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How many of the you know who's have their house done up like think. I am betting at least 5 or 6. Can't find the hat in this picture though.
http://www.wftv.com/slideshow/news/2691965...68;p=news;w=431
Hay! Just because I sit on aluminum foil doesn't mean I have my whole house like this!
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Or... Buffalo... Pratt and LAMBERT paints?
Pratt & Lambert opened for business back in 1849 in Buffalo, NY with a product that dried linseed oil paint. Soon afterward, the company grew and established itself as a quality paint producer. In 1908, it opened its industrial research laboratory dedicated to developing new products and ensuring quality control.
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CNN political unit has a 274-264 advantage for Bush......presidentialelect.org has the same number.....their last update was on July 29th.
From the CNN thing....WV and AZ....dems conceding those states now.
ORG and WAS could come into play for Bush, but not likely.
OH, FLA, NV and MO lean towards Bush......
IA, WI, MN lean towards Kerry.
FLA isn't getting much notoriety yet......2 years ago, Jeb Bush won re-election by 13 points.
Democrats focusing on a higher turnout in Miami-Dade.
Kerry campaign has made few inroads south of Maryland.....Kerry starting to pull ads from Virginia, Arkansas, Louisiana. Dem strategists concede they have little chance in those states.
This was interesting: "Part of Kerry's problem, aides say, has been a failure to generate support among a large segment of the African-American vote, particularly in states like Louisiana."
I guess it is for more years of dieing soldiers? Ah, but who cares, it's been only a 1000 or so?
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Excellent point?
So you advocate running down people in the street? Next time someone gets in your way... Run 'em down... Hay the guy had an attitude!
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Maybe she was? Then again in the absence of such signals?...Hmmm... I think it is called COURTESY that you stop.
You'd think the police would practice the procedures they try to get others to adhere to...
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My wife is a labor and delivery nurse, has been for 4 years. All the incidences you speak of would never happen these days, but to claim that is due to lawyers is nonsense. I can tell you that my wife and her coworkers give the best treatment possible (my wife has had 2 babies, one whose heartrate dropped dangerously low during delivery, so I know the overall level of care). Their treatment has nothing to do with lawyers - it has to do with advancing medical technology, better training, etc.
My wife and coworkers have the option of getting personal liability insurance, in case they make a mistake, so they are covered from the frivelous lawsuits. My wife and many of her coworkers choose not to do so. They do not because they are driven not out of fear from lawyers, but out of a passion for their job and a knowledge that they are doing their job correctly and at a high level.
Pretending that lawyers create the high level of hospital care is a joke. They may help in taking down some of the crooked doctors out there, but they are also putting hundreds of exceptional doctors out of business or forcing them to go to other states. Do you think lawyers are doing their jobs when entire emergency rooms have to shut down because they can no longer stay in business due to extraordinary malpractice insurance?
Lawyers aren't the only problem though, it is the ridiculous perception by most of society that whenever something goes wrong, you better sue. My sister-in-law almost died after a c-section to deliver twins. The main reason was because of poor nursing care. Her husband would have been left to raise 5 girls under the age of 7. They could have sued for millions and they should have if they took advice from an attorney. They never sued and never asked for one cent. What is ridiculous is that lawyers encourage people to ask for millions of dollars in damage - ridiculous amounts that are driven from greed alone.
Have lawyers created a sense of accountability in healthcare? Yes. Have they been responsible for better training of those in healthcare? No. Have they been responsible for advancing medical technology? No. Are they responsible for abusing their powers, driving good doctors out of business and advancing the idea that greed is acceptable? Yes.
With my son we had a choice of turning with forceps or c-section... We had previously decided that we wanted no part of forceps... That GOD! When the doctor did the c-section, he said the way my son was wedged, he would have never have accomplished it with the forceps.
What I can't figure out, during the emerg. c-section, he cut her vertically on the outside and horizontally on the inside (that is what he said)... Why?
Would a "Bikini" or horizontal incision been deemed vain in an emerg. procedure?
I don't know? Maybe your wife can explain?
He was an old school doctor... Did a great job. He was a master at circumsision also... All the nurses rave at how he could zip the thing off perfectly in the matter of seconds!...
They would say with the younger doc it would be an awfully long process? 
