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Does Obama WH think they can add a few „Republican“ elements to this unpopular healthcare bill THEN pass it?

So the Obama White House still seems to think the bill that over 50% of the country still opposes (and has opposed for months now) is a good starting point.

Did this bill magically get better over the last 2 weeks?? (special deal for big labor, the backroom deal BIG PHARMA made with the WH which insures no cheaper drugs, no public option, no watered down public option, unconstitutional federal mandate to buy private insurance, special deals for states like Nebraska and Louisiana……)

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2010/02/08/exclusive-sebelius-says-o_n_453340.html

Health and Human Services Secretary Kathleen Sebelius said on Monday that President Obama is willing to „add various elements“ to health care legislation suggested by Republican lawmakers during an upcoming bipartisan meeting on the topic. But he won’t change the entire plan and he is „absolutely not“ hitting the reset button on the legislative process, the former Kansas governor insisted.

In a brief interview with the Huffington Post following a speech to an audience of health care professionals, Sebelius said that the president views the bipartisan meeting as a needed pivot to move reform forward. Asked if he will expedite the legislative process following his various sit-downs with congressional Republicans, she replied:

„I certainly think so. I think he sees this as a step to actually accelerating the process forward. He wants to move forward. He wants a bill at his desk and he sees this as kind of closing the loop and let’s go.“……………………….“We have to get, frankly, the Republican members of the House and Senate to re-engage in this process,“ she declared. „I think it is not acceptable that half of the legislative body pushed away from the table when this conversation began months ago and basically said, ‚We don’t want to participate in this process.‘ If you remember, for a long time, the discussion was, ‚Well, we don’t want to participate in anything that has a public option in it.’… Well, as far as I have determined, the public option is no longer part of the plan and yet no one has come back to the table and said, ‚We will now talk about how to move forward with a private market strategy.'“

star if you think funny?

This farmer has 500 hens but no rooster so he goes to his neighbor and asks him if he could buy a rooster for $100.
The neighbor says, „You can have this rooster. His name’s Roy. He’ll get all your hens pregnant. He’s a real stud.“

So the farmer takes him home and says, „It’s your first day so take it slow, okay?“

The farmer puts Roy in the hen house and then hears all the hens crying and yelling. Roy nailed every one of those hens and then nailed a duck and a goose at a pond.

The next morning the farmer finds Roy lying dead with his legs sticking in the air and buzzards circling overhead.

The farmer says, „Roy, did you have to die?“

Roy says, „Quiet! They’re about to land!“

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„There are only two reasons to sit in the back row of an airplane: Either you have diarrhea, or you’re anxious to meet people who do.“ Henry Kissinger (former US Secretary of State)
„Things you’ll never hear a woman say: ‚My, what an attractive scrotum!‘ Patricia Arquette

„And God said: „Let there be Satan, so people don’t blame everything on me. And let there be lawyers, so people don’t blame everything on Satan.“ George Burns

„Luge strategy? Lie flat and try not to die.“ Carmen Boyle (Olympic gold medalist in luge, 1966)

„Women might be able to fake orgasms. But men can fake whole relationships.“ Sharon Stone

„My girlfriend always laughs during sex-no matter what she’s reading.“ Steve Jobs (Founder: Apple Computers)

„My cousin just died. He was only 19. He got stung by a bee-the natural enemy of a tightrope walker.“ Dan Rather (News anchorman)

„I saw a woman wearing a sweatshirt with ‚Guess‘ on it. I said, ‚Thyroid problem?“ Arnold Schwarzenegger

„Hockey is a sport for white men. Basketball is a sport for black men. Golf is a sport for white men dressed like black pimps.“ Tiger Woods

„I read somewhere that 77 per cent of all the mentally ill live in poverty. Actually, I’m more intrigued by the 23 per cent who are apparently doing quite well for themselves.“ Jerry Garcia (Grateful Dead)

