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First let me say -thanks alot- for all the quick responses to my "newby" type questions. Next question. I have always fished barbless for trout. My only 2 bonefish trips, I fished barbless and never lost a fish. Now that I am aquiring larger flies for tarpon,jacks etc., I am really tempted to crimp all these barbs, is there any real problem if I make all my flies barbless for these larger fish, I really dont mind loosing some fish now and then, I am more into the hunt and the hook-up.
Go ahead and crimp those barbs!
O.K., you may lose the occaisional fish but, with Tarpon, the majority come unstuck after the first two dozen somersaults anyway - their mouths have the consitency of pre-stressed concrete.
Most species - big and small - seem to stay stuck pretty good on barbless hooks. Try to keep good tension and you should be fine.
When sight fishing, look over your shoulder from time to time, you never know who's behind you
Another factor that helps is to use the thinnest wire hook you can without compromising strength. You don't want them to open up but you want the penetration to be easy and the hole to stay small thru the fight. Some of those very expensive hooks give you the best ratio of strength to wire diam via high-end materials and chemical sharpening, thus are very expensive. The cheap SW hooks are made of crap metal and to get strong hooks you often have to go to a wire diam that is ridiculously heavy and barbs that are damn near impossible to crush, shaped like an anchor barb.
IMHO it pays to use the best hooks you can buy - TMC, Daichi, Gamakatsu, etc. Well worth the $ in the long run.
Actually it is better to use barbless, if they are sharp! They penetrate better and are more easily removed from your body!Learn to sharpen them yourself, then you will know they are sharp.
Heavy wire hooks are an absolute necessity on big fish, the light wire hooks will straighten! I've seen it happen too many times, even with 12# tippets on 2/0 and 3/0 hooks!
I use super strong wire hooks for fish that jump and shake their heads, like tarpon and snook. For everything else I use either stainless or nickle plated, regular wire.
But more important than anything, I sharpen them razor sharp before I start tying the fly!
Two points. Are you using an older batch of hooks? These days, my Gamakatsu and Daiichi hooks are far sharper out of the box than anything I can apply. Eventually, the points will get dull and I have to sharpen them again, but I haven't had to sharpen a hook before tying in quite some time unless I use some old Partridge salmon hooks that have been around for awhile. Secondly, bent hooks have generally indicated to me a hook that didn't completely penetrate. If you can get the hook up to the bend in a fish's mouth, it is almost impossible for that fish to open the hook up, even on relatively light wire. Granted, on fish like tarpon that much penetration is certainly the exception, but it is possible to get adequate penetration on many other species. I've tried opening up hooks and found it is way easier if you're pulling from the point/barb area than if you're pulling from deep into the bend. One last observation. Many of the more recent thin wire hooks are far stronger than what was around just a few years ago. The hook companies have truly given us significantly better hooks the last five years or so. They are well worth the substantial additional cost.
Hi Capt,
To repeat the thinnest wire hook "without compromising strength". If you're fishin' wolf fish, the thinnest acceptable is a pretty darn thick wire. If it opens up well then it's clearly too thin.
Any of those hooks I listed above come razor chemically sharpened out of the package and never need sharpening until dulled thru use as JR noted. Also the barb size is so tiny it's easy to get rid of. The metal alloy is superior and rarely opens up.
An example of what I mean by "thin enough" is the TMC 811s in 1/0 or bigger for saltwater fish. The 800s may be more suitable for tarpon.
Just my .02
Jr and juro,
My point about the question is that barbless is better, ...if they are sharp.
You may think chemically sharpened light wire hooks work for you and that's fine, but hooks that I will still sharpen like; Mustad SS and Signature SS, TMC 777SP (by Owner), and Owner AKI, are the ones I will continue to use.
So far, and I get to try them all, those other brands just don't cut it in saltwater, not when you are casting to world record or once in a life time fish like tarpon, snook, bonefish and permit. I can't afford for my customers to loose fish because of what you or the manufacturer says is sharp.
I guess 20 years of saltwater flyfishing and 30 for steelhead is where I draw my experience from... I say, "don't take a dull knife to a gun fight".
You also might be the last guy on the planet to choose a Mustad SS (34007?) over a hook like a Gamakatsu SC15. I gave all my Mustads away because they were simply too soft for serious saltwater work. And hooks like the Partridge Homassasa Special were too heavy for their size. The new Mustads may be a better hook, but they are not as good as the Gamakatsu or the Owner AKI. I realize that guides spend a lot of time on the water and they become quite opinionated due to that fact. I can tell you that my guide wouldn't think of letting me fish with a 34007 or even a 3407 if that's what I had used to tie my flies. That doesn't, of course, mean he's right you're not. Only that different people come to different conclusions in the same environment.
I think you hit it right on the head, what's important is what works best for you. I'd like to fish with you someday and you bet I'll take your advice! You sound like you mean business and I definitely want that in my captain's attitude.
I'll look into those hooks you listed, never too old to learn new tricks they say.
I'm glad I got back on before you responded to my post. I remember Per Stadigh about a year ago who said that since this site no longer featured a spellcheck maybe they should look into installing a grump-meter. I certainly didn't mean to sound as testy as I did in my response to your post.
About an hour before my post I received a lengthy e-mail from a guide I was going to use for Atlantic Salmon next August in Canada. It took me almost thirty minutes to get through the post and his attitude was ridiculous to say the least. It was a long list of you'll have to do it this way or don't bother to come here as you won't be successful. You know, Atlantic salmon are pretty much the same fish wherever they are found. Rivers vary somewhat and the size of the fish certainly varies from river to river. This river averages 150-200yds across and features very large fish. Among the comments he made was to leave the spey rod at home, don't plan on using tapered leaders as a single piece of ten pound was the only way of doing it, and only twenty pound test backing should be installed. His constant inference that I shouldn't even plan on showing up if I didn't agree to his dictates made me decide to check on different guides. In fact, about forty-five minutes later I indeed did have a commitment from another guide on the same river.
Sometimes guides forget that some of their sports have also done a lot of fishing and though I'm willing to learn and listen, I'm still paying the $450.00 a day and I'll make the final decision. I've lost too many fish to knots that guides tie, for instance, so I now insist on tying all of my own knots. If it fails I have only myself to blame. If I choose to use flies that I tie on Gamakatsu SC15 hooks because I like how sticky sharp they are and the fact that the shorter shank catches better and is less likely to be leveraged out, that should be my choice because I'm paying the freight. Absolutely necessary with that approach is that the guide is not blamed when things don't go right. I fished for salmon on the Flowers River in Labrador this summer and as I started to assemble my 12' 8 weight spey rod the owner of the lodge got sarcastic about that being way more rod than I needed and that I should really use the lodge rod instead of what I brought. On their website they recommended a 9' 9weight. It's simply a matter of the guy not having any true knowledge of what a spey rod is and what it can do. I chose to use my equipment because that's one of the reasons I travel to fish in the first place-to use my gear. I've fly fished for over forty years, and have saltwater flyfished for over twenty. And I don't go for three or four days a year. I spend about eight weeks a year fishing tropical saltwater so I have some idea of what's worked for me and what hasn't.
