All categories - 22 August 2007

I'm aware is an offence, but I was wondering how would the insurance company become aware of this? They ain't going to keep watch of whose driving the car are they?? Sounds like big brother if they do!

2007-08-22 03:46:22 · 4 answers · asked by Anonymous in Insurance & Registration

2007-08-22 03:46:14 · 15 answers · asked by Anonymous in Astronomy & Space

r they cluking kidding us?

2007-08-22 03:46:03 · 9 answers · asked by Anonymous in Politics

2007-08-22 03:46:02 · 5 answers · asked by DPO 1 in Dental

no allah, or muhammad.

and why?

2007-08-22 03:45:43 · 9 answers · asked by Bluto Blutarsky16 2 in Religion & Spirituality

Hi anyone who works for construction related business... we have about 200 sets of drawings, and each set contains about 30- 50 pages. If you work for this area of business, you might have the same problem. They are huge and heavy, and when they are rolled up, they all look the same and you can't find the one you need. Then you use rubber bands to hold them together. You see the bands die so soon. How do you do this at your office? We got 2 of EXPEDIT book cases from IKEA, put them pararell so they can make enough depth to hold drawings. Do you have any better idea??

2007-08-22 03:45:26 · 4 answers · asked by peterpan's dream 1 in Other - Business & Finance

2007-08-22 03:45:17 · 6 answers · asked by Anonymous in Polls & Surveys

2007-08-22 03:45:17 · 20 answers · asked by shano 1 in Other - Sports

i bought my hamster a few days ago and i aslo bought some fun tunnle tubes to connect to my hamsters cage but then a couple of days ago i relised she was moveing her bedding in the tubes and putting it at the top. i also relized that she was takeing food up there aswell and now im curieous and wondering if she possibly could be pregnant but she seems like shes a baby herself....could anyone help?

2007-08-22 03:44:56 · 7 answers · asked by Anonymous in Rodents

i will have a hightcollege entrance exam,i afried i can not pass .what can i do?

2007-08-22 03:44:55 · 7 answers · asked by Ellen 1 in Standards & Testing

A. Ca2P3
B. CaP
C. Ca5P10
D. Ca2P
E. Ca3P2

2007-08-22 03:44:54 · 4 answers · asked by Vinny L 1 in Chemistry

2007-08-22 03:44:52 · 4 answers · asked by Curious 1 in Mental Health

2007-08-22 03:44:46 · 22 answers · asked by cecee 4 in Polls & Surveys

Late last week, the Bush administration announced plans to curb the practice of states putting already-insured and non-needy children on the rolls of a federal program that subsidizes health insurance for uninsured and needy children.

Democrats were outraged.

“This is a political attempt by the administration to try to intimidate states,” Rep. Rahm Emanuel (D., Ill.) told the Washington Post.

The Democratic Congress had just passed two versions of a bill to let states expand the State Children’s Health Insurance Program (SCHIP) to children in families making three and even four times the federal poverty level ($60,000 to $80,000 for a family of four). With his new rules and his veto threats against their bill, President Bush is spoiling their plans.

But aside from the feigned outrage always involved in politics, why are Democrats be so unhappy about dedicating federal money only to those who need it, and not to those who don’t? In most parts of the United States, a family of four making $60,000 is doing pretty well and doesn’t need a handout or even a “hand up.”

The answer is that Democrats in Congress do not just want the government to cover the needy and uninsured. They want to legislate incrementally until they have established universal or near-universal taxpayer-funded coverage, beginning with children.

This is not the paranoid idea of a few conservatives, but a plan outlined in an April 9, 1993, memo from Hillary Clinton’s health-care task force. The memo, which became public later only thanks to lawsuits forcing sunshine rules on the task force, was previously mentioned in a Washington Times report ten years ago, when the SCHIP program was first created.

The memo describes three possible methods of implementing universal health coverage. The first two involve a state-by-state phase-in of plans that involve state and federal government funds and employer mandates for the working uninsured.

But “Option 3” would have implemented a similar program by population group, beginning with children and expanding from there. The proposed name for the program, Kids First, had deeper meaning than one might suspect: it was the front end of a plan that would later cover everyone.

The memo states that:

Part I Kids First is really a precursor to the new system. It is intended to be freestanding and administratively simple, with States given broad flexibility in its design so that it can be easily folded into existing/future program structures.

Part II of this proposal involves the development of purchasing cooperative (PC) structures and the actual phase-in of all other population groups within the PC system.
The memo also laid out a timeline: By January 1995, all employers were to be mandated to purchase health insurance for their employees’ children. By July 1997, all employers would have been required to purchase health plans for the employees themselves.

By January 1998, self-insured adults would have been required to buy policies under the same “purchasing cooperative” structure. The state would then roll into the system children on other government programs besides Kids First, and then perhaps even “early retirees with benefits.”

This grand plan never came to pass because HillaryCare failed. But although Kids First is different in many ways from SCHIP (which has no employer mandates, for example), the political strategy is the same. It fits perfectly with Democrats’ current legislative attempt to expand the program to wealthier families.

It does not fit at all with the Bush administration’s new rules, announced last week. These would, under most circumstances, bar SCHIP for children in families making more than 250 percent of the poverty level (according to 2007 poverty guidelines form the Department of Health and Human Services, that’s a family of four earning $51,625 a year).

The administration’s new rules seem pretty reasonable — even tame. They would make states insure 95 percent of poor children (below 200 percent of the poverty level) before diverting their federal grants on the middle class (above 250 percent). Critics note that no state has put 95 percent of its uninsured children on SCHIP, but this would suggest that states have failed their mission, not that they should start giving handouts to people who can easily insure their own children.

