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发帖数: 19713 | 1 Pentagon Gives Chaplains OK to Officiate Same-Sex Weddings
By Andrew Harmon
NAVY CHAPLAIN WHITE HOUSE X390 (GETTY) | ADVOCATE.COM
After months of legal review, the Department of Defense announced Friday
that military chaplains may officiate in same-sex wedding ceremonies of
service members in states where gay marriage is legal. Such ceremonies can
be performed on military bases, officials wrote in a Friday memorandum.
In connection with repeal of "don't ask, don't tell," Under Secretary of
Defen... 阅读全帖 |
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发帖数: 4174 | 2 WASHINGTON -- Next month, the Senate Judiciary Committee will be voting on
legislation to repeal the federal Defense of Marriage Act, an important step
forward in the fight for equality for same-sex couples.
"Next month, I will call up the Respect for Marriage Act for debate and a
vote in the Judiciary Committee," said committee Chairman Patrick Leahy (D-
Vt.) in a statement on Friday. "The Respect for Marriage Act would repeal
the Defense of Marriage Act, which prevents thousands of American fa... 阅读全帖 |
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发帖数: 2153 | 3 A warm condragulations goes out to openly-gay Colorado State Rep. Mark
Ferrandino, who has just been elected as the state's House Minority Leader!
One Colorado Executive Director Brad Clark provides perspective on the
landmark occasion:
“When openly LGBT people are elected, the face of politics is changed. By
speaking honestly about their lives and their families, they are giving
voice to our community and bravely serving as champions for equality.
Representative Ferrandino has been a tremendou... 阅读全帖 |
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发帖数: 4174 | 4 Former Minnesota Senate majority leader Amy Koch has been a vocal opponent
of gay marriage, and in 2009, she tried to amend the Minnesota Constitution
to add language stipulating that “a marriage between a man and a woman is
the only domestic legal union that shall be valid or recognized in Minnesota
.” Because she cares a whole super lot about the sanctity of marriage, and
wished to see it not be taken lightly, or diluted by the gays.
Except! Apparently not her own. Koch was carrying on in secr... 阅读全帖 |
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发帖数: 2153 | 5 The first gay character in the Archie Comics world, Kevin Keller, marries
his partner in the latest issue, released today.
pic: http://www.pinknews.co.uk/2012/01/11/archie-comics-gay-marriage-issue-out-today/
In the storyline, in Life With Archie #16, Kevin returns to Riverside as an
adult after serving in the Army and eventually ties the knot with Clay
Walker.
Kevin first appeared in the Veronica series last autumn, with some critics
expecting only a token character to be introduced to the 70-y... 阅读全帖 |
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发帖数: 4174 | 6 http://www.huffingtonpost.com/michelangelo-signorile/a-bold-cho
Michelangelo Signorile
Editor-at-large, HuffPost Gay Voices; host, 'The Michelangelo Signorile Show
' on Sirius XM's OutQ
The news late last week that the Human Rights Campaign, the nation's largest
LGBT advocacy group, had tapped Chad Griffin as its new president had many
LGBT activists responding to their Twitter feeds with a collective, "Wow!"
Griffin, among his many credits, was the executive producer of the 2009 film
Outrage, t... 阅读全帖 |
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发帖数: 22013 | 7 我一点儿也不知道她是les，你们有听说吗？
http://www.hollywoodlife.com/2012/05/24/queen-latifah-gay-girlf
Queen Latifah Comes Out As A Lesbian
2 days ago by Kirstin Benson24 Comments20,042 Article Views
After years of keeping her sexual identity behind closed doors, Queen
Latifah admitted the LGBT people are her ‘peeps’ during a show at the 2012
Long Beach Pride.
Queen Latifah‘s latest show must have been quite liberating for her. At the
2012 Long Beach Pride event in California last weekend, the 42-year-old
award-... 阅读全帖 |
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发帖数: 4174 | 8 http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2012/07/31/doma-unconstitutional-
HARTFORD, Conn. -- A federal judge in Connecticut has ruled that part of a
federal law that defines marriage as between a man and a woman and denies
federal benefits to married gay couples is unconstitutional.
U.S. District Judge Vanessa L. Bryant in Hartford ruled Tuesday that the
provision in the 1996 Defense of Marriage Act violates the Fifth Amendment
right to equal protection.