All that, of course, is no excuse for my snippy post, but sometimes guides do get the attitude that because they're a guide they are the only ones who have vast knowledge of flyfishing. I've used almost every saltwater hook available, except for Tiemco, and feel that there are some that a vastly superior to others. I don't normally buy flies because most are still made with 34007 hooks due to the significantly lower price of that hook. I guess I've had the attitude, which I now realize may not be correct, that any saltwater guide who still offered flies to his clients on those hooks was also doing so to simply to save money. My hooked to landed ratio improved so much by switching from 34007 and 3407 hooks to Owner Aki and the Gamakatsu SC15 that I guessed that everyone surely had the same experience. As I follow several bulletin boards I do know that a lot of people have had the same improvement, but it must not be universal.
Please continue to offer your clients your expertise. I just ask that guides also understand that once they realize that their sport also has some signficant experience that they advise but not dictate.
I got to thinking some time ago that a rating system could be adopted for fishing guides somewhat along the lines used for decribing wines:
1 = ....Precocious, Light & Fruity with a delicate nose ( Floating lines only, everything "just-so" and please clean your boots before getting into the boat)
2 = Robust & Spicy with Oak overtones ( Former commercial fisherman turned guide, with rather too much fondness for Scotch whisky)
3 = Fat and faded with a flinty nose ..........
You get the idea, like good wines, fishing guides come in all shapes and sizes - plenty of variety to cater to individual tastes.
Just remember that what's inside might not always be clear from the label on the bottle
When sight fishing, look over your shoulder from time to time, you never know who's behind you
I agree. About the only time I have a problem with guides, whether trout, salmon, or saltwater is when they insist on treating their clients as raw beginners even though at least some of us are not. I had that experience again this summer with an Atlantic salmon guide. I mean the guy really meant well, but it just got to be too much. As much as Florida guides get ripped (epecially Keys guides) for being screamers, most of the one's I've fished with (in fact, all but one) were total gentlemen. I had a Homassasa guide recommend using his tackle to me since he was not familiar with the model of reel I had. He semed to be saying that if he never heard of it then it probably wouldn't work on the big tarpon there. But, it took only a little while to explain that the reel was more than up to the task and to his credit he listened and didn't push it any farther. The only arrogant guide I've had in Florida is better known for his writings on trout and other freshwater fish, and even he wasn't too bad.
Guiding is not easy.
There are only so many factors you can control, then the rest are up to fate. You are responsible for all of them.
Anglers who are up to the task upon arrival are the exception not the rule. A day of instruction does not seem appreciated even when completely necessary. Often only the fish are the measure of success, not the skills gained.
The pay is not the real reason one guides, unless they are paid astronomical rates. This does not necessarily equate to the ability of the guide, but it may. One has to love it to overcome the frustrations, demanding situations, and pressure to deliver the goods.
It's hard work. Before a trip, the equipment must be tuned, the right flies must be tied, the conditions must be understood and the itinerary must match the behavior of the fish and the tides, weather, abilities of the angler and likelihood of success. You're a tourist bureau, a chauffer, an entertainer, a teacher and a fish finder.
You have to have a deep knowledge of the fishery; deep enough to overcome situations that would defeat most angler's attempts to succeed. You have to have the confidence to leave a flat visibly crawling with shrimp sippers to find a pack of crab eaters, eel chasers, or silverside slammers.
Knowing fish are in a spot at a given tide phase is one thing, knowing where fish that are aggressive during a tide phase is another thing completely. Only the latter yields high results.
You need good physical abilities - vision, perception, and good judgement. You need a sixth sense to pull a rabbit out of a hat on a dead day on the water. You need a rabbits foot.
It's challenging, difficult and you could make more per hour flipping burgers when you count all the hours and work invested.
But when the new day breaks over the atlantic and the rush hour begins beneath the surface of the flooding flats, there are few pleasures greater than having something eye-opening to share with fellow anglers that they can enjoy and appreciate; and if one can build a life around offering a square deal for a quality day on the water for a few bills then more power to 'em. Guiding is an important part of the social and economic balance of the angling world that has always been and will always be.
Don't tell my family but I am praying that I'm full time again next year from May to October!
Good points and , to be fair, most of the guides I've fished with over the years have been great guys - (Chateau Neuf Du Pape Viex Telegraph 1985 ).
We've strayed a bit off-topic here (barbless hooks wasn't it?) but advice to anyone booking a guide whether for the first time or the hundredth - discuss your preferences and expectations beforehand. Ideally do this when you make your reservation or if not possible (e.g. fishing camp scenario) then before you get out on the water.
When sight fishing, look over your shoulder from time to time, you never know who's behind you
Just got in from a half day charter, washed my boat and ate some lunch while I checked my email, and decided to run to my local fly shop and get some "NEW" hooks. At the 3rd one I found them.
They only had 3/0 and 4/0 GamaKatsu SC 10's, (well some I couldn't read the size) so I bought what they had. There was no one there that knew anything about the hooks so I came home.
The first thing I noticed was that there is a huge difference between a 3/0 and 4/0. That's a problem with the AKI's too.
The next thing that bothers me is that the barb broke off when I tried to mash it flat. Too much carbon in the steel? Could be I'm a grumpy old guide, ...don't know.
I also don't like the short shank, pretty hard to get a full size tarpon fly tied onto it. I am picky!
So I finally tested it's strength. Now this is only my way of testing and by no means scientific, but it's all I've got to go on....works for me sort of thing. I tied on 80# mono using a Homer Rhode loop knot and hooked it to my "IGFA certified Boga Grip"!
The damn thing bent at a little over 13#'s...!?!? What's up with that!
Nah...I guess I'm just one of "those" guides. I do fancy a nice Zin or Cab once in a while tho, if I can find one for under $25.
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This thing I do...
I've heard those words;
Haven't you?
Most people hope to avoid
This thing I do.
It's impossible without the Lord.
As well as my husband dear,
Without whose help
My ability would disappear.
This thing I do
Wears and tears on me;
But joy comes too from caring for you.
Some nights become long.
Some days are so hard.
Yet I know it can't be wrong
When your eyes shine bright,
And I see you smile.
I know this thing I do is right.
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JACKSON — Republican members of Mississippi's congressional delegation say the approach to the nation's debt problem that President Barack Obama outlined in his State of the Union address won't get the job done.
Rep. Alan Nunnelee says Obama doesn't recognize the extent of the debt crisis and out-of-control spending. Sen. Thad Cochran says the government needs to be run in a way that encourages economic activity by providing certainty, stability and low taxes.
