scatter629

scatter629

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that way you know it will be at least until the end of the year before she gets married That would give me enough time to really find out whether it's the chapel or the marriage they're both dead set on. Besides, I look forward to these Dad-daughter one-on-ones.

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that way you know it will be at least until the end of the year before she gets married That would give me enough time to really find out whether it's the chapel or the marriage they're both dead set on. Besides, I look forward to these Dad-daughter one-on ones.

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Coming from a medical background, my concern is the consequence this case will have on similar cases or patients of mine, who due to their inability to express themselves normally may be labeled as being in a Persistently Vegetative State,and whose actual decision to survive maybe overridden by a legal guardian for expediency's sake. I had discussed in a similar thread that the label Apallic Syndrome/PSV/Coma Vigile is open-ended and most of the the time, the return of awareness to the

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One of the most joyous chores I look forward to each day or whenever I possibly can is to check on my email (the bitter half of that, which is getting to be more convenient, is deleting the spam from my bulk mail) I guess it’s understandable when you’re this far away from home and the weeks drag on. Among the emails, one that really struck me of late was the one

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It was a scenario Elvis never dreamed of experiencing when he sang this 1950’s hit. For one thing, the players weren’t just shimmying their legs and thumping cell bars to a rock and roll beat, they were actually dodging bullets and holding hostages as well. It was a bountiful harvest for the side of law enforcement to begin with. All the Abu Sayyaf Comm

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All taken in a balance, I think there's a lot more good than bad that has come out of the States. But it can and should do more. That's why people who love America and remember its good deeds raise hackles when they slowly realize some of its policies are deviating from what it once held true. In a working democracy, it's called course-correction. And it's coming from everyday folks who only mean America well.

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disaster . "soundly-based economic policies supporting the advance of liberty and freedom" means making it difficult to change the economic status quo. tighter economic global control=more poverty=more terrorism=more military misadvantures.. This is like appointing Count Dracula as manager of a Blood Bank. Jeez.

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I had this extraordinary opportunity once of getting invited as an observer at a job interview. The special thing about the occasion wasn’t due to the fact that the employer was a friend of mine but because the job applicant was a surgical resident who for some as of yet unfathomable reason was leaving a reputable training institution on his senior year and tran

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this is forward thinking. In today's terror-driven world, it's not really being paranoid but being realistic.

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The sergeant was singing his heart out. Unfortunately, he was singing his guts and intestines along with his vocal cords, so that I had to caution an irate beermate and fellow sergeant beside me, who after downing 5 bottles of their great San Miguel beer, was ready to reach for his .45 and put the fellow out of his misery. Happily ,he obliged me. You can’t reall

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It's part of being human to go thru breakups and heartaches since, well, we're not perfect and often our first, even second choices aren't either, but they're learning choices, and we get better at choosing as we go along.About the heartache part, it's a given as long as we still choose to be part of the human race. In the end, we all learn to move on to survive.

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Heather's Mom's tumor is benign though still in a dangerous place. Most benign tumors in the brain in the elderly are meningiomas, neurinomas or neurofibromas. The concern regarding the tumor being in a "dangerous place" is the possibility that not all of the tumor could be safely resected and that some

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"Black holes don't let light ESCAPE" i don't know who said that, but its true... aparrently, because i have read it before. but hang on.... how could gravity pull something in which doesn't have any mass?" - Dr. Devious Black Holes are known to be end stages of dying stars which Implode on themselves and draw in adjacent matter and antimatter, which can be computed for as to its mass. "therefore the light as a molecule theory was born

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Those that assume that they don't need to come home once in a while because they have these technologies find that their assumptions are wrong. how very true. I guess the technology available become stop-gap measures to make the time and distance a bit bearable. In the end, it becomes unbearable.

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if the voting makes you hopeful, then good. me, too. but for me, it's not enough Although good voter turnout was a surprising relief, it also tells us that despite its recent history of despotic rule, the Iraqis do have a concept of country. Such a mindset early in its US-occupation period will easil

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yup! For whatever it's worth, to all who still have that special magic going on for one another, in whatever way, it's nice to be remembered. So, Happy Valentine!

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yup! For whatever it's worth, to all who still have that special magic going on for one another, in whatever way, it's nice to be remembered. So, Happy Valentine!

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