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Silly me, I thought that Japan was situated in the Pacific Ocean.....

Well, I guess that my 1950’ geography teacher had it wrong.

COBRA is for employees of companies who have 20 or more employees for more than 50% of the working days in the year who have current group health plans.

By FEDERAL LAW all of those employers are REQUIRED to inform an ex-employee of their rights under COBRA. Failure to do so carries fines.

No agent or employer meeting those requirements “hides” these benefits from employees.

I’m a broker and get asked this question quite often by people. All employees who leave a job, unless fired for cause such as theft, have the right to continue coverage.

Most employees don’t do so as they find out that they must pay the full premium that the employer has been mostly paying for them.

There has been in the past additonal help from the Federal Gov in having the employer pay for the coverage for an addtional 9 months for which the employer is supposed to get a tax credit.

One of the most important questions that insurance agents are required to ask the client and is on ALL of the insurance applications is if the application is on COBRA or if they were eligible and turned it down or declined coverage.

So to say the employers or insurance agents “hide” this is incorrect.

Well, no but the video might give you a wry chuckle....

Merry Christmas...!

Title 13, Section 221 (Census, Refusal or neglect to answer questions; false answers) of the United States Code reads:

(a) Whoever, being over eighteen years of age, refuses or willfully neglects, when requested by the Secretary, or by any other authorized officer or employee of the Department of Commerce or bureau or agency thereof acting under the instructions of the Secretary or authorized officer, to answer, to the best of his knowledge, any of the questions on any schedule submitted to him in connection with any census or survey provided for by subchapters I, II, IV, and V of chapter of this title, applying to himself or to the family to which he belongs or is related, or to the farm or farms of which he or his family is the occupant, shall be fined not more than $100.
(b) Whoever, when answering questions described in subsection (a) of this section, and under the conditions or circumstances described in such subsection, willfully gives any answer that is false, shall be fined not more than $500.
(c) Notwithstanding any other provision of this title, no person shall be compelled to disclose information relative to his religious beliefs or to membership in a religious body.
(U.S. citizens living outside the United States are not required to respond to the census.)

In other words, you can be fined up to $100 for not answering and up to $500 for lying on the census form.

What we need now is a real “Gunslinger” to lead our merry band and: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Us-TVg40ExM

Walking Dude-Randall Flagg is that you?

If no woman gets pregnant willingly then by this woman’s definition when Michelle Obama became pregnant she became a “slave” and Barry Hussein must have been her “slave master”

You would think that he/she would know better.....

Joe the Plumber for when your drains are stopped-up with liberal *hit....

LOL....

Well let's see....the wife had a problem with a bully who abused her nephew, threatened her father and so her husband took care of it.....seems like Todd did what I would do for my wife...

No problem except that he didn't get to deck the jerk...

Tally Ban would you like a Slurpee with your airstrike sir?

Oh well just NUKE’em all O BOMBER....

Let;s see....computer health records...do you want your medical records online for any goverment employee to see?

OBOMER needs a dose of reality...let’s see his passport records, his overseas contribution records....

Lord God, we beseech you that you bring us again such a leader for our nation.

Amen

Dammit Jim I’m just a doctor...
Dr. Leonard McCoy “What am I, a doctor or a moon-shuttle conductor?” (TOS: “The Corbomite Maneuver”)
“My dear girl, I’m a doctor. When I peek, it is in the line of duty.” (TOS: “Shore Leave”)
“I don’t know, Jim. This is a big ship. I’m just a country doctor.” (TOS: “The Alternative Factor”)
“Me, I’m a doctor. If I were an officer of the line...” (TOS: “A Taste of Armageddon”)
“What do you mean what sort of work? I’m a doctor.” (TOS: “This Side of Paradise”)
“I’m a doctor, not a bricklayer.” (TOS: “The Devil in the Dark”)
...to which Kirk replies, “You’re a healer, there’s a patient. That’s an order.”
“I’m a surgeon, not a psychiatrist.” (TOS: “The City on the Edge of Forever”)
This is an interesting statement since, in the episode “Court Martial”, Doctor McCoy is called as an expert witness in space psychiatry.
“I’m not a scientist or a physicist, Mr. Spock...” (TOS: “Metamorphosis”)
“Look, I’m a doctor, not an escalator.” (TOS: “Friday’s Child”)
“I’m a doctor, not a mechanic.” (TOS: “The Doomsday Machine”)
“I’m a doctor, not an engineer.” (TOS: “Mirror, Mirror”)
...to which Montgomery Scott immediately replied, “Now, you’re an engineer.”
“I’m not a magician, Spock, just an old country doctor.” (TOS: “The Deadly Years”)
“I will not peddle flesh! I’m a physician.” (TOS: “Return to Tomorrow”)
“I’m a doctor, not a coal miner.” (TOS: “The Empath”)
“I’m not a mechanic, Spock...” (TOS: “The Empa

It was a bit of a sticky wicket, but our man Senator John “Maverick” McCain played straight through...

