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Sofyya we should really knock off with the blanket responses.
Videos from YouTube showing not one but two separate women, from two separate Muslim countries with their noses and in one case ears as well cut off are not credibly poo pooed by claiming source issues.
Disavowing the Muslim/Islamic belief system for anyone who espouses or acts in violent, dare I say barbaric manner using Islam as the basis is a weak dodge.
Certainly Christians who murder abortion doctors or bomb abortion clinics are a part of the Christian whole. Not really much of a dodge.
I do not claim nor do I believe all Muslims practice Islam in a violent, blood thirsty manner and it is impossible for me to believe you find acts of female mutilation to be a quaint practice. But you don't get a free pass from me claiming such things are cultural phenomenon wholly unrelated to how a significant portion of the worlds Muslim population currently acts and behaves.
If Islam is solely about peace and love then cultures dominated by Islam would reflect that. Clearly where we look to areas where Islam has control we don't see that. This is a broad statement which does not discount there must be some wonderful folks just trying to live their lives but if we stop trying to resort to cries of biggot or simplistic dodges it is a reasonably accurate description of many if not all Muslim dominated countries.
Newsflash enlightenment came 1000 years ago, too bad Islam missed it!

This doesn't surprise me one bit, happens all of the time in Saudi Arabia. They like to abuse foreign workers for some reason. I could say a few other things about them but my post would get deleted Not long ago one of the kings daughters or nieces slapped her maid and pushed her down the stairs....I think it almost killed the poor maid.

Once you get rid of taxes and government, the only way you can stop other people from taking your stuff is to have a bigger army than they do.

I got some bad news from the doctor.
For most of my life, I had been severely underweight. About a couple of years ago, I gained about 30 lbs in a month. I went to a couple of doctors and none of them took me seriously because as far as they were concerned, I was at a "healthy weight". Yesterday, I tagged along with my husband for a check up with his endocrinologist and casually mentioned my weight gain to the doctor. He did a quick physical exam and found out that my thyroid is enlarged. So now I have to get a bunch of tests done next week. I am kinda worried but I am also relieved that I finally found a doctor that takes me seriously.

I will be sure to invest in private school for my daughter to make sure this little heathen that poor excuse for a mother is raising won't be bused to my kids school.

That just sounded so gross

By Rich Hewitt
BDN Staff
EASTPORT, Maine — The Coast Guard's 41-foot search and rescue boat eased away from the dock Tuesday morning, its batteries fully charged by electricity generated from the waters beneath its hull. Since Aug. 18, a tidal energy generator developed by Ocean Renewable Power Co. has been producing clean, grid-compatible power for the Coast Guard boat. On Tuesday, the renewable power company and Coast Guard officials welcomed dignitaries and local residents to view up close what they described as the first-ever successful implementation of tidal energy at a federal facility.
"This has put Eastport on the world map," said Chris Sauer, president and CEO of ORPC. "Folks in Australia, the UK, Chile, New Zealand know all about Eastport, Maine. They're watching us and hoping it happens to them."
Sauer called Eastport the "Kitty Hawk" of the developing tidal power industry, which has the potential, he said, to become a $1 billion industry in the city.
Gov. John Baldacci, U.S. Rep. Mike Michaud and Capt. James McPherson, commander of the Coast Guard's northern New England squadron, joined local officials and representatives for U.S. Sens. Olympia Snowe and Susan Collins for a tour of the demonstration project. The governor said this was the fulfillment of the aborted Quoddy Tides power project championed by Franklin D. Roosevelt in the 1920s and that it has put Maine in the forefront of tidal energy development in America.
"This sends a message across the country: We are doing things here!" the governor said. "We're on our way to building a sustainable energy future for our state." The 60-kilowatt tidal turbine was launched in March for testing and is the largest ocean tidal energy generator in the U.S., according to Sauer. The unit is about the size of a tractor-trailer body and is deployed from the ORPC research vessel Energy Tide 2, and operates about 15 feet below the surface of the water.
The unit was pulled out of the water recently for several upgrades, including monitoring equipment, and was redeployed at low tide Tuesday. It began generating power again once the tide turned.
The unit uses advanced design foil at 18 to 22 rotations per minute to drive the generator. The energy produced charges a set of battery modules housed on the Energy Tide 2.
Once charged, the modules are ferried back to shore, where they are plugged into the Coast Guard's electrical inverter unit to provide power to the boat. "That runs everything on the 41-footer when we're tied up," said Chief Petty Officer Austin Olmstead, chief of station at the USCG station in Eastport. "We're not using any electricity from the grid."
The batteries provide about five hours of power for the boat, he said.
The 60-day demonstration project also includes acoustic and environmental monitoring in conjunction with the University of Maine.
The information gathered from the project will be used to design the first commercial generator, a 150-kilowatt unit scheduled to be deployed late next year that the company says will provide electricity directly to the grid.
"We feel [the 60-kilowatt generator] performed so well, it's given us a lot of confidence," he said. "We're very encouraged and optimistic that [the 150-kilowatt generator] will be successful."
Moving forward with the 150-kilowatt project is contingent upon the company's obtaining the necessary federal permits, Sauer said. The permitting process with the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission is well under way, he said.
Sauer estimated the cost for the commercial unit at between $6 million and $7 million, which includes initial one-time expenses. That unit can be expanded to include five devices that will be the first such array in the U.S. and possibly in the world, he said. The project also will provide data for two other commercial projects — a river generation project as well as a similar tidal project — being developed for sites in Alaska.
A delegation from Alaska was in Eastport on Tuesday for the event.
The Eastport project so far has created about 80 jobs in eight Maine counties, according to Michaud, who added that "potentially, that's just the tip of the iceberg." Nearly all of the project components were made or assembled in Maine, including the Energy Tide 2 vessel.
Sauer said that within the next five to seven years, tidal power in the Eastport area could generate between 100 and 120 megawatts of electricity and could create between 400 and 600 jobs.
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I'm still amused how little people understand about the exchanges. They don't set reimbursement rates nor limit coverage. They are nothing more but a marketplace where consumers can effectevily compare different private insurance plans and select the plan that best meets their needs and budget.
This, I mostly agree with.

