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Ducks geese, etc, you need a long barrel and full choke. pistol grip is a waster of time. Grouse, pheasant, rabbits etc, depends on the terrain. Still mostly a full choke, but a shorter barrel if you are huffing through denser woods, you need to swing the barrel. But still a pistol grip? I though that was for slugs and riot control, not hunting.

It is not just corporations paying for health care- obviously if that were the case, then yes, their products and services would simply go up in cost. TAXPAYERS pay for health care. No one is disputing that Health Care costs money. The argument is that if EVERYONE pays for it through income tax, and EVERYONE gets their health care covered, then the AVERAGE cost per person goes down. If all the government is going to offer is 'more insurance', then people will obviously choose (some of them) to NOT participate if they can. The key is to make it mandatory through universal delivery and single payer - you don't have a choice. Just like I do not have a choice in paying for the military or education. It comes out of my income taxes and state taxes at some level. I cannot say "I do not want to contribute to that military budget" without eventually facing the IRS penalties for my decision. Military is in the Constitution. It is long overdue that Health Care goes here too. Health is not a 'right' people say? If you are 65, it is a right. If you are a veteran (for most), it is a right If you are too poor, it is a right If you are on kidney dialysis, it is a right And through dozens of other programs scattered across the country, it is a right. So I get tired of hearing the argument that healthcare is not a right. I am one of those left-wing liberal nuts that actually thinks it is OK to pay taxes if I am getting something for it. I am more than willing to pay my share of income tax so that my fellow employees, workers, friends, etc can have access to health care without going bankrupt. I am more than willing to pay more taxes if we can get solar programs in place to reduce dependance on oil. I am more than willing to pay more taxes if we can recycle more and put less trash in incinerators and landfill sites. I am more than willing to pay more taxes if we can offer cheap (or free) education to our next generation of people, after-all, they have to inherit the crap we leave them - so they may as well be smart enough to manage it. I am NOT willing to pay more taxes so I can bail out GM so they can continue to build gas-guzzling vehicles that do not serve the greater good of the country and the environment, but only serve to feed American vanity.

Single Payer means one entity pays for the health care - typically, the government, like Medicare. Therefore you do not have 'private health insurance' anymore, you pay extra in income taxes instead. When you go to the doctor, you do not fill out paperwork. You do not call for approvals, you do not worry about whether or not it is going to be paid for because it is. The doctor bills Medicare instead of your private insurance company, a process that is already in place today. The doctor does not have to worry about getting 'screwed' by the insurance company, which happens today, because Medicare generally approves their claims. There are a few exceptions of course and there is still some level of an approval process for complex and costly treatments, even within Medicare, but generally speaking, the medical decisions are between YOU and your Doctor. The payment decisions are between you doctor and the government. Current Medicare does have a lot of exceptions for coverage; prescriptions, dental, vision, etc. You can/could/would buy supplementary insurance if you feel you needed it to cover extra stuff. For stuff like that, it would be fairly cheap, like it is today already. THey also have kidney dialysis, which is free fro anyone in the country regardless of age. States like Florida already have AIDS programs that cover the cost of treatment and drugs 100% in most cases. Programs like this all go away, they just fall under Medicare. You are sick - go to the doctor. Everyone pays through income tax. Just like the military. Just like Public education just like the general funds that pay for roads and bridges just like the general funds that pay for everything else that society relies on and is funded at a National level. Or even have the option for the 'private option upgrade' that so many people seem to want. I pay for private insurance that gets me priority into a private run hospital for extra $$ if I can afford it. If I can't then I still can go to the hospital and get my surgery/repairs/whatever.

and possibly all that too. Apparently something like that happened in Switzerland when they switched to Universal Health Care. The right was against it, saw the wave coming, then jumped on it right before an election and made it theirs. It is still afterall about getting elected or re-elected (at least to some part) I do not underestimate the Republican Party. There are enough smart people in there to see that the far-right, if it brings down the party, will have to go in order to survive. Not just the Republicans - any organization out there is most likely willing to cut off an arm to save the rest of the body.

does not matter- disease, starvation, flooding due to climate change, all of this will change soon. Well maybe in the next century, we are pretty adept at changing, but I still see the population of the world radically being cut by something like the Flu, AIDS, or offshoot diseases like these. Until the industrial revolution, the world would only grow to an estimated 750M people (I think it was that much), then get decimated by a plague, by 1/4 or 1/3 We are just finding the new population level -POST industrial revolution.