„I discovered I scream the same way whether I’m about to be devoured by a Great White or if a piece of seaweed touches my foot.“ Axel Rose (Guns‘n‚Roses)

„Capital punishment turns the state into a murderer. But imprisonment turns the state into a gay dungeon-master.“ Rev. Jesse Jackson

„My mother never saw the irony in calling me a son-of-a-bitch.“ Jack Nicholson

„Clinton lied. A man might forget where he parks or where he lives, but he never forgets oral sex, no matter how bad it is.“ Barbara Bush (Former US First Lady)

„Ah, yes, divorce, from the Latin word meaning to rip out a man’s genitals through his wallet.“ Robin Williams

„Women complain about premenstrual syndrome, but I think of it as the only time of the month that I can be myself.“ Roseanne

„In the last couple of weeks I have seen the ads for the Wonder Bra. Is that really a problem in this country? Men not paying enough attention to women’s breasts?“ Hugh Grant

„There’s a new medical crisis. Doctors are reporting that many men are having allergic reactions to latex condoms. They say they cause severe swelling. So what’s the problem?“ Dustin Hoffman

„Instead of getting married again, I’m going to find a woman I don’t like and just give her a house.“ Rod Stewart., aging cover band singer

Survivor Japan (Part IV)?

In this version of Survivor, the members of Yahoo! Answers decide the fate of the castaways. I will give you the events that occur during the “episode” and then you get to vote for who is eliminated. After three days I will tally the votes and post the next “episode”, so everyone has a three day window of opportunity to read the “episode” and vote. Previously on Survivor: Baxtone won the reward of barbeque, but declined the opportunity to trade their reward to be able to send someone to Exile Island. Baxtone also won immunity and despite her valiant efforts Natasha, the weakest link was voted out. Thirteen are left, who will be voted out tonight?

Day 10: Both tribes are sore after the draining Immunity Challenge the day before. Baxtone sleeps in, while Quantor gets up as usual to do work. The Antonio, Brandon, Brooke, and Karen talk about who would go next should they lose Immunity. “Definitely Nora,” Brooke says. “Yeah,” Antonio says, “she’s not a strong physical or mental player. At Baxtone, the Mike, Lucas, and Sally alliance talks about strategy too. “I say Nick should go.” Lucas says. “Definitely, Cyerra and Belinda lasted the longest at that challenge.” Sally says.
Day 11: Reward Challenge! The challenge is: Each tribe will must carry a torch through an obstacle course. The course runs starts deep in the jungle. You’ll race through the course all the way to the beach. Once there, you’ll swim out to a platform. The platform has a wok on it. The first tribe to have everyone on the platform and light the wood in the wok wins reward. Go! Nora is sitting out for Quantor. Quantor takes an early lead. Baxtone quickly catches up when Quantor gets stuck on a puzzle section. Belinda is the smartest on Baxtone and is able to figure out the puzzle with the help of her tribe and they move on. Quantor finally makes it through the puzzle section and reaches the beach. Mike is holding the torch for Baxtone, while Antonio is holding it for Quantor. A large wave hits Baxtone while they’re swimming and the torch is extinguished. They must race back to the start to relight their torch. Quantor, who were behind, weren’t struck by the wave and get very close to the platform. Out of nowhere a wave hits, extinguishing Quantor’s torch. From the water to the start of the course and back again easily takes forty minutes. Instead of heading back to the course, Brooke has a better idea. She jumps onto the platform and starts rubbing the sticks from the wok together. Her tribe screams for her to get off, but she continues and gets smoke as Baxtone races from the jungle. It’s intense as both tribes hurry. Brooke gets sparks and blows quickly on them. They spark and make fire. Brooke lights the wok as her tribe climbs on. Quantor wins a tarp! They trade it in and send Sally to Exile; since she’s the weakest they want her to be safe from Tribal Council.
Day 12: Immunity Challenge! The challenge is: Retrieve a fifty-pound treasure chest from twenty feet under water. You can use anything from the jungle. Ingenuity required. Karen and Brandon are sitting out for Quantor. Go! Brooke quickly races to the jungle. “Great, another one of her schemes.” Antonio says sarcastically. She comes out with a bunch of large leaves and grasses. Baxtone is trying to get it up without any sort of device. Brooke starts tying the leaves together. She screams to her tribe to help her. She makes a large deflated ball out of leaves, but it has holes. She, along with the tribe, weaves the grass and wraps the “ball” in it. No more holes. They dive down to the chest and use their last bits of air to inflate the ball. They tie it to the chest and swim to the surface. After filling up on air, they dive back down and start to pull the chest. The ball pulling upwards on the chest makes it much easier to carry underwater. They get it to the finish line before Baxtone. Quantor wins Immunity! At Baxtone, Mike and Lucas don’t have Sally to vote with them, leaving them vulnerable to Nick, Cyerra, and Belinda. Mike is clearly stronger than Lucas, but Lucas is pretty smart.

