Originally Posted by villagegolfer

"ridicule is man's most potent weapon. It is almost impossible to counteract ridicule. Also it infuriates the opposition, which then reacts to your advantage."


overuse, don't ya think?

yes!

Originally Posted by CMANN

yes!

I agree. If you were talking face to face with a person, you would think very, very hard before you ridiculed him. There is a chance that you might get a swollen eye or worse.
Anyways, I feel that it takes a coward to do it behind a computer, where you can feel safe and secure, while you are demeaning other people. Just saying, that's all.

Originally Posted by villagegolfer

I agree. If you were talking face to face with a person, you would think very, very hard before you ridiculed him. There is a chance that you might get a swollen eye or worse.
Anyways, I feel that it takes a coward to do it behind a computer, where you can feel safe and secure, while you are demeaning other people. Just saying, that's all.

and insulted on this forum more times than I can count. We all get carried away, and say things in the heat of the moment that we later regret.

Almost sounds like a pre election participant....

anonymity is the most efficient amplifier!!!

btk

Originally Posted by actor

and insulted on this forum more times than I can count. We all get carried away, and say things in the heat of the moment that we later regret.

Yes, your right, of course. It is human nature to strike back when you feel like you have been attacked. I am as guilty as anyone. Sometimes I walk away and come back later when I calm down.

Originally Posted by villagegolfer

Yes, your right, of course. It is human nature to strike back when you feel like you have been attacked. I am as guilty as anyone. Sometimes I walk away and come back later when I calm down.

or hurt someone's feelings, I am genuinely remorseful.

Originally Posted by actor

or hurt someone's feelings, I am genuinely remorseful.

Apology accepted. I also apologize. OK Lets have a group hug.

Originally Posted by DaleMN

Vote Obama in '12.

DaleMN

Not being disrespectful to you but trying to understand, you do not know who the Republican nominee will be, you do not know how much worst our country will be in 2012 but you say vote Obama 2012, what do you want more of from Obama, are you happy with the mood, direction of the country, economy, etc? Again just trying to understand.

I just have to weigh in with the attached article from CBS News at the time that George W. Bush left office.
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"President Bush will leave office as one of the most unpopular departing presidents in history, according to a new CBS News/New York Times poll showing Mr. Bush's final approval rating at 22 percent.

Seventy-three percent say they disapprove of the way Mr. Bush has handled his job as president over the last eight years.

Mr. Bush's final approval rating is the lowest final rating for an outgoing president since Gallup began asking about presidential approval more than 70 years ago.

The rating is far below the final ratings of recent two-term presidents Bill Clinton and Ronald Reagan, who both ended their terms with a 68 percent approval rating, according to CBS News polling.

Recent one term presidents also had higher ratings than Mr. Bush. His father George H.W. Bush had an end-of-term rating of 54 percent, while Jimmy Carter's rating was 44 percent."

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At the present day, I believe the Obama approval rating is 41%. It is not high by any means but a heck of a lot higher than GW Bush's final rating.

Originally Posted by buggyone

I just have to weigh in with the attached article from CBS News at the time that George W. Bush left office.
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"President Bush will leave office as one of the most unpopular departing presidents in history, according to a new CBS News/New York Times poll showing Mr. Bush's final approval rating at 22 percent.

Seventy-three percent say they disapprove of the way Mr. Bush has handled his job as president over the last eight years.

Mr. Bush's final approval rating is the lowest final rating for an outgoing president since Gallup began asking about presidential approval more than 70 years ago.

The rating is far below the final ratings of recent two-term presidents Bill Clinton and Ronald Reagan, who both ended their terms with a 68 percent approval rating, according to CBS News polling.

Recent one term presidents also had higher ratings than Mr. Bush. His father George H.W. Bush had an end-of-term rating of 54 percent, while Jimmy Carter's rating was 44 percent."

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At the present day, I believe the Obama approval rating is 41%. It is not high by any means but a heck of a lot higher than GW Bush's final rating.

I do not know how they conducted the poll, but I think Carter's rating would be closer to 5% at the most.

Originally Posted by KatzPajamas

Where do I start...? I have worked in the healthcare field for 36 years, been an x-ray, CT, and MRI technologist, director of an outpatient imaging center, and currently manage 40 employees in the departments of CT, MRI, Ultrasound, Nuclear Medicine and PET/CT. For the last 10 years I have overseen budgets in the millions and ensured patient satisfaction in numerous settings.
Having said that, I feel I have laid some ground work to be able to speak with a smidgen of authority and experience on certain matters...

First of all I think that you have it backwards about who sets the price. Medicare sets the price that they are going to pay, no questions asked. We take a beating on the reimbursement that they give. If we only got what CMS (Medicare) deems proper, we would never be able to afford the purchase let along maintenance of the cutting edge technology that we use to SAVE lives.

It is set up that we should charge for what we use even tho CMS is not going to reimburse. .......

........Off my soap box for now...Oh, I failed to mention that if we provide a service to a person who has no insurance but doesn't qualify for Medicaid/Medicare, and we charged them something less than the CMS rate, it is considered Medicare fraud!...Ok, I'm done for now.

This, quoted above by KatzPajamas, would be why:

"Canada has one of the lowest rates of MRI scanning machines per capita in the developed world, with 6 MRI scanners per million people, compared to 40.1 in Japan, 14.4 in Switzerland and 26.6 in the United States. Pittsburgh alone has more MRI machines than all of Canada..........


MRI scans have become an essential diagnostic imaging tool, revealing problems that aren’t detectable by other more common tests such as x-rays and ultrasounds.

Also, MRI scans have the advantage of avoiding the ionizing radiation that’s used in other radiology tests such as X-rays, computed tomography (CT) scans and positron emission (PET) scans. ....

The social safety net that is Canada’s health care system was designed to ensure everyone is able to access necessary exams. But what do you do when you simply can’t wait the typical 12 to 18 months’ delay for your MRI scan?...."

http://www.bcliving.ca/self/mri-scan...ate-mri-clinic

Originally Posted by ljones190

DaleMN

Not being disrespectful to you but trying to understand, you do not know who the Republican nominee will be, you do not know how much worst our country will be in 2012 but you say vote Obama 2012, what do you want more of from Obama, are you happy with the mood, direction of the country, economy, etc? Again just trying to understand.

Plain and simple. I am a lifelong Democrat and in the 12 presidential elections that I have been eligible to vote in I have yet to find a Republican candidate that I would vote for.
As far as the mood, direction of the country and the economy, no I am not entirely happy but I firmly believe I would be even less happy if McCain were now in the White House.

Originally Posted by DaleMN

Plain and simple. I am a lifelong Democrat and in the 12 presidential elections that I have been eligible to vote in I have yet to find a Republican candidate that I would vote for.
As far as the mood, direction of the country and the economy, no I am not entirely happy but I firmly believe I would be even less happy if McCain were now in the White House.

What could he have done to damage this country more that the Obama Administration?

Originally Posted by RichieLion

What could he have done to damage this country more that the Obama Administration?

Suspend his Presidency to figure out how to fix the economy?????