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Compare Experience of Pres & VP Candidates

Fri, 05 Sep 2008 03:47:27 GMT

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clipper's remarks: Politifact.com fact checkers.....
Get away from either party hype.

SUMMARY: We compare the backgrounds of the Democratic and Republican tickets.

Experience has been a popular issue this campaign season. Now that we know who all the players are on the Democratic and Republican tickets, we can tally up their backgrounds.

As we have noted in examinations of the candidates during the primary season, history doesn't provide a very clear record on the relationship between specific types of experience and performance in office. For our purposes, we'll avoid judgments about the value or relevance of the experience in these candidates' backgrounds and simply lay them out.

SEN. JOE BIDEN, Democratic vice presidential nominee

Biden, 65, was elected to the U.S. Senate representing Delaware at the young age of 29. He was not old enough to hold the office on Election Day, but he turned 30 before it was time to take the oath of office. This means Biden has been a U.S. senator for

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Incredible Japanese Fountain

Fri, 22 Aug 2008 03:05:16 GMT

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clipper's remarks: How do they do this??????

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Children of the storm-KATRINA

Tue, 19 Aug 2008 03:35:27 GMT

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clipper's remarks: Just found this very short film of kids a year after the storm. Watch it and see the impact of Katrina and the slow recovery.

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Simulating being 85 teaches compassion.

Sun, 17 Aug 2008 02:59:21 GMT

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clipper's remarks: When I was in social work grad school, I had to do this and it was very revealing. Everyone should slow down and care........

Clip Source: www.nytimes.com

What does it feel like to be old in America? At the Westminster Thurber Retirement Community here, Heather Ramirez summed it up in two words. “Painful,” she said. “Frustrating.”

Mrs. Ramirez is only 33, but on a recent morning she was taking part in a three-hour training program called Xtreme Aging, designed to simulate the diminished abilities associated with old age.

Along with 15 colleagues and a reporter, Mrs. Ramirez, a social worker at the facility, put on distorting glasses to blur her vision; stuffed cotton balls in her ears to reduce her hearing, and in her nose to dampen her sense of smell; and put on latex gloves with adhesive bands around the knuckles to impede her manual dexterity. Everyone put kernels of corn in their shoes to approximate the aches that come from losing fatty tissue.

They had become, in other words, virtual members of the 5.3 million Americans age 85 and older, the nation’s fastest-growing age group

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It is going to be a long recovery....

Sat, 16 Aug 2008 20:18:33 GMT

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clipper's remarks: My hometown, New Orleans, will survive but it will in spite of "official" help.....

Clip Source: www.nytimes.com

Amid Ruined New Orleans Neighborhoods, a Gadfly Buzzes

By ADAM NOSSITER

NEW ORLEANS — The citizens of this scarred city have grown accustomed to promises of grand official projects that will infallibly transform life here but somehow never do. Their attention is diminishing.

But not in the case of Karen Gadbois. She jumps in her car and checks up on the promises, driving for hours across the city, then blogs about the results on her kitchen table while her dogs yap around her. A few months ago, she discovered a city renovation program that was not actually fixing up houses.

That activism might normally go down as well-meaning naïveté. Here though, it can be incendiary, in a place where big public funds slosh around, citizen needs are still great at Hurricane Katrina’s three-year anniversary and City Hall’s grasp of its own initiatives is shaky.

In fact, it has set off a bomb that has exploded in slow motion here in the past three weeks, largely thanks to Ms. Gadbois:

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Boxing cat

Sun, 20 Jul 2008 07:08:31 GMT

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clipper's remarks: Another outstanding cat.

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Silly Kittens

Sun, 20 Jul 2008 07:05:52 GMT

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clipper's remarks: Meow

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PTSD & Episodic & Chronic Migraine

Sun, 20 Jul 2008 06:46:46 GMT

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clipper's remarks: Possible link between PTSD & these headaches.