In order to prevent non-needy families and their employers from dropping private coverage and putting children on the dole, the administration will also require non-needy children to be uninsured for a year before they are eligible for SCHIP.

If the income threshold for SCHIP already sounds high for a family of four, it is more so for larger families. My father provided a pretty good life to our family of seven on his comfortable but modest university professor’s salary. He says he never even thought of going on welfare — but maybe he should have. Even Bush’s new “draconian” SCHIP rules would have allowed all five of us kids to go on government health insurance, as long as Dad was making $77,725 or less. The Democrats’ plan would have covered us all on a $93,000 salary, or even (had we lived in New York State) $124,000! (I have trouble imagining my own mother as a six-figure welfare queen.)

The Democrats’ SCHIP outrage, while perhaps politically savvy (who could oppose insuring children?), has nothing to do with the real problem of those poor and uninsured. There are several ways the government could make insurance affordable — President Bush has proposed a generous health-insurance tax deduction, and others have proposed a repeal or circumvention of burdensome state0insurance mandates that massively inflate prices.

But the Democrats’ expansion of SCHIP into the middle class is not a solution to any existing problem. It is welfare for those already faring well, and with an eye toward expanding government in the future.

2007-08-22 03:44:42 · 12 answers · asked by mission_viejo_california 2 in Politics

I understand that even cell phones can give off enough radiation to give you a brain tumor and a tv can also radiate you if watched too close. I t does not make sense that radiation can cure cancer but this seems to be the standard cure for most cancers.Please explain the differences between getting cancer and curing cancer using the same medium.

2007-08-22 03:44:20 · 6 answers · asked by superjoezzz@sbcglobal.net 3 in Cancer

is it me or is she wierd to the point of creepy? she so has the hots for ziggy, she goes all stupid around him, has she never had a boyfriend or what? seriously, shes making jonty look normal!

2007-08-22 03:44:19 · 29 answers · asked by ginger 6 in Reality Television

No, abraham or moses, etc.

2007-08-22 03:44:09 · 28 answers · asked by Bluto Blutarsky16 2 in Religion & Spirituality

I just saw a squirrel trying to jump from one electric line to another, he didn't make it. Right in front of me he landed, KERSPLAT !

He was a bit dazed, but he got up and ran off.

2007-08-22 03:44:05 · 13 answers · asked by tictak kat 7 in Polls & Surveys

2007-08-22 03:44:05 · 15 answers · asked by Anonymous in Movies

i want she is :Affable,Cheerful,Sweet,Gaiety,Natured,Behaved,Pretty,Artistic,Tongued,Tasteful,Benefactore,Accessible

2007-08-22 03:44:04 · 14 answers · asked by ali2008 h 1 in Marriage & Divorce

If you have ever heard "Round and Round" by Ratt, heres an interesting question:

"How did the guys know right from the beginning that we would end up winning?" I mean it is a great confidence booster, but how did they know?

2007-08-22 03:44:00 · 9 answers · asked by rcds23 6 in Polls & Surveys

Does anyone have any idea of how to see if you are getting bad or negative references from past Employers or persons who you have put as a reference for employment?

2007-08-22 03:43:48 · 4 answers · asked by mkbac0375 1 in Law & Legal

2007-08-22 03:43:46 · 32 answers · asked by Linz ♥ VT 4 in Religion & Spirituality

I moved to lovely town and I want to find a church to go to. I see First Christian Church, Baptist Church, First Friends Church, Calvery Chapel, and something called a Spiritual Science Church... ??? I just want to find the right place to pray and give thanks for my life. I do love Jesus.


also I want to find a place where I wont be judged. I have one son. His father and I love eachother but we are not married yet (mainly due to lack of funds) but we do live together and we are committed to raising our son together.

2007-08-22 03:43:30 · 12 answers · asked by smilingontime 6 in Religion & Spirituality

I just feel awkward saying so and so is no longer with the company and that I am their replacement. Is there a nicer way of saying this? She left for a better opportunity but only actually worked here about 8 or 9 months before leaving.

2007-08-22 03:43:30 · 5 answers · asked by Amy H 2 in Other - Careers & Employment

I was wondering if there is a lot of girl that would take a class such as automotive in hs. im a sophomore now and i had a hard time thinking on what class to take.
Also help give me some advice on some elective class to take that not too much work load.

2007-08-22 03:43:24 · 4 answers · asked by Kim 2 in Primary & Secondary Education

Hey everyone. I'm in a bit of a color scheme quandry. My girlfriend and I currently have three of these bookcases lining one wall of our living room:

http://www.officedepot.com/ddSKU.do?level=SK&id=836264

We've both always like the black finish and preferred the bookshelves to a home entertainment piece. However, we're now looking into a new couch and coffee table and we're having trouble pairing everything together.

The room will consist of the aforementioned bookshelves, a red accent chair, a sofa and the coffee table. We both really like this sofa from West Elm:

http://www.westelm.com/online/store/ProductDisplay?partNumber=WE-PRODf554&storeId=17001&langId=-1&catalogId=17002&viewSetCode=E&parentId=WE-SH1FRNSOF&retainNav=true&cmsrc=WE-SH1FRNSOF

However, the coffee table they suggest with it, while stylish and simple, is a dark shade of brown we're afraid will clash with the bookshelves:

http://www.westelm.com/online/store/ProductDisplay?partNumber=WE-PRODf553&cmsrc=rel&stor

2007-08-22 03:43:24 · 4 answers · asked by Brad G 1 in Decorating & Remodeling

2007-08-22 03:43:19 · 13 answers · asked by ebillar 1 in Diabetes

2007-08-22 03:43:11 · 10 answers · asked by moanalisa 4 in Royalty