Dan J

Depending on the school, you need to apply now to be to start in January. Pretty much only community collages will allow you to apply a month before starting and be able to get into the school.

As an international student, you may as part of the application process be asked to prove that you have enough money/assets to cover the cost of tuition (at out of state rates) as well as room and board for the semester.

So your saying you want Walmart like health care?

For many aliments and injuries, the treatments are very standardized. Unless you have some sort of pre-existing condition that would make the problem worse. You do not need to see an expensive doctor to get it treated. There are a lot of things that can be made standardized and care can be given in cheaper non-traditional settings.

You missed the point. Most doctors are losing money from Medicare patients. Whether or not they can make it treating non-Medicare patients is, as you pointed out, dependent on their market and location. But if a doctor is going under, accepting Medicare patients isn't going to change that. Businesses run on profit not revenue. Treating more patients at a loss may increase revenue but won't increase profit.

For many retailers if they priced their products like Walmart, they would loose money on every sale. But yet Walmart makes billions every year. The excuse of losing money more often than not comes from not running an efficient business or complaining about shrinking profit margins.

Care providers can't just keep pushing up prices at the rate they are and expect people to keep paying. There is already pushback and that will keep increasing. If care providers can adapt, they will survive, if they cannot, they will find it difficult to stay in business.

Is a marriage agreement ever needed in the CR-1 process or just the license? The marriage agreement has the whole marriage spelled out legally and some signatures of the witnesses, us, and the lawyers. I'm hoping just the license is enough, but maybe someone can chime in with some experience.

The document you would use is whatever is considered official proof of marriage. In the US, its a marriage certificate, which is often the licence signed by the bride, groom, officiant, and witnesses. The real copy is often kept on file at the county office, and official copies are provided as proof of marriage.

So my $146 is going to force the Chinese to stop burning coal? How are we going to go back to that golden age of low pollution emissions= have a great recession to suppress economy activity.

Not very reassuring from an administration that has lower incomes thus far and done a dismal job controlling government spending.

If you wait until everyone else starts doing it, well, nothing will ever get done. China is already leading the US when it comes to alternative energy.

I drive a diesel, .30 pr gallon more than gas

Unless you are getting bio diesel, its also made from oil.

It means You are footing the bill for B.P. cleanup

Technically you already are if you buy gas.

I think its kind of complicated, especially for skilled positions.

If you are out of work, by choice or not for long enough time, and you don't make serious effort to keep your skills fresh. You are going to be at a disadvantage to others who are looking to move up or even college grads. We had a developer who had been unemployed for about a year come in for an interview. From the interview it was quite clear why he was having trouble finding a job, either he was never very good or he has not kept up his skills.

Perhaps people should save up and buy homes of a higher value?

This still doesn't change the fact of who pays the majority of taxes...

what are you trying to say here? That people making under $100k shouldn't have to pay taxes at all? What's wrong with this proposal? 25% and 10%.... seems reasonable enough.

The fact that the wealthy are paying the largest share of overall taxes has less to do with tax rates and more to do with income disparates. As long as the income gap between the rich and poor keep increasing, this probably wont go away no matter what the tax rate is.

Of course many of the wealthy are in positions to change that, but do you think they will?

Polyamory is not illegal, some people may have moral or cultural problems with it. US immigration does not tell people how they should run their lives or what marriage should mean to them. Instead as long as the requirements are met, there is no fraud involved.

States grant a birth certificate as proof of where a person was born. The federal government grants citizenship to any person born in the US. How would Arizona not granting a birth certificate prevent the child from gaining citizenship?

Now a birth certificate is often used as proof in obtaining a passport or proving that you are indeed a citizen, but its not the only means. Unless the 14th amendment is repealed, birth certificate or not, these children are still citizens. If anything what will result is that the federal government will provide alternate means of documentation.

Creative ways to fund public transportation? *sigh* They act like it's some magical problem that could never be solved by user-pay. Instead there will be a higher gas tax and higher property tax so that people can freeload off the public transportation system. Public transportion isn't even that green or efficient.

Trying to put public transportation in low density suburbs is inefficient. In most urban areas it ends up being quite well used.

How is this fraud? You said they have divorced and he is currently free to marry. If he petitions for this new woman and plans to marry her and live with her as his wife, I don't see the fraud. Because they will have the ex-wife living with them and part of the relationship does not make the new petition fraudulent. While the situation may be morally questionable, it doesn't constitute fraud.

Thats the way I see it too, I don't think this case can be considered fraud.

Does Salon realize how many Doctors in this nation are not "board certified" by the named ones listed..... The AMA who gets the assumption of "all medical doctors" by most people only has about 18% of the doctors in the nation as its membership...

