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Cat scans & Lab reports …

vet bill for cat scan & lab report

A woman brought a very limp duck into a veterinary surgeon. As she laid her pet on the table, the vet pulled out his stethoscope and listened to the bird’s chest.

After a moment or two, the vet shook his head and sadly said, “I’m sorry, your duck, Cuddles, has passed away.”

The distressed woman wailed, “Are you sure?” “Yes, I am sure. Your duck is dead,” replied the vet..

“How can you be so sure?” she protested. “I mean you haven’t done any testing on him or anything. He might just be in a coma or something.”

The vet rolled his eyes, turned around and left the room. He returned a few minutes later with a black Labrador Retriever. As the duck’s owner looked on in amazement, the dog stood on his hind legs, put his front paws on the examination table and sniffed the duck from top to bottom. He then looked up at the vet with sad eyes and shook his head.

The vet patted the dog on the head and took it out of the room. A few minutes later he returned with a cat. The cat jumped on the table and also delicately sniffed the bird from head to foot. The cat sat back on its haunches, shook its head, meowed softly and strolled out of the room.

The vet looked at the woman and said, “I’m sorry, but as I said, this is most definitely, 100% certifiably, a dead duck.”
The vet turned to his computer terminal, hit a few keys and produced a bill, which he handed to the woman..

The duck’s owner, still in shock, took the bill. “$150!” she cried, “$150 just to tell me my duck is dead!”

The vet shrugged, “I’m sorry. If you had just taken my word for it, the bill would have been $20, but with the Lab Report and the Cat Scan, it’s now $150.”

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Firenze Sage: Calling Batman!

Batman needed to clean up Gotham City –aka Californai —

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Gov. Jerry Brown ordered state agencies on Wednesday to do a better job collecting money after an audit discovered that 11 state agencies had failed to gather $13.3 million in debts, mostly from employees who received cash advances.

In California the gift of public funds is a felony.
Oh and is this a surprise? At the top of the violator list were the Highway patrol and the Franchise tax board. FirenzeSage48@gmail.com

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Firenze Sage: Next they come for the children…

TSA Agents Pat Down 6-Year-Old Girl: MyFoxDFW.com

The shock of a video of a Transportation Security Administration screener patting down a 6-year-old child has drawn anger.
But the TSA’s actions were not improper, says Department of Homeland Security Secretary Janet Napolitano.

Napolitano described the rationale behind such screening – saying everyone must be screened, because otherwise an exempted group could be exploited for a potential terrorist attack.I wonder.

Remember the Homeland Security,FBI, and Captain Marvel showing up at the home of the person who dared video maintenance crews entering secure areas with a key card.

Perhaps we can exempt 6yr olds in exchange for frisking the janitorial crew.
written by FirenzieSage48@gmail.com

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Firenze Sage: Man really bites dog.

Man really bites dog after dog captured him for theft. Man sues saying dog violated his civil rights. Man in prison for 8 years.

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Man really bites dog & gets 8 years

A 33-year-old man who bit back after he was caught by a Phoenix police dog is suing the police.

Erin Sullivan alleges the dog violated his civil rights and used excessive force to capture him after he ran from officers in Glendale during a burglary investigation last year.

Police say Sullivan bit the dog back, injuring it. Poor ole Sully is Quarantined for 8 years.

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$105 BILLION Trojan Horse of ObamaCare not “nickels & dimes” as Obama claimed on open microphone.

Obama refers to current $105 billion spent for ObamaCare as nickels and dimes. No, this is not chump change.

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$105 billion Trojan Horse ObamaCare

It’s not chump change — the $105 BILLION Trojan Horse of ObamaCare already loosed on the American public. Like the 30 men hidden in the Greek Trojan Horse who opened the gates that the Greeks could enter & conquer the city of Troy, the $105 billion Obama-Care Trojan Horse seeks victory through stealth.

On open microphone 4-15-2011 Obama referred to ObamaCare expenditures now going on as nickels and dimes.

Mr. President, you are wrong. And very importantly your priorities are wrong. Mr. President, during your first year in office you did not focus on the financial crises, the economy or jobs. All you Mr. President focused on was selling your health care bill to the American public.

President Obama on open microphone 4-15-2011 said: “You wanna repeal health care? Go at it. Wh’ll have that debate. But you’re not going to be able to nickel and dinning me in the budget. You think we’re stupid?

Untouchable. That’s the treatment being given to the $23.6 billion being spent right now to implement Obama-care.

