You are correct. And while every non-profit is responsible for reporting how funding is spent on services and programming, PP is especially scrutinized and is especially careful (and transparent) about who funds what services, proving how funds are spent and so on. What a mess Komen made for themselves, but you know, I think it's better to know a granting organization's true colors. Good luck with your relatives.
Her mouth said: "Come meet with me," but her pointing finger said, "See? We don't racially profile and abuse the civil liberties of everyone who's not white in Arizona!"
I'm sorry I don't even know what this article is about because all I see is the profile of Michelle Obama and I immediately envision (1) how much harder I ought to be working out and (2) how much I wish I had even an ounce of her fashion sense / access to a stylist who get me. Which makes me superficial. Eh, so be it.
Experiencing comment editing failure. Perhaps my poor grammar does indeed make me an a-hole.
Yeah, I don't think asshole was the right term for my lovely Mayor to use. "Monster" would have been more appropriate. And as a non-assholian Philadelphia (at least I like to think so and my mom says I'm pretty nice), I don't think it's as bad as that. There are the a-holes, believe you me, but there are a lot of easygoing friendly folks too.
Regardless, the gun violence is out of control. In my neighborhood and seemingly everywhere else too. It'd be afraid, but I'm too depressed to really feel any concern for my own safety.
Thanks for the link because EXACTLY.
"....is the most popular athlete in the world...." Do these sorts of folks know that American football only exists in the United States? Oh wait, no, no, rabid football fans only know that one (patriotic) kind.
Talk to me Walker: I quit for 4 months over the summer, didn't miss it AT ALL. But I started getting emails (you know the normal kind) and texts, asking why I wasn't on FB since that's how people communicate these days. So I went back. Because really, so many friends-- real ones, I might add-- only use FB for messaging and such. I can't make these people drop their accounts and I've asked them to just get back to, you know, picking up the g.d. phone, but no dice. Did you have this problem? Anyone? I'm *this* close to quitting again because I'm neurotic about privacy stuff, even though my profile is super boring and non-personal.
Adorable, Brian. In my freshman high school public speaking class, we had to do a "demo" of our choice. I chose gift-wrapping since I learned my mother's highly exacting ways of doing so. And I will say, while one tiny thing you do differs from my mother's (a style choice, not a quality one), I am amazed at how closely I have learned the Jedi ways of wrapping gifts. Happy holidays.
Also agree, and I think your comment gets at why I love these installments so much when I'm otherwise not one for action-type comic-based flicks. That trailer actually did it's job-- I will totally run to the theater to see it when it arrives.
I am still that person. It's the only time I allow myself to spend $5 on a food magazine I'd never buy otherwise, or a good/bad paperback. I don't have an iPhone or iPad or anything remotely entertaining I can use and I don't care. I do miss in-flight tv/movies which seem to have disappeared entirely over the past few years, but hell, a nap, a brisket recipe, and a few crossword puzzles and I am go to go.
You should get worked up about it. I hate that crap. How do these people get book deals and become experts? They're quacks. Blech.
Oh man, yes. My ex-boyfriend's parents got him a remote-controlled helicopter for Christmas a few years ago, when we were still together. He was 38 years old at the time. He's an only child and his parents treat him like the boy he was. Which he still emulated, of course. We broke up 2 months later.
I can assure all readers that scleroderma is untreatable. Period. No "nearly." It kills. That was indeed a painful sentence.
YES! Mazel tov to Lily & her husband. There's a lady that deserves some baby magic.
Depends. A proper "school lunch" which includes certain components (starches, protein, veg, fruit, and milk) are subsidized even when a student pays "full price." However, most schools offer a la carte items which aren't reimbursable / subsidized like french fries, in order to make more profit.
Edited: actually, I'll bet it's commodity ketchup (a USDA product)... so either way, yes, it's me and you paying for that ketchup. Ketchup Queen indeed!
Edited: actually, I'll bet it's commodity ketchup (a USDA product)... so either way, yes, it's me and you paying for that ketchup. Ketchup Queen indeed!
Okay, first of all-- these are "proposed" new nutritional standards for school meals, which (a) don't include any additional funds to schools for food costs, even though schools are going to be required to purchase far more expensive fresh fruit and veg items and whole grains and (b) even if they ARE enacted, the rules aren't finished yet, and probably won't go live till 2013. Meanwhile, there have been no changes to nutritional standards since the 1980's, back when ketchup was deemed a vegetable by Reagan. So, if your school is lowering sodium in their meals, they're doing it by choice right now. Fact.
