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Well here’s your hope and change; IRS aims to clarify investment income tax under healthcare law.
(Reuters) – The Internal Revenue Service has released new rules for investment income taxes on capital gains and dividends earned by high-income individuals that passed Congress as part of the 2010 healthcare reform law.
The 3.8 percent surtax on investment income, meant to help pay for healthcare, goes into effect in 2013. It is the first surtax to be applied to capital gains and dividend income.
The tax affects only individuals with more than $200,000 in modified adjusted gross income (MAGI), and married couples filing jointly with more than $250,000 of MAGI. -
Crap, left out the LINK
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The AAA says the Environmental Protection Agency and gasoline retailers should halt the sale of E15, a new ethanol blend that could damage millions of vehicles and void car warranties.
AAA, which issued its warning today, says just 12 million of more than 240 million cars, trucks and SUVs now in use have manufacturers’ approval for E15. Flex-fuel vehicles, 2012 and newer General Motors vehicles, 2013 Fords and 2001 and later model Porsches are the exceptions, according to AAA, the nation’s largest motorist group, with 53.5 million members.
“It is clear that millions of Americans are unfamiliar with E15, which means there is a strong possibility that many may improperly fill up using this gasoline and damage their vehicle,” AAA President and CEO Robert Darbelnet tells USA TODAY. “Bringing E15 to the market without adequate safeguards does not responsibly meet the needs of consumers.” -
Love the cartoon. Our neighborhood streets have large trees on either side, which arbor over the street. The JWs love our neighborhood for this reason, and they can often be seen, walking down our streets in twos and threes. And by often, I mean sometimes once a week, with gusts of twice a week.
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Environmentalists blockade themselves inside pipe for the Keystone Pipeline.
From the (rather harsh) comments OR “How Do You Extract an Eco Terrorist from Inside a Cylindrical Self-Imposed Prison – or Do You?”:Now is a perfect time to turn that thing on.
They should have just gone ahead and buried the section of pipe and built a by-pass around it. Problem solved.
Stuff a skunk in the other end and video the exit!!LOL
First flush them out with a combination of tear gas and vomiting agent. Wait until those who hold out are so dehydrated they are unable to resist. Spray out the mess with high pressure ice cold water, remove them forcably, fine them for the cost of the enforcement action, force them to pay 5 fold restitution to the pipeline company and if they refuse restitution, 10 years on a chain gang paving blacktop streets in El Paso in summer and shoveling snow in Ankorage during the winter months. Nothing short of these measures will end this eco-terrorism.
These radicals are emboldened because they are not afraid to perform the asinine acts, because liberals have created the rules of engagement. Evac the air in the pipe to knock them out. Then remove at your leisure.
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How Do You Extract an Eco Terrorist from Inside a Cylindrical Self-Imposed Prison
Fire a pig down the line. The pipeline guys will do that anyway as part of the testing. Might as well do a pre-test.
Also fun would be to pump a bit of propane into one end (shouldn’t take too much) and light it. Flaming hippies will shoot out the other end in short order. -
Movie about the rise of Hitler in the works:
“And it’s equally important — in light of the dark forces in our world today — to understand how a group like the Nazis ever came to power.”
Oh my goodness, does someone in the movie biz see problems in our current political climate? Could this have a conservative bent?
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An Iraqi refugee blows up a federal office with an IED and the MSM pretends they don’t even know the guy’s name.
Patrick Poole at PJMedia:ven though Aldosary’s identity was known to news agencies on Friday after his arrest, national and international media outlets, such as CNN and Reuters which published reports late Friday night, noted his arrest but not his identity. And none but local media have reported Aldosary’s name ever since.
Now imagine if a Tea Partier — or even someone who shared the same name as a Tea Partier – had fire bombed a federal facility less than a month after Barack Obama’s reelection. Anyone think it would be getting more media coverage?
