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Not so redundant when you realize many people do not have a driver's licenses and even fewer have a passport.
Correct me if I am wrong, but do you not have the option to get a state issued phot ID if you can't pass or don't want a driver's license?
Here is the quote from Brandon's article that scared the hell out of me:
"gives unfettered authority to the Department of Homeland Security to design state ID cards and driver's licenses. Among the possibilities: biometric information such as retinal scans, fingerprints, DNA data and RFID tracking technology. "
I think I've seen this movie and I didn't like the way it ended.
That being said, I'm good with my driver's license, voter id card, social security card, passport and military ID. I don't need anything else to tell who I am, much less something to carry with me that carries my DNA information.
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I'm confused, where will AF1 we landing? I work on the square here in Marietta, all the C130's fly over our office all day. I would love to see AF1 go overhead.
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There is no wrong path, I'm not trying to persuade an opinion on either side. I'm just curious how people feel about this very real issue.
What is the purpose of these ID cards? How is it being presented to the public? OK, I'm being lazy, I guess I could look it up myself, just figured you stumbled across something that perked your interest that I missed.
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I am "self insured" for routine doctors visits. I call around and compare prices, the same that I would for any other service.
I have found doctors that were willing to see me for as little as $60 (assuming there were no tests). I found it much cheaper to go this route for the 2 times a year I may need to see a family doctor, than paying $200 a month for an HMO or PPO that would only have me about $40 with a co-pay.
Try this, when calling around, ask how much a cash paying customer would pay. You'll find that many smaller offices are willing to discount your visit, as it saves them the overhead of billing the insurance company and waiting to be reimbursed. Also, if it's routine, make sure you tell them that you are more than willing to visit with a nurse, rather than the doctor. Many nurses can write prescriptions, I just can't remember what they are called (PA, LPN, not sure).
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What do you think of this idea?
I think I need more information about them. It seems redundant, since we already have driver's licenses and passports. I don't want another layer of government whose sole purpose is to give us another method of identifying ourselves.
Enlighten me if I am going down the wrong path here.
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That's scary!!! That's why I try not to go out in the evening. People need to always be aware of their surroundings and everyone they see. Things are just crazy these days.
and neighbors need to watch out for each other. I hope that, if this happened in my neighborhood, this guy would be in for a world of hurt from all men that watch out for each other's families.
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My hometown is Shreveport, left there when I was 11.
Went back a few years ago and realized how filthy it is. I miss my family, but would much rather them move here than me go there.
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Nope, married. This is the quietest time of the night to get some work done. I keep paulding.com running on another screen, just to see what's going on.
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Nitro, I see your points and concede many of them.
Regarding traffic light cameras, I believe that "safety" is only about 5% of the equation (I'll give you Windy Hill and Cobb Parkway).
To this cities and counties, these are cash registers veiled as safety devices. I concede your point about your day in court, but (in my opinion) they know and have done the studies to prove that most people will simply pay the fine rather than go through all the trouble to dispute them. They have studied what to make the fine (if it's too high, people may dispute them) and how much trouble to make disputing it. I simply believe that hiding behind "safety" is dishonest, which is why the state legislature had to get involved.
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I am new to New Hope.
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This is what they got tickets for. They were in the intersection when the light changed and obstructed the flow of traffic from the other direction. Essentially, the intersection was blocked. In one case there was a fender bender as a result.
I understand this. It's just a very, very slippery slope when we start allowing machines to enforce laws. When you are pulled over by a police officer, you have a chance right there on the spot to give your side of the story. The police officer has the ability to reason and take circumstances under consideration before citing you. If he does cite you, you have a person to dispute with at traffic court. It's the whole "innocent until proven guilty" thing that bothers me. I undertand how accurate these machines are, but they are not a substitute for a living breathing person.
While I concede that Windy Hill and HWY 41 is a dangerous intersection, I believe that we "the citizens and taxpayers" should view revenue generators such as this with a skeptical eye. We should all know how government is when you give them an inch when it comes to separating us from our wallets.
I guess I just view this as another "back door tax".
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Actually, they have taken $$$$ from the local bodyshops and insurance companies! By using the cameras, they have reduced the accident rate at those intersections 100 fold. Was bad enough before they put the cameras in, that MPD had to assign 3+ officers each shift in that area to handle all the accident calls. At one time it was rated by the State as the Most Dangerous Intersections in the State.
If you don't want a ticket, don't run the light. It will turn green again!
I agree about not running the light, but enforcing the law should be done by people, not machines. During the legislative session last year, they added to the law that cities had to prove that there was a public safety need BEFORE hanging the cash registers, as many cities were catching on that this was another revenue stream for them and began hanging them up on every pole that would hold them.
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I hate these things. The city is simply hanging cash registers on poles and counting the money as it comes in. It seems lazy and unconstitutional to me. Have you read the form that comes with these things that you must fill out if you want to dispute it? They literally figured out that most people would rather pay the fine rather than go through all the trouble. Seems unconstitutional to me, as your are guilty until you prove you are innocent. What are you going to do, put the camera and/or computer on the stand?
