Health care politics

I was listening to a radio show and heard some disturbing news. Apparently some very OLD news. The city of San Francisco is paying for city employee's sex changes as a normal part of medical benefits. They called it a civil right! It is costing something like $40000 for hes wanting to be shes, and $80000 for shes wanting to be hes. And that is just the procedure! You have to tack on hormones and counseling and therapy and the list goes on. Click more to read the rest... Read More...
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Sitting on the lanai feeding Seporah carrots

Diced that is, she's moving up in the world, from glop to dices. She's wondering what the fuss is about and I think would prefer the glop. Unfortunately she has yet to learn the skill of feeding herself anything, not even a cracker. But fortunately she doesn't know that she has the ability to spit things out yet. We are still definitely going to need a bath anyways after this. Read More...
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Military Ball Pictures

Well, the military ball was interesting. Not quite what we imagined it would be. It was quite a bit more formal than we expected. The first hour was a real waste of time, as we did not know anyone and it was mostly a "gathering" hour. The people that we went with smartly skipped this hour and only showed up at the beginning of the second hour, when they seated us in the ballroom. Read More...
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Update from Iraq

Well, all. I have been LONG overdue for an update, and for that I apologize. Things have been busy here and I have been cherishing every tiny bit of free time allotted to me. As you all know Iíve been in Iraq for about three weeks now. I came here with a detachment of Electronics marines and we are already kicking butt and taking names (and by that I mean we are fixing broken stuff.. not shooting people). Read More...
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My talk on adversity...

This talk borrows a little from a lesson by Lynda Needham on Job and a little from a talk by Elder Monte J. Brough titled ìAdversityî, but is mostly original. I will give this talk tomorrow, but you guys get to see it first! (if you get up early enoughÖ) Click more to read the talk...
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Elitism gets such a bad rap...

Yeah. A friend today said he would buy a Mac, as they are great machines, except that it seemed people who owned Macs were elitist pricks. Lets check out dictionary.com for a nice definition of elitisim... Read More...
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