UPDATED (8:25p EDT): I just spoke again with my contact in the FBI Phoenix field office (who is not authorized to speak on behalf of the FBI office). This contact said that it is highly unlikely that Aldosary will be charged with any terrorism offense. While they are internally treating it like a domestic terrorism investigation, including looking at if he had any help constructing the explosive device, the FBI is saying very little and will prosecute this as a simple explosives and arson case because of “the political sensitivities involved.” -
G’Morning All
A true wildcatterCarl G. Cromwell, ignoring orders, brings in world’s deepest oil well
December 04, 1928
On this day in 1928, Carl G. (the Big Swede) Cromwell drilled the world’s deepest oil well. In the wake of his 1923 success with the famed Santa Rita No. 1, Cromwell had become drilling superintendent of the Texon Company’s rapidly expanding field on University of Texas land in Reagan County. He also acquired his own leases and became known as an honest, generous, free-spirited wildcatter. In association with company engineer Clayton W. Williams, Cromwell experimented in drilling deeper than the average 3,000 feet. In 1926 Williams located a site and Cromwell’s crews began work. In late November 1928, because of mounting expenses and problems, Cromwell was directed to shut down. Instead, he disregarded orders, went into hiding, and kept drilling. On December 4, at 8,525 feet, University 1-B came in. It remained the world’s deepest oil well until 1931, the same year in which Cromwell died in an automobile accident. -
I got an idea, no spine, no juevoes, no job.Boehner, GOP Leaders Purge Conservatives from Powerful Committees
by Matthew Boyle 3 Dec 2012 132 post a comment
UPDATE: Boehner Scoffs
UPDATE: Boehner Spokesman Kevin Smith responds- “The Steering Committee makes decisions based on a range of factors.”
House Speaker John Boehner and GOP leadership have removed several conservative House members from their respective powerful committee positions, Breitbart News has learned.
Effective next Congress, leadership pulled Kansas Republican Rep. Tim Huelskamp, Michigan Republican Rep. Justin Amash and Arizona Republican Rep. David Schweikert off committees from which they could exert conservative pressure on fiscal matters. Amash and Huelskamp were pulled from the Budget Committee and Schweikert from the Financial Services Committee.
Huelskamp, a freshman elected during the 2010 tea party wave, thinks the leadership move to pull him from the powerful committee is revenge for him standing up for conservatism. “It is little wonder why Congress has a 16 percent approval rating: Americans send principled representatives to change Washington and get punished in return,” Huelskamp said in a Monday night statement. “The GOP leadership might think they have silenced conservatives, but removing me and others from key committees only confirms our conservative convictions. This is clearly a vindictive move, and a sure sign that the GOP Establishment cannot handle disagreement.” -
It’s gonna be a bad day. How do you explain this to your boss?
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And here are 19 People Who Are Having A Way Worse Day Than You
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NYT is a little upset that businesses are moving to Texas.
They are upset that our wages are lower and our poverty rate is higher.
Well, duh.
We don’t like unions here, which drive up wages, which drives up the cost of living. Plus, we have a large number of illegals or just-legals here who are willing to work for lower wages. And if we could stop that flood of illegals from coming over the border, our poverty rate would probably drop. Wages might go up, but then there’d be jobs for all those welfare recipients, who are just waiting for job openings to come up for them. /sarc offPerry acknowledged the state’s poverty level, saying, “we are going to have people that fall through the cracks.” But he responded the best way to ameliorate that problem was to create jobs; Texans, he said, “don’t want government assistance when they can do it themselves.”
Got that right. The best social program is a job. Heard that this morning.
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Saving a whale. (real vid, not a joke)
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TT
I also noticed that NYT didn’t comment about how many eateries, car dealers, shopping areas, ad infinitum pop up around these areas. Every one of them have untrained and lower trained jobs available. All the wusses have to do is go apply. -
Great whale video. Musta been quite a good feeling.
I’ve been invited to a girls night out next week. Jeez, I think I need one. -
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Great vidiot OTL of the whale.
But more importantly did ya see the red Speedo that guy was wearing? Whoohoo I gotta get me one of those. -
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Your thought process went from whales to going out with the girls????
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The speedo comment reminds me of how to identify a retired yankee in Florida.
They are bald, pasty white, overweight with a pot belly and wearing a red Speedo with their left testicle hanging out. -
I did not know squack was a retired Yankee in Florida!
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#18 Squawkster
the red Speedo
The guy had tan lines around the Speedo so clearly that is his usual getup when out in the sun.
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#19 OTL
Your thought process went from whales to going out with the girls????
I had the same reaction but would never have mentioned it — if you hadn’t!!
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TT, do you have to rescue your BFFs from entanglements, in order to have a Girls Night Out?
Or is it **YOU** that has to get unentangled?
Am I getting warmer?
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New fashion for you fashion-forward types.
