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Re: Heart Patient Learns Firsthand: The Affordable Care Act is NOT Affordable. :By Lara Rhea
from TheRedJester on 06/13/2015 04:15 PMwhat does that have to do with obamacare? if anything this should be an article on corprate greed over quality service and the irrisponsiblity of drug companies.
ReplyRe: (WARNING: Graphic) Common Core Approved Child Pornography : By Macey France
from TheRedJester on 06/13/2015 04:11 PM#its was in the bible first.
Heart Patient Learns Firsthand: The Affordable Care Act is NOT Affordable. :By Lara Rhea
from Doofiegirl on 06/13/2015 04:04 PMAs a heart patient with a defibrillator and pacemaker due to life threatening arrhythmias, I must live with taking a certain amount of daily heart medications to survive. Months ago, I was hospitalized due to a shock by my defibrillator. The medications I take are supposed to control these deadly arrhythmias, but thankfully I have back-up when medications do not work.
While in the hospital, it came to my physician's attention that I was being given the generic form of one of my heart medications. He asked me when this switch occurred and told me to tell the pharmacy that I was absolutely, under NO circumstances, to be taking the generic form of the drug! Apparently, many people with my condition have reported problems with the generic form, although it seems to work well in people with other conditions, and even though the active ingredient in generic brands is supposed to be the same as the brand-name drug.
It is important to note, however, that the FDA allows generic drugs to use different inactive ingredients such as binders and time-release agents than their original counterparts. I wondered if anyone else experienced problems with generic drugs and found that an alarming number have. So much so, that ABC Dateline did an investigation and reported in September 2014 that the FDA had actually lied about testing certain generic drugs for safety.
Yes, the FDA lied about the safety of generic drugs. In the face of everything else surrounding the current administration, it is of little wonder, but who else is talking about it? Who else is outraged?
The lie was discovered after a doctor took it upon himself to do an independent study of one extended-release drug that was not performing as the brand-named drug, thereby giving patients an initial jolt of the medication upon ingestion and subsequently leaving them without the medication in their systems throughout the rest of the day. ABC News reported the physician, Dr. Tod Cooperman as saying, "The FDA finally admitted that there actually had never been a study of this generic, and it had never been tested in humans, and that the information in that package insert was therefore, just made up."
Made up?
The investigation also revealed that many doctors are concerned about the use of generics and have patients reporting numerous side-effects not found in the brand-named drugs originally prescribed. Heart medications, anti-depressants...medications that matter quite a bit to the patients involved.
This news was clearly upsetting to me, so I contacted the pharmacy and told them I did not appreciate being given the generic drug when my doctor prescribed the brand-named drug. I even found out that my doctor had written on the prescription, "No substitutions." Here I was in the hospital, and it was possible that this was the reason why. This is a life and death situation for someone like me. I was not prepared for what I would discover next.
The pharmacist explained that my insurance company would not allow me to take anything but the generic form of the drug. "Allow" was the actual choice of words used. So the average consumer would probably stop there believing they had no other alternative.
Furiously, I questioned, "...even when my doctor is demanding that I take the brand name?!" The pharmacist was flippant and told to contact my health insurance provider to inquire. I found out that my insurance company would in fact "allow" me to take the brand-named drug my physician prescribed, but the caveat was that I had to pay for it myself. My insurance company (like most I presume) will only pay for brand-named prescription drugs now whenever the generic form is not available. No amount of arguing about it was going to change the situation.
So my choice: Pay the monthly out-of-pocket cost for the generic drug of $40 or pay the the brand-named cost of drug, a whopping $1200!
-Per month.
-For a mediation that I must have to survive.
http://politichicks.com/2015/06/heart-patient-learns-firsthand-the-affordable-care-act-is-not-affordable/
(WARNING: Graphic) Common Core Approved Child Pornography : By Macey France
from Doofiegirl on 06/13/2015 04:00 PMFollowing are graphic and explicit excerpts from The Bluest Eye, which is on the Common Core's list of exemplar texts for 11th graders. If you are easily offended you may want to skip them and go straight to the story. (Note from editor: Even heavily edited, this is still very graphic.)
Pages 162-163: "A bolt of desire ran down his genitals...and softening the lips of his anus. . . . He wanted to f*** her—tenderly. But the tenderness would not hold. The tightness of her v****a was more than he could bear. His soul seemed to slip down his guts and fly out into her, and the gigantic thrust he made into her then provoked the only sound she made. Removing himself from her was so painful to him he cut it short and snatched his genitals out of the dry harbor of her v****a. She appeared to have fainted."
Page 174: "He further limited his interests to little girls. They were usually manageable . . . His sexuality was anything but lewd; his patronage of little girls smacked of innocence and was associated in his mind with cleanliness." And later, this same pedophile notes, "I work only through the Lord. He sometimes uses me to help people."
Page 181: "The little girls are the only things I'll miss. Do you know that when I touched their sturdy little t*** and bit them—just a little—I felt I was being friendly?—If I'd been hurting them, would they have come back? . . . they'd eat ice cream with their legs open while I played with them. It was like a party."