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Post-Traumatic Stress Disorder in Episodic and Chronic Migraine

B. Lee Peterlin, DO; Gretchen Tietjen, MD; Sarah Meng, DO; Jeffrey Lidicker, MSc; Marcelo Bigal, MD, PhD

Posted 05/27/2008

Abstract and Introduction

Abstract

Objective: To assess and contrast the relative frequency of self-reported post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD) in patients with episodic migraine and chronic/ transformed migraine.
Background: Several risk factors have been identified as risk factors for chronification of headache disorders. Childhood abuse has been suggested as a risk factor for chronic pain in adulthood. In addition depression, as well as several other psychiatric disorders, are co-morbid with migraine. Recent data suggest that PTSD may be more common in headache sufferers than in the general population.

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Meet Faith

Sun, 20 Jul 2008 06:29:14 GMT

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clipper's remarks: Sweet Dog.....
We should all have the resilience of dogs!

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Cat, Rat, Dog

Tue, 15 Jul 2008 04:03:07 GMT

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clipper's remarks: I can't get any of my animals to do anything!

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Einstein, the parrot

Tue, 15 Jul 2008 03:08:59 GMT

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clipper's remarks: If you love parrots, especially African Greys, you will love Einstein.

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Find Going Price for Things

Tue, 15 Jul 2008 02:48:23 GMT

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clipper's remarks: Site finds what to charge for items you sell.

Clip Source: www.thrifthunting.com

Are you a modern day treasure hunter?

Welcome to ThriftHunting.com! This website is an online community for the modern day treasure hunter. Basically for anyone who enjoys the thrill of looking for valuable items at thrift stores, garage sales, yard sales, etc. This website also hosts an online utility named "hunter" that uses an item's UPC or ISBN to search for the minimum price as listed on various websites. So whether you're here for the utility or not I hope you enjoy the website and become a part of the thrift hunting community.

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PILL POPPING PETS

Tue, 15 Jul 2008 01:50:51 GMT

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clipper's remarks: OUR PETS BECOME US, FOR BETTER OR WORSE...

Clip Source: www.nytimes.com

The practice of prescribing medications designed for humans to animals has grown substantially over the past decade and a half, and pharmaceutical companies have recently begun experimenting with a more direct strategy: marketing behavior-modification and “lifestyle” drugs specifically for pets. America’s animals, it seems, have very American health problems. More than 20 percent of our dogs are overweight; Pfizer’s Slentrol was approved by the F.D.A. last year as the country’s first canine anti-obesity medication. Dogs live 13 years on average, considerably longer than they did in the past; Pfizer’s Anipryl treats cognitive dysfunction so that absent-minded pets can remember the location of the supper bowl or doggy door. For lonely dogs with separation anxiety, Eli Lilly brought to market its own drug Reconcile last year. The only difference between it and Prozac is that Reconcile is chewable and tastes like beef.

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WHOM NOT TO MARRY

Mon, 07 Jul 2008 03:00:26 GMT

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clipper's remarks: Maureen Dowd column ... very insightful. Has advice from a marriage counselor.

Clip Source: www.nytimes.com

“Never marry a man who has no friends,” he starts. “This usually means that he will be incapable of the intimacy that marriage demands. I am always amazed at the number of men I have counseled who have no friends. Since, as the Hebrew Scriptures say, ‘Iron shapes iron and friend shapes friend,’ what are his friends like? What do your friends and family members think of him? Sometimes, your friends can’t render an impartial judgment because they are envious that you are beating them in the race to the altar. Envy beclouds judgment.

“Does he use money responsibly? Is he stingy? Most marriages that founder do so because of money — she’s thrifty, he’s on his 10th credit card.

“Steer clear of someone whose life you can run, who never makes demands counter to yours. It’s good to have a doormat in the home, but not if it’s your husband.

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Anti-Bush Video

Sun, 29 Jun 2008 05:49:54 GMT

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clipper's remarks: Very interesting to watch.....

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