Sen. Roger Wicker says the president missed an opportunity to outline a plan to cut federal spending and put the country on a fiscally-responsible path. Rep. Gregg Harper says he was disappointed Obama said little about energy independence. Rep. Steven Palazzo did not issue a comment.
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Freshmen Welcomed at First Year Convocation
A journey's origin may also be its destination, but the voyager will undoubtedly be changed. How that change manifests, of course, is up to the individual traveler.
This message, delivered by the keynote speaker Russell Potter, a professor of English at Rhode Island College, at First Year Convocation, was meant to challenge members of the class of 2017 to make the most of their education and time here.
"Most of you came here to get credentials to begin careers and there is nothing wrong with that," Potter said. "But we admire explorers who will go to great lengths and take great risks. You must be flexible, aware of your limitations and pre-conceived notions, and be willing to test them. You will press on and in the end you will still be here. But you will be different."
About 800 students, faculty and staff attended convocation, an official welcome to the class of 2017 and a new event this year.
Holly Shadoian, assistant vice president of academic affairs, and Scott Kane, dean of students, spearheaded the effort to provide freshmen with an exclusive opportunity to socialize with each other meet and talk with faculty and learn even more about what Rhode Island College will offer them over the next four years.
"It is wonderful to see all of you here," said President Nancy Carriuolo. "You have made a great choice in Rhode Island College. We hope the choice inspires you to reach new goals. The dividends will be immeasurable."
Hillary Costa, president of the Student Community Government and member of the class of 2014, advised first year students on how to make the most of their time at RIC, saying they should immediately get involved in campus activities to achieve their goals.
She used her experience as a "nervous and scared" freshman who took a little while to warm up to college life. Once she got involved with campus organizations, she said, she realized why she had come to Rhode Island College.
"At first I thought high school was as good as it was going to get," Costa said. "I really want you to know that small steps lead to great things. You'll accomplish things you can't even dream to imagine."
Potter also talked about this year's Open Minds-Open Books selection, "PYM," by Matt Johnson and the upcoming marathon read on Sept. 12.
Shadoian and Kane also greeted the class of 2017 before faculty and staff led freshmen to the quad's anchor, where their class plaque will be installed until their graduation day.
Students also were treated to a brand-new ice cream cookie sandwich dessert: 'Gold & White-it's RIC-alicious,' created by the Donovan Dining Center staff using the college's signature colors.


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Mount Vernon Nazarene University alumni are a family of very special people. From the first students who arrived on campus in 1968, to the most recent graduates, MVNU alumni are serving our Lord and our world. This family is close-knit, united with a bond that reaches into every state and thirty-nine foreign countries, and numbers
over 18,000.
I am amazed to see your level of influence as I travel to your churches, workplaces, communities, and even your homes. You are making a difference for the kingdom of God. "To seek to learn is to seek to serve" is more than a university motto. This phrase has become the commitment and lifestyle of so many of our alumni. This really is a very special family!
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Searching for a job involves more than simple clicks on job boards and waiting by the phone. A successful search will utilize multiple methods for job searching and finding openings, including organizational web sites, trade journals, job boards, and most importantly, networking. The Fleishman Career Center has pulled together a number of resources to help you develop strategies for your search, identify openings, and make the best use of your job search time.


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Slideshow: Raising awareness on India's troubling Internet laws
Today, the Global Network Initiative launched a campaign to raise awareness on India's Internet laws. The GNI, of which CPJ is a founding member, is a coalition of technology companies--including Facebook, Google, Microsoft, and Yahoo--and human rights groups and Internet freedom advocates. The coalition, in collaboration with the Internet and Mobile Association of India, has created an interactive slideshow that explains the impact of current laws and regulations on the country's Internet users.


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Many people are familiar with the term "omega-3." And many people also know that good sources of omega-3 are fish and flaxseeds. But did you know that these two sources contain different types of omega-3? Flaxseed contains the omega-3 called alpha-linolenic acid (ALA) and fish contains two different types of omega-3: docosahexaenoic acid (DHA) and eicosapentaenoic acid (EPA).
ALA actually converts into EPA, which then can convert into DHA (and vice versa). These conversions, however, occur on a very limited basis. ALA only converts to EPA at a rate of between 8 and 20 percent, and only converts to DHA (by way of EPA) at a rate of between 0.5 and 9 percent. Many people take omega-3 in the ALA form, like flaxseed oil, thinking that they are getting all the benefits of omega-3s, but they're not getting the whole story. Certainly ALA is a beneficial omega-3. But most of the benefits of ALA are thought to be due to its eventual conversion into EPA and DHA—especially when it comes to heart health.
A recent study published in the American Journal of Clinical Nutrition highlights this point. Data based on 3,277 healthy Danish adults found that a higher intake of ALA over 23 years was not associated with a reduction in risk of ischemic heart disease—the most common form of heart disease, and the most common cause of death in the U.S. But intake of other long-chain omega-3s—like EPA and DHA—was associated with a reduced risk.
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For a balance of romantic vulnerability, wryness and irony, you will not do better than his 1965 recording . . . With his voice in its glorious prime, Fischer-Dieskau uses his vast palette of colours and dynamics to seek out every nerve-end of Schumann's music . . . Fischer-Dieskau's magnificent performance of the final song . . . sets the seal on a "Dichterliebe" barely equalled in its mingled subtlety of detail and engulfing intensity.
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Position papers: Summit County Educational Service Center Board
Alyce Simmons Altwies (incumbent) vs. Ashley Dusseau Carr vs. Timothy Gallagher vs. Susan Lobalzo (incumbent) vs. Patricia Weber vs. Dow Wolfe III (incumbent)
Voters living in the Summit County Educational Service Center (SCESC) district will vote for three candidates for SCESC Board in the Nov. 5 General Election. The race is nonpartisan. The information that follows was submitted by the candidates, with their responses to our questions printed as submitted. Incumbent Dow Wolfe III and Ashley Dusseau Carr did not respond to our request for information by the stated deadline.
In the West Side Leader's coverage area, the SCESC member districts include: Copley-Fairlawn City Schools, Norton City Schools, Revere Local Schools and Woodridge Local Schools. Its educational partners include Akron Public Schools, Kent State University, the Six District Educational Compact and The University of Akron.
Alyce Simmons Altwies (incumbent)
Why are you running for re-election to the Summit County Educational Service Center Board?
"I am running for re-election to a member seat on the Educational Service Center Board of Governance. I have been a member of this Board for the past 16 years and am proud of the many accomplishments of the ESC."
What would be your top three priorities if you were re-elected? Why?
"First, I would work to continue the wonderful work done by the ESC as they support each of the county of Summit school districts. The ESC provides support in all areas of curriculum, State and local laws, classified and certificated staff as well as financial and administrative leadership.
