage service or snow plowing. When it comes to individualized care, it will fail miserably. The routine medical care I received in the military was horrible. They reportedly do great work on battlefield injuries, but the average American is not facing that kind of healthcare need.
U.S. Sen. Kay Bailey Hutchison, voted for SCHIPS legislation that President George. W. Bush vetoed
She's a good senator…I will vote for her
U.S. Senator John Cornyn voted against it just like all the others lemming republicans in the Bush camp. he has come up with a "compromise" bill that would still under-fund the program by 5 billion over the next 5 years.I don't understand how a moral person can see anything wrong with getting some children insured?
I predict Cornyn will be a 1 term lameduck.
Despite JohnG's point re: the potential of S-CHIP expanding into higher income groups of children who don't have health insurance… [emphasis added]
Posted by: finn at October 22, 2007 10:57 AM
Not sure if you mis-typed my point or misunderstood it. My point was that the higher wage group doesn't need SCHIP health insurance because 89% that group already has private health insurance. It is far more important to spend government money first on enrolling more of the 74% of poor kids (200% of poverty and below) who are eligible but haven't signed up for SCHIP.
The thing that separates me from you is that I don't' try to shove my religious beliefs down someone's throat and say people are going to hell because they don't think like me like most RW religious conservatives do.
Posted by: tonybot at October 21, 2007 01:47 PM
tonybot, you've made a great leap into the abyss. You can't point to a single post where I tried to jam religious beliefs down anyone's throat. The closest is on abortion, but even that is based on personal morals and logic, not religion.
(By the way, I join you in being a Catholic, but you've outdone me in terms of service work.)
Bin Laden's new tape cedes the surge is working.
Bush wins again despite the democrats fighting with Al Quaida.
Ahhh, understood, didn't fully "get it" earlier. Agreed 100%, we should enroll the bottom poorest kids before expanding the program further towards the better off. This makes sense.
Latest headline:
This brings the total the White House has requested for the year to $189.3 billion. To date, we've paid $650 billion on the Iraq war since the March 2003 invasion.
Ladies and gents, this is borrowed money that our grandchildren will be paying back. It is time for Congress to JUST SAY NO.
The Vietnam war ended when Congress cut off funding. It is high time the Democrats acted with a few reasonable Republicans to end the war and bring our troops home.
derek, New York City alone lost $105 Billion IN ONE MONTH following 9/11. Fighting terrorists in Iraq is a bargain.
Grow up, wake up, and quit your crying.
The Vietnam war ended when Congress cut off funding. It is high time the Democrats acted with a few reasonable Republicans to end the war and bring our troops home.
Posted by: derek at October 22, 2007 04:45 PM
Interestingly, the Commander-in-Chief got fed us with his war commander and replaced him with someone who had an innovative idea. As Abrams' new strategy was beginning to get traction, Congress' patience had run out and they pulled the plug.
In Iraq, the exact same scenario is playing out. Petraes' strategy is definitely having maximum traction (Anbar is now more peaceful than many areas), and some Democrats want to abandon the fight tomorrow, regardless of the long-term consequences.
Have they lost their minds?
> Anbar is now more peaceful than many areas
In other words, many areas are even more violent than Anbar.
"Anbar is now more peaceful than many areas"because we are now arming and bribing one faction against the other? You call that progress? Those warlord tribesmen will just as soon stab us in the back as take our arms and money JohnG and you know that. We are arming and subsidizing a faction that will use violence with the weapons we supplied to make their power grab as soon as we get the hell out of there. And as for the violence spreading if we leave argument…tell Turkey that, casue they seem to be getting involved anyway!
The United States is continuing with its many failures in the Middle East, with investing in future failures to keep the war going.
We installed and supported the Shah of Iran and he proved to be a tyranical despot to his own people. No surprise that he was ran out of the country, and our embassy taken over.
Then to get even with Iran, we supported Saddam Hussein's war with Iran, giving him his WMD's so he could later kill his own people with them.
Don't forget the 10,000 of our military staged in Saudi Arabia, that Osama saw as a descecration of their land, and why most of the 9/11 killers came from the Saudi's.
Then we had to overthrow Saddam because of the mysterious WMD's that mysteriously weren't there.
Now we have armed the Sunni's in Anbar, because they are our new best friends and this time it's for real. Bush will do anything to get a headline, even if it's only for a moment.
