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25 Ways to Save Money WebMD Commentary from "Good Housekeeping" MagazineBy Stephanie Nelson & Lisa Goff http://women.webmd.com/features/25-ways-save-money?ecd=wnl_wmh_030909 Lots of small savings can add up big. These easy penny-pinching tricks let you preserve more of your paycheck. Food and Drug Items 1.Obamacare...a personal look.
I am going to give you my personal look at Obamacare from a perspective which may seem a bit strange but in reality it should be alarming. The interesting thing is that most of all of my childhood I went without even some of the basic things people assume most everyone has. The only healthcare I had as a child was Medi-cal...which is the program upon which Obamacare was designed.
My father worked several part-time jobs as well as his full-time job as a Baptist minister. He did everything possible to provide for us, worked his fingers to the bone and still managed to comfort the people in our church and help them deal with their own problems. Not once did any congregation we served bother to possibly consider that making sure the minister and his family had any healthcare or even some of the basic necessities in life was one of their priorities. They did however call at any time of the day or night for his help and he was there for them.
Sometimes our whole family was there for them. I was a very experienced babysitter, cook, and housekeeper before I was even 11. This is not bitterness I speak from---it is my attempt at revealing to you that many who are among the uninsured are hardworking people often working in service-oriented positions which simply aren't offered healthcare.
So....let me get back to Medi-cal......the mentor of Obamacare. When I hear people on the Obamacare bandwagon I think they probably don't really understand what they are supporting. Many have never been on medi-cal.
Twitter Granny Celebrates Her 104th Birthday!
Who says old folks don't have interest in any social network like Twitter? And who says Twitter is just for teenagers? Recently I've read a news in CNN where an active Twitter user named Ivy Bean from Bradford, United Kingdom will celebrate her 104th brithday today.Chace Crawford by Christopher Bollen for Interview magazine-sept 09
Nate Archibald, the prep-school poster boy of all things physically right about American youth today, has a terrible father but a family legacy that keeps him afloat in Gossip Girl limos and designer cardigans. Last we saw Nate, he was headed to Columbia University, but not before he and Blair broke up at the prom and he headed off to Europe on a backpacking trip with his former flame Vanessa. Nate Archibald’s real-life counterpart, on the other hand, has an extremely supportive father—and mother for that matter, who during this interview was helping her son move from the apartment he shared with Gossip Girl co-star Ed Westwick to his own two-bedroom in Manhattan’s Financial District—but the 24-year-old actor had no Hollywood legacy to help him coast into the loafers of one of teenage fandom’s dreamiest heartthrobs.
Cancer
The Cancerian character is the least clear-cut of all those associated with the signs of the zodiac. It can range from the timid, dull, shy and withdrawn to the most brilliant, and famous Cancerians are to be found through the whole range of human activity. It is a fundamentally conservative and home-loving nature, appreciating the nest like quality of a secure base to which the male can retire when he needs a respite from the stresses of life, and in which the Cancerian woman can exercise her strong maternal instincts.Why Are the Media Protecting Geithner?
Why Are the Media Protecting Geithner? AIM Column | By Cliff Kincaid | January 14, 2009 ...according to the Washington Times, some of the delinquent taxes were “paid only after he learned that Mr. Obama was considering him for the post.” The Obama Transition Project says that Timothy Geithner, its Chinese-speaking Treasury Secretary nominee, made “honest mistakes” on his tax returns. This line comes from the same group that is telling us that a nearly $1 trillion “stimulus” bill taking us further into debt can be called the “American Recovery and Reinvestment Act.” Polling and focus groups came up with that brilliant deception.An American moment (uplifting)
An American moment By Mitch Albom I had been looking for just the right column to pen before Election Day. I think I may have found it — but not where I expected. It's the story of Marilyn Mock.Kitchen Goddess Library: Recommended Reading
Yesterday Twinks and I was sharing our favorite cook books with each other and we thought it'd be great to just share them with everyone else! So here's some of them
Some of the Kitchen Goddess' (Twinks) favorite cookbooks:
What's Cooking: Soups by Carole Clements
Book Description
Soups come in a variety of forms and flavors, from a light consommé to a hearty winter's stew. There is a soup for any time of the year, whether it be served hot or cold.
Frm. Reagan Chief of Staff to Vote Obama (PUBLIC)
the soldiers of the Reagan Revolution aren't backing McCain. Former Reagan adviser endorses Obama Posted: 01:35 PM ET (CNN) — Former Reagan chief of staff Ken Duberstein told CNN's Fareed Zakaria this week he intends to vote for Democrat Barack Obama on Tuesday. Duberstein said he was influenced by another prominent Reagan official - Colin Powell - in his decision.Record versus rhetoric
Record versus rhetoric By Thomas Sowell Apparently there is something about Sarah Palin that causes some people to think of her as either the best of candidates or the worst of candidates. She draws enthusiastic crowds and provokes visceral hostility in the media. The issue that is raised most often is her relative lack of experience and the fact that she would be "a heartbeat away from the presidency" if Senator John McCain were elected.
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