They are finding out that V-back is not all it is cracked up to be... Going back to the old way, because of chance of hemmorhage. My daughter was a planned c-section.
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You miss my point. Many people came home and denounced the war...after they did their 12-13 months. I would have much less difficulty with this had Kerry done so. He didn't leave on a stretcher-and I wouldn't want him or anyone else to-but we're talking about a focus and attitude. JK could have easily remained with his unit-yet chose to take the first available out. As the circumstances surrounding at least one of his PH's are suspect, there is every chance that they were manipulated to do so. There's every chance that they weren't. But the question is certainly there. Had he remained somewhat low key and quiet about it, I wouldn't take issue. But this fella knows damn well he bailed on his oath and obligations back then, and wants to stand up now and scream his duty from the rooftops.
Now, we are taking this guy and putting him in a position to lead not a dozen - but millions. And no one is questioning this. I knew after watching Clinton in action that the idea of honor was gone from our government. This is what it gives us. At least Gore didn't make his service a centerpiece.
Ya, but, what if your unit is doing something fundementally immoral?... Why remain quiet? Isn't his moral obligation to speak out and denounce it? The medals and ribbons aren't related because you can still obtain them helping your unit. They have no bearing on what you were originally doing there to begin with, which I suspect was not on the up and up.
Flash ahead to to the prison scandel. Are you saying that people caught up in it should just remain quiet and not say anything? Maybe that is why the problem festered and grew worse?
I think it was a sign of frustration that he threw the medals away. I don't see everything as intertwined as you do.
It all comes down to doing what is right, sometimes maintaining honor isn't right. It is much harder to speak out on what you feel is wrong.
That is the change we need.
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But, Doritoes is all they can find at the "Quickee Mart", since no supermarket will want to set up shop in the hood.
At least they don't have cable?
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I knew you were gonna hit me with that!
Doesn't it always seem that the most needed things usually get the backburner?
Kinda like:
"Honey, do we we have any extra money so we can upgrade our leaky toilets?"
"No, I am flying to Buffalo for opening day... We'll get to it in March if the money is there."
Sappers and miners I guess weren't too bright also. I guess that is something they share in common?
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Technically... I guess... The Corps celebrates "Corps Day" every June... So I guess they count June 16, 1775. It was the fortifications at Bunker Hill (Breed's), June 17, 1775... that actually got the ball rolling???
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The way it shaped up after the Rev, Lewis and Clark and all that was more or less putting down the weapons during peace time, start digging and building an emerging nation. There are still two distinct missions, one civilian and one military.
Does it really matter??...
Anyway, I am not as irreverent in person.
Stay cool!
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I think I got you beat by 5 months...
USACE:
Branch Type: Combat Arms
Birthday: Continental Congress authority for a "Chief Engineer for the Army" dates from 16 June 1775. A Corps of Engineers for the United States was authorized by the Congress on 11 Mar 1779. The Corps of Engineers, as it is known today, came into being on 16 March 1802, when the President was authorized to "organize and establish a Corps of Engineers... that the said Corps...shall be stationed at West Point in the State of New York and shall constitute a Military Academy." A Corps of Topographical Engineers, authorized on 4 July 1838, was merged with the Corps of Engineers on 3 March 1963.
USMC:
Establishment of the Marine Corps, 10 November 1775
This resolution of the Continental Congress marked the establishment of what is now the United States Marine Corps.
"Resolved, That two Battalions of marines be raised, consisting of one Colonel, two Lieutenant Colonels, two Majors, and other officers as usual in other regiments; and that they consist of an equal number of privates with other battalions; that particular care be taken, that no persons be appointed to office, or inlisted into said Battalions, but such as are good seamen, or so acquainted with maritime affairs as to be able to serve to advantage by sea when required: that they be inlisted and commissioned to serve for and during the present war between Great Britain and the colonies, unless dismissed by order of Congress: that they be distinguished by the names of the first and second battalions of American Marines, and that they be considered part of the number which the continental Army before Boston is ordered to consist of."
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Cut it out. What did the Marine Corps trademark the term. Anyway, wasn't the Army Corps of Engineers formed right after the Battle of Bunker Hill, 1775? Didn't the Continental Congress authorize it then?
What is the Marine Corps birthday? Does 1775 beat it, I am pretty sure it does, whose the wannabee?