The ruling came in the case of six married same-sex... 阅读全帖 |
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发帖数: 19713 | 9 共和党们的智商到底有没有下限？？？？
Todd Akin's Abortion Position Reflects GOP Platform
Lost in the national outrage and politics following an inflammatory
statement made Sunday by GOP Senate candidate Todd Akin in Missouri is the
reality that, on a fundamental level, there is no policy difference between
Akin's comments and the mainstream GOP platform.
CNN reported on Monday that the draft of the GOP's official 2012 platform
calls for a federal ban on abortion with no exception for rape and incest
surviv... 阅读全帖 |
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发帖数: 703 | 10 More bad news for the Boy Scouts of America (BSA), as a major donor has
announced plans to sever funding to the organization on account of a
controversial anti-gay policy.
The United Parcel Service (UPS), Inc. will soon adopt a non-discrimination
policy that disqualifies the BSA from future funding, the Gay and Lesbian
Alliance Against Defamation (GLAAD) reports. UPS follows the Intel
Foundation in withdrawing corporate sponsorship from the BSA, GLAAD
officials note in an email statement.
"UPS a... 阅读全帖 |
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发帖数: 19713 | 11 Will Same-Sex Couples Be Protected In Immigration Reform?
President Obama's immigration reform proposals may include gay couples, but
will Congress take heed?
BY MICHELLE GARCIA JANUARY 29 2013 12:10 PM ET
President Barack Obama is expected to propose that same-sex binational
couples should be able to receive the same citizenship rights that
heterosexual binational couples have.
As Congress ramps up debate on comprehensive immigration reform, Obama's
speech in Las Vegas Tuesday will outline all ... 阅读全帖 |
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发帖数: 311 | 12 SALT LAKE CITY – A federal judge struck down Utah's same-sex marriage ban
Friday in a decision that brings an increasing nationwide shift toward
allowing gay marriage to a conservative state where the Mormon church has
long been against it.
U.S. District Judge Robert J. Shelby issued a 53-page ruling saying Utah's
law passed by voters in 2004 violates gay and lesbian couples' rights to due
process and equal protection under the 14th Amendment.
Shelby said the state failed to show that allowing ... 阅读全帖 |
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发帖数: 1340 | 13 it might be so, but doesn't hurt to prepare for the worst.
still applaud for haiming! |
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发帖数: 3150 | 14 前总统卡特支持芝麻仁 (link 1)
奥巴马反对芝麻仁 (link 2)
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发帖数: 3978 | 15 Hillary Clinton said at a conference Thursday that she would like to see a
female president before she dies — and had a little fun with the chatter
she knew it would provoke.
“Well, let me say this: Hypothetically speaking,” she said wryly, “I
really do hope that we have a woman president in my lifetime.”
The crowd applauded.
Clinton was speaking via video feed to a women’s lecture series in Toronto.
She urged women to step forward and be a part of the process, which she
admitted requires thick ... 阅读全帖 |
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发帖数: 3620 | 16 Hillary Clinton said at a conference Thursday that she would like to see a
female president before she dies — and had a little fun with the chatter
she knew it would provoke.
“Well, let me say this: Hypothetically speaking,” she said wryly, “I
really do hope that we have a woman president in my lifetime.”
The crowd applauded.
Clinton was speaking via video feed to a women’s lecture series in Toronto.
She urged women to step forward and be a part of the process, which she
admitted requires thick ... 阅读全帖 |
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发帖数: 34 | 17 Haha, I applaud your independent thinking. A healthy amount of cynicism is
good for seeing what the media doesn’t want you to see. However, being too
cynical is just as bad as being naïve: it makes you think that you’ve
already known all the answers and stop learning. Confucius said: “学而不
思则枉，思而不学则殆。“ I admit that interest groups have enormous
influences on the US government. And I can tell you that the peculiar
federal system (the three branches, the federal-state power division) make |
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发帖数: 50 | 18 http://blogs.abcnews.com/politicalpunch/2008/09/obama-says-mc-1.html
Obama Says McCain Is Offering Fake Change: 'You Can Put Lipstick on a Pig'
September 09, 2008 6:10 PM
LEBANON, Va. -- "That's not change," Sen. Barack Obama, D-Ill., said of what
Sen. John McCain, R-Ariz., is offering.
"You can put lipstick on a pig," Obama said, as the crowd rose and applauded
, some of them no doubt thinking he may have been alluding to Alaska Gov.
Sarah Palin's ad lib during her vice presidential nomination |
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发帖数: 34 | 19 Assuming both candidates intend to advance U.S. interests abroad, it bears
looking at how McCain and Obama would conduct foreign policy, , that
everyday diplomacy that affects how the U.S. is viewed and can influence
other states.