so fire the teacher - but it is not some radical left movement sweeping the country to sing praises of Obama. Chimpout disturbs me far more than a bunch of kids singing stupid songs..... Is it really so bad that we have a President that people are happy enough with to write songs about? I mean he speaks in complete sentences, he has ideas, he is pretty fucking smart. Considering what we have put up with for 8 years, I might write a song too...... The best song that ever got written about GWB was from JibJab I think. And it wasn't praise......

which is exactly why the 'insurance plan' is not going to work. Does not matter what people are offered, many will not pay for it, even if it is/was $1/month. SINGLE PAYER HEAL:TH CARE< paid for through corporate and individual income taxes. Expand Medicare to cover all and pay for it in the tax system. Simple Straightforward, everyone pays. THen the IRS is not dealing with you when you do not 'buy insurance', they are dealing with you when you do not pay your taxes, same as they do today.

I predict that the Republican Party, even with opposition to Single Payer Health Care, will eventually see that this IS GOING TO HAPPEN, regardless of their position - at which time, they will jump on board, write a bill, pass it then claim that THEY were the ones that brought it to the American Public....

take a close-up pic of the friction lock adapter from the side view with the webbing instal;led and email it to them at sales@skydivewings.com to makes sure it has been installed correctly. If they put it in the wrong way round, they do not work at all. Basically, contact the company, they will fix it for you, the adapters should not be slipping like that - you can fall out of the harness.

I have a Browning BPS, really like it. Clean and easy, but pricier than the Remington 870. Both have a variety of barrels and chokes to fit them. I have a short barrel for in the woods, grouse and such, and long barrel with full choke for ducks and geese. Autos are nice, but for the extra money - do you really need to bang off 5 rounds in rapid succession? If you are a lousy shot yes. For the price of one auto, you can buy two pumps. Or one pump and and a couple barrels and choke systems.

win what? when? where? they are everywhere, and apparently always willl be at least in some form and some size

Those stats assume a lot of wrongdoing and mis-doing by all parties. If you die in the USA, chances are you will probably die in a hospital. So it is easy to come up with HUGE numbers of people that die in hospitals. Medical errors? I gave you aspirin, but I gave it to you 4 hours instead of 2 hours after your heart attack and you died. So did you die from a heart attack or a medical error? I take most of those stats with a VERY slight grain of salt. In almost ANY procedure in any field in the world, you can find good and bad things. You will always find in hindsight in any area of life, something that could have been done better. To classify all these things as 'errors' just because they happened in the medical field, is itself is a flawed analysis. If you are sick and people are trying to help you, and you die anyway, does not mean that they killed you. We spend hundreds of thousands of dollars in this country to extend people lives by a few days or weeks and then blame the medical profession for 'not saving you'. If hospitals were really that dangerous, we would not go there - but we do anyway. It is more a part of the larger culture of the USA of 'NOT MY FAULT' when something goes wrong. It will not change until the culture changes. The culture has been brewing for hundreds of years and is not going to change overnight. 106000 from negative effects of drugs. - What if the doctors talked to their patients about the drugs, the side effects and such, and the patient decided to take the drugs anyway, then dies from it? Is that a 'medical error'? I always ask my doctor about the side effects and my doctor ALWAYS makes sure that the decision to take a drug is actually MY decision. 80000 die from infections in hospitals. How many die from infections OUTSIDE of hospitals? 45000 from other hospital errors - define those other hospital errors 12000 unnecessary surgeries http://www.answerbag.com/q_view/532055 looks like about 20M-30M surgeries are done each year, so unnecessary surgeries are less than 0.06% - not even significant - unless of course you are one of them. 7000 medication errors in hospitals? - probably again so small it is off the scale percentage wise.

I read his report - and you are right - he is claiming that the oceans (or part of them are 'cooling'. Based on that, his assumptions may be correct. HOWEVER - not too many scientists agree with his original claim that the oceans are 'cooling'. garbage in-garbage out. If I claim that only gay people have AIDS, then I can claim, based on that fact, that AIDS is only a 'gay problem'. But if the original premise is flawed, then my argument don't mean shit -

24 hours is MORE that enough time after donating. Take a day off, that is all you need, unless of course you have some horrible side effect from the donation, like dizziness, fainting, whatever. Rare but it does happen. I have 326 donations and we have blood drives at the dropzone 6-8 times a year. All I ask it that you are done jumping for the day and with the hundreds of donations we have had here at SKydive CIty over the years, it has never been an issue for anyone - ever.