In other words, many areas are even more violent than Anbar.
Posted by: Jeffrey E. Salzberg at October 22, 2007 11:30 PM
Only in the minds of those who seek defeat and surrender despite its absence.
We installed…the Shah of Iran…yada, yada, yada…Bush will do anything to get a headline…
Posted by: Independent Lash at October 23, 2007 11:09 AM
Mossadegh was deposed in 1953 when Bush was 7 years old. Your post suggests that Bush did everything you wrote about just for a headline. Arranging a Cold War coup is quite an accomplishment for a 7 year old.
It is interesting that you accord bin Laden respect for his purported religious sensitivities. Is that because he hates Bush almost as much as reflected in your posts?
"Your post suggests that Bush did everything you wrote about just for a headline".
As per usual you need to read it slower, your tangentality indicates that you are responding to what you wished I had written, not what "was" actually written.
Abrams may or may not have been a better war commander than Westmoreland, but we still were not winning the war in Vietnam. Similarly, Petraeus may or may not be better than his predecessors, but we aren't making headway in Iraq either. If one province is somewhat pacified, it is because the insurgents have moved to other targets in other provinces.
The death toll of Americans and Iraqis continues to mount, and the American people have run out of patience. The US government needs a strong dose of common sense.
"We installed and supported the Shah of Iran and he proved to be a tyranical despot to his own people." Funny how these neocon ###@#!! never learn. RIGHT NOW, even as we tout the War on Terror, we are using and supporting a known terrorist group called the MEK, simply becasue they are against Iran. What the hell have we done?
Headline: Housing industry in worst slump in 16 years.
Guess who was President, folks? That's right, Bush the Elder was CEO in 1991. Two years later, Clinton was inaugurated and the economy began an eight-year recovery from the failed policies of the previous administration.
Sure derek, then why did Clinton leave office in a recession?
Gee, I wonder if the fact that home sales set record after record after record under W's administration had anything to do with the predictable slow down now?
Clinton left office in a recession? Surely you jest. This is a myth that has been perpetrated by Republicans to cover up Bush's mistakes. Check your information with REAL SOURCES, Paul. Here's a link to a Business Week article on the subject:
Paul: "Gee, I wonder if the facts that home sales set record after record….".
Yeah right Paul, and that was established by all those sub-prime home loans, that are now becoming backruptsies, and home losses. The crazy right will do anything to generate a false economy just for a moment of feel good.
Looks like the feel good is over. Bush took a very slight recessive economy and drove it into the ground with his tax cuts, and war budget. I don't pay any attention to the RW manipulation of the facts. You've been doing that for too long and it doesn't work, just because you try to write "emphatically".
It benefited the top 5%, and I don't believe there is anybody here in that category, because people in that category don't usually have the time to make a posting on a blog every 15 minutes.
You cannot build an economy by living on credit, and that's all Bush has done. That's the only thing that Repubs know and that is the same economy that Reagan gave us. We live on credit and then we have to start paying it back under a Democratic or Libertarian government.
When all of America joins in on the celebration instead of just the trickle down proponents, then we'll have to have another economy like Clinton gave "all" of us.
Bush took a very slight recessive economy and drove it into the ground with his tax cuts…
Posted by: Independent Lash at October 24, 2007 08:34 PM
In that case, let's raise the tax rate to 100% and the economy will explode into over production. You can find not one credentialed economist who will back up your claim that tax cuts hurt an economy.
…paying it back under a Democratic or Libertarian government…
Have you actually looked at the platforms for those two parties?!? They are diametrically opposed. The Democrats believe in maximum government programs (i.e., spending) and the Libertarians believe in no government programs.
"You cannot find one credentialed economist who will back up your claim that tax cuts"(insert here:'and war budgets') "hurt an economy".
Tax cuts and WAR BUDGETS have conflicted with one another and Bush has proven that you can't have both at the same time.
I've not seen, heard, read of any…. any economist that has concluded that you can sustain huge cuts and incredible expenditures at the same.
That is what has driven the deficits and you can slant it any way you want but the truth can't be hidden by some casual rebut of only using half the orginal comment.
Check your information with REAL SOURCES, Paul. Here's a link to a Business Week article on the subject:
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Lol! You linked an opinion piece that is trying to argue a months difference! I guess it depends on what is, is right derek?
