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POPSCalifornia State HMOs deny 1 in 5 claims It's time to stop talking about make believe death panels, and talk about the real ones. I had been going on the assumption the health insurance industry made (kept) $13,000,000,000 last year in profits. I was off by a couple billion dollars...it is closer to $16,000,000,000...opps!
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POPSFighting Health Care Overhaul, and Proud of It Mr. DeMint does not get too many questions about it, but it has drawn some criticism. Frank Knapp, chief executive of the South Carolina Small Business Chamber of Commerce, said that the plan had no sustainable financing mechanism and that Mr. DeMint came up with it only to give himself credibility in criticizing Mr. Obama’s plan.
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POPSGOP and Gay Marrage. Times Change Steve Schmidt, who was the senior strategist to Senator John McCain of Arizona during his presidential campaign, said in a speech and an interview that Republicans were in danger of losing these younger voters unless the party comes to appreciate how issues like gay marriage resonate, or do not resonate, with them. “Republicans should re-examine the extent to which we are being defined by positions on issues that I don’t believe are among our core values, and that put us at odds with what I expect will become, over time, if not a consensus view, then the view of a substantial majority of voters,” he said in a speech.
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POPSLow-Tech Fixes for High-Tech Problems Lots more; Crashed Hard Drive, Too Much Flash, Dirty Discs, Longer Wi-Fi Reach, Cellphone in the Toilet. Some good home remedy tips here. Sorry about the double clip. Couldn't edit out.
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POPSTeaching Infents to save themselves Swimming Could NOT clip this video. HOWEVER do not miss this one. It just may save a child's life. Welcome to Infant Swimming Resource - South Mountain with Certified ISR Drowning Prevention Specialist Casey Bunn. ISR is the most comprehensive drowning prevention program. As a part of ISR, Casey Bunn is dedicated to the eradication of the drowning epidemic facing our children. The ISR mission is to get to the next child before that child gets to the water. The reality of infant and child drowning is that, in most cases, it is a preventable tragedy.
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POPSJailing Kids for Cash This scandal involves just one county in the U.S., and one relatively small private prison company. According to The Sentencing Project, “the United States is the world’s leader in incarceration with 2.1 million people currently in the nation’s prisons or jails—a 500 percent increase over the past thirty years.” The Wall Street Journal reports that “ rison companies are preparing for a wave of new business as the economic downturn makes it increasingly difficult for federal and state government officials to build and operate their own jails.
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POPSU.S. Accuses Texas Financial Firm of $8 Billion Fraud A spokesman for Stanford Group declined to comment. Law enforcement officials hung up two white signs stating that the offices of Stanford Financial Group were temporarily closed. “The company is still in operation but under the management of a receiver,” the signs read. In its complaint, the S.E.C. said it could not account for the $8 billion in assets that were housed in the Antigua bank after issuing subpoenas for bank records and to various witnesses. Most witnesses, including Mr. Stanford, Mr. Davis and the Antigua-based bank’s president, failed to appear to testify and did not provide any documents shedding light on the assets.
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POPSWall Street's Disaster Has Spawned Our Greatest Terrorist Threat The specter of social unrest was raised at the U.S. Army War College in November in a monograph titled "Known Unknowns: Unconventional 'Strategic Shocks' in Defense Strategy Development." The military must be prepared, the document warned, for a "violent, strategic dislocation inside the United States," which could be provoked by "unforeseen economic collapse," "purposeful domestic resistance," "pervasive public health emergencies" or "loss of functioning political and legal order."
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POPSWife Withdrew $15.5 Million Before Madoff’s Arrest The complaint also notes that Cohmad paid more than $500,000 to Sonya Kohn, the head of Bank Medici, an Austrian private bank whose customers incurred substantial losses in the Madoff collapse. Several Cohmad figures have come under heavy scrutiny since Mr. Madoff’s arrest, notably Mr. Jaffe, the firm’s vice president, who was accused of introducing a number of investors into Mr. Madoff’s firm. Mr. Jaffe himself lost money with Mr. Madoff.
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POPSAnn Coulter subject of a formal probe “For over 10 years, Ann Coulter has gotten away with illegal, immoral and unethical behavior, ranging from plagiarism to defamation, perjury to voter fraud,” Borchers has claimed
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POPSGlenn This is an amazing video that I was not able to clip. Be sure to visit this sit to see some truly fantastic.
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POPSBella and Tarra This is a wonderful story about an Elephant and a dog. Wouldn't it be wonderful if the whole would be?