"Second, I would continue to work with local and state politicians to seek remedies to the current confusing funding of schools. We must find additional funds to help our schools provide quality, world-class education to the students of Summit County without the total reliance on property taxes as it currently stands.
"Third, we must continue to monitor and increase curricular expectations for our students as we also provide the safest environment for learning. Schools must remain a safe haven for our children where curricula remain current and rigorous. The students of today are the leaders of tomorrow. We must hold ourselves responsible for their education."
Timothy Gallagher
Why are you running for a seat on the Summit County Educational Service Center Board?
"I am seeking to serve on the Board because I strongly believe in the mission of the ESC to provide the means for our teachers and students to excel. My wife homeschools our children (two are now in college, four are in homeschool and one is waiting in the wings) and I have a first-hand appreciation of the exhaustive effort, dedication, discipline, intelligence and patience required to be a top flight educator. I have been very blessed in my career and want to give back to the community, and especially the children of our community, by devoting my skills in running a small company combined with my first-hand knowledge of what it takes to be a successful educator to the successful functioning of the ESC."
What would be your top three priorities if you took office? Why?
- "Continue the work done by the organization to provide tools and resources for the County's teachers and students. Providing educators resources to permit them to excel in their jobs will result in students reaching their potential.
- "Ensure that the tax money collected so that the ESC can carry out its responsibilities is spent wisely and carefully. These are tough economic times and tough decisions have to be made. No business or organization can fund everything that it might want to do, so we need to be judicious in spending money where it can do the most good.
- "Get the word out regarding the resources available to the community via the ESC. There is so much that the organization has to offer and we need to make sure our families are aware of it and can put it to use for the benefit of our children."
Susan Lobalzo (incumbent)
Why are you running for re-election to the Summit County Educational Service Center Board?
"I strongly believe in the public school system. Excellent public schools are the root to a thriving community. When we have a strong school system graduating students who are ready to go on to college or prepared to join the work force we will attract more and more businesses leading to economic growth and a better life for all residents of Summit County."
What would be your top three priorities if you were re-elected? Why?
"Expanding the services for special need students such as our Kids First school; a school recently opened by the ESC and specifically for designed for the needs of autistic children in Summit County. Having this excellent school in our own county enables parents to keep their children close to home and saves the individual school districts thousands of dollars per year by not having to bus the children long distances each day.
"Expand the services we offer to our local districts such as specialized teacher training, technological support, evaluation support, curriculum support and highly qualified staffing to name just a few.
"Continue to serve, expand existing, and develop new preschool programs across Summit County. When a child has a good beginning through one of the ESC preschools, they are able to enter elementary school with the assurance of being well prepared."
Patricia Weber
Why are you running for a seat on the Summit County Educational Service Center Board?
"I wish to serve on the board to ensure that it can effectively meet the needs of the local school districts it serves. As state funding shrinks the ESC requires new ideas and more efficient operation."
What would be your top three priorities if you took office? Why?
"Given the opportunity to serve on the board, I would first assess the extent to which the ESC rehires retired educators and do a cost/benefit analysis of that practice. Next, I would encourage the board to begin filling positions with those having fresh ideas in education and look to network our ESC with others throughout the state to enhance our services to the local school districts while constraining costs. Finally, I would audit the programs presently operated by the ESC and either scrap or at least revise those that are not fiscally sound. We cannot afford to run programs where the number of teachers exceeds the number of students."
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AT about half‐past six on the evening of that ever memorable day when I crossed the narrow brook between "womanhood and childhood fleet," my father's voice came sounding up the crooked oak staircase to my virgin chamber. "Nell, Nell, the carriage is waiting!" I was standing dressed, with all my worldly goods scattered higgledy‐piggledy about me, making derisive faces at my own image in the glass, and wondering to myself whether any one in England was the owner of such obnoxious locks as mine; wondering likewise, whether it would be wrong to smash the mirror which told me such disagreeable truths.
"I'm coming, pa," responded I, still making passes at the pale, rose‐filleted head I saw there. "Ugh, you fright! There's pa calling again. Where are my gloves? Oh, Heavens, where can they page: 34 have gone to? Yes, pa, this very minute! What a potato face. It can't be helped. I must go." Thus ejaculating, I élancéd down stairs. My father looked at me as I stood before him with an expression more doubtful than admiring.
"I don't know much about such things, Nell," he began, dubiously; "but is not your gown rather—what d'ye call it? I do not know how to express myself; is not it rather scant and shabby?"
"It is rather skimping, I'm afraid, pa, and I did let down two inches, and put in a new breadth too, but tarletane is so dear now‐a‐days."
A look of mortified vexation clouded his kind old face as I spoke.
"I wish I'd known this before," he began; but I interrupted him.
"Please do not trouble about it," I said, hastily; "ten to one not a soul will know what I have on, or whether I have anything on at all!"
The cloud did not disperse; it deepened.
"I like you to look as well as other people, I don't want people to say that I'm too poor to dress my girls properly."page: 35
"They won't say anything of the kind, dad, unless they are nasty, purse‐proud snobs; and if they do say it we shan't hear them!"
"I don't want my little girl to be cut out by those fine Miss Coxes," persisted my father, thinking bitterly of the days when the said Miss Coxe's sire would have been glad to clean his boots for him.
I laughed. "Papa," said I, "if I were dressed in sackcloth and ashes, or in the brim of a hat and spurs, I should look more like a lady than those great bouncing, overdressed dairymaids, and after all, that's all that matters much."
A three miles' drive through the soft spring evening, along a turnpike road, with close‐cropped hedges on either side, whence the shears had lopped off all the pretty hawthorn flowers, leaving only dusty leaves; then we drew up before a Grecian portico, on which the arms of the Coxes—arrived last month from the Herald's College—were blazoned in full‐blown glory; while a nondescript antique bird, half cock, half griffin, and supposed to be the Coxe crest, showed its ugly page: 36 stone beak and claws all over the house, in every nook and angle where antique bird could perch. Big footmen, all calves and crimson plush, on whose heads the dredging‐box had done its work, a blaze of light and Babel of voices, and then I, not knowing exactly whether I was on my head or my heels, found myself being presented by my father to a large woman, whose roseate arms were fettered with heavy gold bracelets, fresh from the jeweller's, and above whose pug face a tiara rose like a mural crown.
