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[color=#9933ff][font=monotype corsiva][size=4]Everytime I see someone texting while driving I want to slap them. Like yesturday on my way to work when I was waiting for a light after getting off the expressway. I saw a lady in the car next to me in the DRIVER SEAT texting while driving. I wanted to get out and slap her before going to work. Instead I just hurried on my way away from her because I didn't want to be near her. And yes I've stopped talking on my hand held while driving. :animesmil I'm trying to be a good girl now. Nathan- The story I was talking about from where I live was big enough to make national news. I don't doubt you've seen aome terrible accidents as a paramedic. I went with my cousin once on some EMT calls- not pretty. The most recent one I can think of though for my area was that guy in Buffalo talking on one phone and texting on another. Thank God no one was hurt in there. [/color][/font][/size]

[quote name='Rachmaninoff']This makes me want to bang my head on my desk: [URL="http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/32679571/ns/politics-health_care_reform"][U]Finger bitten off during health care protest[/U][/URL][/QUOTE] [color=#9933ff][font=monotype corsiva][size=4]The part about the man's finger not being re-attached (read this in the local paper) made me shake my head. Also why point out that the guy had Medicaid? The saddest thing right now is that [B]twenty thousand [/B] Americans die each year because they can't afford health care and [B]seven hundred thousand [/B]Americans go into bankruptcy every year because they can't afford their medical bills. And yet there's people getting into fist fights over health care reform. AMERICA WTF?![/color][/font][/size]

[quote name='Nathan'][FONT="Arial"]I can see the point in the other, but at the same time, I prefer it to be realistic instead of being unnecessarily melodramatic to get a point across. Real life stories have better impact, in my opinion.[/FONT][/QUOTE] [color=#9933ff][font=monotype corsiva][size=4]If you prefer real life stories all you have to do is look at my local news (rochester New York) two years ago when five recent high school graduates died because the driver of one of the SUVs they were in was texting while driving. New York State is making texting while driving illegal as of the first of October of this year. But the problem with the state wide law is that the officer has to spot another traffic violation before issuing a ticket for texting while driving. This however isn't the case statewide and in Wayne County all the officer has to do is see you texting while driving.[/color][/font][/size]

[quote name='ZeroRagnarok']since I last visited the site.it's just that so many new shinies have came out that i just haven't had time to visit the site. though now my curiosity has perked, how often does everybody visit the site? I personally tend to visit a couple times a week unless I see responses to threads I marked.[/QUOTE] [color=#9933ff][font=monotype corsiva][size=4]Tom, I think I come on here more often than you text me- which come to think of it is quite often LOL. And not really a fair compairisson. :p I'm on here when there's a good debate (the current one I started has slowed for the time being, but don't worry there will be others!) or a fun thread. But then I get bored. I don't know if I can accurately gauge how often I'm here.[/color][/font][/size]

[color=#9933ff][font=monotype corsiva][size=4]I probably can't redeem the fact that I have talked on my hand held device (because the hands free one is a POS) never mind just talked- I've held screaming rants where I repeatedly redial people. I change radio stations too, or even CDs while going about 70 MPH (120 KMH) down the thruway. Sometimes I eat or drink (did that a lot when I was an HHA because some people didn't get that I was friggin' starving!) Of course I also read about 5 chapters of [B]Fallen Angels[/B] by [B]Walter Dean Meyers[/B] on the I-71 in Ohio, but that was because some crazy guy got out of his car and chased down an Ohio state trooper with an axe and traffic was at a snail's pace, but that dears is another story altogether. I guess Red's right, until something besides the 100$ ticket happens to me I'll probably keep doing it because obviously money isn't a deterrant and I've seen pleanty of other people doing it. On the bright side I'll be off the roads of Rochester from the 18th to the 27th of September and I don't feel right driving in the mountains of British Columbia. So you all can breathe easy then.[/color][/font][/size]

[color=#9933ff][font=monotype corsiva][size=4]I'm ADD so I tend to do a few other things besides watching TV while I watch TV so when I watch anime (with the exception of Sailor Moon) I watch it dubbed. A lot of the newer dubs have more of the original dialog and seem a lot less dumbed down than their 90's predecessors so I don't run into the problems I had with the DiC and CWi dumb downs of Sailor Moon Thank the powers that be![/color][/font][/size]