McCain is the ace in foreign policy, not the much-applauded Obama. McCain
has played pivotal roles in opening Vietnam to trade, passing the North
American Free Trade Agreement and encouraging the color revolutions of
Eastern Europe. He's visited most countries and know |
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发帖数: 6327 | 20 ☆─────────────────────────────────────☆
Palpatine (某子) 于 (Tue Nov 4 23:35:51 2008) 提到:
我来说这句话是不是很奇怪？
anyway，以后的4年就是真理卫队横行，左翼媒体被噤声的4年了。满怀热血奔向延安的
文学青年们终于要尝尝整风的味道了。
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发帖数: 29846 | 21 Why is it that McCain will not come to grips with the fact that there is the
need for the Republican Party to return to its base. He's not a maveric, he
's a Hell-bent old man who is too subborn and full of himself to allow for a
view of what is best for the Republican Party... our nation. Sarah Palin is
a clear and focused Conservative. I applaud all that she is able to
accomplish. |
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发帖数: 2406 | 22 not just business, economics teachers, the whole education system has been
dominated by Socialist leaning people, that is why you have the young peopel
applauding wealth redistribution while the capital base that was supposed
to be passed on to the next generation is being consumed by the parasites.
By the time the young grew up to raise a family, many of them realize their
mistake and swtich to become conservatives.
If you are 40, and you are still a Demacrat, you have no brain, very true. |
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发帖数: 29846 | 24 GOP Attempts Historic $2.5 Trillion Cut in Federal Spending
Thursday, 20 Jan 2011 02:30 PM
By David A. Patten
Buoyed by their successful vote to repeal healthcare reform, conservative
House Republicans on Thursday rolled out plans for a massive, $2.5 trillion
cut in federal spending over the next 10 years.
The proposal, to be contained in the Spending Reduction Act of 2011, would
reset non-security discretionary spending to 2008 levels, affecting
everything from state stimulus money to federal i... 阅读全帖 |
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发帖数: 29846 | 25 by Rachel Marsden
02/20/2011
A new article in Der Spiegel magazine—the German equivalent of Time or
Newsweek—applauds George W. Bush for his vision of democracy in the Middle
East, and credits him for the fact that authoritarian regimes in the region
are being kicked to the curb.
"Painful as it may be to admit, it was the despised former U.S. President
George W. Bush who believed in the democratization of the Muslim world and
incurred the scorn and mockery of the Left for his conviction," says t... 阅读全帖 |
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发帖数: 3803 | 26 What's President Obama's answer? In his "Winning the Future with Clean
Energy"
speech at Penn State University last month, he introduced his "Better
Buildings Initiative" and said we should all live and work in places that
are
"energy efficient." He repeatedly used the words "research" and "innovative"
and "high tech." As expected, his line about eliminating "the billions in
taxpayer dollars we currently give to oil companies" was wildly applauded.
So
was his Utopian vision of "developing a way ... 阅读全帖 |
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发帖数: 29846 | 27 Republican senators in Wisconsin Wednesday night maneuvered around Democrats
to pass legislation stripping public employees' unions of collective-
bargaining rights, setting the stage for other states to pursue similar
steps in one of the broadest challenges to organized labor in decades.
A vote on Republican Gov. Scott Walker's "budget-repair" bill had been
stymied since Feb. 17 when 14 Democratic senators left the state, kicking
off a rancorous, three-week political drama. Without the Democrat... 阅读全帖 |
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发帖数: 29846 | 28 By Howard Richman, Raymond Richman, and Jesse Richman
The latest house price data (the S&P Case-Shiller index) shows a clear
downward trend for the most recent six months, as shown in the graph below:
The next graph shows how this year's data fits in with the long-term trend.
It is clear that the house price bubble, which began in 1997 and peaked in
2006, has not yet finished popping:
How We Got Here
The black stars in the above graph highlight 1951 and 1997, the two years
when Congress changed ... 阅读全帖 |
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发帖数: 29846 | 29 By Neil Snyder
One thing stands out in my mind about President Obama's so-called "budget
strategy." He doesn't have one. You can see evidence of Mr. Obama's
strategic vacuum in everything he does. Take the much ballyhooed budget
speech he gave yesterday at George Washington University, for example. It
contradicts the message he delivered as a part of his 10-year budget just a
few short weeks ago. All of the evidence points to the fact that Obama's "
budget strategy" is simply a kneejerk rea... 阅读全帖 |
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发帖数: 29846 | 30 Washington (CNN) -- A federal appeals court has tossed out key provisions of
the sweeping health care reform bill championed by President Obama, setting
up a likely election-year showdown at the Supreme Court over the landmark
legislation.