Essayons!
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I work next to a landfill... It seems I am always picking them up someway there. Usually it can be fixed at work.
One time I was leaving to find out I had a flat on one tire, got out and looked and both front tires were flat.
Maybe somebody hates me??...
That can't be because there is only 13 people at the field site... How could I make that many enemies?...
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Seems like the Dave Matthews Band is in a bit of a "sticky wicket". On August 8, 2004... It seems his bus released sewage while going over the Chicago River... I guess it went through the grate and hit people on a tour boat below. They even got it on tape...
The bus driver said it was an accident? Ya, you just happened to be over the river?Madigan's lawsuit accuses Wohl of flipping a switch behind his seat and unleashing up to 800 pounds of "liquid waste" as he drove one of the band's buses over the Kinzie Street bridge at 1:18 p.m. The sewage fell on Chicago's First Lady, an architectural tour boat, and filth splashed into the eyes and mouths of passengers....
They don't call it the "Sh*t Ditch" for nothing?
Aren't they supposed to be concerned about the enviro.?
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Oh... I forgot to add. I am really not a "What if" person. I just can't think that way. I "hit the ball that is in front of me"...
Am I patronizing or what?
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Who says there has to be (objective journalism)? If there wasn't objective journalism from the conglomerates during your lifetime, I take there wasn't any ever in this country. Objective journalism is realtively a new concept in the last 90 years or so. We are just getting back to our roots... Who really cares? Who needs to care?
So what, let the media outlets polarize... Whipty do!
This is getting easier than shooting fish in a barrel.
I must of woke up on the wrong side of the bed?
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You got numbers on those previous years?
Did they keep numbers 40, 50 years ago? Thank you lawyers, because facts suck!
Facts do suck AD, and you can thank your local lawyer for compiling those facts. Without them you wouldn't even be able to bandy about any numbers.
Come back when you grow up, you are still living in your paper-doll world... Livin' ain't easy there nature boy.
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I'm sorry for the loss of your brother, but I find it disgusting that you charge the reason doctors do the best job they can is to avoid lawsuits, and that this fear justifies the existence of trial lawyers who file frivelous lawsuits. When my son was born prematurely, I guarantee you the neonatal intensive care staff who assembled at a moments notice to take care of his first hours were more driven by compassion for a baby's life than fear of some lawyer.
You think they would have in say the 1960's?... If you think so, you gotta be dreaming.
Like I said dream on... What you explain is the product of the years and A TEAM BEING there. Ya, the compassion is there... What if the teams of neonatalogists weren't assembled like in the old days?
Here is another one:
My mother went into labor with my older sister in 1963, she entered Sister's Hospital at 11:50... You know what the nurse that was on staff that evening did?
Helped her to a gurny, crossed her legs and said: "Hang on sweetie, the next crew comes in at 12:00"... NO FREAKIN' KIDDING!...
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Are these vets and I guess you guys so thinned skinned that coming back and having one of your fellow soldiers complain/protest actually affects them? I guess some real crazy crap went on that they just can't come to terms with.
So what? He kissed and told. Get a life and get over it.
I never spent a day in the military... Thank God... I just work for the Corps as a civilian... Pretty bizarre in itself!
My father always said, "Never, never go in the service, unless you need to or after college". Guess what dad? I went to UB for four years and landed a job with the USACE.
All you gung-ho types... I guess Iraq is pretty FUBAR'ed... They are looking for bodies left and right... Fellow employee just got back, and they already called him and asked if he wanted to be re-deployed. No thanks...
It is the wild west out there boyzzz, go for it!
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Ahhh... Touche Dan...
Yet he did mention that the hole was in the sidewall, way too high for all the water to drain out... Running a couple 5/8" holes through the middle of the tread pattern should throughly drain the buggers.
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It is all George Bush's fault for letting people take more money home that they earned! That is such an unforgivable idea! You don't work for yourself and your family you work for the government to take your money--everybody knows that. We, on average work close to six months to pay our tax bill--maybe we should work 9 months to pay it off before we actually get the money we earn.
Lets not pay any taxes at all. Maybe a you can skip using the infrastructure to get to your job. A horse and buggy works great for making house-calls.
9/11 Toy Bloody slime balls
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Exactly KD!
Gentle People!