[quote name='Boo'][size=1][IMG]http://img132.imageshack.us/img132/4967/outrageous.jpg[/IMG] Thought was funny.[/size][/QUOTE] [color=#9933ff][font=monotype corsiva][size=4]I thought it was full of win myself. This health care reform thing is starting to get more personal for me. Because the father of one of my close friends is going through some serious health problems right now and their insurance won't cover the whole cost of flying him from New York to Ohio (her parents had to drive there last week!) or the hospital stay or the transplant that's a whopping 10 grand. If they can't come up with the money he gets bumped down the list. So her family has to do a lot of local fund raisers to get money to prove to the hospital and the insurance companies that they can afford to pay for a lot of this surgery and the other procedures out of pocket. Sorry but that is just BS. It's inconceivable to me that in this nation a person can be denied a live saving treatment because they can't afford it. We need to do something about it.[/color][/font][/size]

[color=#9933ff][font=monotype corsiva][size=4]My current blue tooth is a POS and I need to take it to a Verizon store to get it looked at. I'm really bad when it comes to talking while driving. I just did it tonight on my way home from work right down to driving with my elbow because I was putting my window up (I have power everything in that car so it wasn't THAT bad) I think that first ticket didn't really get me.[/color][/font][/size]

[quote name='spy46'] whats more importaint, some ones life or money?[/QUOTE] [color=#9933ff][font=monotype corsiva][size=4]Depends on whose life it is Lee. Especially down here. And sometimes the HMO can decide if the procedure is too costly for them to cover and turn it down. Which reminds me I'm going to have an HMO starting on the first... crap :animeangr[/color][/size][/font]

[quote name='Retribution'][font=Arial]James, is there any way you could post a link or two to sources describing the differences in health care between the US and nations with a public option? I hear quite a bit of anecdotal evidence in favor of public health care, but have yet to run across figures to substantiate these claims. To be honest, I want some talking points for my Republican friend. We always grill each other, and more information is always a plus.[/font][/QUOTE] [color=#9933ff][font=monotype corsiva][size=4]Retri, I don't have links, but would what I know do for now? Canadian citizens were polled recently and asked if they'd be willing to switch their health care to the American system, seventy percent said hell no. From what I know of National and Provincial from my boyfriend, his family(they live in British Columbia) and my friend in Alberta it's paid for the way the police, fire department and even your DOT is paid for, by your Taxes. My boyfriend's father has a lot of health problems because of the fact that he just smokes like a chimney and he works in manufacturing. He's thrown out his back a few times and was in the hospital for a week- all he ended up paying for was the TV and the food. The room was covered by his provincial insurance. You are required to have the National insurance and the provincial in Canada. But you're also allowed to choose if you want to take part in your company's private insurance which my friend in Alberta does. Also, I know that the biggest problem in Canadian health care right now is the lack of doctors and specialists. It is a fact that Canadians do die while on waiting lists, but their insurance will also pay for them to go to the States for care or pay to fly a doctor up to the province and city they live in at no cost to the person. It's not a perfect system, but then again what system is?[/color][/font][/size]

[quote name='Sangome'][SIZE="1"]And I crave sunflower seeds. [/SIZE][/QUOTE] [color=#9933ff][font=monotype corsiva][size=4]My best friend and her husband have sunflowers growing outside their townhouse. If you live in the area I can give you their address and you can steal them I'm trying to get my daughter to sleep in her room.... I'd be better off trying to potty train an incontinent dog, but what can I do?[/color][/font][/size]