Only you, the Yahoo! Answers members can decide the fate of the tribe. Who will go: Mike, Cyerra, Lucas, Nick, or Belinda?

Help! This is my first-break up! How to cope?

So, ok, I am 24 n just got dumped by my bf of 4 years. I am a very very sensitive person so this is HARD on me. To make matters worse, we live together and I am still out of a job (I AM LOOKING THOUGH) so instead of getting over it alone, in privacy, I have to cry myself to sleep NEXT TO HIM. We don’t have a couch, so no going to the living room. I got no one I can live with or crash with. It’s a CRAP-TACULAR situation and I am simply MARINATING IN PAIN because of having to know he is soooooo OVER me, but is just being nice to me by letting me stay till i can move out. ON TOP OF THIS, he is moving to super luxurious apt in TIMES SQ. and I am I forced to move to the ghetto and rent a room since I do not have a job and even when I do, it will never be enough to afford the HIGH rent of a nice nyc apt in a nice area. So i will end up in the ghetto with gross thugs and alcohalics cat-calling at me and making me sick to my stomach with their „i wanna do you in the butt“ looks.
Also, I do not come from money and have always been poor so no chance of any „rich daddy“ to bail my butt out.
And my ex is already on facebook inviting friends to come party at his new pad when he gets it, while i sit here, crying at the computer or in bed, and he just pretends to not see me. I HATE BEING HERE! I go out when i can, but with NO JOB, it’s tough to spend money. PLEASE GIVE ME SOME COPING STRATEGIES???? Because I am fine until he comes home and then just the site of him makes me burst into tears since being around him is NOT letting me get over it.

need help on gaining muscle weight? ?

Well here is the deal, at the moment I weight 150 pounds and usually this is the maximum weight that I can get up to. I am looking to gain another 15 pounds or so and get myself up to 165/170.

I work out with weights every other day, and on the off days I run. I have been lifting for at least five years so I know what I am doing. Also I am pretty slim and if I had to guess I am probably under 10% body fat. Three years ago I had 8.5% body fat, but I stopped exercising for two years.

I know that the running is going to make things hard because it is counter productive and burns a lot of calaroies, but I was always a long distance runner in high school and I like to keep cardio shape.

At first I wanted to see if there was a way to increase weight naturally, preferably by eating more, but this way is just too hard. I already eat 5 times a day, which includes two smaller meals with my weight protein shakes. And for some reason this just enough to counter my fast metabolism.

The guy down at Vitamin World told me that I should think about Creatin and possibly some post pre work out drink called N Blast or something. I am very cautious against these things, because I don’t want to be hooked on them to keep the weight. He assured me that if I kept exercising I would keep most of the muscle I gain and after a month or two I could stop taking the supplements.

Does anyone have any opinons about this strategy? If anyone has a better more natural way I would like to hear it. Its just that I am now working five days a week in the mornings and going to grad school 2-3 times a week and I don’t have that much time to sit around eating all day to counter my fast metabolism.