So really, I wouldn't think too much into this.

AMA is not a medical board. Its just a professional organization.

Voting machines have never been particularly trustworthy due to lack of transparency with the systems and companies making them. For many machines, if they were tampered with, there is often no sign of tampering.

No idea if fraud did occur, but just pointing out that we are basing elections on we can't even trust to be accurate.

Not unless they ask for maternity leave.

Isn't that the point? She was not fire asking for maternity leave, she was fired because she was pregnant without being married. Are they going to do the same thing when a male teacher gets his girlfriend pregnant? Its the same issue.

Men can't get pregnant!

They can certainly get other women pregnant out of wedlock. Do you think the school will fire them?

I never said that I agreed with the war in Iraq. We need to be able to go anywhere on the globe with a substantial force to keep things in balance. We don't have to invade or attack, the rest of the world just needs to know that we can on a moments notice. See what happens when one of these nut leaders uses the bomb. Who will be there? We need to have the balls that Israel does.

Sure, but do we really need to spend as much as we do to maintain that capability?

If you put defence spending into a sort of untouchable category, you leave it wide open for corruption and waste.

Leave the military alone and don't make drastic cuts. It's not a friendly world in which we live.

This sort of option makes it easy to exploit defense related spending for all sorts of waste. How many billions went into Iraq and into pockets of contractors who never delivered services? How many multi-million dollar defense company CEO's do we need to defend the country?

He is spot on. Cutting it by $1 trillion leaves $300 billion; still a good 4 times more than China.

The money saved can reduce the deficit, furthermore, God forbid actually be invested in America on Americans. You know, on the infrastructure that was built in the 20th century and is literally falling apart or lacking. At the end of the day, what creates more jobs? The military or investing the money in America and on Americas. The military offers the lowest ROI per dollar spent period.

Over 10 years, which is about 100 billion per year, which is barely 10% of the yearly defense related spending of 1 to 1.2 trillion each year.

Bob,

Actually the "current" issue began in 1918 and was a major issue prior to World War 2.

The whole goal is to have two nations. Hence the pullout of Gaza in 2005 by the Israelis. Peace will never occur with Hamas in power. As I've said, with Fatah there is a chance. Look at Egypt, even they have been afraid of Hamas. Most western nations have Hamas on a terrorist list of some type.

Also Israeli's military doesn't even show in the top ten combat forces, unless you consider its nuclear weapons which it never has used despite being in quite a few conflicts.

I think Hamas will continue to have power as long as Isreal does not make concrete steps toward peace. Hamas is really powered by popular support, and they get a lot of support in Gaza as they are often seen as the only option to improving their own lives. Its doubtful that most of the people that support Hamas in Gaza really support all of its rhetoric. But desperate times call for desperate measures.

I think Fatah and Isreal should move forward on creating a two state solution regardless of the participation of Hamas. If they can create a path toward peace, Hamas over time will probably loose support as an alternative has been provided.

ideas

Nothing, I thought so.

i'm thinking that Isreal is thinking that they'll gain nothing, zippo from this for the Pals and the arabs will whine about other things. after the Pals get their state they'll continue to moan so there is zippo gain for Isreal for a Pal state... zippo!

Isreal could create the Pal state, pave the Pal state's street and sidewalks, install a great infrastructure, build them public buildings and parks and the Pals and the Arab world still would want Isreal to leave the ME so again... a Pal state has zippo benefits for Isreal.

Unfortunately both sides need all the land and control of water that they can get. Growing populations, in what in a climate not much better than a desert, its going to remain the point of contention.

Hi all,

New here and recently met my love through my church singles website and I'm looking at the K1 process.

When can we start the K1 Visa process? Does a visit in person have to occur before the start of the K1 process? or can that be done after or does it even have to occur?

You can't file anything until after a meeting has occurred. But you can plan ahead and get paperwork ready before and during your meeting together. There are some things your fiancee will have to sign (Although they may have relaxed that somewhat since I did the process)

Robert Reich <-- can't stand this guy.

marketplace.org has him as commentator. he is all about big gov't and higher taxes. but, what can you expect from a berkeley professor, right?

At least he is offering ideas, what do you got?

I don't think this is that likely to pass, I could be wrong though. Some of the rural areas of Indonesia are still rather conservative.

But as mentioned in the article there are ways around it, from "converting" to another religion or getting married in Singapore. I think it will end up backfiring pretty badly.

Too bad this will most likely apply to legal marriages, not religious ones were men marry a multi women or marry them for a weekend (Sort of Muslim version of prostitution, popular with Arab men).