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Not phishing for Doxing so if you are not comfortable don't reply or fudge the numbers by a few. There is such a wealth of history held by the posters on FR. I was thinking how my own father was alive when Lindberg crossed the Atlantic and when the Hindenburg burned and My grandfather was teen when the Wright brothers flew at Kitty Hawk. My grandfather would be 129 years +- today. How about yours?

The Obama administration issued strict rules Monday under which even some small changes to existing health care plans will make them subject to the requirements of the new health care reform law. The president promised repeatedly during the health care debate that individuals who like their current plans would be able to keep them. To meet that goal, the health care law envisioned that some plans would be “grandfathered in” under the old law — and therefore would not be required to meet some of the mandates of the new law, such as no-charge preventive care screenings.

ObamaCare appears to have one grandfathered standard for labor unions and another standard for everyone else. Unions that had a health plan under a collective bargaining agreement by March 23, 2010, can switch insurers as long as the collective bargaining deal is in effect and not forfeit the grandfathered exemptions from many ObamaCare provisions. But anyone else — large business, small business, individual — who switches carriers loses their grandfathered status.

What was the best April Fool's joke/prank you ever pulled off on someone................OR.............what was the best pulled on you? I'm really not good at jokes/pranks so I can't honestly say I've ever gotten the upper hand on anyone, but had a doozy pulled on me back in 1983. I had been at my first job in radio news for less than 6 months in Dover, Delaware. The phone ringing at 6am woke me up....it was the news director telling me to get out of bed and get downtown to the Capitol complex because an Air Force C-5 had just crashed...

Study suggests link between health and grandfathers' food supply Academics have found out that our predecessors' diets can influence our health. The findings come from research carried out at Sweden's University of Umeå. The scientist collected health histories of 300 people born at the turn of the last century. For their study they compared the data with crop records showing how plentiful supplies were when they reached puberty. They found that grandchildren of well-fed grandfathers were four times more likely to die from diabetes. The children of teenage famine-sufferers were less likely to die from heart disease. Scientists insist the...