Actually, I bought ALL of my guns in Canada. I have never purchased a gun in the USA. But yes, generally Canadians get their guns from the USA, doesn't everyone?

fraud is fraud - it messes up your credibility. And while the right wing might be on the offensive to 'set-up' ACORN with pimps and ho's to prove a point, well, they did successfully prove a point ACORN now has to make good on all that, backpedal and work harder to prove to the world that it is credible. Or suffer the consequences. Just because the ACORN website says it has admirable goals, does not mean that a bunch of dicks are not running the organization and screwing up those goals. The Aryan Nations websites (one of them) touts them as a support group for 'Caucasian Christians', but we know that ain't so. Everyone judges themselves by their INTENTIONS. Others will judge you by your ACTIONS. ACORN blew this one, and they lose my respect with their radical efforts in voter registration. It proves to me that they are no good, and I do not want them running anything important, and certainly not getting any money from my tax dollar for it either. Likewise, I do not want some Christian right-wing fundamentalist 'family oriented association' getting funding just so they can fight against abortion (which is legal) and ultimately assist groups that kill doctors. (and many other actions that hide behind such 'faith-based' initiatives.)

I have no handguns, I am more than comfortable with my 7 shotguns, thanks..... Oh, and my 30-06, my 22's, my Ruger 308 bull-barrel and a few others....

that's actually not a bad start for objectives from what I see.

http://www.hhs.gov/fbci/funding/ Scroll down to the faith-based stuff. This is only one government department. Sadly, the Christian Right Wing is receiving billions in taxpayer dollars every year.

at least we agree on something - ACORN seems to have strayed a long way from their initial goals, This is the way the system is supposed to work, and I am fine with them being out the government until they get their act in order. Now if we only had more hidden video of the Christian Right Wing doing just-as-bad-things on the other side of the fence.

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I would try and define some objectives of the organization first. Not just whether or not you want an 'organization'. Obviously somewhere you have a 'why'. Does that 'why' jive with others? If it does, then you will probably succeed at getting it off the ground. If not, then you start an organization that has no clear defined objectives and everyone involved has (perhaps) different objectives. i.e. then the politics start with everyone's personal agendas, etc. An Objective or goal must have 3 components to be successful 1. Definable 2. Attainable 3. Measurable Google Vision or Mission Statements as well. You get some ideas http://corporate.hallmark.com/Company/Hallmarks-Beliefs-And-Values A good example of a mission statement and a vision for Hallmark cards. I know a lot of people think a lot of this stuff is a 'lot of fluff', and it may be in some cases, but a well defined objectives sets out some clear goals of your actions as an organization. USPA, PIA, and even our own dropzone here at Skydive CIty can learn a lot from these sorts of things. While we may not have a published 'mission statement', I at least stay focused on high level objectives, (mostly customer satisfaction), to run the day-to-day business and I instill that in my staff all the time. Start with an objective. It's OK to tweak it as you get rolling. But your original post has absolutely NO INTEREST to me because there is not a single goal attached to it.

since we discovered that our bookkeeper was embezzling money, I have used it surprisingly often......

I don't know - What happened to common sense? What happened to free speech? once again......How the fuck can ANYONE find something wrong with a speech encouraging people to be educated?

Claims denial rates by leading California insurers, first six months of 2009: PacifiCare -- 39.6 percent Cigna -- 32.7 percent HealthNet -- 30 percent Kaiser Permanente -- 28.3 percent Blue Cross -- 27.9 percent Aetna -- 6.4 percent looks pretty specific to me.... The details appear to have come from Public records available from the California government on Managed Care. says you - I see plenty of supporting info. More than one of every five requests for medical claims for insured patients, even when recommended by a patient's physician, are rejected by California's largest private insurers, amounting to very real death panels in practice daily in the nation's biggest state, according to data released Wednesday by the California Nurses Association/National Nurses Organizing Committee. CNA/NNOC researchers analyzed data reported by the insurers to the California Department of Managed Care. From 2002 through June 30, 2009, six of the largest insurers operating in California rejected 47.7 million claims for care -- 22 percent of all claims. 21% of THAT......