This $23.6 billion is part of the $105.5 billion appropriated by the last Congress to fund Obamacare. The remainder (Think of it as post-dated checks for the other $81.9 billion.) automatically becomes available between now and FY2019.

What says the public — is $105 BILLION for ObamaCare chump change?

For your information: The Trojan Horse is a tale from the Trojan War, as told in Virgil’s Latin epic poem The Aeneid, also by Dionysius, Apollodorus and Quintus of Smyrna. The events in this story from the Bronze Age took place after Homer’s Iliad, and before his Odyssey. It was the stratagem that allowed the Greeks finally to enter the city of Troy and end the conflict.

In one version, after a fruitless 10-year siege, the Greeks constructed a huge wooden horse, and hid a select force of 30 men inside. The Greeks pretended to sail away, and the Trojans pulled the horse into their city as a victory trophy. That night the Greek force crept out of the horse and opened the gates for the rest of the Greek army, which had sailed back under cover of night. The Greek army entered and destroyed the city of Troy, decisively ending the war.
In the Greek tradition, the horse is called Δούρειος Ἵππος, Doúreios Híppos, the “Wooden Horse”, in the Homeric Ionic dialect. Metaphorically a “Trojan Horse” has come to mean any trick or stratagem that causes a target to invite a foe into a securely protected bastion or space. It is now often associated with “malware” computer programmes presented as useful or harmless to induce the user to install and run them.

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Respite services paid by govt not helpful says parent of autistic child. Better off that families keep more of their money…

Response to Obama’s budget speech from a parent of autistic child: Better to cancel got “help” programs that pay for respite time as highly paper intensive, onorous regulations, too many people paid their share before any services received. Parent discusses all the persons who get a “cut” before any benefit is received by the family. Cut these programs is his message.

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How “helpful” are the respite services provided to families with a disabled child?

In California, children with autism are assisted by the regional centers. There are non-profits and operate individually though connected loosely together. A child made eligible by one regional center is usually accepted by other regional centers though the case may be reviewed.

Due to CA budget issues typically families are offered 24 hours of respite a month though the number may be considerably increased depending on the individual’s particular circumstances. “Respite” is supposed to be time away from the disabled child and someone else takes care of the child so that parents get a real break.

In the Santa Cruz, Monterey, San Benito and Santa Clara Counties parents can receive respite hours away from their diabled child through varous agencies. The agencies take care of the paper work issues which negatively impact the overall helpfulness.

Below is from the parent of an autistic child that finds government “help” not helpful. And why not helpful.

We’re From the Government, and We’re Here to Help
Presient Obama’s recent budget speech

Reader Gordon Calkins writes in with his perspective on President Obama’s ghastly budget speech:

“I am the primary care-giver to my autistic and developmentally delayed son. I must admit that we accept from our state Division of Services for People with Disabilities some monitory support. The state gives us a small grant with federal matching money that allows us to hire extra support workers and care givers which gives us a few hours a month to run errands and have a little time out of the house.

“The program has been a benefit to us. But to put this into perspective, in order to be eligible for the support, we work with a state-contracted support coordinator, a state-approved fiscal agent that handles the payroll, and we have to keep logs of what we are doing to meet the state-approved training goals. We have several hours of doing paperwork each time we hire a new person. Our current employees are the adult kids of some of our friends, but they are still required to get background checks, fingerprinting and annual reviews.

“I’ve known people who have opted out of this system because the hassle of dealing with the state is too much.

“Although, as I said, I believe that this support is a net positive for us, the benefit we receive is much less than I pay in federal taxes each year.

“I would be even better off if the federal government would cancel programs like this and just let me keep more of my money, and there wouldn’t be nearly so many people making money off the support we get.

So, the purpose of government is to take my money, filter it through a bunch of agencies and contractors, each taking their cut, and then give a small fraction of it back to me to spend on “approved” services. Gives new meaning to the phrase “I’m from the government and I’m here to help.” I wish they would stop helping

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Firenzie Sage: In the beginning there was this gay caveman… i-PAD app coming?

Main Kinder students get $500 i-PADS to learn ABCs. California students required to learn gay, lesbbian history. So maybe its time for a I-PAD app: “In the beginnning there was thsi gay caveman…”

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Time ripe for an i-PAD app “In the beginning there was this gay caveman …”

The California state Senate has approved legislation that requires California’s public schools to include gay history in social studies lessons.

Will they budget for field trips to public restrooms?