Well, 2nd DivsionVet is a COD player and I’ve seen him playing COD4 on our server www.fkmod.com

Gamers come in all stripes, breeds and flavors and it’s a tight knit community of people who love to get into a firefight and kill each other except unlike the real heroes out there we regenerate and go again.

And let’s admit it...Sarah is a babe! So if he admires her as do I perhaps next time on the battlefield I’ll let him slide by without fragging him.

Calling in a airstrike now so I have to run...

{FKR}WereWolf

I would later be astounded to read what happened to me in 1st Peter 3:1-2. It states, “Wives, likewise be submissive to your own husbands, that even if some do not obey the Word, they, without a word, may be won by the conduct of their wives, when they observe your chaste conduct accompanied by fear (reverence for the Lord).”

THAT'S EXACTLY WHAT HAPPENED! My wife was saved first, and then through her chaste conduct and her newfound reverence for Jesus Christ, I was won over to the Lord. AMAZING!

Dear Brother in Christ:

That is exactly what happened in my life also. In 1984 I was running around on my wife and had sent her away so that I could continue in my sin.

While she was away, my wife, who had been raised by as a Baptist, and only heard the do nots of the Bible found the real living, breathing Jesus in a Bible believing church.

She then threw herself totally on the arms of Jesus and trusted His Word and came “home” to me.

I tried to break the peace that she had but I couldn't do it. I was raised as a “Christian Scientist” and knew nothing of the Bible or Jesus. But I knew how to hurt and scold and twist any argument around.

My wife had spent her last $50 to buy me a Bible when she came home. Well when I started to read this “book” it was if God was pointing His finger right at me and showing everyone that I was an adulterer and when I came to Psalms 51 God had written me into his book.....OUCH....

So I was convicted of my sin and asked Jesus to forgive me of my sin and to come into my life as LORD.

As with your case I was shown the light of the world by my wife and she did save my life.

Thank GOD for such women....

Here is a reply that I posted to the NY Times regarding the article on MRS Palin:

September 8th, 2008 2:28 amSo, you state, “She went to extraordinary lengths to ensure that her son Trig’s arrival would not hurt her work. “

Gee, I would have thought that a “progressive” paper such as yours would cheer that a woman such as Mrs. Palin could “bring home the bacon” and “fry it up in the pan”.

Her “struggle” upon learning that her son had Down’s Syndrome I’m sure gave her some pause. She had the sense to trust that God had plans for her and her son perhaps not of her choosing and that she had the grace in her heart to say “Not my will, but thine will be done” means a lot to me and hundreds of thousands of us in the heartland of America.

I’ve been through some of the same struggles that she is now facing in my family personally and I admire her dedication to her family, her commitment to the people of Alaska and bravery in stepping out into the storm of media attention that, as this article proves, will try to lessen her as a woman and mother.

All I have to say is “Go Sarah” and may God greatly bless your family as you, as each of us, struggle with this precious life.

— Big_D_KC, Fly Over Midwest

Here is the reply to the article that I posted in response to the article about MRS Palin:

September 8th, 2008 2:28 amSo, you state, “She went to extraordinary lengths to ensure that her son Trig’s arrival would not hurt her work. “

Gee, I would have thought that a “progressive” paper such as yours would cheer that a woman such as Mrs. Palin could “bring home the bacon” and “fry it up in the pan”.

Her “struggle” upon learning that her son had Down’s Syndrome I’m sure gave her some pause. She had the sense to trust that God had plans for her and her son perhaps not of her choosing and that she had the grace in her heart to say “Not my will, but thine will be done” means a lot to me and hundreds of thousands of us in the heartland of America.

I’ve been through some of the same struggles that she is now facing in my family personally and I admire her dedication to her family, her commitment to the people of Alaska and bravery in stepping out into the storm of media attention that, as this article proves, will try to lessen her as a woman and mother.

All I have to say is “Go Sarah” and may God greatly bless your family as you, as each of us, struggle with this precious life.

— Big_D_KC, Fly Over Midwest