headoverheels

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  1. I would call late third term abortions murder You? How many of those are done per year in the US?
  2. Photo has either been removed or the link is incorrect... Seems to be gone. It was a document clip that talked about him being disciplined by the dental board for sexual harassment, and also mentioned his illegal taking of a black bear. Edit: some photos are being deleted -- just went down from 8 pages to 7.
  3. Yeah, here is a great one from the many: http://www.yelp.com/biz_photos/river-bluff-dental-bloomington#XgvLoh76QrZCK2cH0gfxbw
  4. I ticked one of those misspelled candidates, expecting that to be thrown out.
  5. Coreeece did say year 2026. If you think how much things have changed in the past 11 years, you should realize that every student will have their "books" on digital media by then. 11 years ago, the first IPhone was still 3 years from being released.
  6. That would be less than 7 users, so I think it may be a bit more than that.
  7. My father's two houses (residence and rental) together were worth about what I spent on a remodel on my house in San Jose, CA.
  8. 40 years ago, I lived on the 4th floor of a dorm at Georgia Tech, overlooking tennis courts. My neighbor used to make those hydrogen balloons. He would tape pennies to them until they were about neutral, light the taper, and send them out across the tennis courts. Aluminum foil, lye, and water in a 2 liter soda bottle, with the ballon on the spout until it inflated -- no electricity needed. Really loud when he set off one in the hallway.
  9. Last I checked, Pluto was inside Neptune, but apparently I haven't checked in 16 years.
  10. Neptune is beyond Pluto -- is it going there?
  11. Of that crowd, who would be your pick? BTW, Bush was talking to everyone here, when he said work more hours: he meant to add "and get off the internet"
  12. You don't get to be a billionaire by making bad business decisions.
  13. If your cost of electricity in Louisiana is anything like that in Georgia, it would take a long time to break even. I was just visiting my brother in Atlanta, and GA Power rates are about 1/3 what I pay PG&E in northern California.
  14. The little girl starting at 1:18 has it nailed (as does the kid directly after her).
  15. Maybe so, but America is all about fairness, at least in theory.
  16. For all you regular blood donors (more than 1.5x per year), you should get your ferritin level checked. Ferritin is the molecule that stores iron. Your hemoglobin count, which is typically all that they check when you donate, will probably not drop until your ferritin is much lower than it should be. I failed the hemoglobin check, and a subsequent workup showed that my ferritin level was 4, my red blood cells were smaller than normal and more variable in size. For men, the "normal" level is 24 to 336 ng/ml. 50 is a better minimum, and I now shoot for 90 or so. It took 6 weeks of 2x daily iron supplements (taken with vitamin C and at least 2 hrs before/after tea/coffee/dairy) to get up to 30, and another 7 months to get up to 60. I cut down from 4x per year donations to once in a while. When I donate, I supplement with iron for 30 days afterwards, to replace the ~250mg of iron that is lost with the unit of blood. Ask your doctor to add the ferritin test when you are seeing them anyway, or do as I do and use econolabs.com or requestatest.com and pay ~$28 out of pocket to get the test done by LabCorp. Low ferritin (lower than 60) has other side effects than blood counts. It has some correlation to hair loss and other issues. High ferritin is less common, but can be caused by either health issues or hereditary factors, and can cause serious problems.
  17. Only on hold until it gets on the SCOTUS calendar. I'd rather see the money I contribute go to services, rather than for legal proceedings.
  18. I'd like to see tax exempt status be removed from all, along with the ability to deduct charitable contributions. That would remove the ability of government to apply such pressure.