Pages 84-85: "He must enter her surreptitiously, lifting the hem of her nightgown only to her navel. He must rest his weight on his elbows when they make love, to avoid hurting her breasts...When she senses some spasm about to grip him, she will make rapid movements with her hips, press her fingernails into his back, suck in her breath, and pretend she is having an orgasm. She might wonder again, for the six hundredth time, what it would be like to have that feeling while her husband's p***s is inside her."
Pages 130-131: "Then he will lean his head down and bite my t** . . . I want him to put his hand between my legs, I want him to open them for me. . . I stretch my legs open, and he is on top of me...He would die rather than take his thing out of me. Of me. I take my fingers out of his and put my hands on his behind..."
Pages 148-149: "With a violence born of total helplessness, he pulled her dress up, lowered his trousers and underwear. 'I said get on wid it. An'make it good, n*****, Come on c***. Faster. You ain't doing nothing for her.' He almost wished he could do it—hard, long, and painfully, he hated her so much."
I understand that after reading those excerpts a lot of you may be angry that this is approved for reading in any school. I could probably end the article here.
However, there are many things that need to be addressed and I have detailed for you here with much help from Jill Manning, PhD.
Adams 12 5 Star School District is the 5th largest school district in Colorado and has transitioned to the new Common Core standards. The book, Toni Morrison's 1970 novel, "The Bluest Eye," is among Common Core's exemplar texts for 11th graders.
http://politichicks.com/2013/08/warning-graphic-common-core-approved-child-pornography/
Re: 5 Reasons We Don't Need Bernie Sanders Free College Plans : By Michael Minkoff
from TheRedJester on 06/13/2015 03:58 PMouch someone has a bias against enviromental science.
Re: The Importance of Getting Involved in Politics Locally : By Onan Coca
from TheRedJester on 06/13/2015 03:54 PMhttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5tu32CCA_Ig
https://represent.us/action/thesolution/
Netiquette; Social Graces : By Shannon Sloane
from Doofiegirl on 06/13/2015 03:52 PMSocial graces is being polite, considerate (putting others before yourself), having a good attitude and overall good behavior in all situations.
Netiquette social graces applies to web-based technologies such as Facebook, Twitter and commenting on blogs. It's exchanging information, ideas and sharing pictures and doing it with grace.
When participating on these sites, it's important to maintain a proper decorum, but we wouldn't know that by the various rude and crass comments we see.
For example, a male friend of mine was involved in a conversation on one of his FB friend's posts when someone who didn't like what he had to say proceeded to attack his looks.
Here are some social media tips:
Debating on issues you disagree with is okay, but one of the rules of debating is to never insult your opponent with personal attacks. Passion and speaking from the heart is good, but use logic and reasoning.
If you are going to share newsworthy posts, read the article first; don't go by the headline which are often sensationalist or have nothing to do with the article.
If your write a blog, do thorough research and make sure you are accurate. Use trusted links to back up your statements.
Don't use all caps.
Stay on topic. Don't hijack someone's post.
Read through the thread before commenting because it might have already been said.
Watch out for satire sites! If something sounds too ridiculous to be true, it most likely is, although in today's society, it's sometimes difficult to tell.
Avoid typos. Some social media sites have spell-check, but if a site doesn't, type it into a Word document, then copy and paste on the post.
http://politichicks.com/2015/06/netiquette-social-graces/
The Importance of Getting Involved in Politics Locally : By Onan Coca
from Doofiegirl on 06/13/2015 03:47 PMA few years ago conservative grassroots activists surprised the nation when we rose up together to protest the increase in spending, the creation of new regulations, the addition of new methods of taxation, and particularly, the possibility of Obamacare. The mainstream media and the establishment quickly got used to seeing Tea Party activists everywhere they went – at Town Hall meetings, at local speeches and just about anytime the politicians came home, we were there to question them about these horrible policies being handed from Washington. Many of us smelled change in the air, how could they ignore millions of us across the country protesting and demonstrating as one? But ignore us they did.
Sure, we got a few electoral victories here and there; Mike Lee in Utah, Rand Paul in Kentucky, Ted Cruz in Texas, Marco Rubio in Florida, Scott Brown in Massachusetts (yuck) and many more in the House... but has it really changed anything? I don't think so.
The problem is that while we were active publicly and on the national level, we forgot that real change starts in our communities and in our state. From home we can build a platform to affect change on a greater level, but without first winning locally, any gains we make nationally will be short-lived. For example, we might win a big victory like getting a Tea Party Senator elected... but what good will that do if our state leadership is beholden to the establishment and only willing to allow establishment candidates the chance to run for office? Sooner or later that one Tea Party voice will get drowned out.
What we need to do is first win our states, then launch our assault on the national establishment... and one state is showing us the way.
Grassroots conservatives won a major victory this past weekend when in North Carolina the conservative base won stunning victories over the GOP establishment for control of the state party! http://www.redstate.com/diary/helmsconservative/2015/06/07/grassroots-conservatives-win-control-nc-republican-party/
http://eaglerising.com/19617/the-importance-of-getting-involved-in-politics-locally/#YA6Lg9Pthd0EYGeh.99
Re: A REAL Welsh dragon!
from TheRedJester on 06/13/2015 03:46 PMneat i wonder how the story will develop. often new dinos are just old ones that were malformed but it would be cool to hear of a brand new species.