Girly needs to calm herself. Because it would seem to me if she has enough money and you know, choots-pah to buy a bucket of ketchup and go on Fox News, then she likely can just bring lunch from home. Unlike, say, millions of other poor kids across the country whose nutritional status is total crap, whose daily caloric intake is mostly limited to what their school serves them, who rely on school meals as their only consistent source of food. There are a lot of these children-- they need to be offered more nutritious breakfasts and lunches, full stop.
So, darling girl, the other reason for the nutritional requirements? Over 2/3 of all children, rich or poor or otherwise, are overweight or obese. So I'm okay with fewer french fries and pizza and fat and sodium rich foods being offered to you courtesy my tax dollars. Because it saddens me that already we are paying for years of bad food in the form of childhood type 2 diabetes.
Just one more thing, did you ask your school if perhaps the price of ketchup may have gone up? Because most schools don't just have extra cash lying about for your greedy little fingers to grab. They might actually just be trying to make a little extra cash to, you know, prepare you better food overall.
Rant over. Just had a very "the more you know," moment.
Girly needs to calm herself. Because it would seem to me if she has enough money and you know, choots-pah to buy a bucket of ketchup and go on Fox News, then she likely can just bring lunch from home. Unlike, say, millions of other poor kids across the country whose nutritional status is total crap, whose daily caloric intake is mostly limited to what their school serves them, who rely on school meals as their only consistent source of food. There are a lot of these children-- they need to be offered more nutritious breakfasts and lunches, full stop.
So, darling girl, the other reason for the nutritional requirements? Over 2/3 of all children, rich or poor or otherwise, are overweight or obese. So I'm okay with fewer french fries and pizza and fat and sodium rich foods being offered to you courtesy my tax dollars. Because it saddens me that already we are paying for years of bad food in the form of childhood type 2 diabetes.
Just one more thing, did you ask your school if perhaps the price of ketchup may have gone up? Because most schools don't just have extra cash lying about for your greedy little fingers to grab. They might actually just be trying to make a little extra cash to, you know, prepare you better food overall.
Rant over. Just had a very "the more you know," moment.
These people, if you read the article, are from Texas, and were living in Florida until about 2 weeks ago. But hey, cheap shots are cheap and easy, so good on you.
I was going to comment similarly. We don't really know what Jobs choose to do or not. I'm not for pseudo-science, but I don't necessarily think that every last ounce of Western medicine is the way to go and yes, even with cancer. These are exceptionally personal decisions. Jobs outlasted very serious cancer longer than I think a lot of people thought he would. Longer than I did, for one. He survived both a Whipple and a liver transplant-- he already beat odds with those procedures.
We won't know what went into his decision-making, but I'd like to think he chose the best course for himself, weighed the pros and cons to all options, the side effects v. the potential shortened life span, and maybe he even did so with the support of his family. Either way, it's not our business, it's private, and I hope he passed away with peace.
We won't know what went into his decision-making, but I'd like to think he chose the best course for himself, weighed the pros and cons to all options, the side effects v. the potential shortened life span, and maybe he even did so with the support of his family. Either way, it's not our business, it's private, and I hope he passed away with peace.
"People who don't want universal health care have never had a loved one suffer with a terminal illness and fight with an insurance company, all at the same time. No one should make a profit off whether we live or die. "
Yes. My own mother has been in the hospital for 4 weeks fighting cancer. My folks are retired, pay their enormous premiums out of pocket, and while I haven't brought it up yet, I'm wondering when to start asking if they are okay financially. Sadly, it's always after someone finishes treatment, comes home, or worse, passes away, that the unexpected and/or incorrect billing happens. So as families try to regain a sense of normalcy, they are forced to spend extraordinary amounts of time dealing with insurers, getting paperwork from difficult-to-reach dr's, talking with hospital admin, pharmacies, and home-care aides.
Cancer sucks rancid ass. So does our health care system, if you can even call it a system. Let's call it a clusterfuck. Health care clusterfuck. There we go.
Finally, sorry to hear you lost your mom. Hope you and your family have found comfort and carried on well.
Yes. My own mother has been in the hospital for 4 weeks fighting cancer. My folks are retired, pay their enormous premiums out of pocket, and while I haven't brought it up yet, I'm wondering when to start asking if they are okay financially. Sadly, it's always after someone finishes treatment, comes home, or worse, passes away, that the unexpected and/or incorrect billing happens. So as families try to regain a sense of normalcy, they are forced to spend extraordinary amounts of time dealing with insurers, getting paperwork from difficult-to-reach dr's, talking with hospital admin, pharmacies, and home-care aides.
Cancer sucks rancid ass. So does our health care system, if you can even call it a system. Let's call it a clusterfuck. Health care clusterfuck. There we go.
Finally, sorry to hear you lost your mom. Hope you and your family have found comfort and carried on well.
