My experience with karma is it does not always come around like it's supposd to. But I have to have inner peace with myself and be aware that maybe when it does decide to come around it will be very big. Either way I can look myself in the mirror and sleep at night. Being honest is that one thing that I can do right and not screw it up.
Posts by BrentR
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51How Honest Are You Really???
by minimus inhere's the scenario: you buy an item and it's on sale for 10% off the original price.
a new cashier charges you, instead of 10% off, 10 cents!
this happened to a woman who bought a leather coat among other things and when she reviewed her slip she knew absolutely that the new cashier messed up.
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What a wonderful world.
by minu ini thought this was so cool.
i had to share.
http://s62.photobucket.com/albums/h119/marie0578/?action=view¤t=puppet.flv.
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BrentR
I fiqured that was the one you were shooting for. It was making the email rounds last week.
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Canadian MP comes to US for medical treatment...
by zeroday ini guess the evil profit gouging american health care system is preferable to state run free medical care.... .
http://www.ctv.ca/servlet/articlenews/story/ctvnews/20070914/belinda_stronach_070914/20070914?hub=health.
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BrentR
I work with a guy that has had two emergency surgeries and he still has not bothered to get health insurance. He is paying $150 per month w/o any interest or credit hit. He says that it's cheaper then paying insurance premiums and he is paying for services rendered not "just in case". Both surgeries were at one of the best hospitals in the area. I would agree with him since I was a patient there today.
All healthcare programs in every country can stand some tweaking or improvement. I would like to see the malpractice lawsuits controlled here in the states. That would lower the costs greatly and entice more specialists to come back into practice. The new HIPA privacy laws are costing hospitals and clinics millions of dollars each year and accomplish nothing that improves the actual care given. It started out as a nice little concept to allow you to transfer your healthcare when you changed jobs. But then it mushroomed into a god awful hellish nightmare of rediculous laws that are almost impossible to implement. The clinic I lease space from has spent over $50k and still has some exposures to try to mitigate.
I had to upgrade my billing software just so it is password protected. Nevermind that Windows allready has password protection that keeps everyone out except me. $700 later I get the exact same software. That little line of code cost me seven bills!
Doctors are leaving here in droves, because they don't get paid enough.
Back when I was an EMT Good Samaritan hospital in Puyallup WA had seven ER docs, six of them went to school in Canada. They were some dam fine docs and it's a shame that they did not stay in thier country of birth to practice. One of them was a chain smoker so he was usually outside having a smoke break when we pulled in with a patient. He was always climbing right in the rig and helping us unload the patient and getting the history. He also rode with us on some of his days off just to get our perspective in the field. I am sure Canada needs him more then WA state does.
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should prostitution be legalized?
by John Doe inthink of all the unprotected prostitutes in the world.
if their profession were legalized, they might have access to retirement plans, medical insurance, regular health exams that would protect not only the girl but the client also.
courts and society have traditionally held the body as something sacred that should not be sold, but are people not selling their bodies when they make pornos or pose for pictures or make movies or any such things?
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BrentR
If you can't lickem' then joinem'!
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Who thinks Cannabis/Marihuana should be legalised?
by lfcviking ini think in most countries it is illegal to use this drug, so do you think it should be decriminalised, legalised & taxed, made legal for the medical proffesion or should it remain completely illegal?
please state your reasons for your choice.. lfcv.
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BrentR
A 24-7 buffet would decrease the risk of canibalism somewhat.
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Canadian MP comes to US for medical treatment...
by zeroday ini guess the evil profit gouging american health care system is preferable to state run free medical care.... .
http://www.ctv.ca/servlet/articlenews/story/ctvnews/20070914/belinda_stronach_070914/20070914?hub=health.
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BrentR
Being that you are from Canada it would be hard for you to understand how it is here in the states. It's all perspective and you pay one way or another because docs do not usually work for free. If I paid the amount of taxes that Canadians paid and then had to pay for health care, deductible or not, $2500 would be alot.
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should prostitution be legalized?
by John Doe inthink of all the unprotected prostitutes in the world.
if their profession were legalized, they might have access to retirement plans, medical insurance, regular health exams that would protect not only the girl but the client also.
courts and society have traditionally held the body as something sacred that should not be sold, but are people not selling their bodies when they make pornos or pose for pictures or make movies or any such things?
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BrentR
what would be the effect on the porno industry?
Good question! Knowing the marketing brilliance of the industry I would predict they would use it to thier advantage somehow. I would bet money on it.
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Who thinks Cannabis/Marihuana should be legalised?
by lfcviking ini think in most countries it is illegal to use this drug, so do you think it should be decriminalised, legalised & taxed, made legal for the medical proffesion or should it remain completely illegal?
please state your reasons for your choice.. lfcv.
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BrentR
In the state of WA there has not been one instance of any marijuana related deaths. Compare that to alcohol or cigs.
I watched a 90 year old JW man starve to death in a nursing home from loss of appatite. His daughter and I were out in the field service and she was telling me how horrible it is to see her dad waste away. I told her to try pot brownies with him and she nearly drove off the road. She was livid at me for even suggesting that. That was just one more hole that started to pierce the veil of the borg for me. That fact that she would not only shoot it down but to go off on me for even suggesting it.
Looking back I am thankful for her rediculous and cold hearted attitude. It certainly accelerated my fade. I compare it to the game of Pick up Sticks in which you pull a wood stick out of the pile and try not to collapse it. Each stick removed weakens the pile until the last one is pulled and it comes tumbling down. Her attitude was a "big stick" in my borg pile.
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should prostitution be legalized?
by John Doe inthink of all the unprotected prostitutes in the world.
if their profession were legalized, they might have access to retirement plans, medical insurance, regular health exams that would protect not only the girl but the client also.
courts and society have traditionally held the body as something sacred that should not be sold, but are people not selling their bodies when they make pornos or pose for pictures or make movies or any such things?
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BrentR
I would like to see it legal in all 50 states but with careful regulation (like NV). As long as you keep organized crime out it, monitor for STD's and make sure the woman are safe then let the market decide.
If a guy is hungary he would be told to eat.
If a guy is thirsty he would told to get a drink.
If he was cold he would be told to go inside or put on a jacket.
If he had an itch he would be told to scratch it.
But if a guy (or gal) is horny and single society would tell him "tough sh*&"!
We are expected to take care of our healthy natural urges except for sex. Why?
I am an adamant opposer to victimless crimes. The US was founded on British common law.
Do not harm your neighbor and pay your debts. But look how society has bastardized and twisted those two very simple concepts.
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Going under the knife tomorrow morning :S
by Elsewhere ini'm not a big fan of surgery.
i always exhaust all non-surgical options before doing it.
i know enough about medicine to know that surgery is effectively a controlled injury... and that makes me nervous.
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BrentR
Hope it goes well for you and you recover as pain free as possible. I just had a steroidal spinal block today and hurt like hell and my right leg and butcheek was numb and paralyzed for several hours. The pain from the procedure was so bad I had the shakes and cold sweats. But by this time tomarrow the back pain will be completely gone.
I look at it as a pain investment. Pay $100 today to get back hundreds of thousands over the next months and years.
Take your pain meds! There are no points awarded for the amount of pain you can endure. I know because I tried a few times. My shelves that I set aside for pain endurance trophies are still empty, not even a certificate of accomplishment.