All categories - 30 June 2007

a triumph stag is a British motor vehicle 30 year old v8 convertible

2007-06-30 00:35:54 · 10 answers · asked by ironhorse1000cc 1 in Other - Car Makes

If so, Why?

2007-06-30 00:35:31 · 3 answers · asked by Anonymous in Polls & Surveys

One of the biggest debates the we continually have here on this forum is National Health Care. I'm finding more and more information with regards to other countries who have this and how it's failing.

Here are some excerpts and a link:
Who's Really 'Sicko'

In Canada, dogs can get a hip replacement in under a week. Humans can wait two to three years

"I haven't seen 'Sicko,' " says Avril Allen about the new Michael Moore documentary, which advocates socialized medicine for the United States. The film, which has been widely viewed on the Internet, and which will officially open in the U.S. and Canada on Friday, has been getting rave reviews. But Ms. Allen, a lawyer, has no plans to watch it. She's just too busy preparing to file suit against Ontario's provincial government about its health-care system next month.

Her client, Lindsay McCreith, would have had to wait for four months just to get an MRI, and then months more to see a neurologist for his malignant brain tumor. Instead, frustrated and ill, the retired auto-body shop owner traveled to Buffalo, N.Y., for a lifesaving surgery. Now he's suing for the right to opt out of Canada's government-run health care, which he considers dangerous. Ms. Allen figures the lawsuit has a fighting chance: In 2005, the Supreme Court of Canada ruled that "access to wait lists is not access to health care," striking down key Quebec laws that prohibited private medicine and private health insurance.

In the U.S., 83 House Democrats voted for a bill in 1993 calling for single-payer health care. That idea collapsed with HillaryCare and since then has existed on the fringes of the debate--winning praise from academics and pressure groups, but remaining largely out of the political discussion. Mr. Moore's documentary intends to change that, exposing millions to his argument that American health care is sick and socialized medicine is the cure.

It's not simply that Mr. Moore is wrong. His grand tour of public health care systems misses the big story: While he prescribes socialism, market-oriented reforms are percolating in cities from Stockholm to Saskatoon. Mr. Moore goes to London, Ontario, where he notes that not a single patient has waited in the hospital emergency room more than 45 minutes. "It's a fabulous system," a woman explains. In Britain, he tours a hospital where patients marvel at their free care. A patient's husband explains: "It's not America." Humorously, Mr. Moore finds a cashier dispensing money to patients (for transportation). In France, a doctor explains the success of the health-care system with the old Marxist axiom: "You pay according to your means, and you receive according to your needs." It's compelling material--I know because, born and raised in Canada, I used to believe in government-run health care. Then I was mugged by reality.

Consider, for instance, Mr. Moore's claim that ERs don't overcrowd in Canada. A Canadian government study recently found that only about half of patients are treated in a timely manner, as defined by local medical and hospital associations. "The research merely confirms anecdotal reports of interminable waits," reported a national newspaper. While people in rural areas seem to fare better, Toronto patients receive care in four hours on average; one in 10 patients waits more than a dozen hours.

This problem hit close to home last year: A relative, living in Winnipeg, nearly died of a strangulated bowel while lying on a stretcher for five hours, writhing in pain. To get the needed ultrasound, he was sent by ambulance to another hospital.

In Britain, the Department of Health recently acknowledged that one in eight patients wait more than a year for surgery. Around the time Mr. Moore was putting the finishing touches on his documentary, a hospital in Sutton Coldfield announced its new money-saving linen policy: Housekeeping will no longer change the bed sheets between patients, just turn them over. France's system failed so spectacularly in the summer heat of 2003 that 13,000 people died, largely of dehydration. Hospitals stopped answering the phones and ambulance attendants told people to fend for themselves.

http://socglory.blogspot.com/

Seriously, folks... Is THIS what we want for our country? A system that is failing elsewhere?
There have to be other alternatives, don't you think?

2007-06-30 00:35:11 · 23 answers · asked by Anonymous in Politics

I mean what is the most effective way of driving a manual without stalling it in heavy traffic ?