[quote name='Aaryanna_Mom']I realize my response here will only cover a few items, but I see no reason ro repeat what has been covered already. Instead, I'll briefly touch a few reasons why I'm not opposed to the reform.This, a thousand times over. I've lost count of the times that friends, family and even myself have had to FIGHT the insurance companies to get coverage on procedures. Sooner or later, you get exasperated, and give up on fighting it. You still have to pay the bill anyway, regardless of whether or not your insurance will finally pay like they should. Hell, even when my father passed away recently, his insurance attempted to bail on covering nearly $100,000 worth of procedures that were done while he was in the hospital during his final week.I don't see this happening anytime soon either. It takes massive effort and actually suing the insurance companies over not providing coverage to get it changed. No matter how people spin it, denying coverage over preexisting conditions, among other things, needs to end. In my opinion, reform is long overdue.[/QUOTE] [color=#9933ff][font=monotype corsiva][size=4]You bring up an interesting point Aaryanna Mom. My father went through that same crap after his mom died from cancer. Plus I'm sure there's a lot of us who have tried to go through our medical bills and can't figure it out without a map. It's quite aggrivating. My friend's father is having a current issue with health care because he's on dialisis waiting for a transplant and her family had to fight with insurance for covering everything from hospital stays to over sixty grand in medications.Luckily they got things to work out for them, but it was a battle that no one should have to go through. Anyways something else no one has brought up yet; I work in a nursing home (I used to work in assisted living- actually I still do that per diem) and it costs at least twenty grand a year or more to live in one of the good nursing homes for the rest of your golden years if you have to be put in one. And trust me- you don't want to be in one of those cheap fifteen grand a year deals- they look like institutions. Medicaid helps to cover it, but you have to sell everything and hope that you don't live too long unless you made a lot of money when you were working or your kids help you out. With National health care if it's a government run nursing home the national health care will pay for your nursing home but if it's private they'll still helpbut not as much. Now to Raiha, National health care isn't like a car that works every other day- that's what we have right now here in the States. We've expensive private pay insurance that takes a big bite out of your check. And heaven help you if you suddenly decide to go back to school full time and want to just work part time. I have to put off my LPN until I marry my boyfriend so I can be on his insurance and afford to go to school. And I'm constantly worried that I'll be turned down because I do have a pre existing condition. National Health care works in Europe and in Canada and it's about time that we as Americans realize that we deserve the same health care as everyone else in developed nations. As for running out of money, it's paid for by your taxes which means that as long as everyone keeps paying their state and federal taxes the government won't run out of money for health care. The states haven't run out of money for fire departments or the police. And the government sure hasn't run out of any money for the DOD. So I doubt funding it's citizen's health will be a problem. [quote name='Raiha]']Although on the plus side, it will be easier to abuse pain medication now...[/quote] As opposed to what? How easy it is to abuse pain meds when you're a wealthy conservative talk show host? Get real, people will abuse medications with or without health care as long as they know where to get them. Don't blame health insurance for people's issues.[/color][/font][/size]

[quote name='Nathan'][FONT="Arial"]Now, now. If they did that, it would mean they [I]might[/I] have some common sense, which by the look of their recent campaigns... they clearly lack. I agree with what John was saying though, nothing has been as outright absurd and hilarious as the 'sea kittens' deal... yet. [/FONT][/QUOTE] [color=#9933ff][font=monotype corsiva][size=4]Well Nathan, common sense isn't that common anymore so don't be suprized that not very many people have it- especially PETA. And John's right the Sea Kitten campaign is going to be hard to top.... Althought I usually like to top my sea kitten with some kind of herb butter, or panko breading. Maybe some terriyaki.[/color][/font][/size]

[quote name='chibi-master'] Can the government even AFFORD to give everybody health care? Aren't we as a country in enough debt as it is? What does health care have to do with the government anyway? As far as I'm concerned, there should be lines seperating my personal life from politics that the government just should not cross.[/QUOTE] [color=#9933ff][font=monotype corsiva][size=4]Chibi 2 you're anything but an ignorant teenagers- I've yet to see you jumping a skateboard off the Wegman's loading dock It's interesting that you brought up this question- two years ago when I was still working as a home health aide one of the CHNs (community health nurses) and I were talking about national health care because just like now, I didn't have health care and he'd said how America is one of the few countries that can reasonably afford to insure all its citizens but doesn't. Which really makes me wonder why don't we? Then I have to remember how dicey are political system is. Unlike Canada our government has for the most part been more self serving than anything else. I don't see the government getting involved in saying what you can and can't do with your body on national health care. You're still allowed to choose your medical options and make your own choices. The government has no say over which hospital you go to, what care you receive or anything like that. They just give you the health care so you'll use it. The only problem I will point out with National Health Care is that you HAVE to have it. Of course you have it because you pay taxes to have it, but there is no getting out of having health care. But hey, this means that as long as you pay your state taxes you have health care and can't suddenly be dropped for pre-existing conditions. [/color][/font][/size]