A 2-1 panel of the 11th Circuit U.S. Court of Appeals in Atlanta on Friday
found that the law's "individual mandate" section -- requiring nearly all
Americans to purchase health insurance by 2014 or face financial penalties -
- was an improper exercise of fede... 阅读全帖 |
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发帖数: 1834 | 31 Michele Bachmann said, "I have never heard a more dangerous answer for
American security than the one we just heard from Ron Paul.”
She reminds me of Rudy Giuliani 4 years ago in a similar debate,
who was looking for some cheap applauds. |
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发帖数: 29846 | 32 by College Fix Staff on December 9, 2011
University of New Hampshire professor Edward Larkin “took it out”–to use
a Seinfeld metaphor–exposing himself to a woman and her child in a grocery
store parking lot. But a union arbitrator ruled that the university cannot
not fire him over the incident:
Larkin admitted he exposed himself to a mother and her daughter in a
grocery store parking lot and was convicted of a felony. It happened in
Milford, NH in 2009.
Many taxpayers told WBZ-TV it does... 阅读全帖 |
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发帖数: 29846 | 33 January 2, 2012
In discussing the recent release of some 5,000 Climategate e-mails, blogger
Anthony Watts uses the clever headline "They are real -- and they're
spectacular." He credits Jerry Seinfeld as the source. Following his
example, I choose the headline "Fake! Fake! Fake! Fake!" -- also taken from
a Seinfeld episode -- in discussing the surface temperatures generally
reported for the latter part of the 20th century; they form the science
basis for prosperity-killing international clim... 阅读全帖 |
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发帖数: 29846 | 34 Saturday, 28 Jan 2012 08:46 PM
By Martin Gould and Dave Eberhart
Former Republican presidential candidate Herman Cain endorsed Newt Gingrich
for the GOP nomination late on Saturday — at the same time accepting a
position as the former House speaker’s tax reform chairman.
The author of the now-famous 9-9-9 tax plan announced his endorsement in
West Palm Beach, Fla., three days ahead of that state’s vital primary. The
endorsement is a welcome boost for Gingrich, who has found himself having to
def... 阅读全帖 |
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发帖数: 29846 | 35 Paul A. Rahe · Feb. 10 at 5:21pm
You have to hand it to Barack Obama. He has unmasked in the most
thoroughgoing way the despotic propensities of the administrative
entitlements state and of the Democratic Party. And now he has done
something similar to the hierarchy of the American Catholic Church. At the
prospect that institutions associated with the Catholic Church would be
required to offer to their employees health insurance covering contraception
and abortifacients, the bishops, priests,... 阅读全帖 |
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发帖数: 29846 | 36 May 21, 2012 by Rick Rice
Fascinating happenings coming from many of the nation’s Catholics… God
bless ‘em:
Catholic archdioceses and institutions filed suit in federal district
courts across the country Monday against the so-called contraception mandate
, in one of the biggest coordinated legal challenges to the rule to date.
Claiming their “fundamental rights hang in the balance,” a total of 43
plaintiffs filed a dozen separate lawsuits challenging the
constitutionality of the requi... 阅读全帖 |
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发帖数: 29846 | 37 by Rick aka Mr. Brutally Honest
He had lots to say about Vice Presiden Biden's recent hateful remarks:
DougWilderThe nation's first elected black governor, Virginia's L.
Douglas Wilder, lambasted Vice President Joe Biden on national television
Wednesday for his remark to a largely black crowd about banks keeping people
"in chains."
Wilder, a Democrat and a grandson of slaves, echoed indignant
denunciations from Republicans, including presumptive presidential nominee
Mitt Romney, that Bid... 阅读全帖 |
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发帖数: 29846 | 38 August 17, 2012 Posted by Dan Karipides
Yesterday I wrote about the offensive blathering of MSNBC host Toure. Last
night Kira Davis–a young, African-American, conservative woman–published
an open letter response. (Hat tip and comments at Hot Air.)