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Yeah, you first, Shannon. Try the pink see-through. Have your wife call Hammy after she puts you in the mental hospital.
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#26 – Apparently MsBeatlesKiller has an eye for design that is just about as valuable as her
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A step in the right direction.
The USDA is now considering biometric identification for all individuals who will want to benefit from their Food and Nutrition Services. The RFID chip may just soon be a must for everyone who does not want to starve!
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Biometric identification technology provides automated methods to identify a person based on physical characteristics—such as fingerprints,…—including signatures and voice patterns.
Biometric identification systems are currently operational at some level in Arizona, California (under county initiative, first by Los Angeles County), Connecticut, Illinois, Massachusetts, New Jersey, New York, and Texas. Finger imaging is the principal form of technology used in all eight States, …
From the USDA
A small number of duplicate applications (approximately 1 duplicate for every 5,000 cases) have been detected by finger imaging systems….Additional matches have been found by interstate comparisons of finger-image data.
Institution of a finger-imaging requirement can produce a significant, short-term reduction in caseload, because some existing clients refuse to comply with the requirement. The number of refusals depends on the implementation procedures and appears to be lower when finger imaging is incorporated into the recertification process.Next up, drug testing.
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US ICE uses biometrics now. When I use my Nexus card to get back into the country or into Canada, I have the option (usually) of a fingerprint scanner or iris scanner. It’s kind of weird – you look into a camera-like kiosk and a few seconds later it spits out a ticket with your name on it.
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These are the Senate Republicans who voted FOR the UN Persons with Disabilities treaty. Fortunately, it still failed, 61 FOR to 38 AGAINST.
Republican Sens. Kelly Ayotte (N.H.), John Barrasso (Wyo.), Scott Brown (Mass.), Susan Collins (Maine), Dick Lugar (Ind.), John McCain (Ariz.), Olympia Snowe (Maine) and Lisa Murkowski (Alaska) voted with Democrats in favor of the treaty.
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McCain seems to be determined to make it into the RINO Hall of Fame before he dies.
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I think I’ll get the nipple shirt and cut out the dots.
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Hi everyone! Hope you’re going well. Thanks for the well wishes regarding my son. I lost internet after it happened when my puppy decided to use it as a chew toy. Replacing it after work today.
He had just pulled in the driveway to his house 11pm (TC Jester and 1960) when a black male about 5’9 and skinny build wearing a gold grill tried to jack his car. Trust me, his car is not that great. Bobby told him that we was going to turn around and walk into his house and if the wiss wants to be a wisser, he’s gonna hafta shoot him in the back.
It coulda been worse and shot in the back but instead, the wisser clocked him in the head with his gun and shot him in the leg, missing his tibia by 1/4″. At least he still has his car and I’m calling him Eileen for now……
Now, any person fitting the description above will be shot 1st and then questioned by me. Thanks again! (((HUGS))) -
Damn ST! Why did the wisser not take the car?
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Miss you ST! Please come back!
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Getting a little grayish over her at The Dome.
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Put my Gordon Lightfoot channel on Pandora. I don’t know that I can handle Hannity right now. I’m more productive with the music, and Office Help is out sick today.
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Getting a little grayish over her at The Dome.
Over her, or over here?
Need ST to come back and liven us up with her colorful life events? Why, yes, yes we do! -
I really like Lightfoot’s “Shadows”. I like almost everything he does, though.
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Now that the contentious trolls are gone, maybe we can sweet talk her back?
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I don’t think that was it. ST gets along with “Theo”.
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He’s not nearly as annoying on Facebook. Heck, he started out being civil here on the Couch, too. As time went on though, his responses just got uglier and uglier.
The one time I met him in person, at Bear Creek Park, he was okay to hang out with.
I don’t know what drives him to become such a butt with constant contact. I would have liked for him to stay, if he could keep his comments above the belt during political or religious discussions, but he’s just not able. -
The Senate Conservatives Fund is hosting an email-your-Senators link to tell them to vote NO on Jackwagon Boehner’s push for higher taxes & a new stimulus. It’s very convenient to click on Hitchison and Cronyn. (I couldn’t resist a little snide in my email to KBH.)
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Sleeping dogs….
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Getting thundery over here.
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I just heard thunder and checked weather radar. Looks like Adee must be getting some rain way out her way. Less so up near me, but chances improve through the day, culminating in 100% (yeah right) at 7 pm.