Like I have asked many times before derek, what has been the cause of the steady pay down of the deficit since 2003 if not Bush's tax cuts?
Lash wrote "The crazy right will do anything to generate a false economy just for a moment of feel good."
Hmmm…Lash, is that anything like the crazy left wanting to give amnesty to millions of illegal immigrants just because "its feels like the right thing to do?"
Steven just for the record, I'm against amnesty. When you've become Independent you don't have to accept everything that a party supports.
…you don't have to accept everything that a party supports.
Posted by: Independent Lash at October 25, 2007 11:01 AM
Maybe I've missed the secret rituals and/or the secret Party police. I've always felt free to make up my own mind (and have done so) on all political issues.
I guess the Democratic Party isn't so "liberal" after all?
We actually agree on something then Lash. I do consider myself independent as well. My beliefs are more to the right, but from what I am seeing out of both the democrat and repub parties, I'd just as soon not vote for either side. I would prefer it right down the middle (with a little lean to the right) =0)
I've not seen, heard, read of any…. any economist that has concluded that you can sustain huge cuts and incredible expenditures at the same.
Posted by: Independent Lash at October 25, 2007 09:18 AM
Then you should get out more. Deficit spending does not "drive an economy into the ground." It creates inflation, which has not happened because the Fed has adjusted interest rates to moderate demand.
The Republicans realized a generation ago that the Democrats will never moderate their spending, so the only solution is to cut taxes and thus choke off the money supply to Congress. Unfortunately DeLay and Bush were quite willing to deficit spend anyway, which has been disgusting.
The principal issue with deficit spending, which you've failed to touch on despite several bites at the apple, is that it adds to the debt with the resulting interest serving to increase future taxes or further resuce services.
The funny thing is, no matter what the tax rate is, revenues always trend to the same percentage of GDP – in the range of 18% – 20%, year in and year out.
Perhaps we should budget according to a set percentage of GDP instead of an actual dollar target.
Anyway, one the main problems of deficit spending is that it is anti-democratic — it's voting to spend the money without voting to pay for it via taxes.
What I was saying is that insurance should not keep itself viable by ceasing to insure. I did not say that insurance should cover everybody at no cost.
The idea that only those who can afford it deserve to have insurance is akin to the idea that only those who can afford medical care should get sick. And that is akin to the idea that there should be no insurance; every victim should bear her own loss.
The problem with letting insurance issue coverage only to profitable customers is that then we approach a situation where the only people with coverage will be those whose medical bills are less than the premiums they pay. Might as well just keep the premiums and pay the medical bills.
That's why I keep my focus on the fact that insurance is supposed to be a risk-sharing pool with a beneficial role in society.
"It creates inflation…".
Actually jobless people, empty offices, unused bandwifth, closed factories, allows supply to exceed demand therefore holding inflation at bay.
Deficits are only short term solutions and impede by crowding out investment.
Money is spent on debt and not constructive things for America.
Right now, Japan and China are buying treasuries and putting them in a safe place, while lending money to America to buy its Asian goods.
I would rather see the poor ole rich somamaguns have to pay higher taxes rather than have the poor and unfortunate suffer because of profit margins that mostly benefit the lavish fat cats.
The usual right wing method of stabilizing things are just short term remedies that create huge profits to be made at the middle and poor class expense.
It must be those right wing apples you've been eating.
…insurance is supposed to be a risk-sharing pool…
Posted by: Avon at October 25, 2007 07:03 PM
I think you're mixing "risk-sharing" and "cost-shifting." They are not related.
In risk-sharing, premiums are determined in two phases. (1) Controllable factors are accounted for which affect or predict risk (number of previous car accidents, smoking, etc.) and (2) the overall equal risk of "bad events" arising is then divided equally among all insureds.
One of the reasons that I am not thrilled about genetic research is that is will continue to yield results in the area of prediction long before it will yield cures. Accordingly, anyone potentially affected by those risks will want to use those proven medical predictors to screen the risks out. A visceral sense of equity says that people should be held accountable for their bad decisions, but for not the acts of God. I am unsure of the state of the law in this regard.
Cost-shifting involves the provision of benefits to two groups, one of which is unable to pay any or all towards its cost, and the charging of that unpaid residue to the other group through higher rates, taxes, etc.
