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ENGLAND RUGBY TEAM SERIOUS ABOUT SIM RUGBY
London, England, October 23, 2009 – The revolutionary new game that is spreading across the nation has some serious players - the national rugby team.
We are referring to SIM rugby, the newest version of the most popular game that England invented but are no longer good at.
What you should know about SIM rugby: It is the familiar rugby in a new avatar; they’ve discarded the ball in favour of the SIM card.
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.
Max Blumenthal on Fresh Air
I know this is long and a little weird because its in interview format, but I thought this was great when I heard it the other day. This is FRESH AIR. I'm Terry Gross.How the World's Biggest Corporations, From Starbucks to Wal-Mart to Barnes & Noble, Claim to Be 'Local'
HSBC, one of the biggest banks on the planet, has taken to calling itself "the world's local bank." Starbucks is un-branding at least three of its Seattle outlets, the first of which just reopened as "15th Avenue Coffee and Tea." Winn-Dixie, a 500-outlet supermarket chain, recently launched a new ad campaign under the tagline, "Local flavor since 1956."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.
Obamacare Ad Wars
Obamacare Ad Wars While supporters of the health-care bill focus on politics, opponents focus on policy. by Libby Sternberg President Obama made an unfortunate stumble in his August 11 town hall meeting on health care reform. "FedEx and UPS are doing just fine," he said, attempting to allay fears that a public option would drive private insurers out of the market.Terrorists Get Appeals, Obamacare Patients Don’t
Terrorists Get Appeals, Obamacare Patients Don’t An unchecked executive tosses Americans into a legal black hole. By Andrew C. McCarthy Remember when Congress tried to limit al-Qaeda’s access to our courts?Great New makeup Products.........2009........Vol #2 April 27th 2009
Get Addicted With Jane Iredale’s Hottest Aqua Shades
Spring colors are all over the runways, including the cool aqua shades. That’s what makes this Jane Iredale Cool Beauty collection box such a must-have makeup set for this season.
So anyway, it is actually a US$122 value, but you can get it for only US$99!
VOGUE's Year In Fashion
What goes up must come down. Last year at this time, we commented on the rise of irrational exuberance. In 2008, the world landed with a loud and well-documented thud.
Taylor Momsen-Next "it" girl? /Article about her life
The young woman who approached the table by the window at the Pinkberry on Eighth Avenue and 18th street was nervous, breathless. She was sorry to interrupt, sorry to be a bother, she said. It was just that she loved Taylor Momsen so much.
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