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I’m seeing lightning. I may turn things off over here for a while, ’til the worst passes. We’ll see.
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Yep, right overhead. See y’all later.
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We dodged a bullet here. The mass of the storm, a huge blow, lightning, thunder, hail and rain traveled basically East up 105 to Cleveland and missed my place. Got some small boomers sneaking up on us now. I pray for those that got clobbered it was N A S T Y and only by God’s grace did it scoot by me. Yes it was that close. Y’all hunker down (take a pic I am in the mood to see some hunkering)
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Squawk
I was working just off 105 near Brenham when it came through. Must have gotten a lot worse by the time it reached you. -
Shannon
I checked radar and it was the most eerie thing to see where I physically live and the path of that HUGE cell just pass me by. I think i saw the formation of a small funnel cloud but it did not last long. Dunno if you have ever been in a tornado and seen the wind and clouds up close and personal, i have and what I saw was perzactly what the beginning of a storm looked like. -
We have been getting a steady drizzle here in Glorious Copperfield for most of the day.
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So I’ve purposely ignored politics for the last month. No news. No political jousting on the innernets. I’m good with it. In fact, another buddy and I are organizing a “burn your voter ID” event as we disengage from the body politic and look forward to rebuilding after the storm that’s a coming.
Today I stuck my toe in the water and did see where Scary Harry Reid is planning on filibuster reform. I assumed it was the so-called “nuclear option” that the Pubbies threatened a while back. Turns out I was wrong. First, what they call a filibuster these days is not what it was originally. Back in the late ’70s they all got together and decided that they would change the rules so that the mere threat of a filibuster would kill legislation from moving forward, without having to actually get up and filibuster “Mr.-Smith-Goes-To-Washington” style. That’s pure laziness. They SHOULD have to get up and actually filibuster to demonstrate their conviction to the issue! So I find myself agreeing with Harry Freaking Reid. That’s how messed up politics are these days. Change the rules, Harry! -
Hammie. Hooked on pilates.
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Dang Hammie has Altoids caught onto you or sumpin? You can use the inner wrapper to well take a look to see.
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There’s trouble a brewin in Egypt.
HEADLINE: Egypt’s Mursi leaves palace as police battle protesters
(Reuters) – Egyptian police battled thousands of protesters outside President Mohamed Mursi’s palace in Cairo on Tuesday, prompting the Islamist leader to leave the building, presidency sources said.
Officers fired teargas at up to 10,000 demonstrators angered by Mursi’s drive to hold a referendum on a new constitution on December 15. Some broke through police lines around his palace and protested next to the perimeter wall.
The crowds had gathered nearby in what organizers had dubbed “last warning” protests against Mursi, who infuriated opponents with a November 22 decree that expanded his powers. “The people want the downfall of the regime,” the demonstrators chanted.It seemsl like the move towards an islamist theocracy in Egypt is not a forgone conclusion. The people are not happy about the prospect at all. Morsi may be the pharoah wannabe with the shortest reign.
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Disruptive Mood Dysregulation Disorder
Having “severe recurrent temper outbursts that are grossly out of proportion in intensity or duration to the situation” at least three times a week: If this is your child, she or he could be a candidate for Disruptive Mood Dysregulation Disorder (DMDD), a controversial new psychiatric disorder that has been proposed for inclusion in the new DSM-5, the fifth revision of the Diagnostic Statistical Manual of the American Psychiatric Association (APA).
I think all psychiatrists should be committed.
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#58 Hamous: Said child could be cured from “the disease” by the appropriate use of the board of education applied smartly to the seat of knowledge.
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Just like Hamous I have dropped out of the political merry go round. Here is a 1932 political cartoon that illustrates quite poignantly why I quit. BTW it has only gotten worse. Tell me this does not look familiar to today.
I will stop here before I go off on a really nasty rant about the electorate and get myself in really bad trouble. Cause ya see at any point in history we get exactly the government we deserve. -
nother buddy and I are organizing a “burn your voter ID” event as we disengage from the body politic and look forward to rebuilding after the storm that’s a coming.
Lemme know when and where and I will bring the Lonestar and a gallon of mormon Martinis for me.
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mormon Martinis
water with a twist? Stirred not shaken?