The insurance issue in the U.S. is not about risk-sharing, because that is how the employer and private insurance markets currently work.
The universal health care issue is about solely cost-shifting. You guys just don't like the economic decisions that the poor have made, so you wish to superimpose your judgment on top of theirs. Since they cannot afford your decisions, you wish to shift that cost to the other "group," the taxpayers.
JohnG, you make some good points. I just maintain that your conclusion doesn't follow.
Risk-sharing is about who's covered, as you say. Cost-sharing is defined by who will pay for the coverage (or the fallout from lack of coverage), as you say. And SCHIP does address both, for so far as it reaches. But that doesn't mean that the issues themselves are confused in anyone's mind.
I agree with you that risk should be shared among those who may become ill and those who won't. The state of the law on using science to disqualify people from coverage, even if no prevention or cure is yet available so "acts of God" seems to describe their risk, is a matter of state law. In most states, statutes govern the insurance industry. (When federal money or people are governed, federal laws like SCHIP govern.) In NY State, insurers may deny coverage based on a prior diagnosis, but not on genetic testing. It is now much less clear whether they can charge prohibitive premiums for people with genetic risk. I think we both agree that all states need to be clear on whether their coverage policies reflect their residents' goals.
Risk-sharing works especially well when most of the covered people won't need to make big claims, but inevitably a few of them will. And that's the situation especially of kids, so I favor a risk-sharing pool for them. And that's why SCHIP should allow, or even encourage, states to put as many kids as possible into such a pool.
I think SCHIP should also pay tax dollars to cover those kids. The kids can't themselves pay for the coverage, or even decide to; and they don't deserve to be uncovered. Indeed, unlike paying for end-of-life care for the elderly, investing in kids' health pays off handsomely for society in future medical savings and in future productivity. So on the SCHIP issue, I support both risk-sharing and cost-shifting for overlapping but different reasons.
On private health insurance generally, I support broad risk-sharing (for the same reasons you do), but not socialized medicine. If I'm for a single-payer plan to handle the cost, which I probably would be (depending on how it's set up), it's not because of confusion with risk-sharing!


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HELPER - Roy Clyde Davis passed away Oct. 13, 2013.
He was born Oct. 1, 1953 in Price to Edwin LeRoy and Sylvia Jean Bromley Davis.
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The state police investigator working on the stabbing case recognized the pair from a robbery at Kmart where the two allegedly stole more than $1,000 in diamond earrings.
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Aurora, Ontario CANADA, December 20, 2012 /FSC/ – Tri Origin Exploration Ltd. (TOE – TSX Venture)("Tri Origin" or "The Company") is pleased to announce that diamond drilling programs have been completed at its RLX gold property located 20 kilometres southeast of Red Lake, Ontario and its Sky Lake gold property located 30 kilometres southwest of Pickle Lake, Ontario.
The program at RLX consisted of approximately 820 metres of drilling in 6 widely-spaced holes at the northwest part of the property and the program at Sky Lake consisted of approximately 1,180 metres in 7 holes. Drill core from both programs has been logged and samples have been submitted for assay. It is expected that assay results for both programs will be received by the Company during early January.
RLX is a gold exploration project covering an area of 121 square kilometres located at the southeast part of the Red Lake Gold Mining District contiguous with Goldcorp Inc.'s Red Lake Mine property. The highly prolific Red Lake District hosts major operating and past-producing gold mines and has produced over 20 million ounces of gold. The property is subject to a 4 year, earn-in option agreement with Osisko Mining Corporation ("Osisko") which may earn a 51% interest in RLX by fully funding a total of $5 million of exploration over a four year period. The drill program comprises the final portion of the $600,000 first year exploration expenditure commitment agreed to by Osisko.
The Sky Lake gold property covers a 23 kilometre long portion of a well-mineralized belt of volcanic and sedimentary rock that lies midway between the past-producing gold deposits of the 2 million ounce Pickle Lake Gold District to the northeast and the Golden Patricia gold mine to the west. The geological environment being investigated by the Company strongly resembles that hosting the important 25 million ounce Bousquet-LaRonde Gold District in Quebec.
Final results from these drilling programs will be released following their receipt and review by the Company.
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The Canton's six communes take turns organising a week one Sunday each month. The season ends with a celebratory day. From 17/03 to 06/10/13.
