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needed a place to park this one: "self diluted" "I don't believe people were so self diluted to believe..."

I have been reading some sickening stories of insurers strong-arming employers to fire sick employees, people who can work fine and may even be on the way to wellness, but who have cost - or may cost - the insurer "too much". The insurer tells the biz: "lose this person or we will jack...

I was surprised to find that red bell peppers have 3-4x the Vitamin C of citrus fruit.

I think it challenges a whole world view, not just personal inadequacies. My sis and I both started out with small nest eggs courtesy of our late father. Over the course of years, after one vagary and another, various investments and our own job savings we both bought houses. She got a mortgage...

You're right, ha. None of what I have to say has anything to do with retirement or retiring early. I did not mean to lump you and ERD together and I'm sorry if you took it that way. No one appears really interested in the underlying mechanics of what is occurring but I'll respect your cone of...

Running_Man: v. good post. Dividends keep them honest. They cannot mess with it and keep paying out for long (unless they are under the TARP?).

Puh-leeze. "the biggest turn left since FDR"??? I guess you forgot Nixon's wage and price controls and Reagan's Earned Income Tax Credit. The current operative meme on the Right seems to be to kill Social Security. The banksters HATE Social Security because it is a slice of wealth that they...

When turds like Welch and Immelt seem sympathetic?

connie, problem is.. many on food stamps don't have access to suburban big box discounters (if they don't have a car it's practically impossible). Nor are there many good regular supermarkets in downtown areas, sometimes.. just bodegas with packaged and processed food. I do think food...

Are law firms peculiar in this? I recall my recently-hired BIL recounting having swapped some jocular(?) comments on his attire with some of the partners/senior people. It seemed perverse.. like they were testing him to see if he would toe some certain sartorial line OR resist and show backbone...

here's a tasty one: whole hardily (for whole-heartedly, I assume) Also, I have spotted a couple of "illicit"s where "elicit" should have been used. I need to keep a text window open just to capture these because I have seen some eye-openers that I forget now.

Don't see how it is a straw man unless you can offer another solution as to who oversees such matters: the gov. or the bank OR...? The bank is private, but has a public exercise. I guess banks should not have licenses and just "caveat emptor". Heck, that's how it ends up anyway...

Texarkandy.. so you'd prefer that the process of spontaneous opening/inventorying/sequestering the contents of SDBs just be left up to the private bankers that own the boxes? You'd prefer that unclaimed/inactive bank accounts just accrue to the banksters, instead of getting published via the...

Press Release: Former UnitedHealth Group CEO/Chairman Settles Stock Options Backdating Case for $468 Million; 2007-255; Dec. 6, 2007 Imagine if your garden-variety drug-dealers and bank robbers got this kind of treatment: just pay back the $$ (or some of it) and we'll call it even.

Looks more like moisture than cold. Rosemary, like sage, seems to tend to develop less-desirable and more woody sub-sections as it ages. You could use this opportunity for a major pruning-back or at worst re-planting.. and the plants are cheap, right? On a smaller scale, I see this with our...

I didn't watch the video yet, but I'll relate an SDB story of mine: I had a box at a bank branch that I could practically see from my house. I also had checking/savings there. OldBank gets bought by NewBank and all my account stuff gets switched automatically to NewBank. And i putter along fine...

I was thinking on this.. esp. Brat's leaping to the (very common) defense of "cleanliness". JUST WASH!! We don't cut off fingertips to avoid dirt under the fingernails, nor do we pull teeth to avoid possible tooth decay. [I seem to remember, though, that "preventive" hysterectomies hit a...

Not a doctor or a mom, but my advice as a female partner of men would be not to do it, if you can avoid it. I think intact guys have more sensitivity and I experience more pleasure, too; some men have reportedly even gone to the extent of getting a re-constructed foreskin. I tend to think...

It's a really nice color!

No.. it wasn't that long ago that cars were made-to-order and you could choose from among many more colors and interior combos than today. I hope they go back to that, as the same old 90% silver/red/black/white choices are boring!

I don't think any serious breeder would be happy to see the fruit of "their" labors treated that way; most are pretty picky about the homes and some even make you sign elaborate contracts that give them the right to take the pup back! If this is one of those kind of breeders I would drop a dime...

Pixy Stix plus those round caramel slices with the white frosting centers (maker began w/"G"... Goetze's?) Almond Joy (has now gone down to one almond?) Has this link been posted (most likely elsewhere if not here)? Old Fashioned Candy, Nostalgic, Retro & Old Time Candies & Grocery: Hometown...

Oy! I have to spell it out? ' no you aren't..

???? SO SORRY buns .. Having cultivated (both my beaux and I, historically) a total ANTI-fashion. we all accepted ea. other for what we were. More Animal than Plastic. Dunno if yiz can still get away with this today, but as far back as about 1990-2000 I know aspects of a "natural" approach...

Just noticed that what pedorrero apparently wants to import is a: :duh: I bet there are any number of these, from varying origins all over the globe. I hope the :duh: listens to him attentively, and that the :duh: cooks and cleans to his liking. Perhaps the DUH :duh: even bears him :duh...