Hello to madmagic. You and annp make sense (interpret thaT any way you like). annp I did a google tour, I had no idea how rich in islands your coast is, endless bounty for kayamping. Hope you see harlequins. Here's a photo from a favourite nearby skyline: the pyramid is called Sugar Loaf mountain, our Chomo Lungma. oh that wasn't it - that was a hijack of the hijack - here - That wasn't it either - that was a picture for madmagic, who surely knows what and where the statue is. Here is Sugar Loaf. The owner of the red boat is named Patrick. Unique among the fishermen in this area he has an all girl crew, scruffy tomboys every one.

Gorgeous! They're so adorable when they're little babies like that. I want them all! I am desperately in need of more conifers in my yard. All I have is a mini thuja arborvitae and a second one that is supposed to be a mini but, since buying and moving into this house spring/summer of 2012, has grown by leaps and bounds. It was only slightly larger than its brother, but now is four times the size or so. I definitely am jealous of your "conifer addiction". You should label the pictures with the plant names for people like myself, who, despite hailing from northern Minnesota (the land of conifers) have no idea when it comes to these beautiful plants.

First of all, if someone is young and healthy and doesn't want health insurance (maybe they get sick once a year and it doesn't benefit them to pay for a policy), why should they HAVE to buy it? The answer is that those young and healthy people spending $X,XXX a year on health insurance, but only using a very small amount of it, will be paying for the people who use more than their $X,XXX of health insurance. How is that democratic? Let me put it this way...say you take great care of yourself. Don't smoke, don't drink alcohol, workout, take vitamins, get plenty of rest, go to your wellness exams, blah, blah, blah. Your neighbor, on the other hand, stays up late, parties all night, smokes like 2 packs of ciggarettes a day, drinks like a fish, never works out, smokes something out of a pipe, and has already had a heart attack or two. It's his right to treat his body however he wants.....right, but still pay the same amount of insurance premiums you do? I believe our health insurance industry needs reform. How about starting with taking the government's hands out of it? The government isn't a business. Businesses create jobs and produce something, whether it be a product or a service. The government creates jobs, sure, but doesn't produce a single product or service. Yet they suck the money out of the businesses that DO produce a product or service in the form of regulations, taxes, and CAFE standards. Here's my other major problem with this whole 'health care' reform: I know a girl who is 29, married and has 3 kids. Her last 2 kids were very pre-term due to her hereditary high blood pressure (which she knew about after the 1st one). She doesn't plan to take any precautions to not get pregnant again, even though she would be risking her life and the baby's if she did. Not my problem. I love her and I would never want anything to happen to her or a baby of her's, but ultimately it's her decision. Also, she is receiving Medicaid for herself and her 3 kids and lying to get it. She sent an e-mail out about how she can't wait for universal healthcare (but aren't we really talking about health 'insurance' and not 'care'; let's face it...we can get health 'care' in any emergency room in the US). Her point is that her family can't afford $200/month for insurance, and she asked "how are we supposed to afford health insurance?" I answered her back and said "It's all about priorities...you have 2 vehicles, a motorcycle (that has been wrecked and repaired), 2 laptops, and 2 flat-screen TVs. If health insurance was a priority for you, you would give anything to have it, and maybe forgoe things that aren't essential to living." She is representative of SOOOOOO many people! Cell phones, fake nails, expensive hair-dos, cars, computers, iPods and what-not are a bigger priority to them than health insurance. And these are the people that are screaming for universal health insurance when they already have it! See, they have this misconception that it will bring their standard of care up. But in reality, it will bring everyone else's down to their level. My parents, my sister and her family and my brother all have Tricare (military insurance). You can't find a doctor, dentist or pharmacy within 20 miles of my house that accepts it. Why? Beacause they never pay what they say they will, and payments are 6 months behind.

Wouldn't you know it, this morning there in an email from yahoo telling us what is going on with oath dot com...LMAO! GAH, how about sending it AFTER THE FACT! Sheesh! Kind of hard to read an email if you cannot get into your emails. They should have sent us this letter a couple weeks ago so we would have known what was going on. Our laptop computer had already done the redirect starting last week, for some reason it didn't begin to effect our desktop computer until just yesterday. Then on my computer, I use an email client so I didn't have that happen to me but if I had logged into it directly through the website, I would have had the same thing happen as on my husband's computer.