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It will now be closely linked to the "Sentes" project (the establishment of an art trail in rural areas: a walk lined with works of art (six over 5km), produced by artists from here and elsewhere and chosen by a jury) already set up by the Ramillies community.
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LOS ANGELES (MarketWatch) — If the Supreme Court strikes down any part of the Affordable Care Act, it's likely that health insurers and hospitals will see their stock prices tumble.
And expect just the opposite if the high court leaves the 2010 reform measure — often known as "Obamacare" — alone.
"Almost everybody is for this law in the industry," said Les Funtleyder, portfolio manager at Miller Tabak, who also has holdings in a number of health-care companies.
But any number of scenarios could come into play once the court makes its ruling sometime this month on the polarizing law that is the centerpiece of President Barack Obama's legislative achievements.
Health law tangles GOP governors
President Obama's sweeping health-insurance law is putting the nation's 29 Republican governors in an awkward position.
The court, which hands down its rulings only when justices congregate, is expected to meet only on Mondays this month.
While that means justices could post their decision as early as this Monday, most court watchers expect the ruling to be handed down later in the month, perhaps even the last scheduled day of its 2011-2012 session on June 25.
With any scenario, though, some change in the prices of various health-care stocks is likely — even if nothing changes, analysts say.
The shares of insurers, hospitals, medical device makers, biotechnology firms and pharmaceutical companies all were affected when the law passed in March 2010, and the resulting changes have been baked into their stock.
In recent weeks, the sector has been buffeted by the uncertainty involved in whether the court will strike down all or parts of the law, or change nothing at all.
The main possible scenarios are: no change, striking down the entire law, excising the individual mandate that requires people to buy insurance, or scuttling down the mandate along with the requirement that insurers must offer insurance to all regardless of medical history.
The court also is looking at whether Congress overstepped its bounds in requiring all states to expand Medicaid coverage, but many observers expect that part of the law to be upheld.
Any change at all — particularly if the Medicaid requirement is dropped — is likely to take a bite out of hospital shares. Companies like Community Health Systems Inc. CYH, -0.02% and Vanguard Health Systems Inc. VHS could take significant hits if any part of the law is struck down.
Hospitals were the one part of the health-care sector that most benefitted from reform, as the measure was designed to reduce uncertainty over how they would be paid.
These companies, which cannot turn away patients with medical emergencies, have incorporated increasing amounts of "bad debt" into their financial picture.
Removing the Medicaid expansion, as well as the insurance requirements for both policyholders and underwriters, would leave hospitals in the same boat they were in before the law passed in 2010: struggling to give care to uninsured patients amid rapidly rising medical costs.


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Carbon County will be accepting sealed bids for the completion of a
drainage project located at 1899 North Carbonville Road. Any persons
wishing to submit a bid for labor must attend a mandatory walk through
meeting to be held 9:00 a.m., December 02, 2013, at the Carbon County
Road Shop, located at 2660 East Airport Road, Price, Utah. Bids will
be due Wednesday December 04, 2013 by 4:00 pm and must be submitted to
the office of the County Clerk located at 120 E. Main St., Price,
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How Qualified Are You For That Job?
You probably think your career skills make you qualified for every nonprofit job out there. It's good to be confident but before you click that "apply now" button, you should take a second look at your qualifications.
While there's no harm in applying for jobs for which you are a little underqualified, you shouldn't get your hopes up for being hired yet alone getting an interview. Nonprofits don't have the time or resources to spend too much time showing a non-entry level employee the ropes; they want someone who knows exactly what they are doing and needs little to no guidance. That's why, along with listing your relevant experience in your application, you should also be prepared to prove that you have the skills to handle the position.
Below are three tips that will help you honestly evaluate whether or not you are qualified for that job you desire:
- Go over all of your relevant experience and accomplishments and compare them to what the organization is asking of candidates. You should be sure to highlight any qualifications you have that the job description states is "preferred but not required."
- Be honest about the skills you have. This will allow you to better seek out jobs that are appropriate for you rather than reaching for jobs that will overwhelm you with their demands.
- Ask questions during your job interview that will result in a conversation with the hiring manager about how your skills can add value to the organization. Make sure you are humble and that you don't walk into the interview with a sense of entitlement.