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Hopping back on the ‘net. Hubby came home shortly after I turned off the ‘puters and told me that at the shop, 2 miles away, there was hail.
I scared the pee outta the cat. I love a good storm (another reason I wanted big porches), and BK was meowing for attention, so I wrapped a small blanket over her as i took her out to the porch. I knew I couldn’t let her get wet or all heck would break loose, so I was careful to keep her covered, dry, and comforted as much as possible. She was sticking her head out every now and then to look around at the noise, but the moisture from the blowing rain drove her back under pretty quickly. On one of her periscope moves, there was a lightning strike pretty close by, possibly the airport, with the accompanying thunder. She freaked out. I rushed her back in the house, still under blanket. As soon as she could, she exited the blanket under my chin, crawled up to my shoulder, and made the leap to the couch, from which she ran to her room.
At least she didn’t take my shoulder out doing it.
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#15 #18
But more importantly did ya see the red Speedo that guy was wearing? Whoohoo I gotta get me one of those.
IMHO; A 70 + year old man shouldn’t wear panities when he swims,….Bleaching my eyeballs as we speak…… 🙁
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#58 – DMDD my hind leg!
I’ll see your DMDD and RAISE it a SAWIP (severe A$$ whuppin in progress)
Which IMHO is what many if not most of these younguns diagnosed with behavioral “disorders” need forthwith! -
Bunsonburner
Yup
Superdave
Awww man once you have worn a Speedo life just is not the same. People look at ya differently, treat ya differently and peace abounds wherever you go. -
Katfish
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After a lot of drizzling rains, we finally got a gully washer, complete with clinking sound of small hail hitting the windows on the west side of the house. I watched out the back windows to see if I could see any hailstones bouncing on the patio or old wood deck, but nothing was visible in the heavy downpour.
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I used to like Ed Asner.
Not any more.
This is so full of lies and obfuscations and omissions that I am thoroughly disgusted. Not sure if it’s at Ed and the producers of this ludicrous video, or the people that will believe the contents. They say it’s not for kids, but it sure seems to be at that level.
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We need a cartoon showing the poor not only not paying taxes but getting a bundle from the rest of us at tax time, just because. Wonder if Asner takes any tax breaks.
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Bunsonburner
YupMormon martini or rubber band around a furry nerf ball?
Both?
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My wife’s employer has been notified by Medicare that he wil now be paid 10 cents for doing an EKG.
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Crap, Woman, 116, listed as ‘world’s oldest’ dies in Ga.
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#74 Shannon, are you serious?! I’ve heard that a regular doctor gets $10 for a visit, but dang!! This is why a lot of doctors are dropping Medicare.
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#70 Squawkie
Sorry, I forgot about the assignment.
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Bob Costas’ grudging mea culpa over his gun control blurt-out:
maybe I gave the audience too much credit
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Nothing to do with anything but I’ve got a sore spot on the doctor office EKG machine and other toys. Couple of years ago I was in to see our local doctor for prolly a cold or some such, they wheeled out their new EKG machine and it read I had a murmur or skip or something. I’d never had any kind of heart issues, wasn’t what I was in there for, so I dismissed it. The wife was there though, scared her to death, the doc said it must be checked (CYA), it was 5 o’clock on Friday, no place to go but emergency room. Hunnerd bucks we didn’t have and several hours later, ER doc says all is fine and EKG would have shown if there was EVER an issue.
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#34 ST, Dang dammit, I’ve been outta’ pocket and NOT keeping up, but I guess that your boy is doing OK? I hope so, prayers to you and yours…. 🙁
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NYC being sued over red light cameras and too-short yellows.
It seems that the yellows were shorted in order to generate millions in revenue for the city.
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Thinking about you guys tonight. http://bit.ly/QG7XrA
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#82 DJ
That was something. I love Mullins’ music, and the song he sang is one I have on his “Jesus” album. I can tell that it was still a work in progress on this video, because the words were changed slightly.
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Late to the party. We got 0.30″ from about 1 to 3:30 this afternoon, nothing heavy just steady. Plenty of lightning and thunder–some of it close by–but no hail. Since our entire November total was only 0.20″ we are grateful for today’s amount. No puddles other than on the driveway.
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Yes, i’m serious. 10 cents.
At that rate, I’m not sure how many thousand you would have to do to cover the cost of even one roll of paper.
You can’t practice internal medicine without having an EKG machine.
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