Having got through the ceremony of introduction, I subsided into a chair, and gradually gained courage to look about me. A lofty, spacious saloon, oh, how unlike ours at home; wax‐lit chandeliers, Cupids, and Psyches sprawling on the ceiling; Carlo Dolcean Madonnas smiling insipidly, and Claudean landscapes flashing sunnily from the walls, a general impression of gilding and ormolu and white paint. There was a very large party—substantial country gentlemen; lords and commoners, with bald pates and a prosperous stall‐fed air, not unlike their own oxen; matrons with page: 37 double chins, in the folds and creases of whose fat necks diamonds blazed fitfully; youths for whom Pools had done his utmost; and girls like a flock of full‐plumaged doves. Oh, those young ladies! I could bear the gorgeous dowagers; I could bear the irreproachable cornets, and baronets, and undergraduates, but the girls were too much for my equanimity. If my poor frock had looked scant and skimping in the hall at home, where it had the background of oak chairs and panels to set it off, what aspect must it have worn here, among the crisp chef d'œuvres of Mmes. Descou and Eluse? It was ashamed of itself, I think, for it clung to me, limp and flabby, like a wet bathing dress; and to complete my discomfiture, I discovered that my hair was dressed in a fashion that had died the death at least a year and a half ago.
I was as much a stranger in this my own neighbourhood as a native of Kamtschatka could have been, and knew not a soul. Several people (men especially) looked at me, and I attributed their notice solely to my outlandish attire.page: 38
"They are wondering who that bundle of rags, that scarecrow, is!" said I, bitterly, to myself. "Oh, Nelly Lestrange, you poor dowdy, how I wish you were back in your old holland gown, eating cold mutton for tea, in the dining room at home!"
I was very childish for my age, and I felt very lonely—so lonely that the tears came into my eyes as I sat contemplating my hands lying in their wrinkled eighteen‐penny gloves upon my lap. Just as dinner was announced a gentleman entered the room—a gentleman, the adornment of whose person had apparently detained him somewhat long. He was a tall, broad‐shouldered man, with yellow hair—a man whom the armour of some strong King Olaf, some red‐handed Jarl, would not have misbecome. I recognized him in a moment; he was the hero of my churchyard adventure. My father, who was just in the act of conducting old Lady Blank to the festive board, looked over his shoulder, and smiled at me. I smiled too; and a minute afterwards I had quite forgot my limp one‐skirted page: 39 frock and ill‐dressed hair. All my annoyances were merged in shy pleasure when I found that my Viking was under orders to take me in to dinner. But when he had so taken me, and had deposited me on a gorgeous velvet chair beside him, he did not seem in any violent hurry to cultivate my acquaintance. He ate his soup deliberately, and left me to the contemplation of his outward man. Perhaps he knew that he was pleasant to look upon, and trusted to that pleasantness to prepossess a stranger in his favour; perhaps he did not care whether I were prepossessed or no. I was soupless; so I amused myself glancing obliquely at my neighbour. Very curly Saxon hair—so curly as to excite in envious, lank‐haired brother officers a suspicion (a base and unfounded suspicion) of the agency of tongs; a beautiful bronzed face, with the scar of a sabre‐cut running down the cheek, close to the ear; a beardless, whiskerless face; hairless, save for the heavy tawny moustache.
"I wish he'd speak," said I to myself at last. "Perhaps he has nothing to say; page: 40 good‐looking men seldom have the gift of tongues, Dolly says." I would as soon have thought of cutting off my head as of originating a conversation with a perfect stranger, so I held my peace, and wondered how he had acquired that scar. At last, as if he had read my thoughts, he turned towards me.
"I'm afraid I startled you rather, last night?" said he, with a smile.
"Not much," responded I, briefly, turning my head half away, after the manner of shy girls.
"Did you think I was an evil spirit or a bogy, going about, seeking whom I might devour?" he asked, more familiarly. I suppose he saw I was young and a raw recruit in the ranks of the beau monde, and consequently that he might treat me as sich.
"No, I didn't," said I, "because—;" and there I stopped, I was going to say "because you are too good‐looking for a bogy," but I recollected in time that it is an inversion of the order of society for a young lady to pay broad compliments to an unknown gentleman.page: 41
"Because what?" asked he.
"Because—because—," said I, floundering about, and seizing desperately the first reason that occurred to me, silly as that reason happened to be, "because I never heard of a bogy with yellow hair!"
"My hair is not yellow," responded he, carelessly; "nothing half so nice; sandy decidedly."
"It is not my idea of sandy," I maintained, stoutly.
"What is your idea of sandy, then, may I ask?"
"Mrs. Coxe's is sandy," said I, with youthful rashness, looking towards the lady of the house, "and very hideous it is."
"I am sorry you think her so hideous," responded he, coolly; "she's my sister!"
I was covered with confusion. I would fain have slipped from my chair underneath the table, and spent the remainder of the dinner hour among the feet of the company. I reddened to the roots of my hair, which, as I have before mentioned, was red too. My shamefaced eyes sought my plate, and studied the parrot‐poppy depicted thereon in glow‐ glowing page: 42 ing colours. I attempted no apology, but sat dumb‐foundered. Then a deep voice, stifling much laughter, sounded close to my blazing ear.
"Never mind! I won't tell of you. By‐the‐bye, Mrs. Coxe is not my sister, and I only said so to frighten you."
I felt extremely angry, though profoundly relieved.
"How could you tell such a story?" I asked, reproachfully.
"It was not a story, as you call it," he answered, with an almost imperceptible mimicking of my indignant intonation. "In one sense, she is my sister. We are all brethren, aren't we?—at least, we call each other dearly beloved brethren in the prayer‐book every Sunday."
"That is very flippant," said I, gravely. I had a great respect for the prayer‐book, and did not like to hear it mentioned so lightly. I fancied he looked slightly surprised that a country chit like me should venture to rebuke a man of the world like him, but he said nothing to that effect, and rather abruptly changed the subject.page: 43
"Is it one of the manners and customs of the young ladies in these parts to sit among the tombs towards nightfall?" he inquired.
"I don't know about other young ladies; I sit there sometimes."
"You are a strong‐minded person, evidently; cart ropes would not drag one of my sisters within half a mile of a churchyard after dark."
"'Sisters and brothers, little man,' it ought to be in this case, oughtn't it? Well, I've got two."
"Are they like you?"
"Not a bit; much better looking."
I felt incredulous, but I hope I kept my incredulity out of my countenance.
"Have you been here long?" I resumed, catechetically.
"Since last Tuesday."
"Are you going to stay here long?"
"That depends upon how I like my page: 44 quarters. Is there anything more you wish to know?"
"Oh, I beg your pardon; I'm sorry I asked so many questions," I said, contritely, fearing I had committed a grievous sin against good manners.
"I did not intend to be rude, indeed!"
"Rude," said he, "nonsense! I should not think such a pretty mouth could say anything rude, if it tried."
It was rather impudent of him, certainly, and I ought to have told him so, I suppose; but, as he spoke, the dark gray eyes looked full into mine, with an expression I had never seen in mortal eyes before; an expression that sealed my lips, and sent a sort of odd shiver—a shiver that had nothing to say to cold, through my frame. I felt that, to the utter neglect of "beignets aux huitres" (than which no dish can be delectabler), he was watching me, which did not add to my composure.