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"Breaking Bad's" Bryan Cranston, "Mad Men's" Matthew Weiner, "Arrested Development's" Mitchell Hurwitz and more legends of television on how the award can save a series ("30 Rock"), give validation beyond ratings ("Seinfeld") and provoke anxiety. Says "ER" creator John Wells: "I forgot to thank George Clooney in my acceptance speech!"
This story first appeared in the Sept. 27 issue of The Hollywood Reporter magazine.
Jeff Richmond (10 noms, 3 wins) Tina Fey (30 noms, 7 wins) and Robert Carlock (14 noms, 3 wins)
"I still wake up in cold sweats, grinding my teeth," admits Carlock, Fey's co-writer and co-executive producer, when asked if 30 Rock, which ended its seven-season run in January, feels like a distant memory. Adds Fey with mock exaggeration, "Even though it seems like a long time ago to us, it's sooo fresh in the minds of Emmy voters."
Not to worry: 30 Rock has been an Emmy darling since it bowed to less-than-robust ratings in 2006; only 4.7 million viewers watched the first-season finale. "We didn't have the biggest audience," admits Carlock, 40. "But we still had a big shelf full of Emmys!" In fact, 30 Rock won outstanding comedy in each of its first three years. "So, it would have been embarrassing and rude to cancel us," says Fey with a laugh. Of the show's Emmy haul Fey says: "It was a tool for our survival for many years."
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In the past seven years, the workplace comedy -- inspired by Fey's years spent as head writer on Saturday Night Live -- has racked up more than 100 noms and made history in 2009 when it hauled in a single-season record 22. Fey herself has five statues, including one for playing the irrepressible Liz Lemon (in 2008). "The first year, we were such a long shot that we were seated up in the back in the cable-reality section," says Fey. "Then we won best comedy. Alec [Baldwin] was so sure we weren't going to win, he was in the bathroom."
Voters gave the show 13 more noms this year, including another for series and lead actors. Richmond, 52, Fey's husband and the composer of the series' jaunty theme song, earned a nom for the series' closing musical number.
And collaborators Fey and Carlock -- who signed an overall deal with Universal and recently sold a comedy project to Fox -- have writing noms this year, with Jack Burditt and Tracey Wigfield, for the series' final two episodes.
Asked if she'd like to be on TV again, the 43-year-old mother of two motions to her face: "I would love to, but I don't know if it's going to hold. I'm not doing all of the structural underpinnings. I was supposed to get Frankenstein neck bolts. We'll see."
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Josh Green has never accepted losing.
Not in 1993, when he was a pup for the Medicine Hat Tigers of the Western Junior Hockey League.
Not in 2005, when he skated in 57 games in the NHL for the Vancouver Canucks.
Josh Green has never accepted losing.
Not in 1993, when he was a pup for the Medicine Hat Tigers of the Western Junior Hockey League.
Not in 2005, when he skated in 57 games in the NHL for the Vancouver Canucks.
Not in 2012, as a 15{+-}year pro in his first season with the Oklahoma City Barons of the American Hockey League.
Time does not numb the hurt, and that was evident Saturday night after the Barons blew a third-period lead and lost a 3-2 overtime decision to the Lake Erie Monsters before 4,103 fans in the Cox Center.
"To play well like we did and not get rewarded for it, that's tough," Green said in a subdued Barons dressing room.
"We're starting to play good hockey again, and I think it showed tonight. When you don't play well and lose, then you don't deserve to win. But we played well, and we deserved a better fate."
Brad Malone put the winning shot over the left shoulder of Barons goaltender David LeNeveu with 1:30 remaining in OT. Malone's eighth goal of the season capped a comeback in which Lake Erie tied it 2-2 with 1:35 left in regulation, just after pulling goaltender Gerald Coleman for an extra attacker.
"It just really hurts to lose like that," Green said.
Green had a goal and assist, which did not matter much to a 34-year-old who is not bound for the Pro Hockey Hall of Fame — but has an impressive resume nevertheless. The Camrose, Alberta, native was second round selection in the 1996 NHL Draft by the Los Angeles Kings.
Including Saturday's game, Green has played in 802 professional games, which includes 334 in the NHL. He has skated on the same team as some of the game's giants, including Luc Robitaille, Brenden Morrow, Zdeno Chara, Eric Lindros, Jaromir Jagr, Mark Messier and the Sedin twins. Pittsburgh Penguins coach Dan Bylsma was a teammate of Green's during the 1998-99 season with the Kings.