[quote name='Raiha'][COLOR="DarkOrchid"][FONT="Times New Roman"]Why do people want the government to do things for them? Where does personal responsibility begin and end? Why do we want a nanny state? When did human beings become so helpless and shiftless and pointless? Everyone here appears to believe that the welfare of an individual is dependent on the actions of the state. Why? And what makes you believe that the government can spend money that isn't actually in the bank to benefit everyone? Will it truly benefit everyone? Or just the people who have access? What incentive will doctors have to stay here?[/FONT][/COLOR][/QUOTE] [color=#9933ff][font=monotype corsiva][size=4]Okay so this is where I get aggrivated. Before my ex divorced me I had been diagnosed with sever hyper active thyroid (I'd thrown up pretty much every day when he was here in April '05 sometimes up to 7 times a day) when he left me I was left with no job, a 4 month old and no health insurance so I had to go on medi (one of the two- whatever's offered by welfare) so I could get my medications- and also a psychiatrist because getting dumped that way scars you a bit. I don't know how many of you on here have ever tried to apply for foodstamps or medicaid (care whatever) but it's a total pain in the *** They give you short notice to get all this damn paper work (like two three days tops) and it doesn't matter that you do have a job. When I had to go reaply the first time I was working from 4:30pm to 2am Monday through Friday and then after I'd been there they claimed I hadn't and I had to go back AGAIN. The second time they had me running all over the place to get paperwork between my home aide assignments then again told me I hadn't been to my appointment! And this time I knew they were messed up because a lady had been killed in a hit and run out on the road and all the people waiting in line including myself had seen it. So I decided I'd had enough of social services and went without health care. That system is messed up and I'd hope that the government changes it soon. I hope we get national because with national the health care companies can't deny you for a pre-existing condition like the one I have. Here in the States doctors have incentives to turn people down because of pre-existing medical conditions that means that if your mom finds out she has cancer while she's in the 90 day waiting period to get on her company's health care policy can be denied health care because she has cancer and is therefore a larger risk. In Canada and in Europe their insurance can't do that because their citizens pay taxes to get their health care. As for the doctor's incentive, as Lee (Spy) said doctors in Canada and Europe get money for each patient they treat. Also I believe that we'd have a healthier nation if we had National health care because we'd have a nation of people who could afford to see a doctor when they wanted to instead of when it got to be too much to bear. Besides Riaha, right now your tax dollars are already paying for me since I'm uninsured at the moment. About 700$ from every person in the states is going towards people like myself who are uninsured every year (I could be fudging a bit on the amount of money- I only heard it last night at work). So really when you look at it that way, why wouldn't you want to have national health care so at least when you have your tax dollars going to everyone who doesn't have health care through their employer you're getting something back as well?[/color][/font][/size]

[quote name='taperson'][COLOR="RoyalBlue"][SIZE="1"]I met someone I found on an internet nerd forum.[/SIZE][/COLOR][/QUOTE] [color=#9933ff][font=monotype corsiva][size=4]I met my boyfriend on the old [B]4Kids message boards[/B]- when I was 25 and he was 22[/color][/font][/size]:animeblus

[color=#9933ff][font=monotype corsiva][size=4]When I was in high school I used to do a Sailor Moon RPG over the phone with my friend which included our OCs, the original senshi and various voices. I am obsessed with history and will talk about parts of history better left to Jeopardy contestant with whomever is around. My friends and I are in our late twenties and have inner fangirl names and fight over who gets to claim Tamaki, Ed Elric and Roy Mustang I named my second car Duo Chan because I was obsessed with Gundam wing. I used to voice over the DiC dubs of Sailor Moon waking up my college roommates. Oh yeah and now I voice over the 4Kids WInx Club dub because the lines are horrid. And this is my second Anime messageboard- my first was Trouble Makers and All Things Naughty back in college.[/color][/font][/size]