Boy Blistered after Licking Used Condom, Grandma Says
Published : Wednesday, 25 Aug 2010, 12:28 PM CDT
ATLANTA - A Georgia woman said a weekend outing turned into a horrifying experience when her young grandson developed blisters after he found a used condom in their hotel room and put it in his mouth.
According to Carmen Jones, the incident happened on Aug. 1 at the Wyndham Gardens hotel in downtown Atlanta, where she had taken the boy and his cousin for a weekend of family fun.
"We wanted to do something for them for the weekend before they started school," Jones said. "The plan was we were doing Six Flags on Saturday and the aquarium on Sunday."
After a full day at the theme park on July 31, Jones said, the exhausted family returned to the hotel.
Jones said at first glance room 329 looked perfectly clean, except that there was no soap and no towels.
Then, she said, she noticed something more troubling. "I'm like, 'Girl, you know, these sheets don't smell clean,'" Jones said.
The next morning, Jones said, she awoke to a horrifying scene.
"When I looked at my grandson, he had a used condom all down his throat -- his tongue in it everything. And there was semen in the condom," she said.
Jones immediately took the condom out of the boy's mouth and called hotel management., she said.
Days later the child developed a fever, Jones said.
"That's when I had seen the open blisters inside of his mouth, inside of the bottom lip, all on his tongue," Jones said.
The boy is being tested for STDs and HIV but Jones' attorney said the family is awaiting the results before deciding how to proceed.
The hotel said it is examining the police report before providing further comment.
http://www.myfoxdfw.com/dpp/news/weird/082510-Boy-Blistered-after-Licking-Used-Condom,-Grandma-Says

Yeah, that movie was a hard one IMO. Especially since the guy in this song was a liar and helps to try to blow up NY subways later on.

The paper was suppost to be money. The baby was trying to stuff money in his moms pants. Way to teach your kid right! He is going to need therapy once he is old enough to realize what that means.

1) You, me and others who currently buy insurance already pay for those who do not. Uncompensated care is factored into the overall cost and those who actually pay for their cost or have insurance coverage that does that pony up for those that rather take the free ride.
2) Coverage has gotten ridiculously expensive while covering ever less and requiring ever higher dedcutibles as it is. The more it costs, the more people will be unable to afford it and the larger the uncomensated care portion of the bill gets amking coverage even more expensive leading to more uncompensated care, etc. This is the donward spiral we're on.
To blame additional competition via the exchanges and a push to have people assume personal responsibility for their health care - i.e. make them pay for it - for the broken system we already have is nonsense.
What "public care" are you referring to? You are aware that there's no public insurance plan offered through the exchanges, right?
As for the coverage of certain medicines and procedures as well as the availability - or lack thereof - of physicians, that's all nothing new. That's the situation we have today. Insurance companies do not cover everything and anything. You can't necessarily get appointments to any physician of your choice. Not even close.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=X9a2zPlcV-s

Don't tell me that was baby oil at the end...

actually, quite the opposite is true, in my witness. men who can afford to have lovers grow very attached to them, whether they have 1, or 5. there is an old chinese saying; "marry the woman who loves you, and keep the woman you love." this has been custom in china and most other eastern countries for thousands of years. it is their way of life. they view lovers as "wild flowers" and wives as "garden fruit (food)". the wives are necessary to the sustinance of life, and the lovers are held to be admired for their beauty and near uselessness. their only use is in the "making of tea", which you have to be eastern to understand the principles behind the art of.
really, you should let go of your western prejudices for just a moment and learn a little about the eastern mindset. it is how more than half the world's population thinks.

You don't 'buy into' the idea that systemic racism still exists period, so why indeed would you bother with the idea that killing for this specific ideological reason is a different type of crime?
Gang killings are not 'for no reason' either. The rationale may not make much sense to people not embroiled in gang culture, but then the gang dynamic does not make much sense period to those outside that culture either. The last thing that motivates an initiation killing is hatred toward the victim, in many ways the motivation has no relevance to the victim whatsoever, in fact, one could go so far as to say it would be hard to find a crime that is the exact opposite of a hate crime than an initiation killing.
Once again, there is a fundamental misunderstanding of what a hate crime is, it is not simple rage, or anger at a particular person or event, it is the desire to subjugate, terrorise and eliminate a target group who share some perceived characteristic that the person carrying out the abuse considers renders the members of the target group subhuman and demands their persecution.

I never said it didn't brew at that temp, don't play semantics.
Your whole argument about that lawsuit was that it was served under temp. You were wrong. Which renders your argument invalid. End of.

get outta here with your head explodey logic! dontcha know OT isn't the place for such a thought process.

Indeed. Manufactured story calculated to manufacture outrage.

Don't worry about the syntax here as there are plenty of posters here who don't either.

thought i'd pass this along. limited quantities per location.
http://getspicychicken.com/

Go for it Peejay - I am sure ICE has a policy of leakage, deliberately sabotaging the safety of the good people of the USA, TREASON INDEED!!!!!!

What a hoot!

Last time I checked this is America, so why would Americans be deported.
Whereas had an American traveled to Canada or Australia and did the same thing, after their first deportation, they would not be back into the country.

The UK is a service sector economy. If you want to find someone to blame for the current state of Britain's manufacturing base (and the wages of the average skilled blue-collar Brit) you can blame the Thatcher, Brown and Blair governments for destroying British industry.