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Remove the box lid. At the center of one end-panel of the shoe box, cut a hole large enough for one-eyed viewing (approximately 1/2 inch [1.3 cm] diameter). Then cut out a window, approximately 3 x 5 inches (8 x 13 cm), with the viewing hole in the center. Replace the cardboard in the window from which it was cut, and tape it in place along its bottom edge to form a hinge inside the box (see diagram).
At the other end of the box, make a hole for each straw approximately 1/2 inch (1.3 cm) to each side of the center of the panel.
Cut the piece of posterboard so that it is the same height as the box and about 2 inches (5 cm) wider than the box. Fold back 1 inch (2.5 cm) on each side to make two flaps. Make two holes in the main portion that coincide exactly with the two holes in the end of the box. Tape or glue the flaps to the inside sides of the box, using them as spacers to position this piece 1 inch (2.5 cm) from the end with the holes (see diagram).
Insert the straws into the holes. The double set of holes will keep the straws properly aligned.
Using the quarter and dime as templates, cut one circle of each size from the construction paper. Make sure the color of the construction paper contrasts strongly with the color of the inside of the box. Use clay to mount the circles on the ends of the straws inside the box.
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With the cover on the box and the hinged window closed, close one eye and look through the viewing hole at the circles. Lift the end of the box cover closest to you and slide it away from you until adequate viewing light reaches the inside of the box. Push or pull on the straws from the outside rear of the box until the mounted circles appear to be the same size. Note that your depth perception is almost nonexistent: both circles look essentially the same distance away, and it is very difficult to judge which circle is closest to you.
Fold the window down and look with both eyes to see the actual positions of the circles. (You may have to move your head back a little from the box to get both circles focused.) Note that depth perception is now a factor and that the circles no longer look the same size or the same distance away.
Position the small disk a couple of inches closer to you than the large disk. With both eyes open, look through the window at the disks. Notice that you have no trouble establishing their size and distance. Now close one eye. You may notice that it is much more difficult to tell whether the small disk is now actually a small disk that's close to you, or a large disk that's far away. You can also use the dime and quarter by themselves, without building the box, to illustrate the same principle. Close one eye. Holding one coin in each hand, move them toward or away from your viewing eye until they appear to be the same size. A solid-color background gives less distraction than an irregular background. A very bright, solid-colored background works best, so that the coins appear essentially in silhouette and their features cannot be easily distinguished.
Large, distant objects can appear to be the same size as small, nearby objects. Under normal viewing conditions, with both eyes open, you have the ability to perceive depth. If two objects appear to be the same size, but you know that one is farther away than the other, your brain tells you that the distant object is larger.
When one eye is closed, your depth perception is impaired. In the case of the circles, you can't tell how far away either of the circles really is. Since they are not actually the same size, this means that, for the smaller one to look the same size as the larger one, it will have to be closer to you than the larger one.
With both eyes open, you can gather more information and more points of view, and so you can make more accurate judgments about an object's size, shape, and distance from you.
There is a pattern on the pupa of the butterfly Spalgis epius that looks like the face of a rhesus macaque monkey. Even though the pupa is only half as wide as a human fingernail, it still seems to scare away predatory birds who mistake it for a more distant, and therefore larger, monkey.


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The Rivoli Theatre, the huge, historic, decrepit movie theater on the city's Eastside, is getting a new roof and with it, new hope.
The building, at 3155 E. 10th Street, has sat vacant since 1992 and by now is in an advanced state of disrepair. But a new roof will stablize it, staving off further deterioration and, the building's backers hope, be the first step in revitalizing what was once the neighborhood's crown jewel.
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The community of Headland grabbed their lawn chairs and blankets for the Seventh Annual Patriotic Concert on the square Tuesday evening.
The concert featured The Tri-State Community Orchestra and The Bethlehem Baptist Church Choir.
This year's concert is dedicated to all military personnel, police and firefighters, past and present.
The event was hosted by Renaissance Headland and it was free to the public.
Renaissance Headland helps promote Headland's businesses around the community and surrounding areas by providing the square with entertainment and beautification projects.