Normally I would just send you to the link to read the whole thing but in
this case I feel that text deserves as much press as possible. Certainly
more people deserve to hear the words of Davis than those of Toure. Given
MSNBC’s (lack of) viewers... 阅读全帖 |
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发帖数: 773 | 39 I am against obama. He applauded some silly breakthroughs, for example, the
production of butanol direct from cellulose with a yield of less than 10%
and a titer of less than 0.5 g/L. |
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发帖数: 1773 | 40 你太低估克林顿的贡献了，克林顿会不满意的。
"Thank you President Bill Clinton for your 1997 action, applauded by the
banks, the realtors and all citizens in search of half-millionaire status
from an investment they could understand and self deceptively believe to be
low risk; thank you for fueling the mother of all housing bubbles; thank you
for enabling so many of us who bought second or third homes, and homes
before construction began, which we then sold to someone else who dreamed of
riches from owning homes long ... 阅读全帖 |
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发帖数: 9007 | 41 So when Dems are pushing their version STEM act, should we applaud for it
because they are giving us green cards, or against it because meanwhile some
"suckers" would get theirs too? If both parties use this act to play the
political game, I do not think there is way I either win or lost the future,
because it is not there.
I am not here to win a debate, just some talk. |
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发帖数: 29846 | 42 看左棍们就是这么花纳税人的钱的.
Taxpayers in San Francisco, California will now pay for "gender-switching,"
transgender surgeries to "help ease the mental anguish of people who feel
they are trapped in bodies of the wrong gender." These operations will be
covered under San Francisco's universal health care program for the
uninsured.
The San Francisco Health Commission on Tuesday approved of these
controversial operations; public health officials in the city and
transgender rights advocates discussed how they c... 阅读全帖 |
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发帖数: 16778 | 43 I totally object to this.
看左棍们就是这么花纳税人的钱的.
Taxpayers in San Francisco, California will now pay for "gender-switching,"
transgender surgeries to "help ease the mental anguish of people who feel
they are trapped in bodies of the wrong gender." These operations will be
covered under San Francisco's universal health care program for the
uninsured.
The San Francisco Health Commission on Tuesday approved of these
controversial operations; public health officials in the city and
transgender rights adv... 阅读全帖 |
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发帖数: 2324 | 44 At least these people is willing to work. I applaud for them.
If most Americans behave this way, I would feel better. This means it's the
government too stupid. People are willing to work, government needs to be
smarter to create jobs. Lower the taxes! People will create jobs. Do NOT TAX
rich people to create jobs, that won't work! |
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发帖数: 7299 | 45 SAN FRANCISCO – A federal appeals court on Friday put the brakes on a
first-of-its-kind California law that bans therapy aimed at turning gay
minors straight.
A three-judge panel of the 9th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals issued an
emergency order putting the law on hold until the court can hear full
arguments on the measure's constitutionality. The law was set to take effect
Jan. 1.
Licensed counselors who practice so-called "reparative therapy" and two
families who say their teenage sons have b... 阅读全帖 |
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发帖数: 29846 | 46 420 Sheriffs Now Say They Won't Enforce Unconstitutional Gun Control Laws
April 17, 2013
By Gregory Gwyn-Williams, Jr.
The number of sheriffs across the nation that have publicly stated they will
not enforce gun laws they believe are unconstitutional has jumped to 420.
The Constitutional Sheriffs and Peace Officers Association (CSPOA) maintains
a running tally of all the sheriffs across the nation that have joined
together to defend the Constitution.
The website states:
"The following sheriffs..... 阅读全帖 |
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发帖数: 29846 | 47 By Gillian Roberts
July 3, 2013
Brokers who have scrambled for the past year to ensure their employer
clients are compliant with the Affordable Care Act’s employer mandate, also
known in the industry as the “pay or play” mandate, are scrambling once
again, to take a deep breath.
For Mark Gaunya, principal at Borislow Insurance and EBA advisory board
member, some of his new business clients were behind in preparations. “We
have quite a few prospects that need our assistance and time was running
s... 阅读全帖 |
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发帖数: 50 | 48 I applauded when I watched this yesterday. And then watched again.
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发帖数: 29846 | 49 In response to The Daily Show Drops an Egg on Chris Matthews' Face:
I thoroughly enjoyed that entire clip, which is a rare thing for me because
the Daily Show usually leaves me more annoyed than entertained, but I think
you buried the lede, John.
The most noteworthy thing about the clip for me was the huge ovation Rand
Paul got from the liberal Daily Show crowd when his name was announced. Wow.
Rand Paul also demonstrated that he can tap into a younger voter base a few
months ago when he drew a ... 阅读全帖 |
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发帖数: 3813 | 50 several idiots on this board even applauded when zimmerman was found not
quilty.
some idiots on this board even dornated money to support zimmerman.
what a bunch of idiots...
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