"Don't be angry with me," he said at last, in a tone that meant to be penitent, bending his handsome head down towards page: 45 my downcast face. "I didn't mean to say it—it slipped out."
"I'm not angry," I said, with some difficulty, "that is, not very; but I'm afraid—you—think—I'm an ignorant country bumpkin, to whom you may say anything you like to?"
"Upon my soul, I don't," he replied, earnestly. "I think—well! it doesn't much matter what I think about you."
"You cannot think much about me," said I, "seeing that you have only known me for about a quarter of an hour."
"It doesn't take long to know some people!"
"They're so shallow, you mean?" suggested I, attempting to be arch.
"What a shame!" he said, "you know I didn't mean that; but have you never heard of a sort of inexplicable sympathy and attraction between two people at first sight?"
I had heard of something else at first sight, but I did not say so.
"I have nobody to sympathize with or to be attracted to, at home, except papa, and our old man‐servant, and the sexton."page: 46
"What do you mean? do you never go out anywhere?"
"Never. Dolly does often, but I don't."
"Who is Dolly?" he asked, rather amused at my naiveté; "or I suppose I ought to say who's Miss or Mrs. Dolly?"
"Dolly is my sister."
"Oh, older or younger?"
"Four years older; she was twenty‐three last January, and I am nineteen this month."
"You are very candid."
"Am I? why should I not be?"
"No reason whatever; and do you and Dolly—I beg her pardon—Miss Dolly, live together, all alone?"
"All alone! oh, dear no; we live with papa, of course; that is papa opposite."
How many more revelations concerning my family history I might have made in my young ingenuousness can never now be ascertained, for at this point I perceived Mrs. Coxe, inclining her head towards the old woman of exaltedest rank, at the other end of the table; whereupon page: 47 we all sailed and floated and shuffled out of the room. How glad I should have been to have stayed with the gentlemen; protected by papa, and condescendingly chatted to by my blonde King Olaf. With my return to the drawing‐room returned my sense of loneliness, my consciousness of shabby clothes, and my embarrassment as to the disposal of my hands. There was no wish, I am sure, among those dames and damsels to neglect or be unkind to the poor gawky young stranger; it was only the force of circumstances. One good‐natured, graceful Lady Alice tried her best to extract my ideas on the comparative charms of Brighton and Scarboro'; but finding I had no ideas on the subject to be extracted she desisted in despair.
All the other ladies knew each other very well, lived in the same circle, had the same pursuits, objects, interests. I, alone, shivered chilly outside the magic ring. I was like a ghost come back, after the lapse of a century, to the house where he used to be lord and master and darling, who hears language that he understands page: 48 not. What did I know about the Duchess of A.'s at home? or dear Lady B.'s ball? I who had never to my knowledge set eyes upon a duchess, and whose sole experience of balls was derived from the inglorious Infirmary one of our little county town. However, I looked with unshaken faith to the coming of the gentlemen for bettering my condition, and better it that coming certainly did. If I had expected indeed that my large new friend would make any demonstrations in my favour, I was disappointed. He betook himself straightway to the piano, where a brilliant little brunette was trilling airy French songs in a voice like a bird's; there he stood with his back against the wall, now and then leaning forward to whisper two or three words into the pretty musician's ear, words that made the dark eyes sparkle more brightly than before.
I felt an insane desire to sing too; I could sing; it was the one accomplishment I possessed, but nobody requested the pleasure of hearing me warble; so I sat chafing, with my talent hid in a napkin. page: 49 Then a quartett of old fogies sat down to whist, and dealt, and shuffled, and abused their cards, and quarrelled with their partners, as irascible old gentlemen will; and other bald heads got into groups, and bragged about their short‐horns to their hearts' content. And gradually the younger men sought out such women as seemed good in their eyes, and sat into their pockets, to the satisfaction of both parties; even dowdy I found favour in somebody's eyes.
Two or three men came and were introduced to me, and I attributed their notice to a praiseworthy feeling of compassion, having too unaffected a belief in my own ugliness to attribute it to any other motive. I tired my neck somewhat craning up at them as they stood blacklegged around me, and they were very civil—one of them indeed, a jolly‐looking, short, dark man, considerably past his première jeunesse, whom I had heard addressed as Sir Hugh, civiller far, as I now see, than the occasion required. While we were making our adieux to the hostess on our departure, King Olaf left page: 50 his brunette and her little songs in praise of love and wine rather abruptly, and gave me his arm to lead me to the carriage. We were in the hall alone together for a minute, and as he put my shawl round my shoulders, he stooped and gazed full into my eyes. Innocent and childish as I was, I could not mistake that expression, bewildering me with its bold, avowed admiration.
"Will there be any use in my going to the churchyard to‐morrow evening?" he asked hurriedly.
"I'm sure I don't know," said I, turning away coldly; "it's nothing to me whether you go there or not."
"Is it not? I'm sorry for that," he said gravely; and I was sorry too, as soon as the words were out of my mouth.
And then my father called me, and I ran hastily away, and left him standing under the portico, with the carriage lamps gilding his severe Greek beauty.


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SHADY VALLEY, TENN. / MADISON-Duane Johnson, age 69, passed away unexpectedly on Saturday, March 23, 2013. He was born on March 23, 1944, the son of Oscar and Lavina Johnson. Duane graduated from Monona Grove High School in 1962. Upon graduating, he joined the U.S. Army and served in the Vietnam War. He married the former Catherine Saeger in 1966, and they had one daughter, Erin. Duane worked briefly for Research Products before joining the Madison Police Department in 1969. He retired in 1997, after serving the department for 28 years. In 1995, he was united in marriage to Eileen Ripp. Upon their retirements, Duane and Eileen had relocated from Madison to Shady Valley, Tenn. Duane had a passion for cars and was a member of the former Hi-winders car club of Madison and a current member of the National Street Rod Association. He was the ultimate handyman and took great pleasure in being able to help family and friends alike. He enjoyed NASCAR, Packer football, and a good long conversation.
He is survived by his wife, Eileen; daughter, Erin Johnson (John Tantillo) of Madison; brothers, David (Marcia) Johnson and Gary (Judith) Johnson; sister, Nancy (Tom) Scheuerman; and numerous in-laws, nieces and nephews. He was preceded in death by his parents.
Funeral services will be held at GUNDERSON EAST FUNERAL HOME, 5203 Monona Drive, Madison at 11 a.m. on Saturday, March 30, 2013, with the Rev. Brian Konkol presiding. Burial will be at Roselawn Memorial Park with military rites being conducted. Visitation will be held at the funeral home from 5 p.m. until 7 p.m. on Friday, March 29, 2013, and also from 10 a.m. until the time of service on Saturday. In lieu of flowers, memorials may be made to Badger Honor Flight or Wounded Warrior Project. Duane's family would like to extend a special thank you to the Madison Police Department Honor Guard. Online condolences may be made at www.gundersonfh.com.