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'Food Network Star' Finale: Southern Vs. Pie
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The newly rebranded series ("The Next" has been dropped from the title) that turns a home cook into a TV star returns for a seventh season as 15 new hopefuls compete for their own show on Food Network. Veteran Food Network personality Bobby Flay returns to host and serve as a judge. Giada De Laurentiis, who served as a mentor to last season's contestants, joins the selection committee this year. As usual, the finalists face challenges that test not only their culinary skills but also their on-camera presence. Each episode features an elimination until one person remains and wins the grand prize -- a six-episode series on Food Network and the title of Food Network Star.


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Featured video and audio clips on Mark Anderson brought to you by Boston's WEEI Sports Radio.
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Patriots get the most out of him, and then other GMs will break into their Swear Jar money to get him. It happened with Mark Anderson , Tully Banta-Cain , Jabar Gaffney and dozens of others. And it will happen with Collins. For the Pats , getting
of any New England team in recent memory, thanks in large part to the single-season efforts of Andre Carter and Mark Anderson . That team finished with 65 quarterback hits and 215 quarterback hurries, with Carter compiling 16 hits and 24 hurries
early because of a leg injury, but his influence was felt throughout the year. Played for the Patriots in 2001. 15. Mark Anderson (2011): Similar to Andre Carter , Anderson spent just one season with the Patriots, but distinguished
Baltimore (tied for 15th with 37 each). That brings us to the Patriots. In 2011, sparked by veterans Andre Carter and Mark Anderson , the Patriots had 88 quarterback hits and 40 sacks, which was good for 14th in the league. When Carter went down
OWN BEST PROTECTOR In the offseason, Buffalo's front four of Mario Williams , Marcell Dareus, Kyle Williams and Mark Anderson was touted as a unit who could be game-changers in the AFC East. And while the group had its moments on Sunday against the
be where the New England offensive line faces its' biggest test. Left tackle Nate Solder against defensive end Mark Anderson : Solder will be going up against his former teammate in Anderson, who finished with 10 sacks last season for the Patriots
Akeem Ayers: We've said it before and we'll say it again — Ayers appears to be on a similar career path to Mark Anderson , who spent the one season with the Patriots and had a very good year, helping New England get to the Super Bowl
linemen near the end of their careers who tries to find success with the Patriots, a group that includes Andre Carter , Mark Anderson and Tommy Kelly . For more Patriots news, check out weei.com/patriots .
linemen near the end of their careers who tries to find success with the Patriots, a group that includes Andre Carter , Mark Anderson and Tommy Kelly . For more Patriots news, check out weei.com/patriots .
Washington and Anthony Pleasant . Over the last five years, Tommy Kelly (2013), Albert Haynesworth , Andre Carter , Mark Anderson and Shaun Ellis (2011), Gerard Warren (2010) and Derrick Burgess (2009) have all been veteran additions to the defensive
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WHAT would Martin Luther King dream of today?
It was 50 years ago Wednesday, during the March on Washington for Jobs and Freedom, that King delivered what came to be called his "I have a dream" speech. He spoke, eloquently and powerfully, about the injustices that people of color faced in 1963 America. A hundred years after the Emancipation Proclamation, he said, "the life of the colored American is still sadly crippled by the manacle of segregation and the chains of discrimination."


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All is well between TDP-BJP, confirms Prakash Javadekar
Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) spokesperson Prakash Javadekar on Friday said there was no dispute between the Telegu Desam Party (TDP) and the BJP. He added, "Our boat has not hit the rock, but our alliance is rocking."
"There are no issues between the TDP and the BJP. We will move forward with this alliance (BJP-TDP) and are confident of victory. Our boat is not hitting the rock, but the alliance is rocking. We have two pupposes of this alliance. Faster development of both, and second, is a Congress free India. We are together for these two reasons, and this is our ideological commitment, and when we have such commitments, small things don't matter," said Javadekar.
"We want to give a more stable and policy oriented state government in Andhra Pradesh and Telangana. We have shared suggestions to make the party win more seats and have also discussed ways to make this alliance more productive and result and policy oriented," he said.
Earlier, there were reports of an ongoing dispute between both the parties over the choice of candidates by the BJP.
TDP chief N Chandrababu Naidu had expressed serious displeasure over the choice of candidates by the BJP in certain Assembly constituencies allotted to it.
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Five years living with my grandparents
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