2007-06-30 00:35:10 · 7 answers · asked by lightning5312001 1 in Other - Cars & Transportation

Which composer makes you scratch your head and go "I can't understand what others see in him!"?

2007-06-30 00:34:47 · 14 answers · asked by Belzetot 5 in Classical

2007-06-30 00:34:44 · 19 answers · asked by da dude 4 in Polls & Surveys

2007-06-30 00:34:33 · 12 answers · asked by DAVE 6 in Etiquette

I have known this friend of mine for almost 30 years and have not seen him for 15. He is coming to stay with me for a few days but i have heard he has joined a cult.Does anyone have any ideas how i can enjoy his company but not take interest in this sect he`s associated with, without offending him.

2007-06-30 00:34:10 · 3 answers · asked by jason p 2 in Friends

I have been expecting a home delivery from 9am-11am from Tesco

They have not bothered to call me to tel me the delivery will be late or anything, it is me that has to call them, for them to say that they will call me back. They have not.

The driver is not answering his phone either.

I have looked online and it is saying that the items have been delivered.

They have taken the money off my card.

What can I do?

2007-06-30 00:33:51 · 15 answers · asked by Rebz 5 in Law & Ethics

after she had our daughter sex does not enterest her at all and its driving me crazy please help make sence of this problem

2007-06-30 00:33:27 · 19 answers · asked by chet26 1 in Other - Family & Relationships

Ok, so I broke up with my boyfriend of over two years tonight. He was my first everything. We've broken up before but I just felt somewhere deep down that he could change, so I went back to him and asked if we could get back together and we always do. Everytime it's the same thing..."I promise to do better," etc etc...
Problem is, he never does do better or when he does, it's not for too much longer then I find myself in the same place I was in before. It's a never ending cycle and I can't help but go back to him because I love him so much.
What do I?? How do I keep myself from contacting him? I know he expects me to contact him, and I kind of expect it of myself too, but deep down I know it can only end badly. Any advice?

2007-06-30 00:33:11 · 12 answers · asked by Bats 5 in Singles & Dating

whenever i look in my african land snails cage, there are little baby flies and these tiny little white things! they are really tiny but i dont no what they are! am i doing something wrong that makes the flies be born in poor dillains cage?! answer back a.s.a.p please im getting worried!!

2007-06-30 00:32:59 · 8 answers · asked by Anonymous in Other - Pets

2007-06-30 00:31:43 · 15 answers · asked by Clark in the City 4 in Other - Food & Drink

Spain, France & Germany all run socialist candidates for president. In the United States are scocialists don't even call themselves socialists. They call themselves liberals. Now that liberal has become unpopular they want to be called progressives. In the United States republican candidates fight over who is the most conservsative candidate. They all want that title. Democrats NEVER fight over the title of most LIBERAL. It would be the kiss of death come election time. Why is Socialism so popular in Europe and so unpopular in the United States?

My Favorite

Liberal/Progressive/Socialist;


"We are socialists, we are enemies of today's capitalistic economic system for the exploitation of the economically weak, with its unfair salaries, with its unseemly evaluation of a human being according to wealth and property instead of responsibility and performance, and we are all determined to destroy this system under all conditions." --Adolf Hitler

(Speech of May 1, 1927.)

2007-06-30 00:31:38 · 12 answers · asked by Anonymous in Politics

Won't let me put it in the music category!?

2007-06-30 00:31:38 · 9 answers · asked by Jaz 6 in Other - United Kingdom

apart from drinking the stuff obviously!
my family don't really drink, but we seem to have collected lots and lots of bottles of various alcohols over many years. most of them i think have been given to us as presents! there are lots and lots of them just gathering dust and we're never going to drink them.
apart from having a party (our house isn't big enough and some of the alcohol i don't think my friends would want to drink), or throwing them down the sink, how can i get rid of these?

