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Plot summary: Haunted by a secret, Ben Thomas looks for redemption by radically transforming the lives of seven people he doesn’t know. Once his plan is set, nothing will be able to stop him. At least that’s what he thinks. But Ben hadn’t planned on falling in love with one of these people and she’s [...]
the warmth of your breath
with your arms wrapped around me
warms me to my core
The title is about as sarcastic as you can get, obviously. I just now got a chance to opt-in to having health insurance again at work for the new enrollment period, and even given the things that I’ve seen that can go wrong, I just can’t see it worth getting, again. The increase over last year’s premiums are 19.00%! Umm, I thought the Obama Administration praised the Obamacare plan so much as to say that we could see relief in healthcare costs, ha!
It’s obvious that the healthcare system was (still is) broken in our country, but the solution is not more government. Healthcare is setup in a way that nearly everyone that goes in for treatment has insurance, and the doctors exploit this by charging the maximum allowed under the law. I’ve seen this, and know it’s true by some of the doctor visits that Mom went to. She had no insurance, and always saw a decent price reduction by having to pay cash. I have some family that go to the doctor every other week it seems, and if you take a scenario like that, apply it to most of America, no wonder costs are exploding like they are. Insurance wasn’t made for that. It’s meant to be used for something catastrophic. But the solution isn’t to force everyone to have insurance, it’s to get the government out of it, and get back to the way it used to work, where doctors would charge the least they could instead of the most.
do I cross your mind
the way you seem to cross mine
countless times each day?
Plot summary: In 2001, four Pakistani Britons, Ruhal Ahmed, Asif Iqbal and Shafiq Rasul and another friend, Monir, travel to Pakistan for a wedding and in a urge of idealism, decide to see the situation of war torn Afganistan which is being bombed by the American forces in retaliation for the 9/11 terrorist attacks. Once [...]
Six months later and I’m still discovering obstacles within myself, learning how to deal with things, and getting so frustrated at times that I can’t stand it. My patience is thinner than it’s ever been, my sense of worry heightened, and my sleeplessness catching up. I have trouble getting out of bed each morning, sometimes realizing that I have to get up because my phone has already given up. I’m running late most days. The other day I slept an hour past the alarm, and was awoken by Dad hollering upstairs to see if I was off that day. I wasn’t.
I miss coming home each day and talking with Mom about everything. I miss having someone to talk to one-on-one. That’s a void that I don’t think can ever be filled. Dad tries I think, but more times than not he becomes disinterested or thinks I’m finished and just walks off. It’s not his fault though. Why I just assumed that he would want to hear all that anyways, I don’t know. That’s misjudgement on my part, and I don’t hold it against him at all.
A look at the damage from the recent tornado in Ringgold and up Cherokee Valley Rd.
A few photos from this set
there is not a thing
in this world that I want more
than you to be here
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All I ask is one thing, and I’m asking this particularly of young people: please don’t be cynical. I hate cynicism, for the record, it’s my least favorite quality and it doesn’t lead anywhere. Nobody in life gets exactly what they thought they were going to get. But if you work really hard and you’re kind, amazing things will happen.
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