I still don’t trust their motives behind their backing.wowWal-Mart, the world’s largest private employer, announced in a letter to President Obama today that it will support a requirement that all businesses provide health insurance coverage as part of sweeping health reform legislation.
The endorsement of the so-called employer mandate represents a dramatic reversal for the retailing giant and a boost for the White House as it tries to inject momentum into its top domestic priority.
This is pretty big news.
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Song: All of My Days
Artist: Alexi Murdoch
Album: Time Without Consequence
One thing I noticed and really liked about Away We Go, besides the film itself, was the soundtrack throughout the movie.
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Good Old War - Cecelia (Simon & Garfunkel Cover)
One of my peeves is when I meet someone and they start singing this song. While it’s a good song on its own, my name is C-E-C-I-L-E. Not Cecilia.
I have to fake a smile as I try not to roll my eyes. It’s not like I hadn’t heard that before.
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Besides, who do you trust more to help administer health insurance: a bureaucrat or an insurance employee with a monetary incentive to deny coverage?
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Not Always Right | Funny & Stupid Customer Quotes » Would You Like A Foot To Go With Your Mouthwow…I hope this customer continues to feel like shit for this.
I have worked in some form of customer service for the 12 years I’ve been in the work force and it’s really customers like these who:
1. Make me be extra nice (or at least civil and logical) to employees when I am the customer because I know how it feels to be on the other side. I’ve tested time and time again the “mute” button on my phone as I cussed out or gave a piece of my mind to stupid-ass callers.
2. Made me (even more) bitter, angry, cynical and anti-social.
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Almost ten months after he was diagnosed with pancreatic cancer, my dad finally passed this morning.
He would have been 69 years old on June 6th.
That’s all I have to say about that.
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In a world full of crappy personality tests, this is one that is actually informative and useful - not to mention reliable: I’ve gotten the same result every time I’ve taken it, all the way back to the 7th grade. (via)
Me: INFP
How about you?
For years and years (since high school Psychology class), I was an INTJ, and pretty proud of it!
But I recently (a few months ago), retook the test and was an ISFJ. It surprised the hell out of me. But I guess I have changed a bit, and after reading it, some of the profile seems to really fit me.
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Song: In the Waiting Line
Artist: Zero 7
Album: Simple Things
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Do not go gentle into that good night,
Old age should burn and rave at close of day;
Rage, rage against the dying of the light.
Though wise men at their end know dark is right,
Because their words had forked no lightning they
Do not go gentle into that good night.
Good men, the last wave by, crying how bright
Their frail deeds might have danced in a green bay,
Rage, rage against the dying of the light.
Wild men who caught and sang the sun in flight,
And learn, too late, they grieved it on its way,
Do not go gentle into that good night.
Grave men, near death, who see with blinding sight
Blind eyes could blaze like meteors and be gay,
Rage, rage against the dying of the light.
And you, my father, there on the sad height,
Curse, bless me now with your fierce tears, I pray.
Do not go gentle into that good night.
Rage, rage against the dying of the light.
By Dylan Thomas
