HULK SMASHED
Deadthreaded:
I saw a Judge Judy segment involving a woman suing her sister for damaging the woman's car. The car had somehow become entangled with a DOA deer-- a female deer.
I liked the sister, a wild-looking down-home gal with a laconic twang. When Judge Judy asked what happened to the deer, the defendant replied with candid simplicity, "Ah ate it."
The defendant also mentioned that she'd offered her sister part of the deer in a show of good faith, but that her sister declined the offer. Sis, making a face, affirmed that this was so.
Surely there's a documentary somewhere about repurposed road kill... but I'll pass, thanks.
I deserve a hat tip for that one, A-man and you know it!
Ssh. I'm not here.
It would be unamerican to point out to these families that they're dying for a lie, wouldn't it.
Repost:
Suggestions? Stuff that's been out a year or so that I missed? Classics that I haven't seen?
City of God
Happy Together
Tokyo Story
Double Life of Veronique
A Very British Coup
Salò
Cache (Hidden)
Days of Heaven
But but but, the war is not important with the surge and all. The American people have forgotten all about it.
That guy's story is awful. And you can see exactly where it's going.
Thanks, Sandra Day O'Connor!
Mysterious Skin
Far From Heaven
The Heiress
Rene Russo!
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From below
Only quasi delicious; my afternoon experiments on trying to make a decent diabetic cookie for the wife.
What I've done.
basic oatmeal cookie recipe (not diabetic safe)
1 1/2 cup brown sugar tightly packed, 1 1/2 cup butter, 2 eggs 1 teaspoon vanilla
Beat together till fluffy.
add and mix this: 1 1/2 cup flour, 1 1/2 cup oatmeal, 1/4 teaspoon each of salt nutmeg, and cloves. 1/2 teaspoon of cinnamon, Add nuts fruit, or chocolate chips to taste. combine with egg butter and sugar mix.
spoon out onto baking tin, and bake at 375 till golden brown. Eat.
Continued with the diabetic portion of this quest after a bit.
Doug | 05.11.08 - 5:53 pm | #
The polar bears have a date in court Thursday, see
Too young to marry?
How about too young to go off and fight and kill and get maimed in foreign countries?
McCain faces doubts among GOP conservatives
http://www.yahoo.com/s/878369
Anyway what I've done is to take the basic oatmeal recipe from above, replace the butter with yogurt, the sugar with splenda, and added some butter buds (tm). The resulting cookies have a decent texture, but are still missing something.
And some Gary Cooper movies are going to be released on DVD this week.
The Westerner! The best gay Western ever!
Do you think that Jenna or not-Jenna would have married the guy in the article?
I just read that Jenna's husband has an MBA and worked for Karl Rove.
Wow. What a great combination. I expect great things from him. And by great things I mean world crushing evilness.
I knew a girl who got married at 17. I remember thinking. She can't even see an R rated movie yet!
You missed this:
(The author is an engineer who works for a local orthopedics company).
In 1729, the author Jonathan Swift, better known as the author of Gulliver’s Travels, published a satirical essay called A Modest Proposal. In this essay, he suggested that the solution to the starvation then endemic in Ireland (almost 2 million people starved to death) would be for the Irish to eat the one edible thing they obviously had an excess of—their children.
“Be Well, Buy Well, Use Well” is the slogan for the new health-care program for my company’s employees, and it certainly must have been invented by exactly the same type of moral insect who would actually think eating children a reasonable suggestion, but it is unfortunately not satire.
The term “consumer-driven health-care” is how my company chooses to identify this massive change in health-care philosophy, one in which the employee is responsible for thousands of dollars in payments before the insurance even starts to kick in. I had to think for a long time before I figured out just what “consumer driven” health care means, and I’d like to share what I finally realized: I finally realized that “consumer driven” health-care simply means that you get all the health-care you can afford to buy. If you can’t afford to pay a deductible right now—the doctor is expensive, we all know--or a co-pay, too bad.
Consumer driven” substitutes a “consumer” for a sick person. A consumer will make decisions about obtaining health-care based upon cost; while a “sick person” would only make them based upon degree of sickness.
Ditch the cloves for a Tsp of vanilla.
girl who got married at 17. I remember thinking. She can't even see an R rated movie yet!
Though she could live it,
in her marriage.
Cont'd
And the simple fact is that the more of their own health care costs people have to pay out-of-pocket, the less health-care services they will use. Some of those services will in the end turn out to have been superfluous; but some of them will not. In either case, certainly money will be saved, but just as certainly it will also result in misery and death.
My company’s present day health care costs are not public, but they can be estimated to amount to about 70 million dollars a year. 70 million dollars is less than 2% of the company’s 4 billion dollar gross income, but apparently in the estimation of the corporate decision makers, its employees, and its employees’ family’s health is worth less than 2% of the gross income.
In contrast, as an employee with a child who has a chronic illness I pay about $200 a month out-of-pocket for health care and pharmaceuticals. I also have the soon-to-be-terminated best health-care option available at the present time, called an “Enhanced PPO”, which also costs me (in 2007) about $190.00 a month (Right now the company pays 80% of the insurance cost, and I pay 20%). This brings up the total present-day health care cost for me to $390 per month.
An employee like me with a sick dependent, but one unfortunate enough to make only $25,000 per year will be spending 18.7% of gross income on health care. If he makes $50,000 a year, it’s still almost 10% of gross.
It seems reasonable to ask why my company feels that it is acceptable for an employee to pay 10% of gross on health care, but for a corporation to pay less than 2% is unacceptable.
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sheets
watertiger,
OMG. Have you seen this commercial for the "Grand Prospect Hall?"
Okay. Nobody wants to talk about movies.
Maybe you want to talk about $250K haircuts from the peak in the new thread above.
and finally,
And how does any of this square with the company’s paying 80% of the health-care benefit? Well, 80% of the health care benefit is totally dependent upon what the “benefit” is. And the company, and only the company, gets to decide that, but I can tell you with confidence that the “benefit” is not the same as the “cost”, and it is the company's clear intention to continue shrinking that benefit until such time as 80% of nothing is nothing.
My company owes its existence, and its enormous profit, to the sale of medical implantables. Making these very same devices less affordable, or unaffordable, for its employees at least short-sighted, in that we will sell less of these items. (And of course if other companies adopt this type of health insurance for their employees, less and less of the products we make will be sold.)
Another term, besides “short-sighted”, to describe the making of these devices less affordable might be “counter-productive”. But the term I like best is “insanely hypocritical”.
If a working employee of my company can’t afford any longer to take a child to the doctor, he can at least take comfort in the fact that the company is saving money, and increasing profit. He can take some more in the fact that if the child dies, he can always eat it.
Apostate, bill buckner -- saw your suggestions and added them all to the queue.
I wonder what happened with these folks? Just the usual marriage-not-working-out, or the complications from being so traumatized?
My grandmother on my mother's side was married at age 14. That was in 1914.
"my dick is still hard from this war"-Michael O'Hanlon
My grandmother on my mother's side was married at age 14. That was in 1914.
Richard
My father's paternal grandmother was married at 16.
1886.
Remember: there isn't really any policy difference between Obama and Clinton. Sure, one voted for this war and the other didin't, but they're pretty much the same.
This is the kid whose face was practically melted and was photographed in that tragic wedding picture?
that was beyond painful...there isn't anything snarky i could or would add.
What's truly horrid is that they keep referring to his "accident" in the article. It wasn't a fucking accident. It was the fruit of an illegal war of aggression.
DAMN those righties who insist they're for strengthening families and who also support this family-annihilating war.
At least Ty has a kick-ass mom and best friend.
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