[color=#9933ff][font=monotype corsiva][size=4]I am so friggin' sick of [B]America's Got Talent[/B]! I used to like the show but now I can't help but wonder: Would it kill [B]NBC[/B] to start their fall line up early?[/color][/font][/size]

[quote name='James'][font=franklin gothic medium] While I don't think that an "all public" system is necessarily a good idea (and I don't even know if it's being proposed),[B] I am tired of hearing the same simplistic "reds under the bed" [/B]arguments, which tend to come from people who have an irrational fear of anything involving the word "public". [/font][/QUOTE] [color=#9933ff][font=monotype corsiva][size=4]That comment just made me chuckle because I got into a bit of a debate last night on Facebook about national (or as these people were calling it socialized) health care. Anyone who didn't agree with them was called a commie or a red. I was actually told to 'get the hell out' of my own country if I wanted to 'support a communist regime like this Stalin wannabe is trying to establish' sad really. I think that the point Lee (Spy46) was making is that if you've a problem paying for someone's health care, why not have the same problem paying for someone else's police response or someone else's home fire being put out? Do you have an issue paying for toll roads because everyone else uses them and why should I pay for something everyone uses? Same with school taxes. My grandparents pay school taxes in the town they live in and they're youngest daughter graduated in '73. But they still pay them every year. It'd just be one more thing, and you'd actually get something for being taxed. I don't believe that national health care would be a cure all- I never have. No system's perfect which would be the reason Fox News can get so many disaffected Canadian citizens to come on their show and complain about having health care that's taken out of their paycheck and the quality of care. Hmm, why not complain about your hospital instead? That would make more sense to me. Besides, if they hate the system so much, why not come down here to the States? It's sure as hell cheaper than Canada. What I don't get is why so many people who are insured are so opposed to it. You're allowed to keep your private insurance- my friend in Alberta works for Walmart and gets her company insurance, plus her provincial health care plus the health care for all Canadians. And you can still keep your doctor. You're not told what proceedures you can and can't have and you don't have to worry what's going to happen to you between that 3 month probation period your new company has. I hope no one takes offense to my next comment, but I was talking to my boyfriend's father last night and started my conversation with: 'Oh man, Americans have got to be some of the dumbest people. They're all like Oh no! Someone's offering health care for everyone! Whatever shall we do?' Ok so you really can't get the sarcasm here, but you can imagine it. We've a president who is finally acting in the interest of the citizens of his country and all the oppents to this idea can find to do is scream like toddlers in a grocery store at town hall meetings and send death threats to their senators. It makes me emberassed to be an American.If you're going to complain at least know what you're complaining about and please keep your death threats to yourself.[/color][/font][/size]

[color=#9933ff][font=monotype corsiva][size=4]Those town hall meetings are a bunch of loons . Seriously can't we Americans behaive better than that? It's appalling. All that screaming. You're not at a basketball game. :animesigh I'm one of those uninsured Americans, I've had insurance on and off since '05 and it's not fun not being able to get even your birth control pills let alone the medications I need to actually function and keep my job- of course I feel at times I'd be better off being like my ex's mom who sits on her butt with her cats all day smoking cigarettes and getting her government check. What I do now is function from day to day and deal with my bi-polar and my ADD without my medications because the stratera is 110$ even with inusrance and I don't even have generic paxil. I have to forget about my check ups because DSS says I make too much to be covered and I have to hope my employer won't start their loop hole crap that they've done with some of my co workers. I like the idea of national health care. You pay for it with your taxes like you do for the rest of the state. I think I need to force SpyLR back on here so he can talk about it at length. But I think this could be a fun debate.[/color][/font][/size]