2007-06-30 00:31:06 · 31 answers · asked by shortie_b 3 in Beer, Wine & Spirits

Instead of going to war in the middle east and dumping billions of dollars into an economy that is totally self destructive why dont we call back our troops and send them into mexico.
Use our military might to
1. wipe out the drug trade
2. wipe out the corruption in thier gov.
3. give them a country they can live in. (They already have a thriving tourist base)
Perhaps by doing this we can wipe out the illegal imagration problem, boost the U.S. economy, Take the strain off health care, reduce drug related and poverty related crimes.
The middle east is a lost cause we need to focus on the U.S.
Face it the middle east is never going to stop fighting but perhaps we can make things better here if we refocus our efforts. What do you think?

2007-06-30 00:31:01 · 14 answers · asked by Anonymous in Government

This old bug (in need of mechanical and body work) had been sitting out in a backyard for 6 years, by the time I got it. When I tried to start it I found that the battery was dead and wouldn't take a charge. I bought a new six volt battery and the motor turns over, but even with new gas, won't start.
From my coil wire, I got a very faint spark, but now get next to nothing. Bad coil? Bad voltage regulator? Anything else to look for, that may produce a low spark?
Would like to get it running so I can move it around my yard to the barn where I can work on it.

2007-06-30 00:30:49 · 9 answers · asked by Anonymous in Volkswagen

2007-06-30 00:30:32 · 3 answers · asked by starlite_starbrite07 1 in Buying & Selling

This old bug (in need of mechanical and body work) had been sitting out in a backyard for 6 years, by the time I got it. When I tried to start it I found that the battery was dead and wouldn't take a charge. I bought a new six volt battery and the motor turns over, but even with new gas, won't start.
From my coil wire, I got a very faint spark, but now get next to nothing. Bad coil? Bad voltage regulator? Anything else to look for, that may produce a low spark?
Would like to get it running so I can move it around my yard to the barn where I can work on it.

2007-06-30 00:30:29 · 4 answers · asked by Anonymous in Maintenance & Repairs

2007-06-30 00:30:28 · 23 answers · asked by Anonymous in Polls & Surveys

What makes you dislike her so much? I think the lady has lots of issues especially with her weight which I think is due to her husband always having affairs on her. OK, we all know she can't sing but why do people pick on her the whole time like when she was at the conference the other night with the Spice Girls.

2007-06-30 00:30:20 · 29 answers · asked by Anonymous in Celebrities

Turquoise , lavendar, brown, pink and dark green look nice with my complexion....

2007-06-30 00:29:45 · 35 answers · asked by Anonymous in Polls & Surveys

Have been a christian for ages...methodism, to evangelicalism, pentecostalism, christian science, christian meditation......but somehow its all forms. Its Christ I want to know. God I know and can feel. But Christ ?

2007-06-30 00:29:17 · 17 answers · asked by Anonymous in Religion & Spirituality

i got arrested because one of my friends asked a boy for £1 the victim went and told the police that we mugged him but it was only one boy who went up to him .the police caught us walking we got sent to the police station and we stayed there for 8 hours we had are pictures taken and d.n.a , fingerprints.

So does this mean i have a criminal record and i can't get a good job or even go to college or even university.

they also said that we are going to release you on bail and come back next month (((what does that mean))) i am 15 years old.

2007-06-30 00:29:09 · 14 answers · asked by Legger-nw10 1 in Law Enforcement & Police

2007-06-30 00:29:02 · 16 answers · asked by goodfella 5 in Family

Im 16 female and a virgin but im curious how long first times last.. some of my friends have said between 10-60 seconds?? That seems like a really short amount of time, but i suppose its how long you can take the pain for? if there is pain.

2007-06-30 00:29:00 · 13 answers · asked by Anonymous in Women's Health

i come from ireland and the most soppurted team are celtic and then liverpool,

2007-06-30 00:28:55 · 21 answers · asked by Anonymous in Other - Football

whoever dunnit, left their cars in very obvious and illegal places. Wouldn't you think thatthey would have left them as unobstrusive as poss? Does this theory mean I have terrorist tendencies[I haven't honestly]

2007-06-30 00:28:51 · 10 answers · asked by Anonymous in Law & Ethics