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"he's more crooked than a sack full of rattlesnakes"
Ok, I actually kind of like that one!
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We walked through tonight and thought the place looked great. Their bowling prices seemed high, hopefully they will mail out some coupons (hint hint hint )
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The next time I hear someone say "think outside the box", I'm going to throw a box at them.
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Newbie, I think you're the only person that gets me....
I'm just wondering. I mean here we are so patriotic that sometimes it can lead to discrimination against our neighbors. Take Georgia/Alabama for example. How many old jokes about Alabama have we told/heard/laughed at? If you live in a border town, where does your loyalties lie?
Well, let me give my assessment based on life.
I have lived in Louisiana, Tennessee, Illinois (Chicago) and now Georgia.
I can say, without a shadow of a doubt, that the South is much more patriotic than the midwest. In Chicago, people seem to be much more proud of where they are from than where they are now. You can go into parts of town and see more foreign flags than American. Just an observation. Still a great city, but you don't see people pour out for Memorial Day parades, or applaud at the airport when a group of soldiers walk by.
I would love to hear from someone from south Texas, Arizona or New Mexico on this one.
If you want to hear from a true border city, just ping the folks along South Cobb Drive in Smyrna and ask them where their loyalties lie
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Great, now we are outsourcing minimum wage jobs.
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Try these folks:
http://www.jenniferspetrescue.com/
They are no kill, and are usually outside the Petsmart in Hiram on Saturdays.
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I still don't get it.
I'm with you, I thought they were asking about towns that bordered Mexico and Canada. That's an interesting question, I'm going to do some digging. Anyone want to bet before I do my research that most of these areas vote democratic?
Found it:
I was expecting the border to be completely blue, but it's pretty blue nonetheless.
http://www-personal.umich.edu/~mejn/electi...edbluelarge.png
Here is the congressional breakdown. Again, lots of blue along the border.
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I agree you need to be patient with this poor pup. Sometimes it takes a little time to adjust to the meds. He's awfully young to decide he's "never going to get better." I would definitely take him to a specialist to make sure. Please give him the chance he deserves. Afterall, what would you do if it was your child? You can't exchange him! Pets are for life, and he deserves your committment. Just please be patient.
He may even need another drug. Dogs are just like us...sometimes it takes trying a few treatments before you find the right one. I would get a second opinion if your vet is being negative.
We had a dog that had seizures from a young age, and she lived to be 11!!
In the meantime, read "The Nature of Animal Healing" - you can find it on Amazon. Great book everyone with pets should read.
I just ordered that book after reading your post, thanks. I don't want to exchange him, we've had him 3 months now, so it's not like we didn't get attached to him. And yes, he is on phenobarbital. They only told us to give him a big does (3 times his normal dose) while having a seizure. It takes him a couple days to come out of his medicine head after this.
Thanks for all the great feedback. I feel better.
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Thanks for the success stories from similar situations. This is really making me feel less hopeless.
I agree that the breeder should have offered to take him back. I'm not sure we would have given him back, but it would have been the right thing to to, in my opinion, to offer.
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The poor puppy! I don't think you are heartless. I think you are sad about the circumstances and the fact that you can't change it.
My dog died this morning, and the only thing I feel right now is relief that it didn't happen next week while we are out of town and my daughter is home alone with him......
I am so sorry to hear about your dog. I would not want my son to be home alone while this happened either.
As to why keep him on the meds (I know this was someone else's question, but haven't figured out the whole multiple quote reply thing yet). The vet says that taking him off will increase the severity of the seizures. The one he had this past weekend lasted for 2 days, so I don't want to imagine what more severe would be.
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I need some input here.
My wife and I bought a puppy miniature schnauzer about 3 months ago. He is the cutest thing.
We took him to our vet for a well puppy check, and he was given a clean bill of health the day after we bought him.
The next week, he began having seizures. We took him to the emergency vet (it was 3 in the morning), where they told us that there is really nothing they can do about them. Since then, he has been having these episodes about once a week. Another trip to the emergency vet (again, it was the middle of the night) gave us the same answer. We took him to his vet, where they started him on a drug that has not really reduced the frequency of the seizures, but compeletly spaces the pup out. The vet told us that he is probably going to have this for his entire life. We have already spent more on vet bills for his seizures than we paid for the pup.
The puppy is now either having seizures, or spaced out all the time from the drugs. We are probably never going to be able to house train him, as he is too drunk from the meds to even stand without wobbling. We spend every day cleaning up poop and pee from either his crate, or from wherever he went in the house. We don't really get to play with him, he is pretty much furniture that poops and pees.
I am not heartless and don't want to give him away, just really dissappointed and frustrated that we spent a lot of money for a sick puppy that will never get to be the family pet we hoped for. I voiced my frustration to my wife, and she thinks I am the most heartless person on earth right now. I feel that I have a right to be frustrated. We made the breeder (Moon Farms) aware of the problem. They checked all the other pups in the litter, and they are all just fine. I do not, by any means, think that they deliberately sold us a sick puppy, but can honestly say that I would not recommend them to anyone else, as this is where I bought my sick puppy.
Anyway I just needed to get this off my chest.
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