[quote name='Allamorph'][FONT=Arial]Some do . . . or are at least capable of acting in a manner so we ascribe emotions to them. But only Koreans eat cats and dogs. [CENTER][COLOR="Red"][SIZE="4"][FONT="Century Gothic"][B]CONTROVERSIAL STATEMENT[/B][/FONT][/SIZE][/COLOR][/CENTER][/font][/QUOTE] [color=#9933ff][font=monotype corsiva][size=4]Yeah, I heard that they actually have a special term for dog meat- Kagoge if I'm not mistaken. [/color][/font][/size]

[quote name='Indi'][FONT="Arial"][COLOR="Indigo"]Just one question really, who takes care of her should something happen to you? [/COLOR][/FONT][/QUOTE] [color=#9933ff][font=monotype corsiva][size=4]Oh lord... you know I don't like to think of it.... her father would most likely get her in a court case even though my parents have helped raise her for the past nearly five years :animeblus But I don't really have it all sorted out. That's it that Blue tooth is getting back in commission tomorrow.[/color][/font][/size]

[color=#9933ff][font=monotype corsiva][size=4]It's like Sokka said in [B]Bitter Work[/B] (yes I still watch [B]Avatar the Last Airbender[/B]) You're awfully cute, but unfortunately, you're made of meat. Besides has [B]PETA [/B]stopped to think of the people they'd be putting out of work if everyone stopped eatting meat (and riding horses, owning pets ect ect ect)? I think not[/color][/font][/size]

[color=#9933ff][font=monotype corsiva][size=4] Look I'm back after almost a month, and I have a thread of my own! Okay so I don't know how many of us here are American and who are from other places like the UK, Canada, Asia Ect ect. But recently President Obama has been talking about revamping health care and from the sounds of things he wants to try and get Americans National or socialized healthcare which in my opinion is a good thing. I've been uninsured more times than I care to remember because DSS (department of social services) said I made too much to be on which ever health care is geared towards the poor people or I was waiting for coverage. I just found out that the new company I work for has sneaky ways of getting around insuring their employees when they should. Now I know that National isn't a cure all and that recently Americans have been hearing a lot about the problems Canadians have with their health care or been told horror stories of people dying on waiting lists (ok yes that's sad but true. But from what I've heard that's because they don't have the specialists that they have in the states) And the best part is definately the out of control town hall meetings that have been extremely off the chain as of late. So I'm trying to get opinions and maybe experiances of those who have national or socialized health care. And those who have private insurance. And of course those of us who are uninsured for whatever reason. Please let's just be civil here. Thanks.[/color][/font][/size]

[color=#9933ff][font=monotype corsiva][size=4]I hate to say it but even with the 100$ ticket I got last year, I still talk and drive. But hey at least I don't text and drive.... out of the parking lot. My state (New York) recently passed a ban on texting and driving- you'd've thought we'd've done it more recently seeing as two years ago six high school graduates died on a summer trip because one of them decided to text while driving. Coincidentally you'd think that yokel from Buffalo would've known better than to try to use two cell phones at the same time. But sadly common sense isn't all that common (else I'd've stop talking on my phone while driving after that pesky ticket) and you have to really pay attention. I talk and drive- my blue tooth is crap and won't re-connect anyway and my speakerphone is useless when I have the air conditioning on. But honestly I've never seen much of a problem when I do that- I put on my cruise control and keep one hand on the wheel. I'm probably pretty bad to brag about this and am most likely jinxing myself, but I drive better talking on my phone than some people drive with both hands on the damn wheel! You know what? This post just made me want to get my blue tooth looked at. I'm gonna need it in about two weeks when I meet up with my friend and her boyfriend then in two months when I drive four hours to see her. I shouldn't really talk on the phone with my daughter in the car- which by the way I don't do. See I do have redeeming qualities. As for eatting while driving- I did that when I was a home aide, but now unless I'm extremely hungry I can wait til I get to work. But I DO drink and drive. My drink of choice is usually an iced green tea latte or juice or water. (Had ya going didn't I? I'm usually rushing from place to place so I'm taking meds in the car and I need something to wash them down. The thing that scares me though is people who read and drive or apply make up and drive and once while driving through Cinncinnati I saw a guy SHAVING while driving. Just wake up earlier for Christ Sake![/color][/font][/size]