This fall, the school district in Auburn, Maine will hand out iPads to nearly 300 kindergartners, “confident the education apps will accelerate their learning.” Let see, give 5 year olds a game player and expect them to read, spell, and do math.

written by Firenzie Sage48@gmail.com

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In a fox hole or going into surgury — what words will you remember? “time and chance happenth to them all” or the modern version “a considrable element of the unpredictable must inevaritaly be taken into account..” Incredible difference in language!

Here is a well-known verse from Ecclesiastes:

I returned and saw under the sun, that the race is not to the swift, nor the battle to the strong, neither yet bread to the wise, nor yet riches to men of understanding, nor yet favour to men of skill; but time and chance happeneth to them all.

In contrast,
here it is in modern English:
Objective considerations of contemporary phenomena compel the conclusion that success or failure in competitive activities exhibits no tendency to be commensurate with innate capacity, but that a considerable element of the unpredictable must invariably be taken into account.

Language matters. The King James version abides and sustains me. Those words abide for example when I pray for our young warriors who seek to preserve peace throughout the world — and when I hear of persons I know who have serious medical conditions. Time and chance are such important variables in Life. What say you?

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Bill O’Reilly of Fox News says no moderate Muslim voices denounce violence due to burning of Koran. American Islamic Fourm for Democracy is a moderate voice opposed to violence.

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General Petraeus denounced the burning of the “holy Koran” March 20, 2011 as hate speech. With due deference to the General’s extraordinary military abilities, he should stick to what he does excellently –engage in war against our enemies.

Bill O’Reilly on Fox News 4-6-2011 said that there are no moderate Muslims condemning the violence in the Middle East related to the burning of the Koran. O’Reilly should check out physician Dr. Jasser who founded American Islamic Fourn for Democracy which is a moderate voice opposed to sharia law and supportive of state/ mosque separation. Why not ask Dr. Jasser on to explain his views on the radicalization of Islamic youth in America?

“As deadly demonstrations spread across Afghanistan, American Muslim leaders condemned the violence as well as the Quran-burning by a fundamentalist Christian minister in Florida whose actions were cited as provocation for the killings.
By Allauddin Khan, AP
Protesters carry a wounded colleague during a demonstration to condemn the burning of a copy of the Muslim holy book by a Florida pastor in Kandahar, Afghanistan, on Saturday.
www.freefile.irs.gov
“Clearly the Islamist agenda is to use any tidbit of information out of the West to try to paint America and the West as anti-Islam and anti-Muslim,” said M. Zuhdi Jasser, president of the American Islamic Forum for Democracy.
He said the killings over the weekend in Mazar-i-Sharif and Kandahar were the result of extremist leaders using the burning of a Quran last month in Gainesville, Fla., as an excuse for violence.REACTION: Fla. pastor denies responsibility for Afghan killings
FAITH & REASON: CNN won’t air ‘hateful’ interview with pastor who burned Quran
Terry Jones, 59, who runs the Dove World Outreach Center, held a mock “trial” of the Muslim holy book and burned a copy on March 20. He had threatened to do so last fall, on the anniversary of the Sept. 11, 2001, attacks, but backed down.

His actions last month gained little initial notice in the USA until the violence erupted Friday. Thousands of demonstrators in Mazar-i-Sharif overran a United Nations compound, killing seven. On Saturday, nine people were killed when hundreds marched in Kandahar, attacking cars and businesses and confronting security forces.

Demonstrations continued Sunday in Jalalabad, and a police officer was killed in a second day of violence in Kandahar, the Associated Press reported.

Jones did not return phone calls seeking comment. One of his group’s websites, StandupAmerica.org, posted a statement by Fran Ingram responding to what she said were calls to the church suggesting “you have the blood of the U.N. workers on your hands.”

“The teaching of the Koran is to be blamed. The leaders of Islam who teach the violence and hatred it contains have blood on their hands,” she wrote. “Free speech. We still have that in America.”

Ibrahim Hooper, spokesman for the Council on American-Islamic Relations, said Sunday that his Muslim advocacy group tried to ignore Jones because he has a tiny following and is not representative of mainstream American thought. “We believe he’s just in the mode of pure publicity seeking,” Hooper said of Jones. “We’ve purposely downplayed it as much as possible.”

Hooper denounced the violence as “a completely inappropriate reaction” to the Florida preacher.

“Everybody has freedom of speech. In this case, even freedom to do stupid and reprehensible things. But everybody also has the responsibility to act in a way that doesn’t harm others or doesn’t lead to the harm of others,” Hooper said.

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