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Briton Paul Di Resta hinted heavily on Saturday that he is looking at his options for a seat outside Formula One as the drivers' market for 2014 remained in flux.
Scot Di Resta of Force India faces fierce competition to keep his job with the Silverstone-based outfit from a host of rival drivers including former team-mate German Nico Hulkenberg, who looks set to leave Sauber.
Di Resta, who has no substantial sponsorship package, admitted that he is interested in exploring other options, including possibly replacing newly-retired cousin and fellow-Scot Dario Franchitti in IndyCar racing in the United States.
He said: "I would discuss it with Dario... But, I think I'm still in the running for a seat here at Force India, or at least I'd like to think I am.
"So my primary objective is to stay in F1, but more importantly to stay driving. I have a lot to offer, I'm still young.
"I have a lot of fire in me. I have won championships and I will continue to win races I hope."
He said he is not enjoying being in his current position.
"To find yourself in difficulties is quite hard to accept, but I have to understand where F1 is at the moment, in the midfield as well... Yes, it's tough."
In contrast, his German team-mate Adrian Sutil has made it clear he feels confident of staying at Force India next year.
"I know where I'll be," he said. But he declined to name the team - leaving his choice open to speculation.
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Barely any effort is made to pretend otherwise. Several of Base Connect's clients, like Freedom's Defense Fund and Black Republican PAC, exist only as a theoretical construct — just words on the piece of mail. A Base Connect executive, who serves as those organizations' treasurer, has a standard memo he submits to the FEC, to explain the lack of administrative costs for groups reporting multi-million-dollar operations: "Currently, the committee has neither paid staff nor an office headquarters." That fact is not at all clear in the materials sent to persuade movement conservatives to fund the groups — the mailings give the impression that there is some actual organization behind the name, doing battle against the apocalyptic horrors of Obama and the Democrats.
Urgent — give nowPalin can hit almost every hot button on the conservative-movement spectrum. The gun-rights crowd knows her as a rifle-toting hunter. The "Drill, Baby, Drill" crowd sees her as an energy expert. The populists buy the McCain-campaign-created image of the maverick reformer. To military fetishists, she is the proud mother of private first class Track Palin, soldier in Iraq. The economic conservatives praised her denouncing of the federal stimulus (although as governor she ultimately accepted almost every penny) and her willingness to suggest that Obama might be a socialist. (Her one major apostasy, belief in global warming, is almost never mentioned outside Alaska.)
Palin also clearly knows one of the most important lessons of the world she's entering: the urgent need for people to give now. She opened a legal-funds account earlier this year, and in the midst of a recession urged people to contribute money to cover her purported $500,000 debt — while at the same time, she was cashing a book advance reportedly worth between $4 million and $7 million. She has also already raised more than $700,000 through her political action committee, SarahPAC, since creating it earlier this year.
Finding and exploiting that urgent need, or even creating it out of thin air, drives the industry.
Gun-rights advocates, for example, should be relieved that the Obama administration and the Democratic Congress have taken virtually no action on gun control in these first six months. But an appeal for money to send thank-you notes to Capital Hill is unlikely to open many wallets.
So instead, groups like Gun Owners of America (GOA) — run by another titan of this industry, Alan M. Gottlieb — have been sending out action alerts warning, in dire terms, of an emergency threat to gun owners supposedly embedded in the Senate's health-care-reform bill (and before that, in Obama's stimulus package). The alleged danger lies in a provision that would create a digitized medical-information database, to increase efficiency, save money, and improve treatment. But according to GOA, it is possible that this could somehow result in a gun-store background check accessing your medical records — which could result (I am not making this up) in depriving people with Alzheimer's the right to illegally purchase firearms by not disclosing their condition.
Can Palin be this ruthless? Her high-school-basketball teammates didn't nickname her "Barracuda" for nothing.
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Ben Edwards vs. Catalin Morosanu on Sept. 7th in Australia
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Today we got word on a pretty big fight that will be going down in Australia this fall in their Kings of Kombat promotion, between two well-recognized and respected Heavyweights in the world of Kickboxing. Australia's own Ben Edwards is set to face off against SUPERKOMBAT's Romanian sensation Catalin Morosanu. This is set to go down in Melbourne, Australia on September 7th at Kings of Kombat.
We've also gotten word that Steve Moxon will be involved in a 70kg Super Fight on the same card. Stay tuned for more information as it comes in.


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Still up in the air about the govt medical care? Watch this:http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ho-0SHFEgGo&eurl
Still up in the air about the govt medical care? Watch this:http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ho-0SHFEgGo&eurl
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If you insist on being a blowhard, you may want to save your breath for something you know about.
If you detest socialized medicine, I would suggest that you take the first concrete steps to end it by foregoing all health care insurance for yourself and your family since that is the source of every scare tactic problem cited by opponents of reform. There is only one difference between the system that has been proposed and what we have now....more people would be covered. Like those covered by insurance now, the new people covered by the proposed programs would only pay a portion of the cost of the insurance they received.
Personally, I do not believe that employers should have anything to do with health insurance. It makes consumers insensitive to the cost of care, it adds an unsustainable cost onto the price of American produced goods and services that is not borne by employers in other countries, and it gives employers access to confidential personal health care information while also giving them incentives to exclude employees who are likely to drive up health care costs.
Businesses should not be permitted to deduct health insurance premiums as a business expense and individuals should receive no tax preference for health care or health care insurance expenditures. Doing these things would break the back of socialism in medicine and bring real market forces to bear on cost control. I can guarantee that our health care costs would plummet over night. However, if you insist on continuing the socialized system that we now have, I see no reason why anyone should be excluded.
Different aspects of life lend themselves to different positions on the continuum of governance. Nobody has a problem with socializing the military. We all pay taxes, and we hope that supports a strong military for the "common defense". Business, we like to keep on the capitalist/individual-based part of the continuum. Education is a compromise somewhere in the middle, with most supporting a *good* public education, with private options for those who can and want to pay extra.
I think healthcare falls nearly into the same category as education. Would you not agree that we would all benefit from not having uninsured running out the cost for those of us who are? Or if we could unburden American industry from their crippling healthcare costs?
Some basic level of healthcare for all legal Amercians, then private plans for those who want them, will probably define a two-tiered system someday. The current system is unsustainable.
On this forum, those comments will likely get me labeled as socialist. On a different web, they'd be calling me a right-wing wacko!
In all regards, here's to a great weekend,
God Bless PFC Jamie Harkness. The US Army's newest PFC, but still our neighbor's little girl!
For the benefit of us ignoramuses, please explain how American industry got strapped with those crippling healthcare costs in the first place?
As far as the uninsured running up our costs, I'd far rather take my chances with them, than having a governmental mandate that takes another of my freedoms away. Besides that, what makes you think EVERYBODY will pay for THIS "insurance"?
