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| Friday, October 23rd, 2009 | | 10:56 am |
Another pre-existing condition ...
... that'll make you ineligible for health insurance in the USA. It's the land of the free and easy street: it's the home of the damned. Quote Several women told the Investigative Fund that after being sexually assaulted they had been denied care or ruled ineligible for health insurance because of what were deemed pre-existing conditions stemming from their assaults -- particularly post traumatic stress disorder, or PTSD. A 38-year-old woman in Ithaca, N.Y., said she was raped last year and then penalized by insurers because in giving her medical history she mentioned an assault she suffered in college 17 years earlier. The woman, Kimberly Fallon, told a nurse about the previous attack and months later, her doctor's office sent her a bill for treatment. She said she was informed by a nurse and, later, the hospital's billing department that her health insurance company, Blue Cross Blue Shield, not only had declined payment for the rape exam, but also would not pay for therapy or medication for trauma because she "had been raped before." http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2009/10/21/insurance-companies-rape-_n_328708.html | | Thursday, October 22nd, 2009 | | 1:54 pm |
Culprit identified!
It's the finch! My birdfood has been thrown onto the ground a lot, and the one bit that's not on the ground is presumably the one bit getting eaten by the thing throwing the rest on the ground to get at that one bit. It turns out to be a finch. Fortunately, I've now got sunflower seeds, the thing it's taking out of the mix, on their own, so I can fill that feeder with them and only them to reduce mess, and put the mix in the barrel-caged feeder for other birds. There should be ground mix for finches in this order too. I presume it'll be ignoring that and continuing to raid for sunflower seeds. Must shoot the squirrel. | | Monday, October 19th, 2009 | | 12:17 pm |
| | Wednesday, September 30th, 2009 | | 8:20 pm |
Something keeps drinking my tea.
Every time I get myself a cup of tea and bring it through here, I find within minutes that there's a warm mug with a little moisture at the bottom on my coaster and no tea available to drink. This is getting aggravating. | | Tuesday, September 29th, 2009 | | 8:48 pm |
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| | Tuesday, September 15th, 2009 | | 9:15 pm |
| | Friday, September 4th, 2009 | | 6:09 pm |
| | Thursday, September 3rd, 2009 | | 8:38 pm |
| | Friday, August 21st, 2009 | | 9:56 pm |
He's an obnoxious bastard with no manners, but still ...
... good shot!The presenter interrupts people a lot, cuts them off all the time, talks over them and doesn't let them answer his questions. It's starting to get like Fox. He also says we're going to hear about something and then doesn't even ask. In this case, though, he was talking to David Milliband, who's an oily bastard of a despicable type generally known as "career politician", so I rather enjoyed this one. Skip to 2:10:00 or thereabouts for the story. "Good morning to you." "Good morning." "What's your view?" "Well obviously the sight of a mass murderer getting a hero's welcome in Tripoli is deeply upsetting, deeply distressing, above all for the 270 families who grieve every day for the loss of their loved ones 21 years ago, but also for anyone who's got an ounce of humanity in them, and I think that that is the over-riding emotion that people will be feeling today." "That is the over-riding emotion that people will be feeling. What is your view?" "I find it deeply ..... " {continues} "[It] is deeply upsetting, deeply distressing, ... for anyone who's got an ounce of humanity in them." "What is your view?" I love the implication! | | Thursday, August 20th, 2009 | | 4:41 pm |
I remember being fifteen
... and I don't think I've ever known a 15-yr-old who liked women who wouldn't have been very keen on this, apart from the publicity and legal entanglement parts of it. I know, I know, illegal, position of trust, immoral, et cetera, but really, maybe she was really wonderful and kind and gentle and a kindred spirit despite the age gap and they really loved each other then and still do and the girl felt better about herself for having her sexuality and attractiveness validated and confirmed and she probably has quite slender fingers and it's not like they probably did much that two 15-yr-olds wouldn't have done together under (largely) similar circumstances. Hardly Josef Fritzl or Ian Huntley territory, is it? All the fuss and official action might be the only thing causing any harm. There was a story somewhere a while ago about a heterosexual 18-15 couple, saying the man couldn't be prosecuted for it because it was all done in private and the girl was old enough to have to make the complaint herself before they could act ... and wasn't complaining at all. Seems a bit wrong, somehow, in the same week as reading that the Lockerbie bomber has left Scotland on board a plane bound for Libya after being freed from prison on compassionate grounds.... Yeah, yeah. Sexy lesbian music teachers are a dream come true and I hate to see one locked away. I'm male. Sue me. ... Shame we can't do anything about dogshit on the pavements. | | Tuesday, August 4th, 2009 | | 9:50 pm |
Spatula more offensive than bread knife?
Torquay police think so!A PARTIALLY disabled man who uses a spatula-type knife to open his mail was flabbergasted when police surrounded him on a Torquay street and ordered him to hand over his 'offensive weapon'. Furious Steve Gardner, who was waiting outside his St Marks Road home for some post, claimed after his surprise confrontation with the law: "It was just a spatula. It's something you use to ice a cake. "It's not an offensive weapon. I don't have full use of my hands so I need it to open my letters, put on my shoes and scratch my back." Insp Jon Perry said: "But we did confiscate the item, which we considered to be a bread knife with the serrated edges removed and sharpened." | | Sunday, August 2nd, 2009 | | 3:29 pm |
Flies
I was a nice kid who wouldn't have done it, but now I'm getting very tempted to pull the wings and legs off this fly. Filthy blasted damnable little object. | | Wednesday, July 29th, 2009 | | 11:33 pm |
"You mad bugger."
It is not clear from the youtube video whom he was calling that, or why. Iron Maiden, Monsters of Rock, Donnington, 1992, The Clairvoyant. | | Monday, July 13th, 2009 | | 4:44 pm |
| | Friday, July 10th, 2009 | | 9:03 pm |
This week's experimental baking ...
... is a variation on last week's, which turned out tasty but dense. I have mixed my "harvest flour" (strong white aka bread flour with mixed grains) about half-and-half with plain aka cake flour, used half the amount of butter in one batch, used a lot less milk in another and added an extra 50% oatmeal in the third batch that I made up when I realised I'd misjudged the quantities. Then I went out and bought a third baking sheet. Each batch has been used for three buns and nine buns with something. The reduced butter batch has chilli and lime. The reduced milk batch has apricots. The extra oatmeal batch has dates, cinnamon and nutmeg. They are currently in the oven, presumably rising. It's going to be a bit of a tricky job to get them all baked without burning the ones at the top, because it's really not a very big oven. Update: fail. They're pretty much brick. | | Wednesday, July 8th, 2009 | | 10:15 pm |
| | Friday, July 3rd, 2009 | | 9:59 pm |
| | Sunday, June 21st, 2009 | | 2:49 pm |
The Sundance Lich, a contradiction in plants.
Choisya ternata Sundance ('Lich')"A slow growing golden-leaved shrub capable of lighting up deep shade under overhanging trees - with strident young rosettes of leaf" # Position: full sun or partial shade # Soil: fertile, well-drained soil # Rate of growth: fast-growing This dome-shaped shrub is ideal for a mixed or shrub border in light shade, where the leaves become a more subtle yellow-green. It is vigorous, and will fill a dark corner in a couple of seasons. ***** Make up your minds, eh, Crocus? | | Thursday, June 4th, 2009 | | 6:55 pm |
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