The libs are about as naive concerning this as they are in their beliefs about gun control.
Don't you realize this program isn't only about healthcare? It's just another program to further take your freedoms away, and control more of the sheeples lives.
If you and others in your profession are buying into this, you are as ignorant as the farmers that are falling for the minor changes in that Algore bill, and thinking "it's not all that bad".
The sheeple are getting sheared and ripped off all at the same time. The education system has to be proud of their product. It's the 'other' area our founders failed to foresee, but then we can't blame them for not being completely clairvoyant. They had just created a free nation. How could they have known there would be so many willing to have those freedoms legislated away?
When the one you love becomes a memory, that memory becomes a treasure.
For the benefit of us ignoramuses, please explain how American industry got strapped with those crippling healthcare costs in the first place?
First, I didn't call anyone an ignoramus. Morris Fishbein, editor of JAMA warned about this in the 40s, when companies began to offer healthcare coverage as an enticement. He was concerned that people would begin to expect employee provided care as an entitlement, and would become resistant to paying for healthcare. How prophetic he was.
Besides that, what makes you think EVERYBODY will pay for THIS "insurance"?
It's called tax. Don't you think that you currently pay for medicare and the VA system? By enlarging the risk pool, overall costs are reduced. It's the whole concept of insurance. By cherry picking only young, healthy enrollees, and dumping them when they get sick, or dumping them into the medicare system when they get "old and expensive" ie, "not profitable", the private companies are able to award themselves billions in CEO bonuses at your expense. In our current system, 30 cents of every premium dollar you send in, goes to administration. Not very efficient if you ask me. Unless I'm the CEO pocketing that green.
If you and others in your profession are buying into this, you are as ignorant as the farmers that are falling for the minor changes in that Algore bill, and thinking "it's not all that bad".
I don't know about farmers. I do know that the American College of Surgeons has been deeply involved in helping to formulate this legislation, and has offered advice and constructive criticism, and is not happy with all aspects of it.
How could they have known there would be so many willing to have those freedoms legislated away?
Especially under names like "Patriot Act"!!!
God Bless PFC Jamie Harkness. The US Army's newest PFC, but still our neighbor's little girl!
I was wondering if you could clarify something for me. I sense a huge paradox in the views towards health care from the right side. I posted earlier that certain allowances of socialism are accepted in America, ie the military providing for a "common defense" that we all pay into. You seemed to refute that health care in any form should be "socialized" in the form of a national policy.
Question for you...Isn't ANY type of health insurance "socializing" the risk of getting sick or injured? Everyone pays a small amount, shares the risk, and everyone is eligible to benefit if the need arises? The masses providing for the indivudual. So how is ANY form of insurance acceptable?
Under a strict capitalist system, doctors would set a price...as high as they can and still sell a service or product, regardless of anyone's ability to pay (as long as the rich can pay, and keep them in the black, right?--law of supply and demand) and people are either able to afford to pay for healthcare, mortgage their surgery (if they have adequate credit score) or just do without? Isn't that capitalism in its truest form?
Life is rarely black or white. There are usually shades of gray in between. I don't want a pure socialist system by any means, but I don't think pure capitalism serves the average American very well either.
I would be very cautious in thinking a pure capitalist system of healthcare is the answer. If you don't think so, just check how much a boob job is, and see if your cosmetic surgeon accepts low-paying insurance carriers. I wouldn't want my GP or cardiologist operating the same way.
God Bless PFC Jamie Harkness. The US Army's newest PFC, but still our neighbor's little girl!
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"Question for you...Isn't ANY type of health insurance "socializing" the risk of getting sick or injured? Everyone pays a small amount, shares the risk, and everyone is eligible to benefit if the need arises? The masses providing for the indivudual. So how is ANY form of insurance acceptable?"
By being something I choose from the many companies that offer it. If you can't recognize the difference, I can see how you have become part of the problem.
Since you can't bring yourself to say it, the unions caused business to get into the insurance payment perks that have skewed the healthcare costs so radically.
While I concur that todays system is far from ideal, what you and Jeff are allowing your messianic leader to ram down our throats is just asinine. If you can't recognize where this is leading, God help you all. You will have indeed been part of the annihilation of a truly great nation.
When the one you love becomes a memory, that memory becomes a treasure.
If everyone paid 100% of their own premiums, I would agree that it is simply a matter of risk sharing. However, on average the insured part of our population only pays a relatively small percentage of their premiums. Employers, not consumers make the decision on what plan to use and the consumers are almost completely shielded from any of the economics associated with their health care decisions. For those reasons, it is a socialist system and suffers the problems of a socialist system.
There is no logic between those who are insured vs those who are not. In fact, there is nothing to indicate that the insured work any harder than the uninsured or that they made decisions that were generally better or worse. For that reason, I believe in universal coverage. I believe in a regulated market because of the absence of an economic market. However, my preference would be for regulations that simulate to the maximum extent possible the characteristics of a free market by increasing competition among pharmaceutical companies, managed care companies, insurance companies and others that have had something of a free ride for too many years at tax payer expense.
I also believe that over time we need to get employers completely out of the health care business. There is no reason that coverage should be tied to your job. Breaking that tie will do more to improve the competitiveness of American businesses than almost any other program that has been proposed by either party. To the extent that we put consumers in the position of choosing and paying for their own health plans, that will also add true competitive forces to the marketplace.
There are no capitalists involved on either side of our health care debate. We have those who currently enjoy virtually free health care under the current system and those who do not. We have those who profit from the current system where the consumer gets a free ride and businesses face few obstacles to unregulated growth at tax payer expense vs those who believe that in the absence of economic constraints on consumers that other approaches are needed to restore a semblance of fiscal sanity.
The reality is that few things threaten the future of our economy more than our existing runaway health care system. Currently, health care spending totals about 17% of GDP. Individual spending on health care is a small fraction of that total. Health care expenditures are growing at about 2 1/2 times inflation. Health care already consumes a greater share of GDP than all Federal government spending for non-health care purposes. The system is broken, and it will not fix itself.
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Look who's talking.
The pontificating bloviating champion of the board.
The Profesor Irwin Corey (The Worlds Foremost Authority) of RTF.
If words were gas you would be a humvee.
Use lots, go nowhere!!
YOU calling someone a "blowhard," that right there is funny, I don't care who you are!!
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The best healthcare on earth is in the USA. Portions of the US healthcare system are in dire need of change & reform. But it is inconceiveable that you intellegent folks are prepared to throw the baby out with the bath water and buy into the notion that just any change is acceptable. What has the same government that has backrupted Social Security and Medicare done lately to earn so much of your trust?
What you seem to believe goverernment can give you, it can also take away, ration, include or exclude any part or any person at its own whimsy. Reforming the private sector right out of existence is a poor option, fellow Americans. Once we have given up our rights to choose, it's very hard to get them back.
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